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Daily Crunch: WhatsApp responds to privacy backlash
WhatsApp delays enforcement of a controversial privacy change, Apple may get rid of the Touch Bar in future MacBooks and Bumble files to go public. This is your Daily Crunch for January 15, 2021.
The big story: WhatsApp responds to privacy backlash
Earlier this month, WhatsApp sent users a notification asking them to consent to sharing some of their personal data — such as phone number and location — with Facebook (which owns WhatsApp). The alert also said users would have to agree to the terms by February 8 if they wanted to continue using the app.
This change prompted legal threats and an investigation from the Turkish government. Now the company is pushing the enforcement date back three months.
“No one will have their account suspended or deleted on February 8. We’re also going to do a lot more to clear up the misinformation around how privacy and security works on WhatsApp,” the company said in a post. “We’ll then go to people gradually to review the policy at their own pace before new business options are available on May 15.”
The tech giants
Uber planning to spin out Postmates’ delivery robot arm — Postmates X is seeking investors in its bid to become a separate company.
Apple said to be planning new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros with MagSafe and Apple processors — This could be the end for the Touch Bar.
Amazon’s newest product lets companies build their own Alexa assistant for cars, apps and video games — Yes, that means your next car could have two Alexas.
Startups, funding and venture capital
Bumble files to go public — The company plans to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange, using the ticker symbol “BMBL.”
Tracy Chou launches Block Party to combat online harassment and abuse — Currently available for Twitter, Block Party helps people filter out the content they don’t want to see.
Everlywell raises $75M from HealthQuest Capital following its recent $175M Series D round — Everlywell develops at-home testing kits for a range of health concerns, and it added a COVID-19 home collection test kit last year.
Advice and analysis from Extra Crunch
Fifteen steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund — Launching is easy; fundraising is harder.
Lessons from Top Hat’s acquisition spree — The acquisition of Fountainhead Press marks Top Hat’s third purchase of a publishing company in the past 12 months.
Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson says wisdom lies with your developers — Takeaways from Lawson’s new book “Ask Your Developer.”
(Extra Crunch is our membership program, which aims to democratize information about startups. You can sign up here.)
Video game spending increased 27% in 2020 — According to the latest figures from NPD, spending on gaming hardware, software and accessories was up 25% in December and 27% for the full year.
DOT evaluated 11 GPS replacements and found only one that worked across use cases — The government wants to create additional redundancy and resiliency in the sector.
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 3pm Pacific, you can subscribe here.
Запись опубликована 16.01.2021 автором Mobile news chief editor в рубрике Daily Crunch, Facebook, Mobile, Policy, Social, WhatsApp с метками Block Party, Extra Crunch Fifteen, Top Hat, Touch Bar.
Daily Crunch: Samsung unveils Galaxy S21 line
Samsung lowers prices with its latest Galaxy S phones, Google completes its Fitbit acquisition and Beyond Meat is coming to Taco Bell. This is your Daily Crunch for January 14, 2021.
The big story: Samsung unveils Galaxy S21 line
Samsung’s new line of phones includes the S21, S21+ and S21 Ultra, priced at $799, $999 and $1,119 respectively, an across-the-board price cut of $200. Brian Heater writes that the Ultra, in particular, “has one very important trick up its sleeve” — namely compatibility with the S Pen.
All three phones are available for pre-order now and start shipping on January 29.
In addition, Samsung announced the Galaxy Buds Pro, which cost $199 and come with a stated five hours of battery life. And it’s launching a Bluetooth locator, dubbed the Galaxy SmartTag.
Google’s Fitbit acquisition is official — This follows regulatory scrutiny on both sides of the pond.
Amazon’s Ring Neighbors app exposed users’ precise locations and home addresses — The bug made it possible to retrieve the location data on users who posted to the app.
Beyond Meat shares soar after inking deal with Taco Bell on new menu items — Taco Bell announced that it would work with Beyond Meat to come up with new menu items due to be tested in the next year.
Medium acquires social book reading app Glose — Glose has been building iOS, Android and web apps that let you buy, download and read books on your devices.
Tiger Global is raising a new $3.75B venture fund, one year after closing its last — Despite being named Tiger Private Investment Partners XIV, this is actually the firm’s thirteenth fund.
Carbyne raises $25M for a next-generation platform to improve emergency 911 responses — The Israeli startup aims to help emergency services get more complete information about callers, and to provide additional telemedicine services.
Five consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies — Investors are generally bullish on at-home fitness startups.
Poshmark prices IPO above range as public markets continue to YOLO startups — This is the late-2020, early-2021 IPO market in action.
Twelve ‘flexible VCs’ who operate where equity meets revenue share — Founders seeking non-dilutive funding: start here.
Tech and health companies including Microsoft and Salesforce team up on digital COVID-19 vaccination records — The so-called “Vaccination Credential Initiative” includes a range of big-name companies from both the healthcare and tech industries.
2020 was one of the warmest years in history and indicates mounting risks of climate change — 2020 either edged out or came in just behind 2016 as the warmest year in recorded history, according to data from U.S. government agencies.
Запись опубликована 15.01.2021 автором Mobile news chief editor в рубрике Daily Crunch, Hardware, Mobile, Samsung с метками Beyond Meat, Extra Crunch Five, Galaxy S21, Taco Bell.
Amazon launches $1.2 mobile Prime Video plan in India
Amazon is doubling down on one of the biggest strengths of its Prime Video streaming service: aggressive pricing.
The e-commerce giant on Wednesday launched Prime Video Mobile Edition, an even more affordable tier of the on-demand video streaming service — now also bundling some mobile data.
Prime Video Mobile Edition, for which Amazon has partnered with Indian telecom network Airtel, will feature 28-day mobile-only, single-user, standard definition (SD) access to customers in India for Rs 89 ($1.22). This tier will include 6GB of mobile data that customers can consume during the subscription period. There’s also a slightly expensive plan for Prime Video Mobile Edition that will charge customers Rs 299 but will offer 1.5GB mobile data for each day of the subscription. To anyone who subscribes to Prime Video Mobile Edition, Amazon says it will pick the tab for the first month.
Amazon Prime subscription costs $1.7 a month in India and includes access to Prime Video and Prime Music.
The new Prime Video plan is currently only available in India. Its launch comes two years after Netflix unveiled a similar plan in India.
Affordable pricing is key for on-demand steaming services that are looking to make inroads in India, the world’s second-largest internet market. Even as more than 600 million users are online in the country today, only a fraction of them currently pay to access digital subscriptions. In a recent report to clients, analysts at Goldman Sachs estimated that gaming and video streaming market in India could clock as much as $5 billion in gross value transactions by March 2025.
Netflix launches Rs 199 ($2.8) mobile-only monthly plan in India
“India is one of our fastest growing territories in the world with very high engagement rates. Buoyed by this response, we want to double-down by offering our much-loved entertainment content to an even larger base of Indian customers. Given high mobile broadband penetration in the country, the mobile phone has become one of the most widely used streaming devices,” said Jay Marine, vice president, Amazon Prime Video Worldwide, in a statement.
Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in India, is the first roll-out partner for Prime Video Mobile Edition, said Sameer Batra, director, Mobile Business Development at Amazon, suggesting that the company may ink similar deals with other telecom operators in the country as it looks to expand the “reach of our service to the entire pre-paid customer base in India.”
Nearly every on-demand video streaming service in India, including Netflix and Disney+ Hotstar, maintain various partnerships with local telecom operators and satellite TV providers to reach more users in the country. Amazon did not explicitly say when or if it plans to extend Prime Video Mobile Edition outside of India.
Запись опубликована 14.01.2021 автором Mobile news chief editor в рубрике Amazon, Amazon Prime Video, Apps, Asia, Disney, Hotstar, india, Media, Mobile, Netflix, prime video, streaming service с метками India India, Jay Marine, Sameer Batra, SD.
Rollables are the new foldables
Smartphone sales are bad — and have been for a couple of years now. Certainly this ongoing pandemic hasn’t helped. All the talk about how 5G and new form factors were going to cause a kind of bounce-back all fell by the wayside, as people put a pause on unnecessary luxuries.
Samsung is the only company that’s seen some success with the foldable form factor, and that whole thing got off to a…rough start. There were plenty of technical issues at first, leading to a less than auspicious first impression. These days, price continues to be a major hurdle — especially during a time when paying $1,000 and up on a phone is a major red flag for many.
In the world of phone form factors, two is, at the very least, the start of a trend. And on day one of CES both LG and TCL have offered their take on yet another form factor designed to offer more screen real estate in pocketable devices.
Image Credits: TCL
LG’s product is — for the moment — the more notable of the two, largely because the company plans to actually release the thing. In an interview published this morning, spokesperson Ken Hong told Nikkei, “As it is released at CES 2021, I can tell that it will be launched this year.”
And, indeed, LG’s a company not afraid to take chances with a wacky form factor. There are a number of examples of the phenomenon in recent years, most notably the swiveling screen on the LG Wing.
Still, the product didn’t amount to much more than a brief tease during a press conference (an excuse to transition between scenes, really), so you’d be forgiven for assuming that the tech still has a long way to go.
TCL, meanwhile, noted up front that the product is still firmly in the concept phase, but managed to give us a better look. I suppose it’s easier to parade concept than an unfinished real-world product. Details are still slim, but the company says the device is capable of expanding from 6.7 to 7.8 inches.
One imagines — or, at least, hopes — that the industry has learned from the issues stemming from the first batch of foldables. Sometimes the race to bring technology to market results in delivering something half-baked, an issue that came back to bite companies like Samsung and Motorola. Lab testing is one thing — the real world is a different thing entirely.
Запись опубликована 13.01.2021 автором Mobile news chief editor в рубрике CES, CES 2021, foldables, Hardware, LG, Mobile, TCL с метками CES, Ken Hong, LG, TCL.
YouTube and WhatsApp inch closer to half a billion users in India
WhatsApp has enjoyed unrivaled reach in India for years. By mid-2019, the Facebook-owned app had amassed over 400 million users in the country. Its closest app rival at the time was YouTube, which, according to the company’s own statement and data from mobile insight firm App Annie, had about 260 million users in India then.
Things have changed dramatically since.
In the month of December, YouTube had 425 million monthly active users on Android phones and tablets in India, according to App Annie, the data of which an industry executive shared with TechCrunch. In comparison, WhatsApp had 422 million monthly active users on Android in India last month.
Factoring in the traction both these apps have garnered on iOS devices, WhatsApp still assumes a lead in India with 459 million active users1, but YouTube is not too far behind with 452 million users.
With China keeping its doors closed to U.S. tech giants, India emerged as the top market for Silicon Valley and Chinese companies looking to continue their growth in the last decade. India had about 50 million internet users in 2010, but it ended the decade with more than 600 million. Google and Facebook played their part to make this happen.
In the last four years, both Google and Facebook have invested in ways to bring the internet to people who are offline in India, a country of nearly 1.4 billion people. Google kickstarted a project to bring Wi-Fi to 400 railway stations in the country and planned to extend this program to other public places. Facebook launched Free Basics in India, and then — after the program was banned in the country — it launched Express Wi-Fi.
Both Google and Facebook, which identify India as their biggest market by users, have scaled down on their connectivity efforts in recent years after India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, took it upon himself to bring the country online. After he succeeded, both the companies bought multibillion-dollar stakes in his firm, Jio Platforms, which has amassed over 400 million subscribers.
Jio Platforms’ cut-rate mobile data tariff has allowed hundreds of millions of people in India, where much of the online user base was previously too conscious about how much data they spent on the internet, to consume, worry-free, hours of content on YouTube and other video platforms in recent years. This growth might explain why Google is doubling down on short-video apps.
The new figures shared with TechCrunch illustrate a number of other findings about the Indian market. Even as WhatsApp’s growth has slowed2 in India, it continues to enjoy an unprecedented loyalty among its users.
More than 95% of WhatsApp’s monthly active users in India use the app each day, and nearly its entire user base checks the app at least once a week. In comparison, three-fourths of YouTube’s monthly active users in India are also its daily active users.
The data also showed that Google’s eponymous app as well as Chrome — both of which, like YouTube, ship pre-installed3 on most Android smartphones — has also surpassed over 400 million monthly active users in India in recent months. Facebook’s app, in comparison, had about 325 million monthly active users in India last month.
When asked for comment, a Google spokesperson pointed TechCrunch to a report from Comscore last year, which estimated that YouTube had about 325 million monthly unique users in India in May 2020.
A separate report by research firm Media Partners Asia on Monday estimated that YouTube commanded 43% of the revenue generated in the online video market in India last year (about $1.4 billion). Disney+ Hotstar assumed 16% of the market, while Netflix had 14%.
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1 For simplicity, I have not factored in the traction WhatsApp Business and YouTube Kids apps have received in India. WhatsApp and YouTube also maintain apps on KaiOS, which powers JioPhone feature handsets in India. At last count — which was a long time ago — more than 40 million JioPhone handsets had shipped in India. TechCrunch could not determine the inroads any app has made on this platform. Additionally, the figures of YouTube on Android (phones and tablets) and iOS (iPhone and iPad) will likely have an overlap. The same is not true of WhatsApp, which restricts one phone number to one account. So if I have WhatsApp installed on an iPhone with my primary phone number, I can’t use WhatsApp with the same number on an Android phone — at least not concurrently.
2 WhatsApp Business appears to be growing fine, having amassed over 50 million users in India. And some caveats from No. 1 also apply here.
3 Users still have to engage with the app for App Annie and other mobile insight firms to count them as active. So while pre-installing the app provides Google an unprecedented distribution, their apps still have to win over users.
Запись опубликована 12.01.2021 автором Mobile news chief editor в рубрике Apps, Asia, Facebook, google-chrome, india, Media, Mobile, WhatsApp, YouTube с метками App Annie, India, Jio Platforms, Mukesh Ambani.
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Prime Minister May must restore trust to deliver a better deal for consumers
As new Which? research shows more than half of households think the economy will get worse in the next year, we call on the new Prime Minister to restore trust in markets to deliver a better deal for consumers.
New Which? research shows that consumer trust in essential markets to act in their best interest has declined by an average of 12% over the last year. In addition, over half of households (53%) think the economy will get worse in the coming 12 months – more than double the figure (25%) just over a year ago.
Which? is calling on the new Prime Minister to give people more power to get a better deal and resolve the problems they face in their everyday lives, by:
Ensuring that Brexit delivers for consumers: With our research finding many people concerned about the economy since the decision to leave the EU, the Prime Minister must make sure that the vital Brexit negotiations deliver a fair deal for consumers both financially and in terms of strengthening important consumer rights. Significant consumer benefits and protections, like cheaper data roaming abroad or flight delay compensation, must be maintained.
Restoring trust and boosting competition: The Prime Minister has fired the opening shot on tackling vested interests in highly consolidated markets and we would urge her to continue with this agenda. Reforms in key markets with abysmal levels of consumer trust, including banking, energy and rail, must be pushed forward to ensure competition delivers better outcomes for consumers.
Giving consumers a stronger voice: Whether in the boardroom, within Government or with the regulators, the Prime Minister has already indicated she is keen to ensure consumers’ voices are heard at the highest levels. In critical markets, a clear signal must be sent to businesses to genuinely engage with and listen to their customers, to treat their customers fairly and deliver improvements to their services.
Putting things right when they go wrong: With millions facing poor service in sectors such as telecoms, energy and rail, Government and regulators must make it easier for the consumer to force businesses to put things right when markets fail to deliver. It should be made easier for people to complain and in certain sectors automatic, fixed compensation must be rapidly introduced to help restore consumer trust and confidence.
Peter Vicary-Smith, Which? Chief Executive, said:
“People are understandably worried about the future and fed up with getting a raw deal in many sectors. A strong economy requires consumer confidence, therefore it is vital that steps are taken to restore trust in key markets, including banking, energy and travel.
“The Prime Minister and her new government must seize this opportunity to give people more power to get a better deal and resolve the problems they face.”
1. Personal and economic expectations measured by the Which? Consumer Insight Tracker from 6-7th July 2016 compared to May 2015. Populus on behalf of Which? surveyed a representative sample of around 2,000 UK adults. Populus is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules. http://consumerinsight.which.co.uk/
2. The Which? Consumer Insight Tracker asks survey participants to what extent they would trust the following industries to act in their best interest: Day-to-day banking; Longer-term financial products; Food/grocery sector; Domestic appliances; Technology appliances; Broadband/home phone services; Mobile phone services; Gas and electricity; Water (supplied to your home); Trade services; Train travel; Airlines / holiday operators; and Car dealers.
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Home » Celebrities » Sweden’s Princess Sofia and Prince Carl Philip Test Positive for COVID After Gathering at Royal Funeral
Sweden’s Princess Sofia and Prince Carl Philip Test Positive for COVID After Gathering at Royal Funeral
Sweden’s Princess Sofia and Prince Carl Philip have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), according to multiple reports.
The royal couple began to experience flu-like symptoms on Wednesday night, Expressen reports, and promptly took COVID-19 tests, both of which were positive. They are now quarantining with their children.
"They feel relatively well under the circumstances," said the Royal Court’s Director of the Information and Press Department, Margareta Thorgren, per Reuters.
The couple’s young sons, Prince Alexander, 4, and Prince Gabriel, 3, are not experiencing any symptoms at this time, according to Swedish outlet The Local. Thorgren also added that she does not know if the children have been tested yet.
Contact tracing efforts are underway, including King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia, the King's daughter Crown Princess Victoria and her husband Prince Daniel. The family members all gathered last Friday to mourn Queen Silvia’s brother, Walther Sommerlath, who died on Oct. 23.
Several precautions were taken at the funeral, including testing everyone beforehand and maintaining social distance between the small group of family members, who were together for a brief time in the church.
In total, Sweden has seen over 230,000 positive coronavirus cases and 6,500 related deaths since the start of the outbreak earlier this year.
The Prince, 41, and Princess, 36 next month, have been lauded for their work during the pandemic, with Prince Carl Philip — who is fourth in the line of succession to the Swedish throne — serving at the Swedish Armed Forces to help with coronavirus aid since mid-May.
In April, in order to help ease the strain on the healthcare system, Princess Sofia completed an intensive online training program in order to volunteer at Sophiahemmet Hospital, of which she is Honorary Chair.
The Royal Court said in a statement at the time, “In the crisis we find ourselves in, the Princess wants to get involved and make a contribution as a voluntary worker to relieve the large workload of health care professionals.”
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A spokeswoman for Sophiahemmet Hospital explained that Sofia and her fellow volunteers would not be working directly with patients but rather supporting doctors and nurses.
“They can disinfect equipment, do shifts in the kitchen and cleaning,” Pia Hultkrantz, the hospital spokeswoman, said.
Sofia and Carl are not the only royals who have contracted the virus amid the ongoing global pandemic — Prince Charles and his son, Prince William, also tested positive earlier this year.
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PROTIS GLOBAL CONTINUES GROWTH AND EXPANDS FURTHER INTO THE CPG WELLNESS CATEGORY
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Protis Global, an affiliate of MRINetwork and leading people solutions firm, is pleased to announce that James Meder, Founder of Fast Twitch, has joined forces with the firm in order to expand its reach in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) space to the booming Wellness space. James has been in the performance and wellness space for 15+ years.
Michael Bitar, Protis Global Partner and General Manager, commented, “James is bringing a wealth of knowledge to Protis Global in the Health & Wellness space. His 10+ years as a successful entrepreneur and business owner in the Health & Wellness sector give James a unique ability to really sit down with companies and provide them incredible insights into how to scale their businesses. His natural curiosity coupled with his amazing drive will enhance the vibrant Miami Office Protis Global culture.”
He has a reputation as a tremendously hands-on entrepreneur. This closeness helped him to recognize the industry’s need for people-centric solutions at all levels of business. This comprehension of how top talent can facilitate growth for a company is what brought James to Protis Global.
As a result of years of immersive experience in the fitness and wellness industry, he has developed a strong network of contacts and relationships which allow him to bring a robust set of connectivity, skills and knowledge to Protis Global’s client partnerships in the Wellness space. Meder has been working closely with Protis Global’s Marketing and Data & Analytics teams to engage the wellness space in a strategic manner which incorporates metrics and outreach tracking in order to mitigate procedural bottlenecks and mechanize his business development process overall.
Meder has a proven track record for growing and developing a brand as well as developing the people within the organization. Prior to joining Protis Global, he founded a comprehensive performance facility which he grew to 7 facilities across 3 states. Through this company, he was able to garner, develop, and maintain a robust Under Armour Elite Training facility partnership as well as train NFL, NHL, MLB, and NBA athletes. He has hired and trained over 100 coaches throughout the duration of his company’s growth.
James notes that “[he has] known Protis Global’s Founder and CEO, Bert Miller, for quite some time and [has] relied on him for advice during several key moments as [he] scaled my own business in the past. The commitment to innovation and results that [he has] seen drew me towards Protis Global. The methodology and systems behind Protis allow us to impact this emerging $4 trillion industry speedily with solutions around sourcing and retaining talent. Today, many wellness companies are notably purpose-driven and socially conscious, directly impacting areas like health, hunger, climate, sustainability, and diversity. [He sees] this as an opportunity, not only to help build companies, but to help drive true change.”
About Protis Global: Protis Global operates with the sole purpose of being the most forward-thinking and value added strategic partner in all people-focused business solutions. The mission is to be the superior authority on human capital. Twenty-four years of experience has given Protis Global the expertise to navigate various industries with intense focus and precision. With an incredible knowledge of diversity and the understanding that talent is the foundation of every organization, Protis Global masterfully tailors each partnership to their client’s goals.
MRI operates MRINetwork®, one of the largest talent advisory and professional services providers to recruitment organizations in the world, comprised of nearly 400 independent search and recruitment firms spanning four continents. Over its more than 50-year history, MRI has provided to thousands of independent search and recruitment firms an unparalleled array of services, including learning and talent development, back-office support, organizational development, marketing support and content, strategic planning and performance management systems. In addition, through MRINetwork, MRI provides member firms with a unique forum for collaborative learning, mentoring, benchmarking and rewards, further contributing to their success potential. www.mrinetwork.com.
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Home Game Changer Wrestling UPDATE: GCW Announces Participants for The Acid Cup 2
UPDATE: GCW Announces Participants for The Acid Cup 2
GCW has now announced the participants of 16 to take part in the upcoming Acid Cup 2 tournament. The field includes a whose who of GCW dignitaries. For example, Nick Gage, Atticus Cougar, Blake Christian, KTB, Allie Kat, Jordan Oliver, Jimmy Lloyd, Chris Dickinson, Matthew Justice, Sanchez, 1 Called Manders, Shane Mercer, Lucky 13 (formerly Super Dragon), Benjamin Carter, Cole Radrick, and Ellis Taylor.
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With the event set to take place in a few hours a great time is said to be had by all. For those unaware, those involved in the event are a blend of the present and future.
A couple of names to keep an eye out on are early into their twenties. Ellis Taylor, at 21 years of age has exploded over the past year. The last tournament Taylor was a part of was last year’s Tag Team Invitational for Unsanctioned Pro. Cole Radrick is only 22 years of age and has emerged another young up and coming talent on the independent scene. Unlike Taylor, Radick has been part of a number of different tournaments. Radick’s most recent tournament involvement includes the Young Guns Tournament for Fight or Die Pro Wrestling.
While those are but two young names to consider the likes of Jimmy Lloyd, Chris Dickinson, and Nick Gage are perennial threats. Gage is no stranger either to competing in tournaments. He last competed in WrestlePro’s Dream 16 tournament. In fact, he has had a tournament named after him as well. Nick Gage has had four Invitational’s take place in GCW. Stay tuned to later today to find out who will match up with whom as Independent Wrestling TV stream’s The Acid Cup 2.
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These participants in this tournament for GCW as they present The Acid Cup 2 come on the heels of yesterday’s announcement of the tournament. Who do you expect to walk out the winner of The Acid Cup 2 tournament?
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Jacob Blake Speaks Powerful Message From His Hospital Bed [Video]
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Jacob Blake has been on the hearts of Americans for weeks now while being hospitalized after being shot seven times in the back by police. During this time, Americans have protested, the NBA has boycotted, and the rest of the sports world followed suit. Jacob’s family revealed the tragic news that he is paralyzed from the waist down due to the shooting, but obviously, everyone is thankful he’s still alive, regardless.
According to reports from TMZ, Jacob has now recovered enough to speak out and talk to those who fought for him and social justice as a whole during this difficult time.
“Jacob Blake has finally spoken to the public from his hospital bed where he lies paralyzed from the waist down — and his message is simple … don’t take life for granted,” the publication wrote.
“A video was posted this weekend by Blake’s family attorney, Ben Crump, which appears to have been filmed by a friend of his named Mike.”
“It shows Jacob lying in his hospital gown and addressing the camera — sharp, alert and precise with his words. We’ll let the man speak for himself, but to sum it up … he says the things we take for granted in life — like walking, for instance — can be taken from you in a flash, and he wants all the young’ns and old cats who might be listening to take notice — and take advantage.”
Jacob Blake looks to be in great spirits and he’s also very focused, which is good to see with all things considered. You can watch his full message below.
This article was originally posted on Bossip.com.
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Fitch Solutions: Bank Negara May Reduce OPR To 1% By The End Of 2020
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Fitch Solutions Country Risk & Industry Research has predicted that Malaysia’s overnight policy rate (OPR) will be reduced to 1.0% by the end of 2020 to spur the country’s economic recovery. If realised, this would see the reduction of yet another 100 basis points (bps) from the current OPR, which stands at 2.0%.
Fitch Solutions had previously forecasted that Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) would reduce the OPR to 1.5% this year. However, it has adjusted the prediction in the face of the country’s ailing economy, which has been critically affected by the movement control order (MCO) enforced to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
The research house also added that in spite of the gradual easing of the MCO restrictions now, there is unlikely to be an immediate recovery among local businesses. Additionally, the government has very limited fiscal space to further support the economy, which is made worse by low oil prices. As such, monetary easing is a vital step in resisting the economic headwinds due to Covid-19.
“We do not expect inflation to be a large obstacle to further monetary easing. While there are risks of supply chain disruptions causing a spike in food prices which could see inflation rise, the dim prospect for non-food price pressures arising particularly from a poor oil price outlook, is likely to keep overall inflation manageable,” added Fitch Solutions.
The research house also expects BNM to look into other forms of monetary easing as the central bank cannot afford to further reduce the OPR. This is especially so as both Fitch Solutions and BNM foresee dire conditions for the local and global economy in the coming months.
Two days ago, BNM had slashed the OPR by 50bps to bring the rate down from 2.5% to 2.0%. It was the third cut to be made this year, and was also the largest to be made in a decade. Prior to that, the central bank had already reduced the OPR by 25bps twice – once in January, from 3.0% to 2.75%, and again in March, to 2.5%.
Following the latest cut, banks across Malaysia are also updating their base rates (BR) and base lending rates (BLR) to reflect the new rate.
(Sources: Malay Mail, The Star)
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Alex Cheong
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… Tess d’Urberloups, cont.; chapter 4.2 …
This experience is interesting. Sometimes it seems pretty pointless, but then I think I’ve made a commitment to see it through. Not sure anybody cares about that, but hey. It is growing more difficult for a number of reasons:
When playing around with a classic, less isn’t more; MORE is MORE. Since I tend to be wordy, I didn’t think this would be hard, but it’s becoming that way because the werewolf parts are more numerous.
Sustaining the Thomas Hardy voice continues to be challenging; sometimes I think I pull if off, but most of the time, I think, “Who am I kidding?”
It’s still tough finding time to work on this crazy project, and some of the chapters are REALLY long – like this one.
So, what am I going to do? Well, I have an idea or three: 1. Work on the chapters every day and publish whatever bits and pieces I complete whether or not the chapter is finished. (Hence the “chapter 4.2” designation.) 2. Because this is a WORK in PROGRESS/WIP/rOUgh DrAFt, I will publish the post without thorough revising and editing; that will come later. 3. Truck on.
Chapter IV.II
When they had passed the little town of Stourcastle, dumbly somnolent under its thick brown thatch, they reached higher ground. Still higher, on their left, the elevation called Bulbarrow, well-nigh the highest in South Wessex, swelled into the sky, engirdled by its earthen trenches. From hereabout the long road was fairly level for some distance onward. They mounted in front of the waggon, and Abraham grew reflective.
“Tess!” he said in a preparatory tone, after a silence.
“Yes, Abraham.”
“Bain’t you glad that we’ve become gentlefolk?”
“Not particular glad.”
“But you be glad that you ‘m going to marry a gentleman?”
“What?” said Tess, lifting her face.
“That our great relation will help ‘ee to marry a gentleman.”
“I? Our great relation? We have no such relation. What has put that into your head?”
“I heard ’em talking about it up at Rolliver’s when I went to find father. There’s a rich lady of our family out at Trantridge, and mother said that if you claimed kin with the lady, she’d put ‘ee in the way of marrying a gentleman.”
His sister became abruptly still, and lapsed into a pondering silence. Abraham talked on, rather for the pleasure of utterance than for audition, so that his sister’s abstraction was of no account. He leant back against the hives, and with upturned face made observations on the stars and the moon that had grown full. He asked if Tess gave notion to the stories about humans who turned into wolves when the moon peered from the heavens as it did just then.
“I heard some say that such men as those whose shapes shift to wolves stay as such if they fail to find the clothes they was wearin’ when they turned. What do ‘ee say to that?”
Tess’s thoughts, impatient with the subject of rich kin who would advance her prospects of marriage, converged upon her brother’s queries. With hopes of discouraging his idle dreams of moneyed relatives, she determined to corroborate Abraham’s hearsays.
“Ah yes, Brother. ‘Ee speak of Bisclavret of Breton.”
“Bisclavret? I’ve not heard that name. Was he one of them wolfmen?”
“So the Norman legend says.”
“And did he do evil deeds like attacking villagers? Eating some and blighting others?”
“Some storytellers claim he was like the garwolves of Brittany who indulged in those night-time pursuits, but most accounts tell of his loyalty to the French ruler:
A handsome knight, an able man,
He was, and acted like, a noble man.
His lord the King held him dear,
And so did his neighbors far and near.”
“A knight that was monster-like? I never hee’rd such a thing as that.”
“Well, perhaps ‘ee should know that the d’Urberloupes’ ancestors are said to have some association with the Bisclavret line! Be it through the knight’s line or his lady’s, no one knows for a surety.”
Abraham’s eyes widened and he sat right straight, sidling closer to Tess.
“What? Not so certain ‘ee want to be related to a beast, even though he be titled and rich?” his sister jibed, hoping to put an end to his aspirations for the family through her.
“But Tess, ‘ee don’t really believe these tales. ‘Ee just working on giving me a good scare.
“Maybe so, Abraham,” Tess answered, smiling at her brother’s endeavor to ease his nerves with lightened banter. “I must tell ‘ee that if that legend be true, it would be a nobler heritage to be the Bisclaret’s progeny than that of his lady, for she was a deceitful wife indeed.”
“Are ‘ee saying we’d be better off being related to a monster than to a falsehearted woman? How so, Tess?”
“As the story goes, Bisclaret left his beloved a few days of the month when the full moon made its appearance. But the misfortunate shape-shifter spent that time hunting the animals of the forest, not the herds of sheep or the likes of men.
But when the inquisitive wife demanded her husband disclose the details of his absence, she learned of his curse and was sickened by it. So she provoked him to divulge how he returned to his human form, hence resuming his life as a loyal knight and a loving husband.”
Spellbound, Abraham turned to Tess, “And how did he go and do that?”
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… a TESS cover-up …
Hello loyal followers who are sticking with me in spite of my crazy idea of mashing up Tess of the d’Urbervilles. I know the progress has been slow, but it will pick up here. Any moment. I think.
I have lots to do: finish “splicing” chapter 4 – which is looking good because it fills in with werewolf back-story AND foreshadows creepy plot-twists. I hope to post it tomorrow night, and chapter 5 on Friday-ish. No “pinky-swear,” but that’s the hope. I also need to review ALL the chapters written thus far with an eye for more revising and editing!!!
In the meantime, however, YOU are in for a T.R.E.A.T. because I am unveiling a POSSIBLE cover for the IMPOSSIBLE book! Are you ready? And excited? Hold on now. It’s coming in stages, but I think you will enjoy the journey.
Step 1. Finding the inspiration:
From I-Google's "Art of the Day," I discovered "The Black Brunswicker" by John Everett Millais
Step 2. Finding a willing artist:
Enter My Quiet Mind Art ~ John Cooke, husband of my sweet friend and colleague, Tiffany Cooke!
Step 3. John’s initial ideas:
Step 4. John’s experiments:
Good Doggie!
Tess: a wisp of a girl!
Step 5. Almost there:
Rather Gothic, don't you think?
Step 6. The Final Cover by Monsier John Cooke
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… chapter IV of TESS of the d’URBERLOUPS: A MashUp Novel …
I read once where fans of Charles Dickens would sit on dock sides waiting for the newest episodes of his latest novel. Published in English newspapers, each chapter had to cross the Atlantic before American readers could learn the fate of David Copperfield or Little Dorsett. So if the 4 or 5 people who follow the d’Urberloupes are tired of waiting at their computers for chapter 4, I apologize. Profusely.
Hardy’s version of this chapter is VERY LONG, and because I love the author’s writing, it is hard for me to delete any of his great descriptions and deep reflections. Consequently, this mash-up version of chapter 4 is even LONGER. As a result, this post is just the first half of the fourth chapter.
Road to Rolliver's
Rolliver’s inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-licence; hence, as nobody could legally drink on the premises, the amount of overt accommodation for consumers was strictly limited to a little board about six inches wide and two yards long, fixed to the garden palings by pieces of wire, so as to form a ledge. On this board thirsty strangers deposited their cups as they stood in the road and drank, and threw the dregs on the dusty ground to the pattern of Polynesia, and wished they could have a restful seat inside.
Thus the strangers. But there were also local customers who felt the same wish; and where there’s a will there’s a way.
In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady Mrs Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking beatitude; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat. Not only did the distance to the The Pure Drop, the fully-licensed tavern at the further part of the dispersed village, render its accommodation practically unavailable for dwellers at this end; but the far more serious question, the quality of the liquor, confirmed the prevalent opinion that it was better to drink with Rolliver in a corner of the housetop than with the other landlord in a wide house.
A gaunt four-post bedstead which stood in the room afforded sitting-space for several persons gathered round three of its sides; a couple more men had elevated themselves on a chest of drawers; another rested on the oak-carved “cwoffer”; two on the wash-stand; another on the stool; and thus all were, somehow, seated at their ease. The stage of mental comfort to which they had arrived at this hour was one wherein their souls expanded beyond their skins, and spread their personalities warmly through the room. In this process the chamber and its furniture grew more and more dignified and luxurious; the shawl hanging at the window took upon itself the richness of tapestry; the brass handles of the chest of drawers were as golden knockers; and the carved bedposts seemed to have some kinship with the magnificent pillars of Solomon’s temple.
Mrs Durbeylou, having quickly walked hitherward after parting from Tess, opened the front door, crossed the downstairs room, which was in deep gloom, and then unfastened the stair-door like one whose fingers knew the tricks of the latches well. Her ascent of the crooked staircase was a slower process, and her face, as it rose into the light above the last stair, encountered the gaze of all the party assembled in the bedroom.
“—-Being a few private friends I’ve asked in to keep up club-walking at my own expense,” the landlady exclaimed at the sound of footsteps, as glibly as a child repeating the Catechism, while she peered over the stairs. “Oh, ’tis you, Mrs Durbeylou–Lard–how you frightened me!–I thought it might be some gaffer sent by Gover’ment.”
Mrs Durbeylou was welcomed with glances and nods by the remainder of the conclave, and turned to where her husband sat. He was humming absently to himself, in a low tone: “I be as good as some folks here and there! I’ve got a great family vault near t’Kingsbere- sub-Greenhill, and finer skillentons than any man er wolf in Wessex! Heh, heh, heh.”
“I’ve something to tell ‘ee that’s come into my head about that–a grand projick!” whispered his cheerful wife. “Here, John, don’t ‘ee see me?” She nudged him, while he, looking through her as through a window-pane, went on with his recitative.
“Hush! Don’t ‘ee sing so loud, my good man,” said the landlady; “in case any member of the Gover’ment should be passing, and take away my licends.”
“He’s told ‘ee what’s happened to us, I suppose?” asked Mrs Durbeylou.
“Yes–in a way. D’ye think there’s any money hanging by it?”
“Ah, that’s the secret,” said Joan Durbeylou sagely. “However, ’tis well to be kin to a coach, even if you don’t ride in ‘en.” She dropped her public voice, and continued in a low tone to her husband: “I’ve been thinking since you brought the news that there’s a great rich lady out by Trantridge, on the edge o’ The Chase, of the name of d’Urberloupes.”
“Hey–what’s that?” said Sir John.
She repeated the information. “That lady must be our relation,” she said. “And my projick is to send Tess to claim kin.”
“There is a lady of the name, now you mention it,” said Durbeylou. “Pa’son Tringham didn’t think of that. But she’s nothing beside we–a junior branch of us, no doubt, hailing long since King Norman’s day.”
While this question was being discussed neither of the pair noticed, in their preoccupation, that little Abraham had crept into the room, and was awaiting an opportunity of asking them to return.
“She is rich, and she’d be sure to take notice o’ the maid,” continued Mrs Durbeylou; “and ’twill be a very good thing. I don’t see why two branches o’ one family should not be on visiting terms.”
“Yes; and we’ll all claim kin!” said Abraham brightly from under the bedstead. “And we’ll all go and see her when Tess has gone to live with her; and we’ll ride in her coach and wear black clothes!”
“How do you come here, child? What nonsense be ye talking! Go away, and play on the stairs till father and mother be ready! … Well, Tess ought to go to this other member of our family. She’d be sure to win the lady–Tess would; and likely enough ‘twould lead to some noble gentleman marrying her. In short, I know it.”
“I tried her fate in the Fortune-Teller, and it brought out that very thing! … You should ha’ seen how pretty she looked today; her skin is as sumple as a duchess’s.”
“What says the maid herself to going?”
“I’ve not asked her. She don’t know there is any such lady-relation yet. But it would certainly put her in the way of a grand marriage, and she won’t say nay to going.”
“Tess is queer.”
“But she’s tractable at bottom. Leave her to me.”
Though this conversation had been private, sufficient of its import reached the understandings of those around to suggest to them that the Durbeylous had weightier concerns to talk of now than common folks had, and that Tess, their pretty eldest daughter, had fine prospects, if not a lamentable purpose in store.
“Tess is a fine figure o’ fun, as I said to myself today when I zeed her vamping round parish with the rest,” observed one of the elderly boozers in an undertone. “But Joan Durbeylou must mind that she don’t get green malt in floor.” It was a local phrase which had a peculiar warning for the light-minded mother to guard her daughter’s maidenhood against those who would rob Tess of that which is most valued.
The conversation became inclusive, and presently other footsteps were heard crossing the room below.
“—-Being a few private friends asked in tonight to keep up club-walking at my own expense.” The landlady had rapidly re-used the formula she kept on hand for intruders before she recognized that the newcomer was Tess.
Even to her mother’s gaze the girl’s young features looked sadly out of place amid the alcoholic vapours which floated here as no unsuitable medium for wrinkled middle-age; and hardly was a reproachful flash from Tess’s dark eyes needed to make her father and mother rise from their seats, hastily finish their ale, and descend the stairs behind her, Mrs Rolliver’s caution following their footsteps.
“No noise, please, if ye’ll be so good, my dears; or I mid lose my licends, and be summons’d, and I don’t know what all! ‘Night t’ye!”
They went home together, Tess holding one arm of her father, and Mrs Durbeylou the other. He had, in truth, drunk very little–not a fourth of the quantity which a systematic tippler could carry to church on a Sunday afternoon without a hitch in his eastings of genuflections; but the weakness and aches growing in his limbs made mountains of Sir John’s petty sins in this kind. On reaching the fresh air he peered up at the lunar lozenge glowing down upon the staggering trio. The father’s distorted gaze noted the shine radiated from a moon not yet full.
His gait was sufficiently unsteady to incline the row of three at one moment as if they were marching to London, and at another as if they were marching to Bath–which produced a comical effect, frequent enough in families on nocturnal homegoings; and, like most comical effects, not quite so comic after all. The two women valiantly disguised these forced excursions and countermarches as well as they could from Durbeylou their cause, and from Abraham, and from themselves; and so they approached by degrees their own door, the head of the family bursting suddenly into his former refrain as he drew near, as if to fortify his soul at sight of the smallness of his present residence–
“I’ve got a fam–ily vault near t’Kingsbere! My name is as good a one as any there is in this county.”
“Hush–don’t be so silly, Jacky,” said his wife. “Yours is not the only family that was of ‘count in wold days. Look at the Anktells, and Horseys, and the Tringhams themselves–gone to seed a’most as much as you–though you was bigger folks then they, that’s true. And tangled more with lupine lore any o’them as well. Thank God, I was never of no family that laid claim to any riches or fine skillentons that best lay buried. I have nothing to be ashamed of in that way!”
“Don’t you be so sure o’ that. From you nater ’tis my belief you’ve disgraced yourselves more than any o’ us, and was kings and queens outright at one time.”
Tess turned the subject by saying what was far more prominent in her own mind at the moment than thoughts of her ancestry–“I am afraid father won’t be able to take the journey with the beehives tomorrow so early.”
“I? I shall be all right in an hour or two,” said Durbeylou.
It was eleven o’clock before the family were all in bed, and two o’clock next morning was the latest hour for starting with the beehives if they were to be delivered to the retailers in Casterbridge before the Saturday market began, the way thither lying by bad roads over a distance of between twenty and thirty miles, and the horse and waggon being of the slowest. At half-past one Mrs Durbeyfield came into the large bedroom where Tess and all her little brothers and sisters slept.
“The poor man can’t go,” she said to her eldest daughter, whose great eyes had opened the moment her mother’s hand touched the door.
Tess sat up in bed, lost in a vague interspace between a dream and this information.
“But somebody must go,” she replied. “It is late for the hives already. Swarming will soon be over for the year; and it we put off taking ’em till next week’s market the call for ’em will be past, and they’ll be thrown on our hands.”
Mrs Durbeylou looked unequal to the emergency. “Some young feller, perhaps, would go? One of them who were so much after dancing with ‘ee yesterday,” she presently suggested.
“O no–I wouldn’t have it for the world!” declared Tess proudly. “And letting everybody know the reason–such a thing to be ashamed of! I think I could go if Abraham could go with me to kip me company.”
Her mother at length agreed to this arrangement. Little Abraham was aroused from his deep sleep in a corner of the same apartment, and made to put on his clothes while still mentally in the other world. Meanwhile Tess had hastily dressed herself; and the twain, lighting a lantern, went out to the stable. The rickety little waggon was already laden, and the girl led out the horse Prince, only a degree less rickety than the vehicle.
The poor creature looked wonderingly round at the night, at the lantern, at their two figures, as if he could not believe that at that hour, when every living thing was intended to be in shelter and at rest, he was called upon to go out and labour. They put a stock of candle-ends into the lantern, hung the latter to the off-side of the load, and directed the horse onward, walking at his shoulder at first during the uphill parts of the way, in order not to overload an animal of so little vigour. To cheer themselves as well as they could, they made an artificial morning with the company of the setting moon, the lantern, some bread and butter, and their own conversation, the real morning being far from come. Abraham, as he more fully awoke (for he had moved in a sort of trance so far), began to talk of the strange shapes assumed by the various dark objects against the sky; of this tree that looked like a raging wolf springing from a lair; of that branch which resembled lengthening fangs.
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… chapter III of Tess of the d’Urberloupes: a MashUp Novel …
Note to the fine readers of this work-in-progress: The greater part of Thomas Hardy’s TESS first appeared in the GRAPHIC newspaper, but other chapters were published as “episodic sketches” in the FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW and the NATIONAL OBSERVER. These publications were “more especially addressed to adult readers” probably because of the “suggestive” content, which shocked readers of that era. Even today, TESS occupies a place on the list of “Most Frequently Banned Books” because of its sensuality.
This “honor” rather surprises me as Hardy’s innuendos are are rather mild compared to today’s licentious mores, or they are so obscured in his lengthy sentences and complex word choices that many do not recognize the sexual connotations!
While I don’t plan on exposing those provocative references beyond what Hardy has already written, I will add more danger and craziness to them with my introduction of wolves into Wessex!
Sketch of cottage courtesy of Fliker!
As for Tess Durbeylou, she did not so easily dislodge the incident from her consideration. She had no spirit to dance again for a long time, though she might have had plenty of partners; but ah! they did not speak so nicely nor delight and cloud Tess’s heart and mind as the strange young man had done. If asked, she could not explain with any clarity the allure and the fear that quickened her pulsating blood and disturbed the hackles on her neck.
Was it the urbane conversation or the limpid state of his countenance that turned her attentions? And did his transient scrutiny raise her pique or was there more behind his cursory glance that tortured her thinking?
It was not till the rays of the sun had absorbed the young stranger’s retreating figure on the hill that she shook off her temporary sadness and vexation to answer her would-be partner in the affirmative.
She remained with her comrades till dusk, and participated with a certain zest in the dancing; though, the struggles and wrangles of the lads for her hand in a jig were an amusement to her–no more; and when they became fierce she rebuked them.
She might have stayed even later, but the incident of her father’s odd appearance and manner returned upon the girl’s mind to make her anxious, and wondering what had become of him she dropped away from the dancers and bent her steps towards the end of the village at which the parental cottage lay.
While yet many score yards off, other rhythmic sounds than those she had quitted became audible to her; sounds that she knew well–so well. They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade, the favourite ditty of “The Wessex Wolf and the Spotted Cow”—
“The maid replied, ‘Kind sir,’ she cried.
‘I’ve lost my spotted cow.’
“No longer weep, no longer mourn
Your cow’s not lost my dear,
I saw her lie do’–own in yon’–der green gro’–ove;
Come, love!’ and I’ll tell’ you where!’
“And in the gro’–ve, the night drew nigh,
Then brightly shone the moon,
First the light and then my cry;
The shape-shift came too soon.
The cradle-rocking and the song would cease simultaneously for a moment, and an explanation at highest vocal pitch would take the place of the melody.
“God bless thy diment eyes! And thy waxen cheeks! And thy cherry mouth! And thy Cubit’s thighs! And every bit o’ thy blessed body! Don’t ye go cryin’ now. No wolves will steal you away from your mum. Your cradle’s safe, and that’s a promise.”
After this invocation the rocking and the singing would recommence, and the “The Wessex Wolf and the Spotted Cow’ proceed as before. So matters stood when Tess opened the door, and paused upon the mat within it surveying the scene.
The interior of the cottage, and the peculiarity of the melody, struck upon the girl’s senses with an unspeakable dreariness. From the holiday gaieties of the field–the white gowns, the nosegays, the willow-wands, the whirling movements on the green, the flash of gentle sentiment towards the stranger–to the yellow melancholy of this one-candled spectacle and the discordant reminders of a once dormant legend, what a step! Tess questioned why her mother would now be singing about the wolves of Wessex; creatures that came from Normandy with William the Conquerer. Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.
There stood her mother amid the group of children, as Tess had left her, hanging over the Monday washing-tub, which had now, as always, lingered on to the end of the week. Out of that tub had come the day before–Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse–the very white frock upon her back which she had so carelessly greened about the skirt on the damping grass–which had been wrung up and ironed by her mother’s own hands.
As usual, Mrs Durbeylou was balanced on one foot beside the tub, the other being engaged in the aforesaid business of rocking her youngest child. The cradle-rockers had done hard duty for so many years, under the weight of so many children, on that flagstone floor, that they were worn nearly flat, in consequence of which a huge jerk accompanied each swing of the cot, flinging the baby from side to side like a weaver’s shuttle, as Mrs Durbeylou, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day’s seething in the suds.
Nick-knock, nick-knock, went the cradle; the candle-flame stretched itself tall, and began jigging up and down; the water dribbled from the matron’s elbows, and the song galloped on to the end of the verse where both cow and maiden were devoured by the shape-shifting wolf. Mrs Durbeylou regarded her daughter the while.
There still faintly beamed from the woman’s features something of the freshness, and even the prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother’s gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical, and uninfected. That was the observation of the county and the belief of the mother and father.
“I’ll rock the cradle for ‘ee, mother,” said the daughter gently. “Or I’ll take off my best frock and help you wring up? I thought you had finished long ago.”
Her mother bore Tess no ill-will for leaving the housework to her single-handed efforts for so long; indeed, Joan seldom upbraided her thereon at any time, feeling but slightly the lack of Tess’s assistance whilst her instinctive plan for relieving herself of her labours lay in postponing them. Tonight, however, she was even in a blither mood than usual. There was a dreaminess, a pre-occupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand.
“Well, I’m glad you’ve come,” her mother said, as soon as the last note had passed out of her, “I want to go and fetch your father; but what’s more’n that, I want to tell ‘ee what have happened. Y’ll be fess enough, my poppet, when th’st know!” (Mrs Durbeylou habitually spoke the West Saxon dialect; her daughter, who had passed the Sixth Standard in the National School under a London-trained mistress, spoke two languages: the dialect at home, more or less; ordinary English abroad and to persons of quality.)
“Since I’ve been away?” Tess asked.
“Ay!”
“Had it anything to do with father’s making such a mommet of himself in thik carriage this afternoon? Why did ‘er? I felt inclined to sink into the ground with shame!”
“That wer all a part of the larry! We’ve been found to be the greatest gentlefolk in the whole county–reaching all back long before Oliver Grumble’s time–to the days of the Pagan Turks–with monuments, and vaults, and crests, and “scutcheons, and the Lord knows what all. In Saint Charles’s days we was made Knights o’ the Royal Oak, our real name being d’Urberloups! … Don’t that make your bosom plim? ‘Twas on this account that your father rode home in the vlee; not because he’d been drinking, as people supposed.”
“I’m glad of that. But if we are of those gentlefolk – d’Urberloups – do we not own a portion of the folklores that come with the family name? Stories akin to the ditty you were singing when I crossed the threshold? Will knowin’ this truly do us any good, mother? ”
“O yes! ‘Tis thoughted that great things may come o’t. No doubt a mampus of volk of our own rank will be down here in their carriages as soon as ’tis known. Your father learnt it on his way hwome from Shaston, and he has been telnling me the whole pedigree of the matter – exceptin’ fer the d”Urberloups’ bond w’ the Barcarlet’s. as those stories are nothin’ to us, Tess. Tales o’them Norman werewolves are for scarin’ children and low volk.”
“Where is father now?” asked Tess suddenly.
Her mother gave irrelevant information by way of answer: “He called to see the doctor today in Shaston. It is not the ale only that’s causin’ his forgettin’ things; it seems. It is vessels in his heart that are hardenin’, ‘a says ‘You mid last ten years; you mid go off in ten months, or ten days, but yer mind will be more absent with each day that passes.'”
Tess looked alarmed. Her father possibly to go behind the eternal cloud so soon, notwithstanding this sudden greatness! She mourned, too, his dulling mind that failed to take measure of his goings and comings, or what he said and did not say to his wife and children, his friends, neighbors, and business folk. Never was he a man to count on, her father, but this amnesia of his expunged any semblance of dependability.
“But where is father?” she asked again.
Her mother put on a deprecating look. “Now don’t you be bursting out angry! The poor man–he felt so rafted after his uplifting by the pa’son’s news–that he went up to Rolliver’s half an hour ago. He do want to get up his strength for his journey tomorrow with that load of beehives, which must be delivered, family or no. He’ll have to start shortly after twelve tonight, as the distance is so long.”
“Get up his strength!” said Tess impetuously, the tears welling to her eyes. “O my God! Go to a public-house to get up his strength! And you as well agreed as he, mother! You know he’ll not remember to water his ale, and the drink will drowse him so’s he can’t drive the cart.”
Her rebuke and her mood seemed to fill the whole room, and to impart a cowed look to the furniture, and candle, and children playing about, and to her mother’s face.
“No,” said the latter touchily, “I be not agreed. I have been waiting for ‘ee to bide and keep house while I go fetch him.”
“I’ll go.”
“O no, Tess. You see, it would be no use.”
Tess did not expostulate. She knew what her mother’s objection meant. Mrs Durbeylou‘s jacket and bonnet were already hanging slily upon a chair by her side, in readiness for this contemplated jaunt, the reason for which the matron deplored more than its necessity.
This going to hunt up her shiftless husband at the inn was one of Mrs Durbeylou‘s still extant enjoyments in the muck and muddle of rearing children. To discover him at Rolliver’s, to sit there for an hour or two by his side and dismiss all thought and care of the children during the interval, made her happy. She thought too of sharing the day’s news with the patrons of the tavern. A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. She felt a little as she had used to feel when she sat by her now wedded husband in the same spot during his wooing, shutting her eyes to his defects of character, and regarding him only in his ideal presentation as lover.
Tess, being left alone with the younger children, went first to the outhouse with the fortune-telling book her mother studied upon occasion. The skeptical daughter stuffed this grimy volume into the thatch as it were the woman’s fetish that prevented her ever allowing it to stay in the house all night, and hither it was brought back whenever it had been consulted. Between the mother, with her fast-perishing lumber of superstitions, folk-lore, dialect, and orally transmitted ballads, and the daughter, with her trained National teachings and Standard knowledge under an infinitely Revised Code, there was a gap of two hundred years as ordinarily understood. When they were together the Jacobean and the Victorian ages were juxtaposed.
Returning along the garden path Tess mused on what the mother could have wished to ascertain from the book on this particular day. She guessed the recent ancestral discovery to bear upon it, but did not divine that it solely concerned herself. Dismissing this, however, she busied herself with sprinkling the linen dried during the daytime, in company with her nine-year-old brother Abraham, and her sister Eliza-Louisa of twelve and a half, call “‘Liza-Lu,” the youngest ones being put to bed.
It grew later, and neither father nor mother reappeared. Tess looked out of the door, and took a mental journey through Marlott. The village was shutting its eyes. Candles and lamps were being put out everywhere: she could inwardly behold the extinguisher and the extended hand.
Her mother’s fetching simply meant one more to fetch. Tess began to perceive that a man in indifferent health, who proposed to start on a journey before one in the morning, ought not to be at an inn at this late hour celebrating his ancient blood.
“Abraham,” she said to her little brother, “do you put on your hat–you bain’t afraid?–and go up to Rolliver’s, and see what has gone wi’ father and mother.”
The boy jumped promptly from his seat, and opened the door, and the night swallowed him up. Half an hour passed yet again; neither man, woman, nor child returned. Tess opened the door and peered down the lane, hoping for a glance of her brother escorting home his wayward parents. Though the near-full moon lit the path, she saw shadows only. An involuntary shutter shook her senses as thoughts of the d’Urberloupes’ cabalistic ancestry intruded upon her search.
“Nonsense,” she muttered. “Abraham seems to have been limed and caught by that ensnaring inn. I must go myself.”
‘Liza-Lu then went to bed, and Tess, locking them all in, started on her way up the shadowy and crooked lane or street not made for hasty progress; a street laid out before inches of land had value, and when one-handed clocks sufficiently subdivided the day.
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… why mess around with a mash-up? …
‘Mashup’ is recombinant art, derived art. Some may call it a type of plagiarism resulting from the impulse to create paired with a lack of imagination. Others will contend that this process of remixing source materials, whether they be “found sounds”, literature or pop music has great artistic merit. ~ from http://www.mashmashup.com/
For the 10 of you who may have read the first couple of chapters of Tess of the d’Urberloups: The Mashup, you may be asking yourself why in heaven’s name would I waste my time doing such a thing? Here are some reasons, in no particular order – ridiculous as they may seem!
I have “an impulse to create …
… but a lack of imagination.” None of my “novel” ideas are going anywhere!
I feel like responding to a challenge issued by Paul Anderson – a Scottish writer/blogger – to “invade the interminably boring Wessex of Thomas Hardy’s novels”. Of course, Paul also calls for a zombie presence, but hey, werewolves are terribly UNDER-appreciated!
"Sleigh bells ring, are you listenin'? In the lane, snow is glistenin'. It's a beautiful night; HE'S happy tonight; PROWLIN' in a winter wonderland." ~ MashUp lyric and artwork (foto-by-fliker)
I also have a desire to jump on the mashup/remix bandwagon before the wheels fall off.
Classic mash-ups provide a great vocabulary-building exercise! How else can one discover the meanings of so many archaic words that nobody uses anymore – except maybe the Brits? Words like votive – and we’re not referring to a candle but rather to a pledge or vow; ostleress – a female stableman/woman; one who cares for horses.
It’s also great fun to find and use these kinds of words in my remix. Among the favorites I have interjected thus far are mollified, preternatural, and portent.
This project helps me brush up on my limited French because the fictional d’Urbervilles and the mashed-up d’Urberloups hail from Brittany! So I can throw in several translations of werewolf or wolf : par exemple, loup; loup-garou; bâfrer; et tombeur de femmes.
I want an “up-close and personal” relationship with a mentor text. Ann Cannon suggests writers keep an exemplary text in the back of their minds to guide them in the direction they want their novels to go. The “model” may feature a similar tone, text structure, setting or characters. “MashUps” probably go beyond the mentor text idea, however; maybe even exploiting the relationship into becoming a rather tawdry affair. Oh well.
This project is something I think I can actually finish! 52 chapters in 52 weeks – just like in the old days of novel serialization in newspapers and magazines. I don’t have to search for blogging ideas – not that I really struggle with that anyway, but this is unique for a blog. I think.
I hope to attract some fans of mash-ups to my blog. I’d LOVE to get their input and perhaps use readers’ ideas to shape an even better remix. An interactive writing experience!
I like to make the writing process “transparent” – show revisions as they happen; reflect upon my progress or lack there of, etc. While many writers worry about publicizing their wips via blogs, I have fewer worries about someone stealing the “mash-up” idea. I guess I don’t have that much faith in this project. I mean, who would WANT to steal it?
This is a fun way to participate in the WordPress Weekly Challenge. This is is for the wimpy bloggers who chose not to take on the WordPress Daily Challenge – sort of like running a half 14% marathon.
Well, that’s about all I can think of for now.
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… Tess of the d’Urberloups, the MashUp … chapter II …
Note to the dear readers: If you want to read the prologue, click HERE, and if you missed Chapter I, click HERE.
You may have noticed that I have revised the title AND the main character’s surname – both the French and the Anglicized versions – to keep this mash-up a little closer to Hardy’s creation AND to give it a French flavor (d’Urberloups) vs a German bent (d’Uberwolf). In case you don’t have your French dictionary handy, wolves is the English translation for “loups”.
I am also returning to chapter I to extend the revisions to that draft.
You may be disappointed that there are not many werewolf details in this chapter. Be not discouraged, as future chapters will be filled with plenty o’ fangs and fur! A close reading of this chapter, however, will expose smoldering sensuality as Hardy describes the maidens of Marlott. You may want to tend to these details in the absence of wolfish elements.
I have also deleted several of Hardy’s sentences describing the countryside and the old wrinkled women – please Thomas, don’t roll over again. I know this is painful for you, but someone had to do it.
I know I am two chapters into this remix, but I am going to interject an introductory post to summarize the original with hopes of building readers’ background knowledge. A little something to look forward to! =D
"Club-walking" in Marlett
The village of Marlott lay amid the north-eastern undulations of the beautiful Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor aforesaid, an engirdled and secluded region, for the most part untrodden as yet by tourist or landscape-painter, though within a four hours’ journey from London.
It is a vale whose acquaintance is best made by viewing it from the summits of the hills that surround it–except perhaps during the droughts of summer. An unguided ramble into its recesses in bad weather is apt to engender dissatisfaction with its narrow, tortuous, and miry ways.
The district is of historic, no less than of topographical interest. The Vale was known in former times as the Forest of White Wolf, from a curious legend of King Henry III’s reign, in which the killing by a certain Thomas Clair d’Lune of a beautiful white wolf which the king had run down and spared, was made the occasion of a heavy fine. In those days, and till comparatively recent times, the country was densely wooded. Even now, traces of its earlier condition are to be found in the old oak copses and irregular belts of timber that yet survive upon its slopes, and the hollow-trunked trees that shade so many of its pastures.
The forests have departed, but some old customs of their shades remain. Many, however, linger only in a metamorphosed or disguised form. The May-Day dance, for instance, was to be discerned on the afternoon under notice, in the guise of the club revel, or “club-walking,” as it was there called.
It was an interesting event to the younger inhabitants of Marlott, though its real interest was not observed by the participators in the ceremony. Its singularity lay less in the retention of a custom of walking in procession and dancing on each anniversary than in the members being solely women. In men’s clubs such celebrations were, though expiring, less uncommon; but either the natural shyness of the softer sex, or a sarcastic attitude on the part of male relatives, had denuded such women’s clubs as remained (if any other did) or this their glory and consummation. The club of Marlott alone lived to uphold the local Cerealia, inspired by the Roman festival honoring the fertility goddess Ceres. It had walked for hundreds of years, if not as benefit-club as votive sisterhood of some sort; and it walked still.
The banded ones were all dressed in white gowns–a gay survival from Old Style days, when cheerfulness and May-time were synonyms. Their first exhibition of themselves was in a processional march of two and two round the parish. Ideal and real clashed slightly as the sun lit up their figures against the green hedges and creeper-laced house-fronts. In addition to the distinction of a white frock, every woman and girl carried in her right hand a peeled willow wand, and in her left a bunch of white flowers. The peeling of the former, and the selection of the latter, had been an operation of personal care.
There were a few middle-aged and even elderly women in the train, their silver-wiry hair and wrinkled faces, scourged by time and trouble, having almost a grotesque, certainly a pathetic, appearance in such a jaunty situation. But let the elder be passed over here for those under whose bodices the life throbbed quick and warm.
The young girls formed, indeed, the majority of the band, and their heads of luxuriant hair reflected in the sunshine every tone of gold, and black, and brown. Some had beautiful eyes, others a beautiful nose, others a beautiful mouth and figure: few, if any, had all. A difficulty of arranging their lips in this crude exposure to public scrutiny, an inability to balance their heads, and to dissociate self-consciousness from their features, was apparent in them, and showed that they were genuine country girls, unaccustomed to many eyes.
And as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun, so each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, at least some remote and distant hope which, though perhaps starving to nothing, still lived on, as hopes will. They were all cheerful, and many of them merry.
They came round by The Pure Drop Inn, and were turning out of the high road to pass through a wicket-gate into the meadows, when one of the women said–
“The Load-a-Lord! Why, Tess Durbeylou, if there isn’t thy father riding hwome in a carriage!”
A young member of the band turned her head at the exclamation. She was a fine and handsome girl–not handsomer than some others, possibly–but her mobile peony mouth and large innocent eyes added eloquence to colour and shape. She wore a red ribbon in her hair, and was the only one of the white company who could boast of such a pronounced adornment. As she looked round Durbeylou was seen moving along the road in a chaise belonging to the The Pure Drop, driven by a frizzle-headed brawny damsel with her gown-sleeves rolled above her elbows. This was the cheerful servant of that establishment, who, in her part of factotum, turned groom and ostler at times. Durbeylou, leaning back, and with his eyes closed luxuriously, was waving his hand above his head, and singing in a slow recitative–
“I’ve-got-a-gr’t-family-vault-near–t’Kingsbere–and knighted-forefathers-in-silver and lead-coffins-there!”
The clubbists tittered, except the girl called Tess– in whom a slow heat seemed to rise at the sense that her father was making himself foolish in their eyes.
“He’s tired, that’s all,” she said hastily, “and he has got a lift home, because our own horse has to rest today.”
“Bless thy simplicity, Tess,” said her companions. “He’s got his market-nitch. Haw-haw!”
“Look here; I won’t walk another inch with you, if you say any jokes about him!” Tess cried, and the colour upon her cheeks spread over her face and neck. In a moment her eyes grew moist, and her glance drooped to the ground. Perceiving that they had really pained her they said no more, and order again prevailed. Tess’s pride would not allow her to turn her head again, to learn what her father’s meaning was, if he had any; and thus she moved on with the whole body to the enclosure where there was to be dancing on the green. By the time the spot was reached she has recovered her equanimity, and tapped her neighbour with her wand and talked as usual.
Tess Durbeylou at this time of her life was a mere vessel of emotion untinctured by experience. The dialect was on her tongue to some extent, despite the village school: the characteristic intonation of that dialect for this district being the voicing approximately rendered by the syllable ur, probably as rich an utterance as any to be found in human speech. The pouted-up deep red mouth to which this syllable was native had hardly as yet settled into its definite shape, and her lower lip had a way of thrusting the middle of her top one upward, when they closed together after a word.
Phases of her childhood lurked in her aspect still. As she walked along today, for all her bouncing handsome womanliness, you could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
Yet few knew, and still fewer considered this. A small minority, mainly strangers, would look long at her in casually passing by, and grow momentarily fascinated by her freshness, and wonder if they would ever see her again: but to almost everybody she was a fine and picturesque country girl, and no more.
Nothing was seen or heard further of Durbeylou in his triumphal chariot under the conduct of the ostleress, and the club having entered the allotted space, dancing began. As there were no men in the company the girls danced at first with each other, but when the hour for the close of labour drew on, the masculine inhabitants of the village, together with other idlers and pedestrians, gathered round the spot, and appeared inclined to negotiate for a partner.
Among these on-lookers were three young men of a superior class, carrying small knapsacks strapped to their shoulders, and stout sticks in their hands. Their general likeness to each other, and their consecutive ages, would almost have suggested that they might be, what in fact they were, brothers. The eldest wore the white tie, high waistcoat, and thin-brimmed hat of the regulation curate; the second was the normal undergraduate; the appearance of the third and youngest would hardly have been sufficient to characterize him; there was an uncribbed, uncabined aspect in his eyes and attire, implying that he had hardly as yet found the entrance to his professional groove. That he was a desultory tentative student of something and everything might only have been predicted of him.
These three brethren told casual acquaintance that they were spending their Whitsun holidays in a walking tour through the Vale of Blackmoor. They leant over the gate by the highway, and inquired as to the meaning of the dance and the white-frocked maids. The two elder of the brothers were plainly not intending to linger more than a moment, but the spectacle of a bevy of girls dancing without male partners seemed to amuse the third, and made him in no hurry to move on. He unstrapped his knapsack, put it, with his stick, on the hedge-bank, and opened the gate.
“What are you going to do, Angel?” asked the eldest.
“I am inclined to go and have a fling with them. Why not all of us–just for a minute or two–it will not detain us long?”
“No–no; nonsense!” said the first. “Dancing in public with a troop of country hoydens–suppose we should be seen! Come along, or it will be dark before we get to Stourcastle, and there’s no place we can sleep at nearer than that; besides, we must get through another chapter of A Counterblast to Lycanthropy before we turn in, now I have taken the trouble to bring the book.”
“All right–I’ll overtake you and Cuthbert in five minutes; don’t stop; I give my word that I will, Felix.”
The two elder reluctantly left him and walked on, taking their brother’s knapsack to relieve him in following, and the youngest entered the field.
“This is a thousand pities,” he said gallantly, to two or three of the girls nearest him, as soon as there was a pause in the dance. “Where are your partners, my dears?”
“They’ve not left off work yet,” answered one of the boldest. “They’ll be here by and by. Till then, will you be one, sir?”
“Certainly. But what’s one among so many!”
“Better than none. ‘Tis melancholy work facing and footing it to one of your own sort, and no clipsing and colling at all. Now, pick and choose.”
“‘Ssh–don’t be so for’ard!” said a shyer girl.
The young man, thus invited, clanged them over, and attempted some discrimination; but, as the group were all so new to him, he could not very well exercise it. He took almost the first that came to hand, which was not the speaker, as she had expected; nor did it happen to be Tess Durbeylou. Pedigree, ancestral , monumental record, the d’Urberloupe lineaments, did not help Tess in her life’s battle as yet, even to the extent of attracting to her a dancing-partner over the heads of the commonest peasantry. So much for Norman blood unaided by Victorian lucre.
The name of the eclipsing girl, whatever it was, has not been handed down; but she was envied by all as the first who enjoyed the luxury of a masculine partner that evening. Yet such was the force of example that the village young men, who had not hastened to enter the gate while no intruder was in the way, now dropped in quickly, and soon the couples became leavened with rustic youth to a marked extent, till at length the plainest woman in the club was no longer compelled to foot it on the masculine side of the figure.
The church clock struck, when suddenly the student said that he must leave–he had been forgetting himself– he had to join his companions. As he fell out of the dance his eyes lighted on Tess Durbeylou, whose own large orbs wore, to tell the truth, a growing aspect of reproach that he had not chosen her. He, too, was sorry then that, owing not only to her backwardness but also to a preternatural portent that navigated him from an observation of her; and with that in his mind he left the pasture.
On account of his long delay he started in a flying-run down the lane westward, and had soon passed the hollow and mounted the next rise. He had not yet overtaken his brothers, but he paused to get breath, and looked back. He could see the white figures of the girls in the green enclosure whirling about as they had whirled when he was among them. They seemed to have quite forgotten him already.
All of them, except, perhaps, one. This white shape stood apart by the hedge alone. From her position he knew it to be the pretty maiden with whom he had not danced. For a second time, the young man hailed as Angel, wondered at the presentiments shuffling through his senses. Trifling as the matter was, he instinctively felt his path – as undetermined as it was – would entwine with hers. Too, he distinguished that she was hurt by his oversight. He wished that he had asked her; he wished that he had inquired her name. She was so modest, so expressive, so mysterious, she had looked so soft in her thin white gown that he felt he had acted stupidly.
However, it could not be helped, and turning, and bending himself to a rapid walk, he dismissed the subject from his mind.
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… Tess of the d’Urberloups, the MashUP … Phase the First; Chapter I …
Note to the reader: Go HERE to read the prologue – if you want to, that is.
If you have not experienced a “mash-up” novel, then I feel I must warn you that such books include the author’s original prose EXCEPT where the “collaborating” author adds or substitutes different ideas. My revisions SHOULD reflect Hardy’s tone and style, and the events – though wacky and weird – will be included as if VERY plausible.
Just in case you can’t differentiate MY writing from Mr. Hardy’s (LOL), I will bold my bold attempts to write like the genius. And because this is a work-in-progress (wip), I will only include scenes where I tamper with the writing and occassionally link those together with summaries of the UNtouched pages. We’ll see how that goes.
Phase the First: Country Girl
Written by Thomas Hardy and Thomasina HardLY
On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He occasionally gave a smart nod, as if in confirmation of some opinion, though he was not thinking of anything in particular. An empty egg-basket was slung upon his arm, the nap of his hat was ruffled, a patch being quite worn away at its brim where his thumb came in taking it off. Presently he was met by an elderly parson astride on a gray mare, who, as he rode, hummed a wandering tune.
“Good night t’ee,” said the man with the basket.
“Good night, Sir John,” said the parson.
The pedestrian, after another pace or two, halted, and turned round.
“Now, sir, begging your pardon; we met last market-day on this road about this time, and I said “Good night,” and you made reply ‘Good night, Sir John,’ as now.”
“I did,” said the parson.
“And once before that–near a month ago.”
“I may have.”
“Then what might your meaning be in calling me ‘Sir John’ these different times, when I be plain Jack Durbeyfield Durbeylou, the haggler?”
The parson rode a step or two nearer.
“It was only my whim,” he said; and, after a moment’s hesitation: “It was on account of a discovery I made some little time ago, whilst I was hunting up pedigrees for the new county history. I am Parson Tringham, the antiquary, of Stagfoot Lane. Don’t you really know, Durbeylou, that you are the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the d’Uberwolves d’Urberloups, who derive their descent from Sir Pagan d’Uberwolves d’Urberloups, that renowned knight who came from Normandy with William the Conqueror, as appears by Battle Abbey Roll?”
“Never heard it before, sir!”
“Well it’s true. Throw up your chin a moment, so that I may catch the profile of your face better. Yes, that’s the d’Uberwolf d’Urberloups nose, mashed pushed in there a bit and nostrils somewhat flared flaring. Ah, the chin, too, prominent-like because of the under-bite, another characteristic of the d’Uberwolves d’Urberloups.
“Show me your fingers, Sir John,” insisted the parson as he took the dazed haggler’s hand into his own. “Now look at that, will you? See the middle and index fingers are of the same length, man. Is it so with your left?”
John examined his fingers and nodded. “What does this mean, sir, if ye don’t do not mind me asking’?”
Your ancestor was one of the twelve knights who assisted the Lord of Estremavilla in Normandy in his conquest of Glamorganshire. If you’ve no knowledge of that piece of history, then I don’t not imagine you have heard the legends of the d’Urberloups’ heredity.
“No sir, can’t says that I have, but had I known I was one of them, I’d of paid better attention to them stories. How ’bouts ye share these here legends and a quart of beer wi’ me Pa’son Tringham? There’s a very pretty brew in tap at The Pure Drop–though, to be sure, not so good as at Rolliver’s.”
“No, thank you–not this evening, Durbeyfield. You’ve had enough already, but I’ll tell you this: it is said the d’Urberloups’ line traces back to Bisclavaret. So, my good man, in spite of the former greatness of your ancestors – – -“
“Greatness, Sir? You mean lands and such?”
“In their day, yes. Branches of your family held manors over all this part of England; their names appear in the Pipe Rolls in the time of King Stephen. In the reign of King John one of them was rich enough to give a manor to the Knights Hospitallers; and in Edward the Second’s time your forefather Brian was summoned to Westminster to attend the great Council there. You declined a little in Oliver Cromwell’s time, but to no serious extent, and in Charles the Second’s reign you were made Knights of the Royal Oak for your loyalty. Aye, there have been generations of Sir Johns among you, and if knighthood were hereditary, like a baronetcy, as it practically was in old times, when men were knighted from father to son, you would be Sir John now. And if the legends of Bisclavaret are based on any truths, you would also be lubin’s relative, my good fellow. ”
“Ye don’t say so! Manors, knights, and werewolves!”
“In short,” concluded the parson, decisively smacking his leg with his switch, “there’s hardly such another family in England.”
“Daze my eyes, and isn’t there?” said Durbeyfield. “And here have I been knocking about, year after year, from pillar to post, as if I was no more than the commonest feller in the parish… And how long hev this news about me been knowed, Pa’son Tringham?”
The clergyman explained that, as far as he was aware, it had quite died out of knowledge, and could hardly be said to be known at all. His own investigations had begun on a day in the preceding spring when, having been engaged in tracing the vicissitudes of the d’Urberloups family, he had observed Durbeyfield’s name on his waggon, and had thereupon been led to make inquiries about his father and grandfather till he had no doubt on the subject.
“At first I resolved not to disturb you with such a useless piece of information,” said he. “However, our impulses are too strong for our judgment sometimes. I thought you might perhaps know something of it all the while.”
“Well, I have heard once or twice, ’tis true, that my family had seen better days afore they came to Blackmoor. But I took no notice o’t, thinking it to mean that we had once kept two horses where we now keep only one. I’ve got a wold silver spoon and knife, and a wold graven seal at home, too; but, Lord, what’s a seal, a spoon and a knife, one that is too large t’use at the table and too fine t’use in the kitchen? … And to think that I and these noble d’Uberwolves were one flesh all the time. ‘Twas said that my gr’t-granfer had secrets, and didn’t care to talk of where he came from. I be thinking he didn’t want folks knowing about them d’Urberloups stories as some might judge he was not to be trusted some days o’ the month … Parson if I may make so bold; where do we d’Urberloups live?”
“You don’t live anywhere. You are extinct – as a county family and as a loup-garou.”
“That’s bad to be an extinct county family, I be meaning.”
“Yes – what the mendacious family chronicles call extinct in the male line – that is, gone down – gone under.”
“Then where do we lie?”
“At Kingsbere-sub-Greenhill: near the church lands but not within its boundaries. There are rows and rows of you in your vaults, forming a sanctuary of its own with your effigies under Purbeck-marble canopies.”
“And where be our family mansions and estates?”
“You haven’t any.”
“Oh? No lands neither?”
“None; though you once had ’em in abundance, as I said, for you family consisted of numerous branches. In this county there was a seat of yours at Kingsbere, and another at Sherton, and another in Millpond, and another at Lullstead, and another at Wellbridge.”
“And shall we ever come into our own again?”
“Ah – that I can’t tell! Probably no more likely than your transformation from human to wolf.”
“And what had I better do about comin’ into our own, sir?” asked Durbeylou, after a pause.
“Oh – nothing, nothing; except chasten yourself with the thought of ‘how are the mighty fallen and the dangerous mollified. It is a fact of some interest to the local historian, genealogist, or lycanthropologist, nothing more. There are several families among the cottagers of this county of almost equal lustre and dross, might I add. Good night.”
Concluding thus, the parson rode on his way, with doubts as to his discretion in retailing this curious bit of lore.
When he was gone, Durbeylou walked a few steps in a profound reverie, and then sat down upon the grassy bank by the roadside, depositing his basket before him. In a few minutes a youth appeared in the distance, walking in the same direction as that which had been pursued by Durbeyfield. The latter, on seeing him, held up his hand, and the lad quickened his pace and came near.
“Boy, take up that basket! I want ‘ee to go on an errand for me.”
The lath-like stripling frowned. “Who be you, then, John Durbeylou, to order me about and call me ‘boy’? You know my name as well as I know yours!”
“Do you, do you? That’s the secret – that’s the secret! Now obey my orders, and take the message I’m going to charge ‘ee wi’… Well, Fred, I don’t mind telling you that the secret is that I’m one of a noble race and a dangerous breed – it has been just found out by me this present afternoon, P.M.” And as he made the announcement, Durbeyfield, declining from his sitting position, luxuriously stretched himself out upon the bank among the daisies.
The lad stood before Durbeylou, and contemplated his length from crown to toe.
“Sir John d’Urberloups – that’s who I am,” continued the prostrate man. “That is if knights were baronets – which they be. ‘Tis recorded in history all about me. Dost know of such a place, lad, as Kingsbere-sub-Greenhill?”
“Ees. I’ve been there to Greenhill Fair.”
“Well, near the church of that city there lie – ”
“‘Tisn’t a city, the place I mean; leastwise ‘twaddn’ when I was there – ’twas a little one-eyed, blinking sort o’ place with a plot filled with them that ain’t worthy to be put in holy ground.”
“Never you mind the place, boy, that’s not the question before us. In that there parish lie my ancestors – hundreds of ’em – in coats of mail and jewels, in gr’t lead coffins, some lined with silver, weighing tons and tons. There’s not a man in the county o’ South-Wessex that’s got grander and nobler and more fearsome skillentons in his family than I.”
“Now take up that basket, and goo on to Marlott, and when you’ve come to The Pure Drop Inn, tell ’em to send a horse and carriage to me immed’ately, to carry me hwome. And in the bottom o’ the carriage they be to put a noggin o’ rum in a small bottle, and chalk it up to my account. And when you’ve done that goo on to my house with the basket, and tell my wife to put away that washing, because she needn’t finish it, and wait till I come hwome, as I’ve news to tell her.”
As the lad stood in a dubious attitude, Durbeylou bared his teeth and narrowed his eyes as he had never done before. Then he put his hand in his pocket and produced a shilling, one of the chronically few that he possessed.
“Here’s for your labour, lad,” Durbeylou growled.
This made a difference in the young man’s estimate of the position.
“Y-y-y-yes, Sir John. Thank ‘ee. Anything else I can do for ‘ee, S-s-sir John?”
“Tell ’em at hwome that I should like for supper, – well, lamb’s fry if they can get it – done up rare-like; and if they can’t, blood sausage; and if they can’t get that, well chitterlings will do.”
“Yes, Sir John,” the boy swallowed the lump that had formed in his throat and then took up the basket. But before he could run from the strange encounter, the notes of a brass band were heard from the direction of the village.
“What’s that?” hollered Durbeylou after the fleeing lad. “Not on account o’ I?”
“‘Tis the women’s club-walking, Sir John,” he yelled back. “Why, your da’ter is one o’ the members.”
“To be sure – I’d quite forgot it in my thoughts of greater things! Well, vamp on to Marlott, will ye, and order that carriage, and maybe I’ll drive round and inspect the club.” But the boy heard none of the reminders as he was ‘round two bends by that time.
Durbeylou lay waiting on the grass and daisies in the evening sun. Not a soul passed that way for a long while, and the faint notes of the band were the only human sounds audible within the rim of blue hills. Deep in Durbeylou’s reverie, however, a distant howl interrupted the muffled music.
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… Tess of the d’UberWolves: Prologue …
In the spirit of the mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I decided to work with Thomas Hardy to “remix” the author’s Victorian novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles. As I recently read the classic, I realized the tragedy was ripe for “revision-fiction.”
Think about it. What works better than Victorian fiction that is classified as “public domain?” (NO copyright issues!) Besides Hardy includes enough creepy elements in the story that I only have to weave in a few details of popular paranormal phenomenon to equal about 15% of the newer version!
And one more thing: NOBODY has done it yet. Seriously! Over at Quirk Classics, you can find Android Karenina, Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters, as well as a sequel to PPZ. My search also turned up Little Vampire Women, published by Harper-Collins, but a Google search did NOT find a single reference to a Tess remake.
That’s when I decided to join forces with Thomas Hardy to see what we could do to bring his great novel added notoriety – if not respect. After all, the reading public pooh-poohed Tess back in his day; so why not throw in a werewolf or two to complicate the life of the “fallen woman” and REALLY give Hardy’s critics something to talk about?
Night at The Chase
Since this is new territory for me, if not for Mr. Hardy, I decided to “experiment” with the idea online via my blog. Just as the original was published as a serial novel in magazines in Great Britain and America, I thought it only appropriate to publish Tess of the d’UberWolves in serial form.
This online experimentation, however, will focus upon MY 15% contribution. For brevity’s sake, I will summarize Mr. Hardy’s words while blending in my revisionist scenes. The plan is to post at least weekly, but if I have a spare moment or two or an idea that just can’t wait, there will be more posted episodes. If you are interested enough to read the drivel but miss a chapter or two, you will be able to find them under the category “…my writing life…”
Are you excited about this adventure? I am. I hope it will be a great writing exercise for me and fun for you. I’m thinking about using a pen name. What do you think of “Thomasina Hardly?”
Stay tuned for Chapter 1.
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How Comcast Bought the Democratic Party
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Source: National Review
The communications giant Comcast announced in February that it would buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion, creating the largest cable provider in America, with more than 33 million customers. That is about one third of the U.S. cable- and satellite-television market. FCC approval is required for the merger to go into effect. Critics of the deal say it would lessen competition and lead to even shoddier customer service. They are probably right, as all of us will soon find out, because there is little chance the merger will be stopped. Comcast, Time Warner, and their political fixers have spent years preparing for this moment — by buying off the Democratic party.
Comcast, which employs more than 100 lobbyists, spent almost $19 million last year on lobbying activities. Its president and CEO, Brian L. Roberts, is a golf buddy of President Obama’s, and a Democratic donor who has contributed thousands of dollars not only to the president’s campaigns, but also to the Democratic party of Pennsylvania, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the DNC Services Corporation, and to Steny Hoyer, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Bob Casey. Roberts’s executive vice president, David Cohen, is a former aide to Democratic bigwig Ed Rendell. Cohen skirts lobbying regulations through loopholes, has raised more than $2 million for Obama since 2007, and in 2011 hosted a DNC fundraiser at which the president called him “friend.” Cohen has visited the White House 14 times since 2010, including two visits to the Oval Office. He attended the recent dinner for President Hollande of France.
Cohen plays a major role in the Comcast Foundation, which has disbursed more than $3 billion since 2001, primarily to “groups that serve African-Americans, Latinos, and Asians” and other segments of the Democratic coalition. You will be surprised to learn that many of the groups to whom the Comcast Foundation has donated now support the proposed merger. Of the $33 million Comcast has spent on political campaigns since 1989, more than half, or some $18 million, has gone to Democrats. Barack Obama is No. 1 on the list of the top ten recipients of Comcast’s largesse. There are four Republicans on the list.
Comcast’s in-kind contributions to the Democratic party are more difficult to calculate. In a media environment that already tilts leftward, the NBC networks, which Comcast owns, distinguish themselves as especially pro-Obama. Comcast has one channel, MSNBC, which is almost entirely devoted to furthering the president’s agenda and the broader priorities of the American progressive movement. How do you put a price on the contributions of the invaluable Ed, Al, Chris, Chris, Rachel, and Lawrence? Where would the Democratic party be today without The Reid Report? They give so much.
MSNBC shares staff and resources with NBC News, whose chief foreign-affairs correspondent is a personal friend and tireless advocate of Hillary Clinton’s. NBC Sports, which during its recent Olympics coverage bent over backwards to apologize for Russia, has on its payroll the liberal pink-eye victim Bob Costas, famous for advocating gun control during a sporting event. President Obama and Michelle Obama are regulars on Jimmy Fallon’s show, and Joe Biden was the first guest on Seth Myers’s Late Night. Biden is always good for laughs.
The company Comcast wants to absorb shares its partisan leaning. Since 1989, Time Warner has given $29 million to political campaigns, and more than half of that money went to Democrats. The top three recipients of contributions from Time Warner’s employees, their family members, and PACs are Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry. President Obama comes first, with more than $1 million. Hillary Clinton comes next, with some $400,000. (Sexism?) Time Warner’s PAC has given lavishly to the DNC Services Corporation, the DCCC, and the DSCC.
Time Warner’s CEO, Robert Marcus, has donated $8,500 to Democrats since 2010. His giving also favors Democrats over Republicans. So far this cycle Time Warner and its employees have lavished support on Alison Grimes, Cory Booker, Kay Hagan, Mark Takano, and Henry Waxman. They are all — well, you know what they are. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, who has received donations from both companies, had to recuse himself from Senate business with the merger when it was revealed that his brother, Robert, was representing Time Warner. Comcast and Time Warner are on the list of companies subject to an ongoing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Investigation. Will Reid and Schumer return the money donated by companies under investigation for shady business practices overseas?
The chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, is a venture capitalist and former lobbyist for telecom interests. Obama appointed him in 2013. “Comcast Lobbyist Cohen Meets His Match in FCC’s Wheeler,” read a recent headline from Reuters, but the adversarial relationship implied therein seems to me to be vastly overstated. In fact “match” is a good word to describe the similarities between these two men. Both are influence brokers that have successfully navigated the highly complex and highly lucrative maze of telecom politics. Both are Obama campaign bundlers. Wheeler raised somewhere between $200,000 and $500,000 for Obama’s first presidential race, personally maxing out to the campaign and to the DNC, and bundled at least $500,000 for the president’s reelection. Fortunately, we can rest assured that none of this, not Wheeler’s ties to his industry, nor the specter of regulatory capture, nor the shared political agenda of regulator and “industry partner,” nor the prospect of future employment, will affect Wheeler’s decision in any way.
It is something of a political irony that Republicans, who for ideological reasons are pro-business, have not raised questions about, or objections to, the conjoining of two Democratic institutions into a media trust. If Republicans had any sense, they would wage war against Comcast and its Democratic enablers and turn the merger into a live issue. Needless to say they have not done so, perhaps in the wrongheaded and futile hope of scraps from the table of the Comcast cable beast, perhaps in the foolish and selfish notion that David Cohen may one day add another man to his company of lobbyists.
“I have been struck by the absence of rational, knowledgeable voices in this space coming out in opposition or even raising serious questions about the transaction,” Cohen said in a recent C-SPAN interview. I am struck by the same absence, but I am not surprised by it. At this writing opposition to the merger seems to be limited to the Writers Guild of America, Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell, and Senator Al Franken of Minnesota. This is what happens when you buy one political party and disarm the other.
Imagine the noises from MSNBC if the merger involved Rupert Murdoch or Glenn Beck or Sheldon Adelson or the K-O-C-H brothers. Criticism would lead the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Costas would interrupt a Sunday Night Football game to decry corporate consolidation, Fallon would crack wise in his monologue. And who are the opponents of high prices, horrible customer service, and sub-standard Xfinity packages left with instead? Stuart Smalley.
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Encouraging postgraduate students of literature and art to cross conceptual thresholds
Gina Wisker
Much research into postgraduate student learning focuses on generic issues of research development. Early work, reported here, uses threshold concept theories and theories of conceptual threshold crossing to focus on the learning and supervisory support of postgraduates researching in the fields of literature and art. This paper is based on interviews with postgraduate students, postdoctorates and supervisors. It considers effective practices supporting postgraduate students and explores the reporting of experience, textual examples and dialogues to determine some of the characteristics in practice of both bringing threshold concepts into play in students’ research and supporting their crossing of conceptual thresholds. We argue that identifying and working towards the overcoming of blockages or ‘stuck places’ in research can lead to conceptualised, critical and creative work in literature and art PhDs.
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2019 Honda Accord Review
By Autolist Editorial | May 30, 2019
The 2019 Honda Accord is the newest version of a midsize sedan which has been in production since 1976. In 2018, the 10th generation of the Accord was unveiled and won numerous accolades including 2018 North American Car of the Year and 2018 Canadian Car of the Year.
The 2019 model does not offer any major changes from last year’s aside from the fact that the Touring Model is no longer available with the base level 192-hp 1.5-liter turbo-four engine. That said, the 2018 redesign was well thought and offered many upgrades to support better handling, fuel economy, and safety among other areas.
The Accord matches up against competitors such as the Toyota Camry, Volkswagen Passat, Nissan Altima, Kia Optima and Chevy Malibu. The Accord stands out from the pack thanks to its sporty handling, powerful engine, unique exterior styling, and plethora of safety, storage and comfort features.
The new Accord is a great option that will appeal to many different types of drivers. Many reviewers highlight this car’s driving experience, cargo space and value as solid reasons to consider this sedan over a compact or midsize SUV.
The 2019 Accord is available at a base price of $23,720. The Sport, EX, and EX-L trims cost $26,180, $27,620, and $30,120, respectively. For $34,990 the Accord is available in a Touring trim.
The Honda Accord has a three-year/36,000-mile limited warranty and a five-year/60,000-mile powertrain warranty.
Totally redesigned for the 2018 model, the Accord exterior offers a sporty, performance inspired exterior accentuated by LED low beam lights in front of the car. The car has a muscular, fastback inspired design. From the side, the Accord features strong lines which give the impression of perpetual forward motion.
In the rear, LED tail lights and dual chrome exhausts complete the refined and sporty design.
The 2019 Honda Accord is available in the following colors:
Platinum White Pearl – LX, Hybrid, Sport, EX, EX-L and Touring
Lunar Silver Metallic – LX, Hybrid, Sport, EX, EX-L and Touring
Modern Steel Metallic – LX, Hybrid, Sport, EX, EX-L and Touring
Crystal Black Pearl – LX, Hybrid, Sport, EX, EX-L and Touring
Obsidian Blue Pearl – LX, Hybrid, EX, EX-L and Touring-
Still Night Pearl – Sport Trim-
San Marino Red – Sport Trim
Radiant Red Metallic – LX, Hybrid, EX, EX-L and Touring
Champagne Frost Pearl – LX, Hybrid, EX, EX-L and Touring
Interior Quality and Comfort
The Honda Accord seats up to five passengers in two rows.
Most adults will be able to sit comfortably in either the front or back seat. Leg room is abundant in both rows though many reviewers found that very tall passengers may wish for more headroom in the backseat.
Some reviewers find the Accord’s seating position to be too low. Others consider this a benefit which promotes a sporty driving position.
Cloth upholstery is standard with the ability to upgrade to leather seats, heated seats and power adjusted front a rear seats.
Some reviewers found the 2019 Honda Accord to have interior materials such as plastic which take away from the appearance of the interior. Despite this, others compared the intuitive audio and climate controls to more upscale brands such as Audi.
The Accord has two sets of LATCH car-seat connectors on the rear seats. The middle seat has an upper tether which can be used to borrow lower anchors if the adjoining seats are not being used.
The Accord is available with the interior color options of:
Utility & Practicality
The Honda Accord boasts a massive 16.7 cubic feet of cargo space in the rear trunk. That is enough room to carry up to 12 shopping bags easily. It is also enough space to define the Accord as having one of the most generous cargo capacities of any midsize sedan.
The Accord offers a unique mix of sport and practicality. Many reviewers consider it among the best choices for those who want a car that is fun to drive but that can also stand up to the demands of the busy modern lifestyle.
Technology & Infotainment
The 2019 Accord comes equipped with an infotainment system with a 7-inch display screen, Bluetooth, four speaker stereo and a USB port. It can be upgraded to include an 8-inch touch screen, an 8 or 10 speaker audio system, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, HD radio and satellite radio.
Most reviewers found the infotainment system to be arranged well with the addition of physical buttons and knobs making it easy to control climate and volume. When compared to the 2017 version, reviewers found the renewed in 2018 infotainment system to be a clear upgrade over previous versions.
Safety & Driving Assistance
The Honda Accord utilizes the Honda Sensing system as a standard feature which includes collision mitigation braking, lane keep assist, lane departure warning, forward collision warning, traffic sign recognition and adaptive cruise control. This suite of safety and driving assistance features were celebrated by many reviewers and considered among the best in the midsize sedan category.
The 2019 Accord was awarded a Top Safety Pick designation and the highest rating of good in IIHS crash test simulations. The NHTSA gave Accord a 5 out of 5 safety rating.
In 2018, Honda renewed the Accord’s dashboard gauges. When compared to previous editions, the new RPM, Clock and Speed gauges are a clear upgrade. With the addition of an optional head’s up display (HUD), the Accord is a very modern and futuristic car to drive.
The Accord offers a nimble and responsive driving experience. Many reviewers have highlighted this car’s ability to handle tight corners with ease thanks to its accurate steering.
The Touring trim level offers a multilink adaptive suspension. This substantial handling upgrade allows the car to respond well to aggressive cornering and changes in velocity. While lower trim levels do not offer this feature, the Accord is still one of the most enjoyable driving experiences available in a midsize sedan.
The Honda Accord has a 192-hp 1.5-liter turbo-four engine standard. This can be upgraded to a 252-hp 2.0-liter turbo-four with a hybrid powertrain offering a combined output of 212 hp.
The 2.0-liter is a 10-speed automatic, and a continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT) supports the 1.5-liter engine and the hybrid powertrain; each of the non hybrids are also available as a 6-speed manual transmission.
The Honda Accord Hybrid has an EPA-rated fuel economy rating of 47 miles per gallon in both city and highway. Non-hybrid models range from 22/32 mpg for city and highway for models with the 2.0-liter engine. The 1.5-liter Accord models offer combined city and highway fuel economy between 30 and 33 miles per gallon depending on trim level.
Pricing & Value
The Honda Accord is available in five unique trim levels: LX, Sport, EX-L, and Touring. The car is also available in an ultra-fuel efficient Hybrid model.
The base level LX trim offers tremendous cargo capacity, many standard safety features and a driving experience that will make it the right fit for many drivers. The Sport edition adds manual transmission Android Auto, Apple CarPlay and a power-adjusted driver’s seat. The premier Touring trim level offers the most luxurious Accord experience to date with many details to support comfort, performance, safety and style.
Honda Accord LX
The Honda Accord LX trim is available for a base price of $23,720. It comes equipped with a 192-horsepower turbocharged four-cylinder engine and continuously variable automatic transmission.
It includes key safety features such as a rearview camera, adaptive cruise control, driver sleepiness monitoring, collision mitigation braking, lane keep assist, lane departure warning, forward collision warning and traffic sign recognition.
It also includes an infotainment system with a four speaker audio system, 7 inch display screen, Bluetooth and USB Port.
Honda Accord Sport
Priced at $26,180, the Honda Accord Sport offers a six-speed manual transmission, leather wrapped steering wheel, power adjusted driver’s seat, eight speaker audio system, 8 inch touch screen, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, fog lights, rear spoiler and sport pedals.
For an additional $4,530, this model can be upgraded to include a 252-horsepower turbocharged four-cylinder engine. A continuously variable automatic transmission is available for no additional fee.
Honda Accord EX
The Honda Accord EX is available for $27,620. This trim level includes a moonroof, blind spot monitoring, rear cross traffic alert, heated side mirrors, heated front seats, HD Radio and satellite radio.
Honda Accord EX-L
The Honda EX-L trim is priced at $30,120. This level offers leather seats, driver’s seat memory functions, and a 10 speaker premium audio system. For an additional $2,000 this car can be upgraded to include a 252-horsepower turbo-four engine and a 10-speed automatic transmission.
Honda Accord Touring
The Honda Accord Touring trim has a base price of $34,990 and comes with the 252-horsepower turbo four cylinder engine, a 10 speed automatic transmission, heads up display, heated front seats, heated rear seats, a wireless phone charger, mobile hotspot, navigation, voice recognition, adaptive cruise control, lane keeping assist and traffic sign recognition.
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Here’s how Office 365 users can get a custom email address — without corporate headaches
Productivity Tips and Apps by Productivity Hub February 3, 2020 March 23, 2020
Want the credibility that comes with a custom email domain instead of a generic gmail.com or outlook.com address? Microsoft has quietly rolled out that option for its Office 365 Home and Personal subscribers, but there are a few catches.
Google’s Gmail and Microsoft’s Outlook.com are the two most popular free email services in the world, and either one is a perfectly good choice for your primary email account. As long as you’re willing to settle for an address in someone else’s domain, that is.
For those who prefer a personalized email address that uses a custom domain they own, the options from either company have historically required a paid business account (G Suite from Google, Office 365 Business from Microsoft) using a complex, almost overwhelming set of administration tools designed for full-time network administrators. You also have to be willing and able to configure DNS records and mail exchange handlers, a process that can seem as esoteric as anything they teach at Hogwarts.
So imagine my surprise and delight when I discovered a well-hidden feature that allows anyone with an Office 365 Home or Personal subscription to attach a personalized email address to that account, with up to 50 GB of email storage for that account as well as support for email encryption. The web-based interface is ad-free, and you can use any email client, including the Windows 10 Mail app or the Outlook program included with Office 365, to access your account.
If you have a subscription to Office 365 Home, you can share that subscription with up to five people, each of whom also gets to create a personalized email address in your custom domain.
You have to pay an annual fee to register and manage the domain, but there are no extra charges as long as your Office 365 subscription is active.
(It’s worth noting that Microsoft’s official documentation for these “Premium Outlook.com features for Office 365 subscribers” doesn’t mention the personalized email address. Instead, those details are in a separate FAQ: “Get a personalized email address in Office 365.”)
So, what’s the catch? There are three:
First, you are required to use GoDaddy to purchase or manage your custom domain. There’s no way to connect a domain from another registrar to this account. And GoDaddy’s prices are not exactly competitive. I paid $12 and change for the first year of my .com domain, but renewals are a pricey $18 a year, and you’ll have to pay another $10 a year if you want your contact information to be confidential, making for a $28 annual bill after the year-one promo offer expires.
By contrast, Google Domains charges a flat $12 for a .com domain, with privacy protection as a no-cost option. Likewise, Namecheapcharges $13 for a .com domain and promises that its WhoisGuard privacy protection service is “free forever.”
(If you already own a domain that you want to use with your Office 365 subscription, you’ll need to transfer it to GoDaddy first. After the transfer is complete, you can attach that domain to your Office 365 consumer subscription.)
Second, Microsoft already saw you calculating how much you could save by ditching your expensive corporate account for this much cheaper option. The license terms for Office 365 consumer subscriptions explicitly state that “[t]he service/software may not be used for commercial, non-profit, or revenue-generating activities.” Likewise, the Microsoft Services Agreement specifies that Outlook.com is “for your personal, noncommercial use, unless you have commercial use rights under a separate agreement with Microsoft.”
Of course, there’s no technical check that will stop you from switching a small business over to the premium features of Office 365 Home in Outlook.com, but that license agreement should frighten off most prudent business owners.
Finally, you get one and only one personalized email address per mailbox. This feature doesn’t support creating additional aliases using your custom domain beyond the first one you create for each mailbox.
If you currently have an Office 365 Home or Personal subscription that’s associated with an Outlook.com mailbox (specifically, an email address ending in @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @live.com, or @msn.com), here’s how to add a personalized email address:
Sign in at Outlook.com using the email address associated with your Office 365 consumer subscription.
Click the gear icon to the left of your profile picture to open the Settings pane, then click View All Outlook Settings at the bottom of that pane.
In the Settings dialog box shown above, click Premium (1) and then click Get Started (2).
That option takes you to the Personalize Your Email Address dialog box, shown here. Click Get A Domain if you want to buy a new domain; click the small I Already Own A GoDaddy Domain link at the bottom of the dialog box to attach a domain you already own.
Follow the prompts to purchase or attach a domain at GoDaddy, and then enter the name you want to use for your personalized address.
You might have to wait a few minutes for GoDaddy and Outlook.com to complete the connection, but you can check the status any time by opening Outlook.com again, signing in with the Microsoft account associated with your Office 365 subscription, and going to Settings > Premium > Personalized Email Address. As the owner of the subscription you can see all the users associated with your subscription.
Any user with whom you’ve shared your Office 365 Home subscription can go to that same settings page after signing in with their Microsoft account to create their own address in your new shared domain.If all of this sounds vaguely familiar, it’s not just your imagination. Microsoft first rolled this feature out as a standalone Outlook.com Premium subscription back in 2016, but closed the program in late 2017. For the handful of readers who still have one of these subscriptions, Microsoft sent out a notice this week that it will shut down the Outlook.com Premium dashboard at the end of February 2020 and will not renew those subscriptions when they expire.
If you already have an Office 365 Home or Personal subscription and you want to attach a custom domain, the extra cost, even at GoDaddy’s inflated prices, is probably worth it, especially if you have other shared users who also would benefit from having a personalized email address.
The alternatives are a G Suite account or an Office 365 Business Essentials subscription, both of which cost $5 per user per month and don’t include the Office 365 desktop apps. An Office 365 Business Premium subscription, with email and the desktop apps, costs $12.50 per user per month. At those prices, don’t be surprised if some small businesses with one to five users decide to tempt the Microsoft licensing gods.
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Home Features Why Don't They Like Us?
Why Don't They Like Us?
by Stanley Hoffmann
It wasn't its innocence that the United States lost on September 11, 2001.It was its naïveté. Americans have tended to believe that in the eyesof others the United States has lived up to the boastful clichéspropagated during the Cold War (especially under Ronald Reagan) and during theClinton administration. We were seen, we thought, as the champions of freedomagainst fascism and communism, as the advocates of decolonization, economic development, and social progress, as the technical innovators whose mastery oftechnology, science, and advanced education was going to unify the world.
Some officials and academics explained that U.S. hegemony was the bestthing for a troubled world and unlike past hegemonies would last--not onlybecause there were no challengers strong enough to steal the crown but, aboveall, because we were benign rulers who threatened no one.
But we have avoided looking at the hegemon's clay feet, at what mightneutralize our vaunted soft power and undermine our hard power. Like swarminginsects exposed when a fallen tree is lifted, millions who dislike or distrustthe hegemon have suddenly appeared after September 11, much to our horror anddisbelief. America became a great power after World War II, when we faced a rivalthat seemed to stand for everything we had been fighting against--tyranny, terror,brainwashing--and we thought that our international reputation would benefit fromour standing for liberty and stability (as it still does in much of EasternEurope). We were not sufficiently marinated in history to know that, through theages, nobody--or almost nobody--has ever loved a hegemon.
Past hegemons, from Rome to Great Britain, tended to be quite realistic aboutthis. They wanted to be obeyed or, as in the case of France, admired. They rarelywanted to be loved. But as a combination of high-noon sheriff and proselytizingmissionary, the United States expects gratitude and affection. It was bound to bedisappointed; gratitude is not an emotion that one associates with the behaviorof states.
The New World Disorder
This is an old story. Two sets of factors make the current twist a newone. First, the so-called Westphalian world has collapsed. The world of sovereignstates, the universe of Hans Morgenthau's and Henry Kissinger's Realism, is nolonger. The unpopularity of the hegemonic power has been heightened toincandescence by two aspects of this collapse. One is the irruption of thepublic, the masses, in international affairs. Foreign policy is no longer, asRaymond Aron had written in Peace and War, the closed domain of the soldierand the diplomat. Domestic publics--along with their interest groups, religiousorganizations, and ideological chapels--either dictate or constrain theimperatives and preferences that the governments fight for. This puts the hegemonin a difficult position: It often must work with governments that represent but asmall percentage of a country's people--but if it fishes for public supportabroad, it risks alienating leaders whose cooperation it needs. The United Statespaid heavily for not having had enough contacts with the opposition to the shahof Iran in the 1970s. It discovers today that there is an abyss in Pakistan,Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Indonesia between our official allies and the populace inthese countries. Diplomacy in a world where the masses, so to speak, stayedindoors, was a much easier game.
The collapse of the barrier between domestic and foreign affairs in the statesystem is now accompanied by a disease that attacks the state system itself. Manyof the "states" that are members of the United Nations are pseudo-states withshaky or shabby institutions, no basic consensus on values or on procedures amongtheir heterogeneous components, and no sense of national identity. Thus thehegemon--in addition to suffering the hostility of the government in certaincountries (like Cuba, Iraq, and North Korea) and of the public in others (like,in varying degrees, Pakistan, Egypt, and even France)--can now easily become boththe target of factions fighting one another in disintegrating countries and thepawn in their quarrels (which range over such increasingly borderless issues asdrug trafficking, arms trading, money laundering, and other criminal enterprises).In addition, today's hegemon suffers from the volatility and turbulence of aglobal system in which ethnic, religious, and ideological sympathies have becometransnational and in which groups and individuals uncontrolled by states can acton their own. The world of the nineteenth century, when hegemons could imposetheir order, their institutions, has been supplanted by the world of thetwenty-first century: Where once there was order, there is now often a vacuum.
What makes the American Empire especially vulnerable is its historicallyunique combination of assets and liabilities. One has to go back to the RomanEmpire to find a comparable set of resources. Britain, France, and Spain had tooperate in multipolar systems; the United States is the only superpower.
But if America's means are vast, the limits of its power are alsoconsiderable. The United States, unlike Rome, cannot simply impose its will byforce or through satellite states. Small "rogue" states can defy the hegemon(remember Vietnam?). And chaos can easily result from the large new role ofnonstate actors. Meanwhile, the reluctance of Americans to take on the Herculeantasks of policing, "nation building," democratizing autocracies, and providingenvironmental protection and economic growth for billions of human beings stokesboth resentment and hostility, especially among those who discover that one cancount on American presence and leadership only when America's material interestsare gravely threatened. (It is not surprising that the "defense of the nationalinterest" approach of Realism was developed for a multipolar world. In an empire,as well as in a bipolar system, almost anything can be described as a vitalinterest, since even peripheral disorder can unravel the superpower's eminence.)Moreover, the complexities of America's process for making foreign-policydecisions can produce disappointments abroad when policies that the internationalcommunity counted on--such as the Kyoto Protocol and the International CriminalCourt--are thwarted. Also, the fickleness of U.S. foreign-policy making in arenaslike the Balkans has convinced many American enemies that this country isbasically incapable of pursuing long-term policies consistently.
None of this means, of course, that the United States has nofriends in the world. Europeans have not forgotten the liberating role played byAmericans in the war against Hitler and in the Cold War. Israel remembers howPresident Harry Truman sided with the founders of the Zionist state; nor has itforgotten all the help the United States has given it since then. Thedemocratizations of postwar Germany and Japan were huge successes. The MarshallPlan and the Point Four Program were revolutionary initiatives. The decisions toresist aggression in Korea and in Kuwait demonstrated a commendablefarsightedness.
But Americans have a tendency to overlook the dark sides of theircourse (except on the protesting left, which is thus constantly accused of beingun-American), perhaps because they perceive international affairs in terms ofcrusades between good and evil, endeavors that entail formidable pressures forunanimity. It is not surprising that the decade following the Gulf War was markedboth by nostalgia for the clear days of the Cold War and by a lot of flounderingand hesitating in a world without an overwhelming foe.
Strains of Anti-Americanism
The main criticisms of American behavior have mostly been around for along time. When we look at anti-Americanism today, we must first distinguishbetween those who attack the United States for what it does, or fails to do, andthose who attack it for what it is. (Some, like the Islamic fundamentalists andterrorists, attack it for both reasons.) Perhaps the principal criticism is ofthe contrast between our ideology of universal liberalism and policies that haveall too often consisted of supporting and sometimes installing singularlyauthoritarian and repressive regimes. (One reason why these policies oftenelicited more reproaches than Soviet control over satellites was that, as timewent by, Stalinism became more and more cynical and thus the gap between wordsand deeds became far less wide than in the United States. One no longer expectedmuch from Moscow.) The list of places where America failed at times to live up toits proclaimed ideals is long: Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador, Chile, SantoDomingo in 1965, the Greece of the colonels, Pakistan, the Philippines ofFerdinand Marcos, Indonesia after 1965, the shah's Iran, Saudi Arabia, Zaire,and, of course, South Vietnam. Enemies of these regimes were shocked by U.S.support for them--and even those whom we supported were disappointed, or worse,when America's cost-benefit analysis changed and we dropped our erstwhile allies.This Machiavellian scheming behind a Wilsonian facade has alienated many clients,as well as potential friends, and bred strains of anti-Americanism around theworld.
A second grievance concerns America's frequent unilateralism and the difficultrelationship between the United States and the United Nations. For manycountries, the United Nations is, for all its flaws, the essential agency ofcooperation and the protector of its members' sovereignty. The way U.S. diplomacyhas "insulted" the UN system--sometimes by ignoring it and sometimes by rudelyimposing its views and policies on it--has been costly in terms of foreignsupport.
Third, the United States' sorry record in international development hasrecently become a source of dissatisfaction abroad. Not only have America'sfinancial contributions for narrowing the gap between the rich and the poordeclined since the end of the Cold War, but American-dominated institutions suchas the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have often dictatedfinancial policies that turned out to be disastrous for developing countries--mostnotably, before and during the Asian economic crisis of the mid-1990s.
Finally, there is the issue of American support of Israel. Much of theworld--and not only the Arab world--considers America's Israel policy to bebiased. Despite occasional American attempts at evenhandedness, the world seesthat the Palestinians remain under occupation, Israeli settlements continue toexpand, and individual acts of Arab terrorism--acts that Yasir Arafat can'tcompletely control--are condemned more harshly than the killings of Palestiniansby the Israeli army or by Israeli-sanctioned assassination squads. It isinteresting to note that Israel, the smaller and dependent power, has been moresuccessful in circumscribing the United States' freedom to maneuverdiplomatically in the region than the United States has been at getting Israel toenforce the UN resolutions adopted after the 1967 war (which called for thewithdrawal of Israeli forces from then-occupied territories, solving the refugeecrisis, and establishing inviolate territorial zones for all states in theregion). Many in the Arab world, and some outside, use this state of affairs tostoke paranoia of the "Jewish lobby" in the United States.
Antiglobalism and Anti-Americanism
Those who attack specific American policies are often more ambivalentthan hostile. They often envy the qualities and institutions that have helpedthe United States grow rich, powerful, and influential.
The real United States haters are those whose anti-Americanism is provoked bydislike of America's values, institutions, and society--and their enormous impactabroad. Many who despise America see us as representing the vanguard ofglobalization--even as they themselves use globalization to promote their hatred.The Islamic fundamentalists of al-Qaeda--like Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini 20 yearsago--make excellent use of the communication technologies that are so essentialto the spread of global trade and economic influence.
We must be careful here, for there are distinctions among the antiglobaliststrains that fuel anti-Americanism. To some of our detractors, the most eloquentspokesman is bin Laden, for whom America and the globalization it promotesrelentlessly through free trade and institutions under its control representevil. To them, American-fueled globalism symbolizes the domination of theChristian-Jewish infidels or the triumph of pure secularism: They look at theUnited States and see a society of materialism, moral laxity, corruption in allits forms, fierce selfishness, and so on. (The charges are familiar to us becausewe know them as an exacerbated form of right-wing anti-Americanism in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Europe.) But there are also those who, while accepting the inevitability of globalization and seem eager to benefit from it, are incensed bythe contrast between America's promises and the realities of American life.Looking at the United States and the countries we support, they see insufficientsocial protection, vast pockets of poverty amidst plenty, racial discrimination,the large role of money in politics, the domination of the elites--and they callus hypocrites. (And these charges, too, are familiar, because they are anexacerbated version of the left-wing anti-Americanism still powerful in WesternEurope.)
On the one hand, those who see themselves as underdogs of the world condemnthe United States for being an evil force because its dynamism makes it naturallyand endlessly imperialistic--a behemoth that imposes its culture (often seen asdebased), its democracy (often seen as flawed), and its conception of individualhuman rights (often seen as a threat to more communitarian and more sociallyconcerned approaches) on other societies. The United States is perceived as abully ready to use all means, including overwhelming force, against those whoresist it: Hence, Hiroshima, the horrors of Vietnam, the rage against Iraq, thewar on Afghanistan.
On the other hand, the underdogs draw hope from their conviction that thegiant has a heel like Achilles'. They view America as a society that cannottolerate high casualties and prolonged sacrifices and discomforts, one whoseimpatience with protracted and undecisive conflicts should encourage its victimsto be patient and relentless in their challenges and assaults. They look atAmerican foreign policy as one that is often incapable of overcoming obstaclesand of sticking to a course that is fraught with high risks--as with the conflictwith Iraq's Saddam Hussein at the end of the Gulf War; as in the flight fromLebanon after the terrorist attacks of 1982; as in Somalia in 1993; as in theattempts to strike back at bin Laden in the Clinton years.
Thus America stands condemned not because our enemies necessarily hate ourfreedoms but because they resent what they fear are our Darwinian aspects, andoften because they deplore what they see as the softness at our core. Those who,on our side, note and celebrate America's power of attraction, its openness toimmigrants and refugees, the uniqueness of a society based on common principlesrather than on ethnicity or on an old culture, are not wrong. But many of theforeign students, for instance, who fall in love with the gifts of Americaneducation return home, where the attraction often fades. Those who stay sometimesfeel that the price they have to pay in order to assimilate and be accepted istoo high.
What Bred bin Laden
This long catalog of grievances obviously needs to be picked apart. Thecomplaints vary in intensity; different cultures, countries, and partiesemphasize different flaws, and the criticism is often wildly excessive and unfair.But we are not dealing here with purely rational arguments; we are dealing withemotional responses to the omnipresence of a hegemon, to the sense that manypeople outside this country have that the United States dominates their lives.
Complaints are often contradictory: Consider "America has neglected us,or dropped us" versus "America's attentions corrupt our culture." The result canbe a gestalt of resentment that strikes Americans as absurd: We are damned, forinstance, both for failing to intervene to protect Muslims in the Balkans and forusing force to do so.
But the extraordinary array of roles that America plays in the world--alongwith its boastful attitude and, especially recently, its cavalierunilateralism--ensures that many wrongs caused by local regimes and societieswill be blamed on the United States. We even end up being seen as responsible notonly for anything bad that our "protectorates" do--it is no coincidence that manyof the September 11 terrorists came from America's protégés, SaudiArabia and Egypt--but for what our allies do, as when Arabs incensed by racismand joblessness in France take up bin Laden's cause, or when Muslims talk aboutAmerican violence against the Palestinians. Bin Laden's extraordinary appeal andprestige in the Muslim world do not mean that his apocalyptic nihilism (to useMichael Ignatieff's term) is fully endorsed by all those who chant his name. Yetto many, he plays the role of a bloody Robin Hood, inflicting pain and humiliation on the superpower that they believe torments them.
Bin Laden fills the need for people who, rightly or not, feel collectivelyhumiliated and individually in despair to attach themselves to a savior. Theymay in fact avert their eyes from the most unsavory of his deeds. This need onthe part of the poor and dispossessed to connect their own feeble lot to acharismatic and single-minded leader was at the core of fascism and of communism.After the failure of pan-Arabism, the fiasco of nationalism, the dashed hopes ofdemocratization, and the fall of Soviet communism, many young people in theMuslim world who might have once turned to these visions for succor turned instead to Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism.
One almost always finds the same psychological dynamics at work in suchbehavior: the search for simple explanations--and what is simpler and moreinflammatory than the machinations of the Jews and the evils of America--and ahighly selective approach to history. Islamic fundamentalists remember thepromises made by the British to the Arabs in World War I and the imposition ofBritish and French imperialism after 1918 rather than the support the UnitedStates gave to anticolonialists in French North Africa in the late 1940s and inthe 1950s. They remember British opposition to and American reluctance towardintervention in Bosnia before Srebrenica, but they forget about NATO's actions tosave Bosnian Muslims in 1995, to help Albanians in Kosovo in 1999, and topreserve and improve Albanians' rights in Macedonia in 2001. Such distortions aremanufactured and maintained by the controlled media and schools of totalitarianregimes, and through the religious schools, conspiracy mills, and propaganda offundamentalism.
Americans can do very little about the most extreme andviolent forms of anti-American hatred--but they can try to limit its spread byaddressing grievances that are justified. There are a number of ways to do this:
First--and most difficult--drastically reorient U.S.policy in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Second, replace the ideologically market-based trickle-downeconomics that permeate American-led development institutions today with a kindof social safety net. (Even New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, thatur-celebrator of the global market, believes that such a safety net isindispensable.)
Third, prod our allies and protégés to democratizetheir regimes, and stop condoning violations of essential rights (an approachthat can only, in the long run, breed more terrorists and anti-Americans).
Fourth, return to internationalist policies, pay greater attention to the representatives of the developing world, and make fairnessprevail over arrogance.
Finally, focus more sharply on the needs and frustrations of thepeople suffering in undemocratic societies than on the authoritarian regimes that govern them.
America's self-image today is derived more from what Reinhold Niebuhr wouldhave called pride than from reality, and this exacerbates the clash between howwe see ourselves and foreign perceptions and misperceptions of the United States.If we want to affect those external perceptions (and that will be very difficultto do in extreme cases), we need to readjust our self-image. This meansreinvigorating our curiosity about the outside world, even though our media havetended to downgrade foreign coverage since the Cold War. And it means listeningcarefully to views that we may find outrageous, both for the kernel of truth thatmay be present in them and for the stark realities (of fear, poverty, hunger, andsocial hopelessness) that may account for the excesses of these views.
Terrorism aimed at the innocent is, of course, intolerable. Safety precautionsand the difficult task of eradicating the threat are not enough. If we want tolimit terrorism's appeal, we must keep our eyes and ears open to conditionsabroad, revise our perceptions of ourselves, and alter our world image throughour actions. There is nothing un-American about this. We should not meet theManichaeanism of our foes with a Manichaeanism of self-righteousness. Indeed,self-examination and self-criticism have been the not-so-secret weapons ofAmerica's historical success. Those who demand that we close ranks not onlyagainst murderers but also against shocking opinions and emotions, againstdissenters at home and critics abroad, do a disservice to America.
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Bartolomé Bermejo
November 22, 2019 May 18, 2020 robert harbison2 Comments
Bermejo remains a mysterious figure though widely regarded as the most important Spanish painter of the late Middle Ages. At a certain stage in planning a recent exhibition of his work in Madrid and Barcelona the organisers decided to make the accompanying publication a catalogue raisonné. It turns out that there are only sixteen surviving paintings, if you count multiple panels belonging to a single altarpiece as one. None of these composites survives complete or intact — dispersed, partly lost and in every case reliant on historians to reconstruct them.
The artist himself endured a similar fate. He was a person without a permanent address, probably a Jewish converso, sometimes keeping one step ahead of the Inquisition, which once convicted his wife of forgetting the words of the Creed. He worked in towns where he wasn’t a citizen and therefore needed a sponsor from the local painters’ guild in order to practice his trade at all. So his larger commissions are generally adulterated by the contributions of these less-talented sponsors, and I have included here only the central panels of larger works where Bermejo’s own hand is probably responsible for all of it.
Bermejo may also have been restless and unreliable on his own account, so that an excommunication clause was added to the contract in case he tried to get out of doing all the scenes himself. He was excommunicated for leaving before he’d started the smaller scenes of the St Dominic of Silos altarpiece. Bermejo means red in Spanish (vermilion: orange-red), and no one knows if that was the colour of his hair or his complexion, the sign of a choleric temperament.
Oddly enough the painter’s earliest dated work, a depiction of St Michael tangling with the devil, is dominated by an atmospheric disturbance in red, the archangel’s cloak like a violent thunderstorm in the heavens. But the angel doesn’t lose his cool as he dispatches a Satan who’s the manageable size of a pet, and seems to be laughing and waving as much as signaling distress or begging for mercy. He is a weird anatomical enigma whose nipples are a second set of red eyes over a breathing hole and a second mouth full of sharp teeth. The saint is covered in metal and the monster is mainly made of it. The armour of both of them is extraordinarily ingenious but doesn’t look quite serious — a shield made of a lump of crystal, a polished breast plate that reflects the skyline of the Heavenly Jerusalem (not Seville, as I used to think).
But the really electrifying component is that red cloak more like a mountain range than a cloudscape, of folds magically lit with random bursts of light. And it is only the lining. Whenever the cape is at rest it shows as heavy gold brocade, a side of the garment now reduced to a twisted remnant like a broken pot. And finally there’s a drastic contradiction between the excitement of the cape and the angel’s trance-like languor.
The human-sized onlooker, like other similar Bermejo people, has barely looked up from his reading, or more likely he is somewhere else, not in the middle of the moment as we wrongly suppose. His composure is his distance.
He is a hangover from an earlier stage when donors could appear to witness the great highlights of Christian history because they weren’t taking place in ordinary time or recognisable landscapes. Bermejo’s most compelling pictures often occur in ritual space, a kind of no-place. One of the most powerful shows a local saint in ecclesiastical finery in a setting that is essentially a glorified niche, as if he were a statue decorating a Gothic building. The painting is finished off with a wooden canopy, a miniature taste of actual architecture which is permitted to cast real shadows onto the fantastic painted constructions below.
He is so shrouded in gilded paraphernalia that he ceases to seem much like a being of flesh and blood, if it weren’t for a few contrary traces. He is clean-shaven but there are signs that his beard is growing, silver stubble just beginning to show on his cheeks. And the six tiny statues (Virtues rather than the saints whom we expect) in little niches on ether side of his throne are fully coloured and demonstratively in motion. In the most extreme case, Temperance is pouring from a pitcher, and Bermejo has run together the dark colour of her cloak and a dark blot like a dragon’s tail on the saint’s cope, part of a pattern on the garment that is mostly hidden from us. So we are invited to imagine a spreading stain originating in an inadvertent spillage of Temperance’s remixed wine.
There is another sign of things getting out of hand at the highest point of the throne. The red jewel that crowns the saint’s mitre has started a fire at Charity’s feet which so far burns only her and hasn’t spread to the poor men sheltering under her.
The bishop’s throne becomes a niche, in this case a complicated diagonal and hierarchical form leading us in and at the same time creating a sense of the sacred as unapproachable, even as it shows the route to it, setting up a goal that’s straight in front of you, yet just beyond a boundary at which you must stop.
The image is neatly balanced between highly focal and impossibly complicated. The harder we look the less sure we are where the throne ends. Is the shrinking series of little figures, who are more lifelike (in the strange terms of the painting) than statues, just further extensions of this diagonal construction, impossibly rich emanations of the main body fighting hard against the idea that a painting is above all a flat surface?
One of the most ingenious touches is the ornate shepherd’s crook that the saint has leant crookedly against the side wall of his throne, partly blotting out Hope holding another staff that is breaking into leaf. In some sense his staff dotted with gold leaf-forms has got the better of hers and introduced a taste of the randomness of life and of unpredictable movement into the fixity of art, all of it taking place in a hall of mirrors devised by one of the most complete anti-naturalists in the history of art. Yet Bermejo is called Hispano-Flemish in recognition of all the evidence that he had studied realists like van Eyck, a thread not just distracting but pulling us off in quite the wrong direction. He borrowed postures and whole compositions and put them to uses the Northerners would have thought perverse and retrograde, creating hypnotic images in which we might just as reasonably find the sprit of Tibetan mandalas.
When Bermejo comes to depict the old subject of the Virgin of Mercy he inscribes it within a kind of pattern you might find embossed on a moth’s outspread wings: first the angels’ wings crisscrossing over the Virgin’s head and then the smaller Xs on their chests which wander off into the pile-up of cloth that seems to fill the spaces created by the swoops of the Virgin’s cape, swoops which form larger Xs with the down-tending diagonals of her arms. This mesmerising Rorschach-design with the Virgin’s mask-like face at its centre hovers over two diagonal wings of devotees, fused together by more of Bermejo’s trademark gold filigree, made of copes on the left and crowns on the right, the latter consisting of openwork which lets through the faces of the next row of devotees behind.
The most mysterious element of all is the Virgin’s undergarment, revealed by the angels’ lifting movement, an inner feature like the kernel of a shrine, another lining that steals the show from its covering. This undergarment is an amazing construction like antique patchwork, an assemblage of pieces of rich brocades in a variety of dusky tonalities, a ruin-collage of historical fabrics, like relics once owned and worn by various royal martyrs and spiritual heroes of past eras, a compost heap of much old virtue, and also wealth. It is one of the richest and most interesting passages in all of Bermejo, the Book of Kells and Arthur Rackham bundled up together. The patches often run diagonally against the orientation of the garment, creating the kind of multiple rhythm Bermejo favours, moving as so often against the grain of the natural world and the force of gravity.
Bermejo’s most powerful pictures are often not compositions at all, but patterns with a strong focus and ancillary detail radiating hieratically outward from that core or, if they are or initially appear as figure groups, they are shown at moments of utter immobility, emanating from a corpse whose attendants copy its stillness.
Christ with two angels at the tomb seems an utterly simple, rock bottom sort of image, yet unaccountably mesmerising. There is a famous rendering of the Dead Christ in the Tomb by Holbein which Dostoevsky couldn’t dislodge from his mind. It shows the prone corpse in a narrow horizontal frame, constricted like a coffin. Holbein has spared us no detail of the grimness of physical death. The mouth sags open showing clenched teeth. The body is covered with suppurating sores, the eyes stare upward, hands and feet are stiffened in the moment when movement ceased and blackened by blood drawn there by the mode of death. Dostoevsky uses the painting in The Idiot to shake the faith of a naturally devout character.
In Bermejo’s painting Christ seems to have survived the crucifixion. No rigor mortis and just enough energy to point to the spear wound in his side. Critics even think he is squeezing the flesh to make the blood gush forth, but surely he is showing old blood, not producing more. Apparently there were active discussions going on when this was painted over whether bleeding in the three days between the Crucifixion and Resurrection was deserving of veneration or adoration (two distinct grades of devotion). Bermejo is thought to have come down on the side of veneration only, as shown by the inclusion of the gorgeous chalice (here his love of jeweled ecclesiastical metalwork breaks out unexpectedly) which is empty – that is to say, this blood isn’t suitable for the Sacrament.
The power of the painting comes in part from the diagonal composition which increases the surprising asymmetry of the two angels’ locations, their spacing and their roles – Christ leans on one and not the other. He has come part-way out of the tomb to tell us something, silently. He emerges fitfully from the gloom, a way of insisting on the incomplete state of our knowledge, an effect perhaps less powerful since the recent cleaning of this work, which has brought the flesh of the dead and the living into closer alignment. The angels’ flesh (ordinarily angels are not fleshly creatures) now looks so entirely that of bodies that will die, making the melancholy at-oneness of the three more complete.*
Bermejo’s last surviving painting is known as the Desplà Pietà, after the learned humanist who commissioned it and appears on the right, just below another representation of the Heavenly Jerusalem. It includes another innovative treatment of Christ’s corpse, a severe challenge to any painter’s naturalism and his spirituality. Those who want to find progressive tendencies in this painter spend time on the rich but gloomy landscape, full of a great variety of species that would have exercised the humanist patron’s scientific curiosity.
Here Christ’s body has the uncanny air of a ruin, powerfully mottled, as if stained by age, not like a statue, but not like any flesh I ever saw, not like old cheese either, but that comparison catches something of the living-unliving quality of this body. The dark smudge of hair on Christ’s chest is crucial to the effect, like a discolouration rather than a natural event.
There’s a naïve oddity shared with Christ and Two Angels at the Tomb. On his right arm Christ’s blood runs markedly uphill. Formerly it dripped down; now it is fixed in an unnatural position. This seems to contradict the figure’s more than relaxed posture with all tension gone, just as rigor mortis begins to replace it.
We notice a few signs of the old Bermejo – in the green lining of the Virgin’s cloak whose crinkled furls are put in competition with exemplary plants in the landscape. The cape can stand up in leaf-like forms which Bermejo continues to find more absorbing than actual leaves. And one telling sign of the new Bermejo: how do you tell a living from a dead body? Desplà’s beard is still growing and producing stubble – here Bermejo verges near that fearless realist Holbein.
*The illustration above shows Christ with two angels at the tomb before cleaning
This post was suggested by a small but fascinating exhibition which brought six Bermejos (including the Desplà Pietà) from Spain to London after the big Spanish exhibition of 2018-19 was disbanded.
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Jordan Cove is Risky Business
Jordan Cove LNG | Resources
Thirty-five organizations across the Pacific Northwest released an investor briefing detailing major public safety, climate, regulatory, and economic risks of the Jordan Cove LNG project, a fracked-gas pipeline and export terminal that Canadian fossil fuel corporation Pembina proposes to build on the southern Oregon coast.
CLICK HERE TO READ THE REPORT!
The briefing, titled “Jordan Cove is Risky Business,” highlights the potential negative impacts and intense community opposition that should steer banks away from further involvement in this project.
The report was sent to top bankers of Pembina Pipeline Corporation including RBC, Bank of Nova Scotia, CIBC, TD and JPMorgan Chase, in addition to potential investors of the project.
The briefing notes that as global energy markets evolve, the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal looks ever more at risk of becoming a stranded asset. A tight, competitive global market and LNG glut coupled with the rise of short-term “portfolio” models makes Jordan Cove profitability a long shot.
Additionally, the Investor Briefing outlines the regulatory roadblocks that the project is currently facing. This includes the recent Clean Water Act permit denial from Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, previous denials from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and local land use permits that have been overturned in court.
Jordan Cove LNG has faced strong and growing opposition since 2005. A total of nearly 90,000 comments were filed in opposition to two recent state permit applications. The Klamath Tribes, the Yurok Tribe, the Karuk Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, and the Tolowa Dee-Ni Nation have all declared strong opposition to the proposed project. According to the report, as of April 26, 2019, approximately 40% of landowners on the pipeline route have refused to sign right-of-way easements and dozens of impacted landowners have denied access for a variety of surveys needed for the project to go forward.
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Japan makes visitors pay for their biometric info to be collected
by rootdaemon January 7, 2019
The Japanese government has introduced a new departure tax on passengers leaving the country by sea or air, with the proceeds to be used to fund the facial recognition systems in place at airports.
The 1,000-yen tax will be charged on plane and ship tickets, and will affect both Japanese and foreigners over two years old or those who are in transit with stays exceeding 24 hours.
The government expects to collect around 50 billion yen this year with the tax.
It is the first tax to be introduced in the country in 27 years and is labelled as assisting tourists.
The money collected will be allocated for facial recognition systems at airports that have been touted as expediting immigration procedures and providing greater assistance in foreign languages for those who visit the country.
Last year, Japan received more than 30 million tourists and it is expected to reach 40 million next year, when Tokyo hosts the 2020 Olympic Games.
It was announced in November that passengers travelling through Narita International Airport in Japan would soon be able to clear customs using their face instead of physical identification documents, thanks to a facial recognition trial scheduled to begin at Terminal 3 from April.
The facial recognition technology, courtesy of NEC, will be installed at the customs inspection area at the airport.
The “electronic procedure gate” will be installed at the customs inspection area that passengers move through after being admitted through immigration, NEC explained.
Travellers’ identities will be confirmed at a kiosk terminal and at an exit gate equipped with the facial recognition tech. A smartphone app will also be available, and is expected to speed up electronic baggage declaration by enabling travellers to register baggage contents and passport information.
Japan is not the only country introducing biometric capabilities at airports, with Shanghai’s Hongqiao International Airport in October unveiling self-service kiosks for flight and baggage check-in, security clearance, and boarding powered by facial recognition technology.
The rollout in China forms part of an ambitious country-wide rollout of facial recognition systems, with similar efforts already under way at airports in Beijing and Nanyang city, in central China’s Henan province.
Similarly, some passengers travelling internationally from Australia via Qantas have been trialling biometric technology at Sydney Airport since July, with the first stage using facial recognition for them to complete an automated flight check-in and bag drop, gain access to the lounge, and board the plane itself.
Additional steps proposed for future trials include mobile check-in and automated border processing, which will allow passengers to use their face as their access identification.
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Passengers to clear customs using facial recognition tech at Japan’s busiest airport
Those clearing customs at Japan’s Narita International Airport will soon be able to use their face to prove their identity thanks to the rollout of facial recognition technology.
Facial recognition tech allows passengers to clear airport security in Shanghai
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport has unveiled facial recognition-powered self-service kiosks for flight and baggage check-in, security clearance, and boarding.
NEC Australia to offer real-time video facial recognition
With video captured using fixed and mobile camera sensors in body cams, smartphones, and drones, NEC Australia customers can use the company’s new facial recognition platform in real time.
Home Affairs denies mass surveillance capabilities of face-matching database
The technical specifications of the system ‘would not allow it’, the department has claimed.
Facial recognition technology could be used to track visa-holders leaving the US (TechRepublic)
A new federal program called Biometric Exit would match the photos of visitors flying out of the US to their visa photo, in an effort to curb illegal immigration.
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Scientologists Stacy Francis and Joy Villa Pretend to Be Evangelical Christians
By Scientology Money Project on June 28, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )
Scientology’s Damage Control Team: L-R: Stacy Francis, Taryn Teutsch, Joy Villa
As season 3 of Leah Remini’s Emmy winning show Scientology and the Aftermath approaches, David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology have gone into an apoplectic foaming-at-the-mouth hysteria of rage. This rage betrays the intense fear of exposure at the core of Scientology.
A Message from Leah Remini to Scientology Operatives
In response to the upcoming third season of Leah Remini’s show, Scientology’s Office of Special Affairs has conducted an erratic and schizophrenic damage control campaign that is quite transparent.
Even as OSA wages a malicious campaign of Fair Game against Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, and the brave guests who appear on Leah’s show, OSA has also fielded Scientology operatives Joy Villa and Stacy Francis in an attempt to convince Christian Evangelicals that people can be both Christians and Scientologists.
Scientologists Joy Villa and Stacy Francis have promoted themselves as ardent Christians and Donald Trump supporters in what appears to be a desperate attempt to pander to the Trump Administration. Given that Scientology’s long-time Washington D.C. lobbyist Greg Mitchell is involved behind the scenes, we consider that OSA is orchestrating this in a frantic hope of staving off an inevitable IRS investigation into Scientology’s tax exemption.
From our perspective, Stacy Francis and Joy Villa are trying to “safepoint” Scientology in Washington D.C. However, when one contrasts this with the 1990’s and 2000’s when Scientology was able to deploy John Travolta and Tom Cruise to D.C. to influence President Clinton and the Bush 43 Administration, it becomes apparent that OSA is scraping the bottom of the barrel with Villa and Francis.
One of the central contradictions with Scientologists pretending to be Christians is that Jesus commanded his followers to love their enemies. We read the words of Jesus in Luke 6:27-36:
But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.
Christ’s commandment that Christians are to love their enemies is directly antithetical to L. Ron Hubbard’s incredibly violent policy of Fair Game in which he calls for the literal bodily injury and destruction, or death, of Scientology’s enemies:
“ENEMY SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.”- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 18 October 1967
Joy Villa and Stacy Francis have never publicly disavowed L. Ron Hubbard’s Fair Game doctrine. This fact alone puts the lie to their claims to be Christian.
Scientology wants to portray itself as religious even as it continues to savagely attack those it deems enemies. Scientology’s three main actors in its recent psychotic soap opera are Scientologists Stacy Francis, Taryn Teutsch, and Joy Villa.
JOY VILLA & STACY FRANCIS
Scientologist Stacy Francis singing at Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom “Road to Majority” event in June 2018. Along with her fellow Scientologist Joy Villa, Stacy Francis also passed herself off as a Trump supporter and a Christian at this event.
Joy Villa and Stacy Francis showed up last month at Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” event. We covered this in a previous article, Ralph Reed, the Faith & Freedom Coalition, and Scientology. Despite her claims to be a Christian, when Stacy Francis appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2017 she showed her true colors:
That Ralph Reed and his people were taken in by these two Scientology charlatans who claimed to be Christians is not surprising: Villa has been taking advantage of the trust of Evangelicals for the past eighteen months. Villa has falsely claimed to Evangelicals that Scientology is merely a set of self-help tools. She has also said that a person can be both a Christian and a Scientologist. However, this is demonstrably false from a biblical perspective. See our essay: Why You Can’t be a Christian and a Scientologist.
SCIENTOLOGY & THE NATION OF ISLAM
Scientology’s efforts to position itself as a Christian-friendly organization is completely exposed as a lie given Scientology’s partnership with the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam. Louis Farrakhan’s account was decertified by Twitter for his recent incendiary tweet and video in which he railed against the Jews:
Thoroughly and completely unmasking the Satanic Jew and the Synagogue of Satan.
Full Video: https://t.co/N5KXtakhpl pic.twitter.com/zRgSKcAsZj
— MINISTER FARRAKHAN (@LouisFarrakhan) June 7, 2018
We note that the Church of Scientology never publicly censured nor rebuked Mr. Farrakhan for his incendiary anti-Semitic tweet. We are therefore forced to conclude that the Church of Scientology condones Mr. Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism and that of the Nation of Islam. To this point, Stacy Francis certainly appears to have no problem with Mr. Farrakhan’s views and seems quite fond of him as can be seen in this photo taken at a Scientology event:
Scientologists Stacy Francis, Alfreddie Johnson, and Louis Farrakhan
Long-time Farrakhan supporter Congressman Danny Davis (D) of Illinois recently took the extraordinary step of publicly disavowing Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism. Congressman Davis issued a statement on his official Congressional webpage in which he unequivocally stated, “I reject, condemn and oppose Minister Farrakhan’s views and remarks regarding the Jewish people and the Jewish religion.”
That Scientology leader David Miscavige refuses to make a comparable statement shows the Scientology leader’s apparent tolerance of, or even agreement with, Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism. David Miscavige has long claimed to be a “global ecclesiastical leader” and yet shows no moral leadership whatsoever on this issue.
Joy Villa and Stacy Francis claim to be enthusiastic supporters of President Trump. However, Mr. Trump has unequivocally stated his support for Israel and the Jewish people. Given the President’s position here, it would seem incumbent upon Joy Villa and Stacy Francis to fall in line with the President’s position, and particularly as they claim to be Republicans and Evangelical Christians, and publicly condemn the anti-Semitism of Mr. Farrakhan.
Over against Scientology’s incursions into pro-Trump Evangelical Christian circles, Scientology has been engaged in an absolutely hellbent non-Christian Fair Game campaign against Mike Rinder.
The Scientology Money Project has been reporting on OSA operative and Sea Org member Taryn Teutsch and her malicious Fair Game attacks against her father Mike Rinder. We exposed Taryn’s outright lies in a series of articles, the most damning of which was The Paramedics Report on Cathy Bernardini: Why Taryn Teutsch’s Fair Game Attack on Mike Rinder Falls Apart.
As we documented, Taryn Teutsch outrageously tried to link her sleazy Fair Game campaign to the #MeToo movement. This is an utter disgrace and a deep insult to the women who are the actual victims of sexual harassment and rape.
We must point out that this attempt to link Taryn’s Fair to Game attacks to the #MeToo movement was ordered by none other than Scientology Cult boss David Miscavige — the man who has kept his own wife Shelly Miscavige locked away in a high security Scientology facility for over ten years.
Below are links to our continuing coverage of Taryn Teutsch and Scientology’s Fair Game attacks on Mike Rinder. We plan to continue our coverage of this Scientology Fair Game campaign in order to document the exact conduct of Scientology.
Taryn Teutsch Uses a Photo of Gretchen Carlson in Her Fair Game Campaign Against Leah Remini’s Show
Fake Stock Photo Scientologists Support Taryn Teutsch’s Fake News Attack on Mike Rinder
Scientology TV, Taryn Teutsch, and L. Ron Hubbard’s Disgusting View of Women
Scientology Sea Org Member Taryn Teutsch Engaging in Fake News to Attack Leah Remini’s Show & Her Father Mike Rinder
Scientology Boss David Miscavige Panics; Brings in Kirstie Alley to Engage in Sleazy Fair Game Campaign Against Mike Rinder
Scientology’s Fair Game Campaign Against Mike Rinder Collapsing Under the Weight of Scrutiny
The Paramedics Report on Cathy Bernardini: Why Taryn Teutsch’s Fair Game Attack on Mike Rinder Falls Apart
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Scientology Leader David Miscavige Pays the Colombian Police for a Medal
There is no “turn the other cheek” in Scientology…
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January 19, 2021 | Free Online App Calculates Risk of COVID-19 Transmission in Indoor Spaces
New Way Unlocked to Understand Evolving Genetic Strains of SARS-CoV-2, Virus That Causes COVID-19
TOPICS:COVID-19University of York
By University of York April 19, 2020
CSIRO researchers are studying SARS-CoV-2, which has a single-stranded RNA genome, to understand how the virus evolves. Credit: CSIRO
Data visualization helping researchers ‘see’ mutating virus as the race for a vaccine continues.
Researchers from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have unveiled a new approach to analyzing the genetic codes — or the blueprint — of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
The findings will help researchers better understand how strains of the virus evolve and help identify new clusters of the virus.
Analyzing global data on the published genome sequences of this novel coronavirus will help fast track our understanding of this complex disease.
The researchers developed a novel visualization platform, underpinned by bioinformatics algorithms originally used to analyze the human genome, to pinpoint differences among the thousands of genetic sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
CSIRO Chief Executive Dr. Larry Marshall said knowing the genetic code was vital.
“The more we know about this virus, the better armed we’ll be to fight it,” Dr. Marshall said.
“This highly complex analysis of the genome sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has already helped to determine which strains of the virus are suitable for testing vaccines underway at the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness in Geelong — the only high biocontainment facility of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.”
CSIRO’s Bioinformatics Team Leader Dr. Denis Bauer said as the virus evolves, this blueprint becomes increasingly important, effectively because it holds instructions about the behavior of the virus and what kind of disease it can cause.
“Globally there is now a huge amount of individual virus sequences,” said Dr. Bauer, who is also Honorary Associate Professor at Macquarie University, Australia.
“Assessing the evolutionary distance between these data points and visualizing it helps researchers find out about the different strains of the virus — including where they came from and how they continue to evolve.”
CSIRO’s Dangerous Pathogens Team Leader Professor S.S. Vasan, who is leading the SARS-CoV-2 virus work and vaccine evaluation studies and is the corresponding author of the paper, said the first 181 published genome sequences from the current COVID-19 outbreak were analyzed to understand how changes in the virus could affect its behavior and impact.
“This RNA virus is expected to evolve into a number of distinct clusters that share mutations, which is what we have confirmed and visualized,” said Professor Vasan, who holds an honorary chair at the University of York, UK.
“At this time, we do not expect it will affect the development and evaluation of COVID-19 vaccines, therapies, and diagnostics, but it is important information to monitor as preclinical and clinical studies progress.
“To enable this, we are calling on the international research community to share de-identified details of case severity and outcome, and other relevant meta-data such as co-morbidities and smoking status, alongside the genomic sequences of the virus.”
CSIRO’s Australian e-Health Research Centre CEO David Hansen said the work shows the importance of cross-collaboration between the established and emerging disciplines of bioinformatics, genomics, vaccinology, and virology.
“Following the scientific process of peer-reviewed open publication such as this one is a vitally critical component of the CSIRO’s response.” Dr. Hansen said.
“The advantage of the data visualization platform is that it highlights evolving genetic mutations of the virus as it continues to change and adapt to new environments,” said Dr. Bauer, who is the first author of this paper.
“The more informed we are about the genetic differences and their likely consequences on the progression of the disease, the better we can tackle the disease with diagnostics and treatments.”
Reference: “Supporting pandemic response using genomics and bioinformatics: a case study on the emergent SARS-CoV-2 outbreak” by Denis C. Bauer, Aidan P. Tay, Laurence O.W. Wilson, Daniel Reti, Cameron Hosking, Alexander J. McAuley, Elizabeth Pharo, Shawn Todd, Vicky Stevens, Matthew J. Neave, Mary Tachedjian, Trevor W. Drew and S.S. Vasan, 20 April 2020, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases.
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.13588
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From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bombScientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they were during World War II. In the middle of building an atomic bomb, the leaders of the Manhattan Project were alarmed to learn that Nazi Germany was far outpacing the Allies in nuclear weapons research. Hitler, with just a few pounds of uranium, would have the capability to reverse the entire D-Day operation and conquer Europe. So they assembled a rough and motley crew of geniuses - dubbed the Alsos Mission - and sent them careening into Axis territory to spy on, sabotage, and even assassinate members of Nazi Germany's feared Uranium Club. The details of the mission rival the finest spy thriller, but what makes this story sing is the incredible cast of characters-both heroes and rogues alike-including: Moe Berg the major league catcher who abandoned the game for a career as a multilingual international spy; the strangest fellow to ever play professional baseball.Werner Heisenberg the Nobel Prize-winning physicist credited as the discoverer of quantum mechanics; a key contributor to the Nazi's atomic bomb project and the primary target of the Alsos mission. Colonel Boris Pash a high school science teacher and veteran of the Russian Revolution who fled the Sovit Union with a deep disdain for Communists and who later led the Alsos mission. Joe Kennedy Jr. the charismatic, thrill-seeking older brother of JFK whose need for adventure led him to volunteer for the most dangerous missions the Navy had to offer. Samuel Goudsmit a washed-up physics prodigy who spent his life huntinh Nazi scientist-and his parents, who had been swept into a concentration camp-across the globe. Ir ne and Frederic Joliot-Curie a physics Nobel-Prize winning power couple who used their unassuming status as scientists to become active members of the resistance. Thrust into the dark world of international espionage, these scientists and soldiers played a vital and largely untold role in turning back one of the darkest tides in human history.
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March 4, 2016 by Guest
3 Ways My Church Could Have Helped Free Me
Guest Blogger: Lexie Smith
I am sure my new youth pastor never expected the words that came out of my mouth. It was evident by his slightly dropped jaw and wide eyes toward his wife. Never in a million years did anyone suspect that one of the most involved families could be so broken and their oldest daughter walked around with an extreme amount of trauma.
Did I say I was trafficked? No. I just learned what sex was two years prior and believed I had a one-way ticket to hell for “losing my virginity” at the age of six to my cousin… Not to mention my current “relationship” with a high schooler who was pimping me out in the summers. I didn’t have the vocabulary to describe all of that.
Honestly, even if I did, I probably wouldn’t have told because the teeny bit of information I did give was not handled well… in fact, it was not addressed at all. I was told I had to tell my parents about the abuse. I wrote my mom a letter and hid in my house terrified that she was going to kick me out. She found me trembling, tears were streaming down her face, absolutely heartbroken that family members sexually abused me for years. I didn’t tell anyone at that time that I was being trafficked.
There was never any follow-up. My youth pastor never spoke to my parents about it. Our pastor never offered counseling, and no one ever talked to me about it again. I finally mustered the courage to overcome my fears and the response was the equivalent of a “no one cares, kid.” It sank in. Everything they said is true. No one would believe me. No one cares. I am worthless.
This pivotal moment could have completely changed my story.
Had that moment been handled with care, maybe all the future mental and self-afflicted suffering could have been avoided. Maybe a better reaction would start unraveling the lies that I had begun to believe, that my sole purpose was to be a commodity to men.
There are many things I wish would have gone differently, but I want to focus on the three that my church could have done to make a difference.
1) Counseling
My parents were left to figure things out on their own. My church didn’t offer pastoral counseling to direct them in the steps to take next. Momma and papa bear went into full fight and protect mode. Cue the helicopter parenting. Suddenly everything was changing and I felt like I wasn’t allowed to do anything. Not the best way to get the traumatized 12-year-old girl to open up. I wonder how things might have been different with a familiar, wise voice in their lives praying with them, giving advice, and making sure they were not alone as they navigated healing for our family.
2) Mentoring
My parents and I needed mentors. A safe, neutral person could have helped unravel the lies that were taking root in my heart. My parents needed a strong couple to encourage them, maybe even a family who walked through something similar. We needed people dedicated to loving us through it, to help us from falling into the traps of anger, self-blame, denial, and fear. There are layers to healing. An important layer is spiritual. Instead of bowing out of our redemption story, our Church could have played a leading role.
3) Clinical Therapy
Many churches deal with everything “in-house.” Sometimes leaders or members are designated “counselors,” regardless of whether they have the credentials or experience to fill such a role. In many cases members don’t need clinical therapy but rather wise advice, encouragement or a new perspective. Not us. We needed clinical therapy. Believers I knew were notoriously anti-psychologists. After getting my degree in psychology, I acknowledge some methodologies are a little experimental and odd. Yet, many Christian counselors bring Jesus into their sessions in very powerful ways. We need to connect with professionals outside of our four walls, vet them, and refer members out.
The Faith Summit shows countless ways the Church can address human trafficking holistically, effectively, and justly. The Church must be prepared for the 6th grader who shares the unthinkable. For the young woman who stumbles in looking for help or the member whose trauma is brought to light.
The worst thing we can do is say “We will cross that bridge when we get there.” Waiting to cross at a moment of crisis with no preparation is a guaranteed way to burn it. It is time the Church stops burning the bridge of healing for victims and starts building it.
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About Lexie Smith:
Lexie is a first generation college graduate with a degree in Psychology from Lee University. She is a dynamic speaker with a purpose-filled life that developed from overcoming child sex trafficking, exploitation, and incest that took place right in her grandmother’s neighborhood. What was meant to destroy her is now being used to inform communities on how to better protect the vulnerable, and properly respond to human trafficking. She has been an inspiring voice to over 42,000 teens since 2012 and imparts a sense of worth, identity, and awareness into a digitally relational generation. Her expertise has been utilized by a number of agencies including local Churches, NGO’s, Tennessee Corrections Institute, ICE, Nashville Metro Vice, and local officers as a trainer, on-call advocate, and consultant. Lexie serves as a member of the Rebecca Bender Ministries Speaker Team as well as a mentor for the Virtual Mentor Program. She and her mom are currently working on their first book about restoring the family after abuse.
This blog post was originally part of our 2016 Faith Summit Speaker Blog Series.
Kristina Sachs says
Thank you, Lexie, for reflecting the true substance of who you are as God’s creation, a transformed woman with purpose and a plan to help educate the church in how it can better serve as the Master’s hands and feet in offering practical steps towards the healing and wholeness of its family. I’m grateful for your courage and determination to shift your traumatic experience from shame to significance. May God continue to pour his grace and wisdom upon you as you serve him.
Jody Williams says
I’m concerned about the photo of this woman being posted. When we were trying to convince the world sex trafficking was real – it was at a time when no one believed this was even real. We had no choice but to come onto camera showing our eyes so people could hear and feel our pain, fear, and sincerity. It was also the only way to get out information on the only hotline that existed for victims at a time when they couldn’t even call the police or they’d be hung up on. NOW however, w’re hearing about these photos leading to stalking, firing, evictions, social shunning, even to old pimps coming back out of the woodwork after they’ve been released from jail. Now when a “fake” does it like Samoly Mam – she has nothing to worry about. But our point has been made. The Trafficking Act of 2000 was passed. We now have task forces, new laws, and even programs exist now where one can get help. It is no longer necessary to publish the face of us to get our point across this is real. NOW it’s encouraging others to do the same – and then we’re hearing how down the road it’s caused them great harm. You’re married now and it doesn’t matter? Trust me it will affect your children in school then. Don’t have kids? Well some do and they see photos like this and they don’t realize the long term aftermath. WE were willing to take this on to get this movement off the ground. Now it doesn’t help – only harm in the long run. Please take this picture down. http://www.sexworkersanonymous.com
Until your book is done, there is http://www.swan-fellowship.us for mothers of victims. There is also a book available “When Someone You Love is Being Pimped” on Lulul
patricia schroeder says
thank you for sharing…this is so nessacary
This breaks my heart in so many ways. I know the focus here is on awareness and healing for the victim, and handling this situation “justly” is mentioned, but please tell me that the perpetrators were held accountable for their actions. I just worry for the cycle continuing. This has touched out family as well and as yet is still unresolved. So much more still needs to be done. Thank you for all you are doing in bringing this awareness and a strategy to light!!
Tee says
Churches should consider the need to contact the police in planning our response to abuse.
Angela Meer says
This is a great reminder that cliches and quick action don’t heal a broken and traumatic past. Teaching people the ways to free people with sustained love and interaction is a long-term investment. Thank you for sharing!
Joel Malard says
Hi Lexie, I work to end trafficking also. My first speaking engagement is this weekend sharing my story and also the hope that God brought to my life. Then when I started to be threatened again decades later, I became fearful to live my live again. Through a series of events, God helped me not to be afraid again. So now I have no fear of my past and no embarrassment as there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. I am no longer afraid to tell others, to educate others in what to look for and watch for, and how to protect others in our life. Thank you for sharing your story. It is so important that we speak up now.
K ay says
So many things are hidden within the church. For instance, our daughter had a breakdown after attending church camp due to something that happened there. My husband wanted to hush it up. I wanted to confront. That was about 30 years ago.
One other thing many people need to be aware of is that a great many pastors and youth pastors are addicted to porn, so they may feel threatened or shamed by the topic of sexual abuse or sexual addiction.
There are many layers of silence within the church, which is sad for the victims who have no one to take their side. I hope the light of truth shines into the church, so that healing and reform can take place. It will begin with our prayers and with our willingness to speak out rather than keep secrets.
DeAnne Brining, LMFT says
As a therapist in Sacramento, I currently provide therapy to those who have been victims of sex-trafficking, as well as those who have been victims of molest/rape. I really appreciate that you are informing the church that therapy is crucial in the healing process. Church ‘counselors’ just aren’t equipped to deal with this level of trauma and they need to refer their congregation out to trauma specialists who specifically work with these traumas.
Chelan says
Bravo. Lexie. You show courage and strength and beauty every time you speak or write. It’s an honor to call you friend.
Bravo, Lexie. You are so brave and you are speaking up for the voiceless. this type of abuse leaves the victim without a voice until they realize what has happened to them. Thank you for all that you are doing.
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The owner of Lamoda Global Fashion Group raised 120 million euros for the development of e-commerce Global Fashion Group, which manages one of the largest online fashion stores in Russia Lamoda, raised about 120 million euros ($ 140 million) during exchange trading. The company plans to use this money to develop its own projects for marketplaces of fashionable goods, investing, among other things, in technologies that help optimize online business.
adidas Originals has released a collaboration with Noize MC The adidas Superstar sneakers came out in a new design, customized by the Russian rapper Noize MC.
Geox Russia opens new stores and records sales growth “For ourselves, we set a plan to grow by 2019 at least 15%”, - Sergey Shuvalov, General Manager of Geox Russia, gave such a completely unexpected positive assessment of the development of sales of the Geox brand in Russia in a short interview with Shoes Report. Despite the complete uncertainty of the situation, the general drop in traffic in traditional retail, this fall Geox records an increase in sales in its stores in Russia.
CCC tests shoe delivery service in 60 minutes The threat of a resumption of quarantine and the closure of retail stores in Poland prompted the CCC Group to begin testing a new service in which goods ordered online will be delivered to the buyer's doorstep within 60 minutes, writes Worldfootwear.com.
Top trends in shoe store window dressing this fall and this winter Autumn-winter season 2020/21 for fashion retail is special, which we will remember for a long time. Almost all companies were forced to revise their budgets - they cut current spending, cut costs as much as possible. And, of course, one of the first to fall under the knife was the cost of decorating seasonal shop windows for the New Year and, in general, for the autumn-winter season. But you still have to arrange them, your store will not stand with a "bare" showcase, in which boxes of shoes are displayed. Fortunately for many retailers, showcase installation ideas that are relevant this season will not require a lot of investment. Marina Polkovnikova, SR expert in the creation, design, decoration of shop windows and retail spaces, talks about the main trends in the concepts of seasonal shop windows.
Ozon and Wildberries offer their pickup points to partners for management Two large Russian online retailers have begun to offer pick-up points (Pickup points) to their partners to manage. The cost of buying out the rights to lease the pickup point is 0,8-1 million rubles, depending on the location and turnover, writes Kommersant.
The volume of imports of shoes in September 2020 remained at the level of September 2019 According to the Federal Customs Service, the volume of imports of footwear in Russia from non-CIS countries in September 2020 amounted to $ 311,8 million and compared to September 2019 increased by only 0,3%.
SberIndex showed a record reduction in spending by residents of Russia on goods and services For the week from October 26 to November 1, the drop in consumer spending on goods and services was a record one since the end of May 2020. Russian spending in the category of non-food products decreased by 5% year-on-year, in the service sector by 32%, economists from Sberbank note.
Color palette 2021. Four out of ten trending colors: blue, mushroom, gray, green FashionSnoops trend bureau has made a forecast of trendy macro colors for 2021, it contains 10 color solutions that will be relevant in the seasons of next year. SR expert Galina Kravchenko talks about four of the ten trendy colors - a very interesting shade of blue Déjà vu, a shade of brown-beige that has been relevant in interior design for the last few years - mushroom Mushroom, an unusual light shade of gray Hemp and green Circuit.
Obligatory labeling of shoes can again move A new decree of the Government of the Russian Federation is being prepared, regulating the postponement of the introduction of mandatory labeling of shoe products in Russia. The corresponding draft law has been published on the Single Portal on the placement of draft legal acts.
Classification of shoes. Rules for constructing a commodity classifier The most important question that concerns owners of shoe retail stores today is how to increase sales. If five years ago, one buyer purchased, on average, four pairs of shoes a year, today consumption, according to statistics, is only 1,8 pairs. However, according to forecasts by DISCOVERY Research Group, by 2023, consumption will increase to 2,9 pairs per year. Fashion has also changed, heels are almost a thing of the past, sports shoes are in demand, comfortable and wear. But you can’t only sell sneakers and ugg boots, especially since these very models are available in all stores in the country! What to do and how to understand what to buy in order to build up from competitors and attract buyers?
10 main trends in retail for the next 3 years Ten main trends emerging in the past year, which will determine the development of world retail in the near future
Dead Season. What will turn Covid-19 quarantine for shoe retail Shoe retail resumes operations in Moscow and the regions, calculates losses, evaluates prospects. Two and a half months of downtime were a serious test for retailers.
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Color palette 2021 (part 2). Six out of ten trending colors The FashionSnoops trend bureau has made a forecast of trendy macro colors for 2021, it contains 10 color solutions that are relevant for the seasons of the next year. In the previous issue, SR expert Galina Kravchenko spoke about four colors from the trend palette - blue, brown-beige, light gray and green. In this issue, we talk about six more colors, these are: intense, aggressive violet Villainous, muted salmon pink Flush, bright orange Jolt, wine-raspberry Joy, brown Chernozem Core and gentle straw Gentle.
The formula for perfect sales in a shoe store. Why is retail success 90% dependent on the human factor? In the world there are a huge number of companies and specialists who conduct regular research in the field of sales. And one of the most important questions that everyone is looking for the answer to is what determines the success of a sale. In these studies, many factors are usually analyzed, both individually and collectively. Among these factors are: the location of the store, the correct assortment matrix, the image and reputation of the company offline and online, the atmosphere of the retail space (visual merchandising, flavor, music, lighting), the loyalty program, and much more. And yet, the main thing that all studies prove is that the success of a sale largely depends on the human factor, whose share is from 73 to 90%. Our expert SR Maria Gerasimenko agrees with this conclusion
10 popular shoe models of the spring-summer'20 season This summer, shoe brands, presenting their collections to consumers, are focusing on sports and casual, perhaps because the forced sitting at home and summer cottages creates a demand for comfortable shoes. In the Shoes Report review, there are 10 models of women's shoes that can be found on store shelves in Russia right now. Among the models in the popularity rating, sneakers and trekking sandals are in the lead. The main color of this summer is white.
5 models of men's winter shoes at Euro Shoes Premiere Collection The warm winter, which is celebrated in the central part of Russia this year, does not bother manufacturers of shoes designed for use in harsh climatic conditions and withstanding winter cold and slush. Five new brands at once at the Moscow shoes exhibition Euro Shoes Premiere Collection, which will be held from February 5 to 25 at Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Center, are ready to compete for a place on the Russian market and present their shoe models that have water-repellent properties and can withstand temperatures up to -28 C.
We present 5 unique models of boots for the fall / winter 20/21 season from brands from Norway, Canada, Poland, Italy and Russia.
Shoe educational program: what shoe soles are made of “What is the difference between TEP and EVA? What does tunit promise me? Is PVC glue? What is the sole of these shoes made of? ”- the modern buyer wants to know everything. In order not to smash his face in front of him and be able to explain whether such a sole suits him in soles, carefully read this article. In it, process engineer Igor Okorokov tells what materials the soles of shoes are made of and what makes each of them so good.
How to set prices that will earn Some businessmen still confuse the concept of margin with the concept of trade margins and set prices for their goods, guided solely by the example of competitors. No wonder they go broke! Analyst at the Academy of Retail Technologies Maxim Gorshkov gives several tips and formulas with which you can set not only ruinous, but also profitable prices.
Sales of shoes and accessories: effective techniques for business rhetoric Which speech modules are effective in communicating with potential and current customers of shoe stores, and which are not, Anna Bocharova, a business consultant, knows.
We form the salary of sellers: expert advice “How do you charge your consultants for personal or general sales?” Is one of the most popular questions causing a lot of controversy and gossip on the online forums of retail business owners. Indeed, how to properly form the earnings of sellers? But what about bonuses, where to get a sales plan from, do employees allow them to buy goods at discounted stores? In search of truth, the Shoes Report turned to a dozen shoe retailers, but no company wanted to disclose its motivation system - the process of its development was too complicated and individual. Then we asked four business consultants, and finally became convinced that the topic of seller motivation is very complex, because even our experts could not come to a common opinion.
Fur, and not only: types of lining In the production of winter footwear, various materials are used that are designed to retain heat and meet the requirements of consumers: natural sheepleather, artificial fur, artificial fur from natural wool and others. All types of lining fur have their own advantages and disadvantages. Let's consider the properties of each of them.
How to fire a worker without tears, scandal and trial Sooner or later, any manager is faced with the need to part with an employee. Properly and on time the dismissal procedure will save the company money, and the boss himself - nerves and time. But why sometimes, knowing that a break in relations is inevitable, we put off the decision for months?
The best models of Czech shoes of the past In Soviet times, for shoes from Czechoslovakia sold under the Cebo brand, customers stood in line for four hours and did not regret it, because Czech shoes were considered to be of high quality, comfortable and fashionable. Shoe designer Juraj Shushka shared a photo archive of his collection with Shoes Report magazine, which contains the most interesting Cebo models from the 1940's to the 1980's.
Retail Arithmetic Before you begin to solve specific problems, you need to find out how accurately all the leaders of your company understand the basic terminology of retail.
Ecommerce Laws Every Seller Should Know The sale of goods via the Internet is becoming increasingly popular and in demand, however, at the same time, difficulties arise regarding issues of legal regulation of trade through the Internet, work with delivery and returns, and maintaining cash registers. Ivan Kurguzov, Executive Director of Oborot.ru, told how to avoid possible mistakes and how to legally conduct trade through the Internet.
Key models of the range of women's shoes for the fall-winter season 2016 / 17 We present four key trends of women's shoes for the next fall-winter season (fall-winter 2016 / 17), which is described by Galina Kravchenko, a leading expert on assortment and forecasting trends at Fashion Consulting Group, head of FCG - FASHIONSNOOPS.COM
Theme of the issue: Loyalty programs in social networks
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Jim Jefferies’s Anti-Islamic Comments Exposed After Comedian Releases A Hit Piece On YouTubers
By societyreviews March 21, 2019
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Yemini has promised to release more videos in the coming days to expose even more comments that Jim made while he thought the footage wouldn't make air.
Earlier this week, comedian Jim Jefferies did his best ‘Hate Night Comedy’ routine in an effort to link right-wing YouTubers to the Christchurch, New Zealand shooting which killed 50 people. Jefferies thought he could score some political points smearing Youtubers by directly linking them to the attack. Jefferies conducted an interview with Jewish content creator Avi Yemini, an interview that pointed the finger at Yemini for the radicalization of the man who slaughtered Muslims in New Zealand last week. The interview even got picked up by The Hollywood Reporter as Jefferies continued to link the shooter to Donald Trump and his “anti-immigration” policies.
The problem with this, however, is that the entire segment with Yemini was not only misquoted completely out of context, but the interview in question took place months before the shooting ever occurred. Yemini took to Youtube to expose the fact that he sat down with Jefferies nearly 3 months ago and it wasn’t until the Christchurch shooting that Jim used that footage to make it seem like Yemini was directly defending the attack. But that wasn’t the only bombshell, Yemini also secretly recorded the interview that took place proving that not only did Jefferies lie about the context of the interview but made some anti-Islamic comments of his own that were of course edited out of the Comedy Central show.
According to One Angry Gamer, The video shows Jefferies making the following remarks against the Muslim faith.
“I’m not a big fan of Islam. […]
“I think that wearing a burqa is stupid and demeaning and all those things.”
The two also discuss which one is dangerous, a dingo or Islam. They both agree that dingos and Islam are dangerous. Yemini notes that a dingo ate a baby – Jefferies cut in and said if a dingo ate a “bloody Muslim baby” it would probably vomit it, to which Yemini recoils and says…
“No… I don’t actually agree with that shit. […] That’s not funny. You’re talking about fucking killing kids. That’s crossing a line. There’s a fucking line.”
Jefferies attempts to smooth it over by hand-waving away the exchange, to which he likely wanted to bait Yemini into furthering the joke to make him look bad during the segment but Yemini didn’t bite. Jefferies then says…
“We’ll edit this bit out. I never look bad in these interviews.”
Yemini has promised to release more videos in the coming days to expose even more comments that Jim made while he thought the footage wouldn’t make air. This is not the first time Jim has been busted in a hit piece. Last July, he invited Youtuber Diversity & Comics aka Richard Meyer for an interview during Comic-Con in San Diego. That interview was later pulled after widespread negative reaction on the internet.
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My occasional notes on simplification, information design, clear writing and the like
Virgin Media... we're watching you
Well we're not watching your TV service yet, actually, as the kit I need to connect in my new house hasn't arrived. The courier who tried to deliver my package left a printed note saying they had 'popped round'. For a cup of sugar, and a chat?
Judy Delin's 'Hello you' letter (see earlier post) should have warned me off this lot.
In order to arrange redelivery I had to call Virgin. Good thing was, it was only a couple of menu levels to reach what was apparently the right number. Bad thing was, they hung up on me every time. How about this for pseudo politeness: "we're still unusually busy, so instead of staying on the line you may like to give us a call later..." [cue the dial tone].
They are usually unusually busy, it seems.
French french fries
This table was printed on a poke of chips at a fast food chain in France.
I don't think the lady on the right eats many chips. The bloke, on the other hand... is that his left arm or his tummy?
Memory load and internet security
Following the loss of citizens' banking and personal details by HMRC, we're getting a lot of advice about internet security. My bank, Smile, tells me that 'each password should be unique and unrelated to any of your other passwords.'
They go on to advise: 'You shouldn't write them down, and you shouldn't share them with anyone, even your best mates... Strong passwords use combinations of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuation, they aren't usually found in any dictionary. For example using 'river' would be a weak password, whereas 'r!V3r_78' would be much stronger.'
So strong it wouldn't even let me in, because I wouldn't remember it. Many of us have accumulated dozens of relationships with banks, retailers, social networks, and other sites that want passwords. There is absolutely no chance of dreaming up unique, strong passwords for each one and not writing them down.
Smile's advice doesn't work. Poor information is no information.
"Labour kills off 'husbands' and 'wives'"
This was a story in the Mail on Sunday yesterday. Apparently the term 'partner' is now used in place of 'husband', 'wife' or 'spouse' on some HMRC forms. This is attributed by the paper to a socialist conspiracy to destroy marriage.
Well, actually it's used in the question 'Do you have a partner?' instead of something like 'Do you have a spouse, partner (defined as a person you are living with as if you are married) or civil partner?'. So this very probably points to a civil servant trying to save space and write in plain English. Do they really think the Prime Minister and his cabinet discuss the wording on a form?
The article also notes that on the Child Benefit form you are asked to select your title from 'Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mr', and attributes this sequence to a 'nod to feminism'. Well, no, actually. The legislation requires Child Benefit to be paid to the mother, unless the child is living with the father or other person. And most mothers are married women ('Mrs'), followed statistically by unmarried women ('Miss'). 'Mr' comes last because it is the least likely response to the question.
Web more visual? I don't think so
I occasionally hear people assert, as if a truism, that the web is a much more visual medium than text. I don't think it is. In fact the opposite is often true if you compare two versions of the same document. For example, here's a story from a recent issue of The Guardian newspaper.
The story (about the growth in music downloads) is illustrated by a graph comparing the years 2005 and 2006 in different countries, and also comparing mobile and online downloads. It is also decorated by images of a band, some people dancing in test tubes, and someone singing.
But compare with the online version. No images (except a portrait of the journalist we didn't see in the paper version), no graph (surely that contains a key message, even if the pictures don't. And the story is surrounded by navigation - links enticing you to stop reading this story and go somewhere else.
On another matter, the pictures in the paper are a veritable semiotic feast: what are the fascist-looking symbols in front of the band? have the test-tube ladies escaped from a story about cloning? and I love the singer's Remembrance Day poppy. Nothing is captioned so we'll never know the explanation.
More silly questions
Further to my recent post, I've been helping my elderly father-in-law manage his online bank account with the Nationwide. It asked us to choose four security questions and give answers that we then have to remember at any point in the future. What age do they assume their customers are? Does anyone over 7 years old actually have a favourite colour? How about some questions suitable for people over 50? Such as 'how much did Mars Bars used to cost?', 'what do you hate most about online banking?', or the reliable 'where were you when you heard that President Kennedy had been shot?'. But best to stay away from 'what did you come upstairs for?' or 'where are your car keys?'.
Nice poster to buy
Get it from Flood the Valley.
Didn't find this myself - saw it first on a nice blog from and/or/if who are document designers I used to work with.
Favourite questions
Registering on a website today, I was asked to choose a security question from the following options:
Problem is:
Don't know, and seems a bit late to ask now.
If I pick one at random, would I pick the same one when I'm asked again. And, heck, it was 50 years ago.
Heck, it was 50 years ago
Heck, it was 200 years ago
Which grandfather?
The Rupert principle
I sometimes find myself referring to a particular pattern of explanation as a Rupert, and this understandably puzzles people who didn't grow up in the UK at the time I did. Rupert Bear was a classic comic strip that was published in the Daily Express (and may still be, for all I know). It includes three parallel versions of the same story: a picture, a couplet, and a full text version. The combination allows different ways for children and parents to share the story, and is a classic pattern for information designers.
Here's what it looks like:
Born under a bad sign
If we had to choose a theme tune for simplification, what would it be? I'd pick Albert King's classic blues 'Born under a bad sign'. Apart from its obvious reference to poor wayfinding in maternity hospitals, it contains this lament for literacy:
I can't read.
I didn't learn how to write.
My whole life's been one big fight.
You can hear/get it at iTunes.
Just important stuff you don't need to read
Back to small print. Just got this example from O2, the mobile phone operator, who like everyone else has time to think of a clever idea for the cover, but not for making the information clear. Ho ho.
Word for the day: nocebo
The nocebo effect is the opposite of the better known placebo effect - Latin for 'I will harm' rather than 'I will please'. Just as dummy pills are known to produce beneficial results among around 25% of patients who believe them to be the real treatment, they also trigger side effects in many patients.
Interestingly for information designers, it's been suggested that lists of specific side effects in patient information leaflets (or web pages aimed at patients) may contribute to the effect.
And it turns out that the colour, size and shape of pills has long been known to influence their effectiveness: red, orange and yellow pills have a stimulant effect, while blue and green are more sedative. People expect pills for their heart to be red (but not necessarily heart-shaped, as far as I know).
Good reference on this is: Barsky et al (2002), Nonspecific medication side effects and the nocebo phenomenon. JAMA vol 287, 5, 622-627.
Your home may be at risk...
As I write there is a run on the bank at Northern Rock, the mortgage lender that has had to call on Bank of England help following the sub-prime lending problems in the USA.
Pundits are appearing on TV, commenting on what they see as irrational herd behaviour in customerswho are queuing to take their money out. They seem oddly baffled that risk averse people (that is, the kind of people who keep their life savings in a savings account, not the stock market) are in fact averse to risk.
What risk? Well, we shouldn't forget that financial information routinely accompanies warm reassurance with alarming disclaimers - simultaneously enticing customers with promises of enormous returns, while pointing out in the small print that nothing is guaranteed, and that they could lose their homes. Even though this time I haven't heard any disclaimers by the experts and politicians, perhaps people just assume them.
Anal about correct spelling
According to their website, publishers John Benjamins aim their Document Design Companion series at "text analists" among others. I don't know why I've never noticed the anal in analysis before, but this spelling just seems to bring it out.
Hello, you - Our Ref: (KMM5896382I10596L0KM)
Judy Delin received an email with this title from Virgin Media about her cable TV account. A wonderful juxatposition of matey brand language and bureaucracy. You're not just a number. Well, you are.
The email welcomes her to her new provider, and concludes 'The whole adventure is just beginning'. Worrying, that phrase.
I'm on holiday in Seattle, and just visited Peter Miller Books - he has a great stock of design and architecture books from small publishers as well as large. I've been there before and I always discover something I haven't seen before.
It's a stimulating and attractive shop to browse in. But you quickly discover that many of the books are out of reach - and out of sight, given the propensity of typographers to use tiny type on design books. Some of the shelves are, at a guess, over 3 metres tall. They look great - with their varying heights, they give the effect of a city skyline.
Peter says he puts the good stuff he doesn't want finger marks on there - books you have to know about and ask for. But I'm not so sure. It's also notable that there are no signs or labels to show how the shop is organised, and I think this reflects something wayfinding designers quickly learn about architects: it's mostly about how it looks and feels, and they hate signs.
I've bought a new radiator for our bathroom. The fitting guide is not so much instructional as liturgical: "Appoint on the wall the place of drilling the orifices... In the appointed places drill the orifices. The congregation shall stand."
Speaking of drilling, Plasplugs used to provide slightly superfluous instructions on using their drill bits. I think it was just so they could use the heading 'Boring instructions'.
Star spotting in Laos
Cara Gerard (former IDU colleague, and wayfinding designer) sent me this nice lady from Luang Prabang, Laos. But she reminds me of someone.
As Private Eye puts it, could they by chance be related?
Tom Fishburne's met our clients
In our studio, when someone spoke of the client as 'barking', they didn't mean mad – they meant 'you don't buy a dog and do your own barking'. But then we found Tom Fishburne's classic '8 types of bad creative critics'. He's identified the full set of favourite client types. We have met every one of these clients, and could give you their names.
Tom has a brilliant collection of marketing and branding observations at his Brand Camp website. You can buy this cartoon on a mousemat, T shirt or mug at his website.
Note to current clients: none of you are like this. Never.
An early bath for heads up, or a heads up on early doors
What am I on about? Phrases which arrive through slips of the tongue, and stick around. Too many metaphors, I know, but stay with me a moment.
An example is 'early doors' which is generally assumed to have originated with football manager Ron Atkinson - famous for his expressive but sometimes mangled English (see this nice fanclub website on 'Ronglish'. It is used to mean 'early on' but no one knows where the doors bit comes in.
In our own information design world, we come across the term 'heads up mapping', which refers to maps that are oriented not with north at the top, as is conventional, but so the direction you are facing is at the top. In the research environment, I have seen this referred to as 'forward up', and this makes more sense to me. But because it is the way maps are shown on heads-up displays in aircraft cockpits, the term has slipped across to refer to map as well as the display.
Personally I am not convinced that forward up mapping works best for everyone. But more on this another time.
Introducing the Simpleton
I've changed the name of my blog to reflect a new multidisciplinary research centre that I'm planning, called the Simplification Centre. It will help government departments, businesses, and regulators to simplify communications about complex topics such as tax, financial services, and health. I'm moving to the University of Reading to set it up this September.
One problem with the word 'simplification' is that it's not simple. That's why my temporary logo leaves out a syllable. Who knows, it could catch on. After all, there is a precedent. So many people find 'quantitative' such a mouthful that it's only a matter of time before 'quantative' gets into the dictionary through usage.
The bigger the Small Print the smaller the small print
Quite a few copywriters have the original idea of calling terms and conditions 'The Small Print'. Of course, you know when you see this, that you've seen the last bit of plain English you'll see for quite some time. In fact there seems to be a law of inverse proportions here: the larger the title, the more assertive the implicit claim to have addressed the problem, the smaller the smaller print actually is. Here's one we got from Goldfish, the credit card people:
In this example, from Vodafone, the designer makes his or her contempt for the reader pretty clear by devoting a third of the page to white space, rather than allowing the type to be more legible but fill the page.
An heck of an annoying use of 'an'
Something that brings out the grumpy old man in me, is the way journalists invariably use 'an' before the word 'historical'. "This summit represented an historical moment...".
My mother is from a generation who pronounces 'hotel' in a slightly French way ("I stayed in an 'otel") but she doesn't say "an Humphrey Bogart movie" or "an Hello magazine" or "an honey and peanut butter sandwich". Mind you should probably wouldn't ask for these last two - she's more likely to ask for "an Country Life" and "an cucumber sandwich".
Rite as yu spik
It's always good advice to 'write as you would speak'. Thanks to colleague Uwe Becker for this photo.
Affix affectation affliction
I don't think she'll mind me mentioning this because it was a triumph, but a group of us went to see (colleague and distinguished linguistics expert) Judy Delin's debut in stand-up comedy. She had some fun with the language you encounter on the tube ('Dogs must be carried', 'Use all available doors', 'Alight for the Royal Institute for the Blind').
What is it with railways and the word 'alight'. Do they get off (alight?) on quaint pomposity? And why don't they do the full Russell Brand? Alight from the carriage and perambulate towards the exit portal. Not forgetting to mind the gap and take all your personal belongings with you when you arrive in at the next station stop.
'Alight' has a distant cousin, 'affix'. For some reason, we stick stamps to personal mail, but affix them to business mail.
Octothorpe (you know what I mean)
A colleague’s been debating with a mobile phone company client how to refer to an old-fashioned steam telephone. They want to choose from ‘fixed line’ and ‘land line’, with a preference for the former. She asked for votes from users and ‘land line’ won by a mile. Needless to say, the client wants ‘fixed line’. Actually, a lot of people said ‘none of the above’ and generally refer to ‘home phone’ instead.
This reminds me of a debate we had with BT a long time back, over what to call the # key when it needs to be spoken out loud in voice menus. The international telecommunications standard specifies ‘square’ and BT insist on using that to this day. The debate even went to their usability lab in Martlesham, who backed 'square' ... hmm. We believe 'square' could be there because the standard was translated from another language and the term with it. We went out in the street with a phone and as you would expect, no one called that key ‘square’. A lot didn’t know what to call it, but if they had a name it was generally called ‘hash’. Musicians called it the sharp sign, and someone with computing training called it ‘gate’. In the US it is more generally called the ‘pound sign’ or ‘number sign’. There is an good Wikipedia entry with further names under the headword Number sign.
The most bizarre name for the # sign is Octothorpe. This apparently first appeared in the 60s or 70s, but there is disagreement about its origin. In Elements of Typographic Style (p. 282), Robert Bringhurst says that ‘in cartography, it is also a symbol for village: eight fields around a central square, and this is the source of its name. Octothorp means eight fields.’
Really? Type ‘octothorpe’ and ‘cartography’ into Google and all you get is dictionary definitions quoting Robert Bringhurst – nothing from a cartography source.
Another explanation is given by a retired AT&T engineer, Ralph Carlsen, that he and a colleague made it up, when they needed a word for the # key when developing touchtone phones.
I turn out not be the only person puzzled by this bizarre word. Here are just a couple of the various websites chasing its origin:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oct1.htm
http://www.robertfulford.com/2005-06-14-octothorpe.html
Octothorpe is a truly bizarre phenomenon – a word that is never ever used for its notional meaning (ie, to refer to a telephone key), that has no real purpose or nuance to add, but that is in the OED (citing the daft ‘fields’ origin as a possibility), and whose origin is much discussed. At least one web dictionary I found claimed that there are variant spellings such as 'Octotherp', as if linguists had toured the country asking gnarled old telephone engineers for the terms that they and their forefathers had used for generations.
So my plan is to invent a new word for something, and get it in the OED. Any ideas?
More seriously, when you research something like this, it reveals the true limitations of the web – with its apparently authoritative websites packed with cut and paste repetitions of unsubstantiated information.
Ranged left vs ragged right
My heading looks like a mistake ('ranged left' and 'ragged right' are synonyms). But although they refer to the same thing, I think they mean something different.
Whether or not justified or unjustified type works best is a perennial question. The term refers to the practice of padding out lines with extra space to achieve a straight right-hand edge.
It’s less of an issue that it used to be – owing largely to thirty years or so of modernist-influenced design education, and the displacement of compositors (printers who used to set metal type) by graphic designers, unjustified type is the default option these days. Newspapers and printed books are the only genres where justified type is still more or less compulsory – at least for certain types of content. Textbooks are more likely to be unjustified than novels, and newspapers use justification as a marker of formality – The Times uses justified type for news stories and the main editorial, but unjustified type for features and commentary.
Defenders of justified type have not found much support in reading research – psychologists looking for an effect on reading speed or accuracy have found it makes little difference. But typography isn’t just about making reading easy, or providing an efficient channel for words to pass from page to brain – it’s also about articulating meaning. It is part of the language resource that we use to communicate relationships between parts of a text. In particular, it is what makes written language more than just a secondary form, a transcription of speech. Looked at in this way, is there a role for justification?
I think there is a clue in the names we use. Unjustified type is often known under other names, ‘ranged left’ and ‘ragged right’ being the most common. The names didn’t just happen, but were a form of spin by modernist designers who were uncomfortable that the term ‘unjustified’ seemed to imply a lack of quality. In linguistic terms, ‘unjustified’ is the marked form that implies it is the exception not the rule, whereas ‘ranged left’ is a simple neutral description of the way the type is set. The very term ‘justified’ implies something correct, and properly finished, and in an age of symmetry and ornament anything else would have been seen as unfinished – like unplaned timber, or a garment with no hem.
As descriptive terms, ‘ranged left’ and ‘ragged right’ do quite different jobs, and the difference is instructive. ‘Ranged left’ refers to what is going on inside the column of type – the letters are ranged evenly from the left-hand margin – and makes no reference to the space outside the column. ‘Ragged right’, though, draws attention to the resulting untidy column edge.
In the ‘ranged left’ world view, then, the even texture of type in the column is the most important thing. The column of type is where reading happens, in isolation from other elements on the page.
‘Ragged right’, on the other hand, focuses us on the column edge and, in my view, the term implies a case for justified type.
Edges are critical in graphic design. Pages are made up of different elements, usually aligned in deliberate ways to contribute to the reading experience, whether through meaning, navigation or a simple sense of visual order. The space to the right of a column of type may have a job to do – a job of separating elements, of framing the text, of linking though the continuity of white space. This job can often be done better by a well defined rectangle.
For example, in multi-column layouts, ragged right is fine, so long as the lefthand columns are straight – too much indented type (of the kind you get with legal text) creates a ragged left effect, and the intercolumn space is a less effective visual element.
Here’s a simple demonstration of what I mean.
1: Ranged left is fine so long as you have a straight lefthand column to define the column (most of the time, in fact).
2: Where you have frequent multilevel indention in multicolumn text, it effectively creates a ragged left edge and the intercolumn space no longer forms a clear shape.
3: Justified type restores the vertical alignment.
This note was inspired by a recent discussion on the Infodesign Café. The most thorough and insightful account of the debate is Paul Stiff's 1996 paper: Stiff P (1996) 'The end of the line: a survey of unjustified typography', Information Design Journal, vol 8: 125-152
Colour, flags and sensitivity
Working recently for a government department whose corporate colour is green (a kind of greyish, dark green, not exactly emerald or shamrock), we proposed a colour-coding system where orange was among the colours used for navigation.
When someone suggested that this would render the document unacceptable in Northern Ireland, my pedantry alarm went off - surely the juxtaposition of two colours in a coding system does not amount to a flag. But I followed up with a call to the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure in Northern Ireland. After some consultation we turned the orange into orangey-brown.
The DCAL website is in English, Irish and Ulster-Scots. I had no idea that there was an Ulster-Scots language that is still used, but it seems there is, and I followed up the link to the Ulster-Scots Agency (Tha Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch). Predominant colour: orange, so no surprise there.
The Law of the Penultimate Solution (it's always better than the one you end up with)
Someone reminded me yesterday of a talk David Lewis and I gave at one of the Information Design Conferences in the early 90s. We likened the information design process to a lens. Information designers take requirements and constraints that were previously uncoordinated and unrelated, from different parts of an organisation, and focus them in a single design solution that is coherent and usable by customers.
Then, as we consult and amend our perfectly-focused solution, it shifts just slightly out of focus before it's implemented. The final solution is never as good as the penultimate one.
And finally, there's often a stray photon that arrives from nowhere, completely bypassing our lens. The marketing director's twelve-year old son has drawn a great logo (it's happened); someone has read that italic is always illegible; someone doesn't like green.
How to operate the shower curtain
Lovers of instructions will appreciate this article in the New Yorker:
How to operate the shower curtain.
And speaking of bathrooms, does anyone know the history of that card you get in hotel rooms worldwide. The one that starts "Dear Guest. Imagine the amount of detergent..." and ends "Towel on the floor means 'change this towel'" .
Even the poshest hotel rooms have this card, which never says "Dear Guest. If you really want to save the planet, take your holiday at home next year".
Eden are an excellent information design consultancy in Amsterdam. They recently came up with new standards for consumer warnings for financial services products (eg, 'investments can go down as well as up'). To simplify the approach, they used washing instructions - a trusted information source - as their inspiration. Have a look at their full case study here.
Force 7 confusion forecast
It would be nice to have a version of the Beaufort scale or Richter scale for information. The Beaufort scale is the one for wind, that starts with '0. Calm. Smoke rises vertically' and ends with '12. Hurricane. Considerable and widespread damage to structures'.
So I've had a go.
0. Calm. Ideas rise vertically from page to mind.
1. Light difficulty. Slower reading. Dictionary pages rustle.
2. Moderate difficulty. Reader lightly swaying; visible perplexity.
3. Difficulty. Head shaking, audible groaning.
4. Severe difficulty. Loud muttering, and music heard from helpline queue.
5. Very severe complexity. Foaming. Abrupt movement about room, with swearing.
6. Storm. Whole documents in motion, from table to floor.
7. Brainstorm. Considerable damage to conceptual structures.
8. Typhoo. Reader flattened in darkened room, with cup of hot sweet tea.
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Library, March 2018, Notes from the library
Notes from the Library…Finding Company and Industry Information
March 15, 2018 Laura Pavlech 2 Comments
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As you embark on your job search, prepare for an interview or conduct competitive intelligence during your career, you may find yourself searching for information about a company or industry. While a company’s website is the natural place to start your search, there are other resources that you can use to find this type of information.
I have divided the resources below into those that are best for company information and those that are best for industry information. However, several resources, including ABI/Inform Collection, D&B Global Business Browser, Nexis Uni and Factiva, provide both types of information.
Many business databases utilize industry classification codes, which group similar products and services, to organize information. Using these codes in your search can help you find information about a particular industry. The standard industry classification code system in the United States is the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), which replaced the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. Some business databases still SIC, although it is no longer updated. The NAICS code sector most likely to be of interest to you is 32541, Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing.
ABI/Inform Collection: Business literature database. Indexes journals, case studies, working papers, reports, newspapers and trade magazines. Use search fields to restrict search to company or publication title. Full text available for most documents. Requires Tufts username and password to access.
D&B Global Business Browser: Detailed company profiles, news and industry reports, compiled by Dun & Bradstreet. Search by company name or build a list of companies based on the criteria of your choice, such as location, industry or size. Requires Tufts username and password to access.
Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MassBio): Nonprofit organization that provides services and support for more than 1,000 Massachusetts-area biomedical companies, academic institutions and organizations. To discover local companies, search the membership directory by category and subcategory. The Career Center offers job search advice and job postings. Free public access.
Nexis Uni: Formerly LexisNexis Academic, this database provides news, business and legal information from journals, newspapers, television broadcasts and legal proceedings. To find company profiles, click the ‘Company Info’ button on the homepage. Requires Tufts username and password to access.
ReferenceUSA: Directory of more than 15 million public and private companies in the United States. Particularly useful for finding information on smaller companies. Search by company name, business type, location, or even executive gender or ethnicity. Requires Tufts username and password to access.
Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO): Representative organization for biotechnology companies, academic institutions and associations in the United States and around the world. Resources available on the BIO website include industry analysis reports, a blog and SmartBrief, a daily newsletter that provides summaries of news from the biotech industry. Free public access.
Factiva: From the Dow Jones Company, this global news database provides the full text of thousands of newspapers and trade magazines. Also searches select websites and blogs. Search by company or industry. Alternatively, click the ‘Companies/Markets’ tab in the menu bar to view company and industry snapshots. Requires Tufts username and password to access.
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge: Harvard Business School newsletter with articles, case studies, op-eds, classroom lessons and working paper summaries that connect “leading edge research and ideas on business management with practitioners, thought-leaders and academics”. Browse by topic, industry, geography or publication-type category. Free public access.
McKinsey & Company Insights: Articles, interviews, videos and commentaries on the pharmaceutical and medical products industry, from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Free public access.
Milken Institute: Think tank devoted to “collaborative solutions that widen access to capital, create jobs and improve health.” Work is centered around eight centers that explore the interaction between business, health and policy. Browse the institute’s core publication, Milken Institute Review, by topic, or search the institute’s publications, videos and events by issue.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA): Trade organization for U.S. biopharmaceutical companies. PhRMA publishes reports, policy papers, news articles and an annual industry profile. Free public access.
PricewaterhouseCoopers: Analysis of industry trends, issues and opportunities in pharmaceuticals and life sciences from the audit and consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Community, Events for Students, Mentoring & Outreach
New England Graduate Women in Science & Engineering Retreat, August 19th
July 31, 2017 Kayla Gross
NE GWiSE Inaugural Retreat!
New England Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (“N-E-G-wise”) is a new alliance between groups of graduate women in STEM from universities in Boston and across New England. We’re joining forces to address the issues facing graduate women in STEM. Join us for our first event, the NE GWiSE Inaugural Retreat, this summer! Details can be found below or at our website, https://negwise.wordpress.com .
Description: Come join us at NE GWiSE’s Inaugural Retreat- a day of connecting graduate women from different universities and collaborating to help make NE GWiSE an organization that can effectively address the issues we face and create change within our community.
We will start off the day being inspired by our opening keynote speaker (TBD). Next, we will have introductions by partner GWISE groups and breakout sessions to discuss how NE GWiSE will function. Finally, we’ll end the day with a scavenger hunt and BBQ social! This is a great opportunity to meet graduate women from different departments and universities, share best practices and recurring issues, and foster collaborations and friendships across the region. We hope to see you there!
Registration closes August 16th at 5pm so sign up now!
Date: Saturday, August 19th, 2017
Time: Registration is 12-1 pm, Opening Keynote starts at 1 pm, Event goes until ~7 pm
Location: BU College of Graduate Arts and Sciences and BU Beach
Coffee and snacks will be served throughout the event. Dress is casual.
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Library, May 2017, Notes from the library
Notes from the Library…Choosing Where to Publish
May 16, 2017 Laura Pavlech 1 Comment
Where you publish can be as important as what you publish. Consider the following when choosing a journal to which to submit your article:
How does the journal rank according to impact factor and other journal metrics?
Who is on the editorial board of the journal?
Can you easily identify and contact the journal’s publisher?
Is the journal’s peer review process explicit?
Is the journal or publisher a member of a recognized industry initiative?
What opinion do your colleagues and mentors have of the journal?
Does the journal publish research that is relevant to your work?
Does the journal publish the type of article that you want to write?
Who reads the journal? Is this the audience that you want to read your work?
Discoverability
Is the journal indexed by major databases, such as PubMed, Web of Science, or other discipline-specific databases? This information can be found on the journal’s website or Ulrichsweb (see below).
Does the journal offer extra services, such as graphical abstracts, videos or social media promotion?
Public and Open Access
Do you wish to publish in an open access journal, or a journal that has an open access option? If so, what are the associated article processing charges (APCs)?
Does your article need to comply with a funder’s public access policy?
Does the journal allow self-archiving a version of the article on a personal website or institutional repository? Is there an embargo period?
Finding Journal Metrics
For an explanation of the metrics mentioned below, see ‘How is Journal Impact Measured?’ in our Measuring Research Impact guide: http://researchguides.library.tufts.edu/researchimpact.
Journal Citation Reports: Journal Citation Reports provides Impact Factors, Eigenfactors and Article Influence Scores for science and social science journals.
Scopus: Scopus provides CiteScore, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) for journals and book series. These metrics are also freely available at Journal Metrics.
Other Resources for Evaluating Journals
Predatory, or illegitimate, publishers and journals have proliferated in recent years. These journals collect article processing charges (APCs) without providing publisher services, such as peer review, editing, and long-term preservation and access, in return (note that many legitimate publishers and journals have APCs for open access). While it can be difficult to determine whether or not a journal is predatory, the questions above and the resources listed below can help you distinguish a predatory journal from one that is not. In addition, you can look at the potential characteristics of predatory journals identified in a recent cross-sectional study of biomedical journals.1
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): COPE provides advice to editors and publishers on all aspects of publication ethics, in particular how to handle research and publication misconduct. COPE members are expected to follow a code of conduct for journal editors. Search ‘Member’ page for journal or publisher.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Directory of peer-reviewed open access journals. Journals must apply to be included in this directory. Journals that adhere to an exceptionally high level of publishing standards are awarded the DOAJ Seal.
NLM Catalog: Search the National Library of Medicine Catalog (NLM) to discover which journals are indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE and other National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) databases.
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA): OASPA develops business models, tools and standards for open access publishers. Publishers must apply for membership to this organization, and are expected to adhere to set criteria. View ‘Member’ page for complete membership list.
Ulrichsweb: Ulrichsweb™ is an authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types–academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world.
Match Your Manuscript to a Journal
If you are having trouble finding a journal for your manuscript, then try a manuscript matcher. These tools recommend journals based on your manuscript’s title, abstract or keywords.
EndNote Manuscript Matcher: Manuscript matcher, a feature in EndNote online, uses Web of Science data to suggest journals based on the title, abstract and references of your article. Anyone can create an online EndNote account, which can be synced with the desktop version of EndNote. Once you sign in to your online account, look for ‘Match’ in the menu at the top.
Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE): JANE compares the title and/or abstract of your article to MEDLINE records to find journals that are the best match for your article.
JournalGuide: Free tool that helps researchers evaluate journals. Paper Match feature offers journal recommendations based on your manuscript’s title, abstract and/or keywords. Informational page for each journal lists its aims and scope, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), acceptance rate, submission and publication charges, when available, responsiveness and speed of publication. ‘Verified’ journals have been verified by third party indexes as recognized, reputable journals in their field.
1Shamseer L, Moher D, Maduekwe O, Turner L, Barbour V, Burch R, Clark J, Galipeau J, Roberts J, Shea BJ. Potential predatory and legitimate biomedical journals: can you tell the difference? A cross-sectional comparison. BMC Med. 2017;15(1):28; PMID: 28298236.
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April 2017, articles, Events for Students
GSC Committee & Club Updates: April 2017
April 10, 2017 Kayla Gross
Tufts Biomedical Business Club (TBBC)
from Aaron BernsteinCMP
TBBC Case Study Group: Mondays – 5-7PM, Jaharis 508
Practice solving cases, gain insight and tips, and learn more about the field of consulting.
TBBC Tufts Biomedical Alumni Speed Networking Night: Th Apr 13 — 6-8PM, Sackler 114
TBBC, in collaboration with the Office of Alumni Relations will be hosting a speed networking night! Meet fellow students and Tufts alumni who are working in the biomedical field from across all of Tufts campuses and programs, including Sackler, Fletcher, Medical, Dental, Nutrition, and the Gordon Institute. Mingle with old friends and new. We look forward to seeing you! Food and drinks will be served at this facilitated networking event.
TBBC Biotech BUZZ with Lily Ting: F Apr 14 — 9AM, M&V Lobby (Stearns 108)
Dr. Lily Ting is a life scientist and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience in academia and industry. Lily received her PhD from New South Wales University in Sydney and a post doc in the Gygi Lab at Harvard Medical School. After her experience leading projects in the academic sphere, Lily worked in a business development role at Athletigen and is now an Associate at PureTech Health. PureTech is a venture creation firm focused on bringing innovative solutions to the fields of neuroscience, immunology, and gastrointestinal diseases. She is also an avid dragon boat racer and just won gold, silver, and bronze in Puerto Rico!
TBBC Consulting Seminar Series: ClearView Heathcare Partners: Tu Apr 18 — 5-6:30PM, Sackler 507
Representatives from ClearView Healthcare Partners will speak to students about consulting and ClearView’s Connect to ClearView program for advanced degree candidates.
TBBC, the Sackler Dean’s Office, GSC “Sackler Speaks” Flash Talk Competition: M Apr 24 — 5PM, Sackler 114
A well-developed flash talk is an effective tool to quickly and easily communicate your work to others. These take time to develop and usually evolve over a series of iterations. Sackler students will have a chance to give their scientific flash talks before a judging panel and other students. All presenters will receive helpful feedback and compete for nice prizes. This will be a low-key, fun event with appetizers and beer, and a chance to network with other students and professionals.
TBBC Biotech Buzz with Joel Batson, PhD, of RA Capital
F Feb 24: TBBC hosted Joel Batson, Science Project Manager at RA Capital. Joel introduced students to a new web-based tool he is developing and offered students the opportunity to collaborate with him and his team.
TBBC Career Seminar: Teresa Broering, Director of R&D, Affinivax
Tu Apr 4: Teresa Broering, current Director of R&D at Affinivax, a Cambridage, MA-based company developing a next generation approach in vaccine technologies, and former Director of Immunology at AbVitro as well as Senior Director of Product Discovery at MassBiologics, joined us for a discussion of her career path and her current role with Affinivax, and the current state of the biotech industry.
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December 2016, Events for Students
GSC Committee & Club Updates: December 2016
December 9, 2016 Kayla Gross
TBBC Case Study Group: Mondays – 5-7PM beginning M Feb 6, Jaharis 508
TBBC Seminar Series: Liz O’Day, Founder and CEO of Olaris Therapeutics
Tu Dec 6: Liz O’Day, PhD, presented actionable tips and insight into her transition from the academic world to being an entrepreneur. Olaris is a venture-backed drug discovery company that uses a proprietary NMR-metabolite profiling platform to unlock aspects of human metabolism that could never before be analyzed.
TBBC Consulting Seminar Series: Peter Bak, PhD
Tu Dec 13: Peter Bak, PhD, Manager at Back Bay Life Science Advisors, spoke about transitioning from a PhD program to life sciences consulting and career opportunities at BBLSA.
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articles, Events for Students, GSC, Mentoring & Outreach, November 2016
GSC Committee & Club Updates: November 2016
November 10, 2016 Kayla Gross
Tufts Biomedical Queer Alliance (TBQA)
by Laura DarniederNRSC, Amanda GrossPPET
TBQA-oSTEM Joint Networking Mixer and Panel
We are having our TBQA-oSTEM Joint Networking Mixer and Panel on Friday, 11/18 from 6:00-8:00pm in the Crane Room on the Medford Campus. Food will be provided!
TBQA Transgender Health Panel: December 1, 3pm, Sackler Auditorium
The Tufts Biomedical Queer Alliance (TBQA) invites you to come learn about the current state of transgender healthcare. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Anne Koch, DMD, to share her personal experiences of the healthcare system as both a patient and provider. A professional panel composed of Dr. Julie Thompson (Primary Care, Fenway Health); Dr. Stephanie Roberts (Endocrinology, Boston Children’s Hospital); and Cei Lambert (Trans Patient Advocate, Fenway Health) will join Dr. Koch in a panel discussion of the services they provide from both medical and social perspectives. A complimentary reception will follow.
Please register at: https://goo.gl/sCCmbT
TBBC Case Study Group – Mondays — 5-7PM, Jaharis 508
TBBC Tufts Biomedical Data Science Club: Information Session – Tu Nov 29 — Time and location TBA
The Tufts Biomedical Data Science Club is a resource for students wishing to learn and apply programming techniques in order to tackle big data problems in the biomedical sciences. No programming experience required! The club hosts bi-monthly meetings, works on group projects, and provides opportunities to hear invited speakers and network with others interested in big data. Please email Matt Kelley at matt.kelley@tufts.edu with any questions.
TBBC Seminar Series: Liz O’Day, Founder and CEO of Claris Therapeutics – Tu Dec 6 — 5:30PM, Sackler 216A
Olaris is a venture-backed drug discovery company that uses a proprietary NMR-metabolite profiling platform to unlock aspects of human metabolism that could never before be analyzed. Focusing on diseases with limited to no treatment options, Olaris uses their technology to uncover previously unknown biomarkers and molecular targets to develop breakthrough therapies that fundamentally alter how these diseases are diagnosed and treated.
TBBC Consulting Seminar Series: Peter Bak, PhD – Tu Dec 13 — 5:30-7:30 PM, Sackler 221
Join us for a discussion with Peter Bak, Manager at Back Bay Life Science Advisors. Dr. Bak will talk about transitioning from a PhD program to life sciences consulting and career opportunities at BBLSA.
TBBC Health Advances presents, “Diagnostics Commercialization Challenges”
Th Oct 6: TBBC hosted Sackler alum and Partner at Health Advances, Dr. Donna Hochberg (SK03), who discussed the career path that led her from the bench to her current role as the leader of the firm’s Diagnostics and Life Science Tools Practice. She also led the group through a business case study exploring the challenges of bringing diagnostics to market.
TBBC Biotech Buzz with Hannah Mamuszka
F Oct 21: Hannah Mamuszka, picked by Future of Biopharma as one of 5 women to watch in Boston, and founder and CEO of Alva10, a company specializing in precision medicine, joined us for an informal conversation about the future of diagnostics, the latest news in biotech, her career, and Alva10.
TBBC, GSC, and the Sackler Dean’s Office Career Exploration Panel
Th Nov 3: A panel of senior graduate students provided insight about steps that newer students can take to prepare themselves for a variety of career paths, including: academic/industry science, teaching, entrepreneurship, science communication, policy, data science, venture capital, and consulting. (For a more in-depth recap, read the Insight article here!)
Tufts Mentoring Circles (TMC)
from Daniel WongCMP
This year, the graduate student and post-doc mentoring circle programs have merged together to form a larger, single Tufts Mentoring Circles program that started for the 2016-2017 academic year with a kick-off event on Thursday, October 6. In total, 71 people are participating in the Mentoring Circles program this year: 24 mentors, 21 graduate students, and 26 post-docs between the Boston and Medford campuses. These mentors, who are faculty, post-docs, senior graduate students, and industry and non-traditional professionals working in different fields, will be working in pairs to advise and facilitate discussions with small groups of post-doc and graduate student mentees over the course of this year. Mentors and mentees were matched together based on their personal and professional development interests indicated in the registration survey that was available online in September. Each group, or circle, will meet monthly on their own schedules to have discussions as they see fit on topics they choose. A closing event will be held toward the end of the academic year, likely in May or June 2017. Registration is now closed for the year, but for more information and to be notified when registration opens next year, contact us at tuftsmentoring@gmail.com.
The graduate student-focused Tufts Mentoring Circles program was founded in November 2014 through the Sackler GSC as a peer mentoring program to serve the professional and personal development needs of graduate students, and also facilitate inter-program and -department communication and collaboration. Tufts Mentoring Circles is based on the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Mentoring Circles program.
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ICYMI: Career Exploration Panel
November 9, 2016 Jessica S. Elman
In this month’s edition of ICYMI, I’ll be giving you the low-down on a career exploration panel that took place on November 3rd in Sackler 114, sponsored by the GSC, TBBC, and the Sackler Dean’s office. Like every great event at Tufts, there was plenty of cheese, crackers, and booze to go around. Aaron Bernstein (CMP) took the stage as emcee and introduced the eight panelists and their intended career paths, which ranged from teaching to healthcare consulting.
I’ve made you all a little cheat sheet that summarizes the main takeaway for each career path and some of the great resources provided by the panelist that can help you learn more about and prepare for the job. Hopefully one or more of these professions spark your interest and inspire you to join a club, participate in an event, or simply give you something new to think about!
Joslyn Mills-Bonal (CMP), teaching
Inspired by her great experience at a small liberal arts college, Joz participated in the panel as an advocate for a teaching-heavy career at a community college, liberal arts college, or university.
Teaching experience, which might seem hard to find at Sackler, is critical for preparing you for this job. Take advantage of student seminars and treat them as an opportunity to practice teaching. You can work on your curriculum design skills by getting involved in behind the scenes efforts for the various teaching opportunities you participate in. For example, if you get involved with Biobugs you can also take part in designing the labs.
It’s important to think about what kind of institute you want to work for- a liberal arts college? A state university? A research I institute? These decisions will inform the steps you take during and after graduate school as you work towards your career as a teaching professor. For example, a postdoc is usually required for a job at a liberal arts school and above, whereas community college professors don’t need a PhD. Also keep in mind that if you don’t want to continue to do research, your publication list isn’t so important. If you do want to continue to do research, however, you need to keep in mind that prolific publishing is paramount.
Opportunities/resources of interest:
An annual spring workshop in Medford on teaching: http://provost.tufts.edu/celt/archive-spring-workshop-series/
Harvard’s Curriculum Fellows Program: https://curriculumfellows.hms.harvard.edu/
Online courses, for example “Scientists teaching science,” organized by Barbara Houtz: http://www.nyas.org/Events/Detail.aspx?cid=81856668-823f-45c5-a101-f6a3e9082592
Look for teaching opportunities and workshops everywhere- university message boards, even advertisements on the T.
If you’re interested in any of the above opportunities or simply want to learn more about this track, feel free to contact Joz!
Laura Stransky (CMP), academic/industry science
In academia we aim to better understand some disease or mechanism, whereas those in industry work to make some therapeutic or drug that can be marketed and sold. For both jobs, however, Laura loves the fact that you get the luxury of thinking for a living!
As a graduate student at Tufts, you’re already actively in training for a career as a scientist! To make the most of your time in graduate school, go to seminars as often as possible and learn from how other people present. Remember that for many of the visiting speakers there is a lunch you can attend with the speaker at which you can network and learn about their career path. Take any and all opportunities to write! There are plenty of grants travel awards, abstracts, and conferences that give you the chance to practice writing. By taking mentoring opportunities—volunteering to work with rotating students, for example—you can develop the management skills that are critical to being a good scientist, regardless of whether you’re in industry or academia.
After graduate school you must become a postdoc if you intend to get a job in academia. You need to demonstrate your ability to accrue funding and publish high impact papers. If you’re leaning more towards becoming a scientist in industry, a postdoc isn’t absolutely essential but can certainly get you started a little higher on the ladder. Furthermore, a postdoc before industry can help you expand your skills, fill in any gaps that you may have, and perhaps give you the opportunity to get involved in more translational research and develop project management skills.
Kayla Gross (CMDB), science communication
This field encompasses more than just one kind of job—you can be a medical writer, a publisher, a communicating officer at a brand, or even a journalist. While at Tufts, find ways to improve and practice your writing and communication skills! Look for as much feedback as you can on your manuscripts, abstracts, posters, presentations and even committee reports to help you sharpen your skills and hone in on what needs to be improved. You need to practice adaptability to different scientific fields, since as a writer you are unlikely to be limited to just one topic. Furthermore, you need to be able to speak to those who aren’t well versed in the field you are writing about.
For a job in science writing, there is no hard and fast rule on whether you need to postdoc or not. The only track in which working as a postdoc is encouraged is in being an editor. If journalism is your goal, keep in mind that making the shift from grad school to journalism can be tricky—you may have to do some freelance writing for a while to build up your portfolio and break into the field.
Join the INSIGHT newsletter/blog! You can participate as much or as little as your time permits, and it’s a great opportunity to practice your writing and communication skills. Contact Kayla to join!
Tufts also has a collaboration with Emerson College in which you can work with an undergraduate communications student whose project is to assemble a science-centric media piece in which your research is explained to the general public. This is a great way for you to practice making the science that we think so deeply about a digestible subject for the general public!
Andrew Hooper (Neuro), science policy
A job in science policy often involves advising policy makers on important scientific matters. This is a great way to have impact on our government and every day lives by helping educate people, especially politicians, who often have very minimal science knowledge. Because part of the job also often involves putting budgets together, it’s important for you to have some financial savvy. Finally, communication skills are essential, as you’ll be translating complicated scientific concepts to people completely untrained in the field.
There are many organizations that offer policy fellowships that can support you while you work in D.C. and learn the ropes, most of which require a postdoc. Applications are usually due in January and start dates are in the fall.
Andrew suggested you contact him if you’re interested in science policy!
Matthew Kelley (Neuro), data science
Data science merges statistics, math, and programming to help get insight from large databases, generate correlations, and make predictive models.
Hard skills you need for a job in data science include statistics, programming—many things you are already doing regularly as a PhD student. It’s important to learn how to code, which you can do on your own! While you’re at Tufts, try to integrate data science in your PhD project to practice applying your skills.
The Insight Science Data Fellowship, designed to bridge the gap between a non-computational graduate degree and a career in health data science (http://insighthealthdata.com/). In this program, you’re funded for 7 weeks to learn from industry leaders and even interview with some of the top companies in the industry!
Check out the newly formed Data Science Club—there have only been two meetings so far so get in early! The club plans on bringing in speakers and learning applicable skills together.
MIT edX has a course on analytics: https://www.edx.org/course/analytics-edge-mitx-15-071x-2
Jaclyn Dunphy (Neuro), entrepreneurship
A job as an entrepreneur is exciting because it involves brainstorming and sharing ideas with other people to start something completely novel. A job at a start-up company might seem high risk, but it offers the opportunity to make a big impact, as teams are usually small. If you’re interested in being a “big piece of a small system,” this field might be for you!
Firstly, to be more proactive, reach out to others—contact experts who can assess your idea and help you decide how feasible it is. Secondly, demonstrate leadership skills! Take the lead with rotation students and get involved in student-run groups where you can take some charge! Thirdly, practice your interpersonal and networking skills. You must practice the formula to successful networking: reaching out to your person of interest the day after meeting them, be it via e-mail or LinkedIn, and setting up a time and day for a coffee meeting where you can learn more about their job and solidify your professional relationship. To get started as an entrepreneur, the best thing you can do is… be an entrepreneur! Think of an idea and start a company!
Cross register for classes in the entrepreneurial management program at the Medford campus
Engage in IDEAS competitions
Participate in Mass Challenge!
Venture Café: A networking event that happens every Thursday evening at the Cambridge Innovations Center (1 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge MA) where you can have a (free!) drink and socialize with other entrepreneurial-minded people. This can be a great opportunity to find collaborators or just bounce your ideas off other people in a social and friendly environment.
Michaela Tolman (Neuro), healthcare consulting
Michaela aptly nicknamed healthcare consulting “rent-a-brain”—a perfect summary for a job in which you are hired to consult non-experts in a healthcare related venture. Many of us are in biomedical research because we want to help people, but as we all know, research can be slow and it might take years or even decades before a discovery you make in lab actually benefits someone in the clinic. As a consultant you are involved in helping bring people the best healthcare much more rapidly.
It’s extremely important to develop interpersonal and networking skills for a successful career in consulting! The job involves a lot of interactions with non-scientists and you need to be able to fit in and make them feel comfortable. It’s also important that you have business acumen and learn the jargon of the business world. Do you know what people are talking about when they say percent market share, market size, or competitive landscape?
To go on consulting interviews, you have to be able to say that you can graduate within a year. Postdocs are not recommended as consulting firms are typically looking for someone fresh out of graduate school. It’s also critical that you know how to do a case interview, which typically the process one goes through before getting a consulting job.
Join the case study groups, which take place every Monday!
Participate in TUNECC- this is a highly attended case-competition event at which you can show off your consulting skills and get the attention of potential hirers!
Come to Biotech Buzz and Tufts Advisory Partners (TAP)!
Michaela also had some book recommendations, including Case Interviewing Secrets and Case In Point.
A website that might interest you is Seeking Alpha.
The “Mini MBA” program at Harvard can be great for your resume
Just like for any other career path, network, network, network!
Christina McGuire (Biochem), venture capital
Though there are venture capital firms that solely exist to provide funding for start up companies that already have a formulated product or idea, Christina’s goal is to find a job in a venture capital company that creates ideas in-house. To get that kind of position, you need to have a deep understanding of science and you definitely need good analytical skills. Continue to practice reading primary literature to develop these skills and also keep in mind the importance of acquiring business acumen. Often times, to get a job at a VC firm, you need to get involved in business or consulting first. Demonstrate your entrepreneurial abilities by getting involved in successful projects and familiarizing yourself with the business world, much like when you are preparing for a career in entrepreneurship and consulting!
Tufts Biomedical Business Club (TBBC) and Biotech Buzz.
Christina’s book recommendations: Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson.
Subscribe to: Fierce Biotech and XConomy
Overall, the event was a great success and attendees walked away with a wealth of knowledge and tips for how to better prepare for a slough of career options. A major recurring theme throughout the night was the importance of networking, so as intimidating as it may seem, the next time you hear about a networking event, grab a friend and go! You never know if the next person you meet will help open the door to your dream career.
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Community, Events for Students, October 2016
GSC Committee & Club Updates: October 2016
October 11, 2016 Kayla Gross
by Laura DarniederNRSC
First General Meeting!
Join LGBTQIA colleagues from the Medical, Dental, and Sackler schools on Wednesday 12/12 at noon in Sackler 114W for free dumplings and to learn about this year’s upcoming events!
from Jaclyn DunphyNRSC
The Tufts Biomedical Business Club (TBBC) is a student run organization whose mission is to cultivate business leaders in the health and life sciences. TBBC is a growing community of graduate, medical, dental and nutrition students, postdocs, physicians, scientists and alumni. It provides members with opportunities to learn about consulting, business development, entrepreneurship, intellectual property and more. We engage our members though a number of initiatives including a seminar series, Biotech Journal Club, Consulting Case Study Group, panel discussions, Biotech BUZZ and most recently the Biomedical Data Science Club. E-mail tuftsbiotech@gmail.com for more information.
Recent Events:
TBBC Seminar Series: Seismic – W Sep 21: The founders of Scismic, a tool aimed at helping researchers to find their optimal work environment/mentor, met with students and postdocs for feedback on the company’s product and business model.
TBBC Tufts Advisory Partners – After a successful first engagement last year, TAP’s second engagement is now well under way.
TBBC Tufts Biomedical Data Science Club: Information Session: Tu Oct 11 — 5PM-7PM, Sackler 221
The Tufts Biomedical Data Science Club will be a resource for students wishing to learn and apply programming techniques in order to tackle big data problems in the biomedical sciences. No programming experience required! The club will host bi-monthly meetings, work on group projects, and provide opportunities to hear invited speakers and network with others interested in big data. Please email Matt Kelley at matt.kelley@tufts.edu with any questions.
TBBC Biotech Buzz with Hannah Mamuszka: F Oct 21 — 9AM-10AM, M&V Lobby (Stearns 108)
Picked by Future of Biopharma as one of 5 women to watch in Boston, Hannah Mamuszka is the founder and CEO of Alva10- a company specializing in precision medicine. Hannah will be joining us for an informal conversation about the latest news in biotech, her career, and Alva10.
TBBC, GSC, and the Sackler Dean’s Office Career Exploration Panel: Th Nov 3 — 5PM, Sackler 114
A panel of senior graduate students will provide insight about steps that newer students can take to prepare themselves for a variety of career paths, including: academic/industry science, teaching, entrepreneurship, science communication, policy, data science, venture capital, and consulting.
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ICYMI: Dr. Rafael Luna & Telling Science Stories
September 12, 2016 Jessica S. Elman
Hi, Sackler! I’m a fourth year student in CMDB who is terrified of the fact that she just called herself a Fourth Year. Like some of you out there, I am surprised at how quickly my time at Tufts is passing by, and I am panicking about my career and life objectives. That is why I have made the conscious decision to start attending as many PDA and GSC seminars as I can, to better understand my options and to expose myself to the people who can best explain them to me. For your benefit I will be writing up an “ICYMI” (in case you missed it), a take on what went down and what I learned that you will be able to find in this newsletter. My first piece recaps a seminar hosted by the Tufts PDA titled “The Art of Scientific Storytelling,” given by Rafael Luna, Ph.D. Happy September, everyone!
Would The Lion King still be as exciting if Scar weren’t in the picture? How about if “the circle of life” weren’t really critical to survival in sub-Saharan Africa? Pride rock would be meaningless and Simba would have nothing to fight for, right?
Fortunately for all you kids of the 90’s who like to occasionally belt out a little song called “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” Walt Disney’s classic film incorporates a dire antagonist to challenge Simba and thus creates stakes to fight for, making The Lion King the compelling tale we know and love.
On August 18th, Rafael Luna, Ph.D. came to Tufts to talk about how basic storytelling elements—a protagonist, antagonist, conflict, scene, resolution, and stakes—make not only for a great Disney plotline but also an impactful and powerful title for a scientific manuscript. Dr. Luna is a biomedical research fellow at Harvard who has applied this method to the design of dozens of his own manuscripts, as well as those of his clients and collaborators. He explained that, by weaving together the above listed elements, you not only construct a more informative and intriguing title, but you also inform the structure and progression of your manuscript’s contents.
Dr. Luna began his seminar by having the attendees name all the specific storytelling elements from The Lion King: the protagonist = Simba, antagonist (or a secondary, supporting role) = Scar, conflict = regency, scene = Africa, resolution = reclaims, stakes (i.e. research impact) = the circle of life. No matter how you combine these characters and themes, you are able to wholly summarize the story. For example: “Simba defeats Scar in a battle for regency in Africa and reclaims the circle of life.” Or: “The circle of life in Africa is reclaimed by Simba as he defeats Scar in the battle for regency.” The possibilities go on and on.
Having established this, we moved on from cartoons to something slightly more relevant to our purposes, like Dr. Luna’s 2012 Cell Reports publication, C-terminal domain of eukaryotic initiation factor 5 promotes start codon recognition by its dynamic interplay with eIF1 and eIF2β. This title prepares us for a story that is primarily about the “protagonist,” C-terminal of eIF5, supported by the “antagonists” eIF1 and eIF2β. The “scene” is set at the start codon, and the “stakes” are start codon recognition. Finally, dynamic interplay summarizes the “conflict,” and we find ourselves with a complete and all-encompassing title. Throughout the seminar, we continued to analyze several other manuscript titles in order to identify how they were successful and how they could be improved.
The manner in which the title is structured can also help determine how the rest of the manuscript is written. If, for example, you are researching how a drug interacts with a certain protein, you can either structure your title such that the drug is the protagonist and the protein is the antagonist, or vice-versa. Depending on your findings, one should make more sense than the other. The implications go even further, since whether the drug or the protein plays the protagonist determines if your paper should be submitted to Nature Pharmacology or Nature Biochemistry.
Incredibly, Dr. Luna’s method is a tool with which any story can be titled and thus, organized. In just one hour, he provided us with a technique to help create accurate, informative, and complete titles. From there on out, it’s hakuna matata: no worries, for the rest of your days…
If you’re interested in learning more about Dr. Luna’s method, his book The Art of Scientific Storytelling is available for purchase on Amazon.com!
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Library, Notes from the library, Summer 2016
Notes From the Library…Author Identifiers
What are author identifiers?
An author identifier is a unique identifier that distinguishes one researcher from another, eliminating confusion in scholarly publication and grant funding.
Why do we need author identifiers?
If you have ever tried to do an author search a database, then you know how difficult it can be to find all articles by a particular author. An author may have a common surname, publish under variations of the same name, change their name, or different geographical/cultural conventions for reporting their name. Affiliation and field of study relieve some of the ambiguity associated with author names, but inclusion of this information in a search does completely eliminate the problem. Two authors with the same name may work in the same field. Like author names, there are often multiple ways to list the name of a department, school or university, and affiliations change as an author moves from one institution to another. Moreover, some databases only provide the affiliation of the first author, or allow an author to list only one affiliation. PubMed/MEDLINE did not include affiliation for all authors until 2014. For these reasons, a simple search for articles by one author can easily become complicated.
What options exist for author identifiers?
Over the past few years, one author identifier system has emerged as the frontrunner: Open Researcher and Contributor ID, or ORCID (http://orcid.org/). ORCID is an open, non-profit community effort that provides unique persistent digital identifiers for researchers. ORCID partners and members include universities, commercial research organizations, publishers, professional societies and funders, such as Nature Publishing Group and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Several publishers offer the option of including an ORCID ID when submitting an article, and some plan to make an ORCID ID mandatory for corresponding authors (http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2016/01/author-credit-plos-orcid-update/).
A few publishers have their own author identifier system. For example, when researchers register for Thomson Reuters free online community, ResearcherID, they are assigned a unique alphanumeric identifier that can be used to track their publications and get citation metrics in Web of Science. Authors of articles indexed in Scopus, an Elsevier database, are automatically assigned a unique identification number.
This sounds like one more account to maintain, do I really need an author identifier?
Yes, an ORCID ID is another account to create and maintain. However, ORCID has gained traction amongst universities, publishers and funders, and if this pattern continues, then hopefully it will alleviate author ambiguity.
Any researcher can register for a free ORCID ID. You can use your Tufts username and password to register for, or link to an existing, ORCID ID. To get started, go to this page: https://orcid.org/signin. Choose to sign in using your institutional account and search for Tufts. You will be prompted to enter your Tufts username and password. Once you do so, select the ‘Register for an ORCID ID’ link. For more information about creating and managing your ORCID account, see: http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/topics/32827-using-the-orcid-registry.
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Be Bold: Read Banned Books | Banned Books Week 2019
Sweatpants & Coffee
Every year, during the last week of September, the American Library Association and Amnesty International run a campaign called Banned Books Week. Its purpose is to celebrate the freedom to read by highlighting books that have received challenges. This means an attempt has been made to remove them from school curriculum or public libraries, thereby controlling access to certain materials and the flow of information.
What can you do? First of all, keep reading.
1. Send a postcard of support to a banned author through the Dear Banned Author project here. They provide the addresses of banned and challenged authors and even have printable postcard templates.
2. Attend a Stand for the Banned Read-Out by reading and/or discussing banned and challenged books in a video and submitting it to the ALA here. You could be featured on the Banned Books Week YouTube channel!
3. Learn more about why and how books are banned, how students have stood up for their freedom to read, and what more you can do with a free webinar provided by the ALA here.
4. Educate yourself about your rights with this handy dandy guide.
5. It seems obvious, but…go check out some banned books and decide for yourself what you think! Here’s a list of the top 11 most challenged books of 2018, according to the ALA:
Here’s the full Top Eleven Most Challenged Books list:
George by Alex Gino
Reasons: banned, challenged, and relocated because it was believed to encourage children to clear browser history and change their bodies using hormones, and for mentioning “dirty magazines,” describing male anatomy, “creating confusion,” and including a transgender character
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss, illustrated by EG Keller
Reasons: banned and challenged for including LGBTQIA+ content, and for political and religious viewpoints
Captain Underpants series written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey
Reasons: series was challenged because it was perceived as encouraging disruptive behavior, while Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot was challenged for including a same-sex couple
Reasons: banned and challenged because it was deemed “anti-cop,” and for profanity, drug use, and sexual references
Drama written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier
Reasons: banned and challenged for including LGBTQIA+ characters and themes
Reasons: banned, challenged, and restricted for addressing teen suicide
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki
Reasons: banned and challenged for profanity, sexual references, and certain illustrations
Skippyjon Jones series written and illustrated by Judy Schachner
Reason: challenged for depicting stereotypes of Mexican culture
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: banned and challenged for sexual references, profanity, violence, gambling, and underage drinking, and for its religious viewpoint
This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman, illustrated by Kristyna Litten
Reason: challenged and burned for including LGBTQIA+ content
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
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Women in Horror Month Celebrates Diverse Voices
Sweatpants & Books | Review | “Book Love” by Debbie Tung
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Annuals and Proxies
Swisher Hygiene Sponsors Quickly Growing Year-Long NC Chef Battle Popular Dining Competition Heats Up
Popular Dining Competition Heats Up
CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 2, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Charlotte-based Swisher Hygiene Inc. (“Swisher Hygiene”) (Nasdaq:SWSH) (TSX:SWI), a leading provider of essential hygiene and sanitizing products and services, is proud to announce it is a title sponsor of the 2013 “Got To Be NC” Competition Dining Series, a rapidly growing chef competition across North Carolina.
“Got To Be NC” is a year-long dining competition across five regions of the state where restaurant chefs go head-to-head — similar to popular TV show “Iron Chef” — preparing three courses each while using a secret North Carolina-themed ingredient.
“We are excited about our involvement in this local dining competition in our home state,” said Tom Byrne, President and Chief Executive Officer of Swisher Hygiene. “It’s an opportunity for chefs to showcase their incredible skills and for hungry North Carolinians to sample some of the best meals the Tar Heel State has to offer.”
“Kitchen hygiene is crucial to any successful restaurant, and it just makes sense for the state’s top chefs to work with Swisher Hygiene, one of the industry leaders in foodservice hygiene,” said event founder and coordinator Jimmy Crippen. “This series and the fantastic dining experiences produced by these talented chefs could not be possible without the support of Swisher Hygiene.”
The 2013 competition began earlier this year at the Biltmore in Asheville, with Chef Adam Hayes from the Red Stag Grill taking home the win over seven other chefs. Chef battles in the Wilmington region conclude on April 3, and then the competition moves to Blowing Rock starting April 8, where eight chefs from local restaurants will assemble a variety of courses at the Meadowbrook Inn.
After a stop in Greensboro starting in May, the competition moves to Raleigh in July before Charlotte welcomes the event for the first time in September and October. Judging is done by guests, culinary professionals, food writers and local celebrities who use their taste buds to decide round-by-round which chef advances. The overall winning chef takes home $6,000.
For a list of competing restaurants, photos, past winners and to get tickets, head to CompetitionDining.com.
About Swisher Hygiene Inc.
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Happy Afternoons for Pauper Lunatics
The Story of a Modern Woman, Ella Hepworth Dixon, 1894
I am trying to remember why I added this book to my list and I am guessing that my past-self was hooked by the idea of a New Woman roman a clef. Dixon wrote about her own experience as a woman in a changing, Late Victorian World. Yeah, girl. Tell me what that was like. I am listening. I am ready to know how you define modern womanhood.
I know you are never going to read this obscure book, so here is a summary. Mary Erle is the daughter of a prominent scientist. When he dies, little orphan Mary must earn enough money to support herself and her younger brother. She tries to make it as an artist, but the painting that she works on for six months (six months!) is rejected from the Royal British Academy of Art or Whatever. Poor Mary. Fortunately, one of her more successful painter friends asks her to write a story to accompany a piece of his. Thus begins her career as a starving writer.
Meanwhile, her wealthier friend Alison takes an interest in helping less fortunate women. She wants to lead a more useful life than that of a London deb. Alison, who is far more interesting than Mary, seriously considers marrying the prominent doctor Dunlop Strange. I am not kidding. His name is Dr. Strange. Dunlop Strange. However, she encounters a dying woman in a hospital who turns out to be Strange’s abandoned mistress. Even though most Victorian women were expected to and did look past this type of masculine misbehavior, Alison cares about other women and is not about to marry a man who would toss someone aside like garbage.
Sadly, Alison catches a cold that, in combination with the mental shock of discovering her beau’s dying mistress, proves fatal. I know. That seems a bit too delicate, but they didn’t have antibiotics then. So, I suppose a thorough wetting and some bad news could. . .kill an otherwise healthy young woman? On her deathbed, Alison implores Mary to “Promise me you will never, never do anything to hurt another woman” because “there comes a time in our lives when we can do a great deal of harm or a great deal of good, or an incalculable amount of harm. If women only used their power in the right way! If we were only united we could lead the world.”
The implication is that if society women refused to marry men who ruin poor women’s lives and leave them to die in the gutter, men would have to stop doing that. It is tempting to think that female solidarity alone could generate a brave new world. It is a solution to the problem of male misbehavior that I have contemplated myself. It’s tough though, because, as Thomas Hardy wrote “Of all the ingenious and cruel satires that from the beginning till now have been stuck like knives into womankind, surely there is not one so lacerating to them, and to us who love them, as the trite old fact, that the most wretched of men can, in the twinkling of an eye, find a wife ready to be more wretched for the sake of his company.” Alison did not marry Dr. Strange, but someone will. He certainly wasn’t worth dying over, honey. Side note: How perfect is Thomas Hardy. So perfect.
Alison’s dying wish sets us up for the great crisis in Mary’s life. After stringing her along for years, her worthless lover marries a much wealthier woman, because he thinks her fortune can advance his political career. Later he has the audacity to come knocking at Mary’s door complaining about his unsatisfying marriage and begging her to runaway to France with him and live as his mistress. Of course, Mary tells him to jog on; she is a modern woman and modern women don’t bang each other’s husbands. I mean. . .it is certainly not the strongest feminist statement I have ever heard, but I will take it.
I appreciate that while the novel contains a strong dose of self-pity, Hepworth Dixon spends ample time acknowledging that other women have it much worse. She was well-connected, after all. One of her connections was Oscar Wilde, who appears in the book split into several different characters. He offers Mary writing work, but she still disdains his company, finding him too acerbic.
Here’s a quote:
“‘Oh, dear Miss Erle,’ said a shrill voice at the door, ‘do come in. It’s such a nice party. I wonder,’ continued Mr. Beaufort Flower, who entertained a good deal himself, ‘why other people’s parties are so much nicer than one’s own? I suppose it is because one always knows so many more people at other people’s houses?’
‘Who is here?’ said Mary, who never troubled herself to laugh at his small witticisms.”
Um, excuse me, Ella. You had the privilege of being in Oscar Wilde’s presence and you never troubled yourself to laugh. I don’t know what you are trying to prove with that attitude, but you’ve only shown that your bad taste. Also, don’t try to write something witty that Oscar Wilde might have said. You are not up to the task. He was much funnier than you. Anyway, I will try to forgive her. Oscar Wilde did enough mocking of others that he deserved to be mocked a little.
Final thoughts: Not bad. I am glad I read it. If you are interested, give it a try. It is quite brief and fairly well-written. I enjoyed it. Not a masterpiece, but worthwhile if it appeals to you. I can’t end this post without telling you about “Happy Afternoons for Pauper Lunatics” which is a charity one of the characters in this book organizes. Feel free to use that for your next album title.
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Secretary Pate appoints new State Administrator of Elections; Kline to retire as Deputy Commissioner of Elections
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MEDIA RELEASE: Secretary Pate appoints new State Administrator of Elections; Kline to retire as Deputy Commissioner of Elections
DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate announces the hiring of Heidi Burhans as Iowa’s Administrator of Elections. Burhans will serve as a key liaison with all 99 county auditors and the Iowa Legislature. She is currently the Madison County Auditor.
“I’m thrilled to have Heidi Burhans joining my team,” Secretary Pate said. “Her experience working with county auditors across the state and her dedication to clean, fair elections will be a big benefit to our office,” Secretary Pate said.
Burhans will begin serving as State Administrator of Elections on February 1.
“It is an honor to be named Administrator of Elections by Secretary Pate,” Burhans said. “Preserving the integrity of the election process is more important than ever. I look forward to providing county auditors with the support necessary to keep the election process secure and accessible for the voters of Iowa.”
Heidi Burhans is currently in her second term as Madison County Auditor and Commissioner of Elections. She is a legislative liaison for the Iowa State Association of County Auditors. Burhans also serves on the State Election Administrators Training Curriculum Board and Iowa’s Mental Health Risk Pool Board. Burhans previously worked as the city clerk of Truro.
Additionally, Secretary Pate announces Deputy Commissioner of Elections Ken Kline plans to retire on February 1. Kline joined the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office in January 2018 after serving 25 years as the Cerro Gordo County Auditor. He is a past president of the Iowa State Association of County Auditors, creator of the national award-winning Precinct Atlas electronic poll book program and worked for many years as a legislative liaison for county auditors.
“I am grateful to have been part of a hard-working team of professionals who are dedicated to the principles of good elections,” Kline said.
His last day on the job will be February 1.
“Ken has made a tremendous impact on elections across the state and in our office. He is a dedicated elections official who has served Iowa well for many years,” Secretary Pate said. “Ken is a true friend and we all wish him the best on a well-earned retirement.”
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Check out the official track list of the soundtrack of Sausage Party, the upcoming R-rated CG animated movie directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan and featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, James Franco, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Edward Norton, and Salma Hayek:
Sausage Party Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Score composed by Alan Menken and Christopher Lennertz.
1. The Great Beyond – Sausage Party Cast
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19. Big Speech
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22. It’s Your Thing – The Isley Brothers
23. Finale
24. Joy to the World – Three Dog Night
25. The Great Beyond Around The World – Sausage Party Cast
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DVDs, Home video, Galleries with low quality images, Legends of Bikini Bottom
Legends of Bikini Bottom
If you were looking for the article about the book, then see The Legends of Bikini Bottom.
If you were looking for the article about the other book, then see Legends of Bikini Bottom (book).
If you were looking for the article about the season 11 episode, then see "The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom."
(1 hour, 8 minutes)
February 12, 2014[1]
Legends of Bikini Bottom is a SpongeBob SquarePants DVD that was released on November 16, 2010 and contains six episodes from season 7.
2 Specials
3.1 "Legends of Bikini Bottom" shorts
7 DVD menu
140a - "The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom"
140b - "Welcome to the Bikini Bottom Triangle"
141b - "The Main Drain"
142a - "Trenchbillies"
142b - "Sponge-Cano!"
141a - "The Curse of the Hex"
Behind the Scenes: Legends of Bikini Bottom
"Legends of Bikini Bottom" shorts
- "Things to Do When Encountering Legendary Creatures"
- "SpongeBob's Legendary Dance Party"
- "The Legend of SpongeBob"
Currently retired critic Jeff Robbins of the DVD Verdict called the episodes "not that funny" and "unworthy of their own separate DVD release," while also comparing them to the 2004 ABC drama television series Lost. He called the extras on the DVD release "brief," "fairly useless," and "disc filler," while praising the short "SpongeBob's Legendary Dance Party" for its visual gag "that made me laugh harder than anything else on the disc."
Despite calling the disc "guilty," he said that "even a bad episode of SpongeBob SquarePants is better than a good episode of not only most Nickelodeon programs, but many television comedies targeted at adults" and that "there are worse ways to spend $15.00."[2]
All the episodes featured premiered on this DVD before they aired on TV in 2011.
The cover has references to every episode in the DVD, except for "Sponge-Cano!"
The DVD includes a preview for older SpongeBob DVDs.
This is the first SpongeBob DVD to contain only season 7 episodes.
All of the Legends of Bikini Bottom episodes begin with a book opening and has each title card on a page.
This DVD was re-released in the Triple Pack 3 DVD along with Heroes of Bikini Bottom and 10 Happiest Moments on January 13, 2015.
This is the first DVD with no animated menu.
This is the first DVD with only miniseries episodes.
This is the first DVD where the credits aren't extended.
This is the first and only DVD to play "Steel Licks 1" on the DVD menu.
The chain for the main drain plug is a lot longer than it appears in the episode "The Main Drain."
On the episode selection, "Sponge-Cano!" doesn't have an exclamation point at the end.
"Patrick! You're spraying the camera with Cheese Fizz!"
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SpongeBob - The Legend of SpongeBob
^ スポンジ・ボブDVD情報サイト | DVD情報 (in Japanese). Paramount Japan. Retrieved on 2019-07-15.
^ Robbins, Jeff (2010-12-12). Review - SpongeBob SquarePants: Legends of Bikini Bottom. DVD Verdict. Archived from the original on 2013-09-22. Retrieved on 2019-07-15.
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By By Una Dorr
It was a tall, weather-beaten building with countless weather-beaten balconies jutting out of its sides. Milo, a plump and red-faced 9-year-old, had felt unsafe in the top floor drafty apartment since his grandma had sold her oceanside cottage and deposited him and his loyal and fat cat Ella into this leaning block of misery last July.
Of course, he always felt queasy in high places, afraid his usual clumsiness might send him hurtling through the air only to land as flat as a pancake on the concrete below—but there was something particularly terrifying about this place. Perhaps it was the way the ceiling fan pointed as if it might just send something—like Milo’s homework—through the doors to the balcony that would swing open if the lock system malfunctioned. That thing might just land on the balcony, coaxing you to climb out to retrieve it. (Kind-hearted but pessimistic Milo always assumed the worst would happen—that his weight would make the whole balcony crack off the side of the building, as he had thought one afternoon when his math homework had sailed out there—that homework never did come back, and it caused him to get in trouble in school for the first time the next day.)
Or maybe the scariness lay in the windows, low enough to the floor for even a boy of Milo’s height to fall out of. Or perhaps it was merely the place where you would land if you did fall: an enormous gravel parking lot with stones sharp enough to cut you if angled in the correct way. Milo often stood in his apartment (as far from the windows as possible, of course) wondering if there was a reason the apartment was so cheap: the plumbing worked and there was thick carpeting in some of the rooms, even—was it cheap because it was so high, which made you more likely to—
Snap out of it, stupid! Nobody else on the top floor is scared! Grandma, with her fear of dust bunnies hasn’t given its height a thought! There isn’t anything to be afraid of.
But Milo’s complete trust in his grandmother’s protection only reassured him for a short period of time. Soon he was back to thinking of his greatest fear: the balconies. Surely three minutes of standing on one would result in it cracking off the side of the building and tumbling 20 stories down to the lot below.
The first few days of living in the building resulted in his grandmother begging for her little boy safe home, because he had arranged so many sleepovers with friends that he hadn’t spent more than an hour in the apartment with her and Ella. Milo tried other excuses: “Can I camp out in the woods tonight, Grandma?” or “How ’bout we go to the Jersey Shore for a few nights? It’s summer break after all, eh?” But it was difficult. How can a child of age nine get out of spending time in his own home?
One average afternoon when the golden summer sun was sinking down the cityscape, Milo noticed something. While stepping into the spacious kitchen, he glanced down at the checkered tiles to find that the shiny, fake gold cat food bowl was just as he had left it 3 hours ago: full. Ella, the enormous tabby cat Milo had cared for and loved as long as he could remember (and long before that too—Milo’s memory was far from good), hadn’t eaten her food. “Pleasingly plump” did not describe Ella. There was no doubt about it—Ella was a very fat cat, who certainly would never miss a meal. But here the bowl was: full, full, full.
When he had come home from the outdoor swimming pool a few hours before, he had found a post-it attached to his door, decorated with his grandmother’s swirly and impossibly small cursive. He hadn’t bothered to read it closely—it probably said that she was at her “volleyball for old people” class at the gym, and that she would be home at 7:00. Milo found himself thinking of this note now: had Grandma gone to the vet with Ella, perhaps?
Milo fished out the note from his pocket (he had stuffed it in there on his frantic run from the bathroom—you see, Milo was afraid of the toilets at the swimming pool.) Squinting, he read what his grandmother had written:
Dear Milo,
This isn’t any usual volleyball class! It’s the big day, dear, my first competition! You may come if you wish (you know where the gym is, right?) but I know you have much to do. I’ll be home at 8:30! I hope to see you in bed when I get home if you decide not to come!
P.S. Don’t forget to lock the doors behind you.
Silly Grandma. In their old house, they had to lock the door and Milo was always forgetting, but in this house, all the doors locked immediately without any help from humans, but no matter. Milo found himself forgetting small details, too. He reread the note, giving it his full attention. Nothing about Ella, but what was this! Milo hated volleyball, so despite his deep love for his grandma, he wouldn’t watch her compete. That meant…8:30! It was 6:30 now, he had 2 more hours by himself! How very, very mature he was: such a long time in a terrifying top-floor apartment without Grandma! His excitement and fear set him in high spirits during his search for the cat. He closely looked in each crevice and crack that Ella’s hugeness could fit into. He even ventured near the windows, with the vibrant colors of the sky illuminating the floor below him. His high spirits sunk and sunk as he went on and on inspecting the house.
“Ella! Ellllaaa!” The only response was an eerie echo, that as far as Milo could tell wasn’t possible, because there was so much furniture in the house. A few minutes later, the last wisp of excitement had been suffocated by defeat, like a tiny patch of blue in a cloudy sky, gradually being covered by another gray blanket of fog.
Milo sat cross-legged on the beige velvet couch, vigorously biting his nails. He tried to think—where had Ella hidden in the old house? Under…under the bed? No. The space under there was much too thin for Ella. Under something, but what? The couch. The couch? The couch!
Milo moved from his position to lying on his stomach, legs dangling off the back of the couch, head dangling over the place where feet usually go. He squinted into the endless abyss, and relief washed over him. There she was, the big bundle of fur, probably fast asleep. He reached under and tugged gently on a roll of fat, to wake her up. To his amazement, it came loose, and loose. Is, is…What is this? What has happened to my cat!? Finally, Ella unraveled. The thing under the couch was a big bundle of fur—his grandmother’s fur coat.
This was simply too much. Tears poured down Milo’s face and snot dripped from his nose uncontrollably.
And then he heard a terrible creak, and the sound of something breaking. His tear-stained face swiveled around to face the—the—the balcony. There she was, fast asleep. Definitely her—in the last rays of daylight he could see ears, a nose and an enormous body. Ella was at the far end of the balcony, asleep. Milo’s stomach jumped up to his throat, and stuck there.
It was Ella this time, Milo told himself. Not math homework, Ella. Ella! The love of your life! In determined defiance, Milo robotically walked toward the balcony doors, knowing what the sound had been. The balcony was breaking.
Unaware of his movements, he opened the door—when it had blown shut behind Ella, it had locked. He tried to reach for Ella, call her name, but Ella was far away and totally out. Ella, your life. Ella, your only real friend. Milo took a foot off the floor that had scared him before, but now seemed as safe and sturdy as ever in comparison to the breaking balcony. Ella. He placed it on the concrete floor of the dangerous shelf which might take his life. Ella. Another foot on the balcony. Ella. Another step. Ella, Ella, Ella, another, another, Ella, Ella, Ella! A gust of wind. He was almost there! Ella. And then another gust, strong and fierce through the nighttime air. The door slammed shut behind him. He was locked out.
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Despite NFL training camp injuries piling up, Jadeveon Clowney’s market may actually be getting worse
Charles Robinson
·NFL columnist
August 18, 2020, 11:19 AM ·5 min read
Well, at least part of Jadeveon Clowney’s free agency logic is coming to fruition. NFL teams are indeed starting to experience some training camp attrition and there may eventually be a need to add another piece to a championship-caliber roster.
On the same day the Dallas Cowboys lost defensive tackle Gerald McCoy for the season with a ruptured quad tendon, the Philadelphia Eagles — who had a litany of defensive injuries last season — announced a week-to-week prognosis for defensive end Derek Barnett (lower back injury) and a multiple-week injury for defensive tackle Javon Hargrave (“upper body” issue). That’s a tough spate of early health issues for two teams primed to be Super Bowl contenders this season. And in theory, it’s the kind of thing that should help spice up the market for a star defensive end like Clowney. Instead, his market may be going in the other direction.
After speaking to a multitude of sources who have taken part in a pursuit for Clowney, his suitors appear to be thinning rather than growing.
The Cleveland Browns made their best pitch and offered Clowney more money and salary/years combinations than any other NFL team to date. He balked and they walked. If he has any chance of ending up in Cleveland now, it will be for solidly less than the $18 million-$19 million window that was available to him before training camp began.
Jadeveon Clowney would be a solid addition to any NFL roster at this stage in training camp. But his asking price may be too high. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri, File)
The Tennessee Titans’ interest is there, but not at Clowney’s current number, which appears to be set at $17 million for one of his preferred landing spots. Ditto for the Seattle Seahawks and Las Vegas Raiders. There is even some question about the depth of interest within the Raiders, as one source familiar with the organization said there is a “varied” appetite for the Clowney pursuit, depending on whether you’re speaking to head coach Jon Gruden or general manager Mike Mayock. The source said Mayock appears to be squarely in the same “price point” camp as the Titans and Seahawks.
As for the others who have shown some faint interest, the New York Jets haven’t been in the picture since early in free agency and the Baltimore Ravens briefly talked about Clowney internally in May, but then quickly bailed on that interest and turned their energy to getting Matthew Judon into the fold on his franchise tender.
Add it all up and you basically have a three-team picture between the Seahawks, Titans and Raiders. And of that trio, the Titans and Seahawks make the most sense in terms of being able to add Clowney late in the preseason, because of his familiarity with the schemes and/or coaching staffs.
But what hasn’t happened to this point is some team making a mid-August charge for his services — either because they aren’t happy with the performance of their depth chart on the edge of the defense, or due to injuries. That doesn’t mean that it won’t happen, but three general managers involved in the Clowney pursuit told Yahoo Sports that they are actually less inclined to sign him now than they were early in the summer.
The reasons behind that waning interest were varied, but all three agreed that a one-year discounted deal is looking less attractive the longer Clowney sits out of camp. At least partially because of the growing injury fears inside teams now that players are padding up after essentially eight months of zero contact. One general manager pointed at the McCoy injury as part of the reason for added concern over Clowney.
“[Clowney] is a younger player and he’s carrying his weight better, but he also has a history of little nagging things and also some serious things,” the general manager said. “It doesn’t have to be a major [injury] like McCoy. If [Clowney] comes in now and then has some kind of soft-tissue thing that drags on, that could be a months-long thing or even a season-long thing. And I know we’re going to see more of the soft tissue stuff as the pads come on. He might think he’s avoiding something by sitting out and taking his time, but it’s not a positive at all in my opinion. Especially with all the other things we’re getting used to.”
So what’s the consensus with Clowney? The assumption is that he will run silent through the end of this week and that interested teams will push for renewed engagements at the start of next week — with the design on getting him into a building by the end of August, which would give a team essentially two weeks to acclimate him for the start of the season. But one thing seems pretty clear: Teams don’t see the risks getting any better in the equation, so the money won’t either. Particularly with the revenue shortfalls that already have team owners looking at their finances (and salary caps) far differently than they were six months ago.
“I just don’t see the [$17 million-$18 million] he wants happening,” said one general manager, who added that he would still be open to adding Clowney for a more modest number. “We’re not in on him anywhere near that. I know what his market is. It’s basically two teams [Seattle and Tennessee] and neither of them is coming to his number. [Cleveland] was as good as it was going to get. I don’t think that changes in a week, so he has a decision to make about whether he wants to play.”
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Atletico Madrid's Joao Felix set for spell out with sprained ankle ligament
Joao Felix was forced off late on in Atletico Madrid's draw with Valencia and the club has confirmed the extent of his injury.
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Joao Felix writhing in pain after a tackle by Dani Parejo. - GETTY IMAGES
Joao Felix is set for a spell on the sidelines after Atletico Madrid confirmed he suffered a grade two sprain to a right ankle ligament against Valencia.
Portugal international Joao Felix, who joined Atletico in a €126million transfer from Benfica in the close season, limped out of Saturday's 1-1 LaLiga draw at the Wanda Metropolitano with 10 minutes remaining.
The 19-year-old appeared to twist his ankle in a challenge with Dani Parejo and left Diego Simeone's side down to 10 men, having used all three of their substitutions.
Atleti boss Simeone acknowledged in his post-match news conference that Joao Felix's injury "could be serious" and scans have confirmed a grade two sprain of the external lateral ligament.
"Joao Felix underwent an X-ray and MRI scan at the Clinica Universidad de Navarra on Saturday and the report indicates he suffered a grade two sprain of the external lateral ligament of the right ankle," Atleti stated on their website.
It remains to be seen how long the teenager will be out for, though reports suggest he will miss a minimum of two weeks.
Joao Felix could consequently be forced to sit out matches against Bayer Leverkusen, Athletic Bilbao, Deportivo Alaves and Sevilla.
Since his club-record move to Atleti, the forward has scored two goals and providing one assist in LaLiga.
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Gin Is Cool Again — Here’s Everything You Need To Know About This Sophisticated Spirit
By Oscar Hartzog, Jonathan Knoder and John Scott Lewinski December 23, 2020
Courtesy of Hendrick's
Gin 101
A Quick and Dirty History of Gin
How is Gin Made?
Popular Gin Cocktails
What are The Best Brands of Gin?
Gin – that magical distilled concoction of juniper berries — is cool again. It’s booming as the small-batch distilling industry flourishes, and mixology fans can visit watering holes where gin is the only spirit on the menu.
The clear liquor is distilled from juniper berries, providing a unique flavor. However, this flavor has made gin divisive with liquor connoisseurs and casual drinkers alike. It’s not for everyone, but recently, more and more people are coming around to the sharp, effervescent flavor.
There are two criteria that need to be met in order for alcohol to be classified as gin —if you guessed location as one of your answers, you’d be wrong (well, for the most part, but we’ll get to that later). First, it must be at least 40% ABV (80 proof). Gin is a strong liquor. So, you might want to bite your tongue next time you think about giving your friend crap about ordering a gin-and-tonic, while you throw back your shot of Fireball. The other is the inclusion of juniper in the distilling process. Without it, and other botanicals, you’re basically drinking vodka.
Gin is a popular product at smaller or new distilleries because (as with any white spirit) you can sell what you make and bottle that same day. Any whiskey, scotch or bourbon must age. So, a distiller can make a gin and sell it front and center while he or she shelves some barrels of liquor for a couple of years to add brown spirits to the family. In the end, gin becomes a key element for both liquor lovers and the people selling the bottles.
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If you want to make sense of the gin section in your local liquor store, you’ll want to brush up a little on the types of gin that are available. Here’s what you need to know:
London Dry – Contrary to what you might think, London dry does not mean it’s from London. It’s considered the most “original” form of gin because the amounts of flavors, coloring and sugar are restricted. London Dry gins are full-flavored and are like drinking a pine-tree forest.
Plymouth – To receive the Plymouth label, this gin must be produced in Plymouth, England (here’s where your location answer is not wrong). The Black Fairs Distillery is the last remaining one in Plymouth and the only place that still produces Plymouth gin. The flavor is similar to London Dry, but a little sweeter.
Navy Strength – If you want to strap on your party pants, Navy Strength gin can help kick the night into gear in a hurry. Navy Strength is gin on steroids. The categorization is simply because it is more alcoholic. Navy Strength is 57% ABV or roughly 110 proof. There are a lot of tales about the origin of Navy Strength, but our favorite (and most believable) is: in order to save room on already cramped navy ships, Navy Strength gin was created to get all the sailors drunk on a limited supply of booze.
Old Tom – Considered one of the best gins for mixed drinks due to its sweeter and mild botanical flavor. Not too malty, not too spicy, the gin’s flavor profile is great for first-time gin drinkers and mixologists alike.
If you remember from earlier, juniper is one of two criteria needed to classify gin. In the 1600s, the Dutch created a spirit called jenever, which is the Dutch word for juniper (marketing was a little rough back then). Consisting of a malt wine base, jenever would put hair on your chest, or knock your socks off, or any other expression you want to use to describe the gnarly, overpowering flavor. A substantial mix of juniper berries was added to the malt wine base to mask some of the gnar. That concoction was the basis of what we now know as gin.
From here, gin has a hazy and bizarre history. Around the time of the Thirty Years’ War, gin made its way over to England. In a crazy mix of gin popularity and abundance between 1720 and 1750, the gin craze was born and almost ripped apart London. By 1751, the Gin Act was enacted by parliament to crack down on the overconsumption of gin and help turn around a bleak future for London.
By the mid-1800s, Aeneas Coffey (pictured above) invented the column still (continuous still), which revolutionized the way gin was produced (column stills are still used today). The still enabled producers to make gin quicker, with cleaner and better flavor.
Perhaps the final factor that gave rise to gin’s undeniable popularity was the British Royal Navy. To combat disease when abroad, quinine rations were given to sailors. Quinine tasted terrible, so tonic water (or Indian tonic water) was created to dissolve and mask the bitter flavor of quinine. And since gin was already popular with the British Royal Navy, sailors started adding it to the tonic water for more flavor. And just like that, we have the creation of the most recognizable gin drink today.
Courtesy of Stillcooker.com
Contrary to what most Phish fans may believe, there are more ways to create gin than just in a bathtub. The two most popular ways are steeping (a more traditional way of distillation) and infusion.
The steeping method is what it sounds like — the base spirit is placed in a pot along with juniper berries and other flavor profiles to steep. There isn’t an exact amount of time which the botanicals need to be steeped in the base spirit — some distillers let botanicals steep for a few days while others distill it within hours. After the distilling process is completed, water is added to reduce the alcoholic content and flavor profile. Beefeater has used this process of distilling for roughly 200 years.
In a vapor infusion distilling process, the botanicals don’t actually come in direct contact with the base spirit. Instead, the botanicals are suspended in a basket in the still, above the base. When the base spirit is heated, the vapors rise through the basket. When the steam cools down and condenses back into a liquid, the flavor profiles from the basket are infused in the alcohol. This provides the gin with a more subtle and mild flavor. Bombay Sapphire is famously known for using the infusion method of distillation.
Steeping and infusion are the two most popular ways, but they aren’t the only ways to make gin. Hendricks gin and SipSmith V.J.O.P gin use a unique combination of both to reach their respective unique flavor profiles.
Instagram @ Hendricks Gin
Gin and vodka are eerily close relatives — juniper being the main differentiator — so it’s no surprise that there are a handful of cocktails where vodka and gin are interchangeable. But for most gin aficionados, there is no substitute for gin in cocktails.
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1. Gin and Tonic – Technically, this is a highball with its two ingredients and the most popular, recognizable and hardest to screw up drink in the gin world. It’s literally two ingredients: tonic water and gin. Of course, lime is often added for a refreshing acidic flavoring. This is a go-to gin drink for all seasons and occasions.
2. Gin Martini – There’s a good chance if you don’t specify “gin martini” at a bar, you’re going to be served a vodka martini. For gin lovers, it’s simply unacceptable. Simplicity is key with a classic gin martini: top-shelf gin and dry vermouth are all you really need. And if you’re going to take any advice ever, take it from Bond . . . James Bond, “shaken, not stirred.”
3. Gimlet – Like a summertime martini, a gimlet is another cocktail of the simple variety. Gin, lime juice and simple syrup mixed up in a cocktail shaker make up a delightfully light, and refreshing, cocktail. To really class things up, it can be garnished with a cucumber wheel on the edge of the glass.
4. Negroni – A bitter dinner-time cocktail, a Negroni isn’t as easily enjoyable as the likes of a gin and tonic. It’s gin mixed with sweet vermouth and Campari, an Italian aperitif (bitter). It’s sweet and bitter at the same time, and certainly an acquired taste.
5. Monkey Gland – A gin cocktail as delicious as its name is absurd, a monkey gland is a mix of gin, orange juice and grenadine. If you feel like taking the cocktail to another level, add a tiny bit of absinthe to the mixture. Be careful though, not because you’ll hallucinate, but because absinthe has a distinct flavor that can quickly ruin this delightful cocktail if too much is added. Would you expect anything else from a drink named “Monkey Gland?”
Understanding why Gin has gotten more popular is pretty simple: it’s delicious and unique. You can sip it straight like a whiskey, but gin really shines in cocktails such as gin and tonics, martinis, and gimlets.
Now that you’ve upped your gin knowledge, it’s time to go out and try the stuff. We’ve rounded up several of the best gins on the market to upgrade your evening drink or cocktail party. Keep reading to discover the best gin brands from around the world.
1. Hendrick’s
Whether you’re new to gin or looking for a better go-to bottle, Hendrick’s is a great option. It’s a step up from the basic gin brands, but it’s still not too expensive. Considering Hendrick’s is just 20 years old, it’s pretty impressive that you can see it in nearly any bar around the world. The brand revolutionized the gin market with two simple upgrades — cucumber and rose — which started the whole ginaissance we’re now living in.
Courtesy of Drizly
Buy: Hendrick’s
2. Tanqueray London Dry Gin
You can get pretty deep in the artisanal gin world these days, but we think everyone should have a classic bottle of gin in their bar. Our favorite? Tanqueray Imported. It’s fairly affordable but boasts a smooth juniper-forward flavor that gives a good base for tasting more experimental gins. This makes it great for cocktails as well, such as a Gin Fizz or Tom Collins. That being said, the best way to enjoy Tanqueray may be in a classic Gin and Tonic. The 47.3% ABV makes this a strong spirit, so sip slowly.
Buy: Tanqueray London Dry Gin
3. Beefeater
One of the oldest running London Dry Gins, Beefeater is a staple in the gin community. The iconic gin gets its spicy yet sweet flavoring from a unique steeping process, where the botanicals are steeped for 24 hours in the neutral grain spirit base prior to distillation. This process pulls out the profiles of the botanicals and gives it the defined Beefeater flavoring that gin lovers have become accustomed to.
Buy: Beefeater
4. Tanqueray No. Ten
Tanqueray has been around since 1830, and in that time, the distillers have perfected the art of making fine gin. In 2000, Tanqueray released No. Ten, named from the small-batch still “number 10” that it comes from. This is premium Tanqueray, a versatile gin that is a great base for gin cocktails or tonic water and a slice of grapefruit. It tastes of fresh citrus, juniper and licorice, and it is a little bit wetter and sweeter than most London-based gins. This small-batch gin is a premium choice in any liquor collection.
Buy: Tanqueray No. Ten
5. Plymouth Gin
Plymouth Gin is a popular spirit for making gin cocktails because its fruity tasting notes along with its ever-so mild bite go well in just about any mixing application. With juniper, coriander and cardamom as the tasting notes, it does have a little spice to it, but overall, this gin is more citrusy and earthy. Plymouth has been around forever — since 1793 — and the liquor has won about every award that a gin can win. If you’re a gin-lover, then it’s a must-have for your home bar cart.
Buy: Plymouth Gin
6. Bombay Sapphire
Everybody needs a stepping stone; your first beer probably wasn’t a double IPA that would have ripped your taste buds clean off. Bombay Sapphire uses 10 botanicals that are vapor-infused in the distillation process. This eventually leads to a mild, lemony taste that shows up and leaves quickly. There is no harsh bite or overly powerful flavors, which makes it a great liquor to experiment with as you open the door to the vast world of gins.
Buy: Bombay Sapphire
7. The Botanist Islay Dry Gin
As the only gin in the world that comes from the tiny island known as the “Isle of Islay” off the coast of Scotland, this dry gin is really a delicacy every gin lover needs to get their hands (or taste buds) on at least once in their lifetime. Each bottle packs an unusually tasty flavor that includes 22 botanicals that are hand-foraged locally across the isle. It’s a totally smooth sipper that will genuinely knock your socks off.
Buy: The Botanist Islay Dry Gin
8. Brooklyn Gin
Although Brooklyn Gin hasn’t been around for nearly as long as the likes of Tanqueray or Beefeater — only 200 years young, but who’s counting — it has taken the small-batch gin market by storm. The distillers hand peel the oranges used to infuse the gin, giving it an unmistakably fresh, citrusy taste. Other botanicals include juniper, angelica root, lemon, lime peel and lavender. It’s a super clean gin that you can enjoy fresh over ice. The distillers take a little extra time with the fresh ingredients and it really pays off.
Buy: Brooklyn Gin
9. Fords Officers Reserve Gin
Fords Officers Reserve is “over-proofed” aka “Navy Strength” gin, meaning it will put a little hair on your chest when you drink it. This London dry gin recipe contains nine botanicals. This gin is then finished in oak barrels, and the final result is a bold 109-proof gin. Even though it’s stronger than most gins, it still maintains a great floral and citrus aroma.
We love Fords Officers Reserve because the tasting profile allows you to use it as a base for mixed drinks. It is also surprising how well this gin works with mixers because of its extensive botanical profile, but through some gin magic, it all seems to work. This is a bartender’s secret gin weapon and one we highly recommend adding to your liquor cabinet.
Courtesy of Reserve Bar
Buy: Fords Officers Reserve Gin
10. SipSmith VJOP London Dry Gin
The VJOP in the SipSmith name stands for “Very Junipery Over Proof.” Not only does this gin taste and put off an extra piney aroma, but it is also stronger than most gins. The extra juniper also gives a peppery finish that leaves a little heat in your mouth. This gin includes a “three-phase” juniper process. Juniper is added for three days into the base spirits, adding more flavor after it macerates. Then, vapor is used to infuse even more juniper before it’s bottled. This is for those who can’t get enough of the pine.
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Buy: SipSmith VJOP London Dry Gin
11. Four Pillars Navy Strength Gin
Sailors created “Navy Strength” booze as a way to get drunk without taking up too much space on their ships. It’s the strongest of the strong when it comes to ABV %. And this gin by Four Pillars certainly lives up to the Navy Strength label. It’s a boozy 58.8% alcohol that is only released once a year. This high-strength gin is made in Australia and made from oranges, limes, turmeric and coriander. This powerful gin has been awarded the Master status at the Global Gin Masters the last five years. It’s powerful, delicious and highly sought after.
Buy: Four Pillars Navy Strength Gin
12. Gordon’s London Dry Gin
If you’re stocking up on gin for a party or just shopping on a budget, go for Gordon’s. It’s a classic London dry gin, and although it’s affordable and widely available, it still offers a nice gin experience. Gordon’s recipe upgrades the juniper taste with some orange peel and anise, creating a bold flavor that won this gin Double Gold at the 2017 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.
Buy: Gordon’s London Dry Gin
13. Ransom Old Tom Gin
Most gins are either a classic London dry gin or a slight variation. However, there’s also old Tom gin, which came before the London drys that we typically drink today. Think of old Toms as the hipsters of gins. If you want to get a little adventurous, pick up a bottle of this Ransom Old Tom gin. It’s aged in wine barrels (giving it that odd caramel color) and uses a base wort of malted barley for a unique malty flavor.
Buy: Ransom Old Tom Gin
14. Nolet’s Silver Dry Gin
As mentioned, gin actually descended from Dutch spirits. So it’s only fitting that Nolet’s, one of the best gins on the market, comes from Holland. This premium gin uses rose, peach and raspberry to complement the juniper taste, creating something you can really sit back and sip. It makes a great gift for gin lovers too, as they probably haven’t tried this imported gin yet.
Buy: Nolet's Silver Dry Gin
15. Madam Pattirini Gin
With inspiration taken from the Wild West, Madam Pattirini’s gin is an iconic bar cart staple that packs quite the mysterious flavor like the legend herself. This gin has an extremely bold flavor by mixing delicate tastes of juniper, Nigerian ginger, cardamom and Sicilian lemon to create a concoction unlike any other. This stuff is Utah-made through and through and works as a scrumptious gift to any gin lover.
Buy: Madam Pattirini Gin
16. Suntory Roku
Japanese liquors of all kinds (especially Japanese whisky) are taking the States by storm. One of the biggest distilleries in Japan is Suntory, and like their award-winning whisky, their gin is top-notch. “Roku” (Japanese for six) refers to the six unique Japanese botanicals used in the gin, although it also utilizes some classic botanicals such as coriander seed and angelica root as well. The result is a light mix of floral, citrusy and spicy that makes it great for sipping or making a killer gin martini. For any craft cocktail lovers looking for the best gin brands in the world, Suntory’s Roku should absolutely sit on their shelf.
Buy: Suntory Roku
17. Monkey 47 Dry Gin
Looking to sample a high-end bottle of gin (or treat a gin lover to some of the best gin on the planet)? Try this Monkey 47. It uses a whopping 47 botanicals — all picked from the Black Forest in Germany — to create a truly elevated tasting experience. One reviewer said it was like a punch to the mouth (the good kind) with juniper, pepper, flowers and Monkey’s secret weapon: lingonberries.
Buy: Monkey 47 Dry Gin
18. Drumshanbo Irish Gunpowder Gin
Gunpowder tea is a traditional UK blend known for its powerful flavor. Dark and stout, gunpowder embraces the theory that any cup of tea in which you can see the bottom is just hot water. Drumshanbo Irish Gunpowder Gin uses that black tea as one of its botanical additions to give their gin unusual spine and character. Drumshanbo also adds a blend of coriander, caraway, lemon, grapefruit, lime and other ingredients to counter the strength of the gunpowder. It all adds up to a unique flavor.
Buy: Drumshanbo Irish Gunpowder Gin
19. Malfy Gin
Originating from a distillery in Moncalieri, Italy, Malfy Gin comes to the world from a region known traditionally for wine. Light and fruity, Malfy’s varieties capture that golden, magic hour sunshine of Mediterranean late afternoons beneath the trees. While Malfy offers a traditional original blend, they also use regionally grown produce to bottle lemon, orange and grapefruit infused flavors for cocktail use.
Buy: Malfy Gin
20. Portobello Road No. 171 Gin
Originating from that London street made famous in cinema and song, Portobello Road No. 171 Gin is a relative newcomer to the spirits world. It nods to the traditional London Dry flavor, but it enhances its recipe with a recipe of more exotic botanicals — including nutmeg, licorice, angelica and orris roots.
Buy: Portobello Road No. 171 Gin
21. Hayman’s Royal Dock
A gin with history, this sprit has been provided to Her Majesty’s Royal Navy since 1863. The Hayman clan is Britain’s longest-running gin-producing family, and the flavor is classic and dry with a bit of a peppery bite. It’s bottled at that navy strength north of 100 proof, so its flavor does not fade in blending. It’s best for use in cocktails in which the gin must take the foreground.
Buy: Hayman's Royal Dock
22. St. George Botanivore Gin
While its beatified name might indicate a London origination, St. George Botanivore Gin is an American concoction originating in the Bay Area. The “Botanivore” in its title refers to the candy store of botanicals its west coast homeland offers. While juniper is always the most prominent ingredient, the forests of Northern California lend this gin notes of pine and sage for a total aromatic effect.
Buy: St. George Botanivore Gin
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BBM for Android, iPhone Nearing Release, Signup Page Surfaces for BlackBerry Messenger
August 31, 2013 By Troy Rubenson Leave a Comment
BlackBerry is aiming to release its high popular BBM app which was once exclusively available for BlackBerry phones on Android smartphones and iPhone. Since the time the news has been made public, the rumors surrounding it does not seem to die. The latest news on this front is that BlackBerry has put a new landing page which indicates that BBM app for Android and iOS is arriving very soon.
The new landing page does not indicate much info on the features of the two apps that are meant for Android and iOS respectively. If you checkout the page, you will know that it offers a space wherein interested users can enter their email address and when the app for Android and iOS becomes available, they will be notified.
It was during the BlackBerry World even that was held in May that BlackBerry had made it public that would bring the popular BBM app to Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android mobile operating system platform. Even though BlackBerry has not released any official photo of the apps, on the web you can find leaked photos of the Android BBM app. The pics indicate that it is going to sport the similar features that are available for users on BlackBerry devices.
Tech experts are of the view that BlackBerry does not want users to make use of other messaging app and only use BBM on Android, iPhone and BlackBerry for communication. Some are of the view that BlackBerry wants to penetrate inside Android and iPhone devices and attract them to all the new BlackBerry 10 OS through the Android and iOS operating system.
In the recent past, mobile operating system platforms have gone ahead and started their own messaging application so that their users do not use another app for exchanging messages. For instance, users of iDevices are making use of an exclusive app called iMessage for communication. On the other hand, users of Android powered devices are using the Hangout app. And when it comes to Windows Phone devices, Microsoft is offering Skype which is available in all the other platforms.
The BBM app comes preloaded in all the BlackBerry phones. People are talking a lot about why BlackBerry is offering its operating system on other platforms. BlackBerry had been going through a terrible patch for the past couple of years. In fact, many felt that the company will not be able to survive. However, the company planned a huge come back plan and is trying to gain what it has lost in the past years.
BlackBerry launched the new BlackBerry 10 OS and came out with full touch devices. It even shed its previous brand name, RIM. Even after releasing couple of new full touchscreen phones, BlackBerry has still not managed to attract huge number of buyers. In fact, many of its loyal customers have already switched to iPhone or Android smartphone. BlackBerry move of offering BBM app on other platform has dubbed as company’s effort in attracting their previous customers who once remained loyal to BlackBerry.
Recent rumor say that people who are interested in using BBM on their Android smartphone or iPhone needs to first sign up to create a BlackBerry account in order to use the BBM app. What do you think about the BlackBerry BBM app for Android and iOS? Will be using the BBM app on your handset? Do let us know your views.
Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Android, BBM, BlackBerry, BlackBerry Messenger, iOS, iPhone
About Troy Rubenson
Troy had initially wished to become a Wall Street which and it was this passion that pushed him towards learning more and more about investments, capital markets and financial gain. He is currently The States Chronicle’s foremost business correspondent.
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PRESPA AGREEMENT - underpinned by hypocrisy & racism
GUEST COLUMNIST Chris Popov writes for Team Uzunov blog
Supporters of the name deal write to The Guardian newspaper - see link here
Preface comment by Sasha Uzunov - TEAM UZUNOV blog editor
The "North Macedonia name deal" signed by Greece and Macedonia on 17 June - in reality formulated by the US despite the play acting - is an attempt to erase Macedonian identity off the face of the earth.
Putting aside the Kabuki theatre / pantomime in Athens, Greece loses nothing in the deal; in fact makes no concessions but Macedonia loses: the right to its own history, giving up its concern for ethnic Macedonians in Greece who are denied their rights ; and above all giving up its sovereignty by allowing Greece extraordinary powers to prosecute those who might be accused of "anti Hellenic" rhetoric, something unheard off.
What underpins the agreement is US foreign policy and geo strategic needs - that is to put the Balkans finally to bed under US hegemony. Macedonian identity poses a "problem" for Washington - especially to its NATO allies Greece, Bulgaria and Albania. Therefore the path of least resistance is to bully Macedonia.
To highlight the hypocrisy there is the deliberate silence of the US/EU/NATO of World War II Albanian Nazi collaborator statues built recently in Macedonia by "mainstream" ethnic Albanian politicians and former KLA terrorists from the 2001 war in Macedonia. In contrast, Germany - the birthplace of Nazism - has no Nazi statues. see link here
WHITE FACE?
Add to this the latent racism of the West. As a cruel joke towards native ethnic Macedonians, the US has groomed a Serb chauvinist and a former Slobodan Milosevic sympathiser who pretends to be a Macedonian “anti nationalist,” the current Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska who cynically jumped on the EU bandwagon sometime ago. see link here
Back in the 1940s and even unto the 1960s you had white Hollywood actors playing Asians, African Americans and so on. Who could forget John Wayne playing Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan on the big screen...
GUEST COLUMNIST reacts to a letter in The Guardian newspaper supporting the name deal:
Dr Risto “Chris” Popov - retired Australian public servant with the federal immigration department and long time Australian-Macedonian human rights activist - see links here and here
The characterisation by the signatories of those Macedonians who oppose this agreement as “hardliners and extremists” is not only highly offensive, but completely inaccurate and irrational. [see link here] What they are asking Macedonians, not only in the Republic of Macedonia, but in all parts of ethnographic Macedonia, to do is to relinquish their most basic human, political and cultural rights, including those to self-identification and self-determination; something that the signatories themselves would not even dream of suggesting to the peoples of the countries that they are citizens of.
The so-called Prespa Agreement ( in reality a dictate imposed by Greece, USA, NATO and the EU) explicitly obliterates Macedonia's name for all purposes, (remember that the name is our identity), transforms Macedonia’s name from an ethnic/national descriptor into a geographical one, attacks the idea that the Macedonian language is a distinct language in its own right by insisting that it be denoted as a "south Slavic" language in order to promote the myth that there is a "Greek-Macedonian" linguistic heritage and requires North Macedonia to recognise the "Hellenic" character of Aegean Macedonia, while Greece is under no such obligation to recognise Macedonian history, culture and heritage. It does not require Greece to encourage respect for anything Macedonian (or "North Macedonian") in terms of use of terminology, will lead to Macedonian historical textbooks being revised in accordance with Greek historical revisionism and to the Macedonians in Aegean Macedonia being explicitly renounced by "North Macedonia" via constitutional revision.
In addition, there will be pressure on non-state bodies and organisations (for example those promoting recognition of the rights of ethnic Macedonians in Aegean Macedonia, that 51% of ethnographic Macedonian annexed by Greece in 1912-13) to desist from using “irredentist" terminology (for example, defending the human rights of the large ethnic Macedonian minority in Greece),Greek names for Macedonian towns and cities and landmarks in Aegean Macedonia will have to be used officially- all the names of these towns and cities were changed after that part of Macedonia was annexed by Greece in 1913 along with the personal names and surnames of ethnic Macedonians who remained in Greece- and possibly by ordinary citizens of "North Macedonia" and the Kutlesh flag and all symbols associated with it will be banned in state institutions and their use by private individuals will be "discouraged".
The agreement foresees the development of a joint History commission whereby so-called differences regarding interpretations of historical events and educational materials will be discussed. What this means in reality is that Macedonian history books will be revised to reflect a Greek view of Macedonia’s history and given that Greece holds the whip hand in that EU/NATO entry for Macedonia depends on it meeting Greek demands, then it is clear that such text books will reflect a Greek point of view which does not recognise the existence of a distinct Macedonia nation, ethnic group , language or identity anywhere in our Balkan homeland, which includes not only the Republic of Macedonia, but those parts of ethnographic Macedonia now within the borders of Bulgaria, Albania, Kosovo and Serbia.
There are many more offensive and insulting Orwellian clauses which will severely restrict freedom of speech in the Republic of Macedonia by limiting discussion of topics deemed irredentist or offensive by Greece; namely, mentioning or talking about the existence of a Macedonian minority in Greece and their total lack of basic human rights. This is simply obliteration and the beginning of a process of cultural genocide of the Macedonian people. However, there are many hurdles to pass and until such time that it is ratified by both countries, the name remains Republic of Macedonia.
The quisling Zaev government which was installed by the West to change Macedonia's name and get it into NATO is facing strong internal resistance -demonstrations, civil disobedience - and the sooner it falls the better. And remember this very important maxim; a country which does not respect itself by surrendering its most valuable and fundamental human rights can hardly expect to have its social and political rights respected by others. So if one is making a morally and politically unjustifiable deal –i.e. trading away one’s rights to a name and the identity and cultural issues which flow from that for the illusory economic and other so-called benefits of EU/NATO membership- rest assured that not only is that “deal” totally unacceptable, but bound to end in even more economic hardship for the ordinary people of Macedonia, as opposed to its comprador and subservient ruling class. The only thing that will be achieved by such a Faustian pact is the rapid depopulation of Macedonia by even greater emigration in the unlikely event that it gains membership of the EU; that is if the EU is still in existence in 15 years which is how long it may take for Macedonia to be admitted.
This is why this shameful agreement must not be allowed to stand and any referendum, whether consultative or binding, boycotted en masse so that the message is sent loud and clear to the Zaev regime that the Macedonian people roundly reject and delegitimize any attempt to even consider any change of our historical, centuries-old and rightful name. A large majority of ethnic Macedonians in the Republic of Macedonia oppose any such name change. I suggest that your readers read the text of the Agreement carefully to uncover the horror that awaits Macedonia should it be implemented. No self-respecting government would accept the dictates contained in this document.
Dr Risto Popov
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Gears of War 3 Review
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Gears of War 3 is a third-person shooter developed by Epic Games exclusively for the Xbox 360. It was released on September 20th and sold over 3 million copies in its first week. And we got our hands on a copy to review for you guys. This is our first console game review on the website and the start of many more. So sit back relax and enjoy the review.
The Gears of War franchise has really been a big impact on the gaming industry. It has pushed over the shoulder shoot em ups to the next level, using this view tactically by hiding behind bunkers and being able to see around corners. Gears of War has always been aimed at the more mature audience due to its gory gameplay and nasty language and being able to chainsaw an enemy into bits. The game itself is amazingly fun to play, so first let’s talk about campaign.
The story-line is that the last stronghold of the humans has been taken over and it has drove everyone away to small outposts (the safest places possible) so that they don’t become extinct. Supplies are low so ammo and fuel are needed so some missions will have an adjective too find fuel and ammo. When going through Locust bases they find a disc showing that Marcus’s dad is still alive. Knowing this Marcus and his team head to Anvil Gate where they have the equipment to decode the disc and learn more information about Adam Fenix (Marcus’s Dad). They then find out that Adam knows how to save the humans, this becomes their top and maybe final mission.
You can play campaign on your own, or you can play with up to 3 friends (which is a lot of fun) and together you can complete all missions. When playing through some missions time to time your team will get split up and there will become independent adjectives that take you away from your teammates for a few minutes which is good as it mixes things up a bit.
Throughout the game its consistantly fun to play, their are a mixture of missions and areas to explore and fight your way through and you never know what kind of enemie you will be fighting next. I love how mature and macho this game is and it gives it that ‘bad ass’ feel to it, the campaign blew my mind every 10 minutes something awesome would happen and thats why i love this game, it kept me hooked all the way to the end.
If you’re new to playing Gears of War online then you will get absolutely demolished, many online players know what they are doing and its hard to have fun when you are getting pwned. But after a few games you start to get use to it and start racking up the EXP. There are three different modes you can play, firstly you have Horde, this is where you have a base and you have to protect it from wave and waves of horde, each wave gets harder and you need to equip your base with turrets, barrage’s and dummies to protect you from losing. Each time you upgrade and purchase protection you will gain EXP in that area and each level gained in that area your protection will become stronger and stronger. This game mode is so addictive and it always keeps you on the edge of your seat, when playing with friends its even better as you can communicate via party chat and shout out where and when the enemies are coming from. But sometimes when playing from Wave 1-50 this takes a long time and may get boring at times.
The second game mode is Beast, this is where you get to become to bad guys. You can choose from being a tinkerer or a berserker using each individual enemies skills to out wit the humans, you have a total of 15 waves and as each wave on the humans get stronger and more protected by there barrages and turrets.
Lastly you have versus mode where this is the standard online mode where you take on other players around there world in a number of different modes such as team death match, this is really fun as you can show off your weapons and levels. This works well as around the map there will be weapons places randomly and its your job to get the best weapon and best area that has most protection and higher ground to give you a advantage over your oposition. But warning many players that are playing are fairly good and if you have never played online before it may be a struggle for you to get use to it but trust me, keep sticking at it and you will own some noobs… eventually.
This game is outstanding. The campaign keeps you hooked throughout the whole game and its so unpredictable, the graphics are insane as they are run by a Unreal Engine and the multi-player rounds it off to be a must have game for the Xbox 36o. This is one of the best games released in 2011.
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Home Ustad Review 15 Of The Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees in 2021
15 Of The Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees in 2021
Syed Balal Rumy
Do you have the curiosity to know about the Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to buy in India? 🤔
We got you covered in this buyer’s guide.
So without further ado, Let’s dive right in. 🎭
Owning a computer system or a PC is great, but what happens when the mouse or touchpad stops functioning. The obvious reply is to get it fixed, but if it’s beyond repair, then you may just be needing a whole new mouse.
These hardware devices are very necessary to its user. Without it, you have little or no access to the files or documents embedded in your computer. They’re like little navigation tools that enhance user experience amidst other things.
However, once they are faulty, they need to be replaced. Replacing a mouse is actually very easy. All you need to do is look up the features which you want and the computer mice which possess those features and well! You’ve got yourself a new navigation device.
However, before one purchases a computer mouse, certain elements need to be considered. These are:-
Budget:-
These mice come in different types and functionalities. Each of these types is tagged at a different price and your budget determines which type you would get along with its associated features.
Functionality:-
Some computer mice exhibit different traits and are for specific purposes. A mouse could either be used for computer-related functions or could be used for gaming. Gaming mice have distinct designs from the computer mice and offer more versatility in operation.
Version:-
As innovative as technology is, you can be guaranteed that there are different versions of mice in the market. It is important to get the version with cutting edge technology, just so you can have access to broader options. Or you could stick to the basic ones and enjoy basic functions.
Connectivity:-
Computer mice could either be corded or cordless. Corded mice are connected through either USB or PS/2 port while cordless could be connected via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, infrared or radio waves. You can expect the cordless mice to be more expensive than the corded ones.
Type:-
There are about three basic types of computer mice. They could be mechanical, optical or optomechanical. Optical mice use lasers to detect the direction of movement, mechanical mice have moving parts usually a ball made of metal or rubber which upon rolling, changes the position of the mouse on the screen.
Lastly, the Optomechanical mouse uses optical sensors to determine the direction of the ball rolls. Once you’ve considered all these elements, you can now move on to see the current mice available to you, assuming your budget is under 500 Rs.
1 Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees: Our Top Pick 👌
1.1 1. Lenovo N100 Wireless Mouse
1.1.1 Features:-
1.1.2 Pros:-
1.1.3 Cons:-
1.2 2. Zebronics Wireless Optical Mouse
1.3 3. HP X1000 Wired Mouse
1.4 4. Logitech B100 Optical Mouse
1.5 5. Dell MS116 Wired Optical Mouse
1.6 6. Logitech M90 USB Mouse
1.7 7. HP X500
1.8 8. Logitech M100r Wired Mouse
1.9 9. AmazonBasics
1.10 10. Terabyte 3D Optical Wired Mouse
1.10.1 Features:-
1.10.2 Pros:-
1.10.3 Cons:-
1.11 11. Amkette Kwik Pro Wired Optical Mouse
1.12 12. HP X900
1.13 13. iBallFreeGo G18 Wireless
1.14 14. HP X1500 USB 2 Wired Mouse
1.15 15. Targus AMU575AP Optical Mouse
1.15.3.1 Conclusion
Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees: Our Top Pick 👌
1. Lenovo N100 Wireless Mouse
This mouse has a very sleek and smooth design. It fits the palm perfectly and fits into any desk or workspace conveniently. It has a sturdy build so you can equally say it’s durable. At a price of 500 Rs, we can only expect the best of features, let’s take a look.
First off apart from its design, it’s pretty obvious that this is a wireless mouse. It is meant for regular computer usage and doesn’t have any special functionality. It has a water drop shape and its surface is anti-slip to ensure smooth, steady, and comfortable navigation.
Its mouse to computer connection is pretty reliable. It also has a receiver through which it can be plugged into a USB port. This mouse operates on a Windows operating system.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the Lenovo N100 Wireless Mouse that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
Pros:-
It’s easy to use and navigate through.
Installation is also easy.
It is very lightweight with a weight of 52g.
It has a 1 year warranty period and can be used both as a wireless mouse and a corded one.
It has a rating of 4.3 out of 5.
Cons:-
It is only compatible with Windows operating systems.
Note:- I have written a post for people looking for the Best Wireless Mouse Under 1000 INR to buy?, do read it If you are interested.
2. Zebronics Wireless Optical Mouse
This 285INR optical mouse is hitting all the right spots feature-wise. Its design is pretty compact and it comes with its very own USB port. It has a rolling button which has calibrations in between two buttons which can easily be pressed. Its characteristic features include:
It offers a frequency of 2.5GHz. Its optical sensor technology is pretty advanced in its field. It offers high precision clicking as its four buttons are non-sticky. This wireless mouse comes with a Nano receiver through which you can plug and make use of it.
The receiver of this mouse may be hidden in its jack. Its design is pretty ergonomic and offers comfort to its users. It works on different surfaces and has a smart function with which it could automatically save energy which makes it fit in our best mouse under 500 Rs list.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the Zebronics Wireless Optical Mouse that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
It has an automatic energy-saving ability.
It has non-sticky buttons.
It can be used on different surfaces.
It weighs 99.8g and has a 1-year warranty.
It has a low customer satisfaction rating of 3.3 out of 5.
Note:- I have written a post for people looking for the best silent mouse wireless to buy?, do read it If you are interested.
3. HP X1000 Wired Mouse
This corded mouse has a highly sleek design and build. At 289INR, this mouse offers a fine blend of portability, usability, and beauty. If you’re wondering what makes this mouse special, we’ll be highlighting some of its key features next.
This wired mouse comes with 3 buttons. It has a 1600 dpi optical tracking sensor that works on most surfaces. This mouse has a 2 year warranty period and has a simple USB software free connection. It is Windows compatible and weighs 90.7g. This mouse has all the basic features that ensure mouse efficiency in functionality.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the HP X1000 Wired Mouse that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
This optical mouse has a trendsetting design and can accommodate any office theme or work area décor.
Its incorporation of 3 buttons boosts its productivity.
Its sensor works on diverse surfaces.
It offers a high-speed 2.4GHz frequency when operated.
Its battery life can last for about 12 months before replacing it.
It has a warranty of 2 years, hence it is durable.
Its rating is 4.2 out of 5.
It runs on only Windows operating systems.
Its size may be too small to fit perfectly into the palm.
Note:- I have written a post for people looking for the Best Gaming Mouse Under 1000 INR to buy?, do read it If you are interested.
4. Logitech B100 Optical Mouse
This mouse has a conventional build and looks pretty functional. It is designed with cutting edge technology to promote comfort during navigation. Logitech produces a fine range of accessories, let’s look at its features.
This 309INR mouse is corded. It has an optical precision of 800 dpi. It is compatible across Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. The Logitech B100 is also compatible with other operating systems like Linux, Mac, and Chrome.
This mouse was designed for comfort and ease of navigation. It has an ambidextrous quality which enables both left and right-handed people to still use it conveniently without feeling the difference. Its cable is 180cm long and gives users the freedom to navigate which makes it fit in our best mouse under 500 Rs list.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the Logitech B100 Optical Mouse that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
It can be used on more than one operating system.
It is perfect for both left and right-handed people.
It is really easy to be installed. All you need to do is to plug it into the USB port of your PC or laptop.
It has a 4.2 out of 5 ratings.
It is very durable and comes with a warranty of 3 years.
Its operation is really smooth.
It works right out of the box and doesn’t need any installation package.
At 109g its build is solid and firm.
Serial numbers on products may not match the invoice.
At the time of our research on “Best Mouse Under 500 INR”, we found a video about “15 Amazing Shortcuts You Aren’t Using” which is too good to watch.
5. Dell MS116 Wired Optical Mouse
You may have known Dell from the series of computers they manufacture. Dell has a pretty good reputation in the computer world and we can only expect great things from its MS116 wired optical mouse. Let’s have a look at its characteristic features.
This Dell wired mouse has a movement detection and optical resolution of 1000dpi. Its cable length is 180cm giving you a wide range through which it can be used. It has a USB interface and is heavier than the previously highlighted mice. It weighs 413g and can be used for more than one purpose.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the Dell MS116 Wired Optical Mouse that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
It has an easy out of the box plug and play function and doesn’t require any form of installation.
It has a really nice matte finish to its appearance and texture.
Its 1000dpi optical resolution gives you the power of tracking.
It is virtually compatible with any system with a USB port.
Its design and aesthetic enable it to blend in nicely to any work environment.
It has stellar performance and a warranty period of one year.
This mouse can be used for navigating, designing and basic gaming across platforms.
At 258INR, it is very affordable for its range of features.
No reported cons.
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6. Logitech M90 USB Mouse
This is another one from Logitech. This M90 corded mouse has a sturdy build and sleek design associated with ease of use. This is your basic everyday mouse which you get to use comfortably without fear of internal damage.
There is a certain design that is associated with Logitech and we’re happy to report that it was also incorporated into this mouse. Here are its features.
As you can see, this mouse has a typical Logitech design. It is sleek and has a smooth finish. Experience high definition optical tracking and navigation with 1000dpi, smooth cursor control and an ambidextrous design. It is super lightweight at 18.1g and equally portable. This corded mouse goes for 347INR and serves as a good buy.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the Logitech M90 USB Mouse that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
It has a very fast scrolling wheel, making navigation much easier and less strenuous.
It can be used comfortably by all people regardless of which hand is dominant.
It has a plug and play simplicity and offers no need for an installation package.
It is a comfortable mouse with a reliable build and functionality which offers a good grip.
It moves swiftly with or without a mouse pad.
It is very durable and still works fine when cleaned with water.
The Logitech mouse is known to pass the drop test and is equally affordable.
It has a 1-year warranty and a rating of 4.2 out of 5
Clicks can be noisy.
7. HP X500
This is another corded mouse from the HP headquarters. You can see the sleek nature in its design and durability in its build. The HP X500 hits all the right spots and has all the features to make your experience with navigation, scrolling or clicking very efficient.
This corded mouse from HP can be used on all notebooks and desktops, irrespective of their operating systems. It uses a USB interface of 2.0, is made up of 3 buttons and a scroll wheel and has an optical sensor to aid navigation.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the HP X500 Mouse that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
It can be used on multiple computers regardless of their operating systems.
It is very durable and has a warranty period of 3 years.
It is very light with a weight of 141g, it can easily fit into the user’s palm.
It is highly rated with 4.6 out of 5 stars.
This mouse can perform a host of functions and has versatility as its advantage.
Its glossy border makes its appearance sleek.
At a price of 349INR, it is undoubtedly a good buy.
No reported cons
8. Logitech M100r Wired Mouse
You can expect the same design from Logitech once more. This mouse possesses more extensive features than its counterparts and offers a fine blend of usability, ease, comfort, and style. It is designed to satisfy your browsing needs and at 465INR its features include:
It has an ambidextrous design and incorporates the traditional 3 button design. This mouse is compatible when used with Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems. It has a weight of 195g and uses a lithium-ion battery.
The M100r employs the use of a USB connector to either a desktop or a laptop. It has an optical high definition sensor coming in at 1000dpi which makes it perfectly fit in our best mouse under 500 Rs list.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the Logitech M100r Wired Mouse that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
It has a stylish silhouette and fits into any work-related environment or desk space.
Its buttons are highly sensitive to clicks and prevent dragging or hanging.
It has a very durable design and to top it off, a warranty period of 3 years.
Its setup is easy and devoid of installation packages.
It is effective regardless of the hand you use.
It is synonymous with a comfortable grip which enables users to use it for multiple hours without hand or wrist cramps.
It can be cleaned with a damp cloth and isn’t sensitive to water.
This mouse’s operation has been reported to cease after 9 months of use.
You can admit that Amazon does make some nice gadgets that usually come with durability. In that same vein, this mouse has a compact build with a matte finish. It is wired and makes use of USB connectivity. Let’s take a look at some of its featured elements.
It offers a smooth and precise option for USB connected mice. This bad boy has three buttons which work perfectly on desktops and other PCs. It has a 1000dpi optical tracking sensor which enables a responsive cursor control for easy text selection.
Its cable is about 5ft long and offers a wide range of usage. It is only compatible with Windows 7, 2000, XP, and Vista. It also connects FireWire devices to each other as peer-to-peer communication.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the AmazonBasics Mouse that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
It allows precision tracking and ease of scroll.
It is very easy to setup.
It also has an ambidextrous design.
It is comfortable and doesn’t cause cramping when used for long hours.
At 81.6g it is actually very light.
It has a 4.2-star rating.
It costs just 349INR and offers a warranty of 1 year.
A mouse may stop working in 3 months.
10. Terabyte 3D Optical Wired Mouse
This mouse has a different build and design from other conventional ones. It has a sort of see-through border where you can see the inner parts of the mouse as you make use of it. This border also lights up as it is connected. It is USB wired and costs an affordable 119INR. Here are its features.
This mouse is an older model and comes with only 2 buttons. Its symmetric design along with its textured sides allows easy gripping and usage. Its feet are non-sticky and allow easy movement of the cursor. Its dpi is low but it has good sensitivity.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the Terabyte 3D Optical Wired Mouse that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
Its wire is lengthy and offers a wide range of scroll.
It is sensitive to clicks and movement.
It enables a good and comfortable grip and can be used round the clock without cramps.
It passes the drop test.
Although it weighs 712g, it is still portable.
Its light is really noticed in the dark.
Its flashing light can be irritating at night.
It can disassemble if it falls from a good height but can easily be assembled.
11. Amkette Kwik Pro Wired Optical Mouse
This mouse is far from your everyday mouse. It has a sleek design, matte finish design and comes in three distinct color options. This Wired mouse is USB compatible and exudes class and uniqueness. You can get this mouse at only 199INR. Let’s go over to its features.
Before we proceed, you’ll have to agree that this is indeed one beautiful wired mouse. It has a compact build and can fit into any workspace or desk area. This mouse has three buttons.
It is ergonomically designed with a premium finish and its buttons life is rated at over a million clicks. The Amkette Kwik has an optical sensor that works on all surfaces except for glass. Its precision is measured at 1000dpi and it guarantees longevity.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the Amkette Kwik Pro Wired Optical Mouse that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
This wired mouse is sleek with its design.
It has a high precision thus making it sensitive to scrolling and clicking.
It has a warranty period of 1 year.
It is very light at 68g.
It is compatible with different operating systems.
Its mouse pointer may be slow.
12. HP X900
This wired mouse has a contoured shape along with a compact design and you can be sure to get your money’s worth with HP gadgets. This mouse is USB accessible and it has a host of features that we’re going to explore.
This corded mouse has a powerful optical sensor of 1000dpi with which it runs on. Its HP guidelines need to be followed to the letter to ensure its prolonged use and longevity.
It has a 3 button solution with a built-in scroll to optimize its productivity. It is compatible with operating systems from Windows 7 and above and also Mac OS 10.x and above. Its USB connecting wire is lengthy and gives users a good range.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the HP X900 that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
It is easy to connect and setup.
It is durable and has a warranty of 1 year.
Clicking, navigating, and scrolling is really easy.
Its compatibility is somewhat convenient.
It is very light and weighs 52g
It is smooth and works on different surfaces.
HP products are designed to be long-lasting.
It is very cost-effective. At 279INR, you can get this mouse.
It may not work without its mouse pad.
13. iBallFreeGo G18 Wireless
This mouse is definitely from others in its design and build. It has a bulky yet futuristic design which makes it unique. Nevertheless, it is sleek and has a certain angle to it.
At 478INR, this mouse possesses advanced features. First off, it is wireless and offers advanced optical sensors. It offers very high speed and is connected automatically through its smart linkability. With this mouse, power conservation is possible as it has an auto power-saving feature.
It has three buttons which have selection speeds of 800/1200/1600 CPI. This mouse has a Nano receiver and uses 2.4 GHz wireless technology. It uses AAA alkaline battery and weighs a portable 132g.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the iBallFreeGo G18 Wireless that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
It has power-saving features.
It has an ergonomic design as well as 5 quick buttons.
Its build is compact, durable and it has a warranty of 3 years.
It is compatible across different operating systems including Windows and Mac OS.
The iBallFreeGo can be used on both desktops and laptop devices.
It offers a blend of class to your work area/desk space.
Cases of the drained battery have been reported.
14. HP X1500 USB 2 Wired Mouse
This mouse has a very unique and futuristic design. Its edges are crisp and it looks really sleek. This USB wired mouse from HP promises great things. Let’s look at its contributing features.
This mouse adds style and class to any workspace. Its dependable USB wire connects seamlessly to your PC or desktop in one simple step. The HP X1500 possesses three buttons which ensure its productivity.
Its ergonomic design uplifts the ease with which it works. Its scroll wheel navigates cursors easily. It has an optical sensor that works on most devices. This 349INR wired mouse weighs 99.8g and is very portable.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the HP X1500 USB 2 Wired Mouse that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
It is very lightweight.
This wired mouse offers setup ease and does not require any package installer.
It is durable and has a warranty of 3 years.
It adds class to any work environment or desk space.
It offers the latest technology in mouse connectivity.
It is rated 4 out of 5
Its small and compact nature makes it unsuitable for users with large hands.
15. Targus AMU575AP Optical Mouse
This wired mouse has a sleek style and a shiny finish. At 235INR it offers a fine mix of style, functionality, and technology. It possesses all the basic features of a corded mouse and offers ease of use. Here are some of these characteristic features.
This corded mouse has an optical sensor of 1600dpi. Hence it responds accurately to mouse movements and clicks. The length of its USB compatible cord is 1.8m, thus giving users an ample amount of space to use it. It weighs 141g and is very portable. It can be used on different operating systems and possesses 3 buttons.
Below are some of the Pros and Cons of the Targus AMU575AP Optical Mouse that earned it a spot in our list of Best Mouse Under 500 Rupees to get in 2021.
This mouse can be used on various surfaces.
Its response to slight clicks or scrolls is precise and accurate.
It is compatible with computers of different operating systems.
Its design is sturdy and if blends nicely into any work environment.
It isn’t sensitive to moisture and can be cleaned with a damp cloth.
Its USB setup is fast and easy as there is no need for a package installer or software. It’s a simple plug and play scenario.
It is durable and has a 3-year warranty opening.
This mouse possesses all the features needed for easy and effective mouse use.
A middle button may be sticky
Getting a new mouse for your desktop or personal computer may be relatively hard if you are not aware of the features to look out for and what to consider before you set out on your purchase.
As a means to relieve the stress of making this purchase, we have highlighted the key features you need to look out for as well as 15 of the best mice under the budget of 500INR. Feel free to make your choice based on the purpose you want to achieve with it.
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Nokia X6 Support Page Goes Live on Indian Website, Launch Imminent
By Arpit Sharma June 21st, 2018 AT 7:14 PM
There have been countless rumours about HMD Global making the Nokia X6 available in global markets and it now seems like we don’t have to wait much for the official launch. The support page for the Nokia X6 has gone official on the Nokia India website, hinting at the imminent launch of the smartphone. Earlier today, the smartphone was briefly listed on Nokia’s international website as well, which means the phone will be launched in other markets too. At the moment, the Nokia X6 is available only in China. Right after the launch in China, Juho Sarvikas, the Chief Product Officer at HMD Global conducted a poll on Twitter about the global launch of the Nokia X6. Without any surprise, a whopping 94% people voted that the device should be launched in international markets.
So the launch of the Nokia X6 in global markets has been confirmed partially with that Twitter poll, but when is it going to launch? Well, with this listing, we can now assume that the Nokia X6 should be launched in India in a matter of few weeks. Maybe, HMD Global will launch the smartphone in the sub-continent alongside other devices such as the Nokia 2.1, Nokia 3.1 and Nokia 5.1.
The Nokia X6 was the first device from HMD sporting a notched display. The phone arrived with a 5.8-inch Full HD+ display with a resolution of 1080 x 2280 pixels and 19:9 aspect ratio. It’s powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 SoC and boasts up to 6GB of RAM. Internal storage in the Nokia X6 extends up to 64GB, and the device even has a microSD card slot for storage expansion.
HMD Global has added a 16MP camera to the back of the phone which works in tandem with a 5MP depth sensor. A 16MP shooter is present on the front. The global version of the Nokia X6 will boot stock Android 8.1 Oreo. The fingerprint scanner is placed on the rear side. The device is backed by a 3060mAh battery with fast charging support.
The Nokia X6, in India, could be priced between Rs 20,000 to Rs 25,000 because the Nokia 7 Plus is retailing for Rs 25,999 and the Nokia 6.1 is available at Rs 18,999 (4GB RAM variant). The starting price of the Nokia X6 could be Rs 20,999 for the base variant and it might extend up to Rs 23,999 for the premium variant.
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Uncanny Bodies
Superhero Comics and Disability
Edited by Scott T. Smith, José Alaniz
Paperback - £26.95
Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman ability, they have also shown an increasing attention and sensitivity to diverse forms of disability, both physical and cognitive. The essays in this collection reveal how the superhero genre, in fusing fantasy with realism, provides a visual forum for engaging with issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality) and helps to imagine different ways of being in the world.
Working from the premise that the theoretical mode of the uncanny, with its interest in what is simultaneously known and unknown, ordinary and extraordinary, opens new ways to think about categories and markers of identity, Uncanny Bodies explores how continuums of ability in superhero comics can reflect, resist, or reevaluate broader cultural conceptions about disability. The chapters focus on lesser-known characters—such as Echo, Omega the Unknown, and the Silver Scorpion—as well as the famous Barbara Gordon and the protagonist of the acclaimed series Hawkeye, whose superheroic uncanniness provides a counterpoint to constructs of normalcy. Several essays explore how superhero comics can provide a vocabulary and discourse for conceptualizing disability more broadly. Thoughtful and challenging, this eye-opening examination of superhero comics breaks new ground in disability studies and scholarship in popular culture.
In addition to the editors, the contributors are Sarah Bowden, Charlie Christie, Sarah Gibbons, Andrew Godfrey-Meers, Marit Hanson, Charles Hatfield, Naja Later, Lauren O’Connor, Daniel J. O'Rourke, Daniel Pinti, Lauranne Poharec, and Deleasa Randall-Griffiths.
“A remarkably significant contribution to both disability studies and comics studies. The essays collected here interrogate how superhero comics have struggled with reconciling the fantasy of the superbody with a growing concern, among producers and readers, for a more diverse and more adequate treatment of disabilities ranging from autism and dissociative identity disorder to deafness and progressive muscular dystrophy. A truly eye-opening book!”
—Daniel Stein, University of Siegen
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For Joey by Jaclyn M. Hawkes
Prize Format: eBook
Leggy, beautiful, and the best exotic sports car mechanic in the valley, Joey has lots of male admirers, but no one who actually makes her feel emotional fireworks—until New York banking tycoon, Michael Morgan, shows up.
Thinking he will lick his wounds alone and unknown out west, Michael is surprised when he’s cheerfully swallowed up into the huge Rockland family. Their world of homemade bread, anonymous acts of service, and unlocked doors is like a foreign country to him. Still, their slightly boisterous, yet always entertaining welcome is exactly what his thrashed spirit needs.
Now if he can just make Joey realize that he’s exactly what she needs as well.
Jaclyn M. Hawkes grew up in Utah with 6 sisters, 4 brothers and a large number of pets. She got a bachelor’s degree, had a career, and traveled extensively before settling down to her life’s work of being the mother of four magnificent and sometimes challenging children. She loves shellfish, the out of doors, the youth, and hearing her children laugh.
She and her fine husband, their family, and their sometimes very large pets, now live in a mountain valley in northern Utah, where it smells like heaven and kids still move sprinkler pipe. For Joey is Jaclyn’s tenth novel. You can read more about them at www.jaclynmhawkes.com.
I Am Strong! I Am Smart! by Fay Klingler
Prize Format: Print (U.S. only)
Luisa May, known to her family and friends as Lu, loves to play games with her Grandma. When she’s bullied at school, Grandma has a special puzzle for Lu to help her see how valuable she is—no matter what others say, or how much doubt she feels within herself.
Soon after, Grandma has to go to the hospital, and Lu finds out Grandma needs help recovering. Then it’s Lu’s turn to help Grandma see how valuable she is—no matter how much doubt she feels within herself. It’s a beautiful parallel for young and old alike, as each age learns from the other.
Written and illustrated with loving hands, this delightful children’s story offers a heartfelt message that unites and bonds generations. From the award-winning pen of Fay A. Klingler, I Am Strong! I Am Smart! provides to women of all ages a reminder of the tremendous gift of “girl power.”
Fay A. Klingler, author and illustrator, is an award-winning creative and technical writer, as well as a sought-after motivational speaker for women’s groups. Her expertise includes successful patterns for life, betrayal recovery, and effective grandparenting. Her previous publications include We Are Strong! Mothers and Daughters Stand Together; A Woman’s Power: Threads that Bind Us to God; Shattered: Six Steps from Betrayal to Recovery; Daughters of God, You Have What It Takes; The LDS Grandparents’ Idea Book; My Magnificent Mountain; The Complete Guide to Woman’s Time; Our New Baby; and A Mother’s Journal.
The Klinglers have twelve children and thirty-five grandchildren in their blended family. They reside in Draper, Utah. Visit Fay at www.fayklingler.com or www.facebook.com/FayKlingler.
Paris Cravings by Kimberley Montpetit
After The Worst Night of Her Life, Chloe Dillard escapes on her Senior Class trip to the swoon-worthy city of Paris which takes her mind off her troubles—temporarily. On the final leg of her dream trip, Chloe squeezes in one final run for a last-minute box of decadent pastries. Add a stuck door, subtract a broken four-inch heel from her cute strappy sandals, and Chloe ends up one stuck girl on the bakery shop floor with a sprained ankle.
Rescued by Jean-Paul, the shop owner’s dreamy son with chocolate-syrup eyes, the beautiful city of Paris suddenly becomes Chloe’s personal secret adventure. The police are tracking her down as a run-away, Mom’s having a nervous breakdown over her daughter’s “disappearance”, and Chloe’s just trying to have a Happily-Ever-After. Could being lost in the city of Paris be just what the doctor ordered?
Kimberley Montpetit once spent all her souvenir money at the La Patisserie shops when she was in Paris—on the arm of her adorable husband. The author grew up in San Francisco, another swoon-worthy city, loves all things Parisian and chocolate and lives in a small town along the Rio Grande with her family.
Kimberley has won many awards for her work, including the Southwest Book Award, the Whitney Award, the Arizona/New Mexico Book Award, is a Crystal Kite Finalist (SCBWI) and included in the Bank Street College Best Books of the Year. Visit her at www.kimberleymontpetit.com or visit her alter-ego at www.kimberleygriffithslittle.com.
Sweet Confections by Danyelle Ferguson
According to Rachel Marconi chocolate heals all wounds. That and throwing darts at pictures of her ex-boyfriend. Burned by yet another bad relationship, Rachel decides to reprioritize her life, putting her dream to compete on a Food Network Challenge on the top of her list and dating at the bottom crossed out in red sharpie. But what’s a girl to do when a certain sexy guy keeps asking her out?
Cue in Graydon Green, a former pro hockey player turned restaurant owner. After a lot of persistent and humorous teasing, he finally convinces Rachel to commit to a date. Just when things begin to warm up, threatening notes directed at Rachel arrive. When her bakery is vandalized, Graydon’s protective streak goes on red alert. Is it her obsessive ex-boyfriend stalking her? Or maybe a challenger trying to sabotage the competition?
Either way, Rachel is definitely going to need more chocolate – perhaps drizzled over ice cream and devil’s food cake.
Danyelle Ferguson discovered her love for the written word in elementary school. Her first article was published when she was in 6th grade. Since then, she’s won several awards and her work has been published world-wide in newspapers, magazines and books.
Danyelle grew up surrounded by Pennsylvania’s beautiful Allegheny Mountains. Then she lived for ten years among the majestic Wasatch Mountains. She is currently experiencing mountain-withdrawal while living in Kansas with her husband and family. She enjoys reading, writing, dancing and singing in the kitchen, and the occasional long bubble bath to relax from the everyday stress of being “Mommy.”
Visit Danyelle at www.danyelleferguson.com, Facebook or Twitter.
Tulips & Treason by Tristi Pinkston
Meet Jack and Molly, a team of FBI agents sent to Utah to infiltrate a Mafia headquarters based out of Omni. While they may be cracker-jack agents, this small Mormon community has them flummoxed, until Ida Mae and her friends (from the Secret Sisters series) step in to give them Mormon lessons so they won’t blow their covers.
Molly has to give up her coffee addiction and learn how to arrange flowers. Jack learns that he’ll be posing as an assassin for the mob. What they absolutely don’t expect is to find a dead body in the cooler at the floral shop.
Tulips and Treason is book #1 in the Omni Orchids Mystery series.
Tristi Pinkston is a a stay-at-home mom, a home schooler, a media reviewer, an editor, a regular presenter at the LDStorymakers’ writers conference, the owner of Trifecta Books (a new publishing company), and an author of 26 books—which range from historical novels, to mysteries and suspense, to Young Adult, plus some non-fiction and a cookbook, as well.
You can see what she’s got coming next at her website, www.tristipinkston.com.
Twist of Luck by Jaclyn Weist
Prize Format: Print (U.S. only) or eBook
Megan finally has her luck back and hopes that life will return to normal. Unfortunately, the magical world has other plans.
Suddenly, she finds she has fairies follow her to provide security, dragons become a constant threat, and an imp tracks her every move.
As if that wasn’t enough, her luck begins to manifest itself in ways she could never imagine.
Book 2 in the Luck series.
Jaclyn Weist is an Idaho farm girl who grew up loving to read. She developed a love for writing as a senior in high school, when her dad jokingly said she was the next Dr. Seuss (not even close but very sweet). She met her husband, Steve at BYU and they have six happy, crazy children that encourage her writing.
After owning a bookstore and running away to have adventures in Australia, they settled back down in their home in Utah. Jaclyn now spends her days herding her kids to various activities and trying to remember what she was supposed to do next. Visit Jaclyn at www.jaclynweist.blogspot.com.
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7 responses to “Win These Books! April 2014”
Mickel Woodland
Saw this page for the first time today. Very excited, can’t wait to read these books.
April 1, 2014, 11:34 pm
WOW!! They all sound really good this month! I don’t think I will be able to wait until after May 1 (in case I win one) to read them. 🙂
I’m terribly excited to learn more about Ida Mae and her friends in a spin off of the Secret Sisters mysteries. Tulips and Treason sounds like a lot of fun.
Shauna Wheelwright
I SO WANT to read For Joey and Tulips and Treason 🙂
Susan Paxton
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I am so exited to read I am Strong! I am Smart!
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There are many games that may be highly addictive, such as fighting games or sports games. Here is some thing that could cause a challenge down the road, as you may require control over your life and not let your matches dominate you. Know about those addictive games and try not to fall into the snare of participating in them to the bulk of the afternoon.
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Try samples of sexgames before having the complete models of those anime sex games. Trials permit you to try out the match on for size and see whether you like it. In the event you decide you like an trial version of a game, place a little funds aside to purchase the match.
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New West Virginia State Record For Striped Bass
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New State Record For Striped Bass
West Virginia State record
The state record for striped bass has been broken by James Brooks of Summers County, according to Frank Jezioro, director of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. Brooks caught the 47.16-inch, 45.70-pound fish from Bluestone Lake in Summers County on Sept. 3, 2010 while trolling a crankbait.
Brooks was fishing with his family and fought the striper for 40 minutes on 8-pound test line. His catch establishes new West Virginia records for length and weight. This striped bass exceeds the previous length record by more than six inches and the weight record by more than 16 pounds.
Anglers who believe that they have caught a state record fish should check the record listing in the current DNR Fishing Regulations brochure. The brochure also outlines the procedure to follow for reporting a state record catch. This information is also available online at www.wvdnr.gov.
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Any guess how old the fish is.?
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probably 16 or 17 years old.
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Bluestone Lake bass shatters state striper mark by more than 16 pounds
One for the record book
James Brooks happily admits he's no expert fisherman. Fortunately for him, catching a state-record fish doesn't require a Ph.D. in angling.
By John McCoy
The Charleston Gazette
Brooks, 30, who lives in the Hinton area, stunned the West Virginia fishing community with his Sept. 3 catch of a record-breaking striped bass - a fish that weighed 10 times more than the biggest fish Brooks had ever before caught.
The catch stunned Brooks, too. When he and his wife pulled their boat away from the Bluestone Lake marina, they had no idea what they might catch.
"We weren't fishing for stripers, or for anything particular," he said. "We were just fishing for whatever would bite."
Bluestone has harbored a small population of striped bass for decades. Most of the fish are refugees that migrate down the New River from Virginia's Claytor Lake. District fisheries biologist Mark Scott said the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources tried to stock the lake with stripers in the early 1980s, but the fish couldn't find enough to eat and eventually fled the 2,040-acre impoundment.
"They took off downstream, down the New River," he said. "Some were caught in the river itself, and some were caught farther downstream near Kanawha Falls."
Not long aftertward, however, Bluestone became a much more hospitable place for stripers. Shad migrated downstream from Claytor Lake sometime in the early 1990s and quickly began thriving in Bluestone's plankton-rich waters. With shad to feed upon, stripers are able to make a living.
Brooks and his wife had seen stripers chasing schools of shad, but hadn't had much success catching them. But late on the afternoon of Sept. 3, their fortunes changed.
"We had caught a few smaller fish - bluegills and things like that - but hadn't hooked anything big," Brooks recalled. "Then we came across this big old striper moving along near the surface eating shad. I cast to it and it hit."
The lure Brooks threw - a black Rooster Tail spinner - bore scant resemblance to the shad the striper was chasing. The fish struck the lure anyway.
Brooks realized immediately that the tackle he was using wasn't strong enough for a straight-up battle with a fish the size of a 6-year-old child. The line on his open-faced spinning reel had a breaking strain of just 8 pounds.
"Once I saw how big the fish was, I eased off on the [reel's] drag and told my wife to use the boat's trolling motor to keep me as close to the fish as possible," Brooks said. "We went around and around for close to 40 minutes before he decided to give up."
The landing net on the boat wasn't nearly large enough to handle such an enormous fish, but Brooks and his wife used it anyway.
"As soon as we got him over the side of the boat, he went straight through the bottom of that net. It was a close call, but the net lasted exactly as long as it needed to," Brooks said. "But even if it hadn't, I don't know if we'd have lost the fish. If I'd needed to, I'd have gone swimming to keep that fish from getting away."
With the big striper safely on board, Brooks and his wife made a beeline for the Bluestone Marina and showed the fish to marina owner Charles Brown.
"Charlie looked up the [striped bass] record in the fishing regulations, and we pretty quickly realized we had a potential record on our hands," Brooks said. "He got out a tape measure. We could see that it was over the length record, and we estimated its weight at 35 to 40 pounds. The previous record was around 29 pounds, so we decided to find a place to get it officially weighed."
Over the course of the next week, Brooks took the fish to three places before he could get it officially weighed. He kept the fish in a freezer to prevent it from becoming dehydrated, but believes it shrank slightly before its final size could be determined.
Not that it mattered; the big striper taped out at 47.16 inches, 6.28 inches longer than the previous length record. It tipped the scales at 45.7 pounds, a whopping 16.14 pounds heavier than a 29.56-pound fish caught in 2000. Both previous record fish were taken from Bluestone Lake.
"I never imagined I'd catch anything that size. I figured the closest thing might be a big old catfish," Brooks said.
DNR officials wasted little time in declaring Brooks' catch a state record. The fish is now at a taxidermy shop waiting to be mounted. After the taxidermist's work is finished - early next year, in all likelihood - Brooks plans to put it on exhibit at the Bluestone Marina.
"I'd like for Charlie to keep it there during the boating season so everyone can see it," Brooks said.
Asked what he might do for an angling encore, Brooks simply shrugged.
"I'll just keep fishing," he said.
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i have to add my input to this after seeing stripers go from none in the 70s and 80s.----wild salt water fish in thier natural habitat, migrateing up and down the east coast....spawning, any fish land locked IN fresh water is not a stript bass that should be counted in a record book.....it was introduced and not a real stock of sport fish. THAY DO NOT COUNT AS A REAL STRIPER!!!!
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Great report, thanks AJ
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i don't know much but that looks like a striped bass to me?
Location: travel the country looking for fish
I don't see any broken stripes that would indicate a hybrid.
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Very cool! I did not know WV even had striped bass.
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by Nicole Letts
Nicole is a life-long Southerner and freelance journalist based in Atlanta who relishes sharing the stories of inspiring Southern businesses and residents. When she’s not weaving her next tale, you can find her stitching cheeky needlepoint canvases or perusing area antique shops.
The South’s Newest Food & Retail Halls
May 2, 2019 by Nicole Letts
What’s old is new again! Historic buildings and empty spaces across the South are being given new life as food-centric retail destinations. In the same style as New York City’s famed Chelsea Market, these trendy terminals are often rooted in the past. Like big sister, Chelsea — the original site of the Nabisco factory where the Oreo was invented and produced — these buildings are phoenixes restored again to their former glory. Atlanta’s prominent Ponce City Market was once a Sears, Roebuck and Company. Pizitz in Birmingham is another department store-turned-food hall that has been offered its second chance to shine. From department stores of years’ past to former warehouses in industrial districts, these historic buildings are taking on new lives as tasty and fun social hotspots.
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Fifth + Broadway | Nashville, TN
This food hall is so new, it doesn’t even have a name yet. Fifth + Broadway is rumored to open its doors to Nashvillians sometime in 2020, and that means a lot of secrets are still under wraps. What we do know, however, is that some of the city’s most illustrious foodie stops have already signed-on to Fifth + Broadway’s yet-to-be-named food hall, including Prince’s Hot Chicken and The Donut + Dog. Formerly the Nashville Convention Center, the behemoth mixed-use development will sit on 6.2 acres in the heart of Music City’s bustling downtown and will feature more than 300,000 square feet of restaurants, retail and entertainment along with plans for residences, offices, the National Museum of African American Music and more.
Nashville’s latest food hall promises more than just bites. There will be retail space, residences, offices, a museum and more! Image: Fifth+Broadway
Lee & White | Atlanta, GA
Atlanta’s first food and beverage district Lee & White is situated off of Atlanta’s Westside Beltline trail offering visitors a chance to sit and stay a spell after a sprint. Originally a centralized railroad and transportation hub, the renovated space has 425,000 square feet spread over 23 acres and now boasts a commercial kitchen, retail, restaurant and event space for some of Atlanta’s first food visionaries including Cultured South, Doux South, Honeysuckle Gelato and Monday Night Brewing. With more on the way, this sustenance sanctuary is sure to be a must-stop for Atlantans and tourists alike.
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Atlanta’s first devoted food and beverage district just off of the city’s Westside BeltLine trail | Image: Lee & White
Marietta Square Market | Atlanta, GA
Just when you thought there wasn’t room for any more food halls in Atlanta, the suburbs throw you a curveball. Marietta Square Market sits just steps from historic Marietta Square. With a little more than 18,000 square feet of food and retail space, Marietta Square Market is one of the smaller food hall destinations, but don’t let that fool you. This communal hall packs a lot of foodstuff punch. It’s designed to resemble a turn-of-the-century train station and is tucked into a renovated warehouse. The market will ultimately be home to 20 food and retail merchants, many of which are already buzzing with customers. Pizza seekers can nosh on Forno Vero, while Latin cravers can order from D’Cuban Cafe. Just meet your party at any of the oblong upscale picnic tables before digging in.
RELATED: A Gourmet’s Delight at Central Food Hall in Ponce City Market
Visit some 20 food and retail vendors at Marietta Square Market just minutes from Atlanta’s city center. Image: Clementine Creative Agency
Optimist Hall | Charlotte, NC
The highly anticipated Optimist Hall in Charlotte is among the next wave of food halls making their home in the South in 2019. A list of tenants has already been released and includes the likes of El Thrifty Social Club, Fonta Flora Brewery and Archer Paper Goods. The adaptive reuse space will be housed in a more-than-100-year-old mill and will reportedly boast original hardwood flooring and be punctuated with original support beams. Even cooler? Boss babe Sara Blakely prototyped her now-famous tummy-tucking hosiery (Spanx, of course) at the mill that previously occupied the space.
Renderings of soon-to-open Optimist Hall in Charlotte show the completed 100-year-old mill’s restoration. Image: Optimist Hall
Pythian Market | New Orleans, LA
Perhaps one of the most storied buildings on our list, New Orleans’ Pythian Market is a mixed-use development anchored by a food hall. The original Pythian building was constructed in 1908 and quickly became a hub of the surrounding African American community. It celebrated the arts, featured a rooftop garden with live jazz and even played an integral role in New Orleans’ Civil Rights Movement. Restored to greatness, Pythian now connects culture and arts with food and function. With more than 10 vendors and several retail establishments, Pythian is a New Orleans must-see.
Restored to greatness, Pythian Market in New Orleans now connects culture and arts with food and function. Image: Pythian Market
South Main Market | Memphis, TN
While its rebirth is just one year young, Memphis’ South Main Market has quite the history. It was built in 1912 where it became home to White Wilson Drew Company, a wholesale grocer. Its next tenant was Lucky Heart Cosmetics, an African American women’s cosmetic company. The history continues from there, and thanks to South Main Market’s hall, will persist. Today’s vendors include the chic cocktail bar, Civil Pour, and grab-and-go floral stand, Wallflower Memphis. You’ll want to linger and relish in South Main Market’s unassuming digs and cool vibes.
South Main Market is a must-visit when in Memphis. Image: Creation Studios for the South Main Market
RELATED: Memphis’ Newest Food Hall
Here’s to exploring, dining and shopping your way through these exciting one-stop halls this spring!
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Race 4.0: in black and white
This Open Letter is going to be a two-parter. First from my wife – a Black, Jamaican-Canadian woman. Second, from me, a Caucasian Canadian woman.
Refinery 29 featured an article about the backlash and controversy over Gap Kids’ new athletic line; people were outraged and divided over interpretations of one image in particular. More info can be found in This article. By way of response, I asked my wife to consider her analysis of the issue, then offer my own for juxtaposition.
My wife shared a post with me the other day about the reaction to Gap’s new ad campaign. A campaign that’s in partnership with Ellen DeGeneres’ lifestyle brand ED. I instantly knew what the article was about having seen articles pop up on my social media feed days before touting “Racist Gap Ad Receives Backlash.” I scanned those previous articles not thinking too much into what people were saying about the campaign.
Le Petit Cirque, an all-girls pre-teen dance group, was featured in various fun, acrobatic poses. What was supposed to be a cute and empowering message promoting Gap’s athletic ware for kids instead drew backlash when in one image the only black girl featured was used as an “armrest” by an older troupe member, who yes, is white. From offensive examples of the ways in which black women and girls are undermined and dehumanized in the media to others arguing that the response to the ad is a wild over-exaggeration – there was lots to consider in between those two reactions.
My reaction? As a mixed, Jamaican, queer woman who works in media and LOVES to call out the lack of diversity in any situation, I found the pose to be pretty harmless and thought it’s a shame these four little girls are caught up in the crosshairs. After reading the Refinery article Al sent, I took a closer look. First, I would ask people to look at Gap’s history of promoting their kids athletic line.
2016 Gap Ad Campaign 2015 Gap Ad Campaign
Gap’s 2015 ad campaign pretty much mimic’s the 2016 campaign but the roles are reversed. Does this picture make the 2016 campaign okay though? When there’s so few powerful and positive representations of black women and girls in media (yes, things are getting better, all hail Beyoncé and Shonda Rhimes), it’s unsurprising to me that the photo would touch a nerve. I’m lucky to work and live in an environment where I don’t experience racism overtly. For those people who aren’t as lucky as I am, I can see how -when looking at the 2016 campaign picture and even watching the Gap videos – I’d question the intention or message it’s sending. I also understand the “wild over-exaggeration” argument when there’s so many other problems that could be seen as more important.
At the end of the day, it’s a complicated issue and one that will come up time and again and lead to debates over the representation of people of colour whether in film (#oscarssowhite), television, advertising, sports, etc.. Are more people of colour needed in positions of power in media and advertising? OF COURSE. Will that change debates like this happening? Here’s to hoping.
I wanted to let my wife speak first; letting people speak for themselves and being willing to listen are a few of the things that help dialogues unfold about equity. That being said, I penned my own thoughts before hearing hers, wanting to get an unfiltered perspective.
Question: How far is too far?
I recognize, even as I write this, that what I am asking will be/may be met with skepticism.
Whenever you feel the need to preface something with ‘my wife is black/my friends are black’ or to list your own marginal identity, like it’s a pass to get into the equity conversation, you’re probably walking on thin ice. That being said, I feel like if we aren’t able to have conversations about race, including diverse opinions, and considering each others’ perspectives, we aren’t really going to make progress. Ever.
You can’t solve racism by convincing marginalized people that racism has a negative impact on them; you need to convince an ignorant majority that racism is real and has pervasive, negative effects, even when it’s not intentional. Becoming more aware is a potential step to stopping inadvertent, latent racism.
I often get into these discussions with my wife and find that sometimes we’re not on the same page. I have an academic background in equity studies and am a louder person, comparatively. I go with my gut, but also try to consider all the potential interpretations. I can, admittedly, be somewhat detached in my dissection of issues when I go into ‘analysis’ mode; this is a strange contrast to my bleeding-heart, empathetic side. I feel everything, but I’m critical of my own emotional responses, because I know they are subjective.
Are these Gap images ‘offensive’ and are they ‘racist’? The answer might be different depending on these two terms.
At any rate, the most important thing is to recognize that if someone feels that something is racist – it’s racist. Maybe not blatantly, or intentionally, but impact is more important than intention. I may not mean to hurt someone, but if I do it, amends need to be made.
When we are creating media and representing race, what is permissible? How can we avoid an accusation of bias or unintentionally negative messaging, even when well- intentioned ?
These ads could definitely be argued as ‘racist’. But someone could also argue that sitting on the couch with my wife watching Netflix, feet stretched out across her lap, is also racist. Except we love and respect each other. Does that matter?
At what point is our own baggage and experience, subjectively and culturally, going to shape our view of things? Is it fair for us to load all of our negative and positive connotations onto and attribute our views to a creative team we’ve never met?
One Tweet read: “This is why it’s important to have diversity behind the scene for marketing projects. #NotYourArmrest @GapKids”
If the assumption is that the creators should have ‘considered the impact on black girls’ … what do we actually know about the real model in this shot, or the team who created the image? If we assume that the team who created the ad has no diversity on it, aren’t we presuming that no women of colour are not represented behind the scenes, when it’s entirely possible that a diverse group saw this (and the other pictures) thought, “goodness, these girls look strong and confident and capable and adorable.” Job well done!
Are we actually disempowering the very subject we are seeking to liberate by assuming she should feel ‘less than’ based simply on one, of many, poses in an ad campaign? I wonder, how these young girls will/do feel about being featured in an ad campaign that aims to celebrate their female talent and awesomeness … and instead they have singled out one member, based on her race, insinuating that she is not wholly part of the team, that one pose causes the world to see her as separate from her troupe-mates, foisting society’s biases onto her, when for all we know they have an amazingly supportive camaraderie and mutual respect. There are many ways to interpret the pose and one might be that the ‘rock’ of this group, small but mighty, is the girl in the ‘love’ t-shirt. She is central to the group and stares down the camera. Why do we assume that the pre-teen in the pose beside her must be ‘dominating’ or subjugating her? To read into the pose without the models’ consent and without allowing them to have a voice is, perhaps, disrespectful; revealing more about US than them. Or maybe I’m just being naive. We have superimposed power relationships onto what may be perfectly harmonious relationships.
Is our take on the image more harmful to this young girl than the pose itself? It’s one thing to say it “could” be taken this way, it’s another to say it is this way.
Our interpretation of an image, like Oscar Wilde argues, may have more to do with us and our views than the image-maker; the artist reveals the spectator, Wilde claims, more so than the artist. If we consider the power of the viewer to interpret an image, is there any image that includes multiple figures that is not, in some way, about power or an interpretation of it?
For example, you can make a case for pretty much any image: Below you have an image of two friends, cheerfully playing around…or is this an insidious image with a subtext about one woman’s need to be carried by her peer because (we argue) she is incapable of getting there on her own two feet?
Remember, this debate was sparked by: This article.
Tagline: “meet the kids who are proving that girls can do anything. check out #GapKidsxED: http://gap.com/ED ”
If this image (above) featured a gorgeous black model, perhaps we might claim that she is being put behind the lens/telescope because space in front of the camera is still being withheld from her. She will only have a supporting role. Which is often, sadly, unfairly the case. But not necessarily in THIS example.
Ellen Degeneres is, I’d argue, one of the nicest, most inclusive white ladies on the planet. She celebrates the small and large victories of icons and underdogs, laughing at herself and using her celebrity (hard won after facing her own public battle for acceptance for her own marginalized identity) to make space for others who deserve a chance to shine. I’m not saying she ‘can’t’ be racist; but must she be, simply by virtue of her skin colour? Looking at the pattern of behaviour, context, awareness and track record may help to illuminate whether this should bother us, even if it ‘could’.
Let’s take a few more examples, just to belabour the point: maybe the only safe way to photograph a subject is in isolation? But there is also a claim that isolation itself is ostracizing. Here, the child is being singled out. Left out. Put to the margins. Or worse, we’re preparing him for super-racist, police profiling and replicating a toddler-version of a mug shot. This adorable kid deserves better than the worst possible stereotypes. Offering this kid just one option of how we interpret him is a huge injustice. It reminds me of “The Danger of A Single Story.” (watch an amazing speaker and author sum it up!)
If someone is faced forward, it’s a mug shot. If someone is getting a piggy back ride, it might be implying that they require a leg-up to succeed.
Maybe it’s a manifestation of the white saviour complex. This is a real thing. But real here?
Is this a great shot of a good looking kid, or a stereotype about athletic ability and an affinity for time-pieces? Below, is a comment on … who knows what? Images speak a thousand words, but what if we’re only focused on the negative ones?
In the image below, she is facing away from the camera, because she is faceless and not deserving of attention. Or because… she is doing a cartwheel. Rather than focus on her talent, we are adding a lens to the image that presumes bias and intent. These are not Mapplethorpe images, deliberately infused with salacious power-commentaries. They are cute pictures of cute kids. Hopefully these youngsters haven’t experienced the horrible things, to the same degree, that many of the adults of our world have.
That’s why I wonder what these conversations do to the subjects we are discussing; we’ve taught the girl in the photo that people will see her skin colour first and foremost, not her ability. That it won’t matter how talented and accomplished she is… even when that’s what the campaign is about. If this is true, it breaks my heart. Because I feel like I’m lying when I tell my students that they can accomplish anything and everything they dream about and that the world is getting better and that together, through alliances and critical discourse, they can repair this damaged world and make space for each other to reach their potential. Regardless of who they are, they can acknowledge their privilege and extend a hand to help others rise with them; make a bigger pie, so we can all get a piece.
How can we do better? I’m not, never, advocating for ‘forgetting’ the past. But how can we move forward when even good things, intentionally good, can be bad? If we villainize our champions, who will we have left? The relentless actual villains? But it’s not about not hurting white people’s feelings.
When will a beautiful, diverse group of models, expressing a positive message for gender equality and empowerment, be allowed to pose as they’d like, when EVERY pose could be unpacked and made malicious? When will we get to a point where people are hired based on merit? When will I not worry that people think my identity, my family and marriage are revolting? When will places and spaces be accessible and inclusive, by default?
One tweet said:
” @GapKids proving girls can do anything… unless she’s Black. Then all she can do is bear the weight of White girls. #EpicFail ”
If, in the case of these young models, it’s hurting the young girls who may see these images, I have to ask: How much of what we perceive is really ‘damaging’ as opposed to being a reflection of damage already done? We are perpetuating a victimhood that is not necessarily felt by that young woman. As a viewer, this doesn’t negate YOUR feeling, but it doesn’t mean that she should be viewed in this way. She’s not a prop. She is a person.
This narrow focus doesn’t, I worry, contribute to real discussions that promote insight and progress. It makes me angry to imagine that my future children’s image will be decided by others. I’m not ignorant to the systemic issues, but I don’t choose to see a marginal position as powerless.
Most recklessly, I’d like to ask if attacking an ad with such possibility to be read as positive and empowering actually does harm to other, more obvious instances of racism? Does it deflect attention from the urgent, life-changing work that needs to continue gaining attention and traction? Does it make people recoil from efforts to do anti-racist work?
I humbly, openly ask you to tell me your thoughts. Teach me. Help me to understand. See my willingness to learn and to question. Be gentle with me, not to spare my feelings, but to leave me some energy to keep going and growing, to help move this forward. The most important person is my life is a black woman. The most important future people in my life are my own children. I am an ally and am happy to add my clout to the fight, knowing that I’m part of the problem, but also eager to be part of the solution.
Here’s what the company has to say:
“The retailer announced on Monday that the image (one of numerous shots featured in the campaign) would be replaced in response to the deluge of critical feedback.
Le Petite Cirque’s founder, Nathalie Yves Gaulthier, released a statement on Facebook today about the situation. “The child in the ad is not an ‘armrest,’ she’s the other girl’s little sister, they are a very close family,” Gaulthier writes. “The child is a very young Jr member with Le Petite Cirque, a humanitarian cirque company, and therefore a wee shier than the more seasoned older, outgoing girls. Our company is deeply saddened by some people misconstruing this as racist.” Gaulthier also voiced her support of Gap Kids and DeGeneres in the post.
“As a brand with a proud 46-year history of championing diversity and inclusivity, we appreciate the conversation that has taken place and are sorry to anyone we’ve offended,” a Gap spokeswoman said in a statement, according to ABC News. “This GapKids campaign highlights true stories of talented girls who are celebrating creative self-expression and sharing their messages of empowerment. We are replacing the image with a different shot from the campaign, which encourages girls (and boys) everywhere to be themselves and feel pride in what makes them unique.”
April 7, 2016 Ali @asquaredmamasquared Tagged #notyourarmrest, @gapkids, allyship, ellen degeneres, equity, gap kids, le petit cirque, media, open letter, race, racism 1 Comment
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2015 Team Report: Miami Dolphins
Starter: Ryan Tannehill
Backup(s): Matt Moore, McLeod Bethel-Thompson
Starting QB: This is the most critical season of Ryan Tannehill career. While the Dolphins just signed him to a 6-year, $96 million contract extension, it's really a 2-3 year contract so he still needs to prove himself if he wants to see anything close to all of it. While Tannehill has improved at least a little every year, his deep ball continues to be an issue and he still has a tendency to hold the ball too long. As it was last season, in order for the Dolphins to take the next step, Tannehill has to do that as well. There are zero excuses For Tannehill this season, given the weapons he has at receiver, which now include veterans Greg Jennings and Kenny Stills as well as rookie DeVante Parker. The team also added tight end Jordan Cameron from the Cleveland Browns. The talent is there for Tannehill to throw to. It will also help him to have Branden Albert back at 100 percent at left tackle. Losing him was a huge problem for the line in 2014, with the net effect being a season of shuffling the offensive line around, which resulted in Pro Football Focus ranking them as the worst line in football last season, responsible for a staggering 210 sacks, hits and hurries. Again, some of that was on Tannehill, who can hold the ball too long, but some of it was also on the line. A healthier line with another year of experience for some of the younger guys will only help Tannehill.
Backup QB: Matt Moore is a serviceable backup with enough starting experience to avoid a drop-off in production if he has to step in due to a Tannehill injury. McLeod Bethel-Thompson has bounced around the NFL and the Arena Football League since 2011 and has never appeared in a regular season game and is a long-shot to make the team. Josh Freeman was cut from the team just prior to the beginning of training camp.
Starter: Lamar Miller
Backup(s): Damien Williams, LaMichael James, Mike Gillislee, Jay Ajayi [R]
Fullback(s):
Starting RB: Lamar Miller had career numbers in 2014, totaling 1,099 yards and eight touchdowns on the ground, while also adding 38 catches for 275 yards and a touchdown through the air. He averaged 5.09 yards per carry as well, though he appeared to wear down later in games. The team seemed to think he might not be able to carry the full load as well, never giving him more than 19 carries�he averaged just 13.5 per game and his two 19 carry games happened in the last two weeks of the season. Miller added weight this past offseason (he was reported to be at 225 by the Miami Herald's Adam Beasley), and one would imagine he did that so he can keep up his strength at the end of a game. Miller is in the final year of his rookie contract, so he is incentivized to have a second great season.
Backup RBs: Damien Williams was praised by Dolphins GM Dennis Hickey at the 2015 Senior Bowl, but he could feel a push for his spot at No. 2. Williams worked hard on special teams and in a third-down role last season, and his speed and burst were on display during the moments he was on the field. He's an intriguing player who went undrafted because of massive off-field red flags, but so far it doesn't seem to have been an issue in Miami. That said, the Dolphins drafted Jay Ajayi in part to push guys like Williams. Ajayi dropped to the fifth round because of some real concerns about his knee, specifically an ACL tear in 2011 which destroyed the cartilage around it. He reportedly had an impressive minicamp (per Beasley again) and has the overall skills to be a three-down back if his leg holds up. He could easily supplant Williams as the No. 2, and should at worst end up as the third back otherwise. LaMichael James is a change-of-pace back who could get pushed aside if Williams and Ajayi both play well in camp, though the team could keep him around as cheap depth and help as a kick returner. The odd man out here is probably Mike Gillislee, who sat out last year with a hamstring injury and didn't impress in 2013. Gillislee was a fluid, athletic runner in college and was excellent protecting the quarterback as well, but he has yet to show he can do it at the pro level.
Fullback:
Starters: Kenny Stills, Greg Jennings, Jarvis Landry
Backups: Rishard Matthews, DeVante Parker (rookie), Matt Hazel, Michael Preston, Tyler McDonald, LaRon Byrd, Nigel King [R], Christion Jones [R], Damarr Aultman [R]
Starting WRs: The Miami Dolphins clearly wanted to give quarterback Ryan Tannehill as much support as they could this season, and went out to grab two veteran receivers to balance out the youth in the rest of the group and trading Mike Wallace, who was never happy in Miami. Greg Jennings signed a two-year, $8 million contract ($3 million signing bonus) so he's probably going to see a lot of action. Unlike in Minnesota with the Vikings where the bulk of his snaps came out of the slot, he will get more outside routes. That means he'll probably get a few less opportunities, though his yards per catch might go up a little. Kenny Stills might be a veteran, but at 23 years old, he's still young. Traded by the New Orleans Saints to the Dolphins in March, Stills is very reliable (78 percent catch rate in 2014) and a very nice deep threat, but the Saints had him doing much more than that and you can expect the Dolphins to line him up in several spots. After a very good rookie season, Jarvis Landry seems poised for a big 2015, though his numbers might not be what they could have been with both Jennings and Stills in the house. Working mostly out of the slot, Landry was second in targets to the departed Mike Wallace with 112 and he led the team in receptions with 84. He could easily top that this coming season, as Tannehill likes to hit the slot receiver.
Backup WRs: There's a lot of depth behind the starters, but one guy isn't all that happy with the offseason moves. Rishard Matthews has asked to be traded or released. Matthews was supposed to be the up and coming slot guy, but he's never really proven he can handle the role, which is why Jarvis Landry was drafted. The last straw seemed to be the drafting of DeVante Parker with the 14th pick in the first round of the 2015 NFL draft. Parker is a big-bodied receiver who attacks the ball in the air with his height and arm-length. He doesn't always snag the ball cleanly when a cornerback is there to challenge him, and he can struggle against more physical corners, but he can also produce some explosive plays. Unfortunately, Parker underwent foot surgery to start June, and could miss all of training camp as well as OTAs. That could retard his development and chances to have a serious impact during his rookie season. If Matthews gets released, it could help Matt Hazel stay on the roster. Yet another slot receiver, Hazel is a good route-runner with good hands who can also produce on special teams. Michael Preston is an interesting player. A tall, rangy athlete, he could be a red-zone scoring threat but the fact that he was out of football last season tells you he needs more work. If he can have a good camp, he could stick though. Tyler McDonald was signed to a futures/reserve contract in January. He has decent speed and fairly good hands, and was a productive player for South Carolina State. He was originally with the New England Patriots, but they cut him after five days to make room for Greg Orton. LaRon Byrd has bounced around the NFL since 2012 because while he has the size and speed, he doesn't use either thing on the field. The undrafted free agents at the bottom of the receiving depth chart are a mixed bag. Damarr Aultman was very productive at Maine, had an insane Pro Day and can return kicks, but at 5'11" he's a bit short for an every down role and he could struggle against NFL corners. Christion Jones is nothing but a special teams guy, but can return punts as well as kickoffs. And Nigel King is a longshot to have an impact because while he has speed and athleticism, he produced very little at Kansas and appears very raw.
Starters: Jordan Cameron
Backups: Dion Sims, Gerell Robinson, Arthur Lynch, Jake Stoneburner, Tim Semisch [R] , Dustin Keller, Charles Clay (FB) (inj), Michael Egnew, Kyle Miller Dion Sims TE Michigan State, rookie
The Dolphins picked up Jordan Cameron to get a playmaker at tight end, but there are questions about whether he can stay injury free, especially after concussion issues in three seasons. He is a tremendous tight end, a guy who can stretch the field and make highlight reel grabs, but he needs to stay healthy to do it. Dion Sims started out as more of an in-line tight end, a guy who could block well but also catch the ball. He looked good when Charles Clay was hurt last season, but he's more of a blocker. Gerrell Robinson was on the practice squad in Denver, then signed by Cleveland, who didn't really do much with him. Originally a wide receiver, the Broncos moved him to tight end as a backup to Julius Thomas, but he hasn't shown a ton yet. If Robinson is only a pass catcher, Arthur Lynch is his opposite number because he can block, but can't separate or catch. Jake Stoneburner can play wide receiver or tight end, but never produced much at Ohio State. He had a cup of coffee with the Packers in 2013 before ending up on the Miami practice squad last season. He's an OK player, but nothing special.
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Caleb Sturgis, Andrew Franks [R]: Sturgis had a good season by typical fantasy standards, finishing 11th in total points and tied for third in field goal attempts, but his 78.4% accuracy was among the worst rates posted by full-time kickers. He was also only 9 of 16 from 40 yards or longer. Sturgis wasn't stellar in 2013, either, so don't be shocked if UDFA Andrew Franks gives Sturgis a run for his money in training camp. Franks will get a chance to have a headstart on Sturgis with the veteran out until training camp with a leg injury. Avoid Sturgis in early drafts, just in case he can't hang onto it this summer.
Kick and Punt Returners
Kick Returners: Damien Williams, Jarvis Landry
Jarvis Landry finished 5th in the league after taking over for Marcus Thigpen on kickoff returns in 2014. Though the Dolphins went with LaMichael James early in the season, a fumbled kickoff in Week 1 was enough to prompt his release. After briefly using Raheem Mostert, Miami went back to Jarvis Landry briefly and then gave the return job to Damien Williams. The situation remains fluid enough it could switch back to Landry at any time.
Punt Returners: Jarvis Landry, Rishard Matthews
Jarvis Landry's college resume was lacking when it came to the return game, but he gave the team reason to name him as a returner with explosive returns during training camp last season. During the season he was kept more bottled up, with a return average that placed him around the middle of the league. Though LaMichael James started the season as the primary returner, he was cut.
Projected Starters: LT Braden Albert, LG Dallas Thomas, C Mike Pouncey, RG Billy Turner, RT JaWuan James
Key Backups: T Jason Fox, G Jeff Linkenbach, C J.D. Walton, T Donald Hawkins, G Jacques McClendon, G Jamil Douglas [R], C Sam Brenner
The Dolphins' line receives a huge upgrade from the end of last season, primarily because of the return of left tackle Branden Albert. Albert was having an excellent 2014 season before tearing both his ACL and MCL in week ten. Albert is a well above average left tackle in this league and his return greatly increases the pass protection for Ryan Tannehill. Tackle Ju'Wuan James was subbing for Albert at left tackle at the end of last season, and will be able to slide back to his more natural right tackle position for this season. James played admirably at both positions. Another high quality player on the Dolphins' line is center Mike Pouncey. The two time Pro Bowl player was actually at guard last year, but should improve with a move back to his more natural center position. The team extended Pouncey's contract this offseason, making him the highest paid center in the league. At the guard spot, Dallas Thomas and Billy Turner are penciled into start. Thomas had an up and down year and Turner only played week seventeen, at right tackle. Neither are amazing players but both are relatively young and the team plans on them improving with time. Should the Dolphins need further options, they signed Jason Fox and Jeff Linkenbach as a swing tackle options, and drafted Jamil Douglas as a possible competitor with Thomas at left guard. Fox is a former UM star and Linkenbach has started a bunch of games over the last few seasons for the Colts and the Chiefs. Neither player should be overlooked as viable option in the lineup, should the young guards not pan out. This line has two borderline elite players at left tackle and center, and an above average right tackle. It's important to have quality at these key positions, and as a result the team is a mid-tier unit with upside to be ranked higher as the guard situation settles and the overall cohesion improves. In the long term this is a fairly young line and could have their best football in front of them.
The Dolphins D/ST faded in the second half of the season, but they were strong in the first half of the 2014 campaign, posting at least six sacks+takeaways in six of their first eight games. They finished in the middle third of the league in almost all key D/ST categories, including yards and points allowed, but the Dolphins do sport one of the best DE combos in the league with Cameron Wake and Olivier Vernon, and the addition of Ndamukong Suh should only help them find the quarterback more often. Suh is a dominant force and could push the Dolphins well into the everyweek startable D/ST category. At the very least, you'll want to give them a long look when they face the weaker QBs of the AFC South, NFC East, and their own division. With an opening slate of Robert Griffin III, Blake Bortles, Matt Cassel, and whomever the Jets trot out there, the Dolphins are certainly one of the D/STs worth a pick before the last round of your fantasy draft.
Starters: DE Cameron Wake, DT Ndamukong Suh, DT Earl Mitchell, DE Olivier Vernon
Backups: DE Derrick Shelby, DT Jordan Phillips (R), DT Anthony Johnson, DT Kamal Johnson, DT A.J. Francis
Starting DL: The Dolphins made one of the biggest free agency splashes in the league this year when they signed Ndamukong Suh to a record 6-year, $114 million contract, which made him the highest-paid non-QB in the league. He's clearly an elite player, but that's a huge portion of their cap to tie up on one interior defensive lineman. Nevertheless, his presence should make things much easier for Cameron Wake and Olivier Vernon on the outside. Wake is still a very effective pass rusher at 33 years of age, but his production has slipped a bit so we'll see how much he has left. Vernon broke out in 2013 before slipping a bit last year, but at 24 years old he still has a chance to become an impact player. Earl Mitchell is expected to start after serving mainly as a backup a year ago, but he has plenty of experience from his time in Houston.
Backup DL: The Dolphins will be without the services of former #3 overall pick Dion Jordan, who was given a year long suspension for violating the league's drug policy. He's failed 3 tests for banned substances in the past year, and is looking like a certain bust at this point given how little he's contributed as a pro. Derrick Shelby was signed as an undrafted free agent and has developed into a valuable backup, especially given what happened with Jordan. Inside, the Dolphins have some young players who will compete for playing time in training camp following the release of Randy Starks and defection of Jared Odrick to the Jaguars. Jordan Phillips is an athletic freak, but he didn't produce much in college and has a history of back problems so he could be a boom or bust pick. Anthony Johnson, AJ Francis, and Kamal Johnson all have shown some potential, but none are proven at this point.
Starters: WLB Jelani Jenkins, MLB Kelvin Sheppard, SLB Koa Misi
Backups: OLB Spencer Paysinger, OLB Jordan Tripp, OLB Chris McCain, ILB Jake Knott
Starting LBs: The emergence of Jelani Jenkins last year made Dannell Ellerbe expendable, and he was traded to the Saints during the offseason. Jenkins is an extremely productive linebacker who can make plays all over the field, although he didn't have a ton of competition at times so that might have inflated his numbers a bit. Koa Misi was a competent starter inside who can be a decent fantasy option due to his situation, but he doesn't make many big plays and would always be at risk of losing his spot to a better player. It appears that may have already happened as Miami is giving Kelvin Sheppard a long look at MLB, which would allow them to slide Misi back outside. Sheppard appears to have found a home in Miami, but his fantasy upside is likely limited.
Backup LBs: Chris McCain was an undrafted rookie who saw very limited playing time a year ago, but he could start on the strongside if the Sheppard experiment doesn't work out. Spencer Paysinger has starting experience during his time with the Giants and he'll provide some much needed depth. Jordan Tripp also figures to be in the mix for playing time, but his contributions will probably come mostly on special teams. Jake Knott also provides some depth inside.
Defensive Backs
Starters: CB Brent Grimes, SS Reshad Jones, FS Walt Aikens, CB Jamar Taylor,
Backups: CB Will Davis, CB Zack Bowman, CB Brice McCain, CB Bobby McCain (R), S Jordan Kovacs, S Ced Thompson (R)
Starting DBs: Brent Grimes doesn't have ideal size to play corner against the league's bigger receivers, but he battles hard and gets the most out of his abilities. Reshad Jones has established himself as a leader in the secondary and a core player for the Dolphins defense. He has posted at least 70 solo tackles for 3 years in a row, including 2014 when he missed the first four games due to a suspension. He was supposed to be joined at safety by Louis Delmas, but his bad luck with injuries continued as he suffered a torn ACL in training camp. He'll be replaced by Walt Aikens, a corner who was converted to safety who has ideal size and solid cover skills. The Dolphins released Cortland Finnegan and are in search of a second starting corner. Jamar Taylor, a 2nd round pick in the 2013 draft, has not shown much as of yet but appears to be the favorite to start.
Backup DBs: Will Davis has plenty of experience, but he's probably better suited to a nickel back role. Zack Bowman has starting experience with the Bears and Giants, and should compete for playing time here as well. Brice McCain was signed from the Texans, and figures to contribute primarily in subpackages. Bobby McCain was a 5th round pick who also looks better suited to play in the slot due to his lack of height. Jordan Kovacs has spent time on the practice squad the past couple seasons and will try to earn a roster spot in camp. Ced Thompson is an impressive athlete with the cover skills to match up against tight ends.
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Phishing Template Category Glossary
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Description of System Templates Categories
The below glossary will provide a description of what types of emails are in each phishing template category.
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Phishing templates in the Arabic language.
Attachments with Macros
This category contains templates including an attachment with a macro as the Phishing Security Test attack vector. A macro is a small, potentially dangerous bit of computer code which, once enabled, can trigger ransomware or other dangerous activities on a victim’s computer. Files that may be attached to these templates include Powerpoint, Excel, or Word, or the Zipped versions of each.
Phishing templates localized for Australian end-users.
Phishing templates localized for Austrian end-users.
This category contains templates replicating popular banks and financial institutions. Also included are generic banking templates with subjects such as transaction and confirmation activity. The majority of the sender email domains for these templates are spoofing well-known organizations.
Baseline Templates
A category dedicated to revealing an accurate Phish-Prone Percentage of your organization when performing a baseline Phishing Security Test. These templates consist of both generic and organization-specific emails that could fool almost anyone. Subjects include anything from Internal IT emails spoofing your own domain, to social media activity notifications.
Brand Knock-Offs
This category consists of templates which do not actually spoof real companies but are similar to real companies (Example: Wheels Fargo).
This category contains typical communication that employees might receive. The subjects of these emails include theoretical invoices, purchase orders, requests for information, shared files, and more. These templates typically do not spoof companies and will come from a large assortment of sender email domains.
Phishing templates localized for Burmese end-users.
Phishing templates localized for Canadian end-users.
Chinese - Security Hints and Tips
This category contains general security tips in the Chinese language. These emails would be useful for any employee to review. This category is not used for Phishing Security Tests; therefore these emails do not contain clickable links. You can send these emails by setting up a separate phishing campaign consisting only of this category to keep your users up to date on the latest security hints and tips.
For more details on Security Hints and Tips campaigns, click here.
Phishing templates in the Chinese (Simplified) language (zh-cn).
Chinese Traditional - Hong Kong
Phishing templates in the Chinese (Traditional) language (zh-hk). Some of these templates may be localized for Hong Kong.
Chinese Traditional - Taiwan
Phishing templates in the Chinese (Traditional) language (zh-hk). Some of these templates may be localized for Taiwan.
Controversial/NSFW*OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE*
This category contains templates with controversial content that could be considered offensive or inappropriate to some organizations, but others may find these templates appropriate and helpful for use in an aggressive simulated phishing campaign.
This potentially not suitable for work (NSFW) content is hidden by default within the System Templates area (for accounts created in June 2018 and later). It can be unhidden by following the steps in this article. Once unhidden, this category can be used for effective campaigns that provoke users to click or open attachments in reaction to shocking content.
The unpleasant truth is the bad guys do not shy away from using controversial subject matter and language to socially engineer users, and neither should we when training and strengthening our human firewall.
Coronavirus Alerts (Not PST)
This category includes hints and tips you can share with members of your organization to help them stay secure during the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. This category is not used for Phishing Security Tests; therefore these emails do not contain any links. You can send these emails by setting up a separate phishing campaign consisting only of this category to keep your users informed about pandemic-related security risks.
Coronavirus Alerts (Branded) (Not PST)
What makes a branded alert different is the built-in placeholder for your company logo, which replaces the KnowBe4 logo in the header. In order to use this properly, you must have imported your company logo into the Company Logo URL field in your Account Settings.
Coronavirus/COVID-19 Phishing
This category contains templates that directly or indirectly relate to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. Examples of templates that are "indirectly" related to the current pandemic would be meeting invitations, documents sent for digital signature, shipping notifications, emails related to telemedicine, and more.
CPA/Business Advising Industry
This category contains templates that are typically seen in the financial advising and public accounting industries, including common exchanges between clients and advisors, or among colleagues.
This category contains a variety of templates appropriate for current events, news, matters, occasions, etc. Templates include anything from national headline alerts (real and fake) spoofing major news channels, to popular app downloads, to shopping discounts and coupons.
Current Event of the Month
This category will contain a single Current Events or Holiday template, hand-selected by the Content team each month, to ensure that you're getting a high-quality, timely, and relevant template. Review the Current Events and Holiday template category descriptions to understand the types of templates that may be selected for this category.
For more detail about this category, see here.
Current Event of the Week
This category will contain a single Current Events or Holiday template, hand-selected by the Content team each week, to ensure that you're getting a high-quality, timely, and relevant template. Review the Current Events and Holiday template category descriptions to understand the types of templates that may be selected for this category.
Phishing templates in the Czech language.
Phishing templates in the Danish language.
This category of Phishing Templates allows you to spear-phish users that have been part of specific data breaches. Each template spoofs a unique organization that has had a large-scale data breach incident.
Each template includes a corresponding data entry landing page, so you can test your users on not only their susceptibility to clicking a link, but also if they are prone to entering sensitive information.
This category is intended to be used in conjunction with KnowBe4's Email Exposure Check Pro (EEC Pro), but can be used in any type of phishing campaign.
See: How to Use the Data Breach Category
Phishing templates in the Dutch language.
This category includes education-related templates involving college and graduate matters, high school news alerts, teacher incentives, pay raises, and student loan information. The majority of these templates could apply to anyone working or involved in the education industry.
Phishing templates in the Finnish language.
French - Security Hints and Tips
This category contains general security tips in the French language. These emails would be useful for any employee to review. This category is not used for Phishing Security Tests; therefore these emails do not contain any links. You can send these emails by setting up a separate phishing campaign consisting only of this category to keep your users up to date on the latest security hints and tips.
Phishing templates localized for French Canadian end-users.
Phishing templates in the French language.
German - Security Hints and Tips
This category contains general security tips in the German language. These emails would be useful for any employee to review. This category is not used for Phishing Security Tests; therefore these emails do not contain any links. You can send these emails by setting up a separate phishing campaign consisting only of this category to keep your users up to date on the latest security hints and tips.
Phishing templates localized for German end-users.
Phishing templates localized for Greek end-users.
This category contains templates spoofing state, local, and federal governments, regarding issues such as speeding tickets, court summons, jury duty, and criminal activity notifications. The sender email addresses in these templates spoof government domains.
This category includes healthcare related templates involving insurance and coverage matters, medical files, medical bills, and appointment reminders. The majority of these templates could apply to anyone with health insurance.
Phishing templates in the Hebrew language.
Hindi - India
Phishing templates in Hindi language.
HIPAA Security Hints and Tips (Not PST)
This category contains general security tips for end-users in organizations who must be in compliance with HIPAA. These emails would be useful to review for any employee that deals with protected health information (PHI). This category is not used for Phishing Security Tests; therefore these emails do not contain any links. You can send these emails by setting up a separate phishing campaign consisting only of this category to keep your users up to date on the latest HIPAA security hints and tips.
This category contains templates relevant to any upcoming holidays. Examples include coupons for Christmas shopping, sales for President’s Day, and real or fake news stories in relation to specific holidays.
Holiday (Off-Season)
This is essentially a container for off-season Holiday templates. Current holiday templates will be located the Holiday category. You could utilize templates in this category to create phishing campaigns set to start at a specified time in the future, preceding upcoming holidays.
This category consists of topics typically handled by Human Resources departments. The majority of the sender emails in this category spoof your own domain with an “HR” mailbox name.
Phishing templates in the Hungarian language.
Phishing templates localized for Indian end-users.
Phishing templates in the Indonesian language.
Phishing templates localized for Irish end-users.
This category contains various Information Technology-themed subject matters. There are various types of templates including email account matters, anti-virus notifications, and security matters. The majority of the sender email addresses for these templates spoof well-known IT companies, and there are also some sender email addresses that spoof your own domain.
Italian - Security Hints and Tips
This category contains general security tips in the Italian language. These emails would be useful for any employee to review. This category is not used for Phishing Security Tests; therefore these emails do not contain any links. You can send these emails by setting up a separate phishing campaign consisting only of this category to keep your users up to date on the latest security hints and tips.
Phishing templates localized for Italian end-users.
Phishing templates localized for Japanese end-users.
Phishing templates localized for Korean end-users.
This category was created for those in the law/legal industry and many of the available templates contain legal language.
Mail Notifications
This category contains automated messages that users would normally receive from their mail client. The template content typically references mailbox storage, bounced or pending email alerts, and required system updates.
Malay - Malaysia
Phishing templates in the Malay language.
Phishing templates localized for New Zealand end-users.
Phishing templates localized for Norwegian end-users.
This is our largest category of templates. This category contains emails from various well-known online services including shopping, entertainment, applications, financial and security services. The majority of the sender email addresses in these templates include spoofed domains of very popular websites and applications that your users will recognize.
This category includes templates replicating emails from well-known outdoor/sporting good distributors. The emails in this category contain announcements of store sales as well as coupons from popular manufacturers.
PCI Security Hints and Tips (Not PST)
This category contains general security tips for end-users in organizations who must be in compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). These emails would be useful to review for any employee who handles credit cards. This category is not used for Phishing Security Tests; therefore these emails do not contain any links. You can send these emails by setting up a separate phishing campaign consisting only of this category to keep your users up to date on the latest PCI security hints and tips.
Phishing For Sensitive Information
Templates in this category have “Phishing for Sensitive Information” landing pages assigned to them. If users click on any links in these Phishing Security Test emails, they will be redirected to a landing page which has a form on it asking the user to enter sensitive data. If the user does enter data, a failure for this action will be recorded in the system.
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Phishing templates in the Polish language.
Phishing templates localized for Brazilian end-users.
Phishing templates localized for Portuguese end-users.
This category contains templates specific to email exchanges found in the real estate industry, such as buyer closing documents and loan information.
Reply-To Only *No Links or Attachments*
The emails in this category of templates do not contain any links or attachments and will only test the user on whether or not they will reply to a phishing email. You can enable the console to track replies to Phishing Security Test emails when you set up your phishing campaign. If you enable this feature and your user replies to any of the PST emails, this will record as a failure in the console.
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Reported Phishes of the Week
This category consists of the top ten phishing emails reported to us by users of the Phish Alert Button. This category contains ten new emails every week. The sender domains vary in this category and include, but are not limited to, those that spoof popular companies and those that spoof your own organization domain.
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Retired Current Events
This category consists of templates that were once popular but are no longer relevant. These templates were originally added to our Current Events category. You can use them as a starting point to create your own "Breaking News" phishing templates.
Phishing templates in the Romanian language.
Phishing templates in the Russian language.
Scam of the Week (Not PST)
This category consists of a new email template/newsletter every week which can inform your users of the newest phishing and social engineering scams. This category is not used for Phishing Security Tests; therefore these emails do not contain any links. You can send these emails by setting up a separate phishing campaign consisting only of this category to keep your users up to date on the latest phishing and social engineering scams that they should look out for.
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Scam of the Week (Branded) (Not PST)
This category consists of a new email template/newsletter every week which can inform your users of the newest phishing and social engineering scams. This category is not used for Phishing Security Tests; therefore these emails do not contain any links. You can send these emails by setting up a separate phishing campaign consisting only of this category to keep your users up to date on the latest phishing and social engineering scams that they should look out for. What makes Branded Scam of the Week different is a built-in placeholder for your company logo, which replaces the KnowBe4 logo in the header. In order to use this properly, you must have imported your company logo into the Company Logo URL field in your Account Settings.
Seasonal (Non-current)
This template category contains non-current seasonal templates, such as Black Friday, Fantasy Football, and March Madness. This category holds templates that don’t fit into the Holiday category and are not timely enough to be categorized in Current Events.
Security Hints and Tips (Not PST)
This category contains general security tips that would be useful for any employee to review. This category is not used for Phishing Security Tests; therefore these emails do not contain clickable links. You can send these emails by setting up a separate phishing campaign consisting only of this category to keep your users up to date on the latest security hints and tips.
Security Hints and Tips (Branded) (Not PST)
This category contains general security tips that would be useful for any employee to review. This category is not used for Phishing Security Tests; therefore these emails do not contain clickable links. You can send these emails by setting up a separate phishing campaign consisting only of this category to keep your users up to date on the latest security hints and tips. What makes Branded Security Hints and Tips different is a built-in placeholder for your company logo, which replaces the KnowBe4 logo in the header. In order to use this properly, you must have imported your company logo into the Company Logo URL field in your Account Settings.
Phishing templates localized for Singaporean end-users.
This category consists of templates spoofing all types of social media sites and applications. The templates consist of subjects such as invites to join, confirmation of your account, resetting your password, and notifying you of new messages you’ve received.
English - Africa
Phishing templates localized for African end-users.
Spanish - Security Hints and Tips
This category contains general security tips in the Spanish language. These emails would be useful for any employee to review. This category is not used for Phishing Security Tests; therefore these emails do not contain any links. You can send these emails by setting up a separate phishing campaign consisting only of this category to keep your users up to date on the latest security hints and tips.
Phishing templates localized for Colombian end-users.
Phishing templates in the Spanish language.
Swedish - Security Hints and Tips
This category contains general security tips in the Swedish language. These emails would be useful for any employee to review. This category is not used for Phishing Security Tests; therefore these emails do not contain clickable links. You can send these emails by setting up a separate phishing campaign consisting only of this category to keep your users up to date on the latest security hints and tips.
Phishing templates in the Swahili language.
Phishing templates in the Swedish language.
Phishing templates in the Thai language.
Phishing templates in the Turkish language.
English - Great Britain (Banking)
This category of templates consists of banking and financial institution notifications, including security and transaction alerts, localized for users in the United Kingdom.
English - Great Britain (Current Events)
This category contains a variety of templates appropriate for current events, news, matters, occasions, etc. Templates include anything from national headline alerts (real and fake) spoofing major news channels, to popular app downloads, to shopping discounts and coupons. All current events are localized for users in the United Kingdom.
English - Great Britain
This category of templates consists of organizations and topics localized for United Kingdom users.
Phishing templates in the Ukrainian language.
Phishing templates in the Vietnamese language.
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Gadjovich, Lind having bounce-back season
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Photos: Lindsay Mogle, JustSports Photography
by Joe Roberts | AHL On The Beat
Maybe they’re burning sage in the locker room.
Or maybe they’re just avoiding a sophomore slump due to their tireless work, dynamic skills, and newfound level of comfort with the pro game.
For the Utica Comets, the second-year duo of Jonah Gadjovich and Kole Lind have been on top of their games after rookie seasons that saw well-documented struggles, and their play is a big part of the team’s success throughout the season.
For Gadjovich, who was the 55th overall pick in the 2017 NHL Draft, keeping confidence has been one of the keys to a quick start after a rookie year that included four goals and 10 points over the course of just 43 games played.
“The biggest thing for me was sticking with it,” he said. “I put a lot of work in and I think it’s just starting to click.”
As is the case for many young prospects, there is very little attention paid by the public to the challenges of transitioning from playing against teenagers in junior to the best of the best in pro hockey.
Jonah Gadjovich (Photo: Lindsay Mogle)
“People aren’t in the dressing room. They’re not on the ice with me,” the Whitby, Ontario, native said. “They don’t see a lot of the work that we are doing back there. All of that starts to show on the ice and it’s beginning to pay off.”
In just 12 games this season, Gadjovich, who was a gold medal winner with Canada at the 2018 World Junior Championship, has earned five goals, already passing last year’s total. But what doesn’t show up on the scoresheet is the type of game he plays. At 6-foot-2 and 210 pounds, Gadjovich is a prototypical power forward who has learned that he has to get dirty if he’s going to get the puck.
“It’s a role I had success with in junior, but coming to pro it’s a lot different,” he mentioned. “Establishing an identity took a little bit of time and once I understood and found the right way to play that role, I started to contribute and play better. I usually work best within a few feet of the net.”
For Kole Lind, who was picked 25 selections before Gadjovich at the same 2017 draft, a rookie year of 17 points was frustrating. Especially considering he had earned 1.63 points per game during his final season of junior in Kelowna.
There was a lot of noise surrounding Lind, who turned 21 in October, in regards to his difficulties during his first season of pro hockey. And it was tough for the native of Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, to ignore all of it.
“It’s something I take with me and use it as motivation. I think last year I got really down on myself and, obviously I expected more of myself,” Lind said. “This year I’m being positive with things and when the struggles come I’m just going to stick with it and play my game.”
Kole Lind (Photo: Lindsay Mogle)
But the thing is, the struggles haven’t come, as Lind has been on a tear to start the campaign. He’s blown past last year’s point totals in half the games, and he’s currently on pace to finish the season with over 60 points.
“When the chances are coming, I know I’m doing something right,” he added. “I’m going to get better and try to prove people wrong because that’s something I grew up my whole life doing.”
Maybe in the case of Gadjovich and Lind it’s more of a sophomore surge than a slump.
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It is Official Now, The Promised Neverland Receives An Anime Adaption
The newest issue of shounen jump, Issue #26. Revealed that The Promised Neverland will be receiving an anime adaption. The announcement was placed on the cover of the newest issue of Shounen Jump. No other info was released but expect more news about it in the coming weeks. Few weeks ago anime websites were talking about this citing an unofficial source.
The Promised Neverland Anime Announcement
The anime announcement comes as no surprise. To many considering the series raising in popularity in Japan, An anime adaption was bound to happen. Should be noted the announcement got leaked a week ago. So most were just waiting for an official announcement before getting excited about it. Though no official statement regarding this yet. Over on Twitter, it was also mentioned that the studio that might be working on the anime might be CloverWorks. But this is not official so I would not believe this statement yet until an official announcement. But I’ll mention this studio’s most recent adaption being Darling in the FranXX and the Persona 5 The Animation and Slow Start the anime. They a fairly new studio and seem to be one of A-1 Pictures studio’s who re-branded/Renamed to CloverWorks.
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Seeing as this is a fairly new studio working on the anime. You can’t really say whether the series will be a good adaptation of the manga or not. We still need a bit more info about the production of the series adapting The Promised Neverland, the Director and staff and whatnot, an official announcement covering those topics should be made known in the coming weeks.
Dragon Ball Heroes Arcade Card Game Receives An Anime Adaption.
For now, fans of the series should just be excited that the series will be receiving an anime adaption. It is for sure one of the current manga most deserving of one since it’s been a series that’s been constantly good for manga readers. To anime only people I wouldn’t judge this series by it’s cover there is more to it then you’d expect. It might catch you off guard by how good it is. The Promised Neverland is one of the more enjoyable series to read weekly. Something that always has you looking forward to the next week. You just got to hope the studio adapting this gives the series an adaption it deserves following the source.
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Pink ball pathbreakers Mohammed Shami, Wriddhiman Saha look forward to Eden Test | Sports News, The Indian Express
Why has India continued to oppose pink-ball Tests so far?
Two players in the Indian squad which will play the first Day/Night Test on Indian soil against Bangladesh next month have prior experience of playing under lights with pink balls. Mohammed Shami and Wriddhiman Saha, the two Bengal boys, had been part of an experimental pink ball match in 2016, and their inputs will be vital as India prepare for a historic encounter at the Eden from November 22.
“I’ll prefer the pink ball any day, hope this pink-ball match prospers. The best thing is you get to bowl only one session under the sun. Then the ball starts talking once the lights are on,” Shami was quoted as saying by PTI.
“I got reverse swing in the first innings. I think if the condition is dry, the ball will reverse. The seam usually does not remain intact after 40 overs but it’s not the case with the pink ball,” he had further added.
The CAB Super League final – between Mohun Bagan and Bhowanipore – had been played with a pink ball in 2016. Shami had taken figures of 5/42 – the first fifer with the pink ball in the longer format in India. Wriddhiman Saha, however, had fallen for a golden duck.
“This will be a new challenge in front of us. We have not played Tests with the pink ball. I have been part of a domestic pink ball multi-day game. Challenge is there in every sport. The more you are challenged as a team, you get better and I am sure we will do that,” Saha was quoted by India TV on Wednesday.
The CAB is trying its best to make it a full house in the 68,000-capacity stadium on all the five days of the Test by offering a daily ticket starting as low as Rs 50.
“We will send the tickets for printing as we get the timing confirmation from BCCI and broadcasters. We are planning to bring in school children from the districts and local schools and we don’t want any inconvenience.Ticket denominations will be of Rs 50, 100, 150 on daily basis. We will try our best to pull in as many crowd as possible. We hope it will be a success,” CAB secretary Avishek Dalmiya said.
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Geoffrey Cox MP meets West Devon Police Officers
The Member of Parliament for West Devon and Torridge, Geoffrey Cox, spent time with Devon and Cornwall Police Officers to learn more about current issues affecting the force working in a rural area such as West Devon and to discuss the changes affecting the police brought in by the coalition government.
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Filed Under: Law and Order Tagged With: Devon and Cornwall Police, Geoffry Cox, Torridge, West Devon
10 news stories from Devon to round off the week
February 19, 2012 by the Devon Week
1. Devon and Cornwall Police has approved plans for a 2% rise in its share of council tax, but 700 police officers will still be cut from the force. It could have increased its share of the bill to 3.94%. The rise means the force costs £3 a year for a Band D taxpayer.
2. Firefighters won’t have a pay rise this year (1% at the most, according to Bob Walker from the Fire Brigades Union), but the Devon and Somerset Fire Authority has voted for a 25% expenses increase. Councillors and the Fire Brigades Union have described the move as “grossly out of order” and “disgusting”, says the BBC. They also voted for a 3% increase in their share of council tax.
3. Four Devon care home operators have won a judicial review on how Devon County Council pays for places in private care homes. They say their clients are older and more ill than ever before.
4. Dame Hannah Rogers Trust has received more than £20,000 to help establish Hannahs Food at its Hannahs at Seale-Hayne site – a new horticultural project for adults with learning disabilities to provide the trust’s Blackbird Bistro with fresh produce all year round.
5. Regeneration organisation North Devon+ has an aspiration for a mainline railway station in North Devon ‘to compensate for its network of mainly minor roads and its lack of a major sea port’, says the North Devon Journal.
6. Forcing people to say prayers at council meetings has been dubbed as “illiberal and intolerant” by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, and Bideford Town Council, who were the subject of a High Court decision banning prayers from council agendas, will to appeal the ruling. “In the interim period, prayers will be removed from the agenda and said before the start of the main meeting,” said a statement from the town council.
7. Plymouth’s Absolute Recycling has quadrupled its business in just six months. Business development manager Andy Hawkins told the Plymouth Herald: “Our annual turnover has gone from £300,000 last October to £1.3million now.”
8. Two pairs of skis used by Plymouth-born explorer Scott of the Antarctic, which went missing 57 years ago, have been recovered. One of the returnees was Dave Baker, who served in the US Navy and used them when he told people of his adventures. Captain Baker said: “Since 1957 I have spoken to over 50,000 people about my experience and the skis have been a key part of that presentation. It is now time to return them to their rightful place.”
9. The EMG Symphony Orchestra in Exeter is giving people the opportunity to see how a large amateur symphony orchestra prepares for a concert with an open rehearsal for their spring concert.
10. The people of Beer have been using an old telephone box to swap unwanted seasonal items with other in the community, but the project has been so successful the parish council wants to move the box from the village of Barline to the centre of Beer and change its use from a swap shop to an information centre with wireless communication. The box has been used to swap books, CDs, DVDs a bumper crop of apples and two vacuum cleaners.
Filed Under: Devon, News Tagged With: Absolute Recycling, Beer, Bideford, Devon and Cornwall Police, Devon and Somerset Fire Authority, Devon Care Homes, devon county council, EMG Symphony Orchestra, Exeter, firefighters, Hannah Rogers Trust, Newton Abbot, North Devon, Plymouth, Seal-Hayne
Check out who’s had a good week or a bad week in Devon
September 30, 2011 by the Devon Week
Good Week:
Shrikes, the endangered bird of prey, has been re-introduced to Dartmoor after a 40 year absence.
Newton Abbot apiarists, who have a new £28,000 green education centre.
Plymouth Argyle, which may be saved in a take-over by fan favourite James Bent
First, which runs railgroup First Great Western saw a nine per cent rise in passenger revenues
Bad Week:
Devon and Cornwall Police, after a survey revealed the number of officers and staff endorsing the force has fallen by nearly one-third.
Torbay’s elderly and vulnerable, as Torbay council aims to make £2.2 million in cost savings.
Trago Mills, which was fined £185,000 for dumping illegal waste
HMS Exeter, which is to be sold for scrap
Filed Under: Good Week/Bad Week Tagged With: dartmoor, Devon and Cornwall Police, First Great Western, HMS Exeter, Newton Abbot Bee Keeping Association, Plymouth Artgyle, Shrikes, torbay, Trago Mills
Newton Abbot neighbours from hell evicted for second time
April 6, 2011 by the Devon Week
A 45 year old woman and her 26 year old boyfriend from Newton Abbot who continued to make their neighbours’ life hell, were evicted for the second time on Wednesday, April 6 following tough action from Teignbridge District Council and Devon and Cornwall Police, for a period of three months.
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Filed Under: Devon, Newton Abbot, Teignmouth Tagged With: Devon and Cornwall Police, Newton Abbot, teignbridge
Devon news roundup: £2.8m police cuts, and other stories
May 28, 2010 by the Devon Week
The Devon and Cornwall Police budget is to be cut by £2.8m.
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Filed Under: Devon Tagged With: Alison Seabeck, Devon and Cornwall Police, devon county council, Plymouth Labour
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6 Essential Risk Mitigating Tips for Using Public Wi-Fi Networks
by dcsdemo | Feb 28, 2014 | Baltimore Technology Tips & Tricks, Stay Up-To-Date With The Top IT News From Tier One Technology Partners
Do you protect your laptops and mobile devices with anti-virus software? If not, it’s critical to avoid using public Wi-Fi networks. Cybercriminals can easily intercept data sent over public Wi-Fi, yet 53% of mobile device owners use public Wi-Fi hotspots on a regular basis. Many locations, including hotels, coffee shops, and airports, offer free access to public Wi-Fi, however, it’s not always worth the risk. If you must use public Wi-Fi, here’s 6 tips to help you mitigate the security risks:
1. Avoid Automatic Connection
Does your smartphone or tablet automatically connect to Wi-Fi hotspots? If so, change your settings to ensure permission is required. When mobile devices automatically connect to public Wi-Fi hotspots, there’s no way to prevent the device from connecting to a malicious network. While most smartphones disable this option by default, it’s important to double-check.
2. Be Suspicious
Cybercriminals often set up phony hotspots to capture personal information from users. Sometimes these hotspots will be named after the location that’s offering free Wi-Fi, so talk to an employee and make sure the hotspot is legitimate. Ask for the connection’s name and IP address to avoid connecting to phony hotspots.
3. Use Anti-Virus Software
Anti-virus software can help you prevent malware infections while your system is connected to an unsecured network. Make sure the anti-virus software is kept up-to-date and watch for alerts in case the system is compromised.
4. Turn On Your Firewall
Most operating systems include a built-in firewall, however, make sure a firewall is enabled on devices. A firewall monitors incoming and outgoing traffic to detect and prevent threats to your device’s security.
5. Use a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
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Thirty Workers, Four USDA Inspectors Dead Amid Meat Plant Coronavirus Outbreaks
By Mike Dorning / Bloomberg
May 14, 2020 3:50 PM EDT
A fourth U.S. Department of Agriculture food safety inspector died Wednesday from Covid-19, according to a union official, amid an outbreak of the virus in the nation’s meat processors.
The inspector was located in Dodge City, Kansas, said Paula Schelling, acting national joint council chairperson for food inspection locals for the American Federation of Government Employees. Schelling declined to provide additional details, saying the inspector’s family wants to keep the matter private.
The USDA confirmed the inspector’s death in a statement Thursday without addressing the cause.
“USDA can confirm the passing of an employee,” according to the statement. “The safety and well-being of our employees is our top priority. We thank those working on the front lines of our food supply chain for remaining on the job and for making sure the American people have access to safe food.”
Union officials have criticized the department since April for providing inadequate protection to inspectors as coronavirus swept through the nation’s meatpacking plants. Inspectors in early April were left to buy their own masks. The department now has enough face masks to provide them for all inspectors, said a USDA official.
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The virus has spread through meat processors, where employees typically work close together in cramped, cold spaces. USDA inspectors work on the production floor, checking meat for safety. A number of plants closed temporarily because of outbreaks.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order April 28 directing meatpackers to reopen and the USDA announced Friday that 14 processing facilities were reopening. Schelling didn’t provide details on when the deceased inspector contracted the virus.
At least 30 meat workers have died of coronavirus and more than 10,000 have been infected or exposed, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. At least 30 plants have closed at some point in the past two months, the union said May 8.
As of Tuesday, 123 USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service employees were under self-quarantine due to coronavirus exposure and another 171 field employees were absent from work due to a Covid-19 diagnosis, according to a USDA statement earlier in the day.
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Youve likely heard some of the following terms if youve paid attention to the world of finance: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ethereum. But what do they mean? And why is cryptocurrency suddenly so hot?
As society become increasingly digital, financial services providers are looking to offer customers the same services to which theyre accustomed, but in a more efficient, secure, and cost effective way.
The origins of blockchain are a bit nebulous. A person or group of people known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakomoto invented and released the tech in 2009 as a way to digitally and anonymously send payments between two parties without needing a third party to verify the transaction. It was initially designed to facilitate, authorize, and log the transfer of bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies.
Blockchain tech is actually rather easy to understand at its core. Essentially, its a shared database populated with entries that must be confirmed and encrypted. Think of it as a kind of highly encrypted and verified shared Google Document, in which each entry in the sheet depends on a logical relationship to all its predecessors. Blockchain tech offers a way to securely and efficiently create a tamper-proof log of sensitive activity (anything from international money transfers to shareholder records).
Blockchains conceptual framework and underlying code is useful for a variety of financial processes because of the potential it has to give companies a secure, digital alternative to banking processes that are typically bureaucratic, time-consuming, paper-heavy, and expensive.
Cryptocurrencies are essentially just digital money, digital tools of exchange that use cryptography and the aforementioned blockchain technology to facilitate secure and anonymous transactions. There had been several iterations of cryptocurrency over the years, but Bitcoin truly thrust cryptocurrencies forward in the late 2000s. There are thousands of cryptocurrencies floating out on the market now, but Bitcoin is far and away the most popular.
Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies dont just fall out of the sky. Like any other form of money, it takes work to produce them. And that work comes in the form of mining.
But lets take a step back. Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of Bitcoin, ensured that there would ever only be 21 million Bitcoins in existence. He (or they) reached that figure by calculating that people would discover, or mine, a certain number of blocks of transactions each day.
Every four years, the number of Bitcoins released in relation to the previous cycle gets reduced by 50%, along with the reward to miners for discovering new blocks. At the moment, that reward is 12.5 Bitcoins. Therefore, the total number of Bitcoins in circulation will approach 21 million but never actually reach that figure. This means Bitcoin will never experience inflation. The downside here is that a hack or cyberattack could be a disaster because it could erase Bitcoin wallets with little hope of getting the value back.
As for mining Bitcoins, the process requires electrical energy. Miners solve complex mathematical problems, and the reward is more Bitcoins generated and awarded to them. Miners also verify transactions and prevent fraud, so more miners equals faster, more reliable, and more secure transactions.
Thanks to Satoshi Nakamotos designs, Bitcoin mining becomes more difficult as more miners join the fray. In 2009, a miner could mine 200 Bitcoin in a matter of days. In 2014, it would take approximately 98 years to mine just one, according to 99Bitcoins.
Super powerful computers called Application Specific Integrated Circuit, or ASIC, were developed specifically to mine Bitcoins. But because so many miners have joined in the last few years, it remains difficult to mine loads. The solution is mining pools, groups of miners who band together and are paid relative to their share of the work.
Since its inception, Bitcoin has been rather volatile. But based on its recent boom and a forecast by Snapchats first investor, Jeremy Liew, that it would hit $500,000 by 2030 and the prospect of grabbing a slice of the Bitcoin pie becomes far more attractive.
Bitcoin users expect 94% of all bitcoins to be released by 2024. As the number moves toward the ceiling of 21 million, many expect the profits miners once made from the creation of new blocks to become so low that they will become negligible. But as more bitcoins enter circulation, transaction fees could rise and offset this.
As for blockchain technology itself, it has numerous applications, from banking to the Internet of Things. It is expected that companies will flesh out their blockchain IoT solutions. Blockchain is a promising tool that will transform parts of the IoT and enable solutions that provide greater insight into assets, operations, and supply chains. It will also transform how health records and connected medical devices store and transmit data.
Blockchain wont be usable everywhere, but in many cases, it will be a part of the solution that makes the best use of the tools in the IoT arsenal. Blockchain can help to address particular problems, improve workflows, and reduce costs, which are the ultimate goals of any IoT project.
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The Heartbreaking Death Of Dawn Wells From Gilligan’s Island
Actress Dawn Wells, best known for playing the perennial “girl next door,” Mary Ann Summers, on Gilligan’s Island, sadly passed away Wednesday morning in Los Angeles, due to complications from COVID-19. The actress was 82 years old (via Deadline).
Wells was born on October 18, 1938 in Reno, Nevada. Wells got her start as a model, winning the Miss Nevada title in 1959 and going on to compete in the Miss America pageant (via NWI.com). From there, Wells made her TV debut with guest turns on shows like Bonanza, The Joey Bishop Show, Maverick and more. In 1964, Wells beat out hundreds of other girls to star as Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island.
The original Gilligan’s Island only ran for three seasons, but it would eventually make Wells (or at least, her character, Mary Ann) a household name. Following the conclusion of Gilligan’s Island, Wells continued to appear in other shows, both within the Gilligan’s Island universe and otherwise. She reprised her role of Mary Ann throughout the 1970s and ’80s for the Gilligan’s Island animated daytime series, the Gilligan’s Planet television show, and multiple reunion movies.
The perennial "girl next door"
When Mary Ann — along with the rest of the S.S. Minnows passengers — washed ashore on that “uncharted desert isle” (as the theme song goes), the character of Mary Ann became the perennial girl next door. Her character stood much in contrast to fellow island-dweller, Ginger, the sultry movie star played by Tina Louise (via NPR). “Ginger or Mary Ann?” would eventually become the question for straight men, the ultimate (if inaccurate) delineation of women.
Even Wells herself embraced Mary Ann as the ultimate good girl. In 2014, alongside Steve Stinson, Wells published a self-help book, titled, What Would Mary Ann Do? A Guide to Life.
Per Wells, Mary Anns these days are few and far between. In a 2008 sit down with the TV Academy for their “The Interviews” series, Wells said, “There hasn’t been a good girl over 14, and Mary Ann was very much that. The Mary Ann-Ginger issue is always there. You had to be a real man to understand Ginger, and Mary Ann would’ve gone to the prom with you and been your best friend. A lot of guys would come up to me and say I married a Mary Ann. She had the values” (via Deadline).
Wells’s final message — a written and video message she recorded and posted to her Facebook page on Christmas Day — was one of unity and hope.
“Keep you(r) [sic] heart light and share a few laughs and conversation with someone near and far… Please find joy amidst the pandemic and be cognizant of our overwhelmed first responders. Let’s not let our actions make a bigger burden for them. I am thankful and in awe of the dedication of our health care professionals.”
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Mitch McConnell for the first time recognizes Joe Biden as President-elect
“The electoral college has spoken,” McConnell said in remarks from the Senate floor in the US Capitol, adding, “Today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden.”
“The fact that it took six weeks for my colleagues to recognize reality and stop undermining our Democratic process is sad and disappointing,” said Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin in a floor speech Tuesday following McConnell’s remarks.
McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, made the comments after praising the Trump presidency in the past tense, touting his administration’s accomplishments, including the country’s “economic prosperity,” “foreign policy,” judicial appointments, and “bold regulatory changes” in a floor speech.
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“It would take far more than one speech to catalog all the major wins the Trump administration has helped deliver for the American people,” he said. “The outsider who swore he would shake up Washington and lead our country to new accomplishments, both at home and abroad proceeded to do exactly that. President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence deserve our thanks and our gratitude for their tireless work and their essential roles in all these victories and in many more.”
In his floor remarks, McConnell also congratulated Vice-President elect Kamala Harris for the first time.
“I also want to congratulate the vice president-elect, our colleague from California, Senator Harris,” he said. “Beyond our differences, all Americans can take pride that our nation has a female vice president-elect for the very first time.”
McConnell said while millions wished the election would have yielded a different result, “our system of government has processes to determine who will be sworn in on January the 20th. The Electoral College has spoken.”
Trump, even in defeat, holds enormous sway over his party, to the point where many refuse to publicly accept electoral reality or raise any concerns as the President continues to undermine the integrity of US democracy by lying that the election was rigged and stolen from him. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has yet to acknowledge Biden’s victory.
Pressed multiple times Monday about whether he’d accept Biden as President-elect, Sen. Steve Daines, a Montana Republican, continued to point to how Trump had won his state’s electoral votes.
“Montana cast three electoral votes for President Trump, and the Electoral College voted today,” said Daines, who just won reelection in Montana. “And Congress will need to ratify in January.”
Still on Monday evening, following the Electoral College process, some GOP members of Congress were signaling they were more willing to accept Biden’s victory.
Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, a member of Senate GOP leadership who leads the congressional inauguration committee, said they will meet soon to discuss the ceremony to inaugurate Biden on January 20. Just last week, he and other GOP leaders had rejected a Democratic effort to formally note that the committee was preparing for Biden’s inauguration.
“We’ve now gone through the constitutional process and the electors have voted, so there’s a President-elect,” Blunt said. “With Vice President Biden as the President-elect, the President continues, obviously, to have all the options he has available to him, but the electoral vote today was significant.”
Two other members of GOP leadership — Senate Majority Whip John Thune of South Dakota and Sen. John Cornyn of Texas — both said that any effort to overturn the election results on January 6, when a joint of session of Congress meets to count the electoral votes, would be fruitless.
“In the end at some point you have to face the music,” Thune said Monday on his way to McConnell’s office for a leadership meeting. “And I think once the Electoral College settles the issue today, it’s time for everybody to move on.”
This story has been updated with additional developments Tuesday.
CNN’s Daniella Diaz and Clare Foran contributed to this report.
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Members of the Altar Guild care for the altar, vestments, vessels, and altar linens of the parish. They work closely with the clergy to prepare the sanctuary for services and clean up afterward. Altar Guild members also supervise the decoration of the sanctuary with flowers. Training is provided. For more information or to volunteer, please contact Linda Morris or Barbara Ashe.
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Police stifle İstanbul Gay Pride rally, detain AP reporter
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police have thwarted an attempt by LGBT activists to hold a pride march in İstanbul’s famed Taksim square to mark one of the largest organized gay festivals in Turkey.
According to Turkish media outlets and several pro-LGBT twitter accounts, police fired plastic bullets at a group of around 40 activists in the country’s largest city.
The BBC’s Mark Lowen also said that the heavy police presence stopped people from entering Istiklal street, where the rally was scheduled to start.
According to the Hürriyet daily, at least 10 people have so far been detained and among them was Bram Janssen, an AP reporter covering the attempted march.
On Saturday, the İstanbul Governor’s Office banned an LGBTI pride parade scheduled to take place in Taksim on June 25, citing security and public order concerns.
“The application for the parade was not properly submitted to our office in accordance with Law 2911. There is also serious criticism of this parade from various segments of society on social media,” said the statement issued by the governor’s office.
“In line with our assessment, and taking into consideration the safety of residents and tourists in the area as well as public order, it will not be permitted to hold the parade or to gather and protest on that day, before that day or after that day.”
The organizing committee for LGBTI pride week reacted to the decision of the Istanbul Governor’s Office, saying banning the march contravenes international conventions, Turkish law and the constitution.
An angry police man shouts and bangs on the car of a passersby by at Istanbul pride march in Cihangir #Pride2017 pic.twitter.com/D9FtNCxErR
— Mel Plant (@meleppo) June 25, 2017
Rejecting the statement that they did not submit an appropriate application for the march, the committee said: “We would like to once again underline that we are not in one place but everywhere in the city. We want to speak out, not one day but every day. We say once again: ‘Get used to it, we are here and are not going anywhere’.”
Last Monday, the Alperen Ocakları, an offshoot of Turkish nationalist movement the Grey Wolves (Ülkü Ocakları), announced that they would not allow LGBTI members to hold a pride parade on June 25.
“Even if the government permits it, we will not let them walk,” said Kürşat Mican, Istanbul head of Alperen Ocakları during a program on KRT TV.
“Wherever they walk, we will go there and block the street. They can come there,” added Mican, who stood trial for threats against LGBTI members ahead of the pride parade last year.
Police chasing journalists shouting and with dogs, preventing coverage of #Pride2017#dokuz8/@erturkerkek pic.twitter.com/N083YL2ydo
— dokuz8 NEWS (@dokuz8_EN) June 25, 2017
A group of NGOs announced on Wednesday that they planned to file a criminal complaint against the head of the nationalist Alperen Ocakları’s İstanbul branch over his statement.
Last year, the İstanbul Governor’s Office banned a pre-scheduled LGBTI pride parade to take place in Taksim on June 19 and 26, after an attack at an Orlando gay nightclub, where a gunman killed 49 people and injured more than 50.
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CLINICAL INTERESTS: Dr. Redberg is a general Cardiologist and is interested in preventive cardiology. Her main clinical interests include treatment of all types of heart disease.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dr Redberg’s research interests are in our use of medical procedures and devices. She studies the regulatory process for medical devices and the strength of evidence that supports them, particularly high-risk devices, both before and after they are marketed. She is a strong proponent of high-quality data to support safety and effectiveness for medical devices, in order to provide the best quality and appropriate medical care and advice. Dr Redberg has testified before Congress multiple times on these issues.
She is the Editor-in-Chief of JAMA Internal Medicine, a highly ranked international medical journal, and spearheaded the Less is More series highlighting areas of health care with no benefit. Dr Redberg also serves on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on medical payment policy.
Dr. Redberg has written, edited and contributed to many books, including "You Can Be a Woman Cardiologist," "Heart Healthy: The Step-by-Step Guide to Preventing and Healing Heart Disease," and "Coronary Disease in Women: Evidence-Based Diagnosis and Treatment."
Post-Doc Fellow/Scholar, 1991 - Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Automated abstraction of myocardial perfusion imaging reports using natural language processing.
Identifying patients with low-risk of acute coronary syndrome without troponin testing: Validation of the HEAR score.
Early Noninvasive Cardiac Testing After Emergency Department Evaluation for Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome.
Multivessel or Culprit Vessel-Only Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock: Real-World Evidence in Support of CULPRIT-SHOCK.
Internal Medicine and COVID-19.
Two Remedies for Inappropriate Percutaneous Coronary Intervention-Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Practice.
Product Hopping-An Expensive and Wasteful Practice.
Consistency of trial reporting between ClinicalTrials.gov and corresponding publications: one decade after FDAAA.
Notice of Retraction: Panagioti et al. Association Between Physician Burnout and Patient Safety, Professionalism, and Patient Satisfaction: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Intern Med. 2018;178(10):1317-1331.
Comparison of Priority vs Standard US Food and Drug Administration Premarket Approval Review for High-Risk Medical Devices.
JAMA Internal Medicine-The Year in Review, 2019.
A Successful but Underused Strategy for Reducing Low-Value Care: Stop Paying for It.
First Physical, Reprised.
Generating comparative evidence on new drugs and devices before approval.
Automated Identification and Extraction of Exercise Treadmill Test Results.
Leading the Call for Reform of Medical Device Safety Surveillance.
Questioning the Benefit of Statins for Low-risk Populations-Medical Misinformation or Scientific Evidence?
Miscategorization of Deaths in the US Food and Drug Administration Adverse Events Database.
Moving From Substantial Equivalence to Substantial Improvement for 510(k) Devices.
Controversies in Diagnostic Imaging of Patients With Suspected Stable and Acute Chest Pain Syndromes.
Evaluation of technologies approved for supplemental payments in the United States.
Interventional Cardiology Payments and Device Choices-The Ties That (May) Blind.
Lisa M. Schwartz, MD, MS, 1963-2018.
The Case for Implementing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Shared Decision-Making Mandate: Where the Rubber Meets the Code.
Evaluation of Outpatient Cardiac Stress Testing After Emergency Department Encounters for Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome.
Vascular Aging is Accelerated in Flight Attendants with Occupational Secondhand Smoke Exposure.
Effect of a HEART Care Pathway on Chest Pain Management Within an Integrated Health System.
PCI Guided by Fractional Flow Reserve at 5 Years.
Retail Clinics Provide Important Antibiotic Stewardship-Reply.
The Persistent Problem of Overuse of Diagnostic Testing Among House Staff-Time to Move Forward.
Association Between Hospital Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement Volume and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Outcomes.
I Have Insomnia-What Should I Do?
The HEART Score for Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome in U.S. Emergency Departments.
Collaboration between academics and industry in clinical trials: cross sectional study of publications and survey of lead academic authors.
Assessment of Clinical Trial Evidence for High-Risk Cardiovascular Devices Approved Under the Food and Drug Administration Priority Review Program.
Failing Grade for Shared Decision Making for Lung Cancer Screening.
Introducing JAMA Internal Medicine Patient Pages.
Overprescription in Urgent Care Clinics-The Fast and the Spurious.
Promoting FIT Colorectal Cancer Screening.
Trends in Use of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement by Age.
Evolving from volume to value, or to a bolder vision of reimbursement reform?
Rigor in Quality Improvement Studies and the Role of Time-Series Methodologies-Reply.
Evidence-Based Rationale for Use of Inferior Vena Cava Filters-Reply.
Length of hospitalization and mortality for bleeding during treatment with warfarin, dabigatran, or rivaroxaban.
Reducing Harms in Lung Cancer Screening-Bach to the Future.
False Information About Breast Cancer Screening-Reply.
Overuse of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions.
Quality Improvement for Quality Improvement Studies.
Death by Gun Violence-A Public Health Crisis.
Science Requires Open Discourse.
Last nail in the coffin for PCI in stable angina?
Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography vs Functional Stress Testing for Patients With Suspected Coronary Artery Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
New (Very High) Prices on Old Drugs.
The Risk of Remaining Silent: Addressing the Current Threats to Women's Health.
Continued High Rates of IVC Filter Use After US Food and Drug Safety Warning.
Guideline concordance of new statin prescriptions: who got a statin?
Inaccuracies Describing Results of a Lung Cancer Screening Demonstration Project-Reply.
Inclusion of Demographic-Specific Information in Studies Supporting US Food & Drug Administration Approval of High-Risk Medical Devices.
Major Bleeding Risk During Anticoagulation with Warfarin, Dabigatran, Apixaban, or Rivaroxaban in Patients with Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation.
Sharing Medicine-A JAMA Internal Medicine Series.
Evolocumab in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease.
Characteristics of Clinical Studies Used for US Food and Drug Administration Approval of High-Risk Medical Device Supplements.
Cardiac Testing After Emergency Department Evaluation for Chest Pain: Time for a Paradigm Shift?
Setting the Record Straight on FDA Approvals in Oncology-Reply.
Power Morcellators, Postmarketing Surveillance, and the US Food and Drug Administration.
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs Regarding Cardiovascular Disease in Women: The Women's Heart Alliance.
High Prevalence and Clinical/Sociodemographic Correlates of Miscarriages Among Flight Attendants.
Physician Adherence to Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations.
The Value of Using Registries to Evaluate Randomized Clinical Trial Study Populations.
Dabigatran Compared With Rivaroxaban vs Warfarin-Reply.
FDA Drug Trials Snapshots-A Clearer Picture.
Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition, the risk of which can be effectively reduced from healthy lifestyle interventions.
Advancing the Needs of Patients in the Trump Era.
Gender Disparities in Sponsorship-How They Perpetuate the Glass Ceiling.
Update in Cardiology: Evidence Published in 2016.
The Learning Healthcare System and Cardiovascular Care: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.
Important Questions About Lung Cancer Screening Programs When Incidental Findings Exceed Lung Cancer Nodules by 40 to 1.
Improving the Accelerated Pathway to Cancer Drug Approvals.
Physician Work Environment and Well-being: A Call for Papers.
Women in Medicine and Patient Outcomes: Equal Rights for Better Work?
Letter by Dhruva and Redberg Regarding Article, "Sex and Race/Ethnicity Differences in Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Counseling and Use Among Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure: Findings From the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Progra
Colorectal Cancer Screening Comparative Effectiveness-Clinical Trials Are Not Always The Answer-Reply.
Firearm Violence: A JAMA Internal Medicine Series.
Statins for Primary Prevention: The Debate Is Intense, but the Data Are Weak.
Announcing a New JAMA Internal Medicine Website.
The Medicalization of Common Conditions.
Comparing Non-Vitamin K Oral Anticoagulants: Where We Are Now.
Notice of Retraction: Sato Y, et al. Risedronate Sodium Therapy for Prevention of Hip Fracture in Men 65 Years or Older After Stroke. Arch Intern Med. 2005;165(15):1743-1748.
Notice of Retraction: Sato Y, et al. The Prevention of Hip Fracture With Risedronate and Ergocalciferol Plus Calcium Supplementation in Elderly Women With Alzheimer Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Arch Intern Med. 2005;165(15):1737-1742.
Availability and Dissemination of Results From US Food and Drug Administration-Mandated Postapproval Studies for Medical Devices.
Fecal Blood Testing or Colonoscopy: What Is the Best Method for Colorectal Cancer Screening?
Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels and Statin Treatment-A Moving Target?
Sex-Specific Data for the Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator.
Continuing Use of Prophylactic Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease Despite Evidence of No Benefit: Déjà Vu All Over Again.
Firearm Injuries and Gun Violence: Call for Papers.
Use of Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing Is in the Eye of the Beholder.
An Intervention to Reduce Use of Low-Value Imaging Tests.
Overpowering Images.
Appropriate Use Criteria Require Data.
Would a Breakthrough Therapy by Any Other Name Be as Promising?
Shopping for Direct-to-Consumer Screening: Buyers and Clinicians Beware.
Improving Manufacturer Reporting of Adverse Events to the US Food and Drug Administration.
Conflicts of Interest.
Faster Drug Approvals Are Not Always Better and Can Be Worse.
Health Policy Update 2015: Yet Another Exciting and Turbulent Year Ahead.
Addressing Overuse of Medical Services One Decision at a Time.
Not Breathing Easier With the US FDA's Ban on Chlorofluorocarbons in Inhalers.
On Chlorofluorocarbon Bans and Inhaled Albuterol Prices.
Selective reporting in trials of high risk cardiovascular devices: cross sectional comparison between premarket approval summaries and published reports.
Evidence And Medicare's Coverage Of Interventions.
The role of post-acute care in variation in the Medicare program.
The prescription is laughter.
Health benefits of sauna bathing.
Reporting research misconduct in the medical literature.
Time for professional societies to be bold and wise.
Advancing medical professionalism and the choosing wisely campaign--reply.
Stress testing in the emergency department: not which test but whether any test should be done.
Cardiac patient outcomes during national cardiology meetings.
A new program for sharing medical cost information.
A review of the relationships between endogenous sex steroids and incident ischemic stroke and coronary heart disease events.
The importance of postapproval data for dabigatran.
Assessing the safety and effectiveness of devices after US Food and Drug Administration approval: FDA-mandated postapproval studies.
Approaches to enhancing radiation safety in cardiovascular imaging: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.
Sham controls in medical device trials.
Does CAC testing alter downstream treatment patterns for cardiovascular disease?
The trouble with dabigatran.
Developing methods for less is more.
Hospital admissions for hypoglycemia now exceed those for hyperglycemia in Medicare beneficiaries.
Statins and weight gain.
The high price of the new hepatitis C virus drugs.
Role of noninvasive testing in the clinical evaluation of women with suspected ischemic heart disease: a consensus statement from the American Heart Association.
Charting a roadmap for heart failure biomarker studies.
Premarket approval supplement pathway: do we know what we are getting?
Evaluation of practice patterns in the treatment of atrial fibrillation among the commercially insured.
Health policy update 2014: another exciting and turbulent year ahead.
Response to "Mandatory anesthesia"--reply.
When is it better not to know everything?
Current challenges for clinical trials of cardiovascular medical devices.
How should top-five lists be developed?: what is the next step?
Priorities in the evaluation of patients with chest pain.
Talking about patient preferences.
Medication regimen adherence and patient outcomes.
Statins and musculoskeletal adverse events--reply.
Vertebroplasty: changing levels of evidence and conflict of interest.
Presumed safe no more: lessons from the Wingspan saga on regulation of devices.
Choosing wisely, and soon.
Opening the FDA black box.
Our ongoing digital evolution.
All placebos are not created equally.
My thyroid story.
Mandatory anesthesia.
Appropriate use guidelines in echocardiography and beyond.
Performance measures: better outcomes, not better grades.
Antianginal therapy before percutaneous coronary intervention.
The harm in looking.
JAMA Internal Medicine--a new name and more.
High-sensitivity troponin: elevated without infarction, is the horse out of the barn?
Snack (healthily) before shopping: comment on "Fattening fasting".
Trust in the medical literature--and Viewpoints in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Radiation minimization strategies for medical imaging : comment on "radiation safety in nuclear cardiology-current knowledge and practice".
Improving care for patients with pulmonary hypertension: comment on "Referral of patients with pulmonary hypertension diagnoses to tertiary pulmonary hypertension centers: the multicenter RePHerral study".
Debunking atypical chest pain in women: comment on "Reconstructing angina: cardiac symptoms are the same in women and men".
Mortality in Medicare patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention with or without antecedent stress testing.
Firearm injuries as a public health issue.
Access to cost information. Comment on "Availability of consumer prices from US hospitals for a common surgical procedure".
Online network for adverse event reporting.
An eyedrop by any other name.
Colchicine.
Learning to say no.
Clinical benefit of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: comment on "Discerning the incidence of symptomatic and asymptomatic episodes of atrial fibrillation before and after catheter ablation (DISCERN AF)".
Getting to best care at lower cost.
Undertreatment improves, but overtreatment does not.
The 510(k) ancestry of a metal-on-metal hip implant.
FDA regulation of cardiovascular devices and opportunities for improvement.
Statins for people at low risk of cardiovascular disease.
Inclusion of comparative effectiveness data in high-risk cardiovascular device studies at the time of premarket approval.
Cardiovascular disease in women.
Cholesterol screening and management in children and young adults should start early--NO!
Laboratory variability and precise clinical decision making.
Reassessing benefits and risks of statins.
Medical device regulation: time to improve performance.
Coronary CT angiography for acute chest pain.
A different perspective regarding prostate-specific antigen testing: in reply.
The JAMA network journals: new names for the archives journals.
CT angiography for possible acute coronary syndrome.
Don't assume women are the same as men: include them in the trial.
Just listen and think.
Stress testing and the cardiology top 5: comment on "Exercise testing in asymptomatic patients after revascularization".
Evidence of pharmaceutical innovation and therapeutic enthusiasm: strategies for patent extension.
Dual-chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillators for nonpacing indications: comment on "variation in use of dual-chamber implantable cardioverter defibrillators".
Raising the bar for primary prevention: comment on "cardiovascular primary prevention".
The archives of internal medicine: 2011 recap and looking forward in 2012.
Healthy men should not take statins.
A national interactive web-based physical activity intervention in women, evaluation of the american heart association choose to move program 2006-2007.
Reduced exercise tolerance and pulmonary capillary recruitment with remote secondhand smoke exposure.
Evaluating sex differences in medical device clinical trials: time for action.
Informed strategies for treating coronary disease: comment on "initial coronary stent implantation with medical therapy vs medical therapy alone for stable coronary artery disease".
Important data after drug approval: comment on "Dabigatran association with higher risk of acute coronary events".
Reconsidering transfer for percutaneous coronary intervention strategy: time is of the essence.
Dramatic increases in carotid stenting despite nonconclusive data.
Withdrawing unsafe drugs from the market.
Defining "appropriateness": the devil is in the definition.
Vitamin supplements: more cost than value.
Editor's Note--to make the case--evidence is required: comment on "Making the case for selective use of statins in the primary prevention setting".
Associations between respiratory illnesses and secondhand smoke exposure in flight attendants: A cross-sectional analysis of the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute Survey.
Sex-specific outcomes for HeartMate II.
Transcatheter aortic-valve replacement.
Medical devices--balancing regulation and innovation.
Earlier nephrology consultation is not associated with improved survival: comment on "Predialysis nephrology care of older patients approaching end-stage renal disease".
The value of history taking in diagnosis: comment on "Utility of clinical examination in the diagnosis of emergency department patients admitted to the department of medicine of an academic hospital".
Relation of increased prebeta-1 high-density lipoprotein levels to risk of coronary heart disease.
PCI for late reperfusion after myocardial infarction continues despite negative OAT trial: less is more.
CRT--less is more: comment on "Impact of QRS duration on clinical event reduction with cardiac resynchronization therapy".
Patterns and intensity of medical therapy in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.
Clinical trial enrollment and progress in women's health.
Diagnostic performance of multislice CCTA: is it ready for clinical use?
Gender bias in studies for Food and Drug Administration premarket approval of cardiovascular devices.
Medical device recalls: get it right the first time: Comment on "Medical device recalls and the FDA approval process".
Transcatheter aortic-valve implantation for aortic stenosis.
Diagnostic tests: another frontier for less is more: or why talking to your patient is a safe and effective method of reassurance.
Inclusion of training patients in US Food and Drug Administration premarket approval cardiovascular device studies.
Accelerated approval and possible withdrawal of midodrine.
Recollection of pain due to inappropriate versus appropriate implantable cardioverter-defibrillator shocks.
Risk refinement, reclassification, and treatment thresholds in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: incremental progress but significant gaps remain.
Medical devices and the FDA approval process: balancing safety and innovation; comment on "prevalence of fracture and fragment embolization of bard retrievable vena cava filters and clinical implications including cardiac perforation and tamponade".
Impact of changes in clinical practice guidelines on assessment of quality of care.
Health reform: a good year for the country, a good year for the archives.
Less is more: how less health care can result in better health.
Exercise blood pressure and future cardiovascular death in asymptomatic individuals.
Low diagnostic yield of elective coronary angiography.
First physical.
What is the prognostic value of a zero calcium score?
The need for sex-specific data prior to food and drug administration approval.
Scoring a goal [for prevention].
Strength of study evidence examined by the FDA in premarket approval of cardiovascular devices.
Cancer risks and radiation exposure from computed tomographic scans: how can we be sure that the benefits outweigh the risks?
ACC 2009 Advocacy Position Statement: Principles for comparative effectiveness research.
ACCF/AHA 2009 performance measures for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in adults: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures (Writing Committee to Develop Performanc
AHA/ACCF [corrected] 2009 performance measures for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in adults: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association task force on performance measures (writing committee to develo
Is what is good for the gander really good for the goose?
Use of stress testing prior to percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with stable coronary artery disease.
Pulmonary function abnormalities in never-smoking flight attendants exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke in the aircraft cabin.
CMS's landmark decision on CT colonography--examining the relevant data.
The beginning of a new era for the Archives and the nation.
Partnering to reduce risks and improve cardiovascular outcomes: American Heart Association initiatives in action for consumers and patients.
Pay now, benefits may follow--the case of cardiac computed tomographic angiography.
Frequency of stress testing to document ischemia prior to elective percutaneous coronary intervention.
Improving the quality of care for women with cardiovascular disease: report of a DCRI Think Tank, March 8 to 9, 2007.
Why physicians favor use of percutaneous coronary intervention to medical therapy: a focus group study.
High prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors in women considered low risk by traditional risk assessment.
Dispelling the myths: calling for sex-specific reporting of trial results.
Imaging for coronary risk assessment: ready for prime time?
Variations between clinical trial participants and Medicare beneficiaries in evidence used for Medicare national coverage decisions.
Remote second-hand tobacco exposure in flight attendants is associated with systemic but not pulmonary hypertension.
The role of sex-specific results reporting in cardiovascular disease.
Disparities in use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: moving beyond process measures to outcomes data.
A systematic review of gender differences in mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and percutaneous coronary interventions.
Better evidence for real healthcare reform.
Cardiologists' use of percutaneous coronary interventions for stable coronary artery disease.
The appropriateness imperative.
Computed tomographic angiography: more than just a pretty picture?
Noninvasive cardiac imaging.
Evidence-based guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention in women: 2007 update.
ACC/AHA 2007 methodology for the development of clinical data standards: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Data Standards.
Low rate of sex-specific result reporting in cardiovascular trials.
ACCF/AHA 2007 clinical expert consensus document on coronary artery calcium scoring by computed tomography in global cardiovascular risk assessment and in evaluation of patients with chest pain: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Cl
Evidence, appropriateness, and technology assessment in cardiology: a case study of computed tomography.
Primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases in people with diabetes mellitus: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association.
The prognostic value of normal exercise myocardial perfusion imaging and exercise echocardiography: a meta-analysis.
ACC/AHA/HRS 2006 key data elements and definitions for electrophysiological studies and procedures: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Data Standards (ACC/AHA/HRS Writing Committee to Develop D
Gender differences in acute coronary syndrome: invasive versus conservative approach.
ACCF/ACR/SCCT/SCMR/ASNC/NASCI/SCAI/SIR 2006 appropriateness criteria for cardiac computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Quality Strategic Directions Committee Appropriateness C
Sex differences in major bleeding with glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors: results from the CRUSADE (Can Rapid risk stratification of Unstable angina patients Suppress ADverse outcomes with Early implementation of the ACC/AHA guidelines) initiative.
Screening asymptomatic diabetic patients for coronary artery disease: why not?
Coronary artery calcium: should we rely on this surrogate marker?
What does the Medicare prescription drug legislation mean for the American cardiologist?
Gender, race, and cardiac care: why the differences?
ACC/AHA key data elements and definitions for measuring the clinical management and outcomes of patients with chronic heart failure: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Data Standards (Writing C
Enhanced risk assessment in asymptomatic individuals with exercise testing and Framingham risk scores.
Vitamin E and cardiovascular health: does sex matter?
Revascularization for everyone?
Role of noninvasive testing in the clinical evaluation of women with suspected coronary artery disease: Consensus statement from the Cardiac Imaging Committee, Council on Clinical Cardiology, and the Cardiovascular Imaging and Intervention Committee, Coun
Utility of stress testing and coronary calcification measurement for detection of coronary artery disease in women.
ACC/AHA key data elements and definitions for measuring the clinical management and outcomes of patients with atrial fibrillation: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Data Standards (Writing Com
Acute coronary syndromes in women: is treatment different? Should it be?
Women's Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation: current status and future research directions: report of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute workshop: October 2-4, 2002: Section 2: stable ischemia: pathophysiology and gender differences.
Women's Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation: current status and future research directions: report of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute workshop: October 2-4, 2002: executive summary.
Gender and valvular surgery.
Coronary artery calcium and cardiac events.
Diagnosing heart disease.
Diagnosis of coronary artery disease in women.
Effect of intracoronary estradiol on postischemic microvascular damage in a porcine model: a myocardial contrast echocardiographic study.
Ability of exercise testing to predict cardiovascular and all-cause death in asymptomatic women: a 20-year follow-up of the lipid research clinics prevalence study.
Are there sex differences in risk factors for coronary heart disease? Maternal versus paternal transmission.
34th Bethesda Conference: Task force #3--What is the spectrum of current and emerging techniques for the noninvasive measurement of atherosclerosis?
Coronary calcium: is racial profiling necessary?
Prevention Conference VI: Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: Writing Group III: risk assessment in persons with diabetes.
Prevention Conference VI: Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: executive summary: conference proceeding for healthcare professionals from a special writing group of the American Heart Association.
Coronary Heart Disease in Women: Hormone Replacement Therapy.
A review of electron beam computed tomography: implications for coronary artery disease screening.
Pharmacologic stress testing for coronary disease diagnosis: A meta-analysis.
An evaluation of Choose to Move 1999: an American Heart Association physical activity program for women.
Power motion imaging can improve image quality in stress conditions with tachycardia.
From clinical trials to public health policy: the path from imaging to screening.
Diagnostic strategies for women with suspected coronary artery disease.
The ten most commonly asked questions about hormone replacement therapy.
Usefulness of stroke distance by echocardiography as a surrogate marker of cardiac output that is independent of gender and size in a normal population.
Noninvasive diagnostic testing of coronary artery disease in women.
Plasma apolipoprotein L concentrations correlate with plasma triglycerides and cholesterol levels in normolipidemic, hyperlipidemic, and diabetic subjects.
Lack of association of C-reactive protein and coronary calcium by electron beam computed tomography in postmenopausal women: implications for coronary artery disease screening.
Awareness, perception, and knowledge of heart disease risk and prevention among women in the United States. American Heart Association Women's Heart Disease and Stroke Campaign Task Force.
Rate of change in aortic valve area during a cardiac cycle can predict the rate of hemodynamic progression of aortic stenosis.
Long-term estrogen replacement therapy is associated with improved exercise capacity in postmenopausal women without known coronary artery disease.
Lack of association of lipoprotein(a) levels with coronary calcium deposits in asymptomatic postmenopausal women.
Prevention Conference V: Beyond secondary prevention: identifying the high-risk patient for primary prevention: tests for silent and inducible ischemia: Writing Group II.
Current evidence on diagnostic testing in women with suspected coronary artery disease: choosing the appropriate test.
Roundtable discussion ... cardiovascular disease management programs.
The epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in women.
Diagnosis of suspected coronary artery disease in women: a cost-effectiveness analysis.
Guide to Preventive Cardiology for Women.AHA/ACC Scientific Statement Consensus panel statement.
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Do cardiologists and general internists differ in testing and treating patients with aortic stenosis or mitral regurgitation? A preliminary study with editorial perspective.
Cardiovascular risk factors and Medicare costs.
Meta-analysis of exercise testing to detect coronary artery disease in women.
Gender and willingness to undergo invasive cardiac procedures.
Demonstration of penetrating intramyocardial coronary arteries with high-frequency transthoracic echocardiography and Doppler in human subjects.
Coronary artery disease in women: understanding the diagnostic and management pitfalls.
Passive smoking and heart disease.
Age, body-mass index, and mortality.
Prebeta-1 HDL in plasma of normolipidemic individuals: influences of plasma lipoproteins, age, and gender.
Diagnostic testing for coronary artery disease in women and gender differences in referral for revascularization.
Immediate effects of intravenous cocaine on the thoracic aorta and coronary arteries. A transesophageal echocardiographic study.
Diagnosis of primary cardiac leiomyosarcoma by endomyocardial biopsy.
Adenosine-induced coronary vasodilation during transesophageal Doppler echocardiography. Rapid and safe measurement of coronary flow reserve ratio can predict significant left anterior descending coronary stenosis.
Transesophageal echocardiography predicts mortality in critically ill patients with unexplained hypotension.
Abnormal pulmonary artery pressure profile after cardiac transplantation: an exercise Doppler echocardiographic study.
Coronary to pulmonary artery fistula detected by transthoracic echocardiography.
Five-year follow-up study of the prevalence and progression of pulmonary hypertension in systemic lupus erythematosus.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Historical perspectives, physiology, and future directions.
Active compression-decompression resuscitation: effect on resuscitation success after in-hospital cardiac arrest.
Exercise Doppler echocardiography identifies abnormal hemodynamics in adults with congenital heart disease.
Coronary flow by transesophageal Doppler echocardiography: do saccharide-based contrast agents sweeten the pot?
Active compression-decompression resuscitation: analysis of transmitral flow and left ventricular volume by transesophageal echocardiography in humans. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Working Group.
Unusual case of total pulsus alternans that resulted from varying afterload caused by a subclavian artery rupture.
Exercise capacity and hemodynamics in systemic lupus erythematosus: a Doppler echocardiographic exercise study.
Physiology of blood flow during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A transesophageal echocardiographic study.
Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction: augmented diagnosis with biplane transesophageal echocardiography.
Transesophageal echocardiography during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Transesophageal echocardiography in the evaluation of mitral regurgitation. The twenty-four signs of severe mitral regurgitation.
Transesophageal echocardiography. Indications and technical considerations.
Use of transesophageal echocardiography in evaluating coronary arteries.
Noninvasive assessment of the pulmonary artery pressure response to exercise after uncomplicated heart transplantation.
Pulsed Doppler characterization of left atrial appendage flow.
Effect of selective angiotensin II receptor antagonism and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition on the coronary vasculature in vivo. Intravascular two-dimensional and Doppler ultrasound studies.
Transesophageal echocardiographically detected atherosclerotic aortic plaque is a marker for coronary artery disease.
Active compression-decompression resuscitation: a novel method of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Transesophageal echocardiographic detection of abnormalities of the tricuspid valve in adults associated with spontaneous closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defect.
Active compression-decompression. A new method of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Working Group.
Transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of flail tricuspid valve.
Echocardiographic detection of transient right heart thrombus: now you see it, now you don't.
Myocarditis in adult Still's disease.
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Genevieve Ko talks dim sum and Mexican food in the San Gabriel Valley
I became a fan of Genevieve Ko a few years ago when I received a copy of her 2016 baking masterwork, “Better Baking,” as a holiday gift.
I learned many important lessons from that book — the value of investing in a good rimmed baking sheet, for one — and return often to its simple yet profound premise, which is rooted in the idea that minimally processed ingredients, used intelligently, can deepen the flavor of something as familiar as a peanut butter cookie, and make you long for a chocolate sheet cake made using, of all things, creamy sweet potatoes.
Before joining L.A. Times Food as cooking editor nearly two years ago, Genevieve worked as an editor at Martha Stewart Living and Gourmet, among other publications, and has co-authored several well-known cookbooks, including George Mendes’ “My Portugal,” Carla Hall’s “Soul Food” and multiple titles with French American chef
Sunday October 11, 2020
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Hyundai recalls 129,000 U.S. vehicles for engine issue
4 December 2020, 10:16 am ·1-min read
FILE PHOTO: The Hyundai Sonata hybrid is displayed during the first media preview day at the 2011 Chicago Auto Show in Chicago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Co is recalling 129,000 U.S. vehicles for an engine issue that can increase the risk of a fire, U.S. regulators said Friday.
The recall covers some 2015-2016 Veloster, 2012 Santa Fe, 2011-2013 Sonata Hybrid, and 2016 Sonata Hybrid vehicles because connecting rod bearings inside the engine may wear prematurely, which over time can result in engine damage. Dealers will conduct inspections and if bearing damage is found, the engine will be replaced, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said.
Hyundai said all recalled vehicles will also receive an enhanced engine control software update containing a new Knock Sensor Detection System that monitors engine vibrations for unusual patterns potentially indicating an abnormal condition with the engine, such as a damaged connecting rod bearing.
Last week, Hyundai and Kia Motors' U.S. units agreed to a record $210 million civil penalty after U.S. auto safety regulators said they failed to recall 1.6 million vehicles for engine issues in a timely fashion.
NHTSA said the two affiliated Korean automakers agreed to consent orders after it said they had inaccurately reported some information to the agency regarding the recalls.
Hyundai agreed to a total civil penalty of $140 million, including an upfront payment of $54 million, an obligation to spend $40 million on safety performance measures, and an additional $46 million deferred penalty if it does not meet requirements.
The settlement covered recalls in 2015 and 2017 for manufacturing issues that could lead to bearing wear and engine failure.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Kirsten Donovan)
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General material designation 22 colour photographs of Oberman and Tookoome at McNally Robinson Architectural drawing Architectural Material articles) audio cassette Audio Recordings Audition and Spectacle" Cartographic material Dummy Text Record Education electronic record essay on Falstaff Final Reports Graphic image Graphic material Graphic Materials Graphical material Graphical record Hydro MacEwen. Anthology of children's verse moving image Moving images Multiple media Object object Object objects Philatelic record philatelic reord Records in electronic fomr Records in Electronic Form Records in electronic form records in electronic format records in electronoic form series Sound recording sound recordings Techincal Drawing Technical drawing textual material Textual record Textual Record and Graphic Material Textual record Records in electronic form textual records Textual Records and Graphic Material Textual Tecord textualrecord Texual record till I lie alone . . . twxtual record Visual Images Will Communism Ruin Civilization?
William Neville fonds
MSS 104-A2006-027
Part of William Neville fonds
This collection contains Neville’s extensive correspondence, samples of his writings in completed published and handwritten draft form, and a large amount of information related to causes he was involved in as well as friends and acquaintances. Particularly present are his work as a city councilor, executive assistant and political science instructor, as well as samples of the many newspaper columns and speeches he wrote or presented.
Neville, William
Fredelle Maynard fonds
CA UMASC MSS 136-A1991-010, A1992-012
ca.1915-1989; predominately 1932-1989
Part of Fredelle Maynard fonds
Fonds consists of materials created throughout the course of Maynard's career as a teacher, writer and journalist. There are also some materials pertaining to her personal life in the form of correspondence and photographs.
Fonds were created from 1915 to 1989, with the prominent dates of creation being 1950 to 1989. Maynard created the records both in Canada and the United States, with the bulk of the records being created in Durham, New Hampshire and Toronto, Ontario.
Fonds consists of four main series. The first is Correspondence. This is divided into two sections. The professional section consists of letters to and from Maynard's agents, editors, fans and other groups related to her literary career. The correspondence spans the years 1964-1989. The personal correspondence section is fairly small at the moment. It contains a letter from the Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (1945), a letter from Maynard's parents (mid-1940s), a letter to Max Maynard (1946), a letter from J.D. Salinger (1972), letters from Ruth Small (1985), letters from Marion Mainwaring, and other correspondence from friends and family.
The second series covers her Literary Career. There are sections regarding three of her books, Raisins and Almonds , The Child Care Crisis, and The Tree of Life . As well, her published magazine articles, including both drafts and final versions, are located here. The topics of articles include children, health, marriage, travel, and education and span the years 1950 to 1989. There is also a newspaper clipping section. There are some clippings regarding Maynard and her family from 1932, the 1940s and the 1960s. Most of the clippings are reviews or reactions to her published books. There is a section in this series that deals with Maynard's television show on parenting. This section includes scripts and sound rolls from 1984. There is an unpublished material section that includes typescripts and manuscripts, as well as poetry and other writings by Maynard. Most of the poetry is from the 1930s, when Maynard was a schoolchild.
The third series covers Maynard's academic career. This includes correspondence with students and parents from Dover High School in the 1960s. As well, there is marked student work, speeches, articles and examples of grading. The series involves the years that Maynard spent as a high school honors English teacher at over High School in New Hampshire.
The final section includes material from Maynard's Public Speaking Career. It includes typescripts of speeches she gave on many different occasions. The topics include her books, education, children, writing, midlife, Jewish mothers, an acceptance speech, and an eulogy. There are also dozens of brochures indicating when and where Maynard spoke that span the years 1982 to 1989.
Besides the four main series there is also a miscellaneous section. This includes recipes and partial notes; a transcript of her appearance on Donahue; several calling cards created by her daughter, Joyce Maynard; a script of the 1985 Raisins and Almonds theatre production; and material relating to The Radcliffe Institute, of which Maynard was a member, spanning the years 1967 to 1972.
Another section is the Other Family Members section. This consists mainly of correspondence to and from other family members of Maynard's. There are many letters between her parents, Boris and Rona Slobinsky, during their courtship in 1915. There are letters to Rona Bruser regarding the 1964 publication of Maynard's article, "Jewish Christmas." There is a letter to Maynard's sister, Celia, from their mother. As well, there is correspondence with Joyce Maynard from her father (1965), Doubleday Books (1971-72), J.D. Salinger (1972), and a fan (1989). There is a letter to Max Maynard from a student, and a 1980 letter to Sydney Bacon from Carl Rakosi. Finally, there are several articles written by Joyce Maynard for The New York Times in the 1970s.
There is also a Photograph Collection (PC 143). Included in this collection is a photograph of a letter from Boris Bruser to Rona Slobinsky (1915), a photograph of Maynard (1983), five photographs of Maynard and Sydney Bacon's wedding (1989), and a photo collage from Maynard's memorial service (1990). There are also thirteen video cassettes regarding Maynard's television show in the mid-1980s.
Included in the Tape Collection (TC 90) are twenty-two tapes dealing with various subjects including speeches, interviews, and conversations. The audio tapes are mainly from 1983-1988, with a few undated.
Maynard, Fredelle
Department of Native Studies fonds
UA 52-A1996-103
Part of Department of Native Studies
Eileen Sykes fonds
CA UMASC MSS 107-A2002-030
Part of Eileen Sykes fonds
The collection consists of literary works, her scrapbooks, illustrations from Fanella and the Forest Folk books and correspondence. It also contains collection of her photographs and tape recordings of her interviews.
Margaret Stobie fonds
CA UMASC MSS 013-TC 24 (A1980-017)
Part of Margaret Stobie fonds
The tape collection consists of a description of the original project for linguistic study of the Scotch-Cree dialect called Bungi ; transcriptions of all tapes as made by the Indian History Film Project, and the spectrograms and analysis of Margaret Stobie's dialectal study.
Stobie, Margaret
Contains research material used in writing her book Frederick Philip Grove (1973). Includes correspondence, interviews (tapes and typescripts), research notes and news articles. There are also copies of three articles on the Graphic Press plus a paper on "Friedrich Hebbel" delivered to the English Club in Simcoe, Ontario (1932). The fifteen tapes have been transferred to the Tape Collection, TC 2.
The Collection gives a glimpse of the rural Manitoba towns in which Frederick Grove lived and taught. The private interviews, based on recollections, reflect the communities' attitudes and feelings toward Grove. The collection especially highlight recollections of former students and show a personal, intimate aspect of Grove's unique character and lifestyle.
Ed Schreyer fonds
Part of Ed Schreyer fonds
This collection contains material from Schreyer's political career and includes the period when Schreyer was Governor General (1978-1984). The collection also includes some personal correspondence and photographs and material from courses that Schreyer taught.
The accession contains Ed Schreyer's biographical info; speeches; research material and conferences re: environmental issues, energy resources and new technologies; East Side Lake Winnipeg Broad Area Planning Initiative papers; and various newspaper and internet articles re: environmental issues and energy management.
CA UMASC MSS 145-MSS 145 (A1989-046, A1992-052, A2003-063)
The fonds consists of eight series, the first seven of which are compiled in chronological order. The first covers Schreyer’s time teaching at Beausejour Collegiate, pursuing his own academic career as well as lecturing at St. Paul’s College. It contains many term papers and course notes. The second are his files from two terms as an M.L.A. The third depicts his terms as an M.P. these files have been maintained in the filing order that Schreyer kept them using his system of record keeping. The largest series covers Schreyer’s tenure as Premier of Manitoba and is comprised of daily journals, election correspondence, Hydro Inquiries, meeting minutes & speeches. The fifth series documents the year that he was Leader of the Opposition. The other large series comprises Schreyer’s five-year term as Governor General of Canada. It consists of correspondence, reports, speeches, itinerary of his many visits and appointment books. The seventh series covers Schreyer’s time as High Commissioner to Australia and includes diaries, correspondence and speeches. The final series is personal material including scrapbooks and quest books from many personal and professional occasions.
Schreyer, Ed
Heather Robertson fonds
CA UMASC MSS 77-A2008-139
Part of Heather Robertson fonds
The fonds contains literary manuscripts of Magical, Mysterious Lake of the Woods (2003), research material re: Willie: a romance (1983) about Mackenzie King; tape and electronic collections.
Robertson, Heather
MSS 77-A2003-090
The collection contains manuscripts, correspondence and research materials relating to the two books The Road Well Kept: Branksome Hall Celebrates 100 Years and Driving Force, My Life With Birds as well as several of Robertson's other projects between 1971 and 2001. It also includes 11 audio cassettes and 17 audio reels.
The collection contains manuscripts, correspondence and research materials relating to the books Meeting Death and Magical, Mysterious Lake of the Woods as well as 20 years worth of Robertson's correspondence with friend and coauthor Melinda McCracken. It also includes 103 photographs, 12 audio cassettes and 1 videocassette.
Stobie Family fonds
Part of Stobie Family fonds
This accession consists primarily of Margaret Stobie’s research and publication drafts along with a photographic collection of Margaret and William Stobie’s early years. The accession consists of a manuscript and photographic collection. The Manuscript collection is divided into six series consisting of Publication Drafts, Correspondence, Research, Biographical, Publications, and Miscellaneous materials. The photographic collection consists of 77 photographs, 4 albums, and 18 photo negatives.
Stobie Family
The fonds is separated into seven series. The first pertains to Margaret Stobie's research with the Bunji [or Bungee] dialect (1965-1969) The second concerns the Northern Studies Project (1965-1977). The third series related to the Winnipeg Little Theatre company and the merging with Theatre 77 to create the Manitoba Theatre Centre (1950-1982). The fourth series deals with William Stobie's involvement with the University of Manitoba's academic unions (1949-1976). The fifth series relates to William Stobie's committee work while at the University of Manitoba (1948-1975). The sixth series contains information on Professor Harry Crowe's dismissal from United College (1958-1959). Theatre, ballet and concert program make up the seventh series. (1936-1979).
This accession consists of 1 Ouija Board.
CA UMASC MSS 107-MSS 107
The collection consists of literary manuscripts of her books and poems; tape recordings of her interviews; and some scattered correspondence. As a participant in Dr. T. Glendenning Hamilton's experiments on parapsychology, Sykes' few notes on those studies are included here.
Sykes, Eileen
University of Manitoba Students' Union fonds
CA UMASC UA 8-A1996-049
Part of University of Manitoba Students' Union fonds
Fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, financial records, reports, proposals, statistics, constitutions, by-laws, publications, newspaper clippings, artifacts and other materials created in the course of UMSU day-to-day operations from the period 1964-1995. Most of the material dates from 1975-1995.
University of Manitoba Students' Union
Jake MacDonald fonds
Part of Jake MacDonald fonds
The fonds consists of 8 series. They include: Biographical & Family Material; Published & Unpublished manuscripts; Copies of MacDonald's Books; and Poems, Short Stories, Articles and Screenplays; Correspondence; Day Planners; Photographs; and Tapes.
MacDonald, Jake
Myroslav Shkandrij fonds
Part of Myroslav Shkandrij fonds
The fonds consists of his correspondence and general research material; material pertaining to the Ukrainian Avant-Garde art (David Burliuk, Mykhailo Boichuk ); an article and a research material re: Winnipeg Ukrainian artist Roman Kowal; Shkandrij's unpublished manuscript “Monumentalists: Mykhailo Boichuk”, and Photograph Collection (photographs and slides of the Ukrainian Avant-Garde art, publications, architecture, and Roman Kowal's art).
Shkandrij, Myroslav
The fonds contains issues of the underground student journal "Diyaloh"; correspondence; minutes of meetings; files and notes pertaining to the journals "Diyaloh" and "Meta". It contains info about Leonid Plyushch's visit to Canada in 1976 and the Grigorenko meeting in Toronto in May 1978.
Irena Knysh fonds
Part of Irena Knysh fonds
The fonds consists of Irena Knysh's biographical information, her articles and research material pertaining to her writings (Ukrainian women's movement in Canada and America), and her photograph collection.
Knysh, Irena
The fonds consists of Irena Knysh's biographical information, her articles and research material pertaining to her writings (Ukrainian women's movement in Canada and America); correspondence including correspondence with Vasyl Avramenko, Ukrainian dance teacher; and a photograph collection.
Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd.
Part of Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd.
The collection consists of financial statements, notices of meetings, correspondence, agendas, proxies, minutes, applications, membership listings, draft agreements, memorandums, and by-laws concerning the Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd. The material predominantly concerns the transition of the commodity clearing responsibilities for the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange from the Winnipeg Commodity Clearing Ltd. to the Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation and the subsequent dissolution of the WCCL.
Alumni Association Inc. of the University of Manitoba fonds
CA UMASC UA 19-A1980-043, A1980-047
Part of Alumni Association Inc. of the University of Manitoba fonds
The fonds contains: minutes and correspondence of the Board of Directors and Committees, including the Centennial Committee; files on awards, fund raising and advertising activities; correspondence with branches of the Association and other Canadian and American Alumni Associations; annual reports; miscellaneous correspondence of former Alumni Executive Director, John M. Gordon. Most records date from 1950 to 1975.
Alumni Association Inc.
CA UMASC UA 19-PC 8
The photograph collection contains 222 images. Where possible, dates and names of individuals in the images have been listed. Many of the photographs appeared in the Alumni Journal and The Manitoban between the years 1960 and 1973. There are 29 oversized photographs of early 20th century graduating classes and intercollegiate activities.
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NZ’s Big Summer Shows – Here’s What You Need to Know
NZ SHOW
As our scorching kiwi summer starts to ramp up, there’s no better way to soak up these warm nights and even hotter days by catching one of the awesome gigs lined up for Feb. And it seems we’ve saved the best for last, bringing some of the most iconic artists in the world your way; so you really don’t want to miss these ones. Check out all the info you need below to prepare yourself for the biggest shows of the year.
Cold Chisel (Tauranga)
Their first NZ show in five years, legendary Aussie band Cold Chisel will be playing a SOLD OUT show at the Wharepai Domain in Tauranga on Feb 5th . If you were lucky enough to score some tickets, you’ll not only catch an awesome show from the band themselves but performances by some other epic artists. Gates open at 5pm, Sit Down in Front are on at 5.20pm, The Bads from 6pm, The Mutton Birds from 7pm and then Cold Chisel will be on stage at 8.30pm, with the show set to wrap up around 10.30pm.
This will be Cold Chisel’s only NZ show and it’s not known if they will return.
Queen + Adam Lambert (Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin)
Founding members Brian May and Roger Taylor will be joined by Adam Lambert and new collaborators to bring an amazing live spectacle for NZ fans. Over three giant stadium shows (their first time in Wellington and Dunedin), a brand new production and reinvention of some of the band’s biggest hits can be expected.
Wellington’s show will be held at the Westpac Stadium Feb 5th starting from 8:15pm.
Auckland’s show will be held at Mt Smart Stadium on Feb 7th starting from 6:30pm.
Dunedin’s show will be held at the Forsyth Bar Stadium on Feb 10th starting from 6:00pm.
There are still tickets left, however they’re selling out quickly! To purchase and find out more info head over to Ticketmaster.
Elton John (Auckland, Dunedin, Hawkes Bay)
If you haven’t already bought tickets to one of the legendary Elton John shows you better jump to it as they’re selling out pretty fast! If you have, however, you should be aware of the rescheduled dates for Auckland and Hawkes Bay. Two Auckland shows and the Hawkes Bay show have been pushed forward one week, making Auckland now on the 16th and 18th of Feb and Hawkes Bay now the 15th. A third Auckland show has also been added on the 20th. For more info regarding this and to purchase tickets visit Ticketmaster.
All Auckland shows (16th, 18th, 20th) will be held at Mt Smart Stadium starting from 7:30pm.
Dunedin will be played at the Forsyth Bar Stadium on Feb 4th starting from 5:00pm.
Hawkes Bay will be played at the Mission Estate Winery on Feb 15th from 2:00pm. This show is SOLD OUT.
This will be Elton’s last time performing in NZ so each show is likely to be massive. Settle in for a night of all your favourite tunes and the star in all his glitter and glory.
Six60 (Hamilton, Whangarei, Auckland, Dunedin)
NZ’s faves Six60 are embarking on a summer tour, hitting multiple towns across the country to provide good vibes and even better live music. They’ll be making history again by returning to Western Springs and will be joined by plenty of kiwi and international stars to provide the best experience for all shows. For tickets and more info visit Ticketmaster.
Catch the band plus Drax Project, SACHI, Kings and Foley at Hamilton’s Mystery Creek on Feb 8th starting from 5:00pm.
Whangarei’s show will see L.A.B, Sons of Zion and Vayne on Feb 15th at the Semenoff Stadium starting from 5:00pm.
Auckland’s show will be held at the legendary Western Springs Stadium with special guests Ocean Alley, Mitch James, Church & AP, Niko Walters and Paige & Vayne on Feb 22nd starting from 4:00pm.
Find Ocean Alley, Mitch James, SACHI and Niko Walters at the band’s Dunedin show at the Forsyth Bar Stadium on Mar 7th starting from 5:00pm.
Please remember that unless specifically stated by the artist Ticketmaster is the only valid place to buy tickets. You will be denied entry with an invalid ticket.
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Uncovering Hidden Lives: 18th Century Black Mariners
Black Mariners
Equality in the US Navy: The case of the USS Fitzgerald
July 4, 2017 Uncategorizedcharlesfoy1
Two weeks ago, USS Fitzgerald collided with the container ship ACX Crystal in waters off Japan. This tragic accident resulted in the death of seven of the Fitzgerald’s crew: Dakota Kyle Rigsby, Shingo Alexander Douglass, Ngoc T. Truong Huynh, Noe Hernandez, Carlos Victor Ganzon Sibayan, Xavier Alec Martin and Gary Leo Rehm Jr. On the nation’s birthday it is appropriate that we recognize the sacrifice of these seven sailors.
On this day when we celebrate our national independence it perhaps would also be useful to consider what the crew of the Fitzgerald can tell us about our nation and our navy. A number of media outlets have noted the varied racial backgrounds of the seven seamen – men of Japanese, Vietnamese, Hispanic, African American and Caucasian ancestry. Today almost 34% of the Navy’s active duty force are self-identified minorities. While this itself may not be surprising, it dramatically contrasts with earlier renditions of our nation’s naval forces.
During the American Revolution and the War of 1812 minorities served as seamen on American warships. This however, was but a brief respite in the Navy’s long record of racial exclusion of blacks. Later in the nineteenth century naval crews became increasingly white. And although 367,710 African Americans were drafted during World War I few served in the Navy. The Navy was obstinate in resisting black enlistees and segregating work along racial lines, with minorities forced to work as messmen, cooks or stewards. In June, 1940, the Navy’s call for 4,700 volunteers was meet with blacks seeking positions as seamen. In response, the Navy reasserted that its policy limiting African Americans to working as messmen promoted “general ship efficiency.” Even an anti-discrimination clause in the 1940 draft law did not alter the Navy’s position as the Navy continued its Jim Crow practices. Blacks could not serve as seamen until June 1942 and as of 1945 more than 90% of blacks in the navy were still messmen. It was only with President Truman’s issuance of Executive Order No. 9981 in 1948 desegregating the military that minorities began to have equal opportunities in the Navy.
Along with the right to vote and serve on juries, eligibility to serve in the military is one of the key elements of being a citizen. The Navy’s barring minorities from its ranks reinforced for many Americans that blacks, Hispanics and other minorities were not equal. As tragic as the deaths of the seven Fitzgerald are they remind all of us that today minorities as well as Caucasians are Americans, with the right to serve.
Next week I’ll discuss the diary of the African-American naval seaman James A. Dunn and his perspective on the Navy’s halting efforts to integrate during World War II.
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The core public health disciplines include biostatistics, epidemiology, health policy and management, social and behavioral sciences, and environmental health sciences..
A large part of public health is promoting healthcare equity, quality, and accessibility. The five core public health disciplines include 1) biostatistics, 2) epidemiology, 3) health policy, 4) the social and behavioral sciences, and 5) environmental health sciences.
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Public health ethics involves a systematic process to clarify, prioritize and justify possible courses of public health action based on ethical principles, values and beliefs of stakeholders, and scientific and other information.
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In a review of 13 public health ethics frameworks published through 2010 several foundational values for the field of public health emerged, including an obligation to prevent harm and protect health, respect for individuals, least infringement, trust, transparency, confidentiality, production of benefits, justice, and …
Identify and investigate health issues and health hazards in the people. Provide communities required personal health services and ensure the provision of health care. Develop plans and policies that help individual and community health initiatives. Search for new ideas and innovative solutions to health issues.
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Essential public health functions (EPHF) are the indispensable set of actions, under the primary responsibility of the state, that are fundamental for achieving the goal of public health which is to improve, promote, protect, and restore the health of the population through collective action[1].
Public health promotes the welfare of the entire population, ensures its security and protects it from the spread of infectious disease and environmental hazards, and helps to ensure access to safe and quality care to benefit the population.
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The Schreiber Times
An athlete’s guide on how to succeed in sports; Kyle Cohen and Molly Alstodt
Senior Kyle Cohen pulls up for a mid-range jumper during warmups against the East Meadow Jets on Feb. 10. The Vikings won the game 54-33 but eventually fell in the playoffs to MacArthur 58-56 to end the season.
Kyle Cohen and Molly Alstodt, Staff Writer, Contributing Writer
Playing on the Varsity basketball team requires much dedication, sacrifice, and hard work. Every single day, everyone on the team must show up with a positive attitude and a desire to improve.
With winter being the longest sports season, basketball season is always a grind. There is a combination of late practices and multiple games each week, so it is not easy to bring the intensity every single day.
But it’s important that everyone on the team is on the same page and brings it each and every day.
When practice starts, the team will run a few laps to warm up followed by a series of moving stretches.
After the warm up, we run a drill called “perfection” in which the team goes through a series of drills under a time constraint.
If the time limit is not reached, the team will do sets of “Vegas Closeouts,” which are essentially a form of conditioning. After this, we perform a group of drills to improve our game and go over plays. Usually, practice culminates with a scrimmage.
During the season, the coaches and leaders stress mental toughness. Basketball is a rough sport. We will miss shots, turn the ball over, and get bad fouls called against us each game.
However, it is important that this doesn’t affect the team more than it should. It is critical to forget about it and move on to the next play.
In order to be successful, the team knows what needs to be done. Everybody needs to have the same goal, which is ultimately to win as many games as possible.
This year, we had a great group of guys who were able to do the right things and have a pretty successful year.
~ Kyle Cohen, Boys basketball
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream…. well, not exactly. Rowing is actually an intense sport that takes place in sleek, fast boats.
Rowers sit in a boat and use an oar to propel the boat.
Rowing is the only sport where you face backwards from the direction you are heading.
The fact that you are facing forward and do not know the distance to the end of the race creates a feeling of uncertainty.
It takes a tremendous amount of training and focus in order to prepare your body and your mind for a race.
Contrary to popular belief, rowers use much more than their arms to move the boat. The main muscles used to make a boat go forward are the legs, then the back, then the arms.
It is a full body exercise that involves both strength and cardiovascular components.
Rowing races are tests of endurance, strength and good technique in changing water and wind conditions. Races are held over a distance of 2000 meters.
It is similar to a track and field race, with a fixed starting line and a fixed finish line. Boats race side-by-side in their own lanes. The first to cross the finish line wins.
Rowing demands high degrees of endurance, strength, teamwork, mental toughness, and an ability to continue on when your body is telling you that you can’t.
As Daniel James, the author of The Boys in the Boat put it, “It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you will do it, while pain has her wanton way with you.”
~ Molly Alstodt, Girls rowing
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5 rational thoughts following the Celtics' domination of Denver last night
By Liam Green December 7, 2019 11:10 am
By Liam Green | December 7, 2019 11:10 am
Last night’s game was what they sometimes call a “statement win.” The Boston Celtics showed that even down a star, they were capable of beating an opponent like the Nuggets, a squad that a reasonable number of NBA media and fans might consider better than the Cs. A squad that, just as much as the L.A. teams, Houston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Toronto (don’t even think of suggesting Dallas), is openly chasing an NBA Finals berth.
And the Cs basically punked them. Let’s get granular:
JAY TEAM
As stated. Mike D. had this in his Dump post this morning, but there was no way not to duplicate its use:
These two 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/hyn0jD8Q9M
— Boston Celtics (@celtics) December 7, 2019
My prediction that Kemba Walker would be the Celtics MVP was for this season. After that? Pretty much immediately after that? The team would belong to the Jays…but maybe it does already? Or will very soon?
Jayson has averaged 23.4 points over the last five games, with Jaylen right behind at 22 (that lone stinker in the Brooklyn encore drove it down). They’ve been the offensive fulcrum, including in some contests where Kemba has been a little iffy with his shot, and they’ve also contributed stout defense through much of this stretch, especially Jaylen.
It’s probably most accurate to say that Kemba, Jayson and Jaylen at present constitute a truly egalitarian Big Three (as opposed to, say, LeBron’s Big Three in the later years of Miami or Cleveland Parte Deux). And if Gordon Hayward returns at the level he’d reached before the relatively minor hand break, they’ll be a Big Four.
But the franchise, long-term, is absolutely in the hands of the Jay Team. And they’re some confident-ass hands.
Boston made a savvy choice to let Jokic cook and neutralize all other options.
Every single team and coach wants to execute well against every member of the opposition (including the other coach!), of course. But when there’s someone facing you who is better than any individual member of your team, sometimes you let him do his thing and make sure he has no help.
Nikola Jokic recovered from his early foul trouble (getting hit with just one other personal the rest of the contest) and played outstanding ball. But no gaudy assist numbers for him this night, because Boston’s defense pulled out all the stops to make Denver’s oft-potent offense useless: switches, perimeter lockdown, transition D, forced turnovers via shot-clock violation, double- and triple-teams against players who don’t often see them and aren’t used to wriggling through them (as Jokic can sometimes). Jamal Murray wasn’t able to take a large volume of shots and was abysmal on the ones he got, as were Will Barton, Gary Harris and Paul Millsap.
After Murray’s 10, the next-biggest Denver scorers were sophomore Monte Morris and rookie Michael Porter Jr., earning 9 points apiece in garbage time. Whoop dee faaaahkin* do.
The shooting may not always be as excellent as last night…but let’s celebrate it anyway.
Because why wouldn’t you bring this up?
FWIW, each of the five #Celtics starters shot at least 50% from the field for the first time this season, against the #Nuggets.
*Jaylen Brown……. 8-for-15
*Jayson Tatum….. 10-for-19
*Daniel Theis……… 3-for-4
*Marcus Smart…… 4-for-5
*Kemba Walker…… 8-for-16
— A. Sherrod Blakely (@ASherrodblakely) December 7, 2019
It seems relevant, given Denver’s improvements on defense over the past two years from “basically sentient traffic cones” to “NBA leaders,” that they had no ability and at times seemingly no interest in letting Boston run the table offensively. It’s not as if the Nugs are mired in a losing streak; far from it. And lest any contrarian mutter “but they were on a SEGABABA tho,” it was against the Knicks, and they won by almost 40 points. The Nuggets simply looked more mortal against this Celtics offense than they have for much of the season, against anyone.
Another solid production run at the Ojeleye Factory.
The offense may never really be there with Semi Ojeleye. Three years in, it’s not unreasonable to think that. But for much of this schedule stretch where Hayward has been out, Ojeleye’s defense has been dependably strong, shutting down people who you’d think might give him a ton of trouble—Justise Winslow of the Heat on Wednesday, Paul Millsap last night—with relative ease. It just goes to show that you may not need a perfect shot to find a place in this league, so long as you’ve got a toolbox, a lunch pail…and a Thick Jacked Frame.
Grant has no luck from deep, not yet.
We close out a fairly happy set of Rational Thoughts with one less happy observation. Grant Williams had the perfect chance to break his three-point-shooting drought late in the fourth, with the game blown open and Brad Stevens fully permissible of garbage-time experiments.
So Grant shot, and missed. Oh well. The painful part was when he shot a second one, missed, grabbed his own long-range rebound, shot again from the same spot…and missed again. If not for that last bit, I wouldn’t have even brought it up.
For the record, Brad Stevens does not care:
Brad Stevens on Grant Williams’ outside shooting skid: “I’m not worried about it one bit. I told him that yesterday.”
Said he moves the ball well, defends well and he’s going to be a really good player.
— Jay King (@ByJayKing) December 7, 2019
*I’ve been swearing much less in these—by choice, it may shock long-time readers to know! But I couldn’t resist the phonetically rendered bray.
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The Thread Story
The first strings of today’s firm were tied together in 2008, when founder Loree Lipstein was working as a development team member at a large, national health organization. Working for an organization with elevated fundraising techniques and a talented staff, Loree became acutely aware of how often other organizations were failing to maximize their fundraising potential as she interacted with them in various voluntary roles.
What started as a simple observation to a colleague about options small nonprofits have for support and training to elevate their fundraising strategies quickly became a serious conversation. Once Loree began to view her various interactions with nonprofits through a development lens, a pattern of real need emerged. As Loree pursued fundraising roles with other organizations, she continued to work with talented development professionals who joined the conversation, further confirming just how often many nonprofits, especially small to mid-sized, local organizations, struggle to bring in enough revenue to grow and scale their programs.
Loree further researched the topic of nonprofit revenue generation and growth as a CASE Scholar at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Through her coursework at Fuqua, Loree explored the field of nonprofit consulting in an effort to better understand what options for support are available to nonprofits.
As she began to understand the industry, she identified a gap between the needs of small organizations and the services offered by large consulting firms. Loree realized that, along with needing a tailored development strategy, many organizations need help with the next step of implementing that strategy, as small staffs often already wear many hats and are stretched thin. Small organizations are further disadvantaged by the shortage of development professionals in the marketplace. Talent comes at a premium, and it is difficult for smaller nonprofits to attract, much less retain, the caliber of development talent needed for growth and advancement of their mission.
Thinking through these challenges, Loree realized that the many highly talented development professionals who she had worked with thus far in her career could solve the talent problem. By bringing these seasoned professionals together at Thread, Loree sought to build a team that can work across various missions to make a greater impact with their experience and expertise. The Thread team supports nonprofits not just by helping to develop a strategy, but by partnering together to implement and support that strategy as well. By relieving over-stretched program staff of development activities, the Thread team can more efficiently assist with bringing in funds so organizations can grow, advance their mission, and become more attractive to development talent in the future.
The Thread vision is that great ideas and practices for solving social issues will never be held back by a lack of the necessary funds to realize their full potential. We do what we’re good at – fundraising – so our partners can do what they’re good at – changing the world.
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Images of peace, unity and nature
(OCT. 11) ̶ Soka University officials turned-over to the UP System (UPS) and UP Diliman (UPD) officials replicas of eight framed photographs taken by Dr. Daisaku Ikeda.
(Left to right) Pernia, Tan, Tashiro, Shimoide
A Japanese peace advocate and Soka University founder, Ikeda was the donor of Balay Kalinaw where the actual photographs, ranging from 18 by 24 inches to 42 by 60 inches, are on display.
The pictures depicting nature were taken from the Philippines, Japan, Nepal and United Kingdom.
The 3-story Balay Kalinaw in Pook Dagohoy was inaugurated on May 11, 1993. Soka University Board of Trustees Chair Yasunori Tashiro said it “is a symbol of our friendship of almost 30 years with UP.”
He added that they are convinced Ikeda’s picture “will warmly watch over the people who would visit this place in search of peace.”
(Above and below) A picture by Ikeda at the Balay Kalinaw
The building was a major project of then UP President Jose V. Abueva. Ikeda first met Abueva in 1990 and officially visited UP in 1991 to attend UPD’s general commencement exercises.
Balay Kalinaw or “House of Peace” houses a conference hall, two dining rooms and four seminar rooms. Part of the complex is the Balay Internasyonal which has 16 student apartments and eight 2-bedroom apartments.
UPD Chancellor Michael L. Tan said Balay Kalinaw “has been home to so many of our international visitors. Long before people were talking about international mobility and internationalization, Balay Kalinaw set the way for UPD.”
Prof. Gilda Uy, Program Development Associate of the UPD Office of International Linkages, described the pictures as “a new set of memories that will further bond us, Soka University and UPD.”
Seeds of Hope. Following the turn-over ceremony was the exhibit “Seeds of Hope: Visions of Sustainability, Steps Toward Change,” a joint initiative of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) and Earth Charter International.
UP President Danilo L. Concepcion in his message read by UP Vice President for Public Affairs Elena E. Pernia said, “UP welcomes its [exhibit] vision of our interconnectedness as human beings in the greater community of life. We welcome its message that we need to widen our circle of compassion and love to encompass more than just our tribes, but the entirety of nature as well.”
SGI Philippines General Director Hisako Alcantara said the ribbon-cutting “is a symbol of opening our doors together in advancing peace through education. It is also aligned with Ikeda’s proposal of education for sustainable development.”
The exhibit contains 24 panels, including one left blank with a simple tree design so viewers can attach their own statement of what they will do toward sustainability. The exhibit started in 2002 and has since been shown in 34 countries in 13 languages.
SGI is a community-based Buddhist organization that promotes peace, culture and education centered on the dignity of life. Its organizational roots “dates back to 1930 when Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda founded the forerunner of the Soka Gakkai. It was officially formed in 1975 with Ikeda as its third president.” Presently, it has more than 12 million members in 192 countries and territories around the world.
Ikeda founded Soka University in 1971 in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan.
Earth Charter International is a “global movement of organizations and individuals that embrace the Earth Charter and use it to guide the transition towards a more just, sustainable and peaceful world.”
Other officials present at the events were Hiroki Shimoide, Administrative Director of the International Affairs Office of Soka University; UP Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs Gil S. Jacinto; UPD Vice Chancellor for Planning and Development Raquel B. Florendo; UPD College of Social Sciences and Philosophy Dean Maria Bernadette L. Abrera; and Prof. Mary Ann A. Espina, Balay Kalinaw architecture and former College of Architecture dean. ̶ text by Benito V. Sanvictores Jr., images by Leonardo A. Reyes and Benito V. Sanvictores Jr.
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Another GOP Transportation Proposal That’s Really All About Oil Drilling
Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee have been working to find $12 billion to fund the transportation bill for the next two years. All their proposals have met with rejection from the committee’s Republicans. Here’s why: The Republicans have been holding out for a funding mix that would include their favorite Christmas presents — oil drilling and attacks on conservation.
Orrin Hatch, top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has some ideas about how to fund the transportation bill. Photo: ##http://www.mediaite.com/tv/sen-orrin-hatch-obamacare-is-a-stupid-dumbass-program/##Mediaite##
Seven of the 11 GOP members of the Finance Committee sent a letter to Chair Max Baucus late last week with their suggestions. Here they are:
$3.5 billion rescission from the Advanced Vehicle Technology Manufacturing Loan Program
$3 billion transfer from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund
reclaiming $2.5 billion in transfers over the next 10 years from the Highway Trust Fund to the Land and Water Conservation Fund
expanded oil and gas production in Alaska and the Outer Continental Shelf ($5.2 billion over 10 years)
rescission of other unspent federal funds
The GOP members say the first three rescissions wouldn’t be felt much, especially for the programs that routinely bring in more than they spend out.
And then, of course, there’s the oil drilling. They’ve been trying to sneak Alaska oil drilling into just about everything these days, it seems — and here it is, showing up in this proposal to find $12 billion. Despite the fact that it could take years to earn a dime from oil drilling, the GOP acts like it’s the money spigot for everything the government wants to spend — if only the Democrats would stop being so sanctimonious about caribou babies.
So there you have it: spending cuts and oil drilling, the cure for all that ails the country (and, in this case, the solution for the transportation funding shortfall).
For good measure, the Republicans also suggest eliminating Davis-Bacon requirements that federally-funded projects pay at least a “prevailing wage.” So, just in case the ideological assault on environmental causes wasn’t enough to freak out the Democrats, here comes an ideological assault on labor rights.
As with everything else related to the reauthorization, it’s no use holding your breath for more action on these issues until late January or (more likely) February. Congress’s initial target adjournment date was yesterday, but they seem serious about next week being their last week in Washington before the holidays.
Meanwhile, Politico is reporting on a “brewing turf battle” in the House over spending levels — and, yes, how to fund them:
Rep. Steve LaTourette, at a private transportation meeting yesterday with stakeholders and staffers, said House leaders had approached Transportation & Infrastructure Chairman John Mica to suggest paring down the highway bill to two or three years, according to several sources at the meeting. Their plan: fund highway and transit programs at $65 billion to $70 billion a year, using current gas tax receipts, $7 billion from spending down the Highway Trust Fund’s balance and $50 billion from “a secret source.”
Mica is sticking to his guns on a five-year bill (down from the six years he was so insistent about just a few months back). But Politico says House Speaker John Boehner “wants to approve a highway bill that can be sold as a major Republican jobs initiative” more than he cares about a long-term bill that would provide more certainty to the transportation industry. Boehner has been pushing a bill funded by (what else?) oil drilling.
LaTourette acknowledged to Politico that “the energy link was not that strong because it doesn’t produce that much money, so the money is going to have to come from someplace else.”
Where would that be? It’s a secret.
The word on the street is that, at the same meeting, LaTourette also pledged to seek complete streets language for the transportation reauthorization bill.
Filed Under: Federal Funding, House of Representatives, John Mica, Oil, Orrin Hatch, Reauthorization, U.S. Senate
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“In the coming weeks, House Republicans will formally introduce an energy & infrastructure jobs bill, and hope to move the legislation through the House before the end of the year,” House Speaker John Boehner announced yesterday. Back in September, the Speaker let slip that the GOP would like to “link the next highway bill to an […]
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Now that the dust has settled, we have a few more notes on the Senate transportation bill that passed the EPW committee yesterday. Bike and pedestrian advocates are understandably shaken at seeing some major changes to the primary programs that fund their work. But here are some reasons to take heart: Getting Transportation Enhancements out […]
Congress Reconvenes With Transportation Deadlines Fast Approaching
Speaker John Boehner called the House of Representatives back into session yesterday, while the Senate will reconvene next Tuesday. And not a moment too soon: A number of major transportation laws will expire shortly, with calls to action coming from both sides. After all, many of these laws are extensions of extensions, and each side […]
Uh-Oh: Senate Finance Committee Draws a Blank on Transpo Funding
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is on the verge of releasing its proposal to reauthorize the federal transportation program until 2021. But it’s counting on the Senate Finance Committee to figure out how to pay for it. And that committee seems disturbingly far from an answer. The Highway Trust Fund (yes, that’s still […]
This Is Not a Drill: Highway Lobby Trying to Push Transpo Bill Thru Congress
For the 112th Congress, the path to passing a new transportation bill has been full of starts and stops, partisan politics and low expectations. While Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently said he doesn’t expect a multi-year bill to pass this Congress, livable streets advocates should still be on alert in the weeks ahead. Momentum is […]
Will Obama and the GOP Align on Plan to Fund Transpo With Tax Reform?
By Tanya Snyder | Feb 26, 2014
Today, both President Obama and Republican House Ways and Means Chair Dave Camp unveiled plans to pay for transportation with corporate tax reform. Few details have emerged about exactly how Camp plans to do this, but Politico has heard from Capitol Hill staffers that it would push $100 billion to $125 billion to transportation over […]
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The Usefulness of History
8 September 2018 28 January 2019 ~ Tarim Flach
On behalf of the CDO team, a warm welcome to this blog! First and foremost we hope that this space will be home to your contributions: interviews, columns, poems, visual art, any way you feel would best communicate your ideas about diversity at UvA. As I have the privilege of being one of the first contributors to this space, I hope that I will be able to inspire you to share your own perspectives, experiences, questions and ideas when it comes to diversity at UvA.
As a former bachelor student of cultural anthropology, and current research master in archaeology, heritage and memory studies, I enjoy making connections between lives that have come before us, and the circumstances each of us navigates today.
How people deal with difference has always particularly fascinated me. How we think about and organise diversity, another word for difference, is evident in just about every aspect of our lives once we choose to acknowledge that we’re participants, willing or not, in complex global webs.
Since diversity is not a problem in and of itself, it has always struck me as unnecessary that discussing difference has led to so much tension and outright hostility at this university which, like Amsterdam itself, strongly identifies as open-minded. When speaking to people at UvA about diversity, a concern which I often encounter is that action against discrimination may be very important – but that it is important elsewhere. If discrimination and coloniality ever were part of Dutch culture, surely these belong to a distant past with minimal relevance to the UvA today. If there is one thing I have learned from these encounters, it’s that UvA is deeply rooted in the unique and remarkable identity of Amsterdam as a city – and this identity has everything to do with its history.
The Illustre School – the gate of the Agnieten chapel, also known as Athenaeum Illustre. Source: Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Consider Gerardus Vossius and Caspar Barlaeus, two historical figures UvA presents on its website as key figures in the historical development of our university. I have found that Vossius’ and Barlaeus’ 1632 inaugural lectures at the newly founded Illustre School van Amsterdam (predecessor of the Universiteit van Amsterdam) are remarkably illustrative of the struggle to create spaces where diversity of knowledges and people is celebrated.
The title of Vossius’ lecture, ’The Usefulness of History’, speaks to me of course! The lecture itself addressed what he considered to be a detrimental lack of attention to the value of history for philosophy and morality, at a time when theology formed the core of European universities. While navigating backlash from the Protestant public, humanist Vossius advocated that it would be to the benefit of humanity to incorporate comprehensive and more inclusive histories into scholarship, and was highly critical of the tendency to turn exclusively to innovation and newness to solve problems. This does not mean innovation has no place in solving philosophical and moral problems caused by exclusion, but rather, innovation would be much more effective if it were to take into account history, and if it does so in a way that includes as many relevant perspectives as possible in its evaluations. (See pages 192-196)
A step in the right direction! However, as is typical of humanism as a philosophy this inclusiveness was limited to ‘relevant’, i.e. white, masculine, European perspectives. By making an anthropocentric distinction between humans and other living beings, and excluding most people from the definition of ‘humanity’, humanism as a philosophy has enabled and justified the oppression, enslavement, genocides and ecocides which enriched Amsterdam during what is referred to as the ‘Golden Age’. More on this in later blogs!
Next we have Barlaeus, also a Renaissance humanist, whose lecture addressed Amsterdams ‘burgher’ (citizen) merchants – a highly exclusive category in and of itself whose commercial and political influence shaped heart of Amsterdam. He encouraged them to spend time on academia so they might learn how to ‘best’ gather wealth and fame. He recognised the connections between philosophy, economics and ethics. He was apparently more skilled at flattery than Vossius, and as a result enjoyed high standing with wealthy merchants of Amsterdam. Vossius had to defend his niche subject matter while merchants’ interests (broad inclusivity was not one of them) secured the ongoing popularity and influence of Barlaeus in Amsterdam. The influence of capitalist funding at UvA continues to this day, as the humanities at UvA face the brunt of budget cuts as a result of the the national government imposing commercial interests on education.
I wrote, this time, about Vossius and Barlaeus, but over the coming years I look forward to sharing the stories of people who are not granted institutional visibility and appreciation – people whose work forms the foundation on which we as a CDO team will be building. The CRES (Centre for Race and Ethnic Studies) which was shut down after racist backlash in the 1990’s comes to mind, as do the participants in the 2015 Maagdenhuis appropriation, notably University of Colour who initiated the push for the Diversity Committee and subsequent establishment of the CDO position.
Of course, this is only my perspective! I can’t overstate how much I look forward to learning from the stories, knowledge and experiences you, as UvA community feel will contribute to making our university a more inclusive place.
– Tarim
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Published by Tarim Flach
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This is a great blog entry, keep them coming!
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Hot or Not: YouTube Stars
By Lara Bonner — Chief Proofreader
Chief Proofreader Lara Bonner rates a few musicians who started off as regular people but rose to YouTube fame.
Julia Nunes
With her goofy smile and never-ceasing energy, there’s a lot to love about Julia Nunes, who has received thousands of YouTube hits and is currently touring with Ben Kweller. She’s known not only for her well-written originals but also for taking songs like “Survivor” by Destiny’s Child and using both her ukulele and rich voice to turn them into rejuvenated musical performances. Her YouTube popularity has given her the opportunity to tour with Ben Folds and perform at YouTube Live in San Francisco in 2008, and she has released three full-length albums. There is no doubt that the world will be seeing much more from this charmingly atypical artist.
Lukewarm
Comedian and musician Bo Burnham has been swept up from YouTube into Comedy Central because of his hilarious videos of raps and songs. He deserves props for his ability to come up with witty lyrics that spin out of his mouth so fast it takes a minute to realize robbing an Asian kitchen and strolling down the block are both ways to take a wok/walk. On first glance, listeners may also want to credit “Bo Fo Sho” for his willingness to confront taboo subjects such as sex and race. But on closer inspection, occasionally his main comedic appeal comes from being offensive, and that gets a little old after a while — fo sho.
When watching the first few videos on Justin Bieber’s original, pre-fame YouTube account, it’s undeniable that this kid has a powerhouse voice. Aside from the poor boy’s shaved head, which is even more atrocious then his now infamous “Bieber” haircut, there’s little to dislike about his early videos. But since he picked up a gigantic following and a record deal, he’s been putting out cutesy songs that overshadow vocal talent with simple lyrics aimed at the preteen crowd. Let’s face it, folks — “Baby, baby, baby, oh” is not a chorus.
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Medical tourism’s SOPs get full approval
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020 at Economy | News
One of the SOPs requires patients coming in for treatment to undergo isolation and tests
by NUR HAZIQAH A MALEK/ pic by BLOOMBERG
THE Malaysia Healthcare Tourism Council (MHTC) has confirmed that its standard operating procedures (SOPs), which have been in the works for months, has received full approval and is receiving inquiries for medical tourists who require critical treatment.
The SOPs, which has undergone various process and stages of approval for two months, require patients coming in for the country’s medical tourism to undergo isolation and tests.
MHTC had initially targeted RM2 billion in revenue earnings following the RM1.5 billion recorded in 2018, however, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the council is expecting a 70% drop in revenue and revising to 2012’s numbers.
MHTC CCO Yazmin Azman said the council has begun to open its inbox for enquiries as of yesterday.
“That said, the approved SOPs is quite tight and unfortunately for the first few phases, it’s not going to be as simple as it used to be before Covid-19.
“Phase 1A and 1B will be for patients who require critical care and need medical evacuation while having access to charter flights. In comparison to the phase that most people are looking for, these earlier phases will be open to all countries,” she said at the “How Healthcare Tourism Thrives Virtually in the Covid-19 Era?” webinar yesterday.
She added that the following phase will allow medical tourists to travel via commercially available flights, but restricted to patients coming in from green countries.
“Whereas the earlier phases will excuse patients even coming from red or black zones, Phase 2 will only be available for patients coming in from countries that have confirmed to be green zones.
“During that phase, we will continue to monitor the countries especially in the surrounding region, however, it is most important to watch the balance between patients’ and national security and safety,” she added.
Yazmin said moving forward, the industry has been investing mostly in the branding of medical tourism to nurture trust among patients.
“There’s a lot of positive news on how Malaysia has been dealing with Covid-19, and we are utilising that as part of our marketing baseline while strengthening our digital channels to make people understand that we can be trusted for when medical care is required.
“However, it is unfortunate that we have footprints in various countries including China, but it is precisely the fact that they lack the facilities to care for patients, and even so, the patients are prevented from coming here due to border control,” she said.
She added that the council is looking at policy changes to facilitate the treatment of international medical tourists.
Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur consultant physician and rheumatologist Dr Benjamin Cheah Tien Eang said among the current challenges faced by the medical tourism during the pandemic is the inability to provide more telemedicine.
“I get a lot of emails and telemedicine bookings, one example being from Bangladesh. A lot of regulations and laws that need to be adjusted to enable transboundary pharmacy,” he said.
He said what the pandemic has shown is that the country lacks a Plan B as most of its citizens cannot receive medication from their own country, due to customs and travel limitations.
“I think we need international partnerships to afford better healthcare internationally, we need to have someone on the other side to take up the case if there are complications such as post-surgical wound care. We need someone to trust on the other side as travel sometimes may not be possible,” he said.
Dr Cheah also added that for the industry to thrive, players and stakeholders would need to collaborate instead of competing via understanding strengths and weaknesses and thus, share resources for patients.
He stressed that it is important for the healthcare system to be able to handle any future pandemic similar to Covid-19.
“There will be another pandemic and it’s important that we need to look at our current limitations and work around any future difficulties to be responsive,” he said.
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 By Leo Azambuja
Digging up the future through the past
UH student researching viability of clam cultivation in Molokai’s fishponds
Hawaiians used to cultivate clams in fishponds, but this tradition faded a long time ago. A young Molokai wahine is trying to revive this old subsistence practice by doing scientific research in one of the island’s fishponds.
Nicole Tachibana was “born and raised on Molokai.” She left the island years ago to attend University of Hawaii at Hilo, but her heart never left. When an internship opportunity came up, the marine science major chose a program that would benefit her home-island.
The Pacific Internship Programs for Exploring Science (PIPES) offered her a chance to research the viability of bivalve cultivation in Molokai’s fishponds. PIPES, a program at the Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Center (PACRC) at UH Hilo, sent Tachibana to Molokai, where she has done extensive research on clams and oysters in the Keawanui Fishpond.
Tachibana researched books about Molokai’s fishponds, surveyed a few spots, and interviewed some people. “Most people I interviewed said there were a lot (of clams), but not too much anymore,” she said.
But the bulk of her work was physical labor. Armed with a shovel and a plastic basket, she spent several days digging up the mud in the Keawanui Fishpond. “It’s kinda hard,” she said. “I’m by myself everyday.”
While there were lots of shells, she found a species of clam and a species of oyster still alive in the fishpond. She said the clams were possibly of Japanese origin; and the oysters were native, but found elsewhere.
The results of Tachibana’s research can be beneficial for many on Molokai. She said PACRC plans to follow through by attempting to start a bivalve aquaculture on Molokai based on Tachibana’s findings. She is focusing her research on the bivalves in the fishponds, and at the same time assessing native Hawaiian methods of aquaculture.
The PIPES program concentrates in programs related to the study of natural resources of Hawaii and the Pacific region. The program benefits mostly local students, especially those of Hawaiian ancestry.
Walter Ritte, from the Hawaiian Learning Center, and Maria Haws, from PACRC, are Tachibana’s mentors in the project.
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009 By Catherine Cluett
MEC gets funds for land acquisition.
A depiction of Phase 1 and 2 of the MEC campus shows the current buildings to the left of the dashed diagonal line in the picture’s left half. The portion to the right of the line shows Phase 2 on the three acres of land to be acquired.
By Catherine Cluett
Molokai boasts many successful college graduates, and now, thanks to $500,000 recently allocated by the state legislature to expand the Molokai Education Center (MEC), students will have more opportunities to complete their education right here on Molokai.
The three-acre land acquisition project was at the top of Senator Kalani English and Representative Mele Carroll’s legislative priority lists this year, according to Donna Haytko-Paoa, MEC’s Coordinator and Professor. She said the development project is phase two of the campus’ original plan, expanding the current two-acre campus to five acres.
“I’m just thrilled that it came through,” said Haytko-Paoa.
A Bigger Spread
The land earmarked for acquisition extends to the border of the adjacent Duke Maliu Park. It is currently owned by Molokai Ranch and leased by Monsanto. Phase one, which is the current 10,000 square-foot building, opened its doors in 1999.
Haytko-Paoa said the phase two facilities could include a science classroom and lab, more offices, another computer classroom and a large lecture hall. She added she also hopes plans will include a theatre or auditorium which could serve as the center of performing arts and culture on Molokai. But classroom space is currently spread thin, and Haytko-Paoa said additional classrooms will be the priority of the project.
“What makes it all worth while is the students and the results,” said Haytko-Paoa.
Growing Student Body
Haytko-Paoa said the Molokai campus’ average enrollment is 225-250 community college students per semester, not including the 25-30 students in Bachelor and Masters programs. She said enrollment is already way ahead of what it was this time last year.
“When the economy is bad, people go to school. When it’s good, people go to work,” said Haytko-Paoa.
The value of the land is not yet established. MEC, the Maui Community College’s Molokai campus, is a branch of the University of Hawaii (UH) and Haytko-Paoa said UH will assess and negotiate the property’s fair market value with Molokai Ranch. She said leftover funds from the $500,000 allocated for the acquisition will go back to the legislature.
There is currently no time frame set for construction. But once phase two is built, Haytko-Paoa said she expects enrollment to increase immediately by 50 percent. The more you can offer, she explained, the more you can get. Haytko-Paoa said the college’s current limited resources restrict the opportunities it can afford its students.
A History of Hard Work
In 2007, money for the land acquisition was on the wish list of both Senator English and Representative Carroll, but went no further, according to Haytko-Paoa. Finally, the funding went through legislature at the end of last month, and Haytko-Paoa credits Molokai’s “dire straits” as well as support showed by the University of Hawaii system.
The 1992 Molokai Community Plan set aside 15 acres for Maui Community College Molokai campus, and Haytko-Paoa has not lost sight of the big picture.
“We’re still holding out for 15 acres,” she said. “If you don’t have dreams, what do you have?”
Haytko-Paoa said the college’s long term vision is for a full-service campus that includes marine research, visual arts, culinary arts, and nursing training facilities, as well as a cafeteria and students’ gathering place.
“Just because we’re from Molokai, doesn’t mean we don’t have the faculty and students to excel,” she said.
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a conversation with author SIMON GODDARD // Ziggyology (A Brief History Of Ziggy Stardust)
Friday 15 March 2013 Admin
NO-ONE WOULD HAVE BELIEVED, IN THE LAST YEARS OF THE 20TH-CENTURY, THAT ACROSS THE GULF OF SPACE A MIND IMMEASURABLY SUPERIOR TO OURS REGARDED THIS EARTH WITH ENVIOUS THIGHS.
Was the 1969 moon landing the last thing to ever happen in black-and-white? One giant leap for mankind – yet, within three short years, one small step for a starman… The cultural impact of David Bowie’s psycho-sexual science-friction oddity Ziggy Stardust seems almost immeasurable now, in an age when the future has rocketed so far hence that the average pocket (with its iPhone, iPod and eye on the social minutae) resembles the techno-gadget utility-belt of a scouting party from Mars… No-one would have believed. Beamed down the years and out, 1972 seems a God-awful small affair…
1972. Over forty years ago. But still those days float through the eyes: the make-up, the pout, the pose, the clothes, the riffs, the words, the voice, the songs, the attitude… Oh! Look at the pretty things and you’ll be sure to see him: the moonage daydreamer with screwed-up eyes and screwed-down hairdo; the man who fell to Earth from the prettiest star… He’s there in the sex and the showbiz, the greatness and the glitter, the grotesque and the glam; he’s there in the noise, the flair, the hair and the despair; in the fuck up and the freak out, the freaking in tongues, the tongue in cheek. He’s there in morse-code drums and laser-beam guitars, and he’s there when everything’s turned up to 11. He’s there when it’s none more black, in the calm before the solar storm and in the twist of cosmic fate. He’s there in the market squares, ice-cream parlours, opera houses, and all your favourite melodies. He’s there in the boys’ toys, electric irons and TVs. He’s there when it’s cold and it rains and you feel like an actor. And he’s there when you think of Ma and you want to get back there. And when the knives seem to lacerate your brain, hang on to yourself! Give him your hands! He’s wonderful…
Author Simon Goddard has great form for scrupulous research and level-headed musical analysis: his frankly staggering books THE SMITHS – SONGS THAT SAVED YOUR LIFE (2002) and MOZIPEDIA (2009) were forensic in detail and razor-keen of thought. Both went truly, madly, deeply about the business of breaking down the legend of Morrissey and the legacy of his former band The Smiths into their component parts in an attempt to sift deeper understanding and, perhaps, new beauty from familiar old truths. His new work ZIGGYOLOGY, published in a fortnight, is something else entirely. It’s a book, but it feels like a ray-gun to your head. It’s written as biography, but reads like white-hot sci-fi. Rocketing through a stellar slipstream of warm impermanence, Goddard’s major tome focuses his lightning-bolt flash bright brain on Bowie’s alien creation…
Here, Goddard speaks to The Mouth Magazine about his new book and about David Bowie’s career, including his resurrection in 2013 – but mostly, of course, about Ziggy Stardust…
YOUR NEW BOOK ZIGGYOLOGY IS PUBLISHED AT THE END OF THIS MONTH – WHERE DID THE IDEA TO WRITE IT COME FROM?
I kept thinking about Ziggy Stardust – the character rather than the music – and became gradually obsessed not only with the idea of how David Bowie created Ziggy but how Ziggy could only have occurred at that point in human history in 1972. The inspiration wasn’t to write a book about David Bowie – or even pop music – but to take this weird Ziggy-centric view of human history. I saw it as a chance, or even excuse, to write about things that interest me beyond pop, such as cosmology and Beethoven, yet still within the elastic framework of what might be considered a “pop book”.
HAS THERE BEEN MUCH OTHER ROCK/POP WRITING THAT’S HAD A PARTICULAR STYLE OR TONE WHICH HAS LEFT YOU WITH A LASTING IMPRESSION, OR COULD BE CONSIDERED AN INFLUENCE?
As a writer I’m more influenced by fiction than journalism so the style or tone of this book owes more to authors like Ray Bradbury, Jack Kerouac and Anthony Burgess, the poetic science of Carl Sagan and the films of Stanley Kubrick. There are a lot of in-jokes and homages in ZIGGYOLOGY which not everyone will get. Even the prologue, a roving tour of London which sucks the reader in using present tense, is my very deliberate homage to chapter one of Dickens’ BLEAK HOUSE. And the whole shape of the book is obviously stolen from H.G. Wells’ THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. I mean, ‘The Eve Of No More’? I cannot resist a good pun, sorry.
BEFORE YOU BEGAN WRITING ZIGGYOLOGY, WHAT DID YOU FEEL THAT YOU COULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE ‘SUM OF KNOWLEDGE’ OF BOWIE?
The funny thing is that I always called it “my Ziggy book” and when people would ask me “how’s the Bowie book going?”, I’d always say “what Bowie book?”… Which might sound facetious, but as I say in the preface: “This book is mostly the story of Ziggy Stardust but only sometimes the story of David Bowie.” My only motivation was telling a story in a way that befitted its subject. When you boil it down, it’s a book about a pop star from outer space so is as unashamedly starry-eyed, wilfully absurd and fantastical as that merits. I’ve been asked to describe ZIGGYOLOGY many times and my best attempt so far is that it’s part history, part space opera and part rock’n’roll cartoon.
UNSURPRISINGLY IN A CAREER OF ALMOST 50 YEARS, THERE’VE BEEN MANY BOOKS WRITTEN ABOUT BOWIE – BUT NOT MANY THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED DEFINITIVE, OR EVEN THAT INSIGHTFUL. I THINK ZIGGYOLOGY IS – BUT IT TAKES AN UNEXPECTED AND QUITE UNUSUAL ROUTE TO GET THERE… WHAT INSPIRED ITS PARTICULAR STYLE?
With the focus on Ziggy it meant I could take a “Ziggyological” view of Bowie’s life from birth to Ziggy which meant I didn’t have to worry about a lot of the standard biog stuff. Only the stuff that left its mark on what he later did as Ziggy Stardust mattered to the development of the story. It ended up being a handy get-out clause from having to go over every early record in meticulous detail or getting bogged down in traditional subplots like the Hermione Farthingale romance. I had to be brutal, but the dominant thrust of Ziggy was absolute.
THE BOOK IS DESCRIBED ON ITS JACKET AS “SUPREME POP ARCHAEOLOGY”, SO THE INTENTION WAS TO DIG DEEP INTO THE CHARACTER AND WORK OUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EVERYTHING THAT HAD BEEN GOING ON IN BOWIE’S CULTURAL LIFE TO GET HIM TO THE POINT WHERE HE CREATED ZIGGY STARDUST?
Yes. More than anything else I wanted to give a sense of the chronology. Where other biographers might get to 1972 and the creation of Ziggy and then, for instance, flash back to the 1960s when he met Vince Taylor, this presents the making of Ziggy in a chronological order so the clues are dropped along the way. The reader can hopefully feel him being pieced together, limb by limb, until he arrives. The transition chapter is called THE MODERN PROMETHEUS which, as many people will realise, is a nod to the original subtitle for Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN. So it is very consciously a narrative assembly rather than a non-narrative deconstruction. That was the intention, anyway.
DID YOU FEEL BY USING AN UNCONVENTIONAL STYLE (RATHER THAN A STRAIGHTFORWARD NARRATIVE, OR A FACTUAL ANALYSIS LIKE NICHOLAS PEGG, KEVIN CANN OR PETER DOGGETT) THAT WHEN YOU UNEARTHED NEW DETAILS, NEW LINKS, YOU’D BE ABLE TO MAKE FRESH ASSOCIATIONS AND TRUTHS?
I think that in print Bowie has been pretty well covered. In terms of reference, Kevin Cann and Nicholas Pegg have sewn it up, their books are The Ones. The many biographies vary in quality but in my view Trynka’s is the best all-rounder and some of the out-of-print ones, the Gillmans and Zanetta, are also fascinating. Even the 1974 George Tremlett one I really like, there’s an innocence about it that really echoes the times. So I saw ZIGGYOLOGY as something which wasn’t a regurgitation of anything else but occupied its own original space on the shelf. It might seem unconventional in the context of other more academic music books but as a story, as its own piece of pop art
science fiction I think it’s a fairly straightforward read. I know it’s probably a like or loathe book. You have to be willing to go with Ziggy and get lost in the fantasy or you’re never going to get it. Like Marc Bolan once said, “fuck off or keep cool, y’know?”
WAS THERE ANYTHING YOU UNCOVERED WHICH SURPRISED YOU – WHICH PERHAPS SHED NEW LIGHT ON THE WIDER CONTEXT?
It was more finding weird coincidences – and a lot of the book does revel in the joy of coincidence. My favourite was probably discovering that the Hammersmith Odeon, where Ziggy died, was designed by the same architect who designed the cinema where Bowie’s parents first met in Tunbridge Wells. Which to anyone with any semblance of a life is sub-anorak detritus, but I delight in that sort of stuff.
WERE THERE ANY PARTICULAR CHALLENGES YOU FACED WHEN WRITING?
Time. Money. Hygiene. The usual.
THE ACTUAL ALBUM, THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS… WHEN YOU WERE RESEARCHING THE CREATION OF IT – THE WRITING, THE RECORDING – DID YOU DISCOVER THINGS WHICH MEANT YOU CONTINUALLY HAD TO PULL EVERYTHING FORWARD INTO A NEW CONTEXT? OR DID THE WRITING JUST “FLY”? THE BOOK SOMETIMES READS AS A TRAIN OF THOUGHT – IT’S RATHER ENTERTAINING TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH THE SPEED OF THAT TRAIN…
The technical details of all that are already covered in other books so I was only concerned about dealing with the music in a way that didn’t stall the story. So not taking the standard music journalism approach – “‘And then David turned his amp up,’ says the engineer today.” – but writing about it within a narrative. Some of the second half of the book especially is very deliberately cinematic. So I saw it not as filming a documentary but directing a drama. The book jumps straight into Ziggy’s world. In the second half of the book David is always Ziggy while Bolder and Woodmansey are only referred to by their Spiders names of Weird and Gilly. That’s what I mean by rock’n’roll cartoon. It’s less CRACKED ACTOR, more BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.
PRESUMABLY, AS YOU FOCUS THE BOOK ON IT, THE ZIGGY STARDUST ALBUM IS A FAVOURITE OF YOURS… WHAT WAS IT IN PARTICULAR THAT APPEALED?
It’s certainly a favourite, but not the favourite. I agree with Bowie when he said ALADDIN SANE is better and, ironically, I probably prefer DIAMOND DOGS overall to both. The ZIGGY STARDUST album has some amazing moments: ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SUICIDE alone is unrivalled, but for me ALADDIN SANE, TIME, THE JEAN GENIE, DIAMOND DOGS and especially the whole SWEET THING / CANDIDATE / SWEET THING (REPRISE) suite are Bowie at his glam-era best. But, obviously, I adore the ZIGGY STARDUST album. Apart from IT AIN’T EASY. It was recorded for a different album (HUNKY DORY) and I think it shows. I still wish he’d put HOLY HOLY or VELVET GOLDMINE on instead.
LET’S CALL HUNKY DORY, TR&FOZS&TSFM AND ALADDIN SANE THE ZIGGY STARDUST TRILOGY… I THINK THE TWO ‘BOOKENDS’ IN THAT TRILOGY ARE ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE ZIGGY STARDUST RECORD… IT’S AN AMAZING ALBUM THAT STANDS AS ONE OF THE BEST, PROBABLY THE MOST DEFINING, OF ITS ERA – YET, INCREDIBLY, IT’S ACTUALLY RAISED EVEN FURTHER BY WHAT’S ON EITHER SIDE OF IT… YOU HAVE TO SEE WHERE BOWIE WAS AND WHERE HE WENT NEXT…
The ZIGGY STARDUST album was the one that sold the concept so that’s why it became the generational glam rock landmark. It’s the obvious fulcrum of Bowie’s glam period. Nowadays we think of HUNKY DORY as this masterpiece but when it was released in December 1971 nobody batted an eyelid and it didn’t even chart for another year. In fact it sold its most in late 1973, after ALADDIN SANE, so all praise for that record has been almost unanimously posthumous. For me, the most impressive aspect is that he recorded those three albums in an 18 month period. Just listen to those albums back-to-back and try and digest that. By any standards, especially album schedule standards today, that redefines mindboggling.
ONCE ZIGGY HAD ‘PASSED’, WAS IT ACTUALLY POSSIBLE FOR DAVID BOWIE TO BE AS CULTURALLY RELEVANT AGAIN?
If anything more so. It was only 1973 but for the rest of the decade he continued to define not only the sound of then but wrote a mandate for the sound of hence. Those records which, at the time, were termed in the vocabulary of their day as “glam” or “plastic soul” or “new wave” contained the basic shapes of what the vocabularies of future days would call new romantic, electronica, alternative and dance. Musically speaking, these days I think you hear far more echoes of 1970s Berlin Bowie or 1980s SCARY MONSTERS Bowie than you do early 1970s ZIGGY STARDUST Bowie. The influence of Ziggy is more in terms of aesthetics, fashion and art. Lady Gaga doesn’t sound like Ziggy but, aesthetically, she is the unrivalled goddaughter of Ziggy.
YOU’RE ALSO KNOWN FOR BEING THE AUTHOR OF THE SMITHS – SONGS THAT SAVED YOUR LIFE AND MOZIPEDIA, A PAIR OF HIGHLY ACCLAIMED BOOKS WHICH HAVE ADDED GREAT CONTEXT TO THE WORK OF MORRISSEY AND HIS FORMER BAND… HOW INFLUENCED BY BOWIE WAS MORRISSEY?
Bowie has his own entry in MOZIPEDIA and, forced to read it back now, I see I say in the opening paragraph: “No gene is more vital to the quintessence of Morrissey than the Jean Genie himself.” I stand by that. Morrissey was one of many disciples of Ziggy who (when still a teenager) saw him live – as did Madonna, and as did Ian Curtis. When you think of the influence those three alone would later have, there lies the epic sweep of the Ziggy character’s legacy. And the first time Morrissey was ever mentioned in the music press was in Sounds in November 1972 in a list of competition winners for the ZIGGY STARDUST album. They printed his name wrong. “Steve Morrisey”. So Morrissey is fatally influenced by David Bowie.
MORRISSEY AND BOWIE ACTUALLY HAVE SEVERAL ASSOCIATIONS – OTHER THAN THE ILL-FATED TOUR (MORRISSEY PULLED OUT OF A SUPPORT SLOT TO BOWIE IN 1995 AFTER ONLY A HANDFUL OF DATES OF THE OUTSIDE TOUR)… ON 1993’S BLACK TIE WHITE NOISE ALBUM BOWIE COVERED MORRISSEY’S I KNOW IT’S GONNA HAPPEN SOMEDAY (FROM YOUR ARSENAL)… WHICH IS QUITE AMUSING AS, ITSELF, THAT SONG STRONGLY REFERENCES BOWIE’S ROCK N ROLL SUICIDE… AND THEY ALSO DUETTED ON T-REX’S COSMIC DANCER AT A CONCERT IN 1991…
Yes. A shame that for whatever reason the master and his apprentice fell out. Nothing else to say about that…
DO YOU THINK MORRISSEY WAS AS SIGNIFICANT A CULTURAL FORCE IN THE 1980s AS BOWIE HAD BEEN IN THE 1970s?
It feels a bit of an unfair comparison between a global RCA megastar and the singer with a Rough Trade band. Both were respectively significant cultural forces but what Bowie did in the 1970s was unique, the scale of the musical innovation in tandem with international superstardom. If you had to pick an iconic equivalent in the 1980s on the same scale it’d have to be a two horse race between Michael Jackson, the pop alien, and Madonna, the sexual liberator. So while I’d definitely say that Morrissey was the greatest British pop singer to emerge since Bowie, if you really had to plot their vibrations on the seismograph of pop influence you’d see a massive difference. But comparing anyone to Bowie on those terms feels unfair, as it would The Beatles.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF BOWIE’S POST-ZIGGY STARDUST WORK? DO YOU HAVE PARTICULAR FAVOURITE MOMENTS?
My favourite post-ZIGGY STARDUST albums are probably LODGER, STATION TO STATION and DIAMOND DOGS – which might even be my favourite. It’s an album I never jump around but play reverentially in one sitting. Other than those, I also really love Philip Glass’ LOW and “HEROES” symphonies. The Glass version of SOME ARE is one of my favourite pieces of music, ever. It’s great on headphones in midtown New York at rush hour, dodging traffic and looking up at the buildings, the stale taste of bourbon in the mouth, pretending you’re in some sinister Fritz Lang thriller.
NOT JUST IN TERMS OF THE MUSIC, BUT WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEXT DAY – THE ‘RETIREMENT’, THEN THE SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT ..?
I thought the way he came back, everything from the sleeve to the video to the song itself (WHERE ARE WE NOW?), showed Herculean self-confidence. It’s the comfort and awe in knowing Bowie knows exactly what he’s doing. A genius feat of self-marketing and a historic return. Because of our ‘Tweet Now Think Later’ culture I’ve deliberately avoided reading full reviews of THE NEXT DAY and being caught up in the frantic keypad derby to declare it genius or trash. I’m being characteristically old-fashioned by living with the album for weeks, maybe months, exploring its every crevice over time and calmly reaching my own conclusion as to where it ranks on my personal Bowie scale. I suppose I’m trying to relive that special relationship which we had as teenagers between fan and artist which is rarely encouraged these days but which an artist of his calibre and an album of that intensity deserves. But, yes, I have it and I’m playing it a lot right now. So far, so good…
WHAT’S NEXT FOR YOU, SIMON?
Whatever I do next it will be an entirely different subject again. I already have several ideas. Some might work, some might not… Time – perhaps not in Quaaludes, but very possibly red wine – will tell…
ZIGGYOLOGY by SIMON GODDARD will be published on 28th March by EBURY PRESS, RRP £20 /// To win a copy, kindly donated by the publisher, please submit your name to the usual Mouth Magazine e-mail address.
Ziggy Stardust photo session by Brian Ward (Heddon Street, London W1, 13th January 1972).
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Clinton-Kaine Education Views Might Make You Rethink Public School
Emmett McGroarty
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (photo credit: Disney | ABC Television Group via Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0)
We know what Hillary Clinton wants for public K-12 education. She wants universal government preschool, despite the well-documented failure of government preschool to deliver even a fraction of what the Hillaryites promise. She wants federal “education SWAT teams” to “help” struggling schools (that idea creates interesting visuals). She wants more federal control over school discipline to enforce “school climates” of which she approves. And all education should be geared toward a sweeping, centralized, government-controlled system of workforce-development.
We probably won’t hear much from Clinton about Common Core, given that (as Missouri Education Watchdog reports), the leaked emails of the Democratic National Committee advise avoiding the subject as a “political third rail.” But even though she bemoans the controversy surrounding Common Core, she endorses the idea of the national standards as a means to control the “most important non-family enterprise” society engages in (take that, you intrusive parents!) – not surprising, since much of her professional life, at least the part not devoted to suppressing bimbo eruptions or selling national security to the highest bidder, has involved laying the groundwork for Common Core.
Clinton’s vice-presidential choice, former Virginia governor and current U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, actually is less tainted by Common Core than is his Republican vice-presidential counterpart. While Trump’s VP pick, Governor Mike Pence, ensured the national standards were retained in Indiana despite intense opposition, Kaine had already left the governor’s office before the Common Core decision had to be made (his successor, Governor Bob McDonnell, was one of the few governors to reject the national standards, so Virginia – at least theoretically – operates outside of Common Core).
But all other information about Kaine’s position on education indicates he and Hillary are soulmates. Education Week reports that Kaine is a champion of the workforce-development theory of education, ensuring as a senator that the statist new Every Student Succeeds Act includes career and technical education (CTE) as a “core” subject. Also, the centerpiece of his proposals on education when he ran for governor was to install universal government preschool for all Virginia four-year-olds (fortunately for all Virginia four-year-olds, that program was never implemented, although the National Education Association did praise Kaine for having “expanded pre-kindergarten”).
Read the full article at Conservative Review.
Emmett McGroarty is the American Principles Project’s Director of Education. Jane Robbins is an attorney and a senior fellow with the American Principles Project.
Emmett McGroarty is the director of APP Education.
Invasion of the Party Snatchers: Who Are These Democrats in Philadelphia?
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After the Conventions, 1.2 Percent Growth Means Hillary Is In Trouble
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Natural Pitfall Traps: Preserving a History of Unfortunate Events
January 29, 2019 by R. Joel Duff 78 Comments
You can learn a lot from a series of unfortunate events. Collapsed caves can leave entry holes on the surface that become hazards to local fauna. The image below is from inside a famous natural pitfall trap in Wyoming. The surface above is rather flat and prey running from a predator sometimes fall into this hole or prey smelling the decaying remains of dead accident victims may lean over too far for a closer look and fall in themselves. Over years, decades, and even tens of thousands of years, remains of animals and sediments in the trap accumulate preserving a chronology of historical events that we can read today.
Natural pitfall trap in Wyoming. Thousands of remains of Ice Age animals are found in the sediments at the base of this opening to the surface. https://www.myfossil.org/featured-paleontologist-julie-meachen/
Such is the case of a natural pitfall trap in Spain. However, this one has a twist. This trap is so old that it has become completely filled with sediments and bones. People living in the area had no idea there has been a large pit there at all because it was filled prior to modern humans occupying the region.
But some curious scientist found a cluster of fossils, which, upon further examination, they came to realize were the remains of an ancient natural pitfall trap. Since its discovery, field work at the site for more than 10 years has yielded more than 1800 fossil bones from at least 18 species of extinct large animals.
The site represents one of the best sites for fossil carnivores in Europe because of the unique circumstances under which it is thought to have formed. Similar to my previous post on “fossil” caves in South Africa (The frequently overlooked geological context of hominid fossils) this site represents what was a extinct sinkhole of sorts. Similar pits that were simply a hidden hole that caused animals to accidentally fall in the pit are expected to contain the bones of large numbers of herbivores rather than carnivores. But this ancient pit had a large number of carnivores. Why? It seems that this pit had walls that were enticing to carnivores who thought they could get into the pit and get out with the probable reward of water and a meal. However, once in the pit they soon discovered that the walls could not be scaled thus sealing their fates.
A figure from the supplements of the reference in this post. This is a diagram of a possible history of this cave/pit from the time it formed to its being completely filled. This pit was about 30 feet deep and the vast majority of the fossils are found in the lower parts of the filled material.
Over time continual deposition of new sediment and unfortunate victims of falls and unwise predators resulted in filling of a pit that had started out at least 30 feet deep. Once filled with debris the contents of the pit were preserved through various forms of fossilization.
Scientist have been excavating the pit by digging their own pit into the ancient pit sediments, revealing the past history of this site. The figure to the right shows a likely history of this pit. Thus far thousands of bones belonging to at least 18 different large species of mammals have been found in addition to many remains of smaller animals. All of the remains of mammals found thus far are of species that are extinct today.
Among the remains there is an ancient horse species that stood at most four feet tall, several extinct rhinoceros species, a bear dog which was a bear sized animal that looked like a dog but also had bear-like features and was likely neither a bear nor a dog, several large cat species, an ancient hyena species and multiple other hoofed animals.
Context is key for interpretation the history of this site: A creationist’ challenge
I probably sound like a broken record at this point but context is critical when asking how a location like this fits into the young earth creationist’ (YEC) viewpoint. I expect that many YECs when told of these thousands of bones they will not be told about where the bones are found and how they may have been preserved. They may just believe that these were animals swept up in a large flood.
For the typical YEC follower who does not have a working knowledge of geological processes this is understandable. But for the young-earth leaders such as those who work for Answers in Genesis or the Institute for Creation Research who are tasked with providing expert answers about how to interpret science within the young-age paradigm one expect more. It is especially troubling that these experts are often unaware, or at least seem uninformed, of the challenges that sites such as these present to their own theories.
Conventional geological dating of these fossils tells us that they are about 10 million years ago with active collection of animals and filling of the cave having taken place over tens if not hundreds of thousands of years. This is obviously problematic for a young-earth paradigm in which all these fossils must have formed after a Noahic Flood which ended less than 4500 years ago.
A depiction of the extinct bear dog (Amphicyon). This was one of 30 or more species of members of the bear-dog family that are all extinct. Bones of bear dogs were found in the lower levels of this cave deposit. Click on image for image credit.
First, remember that these fossils are found in sediments that were deposited inside an open pit and cave system. Where did the cave come from in the first place? The layers in which the cave originally formed are considered to be of Miocene age by geologists and most creationist writers accept that these rock layers were formed after a global flood rather than by a global flood. So the deposits, which contain various types of rock representing unique depositional environments must have been laid down and turned to rock prior to the dissolution of that same rock to form the cave. The cave then had to suffer a collapse resulting the creation of a pitfall trap. Only then could that pit begin to collect animals and preserve their remains. Over time the entire 30 foot-deep cavern had to fill up and its contents be fossilized.
When considering the chronology of this sequence one also has to account for the fact that people have lived in this region for 3000 years or more after the this pit had already been completely filled.
Remains of this extinct horse, a Hipparion, were found in the cave deposits. This horse had 3 toes and was about 4-5 feet tall.
It boggles the mind to imagine how one might hypothesize that all of these events could have taken place in just the past 4000 years. Even had the pit formed 4000 years ago, how did hundreds of carnivores become trapped in such a short period of time? There are sediments separating many of the bones. These sediments are best interpreted to represent deposits between times when animals died and were slowly buried. These processes of sediment deposition and accidental falls would have taken time. At most a few animals per year would get trapped. But at that rate it would take tens of thousands of years for the lower reaches of the pit to be filled with sediments.
Remains of this extinct deer-like animal were found in the deposits. Click for image source.
On top of all of the geological context we have the types of fossils found here that must be considered. They are all extinct species of animals and most represent types of animals that do not live anywhere in Europe today. There are deer and horse-like creatures but not a single species, or even ones closely related, that we find today. Relating this back to some of my previous posts we can see some member of the early horse succession here (A horse is a horse of course: unless it isn’t a horse) including a small 3-toed “primitive horse.” The “bear dog” is a huge beast that shares features similar to bears and dogs. Creationist’s today believe that this was a unique “kind” of carnivore that existed as at least 50 different species within the past 4500 years but all those species are extinct today.
The picture we have painted for us by this preserved cave is a picture of an entire ecosystem that is quite foreign to anything that we would recognize today and yet all of these animals would—according to YEC chronology—must have lived in this area of Spain after a global flood less than 4500 years ago. This timeline, as I’ve stated many time in other places, strains credulity. Unfortunately, fossil locations such as this one will either not be mentioned in the creationist literature or will be written about vaguely as being easily explained as an ice-age event that took place over just a few hundred years but the specific geological context of the fossils will not be mentioned. It is a hear-no-evil see-no-evil approach that has served Ham and his colleagues well for a long time. I don’t expect that will change anytime soon but I do feel for Christians that have grown up following YEC literature and are then exposed to places like this fossil site only to discover that creationist’ geology has ill-equipped them to explain the origin of these fossils.
Origin of an Assemblage Massively Dominated by Carnivorans from the Miocene of Spain Domingo MS, Alberdi MT, Azanza B, Silva PG, Morales J (2013) Origin of an Assemblage Massively Dominated by Carnivorans from the Miocene of Spain.PLoS ONE 8(5): e63046. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063046
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Excellent points, and this is just one of countless other complex geologic settings around the world which fly in the face of YE/Flood Geology. Besides the problematic fossils, many indicate long periods of slow or low-energy deposition. Perhaps the most poignant examples are vast dinosaur trackways and nesting sites (which I love to study), which occur in Mesozoic sediments claimed by most YECs to be mid-Flood. Over 230 such nesting sites are known around the world. Even if it could be explained how the dinosaurs survived for many weeks or more of raging flood waters (that’s a long time to tread water or survive on floating vegetation mats, especially without fresh water to drink or any normal food), one would have to explain how they managed to find many others of their species, then mate, build scores of nests, lay eggs, incubate and hatch the eggs (some have baby tracks around the nests), without their normal habitats, provisions, or nesting materials, all while the Food was not only still raging, but supposedly at or near it’s peak. Supposed “lulls” in the Flood don’t begin to explain these things, besides not being mentioned in the Genesis account. Making mattes worse, in some places there are successive layers of nesting sites on top each other, with scores or even hundreds of nests on each. Grasping at straws, some YECs such as Walter Barnhart have even suggested that the eggs might have been laid underwater, which is not only ludicrous, but doesn’t begin to answer the other questions, or radiometric dating data, or the major patterns of fossil succession. Indeed, they have no explanation for why none of these sites have any tracks or remains of any large modern mammals. Even the few alleged exceptions (Paluxy “man tracks” and such have been well refuted
Peer says:
“Excellent points, and this is just one of countless other complex geologic settings around the world which fly in the face of YE/Flood Geology”
Lets focus on the biology in these traps. The pit could have been a perfect Darwin trap, demonstrting gradual changes and transitions of beardogs into dogbears and dogs and bears. But it is not. As all other pits, including Labreea tar pit is. They disporve Darwinian graduallism and are evidene of saltational organismal changes. How it works can be read in my books.
Natural Historian says:
Peer, the information content in your comments of late is inherently unstable to use your terminology. It can mutate and drift so quickly as to be of little use. These are handwavy clauses that don’t account for the facts reported. To say they “diporve Darwinian gradualism” is just silly. No one claimed that this put of bone proved Darwinianism. To put it as our articulate leader might say: comments no Useful – very bad, False. :)
“No one claimed that this put of bone proved Darwinianism.”
You linked this article because it supposed to prove something. What should this data prove? That YEC is wrong? Looking at the data, I see extinct animals trapped that are all related to modern animals, but not in a gradual way. Some, like the musk deer could be even the same or slightly differen. What does it mean? That we are looking at modern extinct organims. The biological process of change is non-darwinian, does not need long ages and is explained by genome shuffling (proved by the karyotypes of extant organism). It provides a rapid speciation model for YEC, so what is the problem? In fact, you show evidence completely in accord with YEC.
You’ve proven NH’s point exactly, by cherry-picking a single issue (the biology) that doesn’t per se disprove YEC and ignoring all the others (sedimentation-erosion-sedimentation, intermittent sedimentation, rate of trapping, etc.) that do. A “handwavy clause[] that do[esn’t] account for the facts reported” is a perfect description of what you’ve posted.
Christine Janis says:
A quick note: the ‘deer-like creature’ is Micromeryx, a moschid, not a deer. Moschids (today’s musk “deer”) are a family of hornless ruminants (Moschidae) found today in Asia, and molecular evidence shows that they are more closely related to bovids (i.e., antelope and cattle) than to deer.
Bear dogs (family Amphicyonidae) are known from the late Eocene to the Pliocene from both Eurasia, Africa, and North America. A highly successful radiation (that also included many smaller, more dog-like species). But now completely extinct. A bit of a problem for the post-flood diversification scenario, as you note.
Hipparions were not “primitive horses”, although the picture may make them look like that! They were the major tribe (in terms of number of species/geographic distribution) in the Miocene-Recent equid subfamily Equinae. Another tribe, the Equini, became single-toed and survived to the present day, but the hipparions survived until around 1 Ma, and many species were as large as modern horses. So, they were cousins to extant equids, not more primitive relatives.
The musk deer in Asia differ genetically at the karzotype level, with chromosome number ranging from 8 to 48. The 3D orientation of the genome in the nucleus is the 3D construction plan of the organism through position and spatial effects of gene control. TEs link the bauplan together via Hoogsteen basepairing with lncRNAs. The genome is simply reshuffled and this determines how the bauplan is executed. No new genes required and this type of evoltion is instant, one-few generation(s). This is the new standard to understand biological changes. It suits both OEC and YEC.
Thanks for the comment. Always great to have an expert give us some more detail and making sure I am keeping the information correct.
Interesting bone collection pits, NH. It would have been an excellent proof of gradual evolution, if it were the mechanism by which biological speciation occurred. The pile of bones simply demonstrate that Darwinian gradualism is false. Biological system like the animals found in the pits rely on information. Information is inherently unstable, so the pits cannot be older than a few 10-100 thousands of years.
Peer: “… we are looking at modern extinct organims.”
That’s an oxymoron. As Christine explained, they are not simply trivial variations of modern animals. Moreover, why do we find bear dogs and similar forms only in Cenozoic strata? If they all quickly evolved from some basal form after the Flood in a few hundred years, why would then not have done so before the Flood, and therefore appear as fossils before the Flood? This brings us back to the question of why there are zero pre-Cenozoic fossils of any large modern mammals. No bears, dogs, beardogs, horses, rhinos, hippos, cattle, deer, sloths, pigs, elephants, whales, apes, humans, etc, etc. No matter which of them you think were around before the Flood (at least some had to be, and thus often found as pre-Cenozoic fossils), especially since millions of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, mososaurs, etc. were. You’ve been asked about this several times before, without any reply.
Peer: “In fact, you show evidence completely in accord with YEC.”
Hardly. Besides the misunderstandings about the animals in question that Christine pointed out, you are ignoring all the serious geologic problems the site presents for YECism. I’m not surprised though, since you’ve consistently ignored our questions about geology and the fossil record before. Frankly, you seem to know virtually nothing about those fields, which is a major problem for someone trying to turn them on their heads. You asked me to read some YEC books (even though I’ve read shelves full of them), so please take your own medicine and read some mainstream books and papers on geology and paleontology.
Peer: “The pile of bones simply demonstrate that Darwinian gradualism is false.”
Hardly. Even by your model, beardogs evolved from other animals, so either way there had to be intermediates, even though not all would have fossilized. Moreover, it is far more plausible for it to happen over millions of years than a few hundred or few thousand years.
Peer: “Information is inherently unstable, so the pits cannot be older than a few 10-100 thousands of years.”
The first claim is so vague it is essentially meaningless, so the second certainly does not follow from it. Care to show any data and calculations, or did you just pull the numbers out of thin air? Even the lower range is older than what most YECs allow, but far younger than what multiple independent dating methods show. So how old do you think the bones are, or the earth is, and on what evidence? Can you describe even one reliable dating method that shows the earth to be only thousands or even tens of thousands of years old? Do you, like ICR’s RATE project authors, believe that when confronted with compelling contrary evidence, it’s fine to just invent multiple ad hoc miracles to explain it?
“Creationist’s today believe that this was a unique “kind” of carnivore that existed as at least 50 different species within the past 4500 years but all those species are extinct today.”
Who determined whether these are species? In my opinion they simply derived from one baranome in single speciation events through genome shuffling. Maybe the organisms produced gametes in a semimeiotic way. It would require a few generation to get 50 different karyotypes and thus different fenotypes.
‘Who determined whether these are species?’
The people who determined that amphicyonids are a separate family within the order Carnivora are competent anatomists. Features of the auditory bulla are distinctive between different carnivoran families, and amphicyonids are different from any extant families. I note that you are now claiming that the Order Carnivora is a single ‘kind’. Why not just call all placental mammals a single ‘kind’? That would fit well with your declaration that all marsupials are a single ‘kind’.
‘ Maybe the organisms produced gametes in a semimeiotic way. ‘
Maybe aliens brought them down to earth and sculptured them to look like a mixture between bears and dogs.
So, you do not know what semimeoisis is, I presume. Semimeoisis happens sometimes in the formation of gametes. The segregation of the chomosomes is then in such a way that novel genomes (karyotypes) form instantly and the next generation inherits a novel karyotype and sometimes a completely novel phenotype. It is saltantional evolution (read Dr Davisons manifesto…he was no YEC but an OEC by the way). Due to such saltational mechanism (chromotripsis is the left over of the saltational process and can be observed when the control over it disappears, e.g. in some cancer cellls), we can simply not determine the border of the created kinds from fossil remains. We can only determine this border using the genetic information content of the whole genome (the baranome), as I published 10 years ago.
“So, you do not know what semimeoisis is, I presume.”
I read about it in Davison’s manifesto: it’s advanced as a term for meoisis that is presumed to have halted after the first chromosomal division. If you google the term, almost all the results that are returned are those of Davison’s writings, including an article written by a geneticist that specifically refutes his notions*. It’s a term of limited use, possibly invented by Davison himself (I can find no other reliable source for this term), with no evidence to support the use to which Davison ascribes to it, the proposal that new taxa arise as ‘hopeful monsters’. As so much in Davison’s manifesto is either factually wrong or at least 50 years out of date I don’t consider him to be a reliable source of biological insights.
For those readers without easy access to online journals: this is a letter to the editor, in Journal of Theoretical Biology 1986, by M. Maguire at the University of Texas. This are some relevant section from the paper.
“The perceived advantage of such a system (semimeiosis) seems to be that a Goldschmidtian ‘hopeful monster’, presumably made possible only by occasional chromosome rearrangement, could be rendered homozygous immediately, hence macroevolution”.
“Davison cites as evidence supporting his scheme: (1) examples of naturally occurring or induced parthenogenesis in which it is perceived that the second meiotic division does not occur, although the authors cited do not necessarily agree with this interpretation (see Olsen, 1996); (2) the notion (which seems to be false) that human female meiosis is arrested for many years at metaphase II (modern accounts generally place the normal arrest a late prophase I); and, most importantly, (3) the reports and interpretations of Cleveland (1947) on chromosome behavior in certain flagellate protozoa.”
Maguire then spends several paragraphs explaining why (3) does not actually help Davison’s case.
So, yes, now I do know what semimeiosis means. The question is, do you?
Davison completely refutes the above critique:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Davison+Semimeiosis
By not referring to Davisons refutation, you are trying to bias the discussion. Referring to 1947 papers is also not very helpful in the 21st century.
So, the semimeiosis is still a workable hypothesis for rapid speciation. Of course there are many more mechanisms, such as the recently described chromotripsis.
Peer: “So, the semimeiosis is still a workable hypothesis for rapid speciation. Of course there are many more mechanisms, such as the recently described chromotripsis.”
Neither you nor Davison have demonstrated that these mechanisms are common or significant in evolution. Meanwhile, you both (like many YECs) dismiss the role of natural selection, even tho it is well demonstrated, and without it, you have no way to preserve and pass along any adaptive accidents of your other mechanisms.
‘Referring to 1947 papers is also not very helpful in the 21st century.’
I would agree with that. However, that is the paper that Davison himself cites heavily in support of his own argument, both in his original paper and in his rebuttal. Maguire is merely noting his sources.
Yeah, one thing that immediately struck me about Davison is that almost all his sources are decades old or older. He even neglects important work on things like Punc Eq, the K-T impact, despite their obvious relevance to some of the things he discusses (like slatation and extinctions). In view of this and all the other problems in his “manifesto,” how Peer can regard him as a crack researcher is beyond me.
Although yesterday I was reluctant to say much more about the problems in Davison’s “manifesto”, Peers comments prompt me to go ahead and outline some of those I found. Again, to address them all would practically take a book.
First, Davison fosters many false dichotomies. Even if “semi-meiosus” sometimes was involved in evolution, it doesn’t mean sexual reproduction wasn’t involved or important, especially in vertebrate groups. Indeed, he ignores extensive fossil evidence that vertebrates have reproduced sexually for tens of millions of years. Oddly, he does not even say when organisms evolved sexual reproduction, or for what purpose, if as he claims it is anti-adaptive and suppresses variation. Actually, it allows for additional variations and genetic combinations. He also suggests that conventional science claims evolution requires sexual reproduction, which is untrue. Whether mutations occur in sexual or asexually produced offspring or gametes, natural selection can act on them to foster evolution.
Davison clams that natural selection has no role in evolution other than to suppress variation, despite lots of observational and experimental evidence that it can preserve and spread adaptive genetic changes, however they occur. Dismissing any significant role of natural selection or point mutations, he proposes huge, sudden chromosomal changes, but without any means of directing or controlling them, or any explanation as to why they would be preserved and spread. At times he seems to hint that divine guidace or creation is involved, but he does not clarify this, or whether he thinks it’s all “frontloaded” or due to periodic interventions (progressive creation).
He talks about the inability of natural selection to produce “progressive” evolution or “advancement.: However, mainstream scientists to not regard evolution as producing “progress” – just adaptations, Like many YECs, he often depicts “Darwinism” as an entirely random or “mere chance” process, even though he must know that natural selection is not an entirely random process, even though it often acts on random mutations.
Essentially, Davison tries to revive a form of Goldschmidt’s “hopeful monster” theory, suggesting that large chromosome-level mutations, “semi-meiosis” and/or asexual reproduction can and usually did produce instant species and even instant general and families. He even quotes the old line about a bird hatching from a reptile egg, as if this kind of thing was feasible and routine in evolution. But this doesn’t make any genetic or common sense, since again, he has no mechanism to direct or coordinate all the genes required to do this, or to preserve and spread any such monsters, on the highly unlikely chance they’d be viable and adaptive. Without natural selection, at times he seems to hint that the missing agency might be some divinely creative act or process, but fails to clarify this.
He does agree that Lamarckism has no significant role in evolution, and “cannot be given serious consideration,”–the exact opposite of Peer’s bold claim that all of biology is Lamarckian.
Besides the examples Christine noted, Davison makes many unfounded comments about major trends and patterns in the fossil record. His depiction of horse evolution (with associated diagram) is very oversimplified, suggesting a ladder like form of evolution YECs used to ridicule “evolutionists” over. However, even it shows intermediate forms, not hopeful monsters. His comments about trends in body size and offspring numbers are also simplistic and undermined by many counter examples. His suggestion that large animals go extinct quickly is especially odd in view of the fact that some of the largest (sauropods, carnosaurs, mososaurs) persisted for tens of millions of years, and that many went extinct not due to genetic problems or deficiencies. He seems oblivious to the evidence for a large asteroid impact that evidently caused or at least contributed to the massive K-T extinction. Nor, curiously, does he mention any recent global Flood, or how it would affect his radical ideas on evolution and extinction.
Like many YECs, even though he evidently accepts an old earth, Davison claims that no intermediate fossils are known between groups larger than species, even though many such intermediates are known. See: htps://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_forms
Even if some of the listed examples are not directly transitional or ancestral to modern species, they are still intermediate forms, occurring in expected geologic horizons that are entirely compatible with evolution, but contradict expectations of YECism and hopeful monster ideas. Davison apparently fails to consider that one reason we don’t have even more intermediates is that by all evidence speciation often takes place in small and/or isolated populations (and again, over relatively short geologic time spans), explaining why they are less likely on average to leave fossils than large, stable populations persisting for longer spans. But again, despite all this, many of intermediate forms have been documented, with new ones turning up on a fairly regular basis (witness Tiktaalik, all the feathered dinos from China, etc).
By arguing that evolution always proceeds by major jumps (saltation) and never by gradual or step-wise changes, Davison fosters another false dichotomy. He largely neglects the work of Gould and Eldridge on Punctuated Equilibrium, who argued that evolution does often occur rapidly in geologic terms (often many thousands to a few million years, which is still far longer spans than YECism allows), but still usually takes place in many incremental steps, and thus in a sense “gradually” on small time scales. So the two concepts (gradualism and saltation) are not mutually exclusive. In short, contrary to his suggestions, neither genetics nor the fossil record supports the idea of instant evolution via “hopeful monsters.”
Another unfounded claim of Davison is that evolution has entirely “ceased.” He claims there is no evidence for any evolution in the last several million years or more, and virtually no mammal evolution for about 40 million years, which is contradicted many fossil finds (including various hominids, cetaceans, elephants and kin, etc). I suspect Christine could address this further, if she feels it worth the time to do so.
Despite all the problems in Davison’s claims and approach, to his credit he does appear to accept conventional evolutionary timescales. Ironically, if he were correct that no evolution has occurred for millions of years, it is the exact opposite of what YECs need for hyper-rapid post-Flood speciation.
Peer, in view of that and all the other problems, including Davison’s acceptance of an old earth, and his rejection of Lamarckism, which you claim is central to biology, why do you seem to revere him as a one of your heroes, often depicting him as a brilliant scientist, and citing him as an authoritative source?
Dear NH,
I posted about 10 rebuttals and responses to questions appearing here and in other threads. They did not appear on line. Is something wrong with the communication?
Or am I no longer welcome here?If so, please let me know via my email: peterborger@hotmail.com
PB, You are definitely welcome here. I am just lagging behind with so many comments. I just went through and found several that I had not approved as yet and approved them. What I have just done is turn off moderation so that your comments will appear without any wait at all.
Thee is no evidence chromothripsis (note spelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromothripsis) is in any way related to meiosis.
“We can only determine this border using the genetic information content of the whole genome (the baranome)” . That is, we have to look at the whole genome of all species to find the boundaries between kinds. How do we know from wholes genomes where the boundaries between kinds could be? Peer, if you were given just DNA data without knowing what animals the DNA comes from, how are you going to find the boundaries between kinds?
And?? It is a remnant of ancient genome remodelling mechanism, which can become reactivated in cancer cells. Normally these programs are silent, surpressed. The fact that they still exist in the genomes shows that in the past rapid speciation mechanism were possible.
Peer,
I asked a question: “How do we know from wholes genomes where the boundaries between kinds could be? Peer, if you were given just DNA data without knowing what animals the DNA comes from, how are you going to find the boundaries between kinds?”
Instead of an answer to a major queston – how do you recognizes the boundaries between kinds on the basis of DNA – Peer comes back with assertion about a minor point, without any evidence wahtsoever.
Peer:
I asked about an example of frontloading with a prediction about what the animal is like.
I asked here about how you want to distinguish and recocnize kinds on the basis of their DNA, Peer, yoy state: “We can only determine this border using the genetic information content of the whole genome (the baranome)” Now the task for you is to do that and give an example.
Those must be major points to you, and you should have the answer ready.
To Peter’s comment “There is no evidence chromothripsis (note spelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromothripsis) is in any way related to meiosis.” It is a remnant of ancient genome remodelling mechanism, which can become reactivated in cancer cells. Normally these programs are silent, surpressed. The fact that they still exist in the genomes shows that in the past rapid speciation mechanism were possible.
Your last comment does not at all follow from the preceding ones. Just because something causes massive genetic changes, doesn’t make it a viable “speciation mechanism.” As the Wiki article Peter referred to indicates, chromothripsis involves the sudden rearrangement of tens to thousands of chromosome fragments, and thus is associated with cancer and congenital diseases. So on what basis do you claim it an “ancient modeling” mechanism, and how is it helpful to your model, especially since you reject the adaptive role of natural selection? Without NS, even on the extremely remote chance chromothripsis will produce any kind of useful result or “hopeful monster” it’s a dead end. Moreover, the more massive any sudden change, the less likely it is going to be helpful or “hopeful”, even with NS. Often you misuse the term “speciation mechanism” to describe some generally random, massive, and/or destructuve process or event, without any means to make it useful or adaptive. In short, you don’t have an speciation mechanism, your have generally disruptive and destructive phenomena lacking a speciation mechanism.
Also, the article indicates that chromothripsis has been found to occur during the development of tumors, apparently as a result of the breakdown in DNA repair mechanisms. That hardly sounds like an “ancient modeling” process. Even if the phenomena involves any latent genes that occasionally get reactivated, it doesn’t mean they were useful in the past, for speciation or anything else. If they are normally inactive now, the likely reason is that they were harmful mutations. Otherwise, why would their re-activation be associated with disease and cancer?
“Peer, if you were given just DNA data without knowing what animals the DNA comes from, how are you going to find the boundaries between kinds?”
By indicator genes (as discussed in my book).
Again no examples.
How do you identify indicator genes?
Could you give an example, for instance for the kinds within the order Carnivora? Could you specify indicator genes for the bear family (usually described as a kind), and tell why the giant panda is a bear and the red panda is no?
So, I understand why Peer would like to find a physical signal that can be used to identify the boundaries of “kinds” but as Peter and others have pointed out. This is no easy task. Peer seems to be looking for patterns and hopes that by looking at enough animals (and plants?) that eventually patterns will emerge. Sort of like, some microbiologists taxonomists have used cut-off values for %DNA similarity of certain genes to assign species and genera in a arbitrary fashion. That sounds possible but even if these is some pattern how do we know the pattern should be attributed to “kind” boundaries and not some other aspect of the nature of organisms. More importantly if one looks for patterns across many diverse “kinds” one seems to be required to assume that the amount of different in miRNAs or whatever else is some consistent value across kinds. What if each kind has its own different degree of internal variation. One might be in danger of calling foxes and wolves as the same kind which in fact they are different kinds according to God who made them with a different amount of variation than pands and polar bears. Also consider that if there is “degradation of genomes” and that creates variation or new miRNAs or even sorts out miRNAs as different rates in different lineages then the pattern approach is also doomed to failure. Joel
Peer, could you comment on my comment “Peter January 29, 2019 at 3:44 am under’ Horses in the Bible Contradict Ken Ham’s Hyper-evolution Narrative’?
In my closing question, I assumed the answer was implied by my other posts. That is, the likely reason Peer doesn’t recognize many of the problems in Davison’s manifesto, especially about the fossil record, is that Peer seems to have gleaned most of his ideas and limited knowledge on that topic from YEC sources. That’s why I recommended Art Strahler’s book Science and Earth History. There are many other books and articles I could recommend (besides the many fine articles by Joel in this blog), including ones by Christian authors addressing various aspects of geology and the fossil record, such as Davis Young, Ken Miller, Glenn Morton, Kevin Nelstead (GeoChristian.com) who sometimes posts here, and the late Dan Wonderly. These and other such sources (including many fine articles by the ASA and BioLogos) are linked near the end of my Paluxy menu.
By the way Peer, did you get a chance to read my article on Trace Fossils? You indicate that you would send me a ecopy of your book. Did you get a chance to do that? Thanks.
Maybe I am beating a dead horse (or rhino), but other problems in Davison’s claims relate to his curious neglect of the K-T asteroid impact. Not only does it explain the extinction of dinosaurs and many other creatures which he implies cannot be explained except their being doomed genetically (despite having thrived and diversified for millions of years), it also refutes his claim that there is no logical explanation (other than hopeful monsters) to explain the rapid diversification of mammals in the Cenozoic. With the sudden demise of thousands of species of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, sea-going reptiles at the K-T event, many new and large niches were opened up for mammals to exploit. One has to wonder how he could be unaware of these widely discussed aspects of Earth history, or ignore them if he was aware of them.
This relates to yet another problem in Davison’s claims, namely his misrepresentation of “uniformitarianism.” He implies that conventional scientists only allow gradual geologic processes, even though modern geologists fully accept that catastrophic events such as the K-T impact did sometimes occur, and had major impacts on evolution. Making matters worse, he asks “Can uniformitarianism be applied to living systems?” (as if this were a common mainstream claim). He says the answer is a resounding no, since “An amoeba grows and then stops to divide…”, neither of which has nothing to do with uniformitarianism, or the price of rice in China.
Peer: “The genome is simply reshuffled and this determines how the bauplan is executed. No new genes required and this type of evoltion is instant, one-few generation(s).”
What controls or directs this shuffling to instantly produce a viable new species? With natural selection acting on mutations over time, there is a logical reason why adaptations take place, and it’s supported with observational evidence. This not to deny that chromosomal mutations and changes do not occur or have a role in evolution, but how are sudden, massive chromosomal changes of the sort you and Davison talk about (“hopeful monsters”) going to be the main driver of evolution, especially without natural selection? Even if you believe these changes were all “frontloaded” during the original divine creation there has to be some mechanism to trigger them when needed for a changing environment, and to select and pass them along, so why discount the role of natural selection, even in your own model? Jeanson and others havesometimes cited natural selection is a factor or even major one, even tho others at AIG say virtually the opposite. Are you afraid that if you gave even a little credit to natural selection, it would make it harder to explain why there are any limits to change? But that seems almost moot, since you’ve already implied that Geneis kinds can be as broad as orders or classes.
Speakng of which, you’ve also never answered the question about why a dove and raven would be different kinds, but animals as different as T.rex and owls are the same kind. Or why humans and chimps are different kinds, while animals as different as horses and rhinos are the same kind (or kangaroos and sugar gliders), are the same kind. No need for consistency?
Robert Byers says:
there is no problem with this and YEC. This is a post flood event. Say about 2000BC.Easily great numbers of creatures would fall in as great numbers lived in the area. our present poverty of fauna is unnatural.
bears and dogs are the same kind. a dog is just a small bear. Its just a diversity in a spectrum within a kind.
these caeves are cool as they show the world before its decay. The kinds are not extinct but only the types/species within.
Robert, What do you mean the world before its decay? You just said it was a post flood event. At any rate, you are ignoring the serious geologic problems the cave presents for your YECism, including Joel’s question about how the cave even got there. You also seem to miss the problems presented by the many non-animal species animals in it. In case you missed that, they include a small 3-toed horse, several rhino species, a hyena, multiple cats, deer, and several other species of hoofed animals. How could those all be the same “kind?” Please tell us on what genetic or anatomic basis you conclude that. Your comment that “a dog is just a small bear” is so lame, it destroyed any vestige of credibility you have left. If animals that different are the same kind, why are humans, chimps, and other great apes not the same kind? Why are doves and ravens not the same kind?
The geology things are other subjects. A cave origin is very common.
i understand the diversity of critters and never said they were one kind. they just fell in or something.
Bears and dogs are not different. they are minor variations of the same kind.
Your dog is just a small mobile bear. likewise these bear-dogs were just types that had some bear or dog traits. human/chimp likeness is another issue. yes doves/ravens are different as they were kinds on the ark. yet they are quite different. However a kIND would include bears, nwolves, probably seals, and possibly some so called dinosaurs not misidentified. like those in the reptile-mammal transition they talk about and so on.
The real world is one where a kind had a hugh spectrum of diversity. The present world is one of poverity. So looking at bears and wolves one is looking at the surviors and the most general in appetite.
yet it is wrong to define them , or sample, on the survivors. Its a skewed result that would deceive.
the fossil record, still inperfect, shows the original world, after the flood, better.
Robert wrote: “The geology things are other subjects. A cave origin i very common.”
The geology of the site (and the rest of the rock record) is all part of what you need to deal with, if you want a sensible YEC model. Caves may be common, but you have limited time to explain how this one formed, and all the rest of the issues Joel raised. You have not even begun to make sense of the animals at the site, and suggesting that bear dogs, bears,and dogs are just minor variations of the same kind, and throwing in wolves, seals, and even some dinosaurs, does not help. In fact, it’s ludicrous, for reasons not worth my time to explain. At any rate, given all the animals you lump together in a kind, please tell us how many vertebrate kinds there were, what they were, and how you distinguish them. On the basis of “general appetite”, whatever that means? You say the fossil record shows the original world after the flood, but most YECs claim the vast majority of fossils (at least before the Cenozoic) were deposited during the Flood.
This may seem inconsistent with my previous comments, but it’s hard to resist saying a little more.
Robert: “human/chimp likeness is another issue.”
It’s an issue you have to deal with, if you want to be consistent. You say genetics don’t matter and it;s all based on anatomy. So please tell us, on what anatomic basis do you consider bears, dogs, and seals the same kind, but consider humans and chimps different kinds?
“yes doves/ravens are different as they were kinds on the ark.”
That’s hardly a scientific answer, and doesn’t begin to address the inconsistencies. How are doves and ravens more alike than bears and seals?
Last, just for kicks, please tell us what dinosaurs you think may be in the same kind as bears, seals and wolves, and on what anatomic basis. I thought I knew a few things about dinosaurs, but maybe you can give me some new insights. :^)
‘a dog is just a small bear’
According to Peer’s sources, Canis familiaris has 453 unique miRNAs. So it has to be a unique creation, unrelated to bears.
Peer is starting to talk about indicator genes defining a kind. If Canis familliaris has 453 unique miRNAs, miRNA is not suitable for finding the boundaries of kinds.
Christine. Genes should not be the trail to biological relationship. It should be anatomical and morphology likeness.
A wolf is very clearly, to me just a smaller faster bear. A bear is a bigger fox. A bear-dog in the fossils is just another type. A richer world with more diversity in bodyplans. We now only have the runts of the litter left.
Robert: “Genes should not be the trail to biological relationship. It should be anatomical and morphology likeness.”
Responsible biologists look at both when studying relationships, as well as any other pertinent data.
“To me” seems to be the operative term there. What you say is nonsense to any knowledgeable biologist, or even the average middle-school biology student. And why would animals as different as bears, dogs, seals, and wolves all be the same kind, but bear-dogs be their own kind? Never mind. If you’re going to make such outlandish claims, while entirely ignoring genetics, and showing virtually no knowledge of geology or the fossil record, it’s hardly worth discussing further. Perhaps I’d change my mind if you showed the slightest desire or willingness to learn a few things from those who know more about these subjects, but so far you haven’t.
We all should learn from those who know better.
bear dogs would be in the same kind as Seals, wolves, etc etc. That was my point.
We do now only have the most general and smallest examples of the KIND spectrums that once lived. Yes whales seems to still be the biggest but thats a special case. On land only the runts still are around. its wrong to sample or define kinds/orders of creatures but the ones alive today.
Wolves live on the run even if a bear could outrun it in a dash. The wolf is made to cover ground quick all day long.
Geology should not be important to biology science. Another problem with evolutionisms credibility.
Robert: We all should learn from those who know better. bear dogs would be in the same kind as Seals, wolves, etc etc. That was my point.
I got your point, which is why I called it ludicrous. I usually try to avoid terms like that, but in cases like this, I don’t know what else to call it. So far you’ve presented no real evidence, just outlandish assertions and speculations. Who are all these people who supposedly “know better” and support your odd ideas about “kinds”? Even among YECs, I don’t know any except (to some extent) Peer.
Robert: “On land only the runts still are around. ”
I would not call animals like elephants, rhinos, hippos, giraffes, moose, “runts.” Even if the average size of modern animals is smaller than those tens of millions of years ago, there are reasons that have nothing to do with YECism, including the K-T extinction that wiped out all dinosaurs (except birds), pterosaurs, and most other large animals.
Speaking of which, do you not think any late-Cretaceous impact happened? Even if you reject mainstream dating, when do you think it occurred in relation to the Flood, and what impact you believe it had? .
Just the opposite. It’s comments like that which further damage YEC credibility, or at least your own. Anyone sincerely seeking the truth about evolution and earth history will try to learn as much as possible from all relevant fields, including geology and paleontology (the latter being the study of fossils and prehistoric life, which is essentially a combination of biology and geology). If you still insist on ignoring all the wonderful things these fields can teach us, especially in combination (with the K-T extinction being a good example), and instead only focus on your own narrow interests, it’s no wonder you have so many outlandish ideas, including ones that would make even most YECs cringe. That’s why (no offense) when I started reading your comments in these and other blogs, including gems like “This YEC creationist says there is not and has never been a thing or process called science.” I wondered if you were even on the level, or just spoofing. I’m still not entirely sure.
Geology has nothing to do with biology hypothesis on origins. its not a tag team. thats just desperate evolutionism trying to make its case on non biological evidence BECAUSE it can’t make the case on biological evidence.
The k-t line is just the flood line. Fossils below are from the single flood year. above are later events.
Yes all creatures were destroyed and we find them ONLY because of a unique mechanism for their fossilization. instant smothering by sediment and pressure.
I don’t agree there were dinosaurs. this was a poorly done classification in the 1800’s.
these critters are just within the KINDS that exised and still do. YES i think the theropod ones etc are just flightless ground birds in a spectrum of diversity. Not that birds are dinosaurs. its a funny switherroo they do. Yet more research will prove theropods are just birds I predict.
Robert, these are all uninformed opinions of yours without providing outside references that support your claims. When one says that everyone else in the world is wrong it is up to that person to provide the evidence. This is a lot of words that have little meaning as they are now.
Robert says: “Geology has nothing to do with biology hypothesis on origins.”
The problem is, not only does the subject of origins concern many fields besides biology, but even your biological claims are loopy and unsupported.
“its not a tag team. thats just desperate evolutionism trying to make its case on non biological evidence BECAUSE it can’t make the case on biological evidence.”
Right, it;s not a tag team, and this isn’t a wrestling match. A sincere truth seeker is willing and eager to explore all relevant evidence on a topic, and to receive input and corrections from others. Clearly you’re not. You talk about “biological evidence,” but instead of providing it, or directly answering our questions, you repeatedly spout outlandish claims and speculations. I’ve tried to be patient, but I see little hope that you will change your ways, so I think ‘m done with you.
Robert writes: “I don’t agree there were dinosaurs. this was a poorly done classification in the 1800’s.
these critters are just within the KINDS that exised and still do. …
I tried to resist engaging you further, but this claim is too rich and funny not to. Even if your claims about theropods were true, and they’re demonstrably not, many dinosaurs were not theropods. Even most 10 year olds (and YECs) know this and can rattle off examples. Have you never heard, for example, of steogsaurs, sauropods, ankylosaurs, hadrosaurs, and ceratopsians (Triceratops and kin)? Please tell us what existing kinds those dinosaurs belong to.
Robert: “Yet more research will prove theropods are just birds I predict.
You have it backwards. By all evidence all birds are theropods, but not all theropods are birds. Lots of research has already been done that shows this. Clearly you have virtually no knowledge of fossils and prehistoric life. Please do more reading on these subjects before embarrassing yourself further here.
When I asked Robert if he could explain what modern kinds he put dinosaurs like ceratopsians, stegosaurs, and sauropods, I forgot that he had written the following in another blog:
http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=40809
“So perhaps dinos are also just regular animals with some adaption.”
As opposed to irregular animals? “with some adaptation? If you’re suggesting dinosaurs evolved from different “kinds” that would be called evolution.
Robert: “Triceratops could be in the rhino kind and I know they say there were dinos very much like dogs. Of coarse the famous reptile-mammalish creatures even evolution talks about. ”
As many ten year olds could tell you, Triceratops is not a mammal and has only a rough resemblance to a rhinoceros. Who says there are dog-like dinosaurs? The “famous” creatures you refer to are not dinosaurs, but “mammal-like reptiles” (Dimetrodon being one example) that lived in the Permian and Triassic periods, some of which evidently evolved into mammals. See: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CC/CC215.html
Seems like you base your ideas on vague and faulty recollections of things you heard someone say, or superficial skimming of YEC or popular-level material. Why don’t you do some actual reading of scientific literature and learn a little about these subjects, instead of repeatedly displaying your profound ignorance of them?
Sally Hawksworth says:
Glen seems to have responded here in some form or other to most of Robert’s more outlandish assertions, but left untouched (doubtless because he had enough on his plate with the dinosaur-related remarks) the claim “the k-t line is just the Flood line. Fossils below are from the single Flood year.Above are later events.”
Robert, even if you hadn’t stated elsewhere your opinion that the fields of biology, palaeontology and geology have no bearing on each other, and implied that evidence from any of these fields of study is of no value in helping humans understand the history of this planet and the living organisms on it, this claim of yours would amply demonstrate the depths of your ignorance, and your indifference to truth and logic. It is as absurd as if you were to cheerfully assert that William the Conqueror defeated Charles I at the Battle of Waterloo. It makes no sense whatsoever in terms of even a Young Earth Creationist narrative. If the K-T geological boundary marked the point of your biblical global Flood, as described in Genesis, when supposedly all humans bar Noah and his family were wiped off the face of the earth, along with all terrestrial animals and birds bar those on the Ark, why do you imagine it is that there are absolutely no fossils of humans, or any other modern mammal family – no apes or monkeys, no dogs, bears, horses, rabbits, kangaroos – in any rocks BELOW the KT boundary, or immediately ABOVE the boundary? There are plenty of fossils from earlier geological periods – the weird and wonderful creatures of the Burgess Shale, the trilobites, ammonites, plesiosaurs and ancient fish of Dorset’s Jurassic Coast, and on land the giant dinosaurs you claim were actually birds (or possibly egg laying rhinos), and flying reptiles, and mammals of the approximate size and apparently similar life style to modern tree shrews. No bigger mammals.And no humans, even though the whole purpose of the Flood was supposedly to wipe them out. And no human fossils in the rock strata immediately ABOVE the KT boundary, either. Or ravens or doves or sheep (or goats or cows or whatever other animal YECS imagine it was that according to Genesis Abel farmed and made a sacrifice of to the Lord) for that matter. There is no fossil trace, IOW, of any humans, or any of these other creatures mentioned in Genesis as existing before the Flood or at the time of the Flood, to be then wiped out globally except for their representatives on the Ark, having existed either BEFORE the KT boundary, or for millions of years after it, let alone of any of them dying in a flood or any other way at the time of the KT extinction event.
Good points Sally. Also, as has pointed out before, YECs who suggest the end of the Flood was at the K-T (now called K-Pg) boundary have other serious problems as well. For one, it contradicts their claim that fossils in general require rapid and violent burial, indicting a violent global Flood, since millions of fossils in numerous strata occur above the K-pg boundary.
Of course, that’s just the begging of their geologic problems. What many YECs don’t realize is that while there are strata indicating moderate or rapid deposition,every period of the geologic column contains many other strata indicating extensive periods of slow or calm deposition, or wind-blown/dessert deposition, river deposits, and paleosols (often undisturbed ancient soils)–leaving literally no place to put a global Flood. As I’ve noted before, further compounding these problems are extensive dinosaur trackways at thousands of sites around the world, and hundreds of vast dinosaur nesting sites (which Ironically, occur in the Mesozoic, which is often depicted by YECs as representing the peak of the Flood), plus many other trace fossils incompatible with Flood deposition, such as desiccated coprolites (fossil poop). http://paleo.cc/ce/tracefos.htm
On top of all this are the major patterns of fossil succession for countless groups of fossil plants and animals, many intermediate forms found at expected geologic horizons, and lots of corresponding radiometric dating evidence, all of which strongly supports evolution and an old earth, and flies in the face of YECism. Amazingly, many YECs still have the audacity to say the fossil record supports their view.
Robert: “A wolf is very clearly, to me just a smaller faster bear.”
“Very clearly” to you alone. Even most YECs don’t believe that. By the way, you’re not even right about wolves being faster than bears. Most sources say that the top speed for both is about 35 mph
“A bear is a bigger fox. A bear-dog in the fossils is just another type…. We now only have the runts of the litter left.”
Really? The largest animal that ever lived is still with us (the Blue Whale). What litter is it the runt of?
Peer is starting to talk about indicator genes as useful for finding the boundaries between kinds. If Canis familiaris has 453 unique miRNAs, either miRNAs are not suitable for defining kinds, or this species has to be a unique creation. If miRNAs are indicator genes, the ‘dog kind’ means the species Canis familaris (domestic dog) not ‘about the family Canidae’.
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Robert, I meant non-modern, not non-animal species. i have to get more sleep!
Robert (or indeed Peer or any other YEC who happens to be following these threads) I am waiting with eager anticipation for you to explain on what biological grounds you assign the raven and the dove to different kinds while lumping bears, dogs and seals Into a single kind, and marsupials as different from each other as the red kangaroo, the koala, the recently extinct Tasmanian “wolf” and the sugar glider into another single kind. My own formal science education ceased when I was fifteen, and you, Robert, appear (excuse me) to have still less, and have written scathingly about science, but elementary observation, without any need for either genetics or anatomical study, is enough to convince me that the raven and dove are far closer in every way than the dog and the seal, let alone the kangaroo and the sugar glider. Indeed, I’m pretty sure that my great nephew, at only fifteen MONTHS, could do as much. (Having learned to pick out a magpie in a picture book, he quite spontaneously called out “magpie” when he saw one in the park, and in a museum, when we adults were admiring quite other mammalian exhibits, pointed to silent footage on an overhead screen I hadn’t even noticed and called out “shark”, which indeed it was – a great white.) Admittedly, based on film footage only, I dare say he’d consider the Tasmanian wolf a sort of dog, but that’s an error that an intelligent adult might also make in the absence of any anatomical examination to reveal it as a marsupial. So here’s the challenge – explain,without recourse to the bible, in terms that make sense to either a fifteen month old, a fifteen year old, or someone with a degree in biology ( your choice of level) why a raven and dove are different kinds from each other, when a dog and a seal are the same kind, and so are a sugar glider and a Tasmanian wolf.
You said it yourself. its about anatomical traits that clearly unite otherwise segregated populations.
the raven and dove are mentioned in genesis as two kinds on the ark.
The point being bird kinds are real and its not a single BirD KIND.
so it must be that the traits that segregate a dove from a raven etc count as making kinds.
Its always a option there is fluidity in a kIND that can lead to more kinds.
yet there is no reason to likewise say a KIND was yet segregated into seals, bears, foxes, bear-dogs and a host more.
These are one kind and so on the ark would only have a pair/or seven pairs.
Its not easy to see why the dove/raven is so different but it was.
Robert, thank you for responding promptly to my challenge, but it’s not much use if you then in your hurry ignore what I asked you to do. 😟 I asked you to explain the supposed distinction of kind between raven and dove, in contrast to the supposed single kind of marsupials, and the other supposed single kind of dogs, bears and seals, “WITHOUT RECOURSE TO THE BIBLE”. (I’ve added the capitals this time just to help this phrase draw your attention, since you missed it before. It’s in the final sentence of my last post, just after “So here’s the challenge, explain….”) So there’s no point in referring me to Genesis, and the separate specific reference to a raven and a dove in the story of the Ark. That, as we must all know perfectly well, is the ONLY reason why any person could ever have attempted to class them as different “kinds”, while simultaneously classing dogs and bears and seals, which the writer of the Ark narrative didn’t happen to mention specifically, as one and the same “kind”. As for the marsupials, of course, they are mentioned absolutely nowhere in the Bible, for the very good reason that none of the writers had the remotest conception of their existence, or that of the continents of South America and Australasia, where the creatures resided then as now. How COULD those people have, living in that place and at that time, unless this biological and geographical information had been miraculously imparted to them? Which, clearly, it wasn’t. We 21st century folk are better informed than them biologically and geographically, thanks to two to three thousand years’ worth of non miraculous human discoveries. Sadly, these discoveries, for YECs utterly committed to a literalist religious doctrine, can be nothing more than a stumbling block and a spur to wilder and wilder inventions and suppositions, nowhere stated or imagined by the Bible writers, in the doomed attempt to square the circle and reconcile the Bible passages with each other and with modern knowledge.
Well said Sally. However, I if you’re still hoping that Robert will finally give a rational explanation for how doves and ravens can be more different than kangaroos and sugar gliders, I think there’s more chance that pigs will fly–even if he throws pigs into the same kind as birds.
Robert wrote: “Its always a option there is fluidity in a kIND that can lead to more kinds. ”
Oops! He’s really stepped in it now! That is a giant no-no thing to admit in YEC circles. Only the imagined boundaries of their ill-defined Genesis kinds allow them to claim that any changes we see are not really “evolution”. On the other hand, it may be one of the few things Robert may have a point about. After all, it’s possible to interpret the phrase “after their kind” in Genesis in a way that does not restrict how far kinds can change. It could be taken to just mean that God created a set of different “kinds” that bred with each other and not other kinds, but that each still had the capacity to change in essentially limitless ways as they adapted to new environments over time (in other words evolve, and in major ways). YECs seem to never consider that, even tho it is still in a sense “literal”–in the same way that the Hebrew word for day can literally mean a 24 hour day, a longer period of time, or an indefinite period of time (as it is used in other places in the OT, and even in various parts of Genesis), They also seem to never consider the implications of the verses in Genesis where God commanded “let the sea conceive and bring forth…” and “let the earth bring forth” living things. To me, that sounds more like an indirect creation (evolution) than direct and instant creation. Yet they insist on the latter, apparently unwilling to consider that they could be mistaken, despite all the fossil and geologic evidence for a long and complex earth history.
Of course, not of this begins to account for how doves and ravens can be more different than all marsupials, whether using genetics, morphology, or any other criteria.
its a far off option. in fact i only allow it because of the birds/ark example. i’m not sure.
Since a KIND could adapt as needed to fill the earth then does this lead to NEW KINDS. Hmmm.
Probably not but a option.
Yet not by impossible selection on mutations plus time.
All snakes came from a single kind on the ark.
Yet the birds are a example .
Robert: “Since a KIND could adapt as needed to fill the earth then does this lead to NEW KINDS. Hmmm. Probably not but a option. Yet not by impossible selection on mutations plus time.”
Besides contradicting yourself twice in 3 short sentences, you apparently don’t grasp the implications of what you are saying, or why other YECs would cringe at it. If natural selection acting on mutations overtime can create new kinds, they by any reasonable definition, that’s evolution (including macroevolution).
“All snakes came from a single kind on the Ark” asserts Robert, with no attempt whatsoever to give a justification for this pronouncement, even in the form of a citation of a bible verse or verses. But Since there is no reference to snakes in the Noah narrative I guess you must be taking it that the serpent in the Garden of Eve narrative would have to have been the ancestor of all subsequent snakes (perhaps parthogenically since it is referred to as THE serpent as though it existed alone without a mate). What was its means of locomotion BEFORE God cursed it and it had to travel on its belly, do you think? The ancestors of snakes did indeed have legs, as can be seen from vestigial features in their anatomy, but losing them was not a punishment but an evolutionary advantageous development, just as it was for the slowworms, who separately underwent a similar evolution, although not implicated in the serpent’s supposed sin. Or do you want to lump slowworms in the same “kind” as snakes, and claim they are also this serpent’s descendants, rather than being lizards, as all zoologists would assert? BTW, neither snakes nor slow worms actually eat dust, though the equally legless, indeed boneless, earthworms do, very usefully for planetwide ecology. It would make a lot more sense, come to think of it, for you biblical literalists to argue that the serpent in the Eden narrative was actually an earthworm. 😁 Admittedly they are not given to biting humans on the heel.
I did answer. Indeed saying a raven/dove are different kinds comes from genesis. to otherwise say so iS A OPTION. therefore its a need to understand why they are diffeent kinds. I have never studied the two birds genesis mentions. There might be great reasons to see them as different kinds and not a single BIRD kind.
Yet this in no way discredits lumping other critters into kinds.
Marsupials easily are the seen as the same kinds as other creatures with minor details of difference that affected a spectrum of migrants to certain areas. why not?
How one classifys creatures must be on common , REAL, ideas of bodyplans. including the option for adaptation from a original parent bodyplan.
So what A kind is can be figured out. the bird thing is a example, it seems, but the great and clear intellectual investigation will show creatures are so alike as to have a common descent THEN NO MORE.
So yes bears, seals, marsupial wolves, lassie, are the same kind. this is clear or should be.
Its a hypothesis and works for biblical creationism.
Classification that evolutionists use is wrong, unlikely, and not as intellectually sharp.
Have managed to figure out which placental mammals kangaroos are a version of?
Robert wrote: “I did answer. Indeed saying a raven/dove are different kinds comes from genesis. “
No, you’re just repeating what you said before, without answering Sally’s question about what makes them different kinds apart from Genesis.
Robert: “.. therefore its a need to understand why they are diffeent kinds.” “I have never studied the two birds genesis mentions.”
“There might be great reasons to see them as different kinds and not a single BIRD kind.
There might be cows on Neptune too. If there are even good let alone great reasons, why can’t you give even one?
Robert: “Marsupials easily are the seen as the same kinds as other creatures with minor details of difference that affected a spectrum of migrants to certain areas. why not?”
We’ve already explained ‘why not.’ Apparently you haven’t grasped any of it.
“How one classifys creatures must be on common , REAL, ideas of bodyplans”
OK, then explain how kangaroos and sugar gliders have more similar body plans than doves and ravens.
Actually, it makes no sense even by your own criteria (body plans).
This is rich, since your claims contradict even what other YECs say about kinds, besides what anyone with eyes can see.
As usual, your claims are so loopy and self-contradictory that it’s hard not to not wonder if you’re just a troll –maybe someone just trying to pull our legs or spoof YECism. If so you’ve got us, but let’s move on to serious discussions.
I personally liked this comment in a discussion on Dunning-Kruger:
Robert: “…Whats an expert? where is the experts?
a expert is just someone with knowledge in their subject and a complete knowledge.
anyone can master the conclusions from experts as they write them down.
so anyone can think about them and take them on…”
https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2018/03/can-dunning-kruger-effect-be-reversed.html#more
The article explains the evidence for what they call The Dunning-Kruger Effect, where people lacking knowledge or competence in an area tend to overestimate their ability, and experts in a subject they tend to underestimate their ability. An interesting additional finding was that people at the far end of the 1st category tend to never recognize that they suffer from the effect, and so happily continue on in their incompetence. I don’t mean to pile on, but it’s ironic on so many levels that Robert replied to the article with the comments you quoted, and those below:
Robert: “I agree with this whole concept. i think about it in origin issues and other issues of mankind. Yet i don’t think its complicated. i think its simply a issue of intelligence.”
If there is a silver lining to all Robert’s claims, it may be that some are so absurd they can be entertaining at times, even though he apparently doesn’t mean them to be. Or does he? :^). (I’m still not entirely sure that he is not just trying to get a rise out of us). BTW, some time ago I responded to a Quora.com question asking “What is the most absurd thing you’ve ever heard a YEC claim” (or something to that effect). I replied that it might be Carl Baugh’s story (as told in his book Panorama of Creation) about some quarry workers in France, who in 1856 broke open a huge boulder. Baugh relates that to their amazement, out staggered a giant, black, oily pterodactyl, which fluttered its wings, gasped, then collapse at their feet. He noted that this find, which he described as definitely “credible” discredits geologist’s claims about deep time, since obviously the creature could not have been alive in the rock for millions of years. (Never mind that it could not have been alive in the rock for a few thousand years since the Flood either, or one hour or that matter). Anyway after all the interesting assertions Robert has made here and elsewhere, I may have to rethink my answer.
Glen: “ …it’s ironic on so many levels…”
I was confident you would appreciate that aspect:)
I was interacting with an individual on a medically oriented blog recently (more my area) and after I and others (mostly others, as I ran out of time), answered a high volume of relatively unsophisticated questions, and addressed similarly naive assertions, I began to wonder if “the troll” was not an inventive student (amateur or formal). Present examples excepted, but I can picture some “trolls” being students, who have found a clever (sociopathic?) way to get a ton of free education from knowledgeable people. Definitely an evidence free theory. And not in any way a suggestion that the information/education being provided be restricted here or elsewhere. Just the most charitable theory of “trolls” I have come up with.
Tom, It’s an interesting theory, and trolls come in all flavors. I had not considered that a student could use provocative claims to elicit lots of educational responses. Other trolls simply enjoy the rush of saying outrageous things and watching the reactions from others. However, to carry this on for long, they’d have to be pretty good actors, and in cases like Robert and other fringe-of-the fringe YECs such as Baugh, Juby, Hovind, and Brown, on balance think it’s more likely that they are simply at the far left of the graph in the Dunning-Kruger article. It is interesting that some people who regularly post in these blogs, including Joel, Christine, and Paul seem eager for new ideas and info from others, and freely admit when their knowledge about something is limited or could be wrong, despite their in-depth expertise in certain fields and wide knowledge in general, suggesting they are at the far right of the chart.
@ Glen, re Dunning-Kruger. Ironically, it takes a lifetime of study in an area (to become an ‘expert’) to realise how little you actually know in your chosen field, let alone in other specialist areas.
There does, however, appear to be a growing epidemic of the attitude ‘my opinion is as good as your expert knowledge’. Partially, I think, fueled by the ever increasing amount of information available at the touch of your fingertips. (Information, of course, is not the same as knowledge; and knowledge is not the same as wisdom).
But meanwhile, I”m wondering why Robert, who was recently so eager to explain to us how zebras had ‘body plan’ differences due to differences in stripes, would claim that those stripey thylacines are the same kind as the placental wolf, but (apparently) unrelated to the placental tiger. (Remember, in its native land it’s known as the ‘Tasmanian tiger’, it’s only Europeans who call it the ‘marsupial wolf’.)
I believe you have the truth of it. And the willingness of everyone here to educate through the trolls’ comments is greatly appreciated (I will be thinking/reading on the carnivorous ungulate Christine’s comments introduced me to for a long time).
In assigning Joel, Christine, and Paul as residents of the right side of the curve, I think you are being excessively modest by not placing yourself there as well.
Time for me to work now.
Please keep the posts coming.
Christine writes: “…meanwhile, I”m wondering why Robert, who was recently so eager to explain to us how zebras had ‘body plan’ differences due to differences in stripes, would claim that those stripey thylacines are the same kind as the placental wolf, but (apparently) unrelated to the placental tiger…”
Me too. In retrospect, instead of saying that trolls come in all flavors, maybe I should have said that trolls and their comments come in all stripes.
christine. Its all off thread. It seemed to me the conversation here was done. We all made our case, or i did as there is a lot of troll accusation and expert obediance demands, .
The marsupial wolf is claimed by evolutionist to be a convergent evolution case. its a perfect match for wolves everywhere, save in minor details, but they say its of a marsupial family that evolved into bodyplans as elsewhere on the planet but not related.
Its not claimed to be like a tiger. yes there was once marsupial cats.
The stripes is irrelevant to anything about this.
Anyways i think i did better on this discussion about biological classifications.
No sour grapes folks. Just think and articulate better.
Robert wrote: “We all made our case, or i did as there is a lot of troll accusation and expert obediance demands,”
To make a case, you need to do more than just float a lot of extreme and unsubstantiated claims; you need to provide actual evidence, as well as answer questions directly, rather than just repeating the same or outlandish claims or adding new ones.
No one actually accused you of being a troll. I just speculated that you might be one as a possible explanation for your behavior. Nor did anyone demand you show “obedience” to experts. However, I think it was fair of me and others to urge you to be more receptive to the input and corrections of those who have more knowledge in biology, paleontology, and geology.
I’m sorry if you were offended by some of our comments. Granted, some were kinda blunt, but even the strongest seemed relatively mild compared to the beratings and invectives often leveled at you in other blogs when you behaved in a similar way. At any rate, in view of our recent discussion of the Dunning-Kruger effect, I’m sure many will smile at the irony of your closing remarks: “Just think and articulate better.”
Okay. It seemed like a troll spectrum was suggested or something.
i offer my case on the evidence we are using here. I’m receptive to well done science not wrong stuff.
you guys likewise be receptive to right and not wrong science.
Somebody is wrong and so correction is probably difficult for the wrong guys.
Yes i think there is a curve also in these matters and all human matters.
Why can’t the right side persuade the wrong one?
there was nothing wrong with the discussion here relative to a contention.
Robert asks “Why can’t the right side persuade the wrong one?”
1 because YECs have a prior commitment to their wrong reading of Genesis
2 because YECs don’t know evidence from commitment
3 because YECs cannot distinguish argument from statement
The Natural Historian had a post some time ago about this topic.
‘i offer my case on the evidence we are using here. ‘
And your case is merely to deny any scientific evidence. Or, to use your own terminology, to refuse to obey the demands of the experts. Your ‘case’ is merely your opinion, based very loosely on Genesis in a few cases (e.g., dove versus raven), but mostly on looking at pictures in books and claiming that those animals look the same to you, thus they must be the same thing (note that neither Thylacinus nor Thoatherium are mentioned anywhere in the Bible).
You are, of course, entitled to your opinion. Just be aware that it does not represent some sort of scientific counterpoint.
Robert wrote: “i offer my case on the evidence we are using here. I’m receptive to well done science not wrong stuff. you guys likewise be receptive to right and not wrong science.”
It’s comments like that that led me to wonder if you are a troll. As we all know, you haven’t offered a shred of evidence for anything, or shown the slightest receptivity to evidence and corrections from others with more knowledge (which is almost everyone).
Robert: “Somebody is wrong and so correction is probably difficult for the wrong guys. Yes i think there is a curve also in these matters and all human matters.
Exactly. Although you haven’t provided any evidence, you have proved that you are on the far left of the Dunning-Kruger graph. That gives me little hope that you’ll take these comments to heart any more than you have in the past. So I’m not sure why I’m even writing this, other than try put some closure on things. If there is a silver lining to it all, it might be the possibility that some readers (even silent lurkers) here may have picked up a few things from the evidence and corrections offered by others when you make outlandish claims. Perhaps with time you’ll even let some of it sink in a little, but I’m not holding my breath.
Robert: Why can’t the right side persuade the wrong one?
Do you seriously believe you’re right and everyone else is wrong? The D-K effect may be working against you, but the first step in overcoming your ignorance is recognizing it. You should not even be trying to persuade anyone of anything until you first learn a few things. Again, that requires doing some serious reading and being receptive to input from others. If you’re unwilling or unable to do those things, then you’re not going to persuade anyone anything, other than confirming your position on the D-K chart. I was going to say, if that’s the case, please move along and stop wasting our time and yours. But I guess that’s a Catch-22: you won’t see that if you’re so clueless you don’t see how clueless you are. Maybe the solution is for us to just ignore you, or for Joel to consider blocking you. I doubt even other YECs would complain, since frankly, you’re an embarrassment to your own camp.
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Home Latest News Huge spider assumed extinct in Britain discovered on MoD training site
Huge spider assumed extinct in Britain discovered on MoD training site
One of Britain’s largest spiders has been discovered on a Ministry of Defence training ground in Surrey having not been seen in the country for 27 years.
The great fox-spider is a night-time hunter, known for its speed and agility, as well as its eight black eyes which give it wraparound vision. The critically endangered spider was assumed extinct in Britain after last being spotted in 1993 on Hankley Common in Surrey. The two-inch-wide (5cm) arachnid had previously also been spotted at two sites in Morden Heath in Dorset. These are the only three areas in Britain, all in the comparatively warmer south, where it has been recorded.
Mike Waite from Surrey Wildlife Trust discovered the elusive spider after two years of trawling around after dark looking for it on the Surrey military site, which the MoD is not naming for security reasons.
“As soon as my torch fell on it I knew what it was. I was elated. With coronavirus there have been lots of ups and downs this year, and I also turned 60, so it was a good celebration of that. It’s a gorgeous spider, if you’re into that kind of thing,” said Waite.
The great fox-spider is one of the largest members of the wolf-spider family, hunting spiders that do not use webs to catch prey. It chases down beetles, ants and smaller spiders before pouncing on them and injecting deadly venom. The prey is immobilised and its internal organs liquefy. The spider – which poses no risk to humans – feeds using fang-bearing jaws.
M0D sites are often kept open because military exercises cause minor disturbance to the vegetation, which stops succession of shrubs and trees. Waite used aerial photos to find bare sandy patches, which suit the spider’s ambush-style hunting techniques, and spotted the first one next to Jeep tracks. In total, he found several males, one female and some unidentifiable immature spiderlings.
Nick Baker, TV presenter and president of the British Arachnological Society, described the discovery as “the most exciting thing to happen in wildlife circles for quite some time”. He said: “It’s about as handsome as a spider gets, it’s big and now it’s officially a member of the British fauna again.”
The great fox-spider, a native species, was first found 120 years ago and has been seen only a handful of times since. Despite their size, the spiders are difficult to spot because they are mainly nocturnal and have effective mottled brown camouflage. During winter, they dig burrows under rocks and line them with silk, going into a sort of hibernation state.
The MoD heathland where the spider was found is managed by the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust. It is recognised as a nationally important site for populations of rare birds, reptiles and invertebrates, especially sand lizards, smooth snakes, Dartford warbler and nightjar. MoD sites are often good for wildlife because they are protected from human activity and are large enough to give wildlife space to move.
The great fox-spider likes warmer climates and is more common on the European mainland, particularly on coastal sand dunes in Holland and Denmark.
“It makes me think how hard have we looked for it on our coasts? Have we been looking hard enough?” said Waite, who believes the spider could be more widespread than people think.
Waite is now conducting nocturnal great fox-spider hunting expeditions on neighbouring sites and hopes one day to write a scientific paper about them. “It seems to be the most important thing I’ve done in a long career. It has inspired me to make something of it and find out as much as I can about this species in the UK,” he said.
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Despicable Me 3 (4K UHD Blu-ray Review)
November 25th, 2017 by Brandon Peters
When last we left, it was the wonderful Minions-centric prequel to Despicable Me that was torturing my soul. As someone who is indifferent but doesn’t mind this series, that movie was flat out awful. No defending there. But, they’re back, but in more proper form with the third film in the Despicable Me franchise. A funny fact, this was the only film to cross 1 billion dollars globally at the box office this past summer. Crazy, right? It did well in the United States but REALLY blew up overseas. Now its coming home for you, let me try that again, for your kids to own. You could grab it for them now or make it a stocking stuffer. Only the finest in video and audio quality for your child, right? Anywho, you can get ahead and pre-order it now by using the Amazon link below.
The mischievous Minions hope that Gru will return to a life of crime after the new boss of the Anti-Villain League fires him. Instead, Gru decides to remain retired and travel to Freedonia to meet his long-lost twin brother for the first time. The reunited siblings soon find themselves in an uneasy alliance to take down the elusive Balthazar Bratt, a former 1980s child star who seeks revenge against the world.
This might be my favorite in the Despicable Me series. And by favorite, I mean that its most all right of the all right movies. Its probably the inclusion of Trey Parker that has me swayed. That plus his character of Balthazar Bratt being a gigantic chunk of 80s nostalgia and bringing a soundtrack of dreams with him every where he goes. Minions have a subplot but don’t completely interrupt or ruin things. And we are also deliver two Steve Carrells at odds and buddy buddy with one another.
Just like a lot of kids movies, this one kinda likes to sit and hang out with itself. This could move and be tighter, but then it would threaten to be a short. Luckily, the voice acting features performers who are always pretty fun to hear just perform a lot of the time. Also, the Balthazar Brat character is fun to watch hang around, plotting and brooding among himself. He may be too much, or on the nose, but he may just be why this film is more entertaining than the rest.
This movie is not perfect, and I’m sure it won’t convert any doubters on this series, but its fine. I’m indifferent on these movies and I found amusement with this one. Maybe you will too. It has a lot of 80s songs, maybe that’s why I’m fine with it. Though, many of them feel forced and don’t fit a scene, they just wanted to put it in there because its an easily recognizable song and something would be catchy. Anywho, still this is more for the kids, so overall quality isn’t too big an issue (Especially if they’ve seen the other ones).
Encoding: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: 4K (2160p) HDR-10 & Dolby Vision
Layers: BD-66
Clarity/Detail: Despicable Me 3 comes to 4K Ultra-HD with a bright, strong image that looks plenty free and three dimensional. This is a super crisp, sharp image that has plenty of details, not hiding anything on this animated film. The colors are saturated quite well, making good use of some HDR while keeping a strong palette that is rather striking on the scene.
Depth: Being a CGI animate cartoon, it looks naturally three dimensional. Movements are quite smooth and natural with no distortions.
Black Levels: Blacks are plenty just…well, we’re animated, so…black. They help sharpen and define things while being saturated enough to color clothing, surfaces and more while showing a nice palette of its own. No crushing witnessed on this view.
Color Reproduction: Colors are pretty rich here and feel like a bit of a boost here from the Blu-ray. Purples pop (Bratt’s clothes) as well as the pink of a pig. Lucy’s blue coat is really strong. Gold also is a strong, good looking and well saturated color. HDR has some nice moments with monitors and special burst of power/electricity. In the market place, the candy available lifts off the screen. Dru’s car has a blue flame that looks impressive coming out the tail end, glowing all the way through town. Overall, the colors are just really confident in their look.
Flesh Tones: N/A
Noise/Artifacts: Clean
Audio Format(s): English DTS:X, English DTS Headphone:X, Spanish 7.1 DTS-HD Hi Res Audio, French 5.1 DTS Digital Surround
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, French
Dynamics: Despicable Me movies have always been about bumping along with the tunes as you watch Gru’s exploits. Its good fun here as the sounds bump and feel loose and free with instrumental intricacies present and plenty audible. All of the action in here travels and crafts itself a nice punch when it has too. Also the floaty nature and travel of the sound is impressive, too. This isn’t one that’s going to be the standard or show off worth, but its on its way to being that way and is still a fun experience.
Height: Some solid moments have things like a plane or debris falling coming through the ceiling channels.
Low Frequency Extension: The subwoofer gives a nice boost and rumble to planes landing, things crashing, energy bursts and a bump to the music.
Surround Sound Presentation: Sound travels quite wonderfully here as all the foley work is everpresent, placed at accurate volumes and always in step with what’s on screen.
Dialogue Reproduction: Vocals are loud, clear and plenty filled out in terms of hear all the dicton.
Despicable Me 3 comes with the Blu-ray edition and an UltraViolet digital copy. Aside from the mini-movie, all of the bonus features are on the Blu-ray disc.
4K UHD Disc
Mini-Movie: The Secret Life Of Kyle (4K, 4:14)
Deleted Scene with Intro by Dana Gaier (HD, :40)
Character Profiles – The voice actors touch upon their characters
Steve Carell: Gru & Dru (HD, 2:12)
Kristen Wiig: Lucy (HD, 1:48)
Miranda Gosgrove: Margo (HD, 1:57)
Dana Gaier: Edith (HD, 2:20)
Nev Scharrel: Agnes (HD, 2:06)
Minion Moments – Couple brief Minion shenanigans
Drenched (HD, :40)
Overkill (HD, :38)
Developing Dru (HD, 4:13) – A little featurette on coming up with Steve Carrell’s other character in the film.
The Making of Despicable Me 3 (HD, 6:50) – A quick, basic look at the making of the film with safe interviews with the cast and production team.
The AVL Files (HD) – One of those “interactive” features where you select a character and get some more info on them.
Freedonia Visitors Guide (HD) – Similar to the AVL Files, but this focuses on the places visited in the film.
Despicable Me TV – These are the advertisements seen in the film or for toys seen in the film.
Balthazar Bratt Action Figure (HD, :54)
‘Bad Boy Bod’ by Balthazar Bratt (HD, :56)
Agnes’ Super Cute, Incredibly Amazing Toy Sale (HD, 1:18)
“Doowit” Sing-Along (HD, 1:36)
Minion Mug Shots (HD, 1:50) – A gallery of Minions wearing inmate uniforms.
Music Video (HD, 3:43)
Wanted Posters (HD, 1:30) – Wanted posters featuring…yup…you guessed it…Minions.
Despicable Me 3 ends up being a solid, nostalgic outing in the world of those damned Minions. This 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray presentation is a nice uptick over the Blu-ray edition in both sound and video and is the best you’re gonna get. There are also a slew of swift extras that are pretty decent. Overall, it is what it is, and if you like the series or your kids need the finest presentation around, this is it.
Brandon Peters
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Tags: Jenny Slate, Jess Harnell, Julie Andrews, Kristen Wiig, Steve Coogan, Steve Carrell, Trey Parker.
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*[http://lisjobs.com/career_trends/?p=204 Hiring Reference Librarians: Insights From Some Law Library Directors] by Rachel Hankins. Info Career Trends. March 1, 2003.
*[http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/brass/brasspubs/academicbrass/acadarchives/vol2no1/acadbrassv2n1a2.cfm Recruiting Future Business Librarians] by Janna Korzenko. BRASS Business Reference in Academic Libraries Committee. Volume 2 Number 1, Fall 2004.
*[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a904420573~db=all~order=page Taking Library Recruitment a Step Closer: Recruiting the Next Generation of Librarians] by Ira Revels, Leroy J. Lafleur and Ida T. Martinez. The Reference Librarian. Volume 39, Issue 82 February 2004 , pages 157 - 169. ''Summary:'' During the summer of 2002, Cornell University Library implemented the Cornell University Library Junior Fellows Program-an initiative aimed at introducing high school students of color to academic libraries and librarianship. The six-week program was developed in response to the need for innovative approaches to the recruitment and retention of people of color to the academic library profession.
Recruiting to the Profession Association of College and Research Libraries webpage provides links to recruitment brochures, videos, and publications, including the "Job of a Lifetime" series published bi-monthly in College & Research Libraries News.
Mellon Librarian Recruitment Program The Mellon Librarian Recruitment Program began in June 2003 when Oberlin College received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The purpose of the Mellon Librarian Recruitment Program is to encourage talented and diverse undergraduates to pursue jobs in libraries.
The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Careers in Reference webpage promotes the variety and excitement of reference work. Includes a pdf brochure for distribution.
Hiring Reference Librarians: Insights From Some Law Library Directors by Rachel Hankins. Info Career Trends. March 1, 2003.
Recruiting Future Business Librarians by Janna Korzenko. BRASS Business Reference in Academic Libraries Committee. Volume 2 Number 1, Fall 2004.
Taking Library Recruitment a Step Closer: Recruiting the Next Generation of Librarians by Ira Revels, Leroy J. Lafleur and Ida T. Martinez. The Reference Librarian. Volume 39, Issue 82 February 2004 , pages 157 - 169. Summary: During the summer of 2002, Cornell University Library implemented the Cornell University Library Junior Fellows Program-an initiative aimed at introducing high school students of color to academic libraries and librarianship. The six-week program was developed in response to the need for innovative approaches to the recruitment and retention of people of color to the academic library profession.
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Hong Kong Round Up: A Spectacular Own Goal for the Local Game
Christopher Lau
Hong Kong correspondent Christopher KL Lau brings his regular round-up of all the very latest news, developments and other footballing points of interest from the SAR.
Hong Kong Versus China – An Own Goal for the Local Game
The most significant Hong Kong versus China football match ever played and probably Hong Kong’s most anticipated international game in history will be a meaningful and exciting occasion.
But frankly it could have been the the grandest of moments and the possibly the most famous single sporting event in Hong Kong history but uncontrollable factors have come into play and the game is attracting attention for all the wrong reasons.
It seems the game itself has taken a back seat, lost in a sea of seemingly shrewd political power plays, poor infrastructure and mismanagement. Even the Hong Kong Football Association who have pushed for the game to be at Hong Kong Stadium have been left frustrated by the turn of events in what would have been a great boost to Hong Kong football, a tremendous revenue earner and attracted fans back to the local game. A packed out 40,000 capacity crowd to cheer Hong Kong on is simply not to be.
Hong Kong for all its glitz and glamour simply lags behind the world in terms of sporting culture and well, what happened in terms of the ticketing and pitch embarrassment, is all kind of expected by long term residents and ultimately the ones who lose out are the thousands upon thousands of Hong Kong fans willing and ready to throw their support behind the national team and the local game itself.
Before this hugely disappointing, perplexing and bewildering yet strangely not totally surprising turn of affairs; the buzz and talk on the street was of eager anticipation and excitement; people with zero interest in the game were intrigued and pretty much everyone wanted to go to the game and Hong Kong stadium could have been sold out several times over.
Hong Kong and its long suffering sports fans could finally be able to experience what so many of their overseas counterparts experience week in and week out; a meaningful sporting occasional where a sense of community could be experienced, sounds simple enough but this hardly occurs in Hong Kong and people often throw support to overseas teams they have zero connection with. This game is and still is the ‘big’ one; this would be the derby of all derby games and given the recent social and political events of the past year or two then the fervour and anticipation for next week has been ramped up to the max. They say that politics and sports should never mix but often and inevitably they do.
Fans envisioned a Hong Kong stadium packed with 40,000 Hong Kong fans (and an away contingent) willing, pleading and praying for Hong Kong to score and holding their breathe against yet another China attack. TV audiences would witness a sea of red and white Hong Kong shirts, flags, drums and an atmosphere to savor for a lifetime. Again, it is simply not to be.
Sure, Hong Kong fans could watch Inter Vs AC, Real Versus Barcelona and other derbies from afar but this one would finally be one that would be personal. As mentioned, this could have been a truly historical occasion and it still will be and of course it could be an incredible game but what could have been a grand affair will be somewhat muted. The sad thing is that no one is that surprised at all and anticipated this all and the local game is poorer for it.
Hong Kong Football Fans Left Frustrated as Online Ticket Systems Crashes While Newly Laid Pitch Under Scrutiny
For the thousands of Hong Kong football looking to get an exclusive and reasonably priced ticket for the China home game, many were met with a crashing server and again, nothing but disappointment and growing anger. To get a ticket you either had to brave the elements and line up overnight outside Mong Kong stadium to get a pair of concessionary tickets (1000 available) or log on at 10am for the online ticket provider Cityline who were recently criticized for being unable to handle the online demand for the Qatar game in September. Many decided to go with the latter and the weight of demand for the 3000 online tickets was simply too much to handle and frustration was expressed across social media. Somehow through the online chaos, the 3000 tickets were all sold out by just past noon. In previously never seen security measures, Hong Kong fans will have to show their ID card to pick up their tickets on a few specific days while on game night itself, Mong Kok Stadium will open at 5.30 pm for security checks on fans.
There will also be 500 away China fans in attendance so there are many police expected. This match has been talked about and discussed for months and certain sectors of the Hong Kong media will whip up interest in the game, so expect a large segment of Hong Kong, even those with no interest in fooball, to watch the game on TV in bars and homes across Hong Kong.
The much maligned Hong Kong Stadium pitch came under very close scrutiny this past weekend at the rugby sevens olympic qualifying tournament and it seems the on-going problems of the surface easily cutting up have returned which begs the question, has no one learned their lesson and where have all the millions of dollars set aside to transform the pitch into a world class one gone? The short-sighted thinking will prevent famous teams from coming to town if Hong Kong simply fails to provide standards and quality in line with the rest of the world and the fact that Hong Kong can’t simply reflects poorly on the city and will prevent the growth of a sports culture and mean loss of sporting opportunities as overseas teams and tournaments head elsewhere.
Five Goal Salvo for Hong Kong Over Myanmar in Friendly
Hong Kong Line up for a corner versus Myanmar (Chris KL Lau)
Hong Kong gave themselves a nice confidence boosting 5-0 win over Myanmar this past Saturday at a near capacity Mong Kok stadium. With a crucial away game in the Maldives this week and the eagerly anticipated and politically sensitive China home game set for November 17th, this was perfect to mentally prepare themselves. With some newly naturalized players (Have lived in Hong Kong for seven years) such as Alex Akande, Paulinho and Sandro in the squad, this was a time for experimentation to ease in the new players.
Hong Kong were on form with their fluid passing game and roared on by an enthusiastic home crowd, Jaimes Mckee, Chan Siu Ki, Alessandro Ferreiria and Oluwatayo Akande were all on target.
It looked to be the perfect send off before two of Hong Kong’s most crucial games in history and the friendly and relaxed Mong Kok crowd went home in a jovial mood; expect the atmosphere to have a greater edge when the home side take on China but surely it won’t be 1985 again?
Win, draw or lose, it will be an occasion to savor with a huge audience in both Hong Kong and China.
All pictures courtesy of Chris KL Lau
Christopher KL Lau is a freelance writer and photographer. Follow him on Twitter
Christopher KL Lau was born in England and grew up in both England and Hong Kong, and has a background in media, education and non-profits. He also is a freelance writer / photographer and has written for a number of magazines, websites and newspapers around the world on many subjects ranging from the arts to travel. Chris is passionate about sports and its place in society and is keen to promote both Hong Kong and Chinese football to a wider audience.
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Bush Devils, Juju, and Lightning Men
A Grebo Bush Devil, with his jaws open and teeth showing, was guest of honor at a Haight-Asbury party put on by Liberian Peace Corps Volunteers in 1967. I was quite surprised to find my photo from then being used by the Liberian Observer newspaper a few months ago. It is an interesting article.
The book about my Peace Corps experience in West Africa, The Bush Devil Ate Sam, is now available in printed as well as digital form on Amazon. It’s taken a while to get the print copy. To celebrate, I decided to post a sample chapter from the book and feature the story that gave the book its name. Every month or so, I will post another chapter.
Here is this month’s chapter:
Sam, the young man who worked for us in Liberia, was enamored with western culture. It fired his imagination. He spent hours listening to the Kingston Trio get Charlie off the MTA and dove into peanut butter and jelly sandwiches like a frog dives into water. Still, for all of his excitement about things modern, ancient African was an integral part of who he was. He had the scars to prove it. They marched down his chest in two neat rows.
“How did you get those,” Jo (my former wife) asked with ten percent concern and ninety percent curiosity.
“I can’t tell you,” Sam replied with obvious nervousness as Jo’s eyebrows rose. “But I can tell Mr. Mekemson.”
Aha, I thought, Sam and I belong to the same organization, the Men’s Club! Actually Sam belonged to a very exclusive men’s organization, the Poro Society, which I wasn’t allowed to join. Its functions were to pass on tribal traditions, teach useful skills, and keep errant tribe members in line. Everything about the organization was hush-hush. Tribal members who revealed secrets could be banned and even executed.
Political power on the local level was closely tied to membership in the Poro Society. On the national level, President Tubman assumed leadership of all Poro Societies in Liberia. Tribal women had a similar secret organization called the Sande Society, which prepared young women for adulthood and marriage. A controversial aspect of the Sande initiation ceremony was female genital mutilation— cutting off the clitoris.
Sam got off easy.
He had been to Bush School the previous summer and learned how to be a good Kpelle man. Graduation to adulthood consisted of an all-consuming encounter with the Poro Society’s Bush Devil. It ate him— metaphorically speaking. Sam was consumed as a child and spit out as a man. The scarification marks had been left by the devil’s ‘teeth.’ It seemed like a tough way to achieve adulthood, but at least it was fast and definitive. Maybe we should introduce the process to our kids in the US and skip the teenage years. Think of all of the angst it would avoid.
The Bush Devil was a very important tribal figure who was part religious leader, part cultural cop and part political hack. Non-Kpelle types weren’t allowed to see him. When the Devil came to visit outlying villages, a frontman preceded him and ran circles around the local Peace Corps Volunteer’s house while blowing a whistle. The Volunteer was expected to go inside, shut the door, close the shutters and stay there. No peeking.
We did get to see a Grebo Devil once. The Grebo Tribe was less secretive, or at least more mercenary. Some Peace Corps Volunteers had hired the local Devil for a Haight-Ashbury style African party. It was, after all, 1967, the “summer of love” in San Francisco and the “Dawning of the Age of Aquarius.” Along with several other Volunteers, we hired a money bus to get to the party. Had we been thinking, we would have painted the bus with Day-Glo, like Ken Kesey’s bus, Further.
The Devil was all decked out in his regalia. His persona was somewhere between a voodoo nightmare and walking haystack. Grebo men scurried in front of him with brooms, clearing his path and grunting a lot. We stayed out of the way and took pictures.
The Grebo men carefully tended the Bush Devil.
Another area where Sam showed his tribal side was his fear of the newly dead. A person’s spirit was considered particularly powerful and dangerous right after he or she died. Later, the spirit would move away into the bush and fade. But first it had to be tamed with appropriate mourning, an all-night bash. One didn’t take chances. When Sam worked late for us after someone had died, he would borrow a knife and a flashlight in case he had to fight off the malevolent ghost on his way home. I had grown up next to a graveyard and was sympathetic with his concern.
Juju, or African witch doctor medicine, was another area where African reality varied from modern Western reality. Late one evening, in the middle of a tropical downpour, one of my high school students appeared on our doorstep very wet and very frightened. Mamadee Wattee was running for student body president. His opponent had purchased ‘medicine’ from a Juju man to make him sick.
It was serious business; people were known to die in similar circumstances. Had the opposition slandered Mamadee or stuffed the ballot box, I could have helped, but countering a magic potion wasn’t taught at Berkeley, at least not officially. I took the issue to Mr. Bonal, the high school principal, and he dealt with it. Mamadee stayed well and won the election.
The use of Juju medicine represents the darker side of tribal culture. Human body parts derived from ritual human sacrifice are reputed to be particularly effective in creating potions. Cannibalism may be involved. On the lighter side, my students once obtained a less potent ‘medicine’ and buried it under the goal post on the football (soccer) field with the belief that it would cause the other team to miss goals. Apparently, it wasn’t potent enough; the other team won.
This is my senior class. Mamadee is second from the left. Later he would become an elementary school principal in New Jersey.
Mamadee was also the reason behind our introduction to the Lightning Man. When Jo and I went on vacation to East Africa, we left Mamadee with $50 to buy a 50-gallon drum of kerosene. When we returned there was neither kerosene nor $50, but Mamadee was sitting on our doorstep. Someone had stolen the money and Mamadee was extremely upset. Fifty dollars represented a month’s income for a Kpelle farmer. Mamadee’s father, a chief of the Kpelle tribe, was even more upset and wanted to assure us that his son had nothing to do with the missing fortune. It was a matter of honor. He offered to have Mamadee submit to the Lightning Man to prove his innocence.
The Lightning Man had a unique power; he could make lighting strike whoever was guilty of a crime. If someone stole your cow or your spouse, zap! Since we were in the tropics, there was lots of lightning. Whenever anyone was struck, people would shake their heads knowingly. Another bad guy had been cooked; justice had been served.
We didn’t believe Mamadee had taken the money, and even if he had, we certainly didn’t want him fried, or even singed. We passed on the offer. The Chief insisted on giving us $50 to replace the stolen money.
Another Liberian Peace Corps Volunteer in a similar situation chose a different path. Here’s how the story was told to us. The Volunteer had just purchased a brand new $70 radio so he could listen to the BBC and keep track of what was happening in the world. The money represented close to half of the Volunteer’s monthly income. He had owned his new toy for two days when it disappeared.
“I am going to get my radio back,” he announced to anyone who would listen and then walked into the village where he quickly gathered some of his students to take him to the Lightning Man. Off he and half the town went, winding through the rainforest to the Lighting Man’s hut. The Volunteer took out five dollars and gave it to the Lighting Man. (Lighting Men have to eat, too.)
“I want you to make lighting strike whoever stole my radio,” he said.
The Volunteer and his substantial entourage then returned home. By this time, everyone in the village knew about the trip, including, undoubtedly, the person who had stolen the radio.
That night, there was a tremendous thunder and lightning storm. Ignoring for the moment that it was in the middle of the rainy season and there were always tremendous thunder and lightning storms, place yourself in the shoes of the thief who believed in the Lightning Man’s power. Each clap of thunder would have been shouting his name.
In the morning the Volunteer got up, had breakfast and went out on his porch. There was his radio.
NEXT BLOG: Wednesday’s photo essay.
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22 thoughts on “Bush Devils, Juju, and Lightning Men”
I was so relieved when this chapter showed up in the book, because I had been dying to know how your book got its name! 🙂 The Lightning Man story is a good one! I think on a stormy night even I would have been worried enough to return the radio – just in case.
I realized when I posted the chapter, that some of my friends would have already read it in the book, or even way back when I blogged it. And my thanks, Crystal. But I knew it would be new for the majority of my followers. I would have been right there with you on the radio bit, even though I didn’t believe in the Lightning Man. Why take chances. 🙂 –Curt
A great book. I have finally put a review on Goodreads. I am sorry it has taken so long, I am allergic to the star system so keep putting it off. Basically, everything I review will get 4 stars. If I don’t like a book, I won’t review it and only a Shakespeare play will get five.
Thanks Hillary! What, I am not Shakespeare? Damn. 🙂 –Curt
I imagine once you heard revealing secrets could result in execution, it was easy to remain tight-lipped. 😉
It was no joke, that’s for sure. Even though Sam was only 13 at the time (as far as he knew) he had spent some time working as an informant with the anthropologist Jim Gibbes. He may have been more forthcoming than others of his age. –Curt
Well the reader ate my like, but but the book sounds wonderful based on the excerpt and everything else you have written. Cheers & congratulations to you from S. Africa~
Thanks Cindy! Sounds like you have been having a great time in South Africa. –Curt
Browsing the Atlas
Such a fascinating story. Makes me wish I’d joined the Peace Corps.
There have been a few decisions I’ve made in life that I have questioned (rightfully so:)) but never the one to go into the Peace Corps. –Curt
The radio was returned and with the thunder almost each night I am surprised he got just the one radio. Good writing Curt.
Laughing Gerard. Maybe other people had their radios returned. Thanks. –Curt
We’re waiting for another of the storms that’s been rolling through Texas, and I can see lightning in the distance. Once the storms over, if we haven’t blown away, I believe I might peek out the door and see if something’s there. 🙂
This is such a great story. I remember when you blogged it — I confess I’ve not read it in the book yet. But I will, and I’ll enjoy it just as much, if not more.
I always think about my houseboy, Phillip, who absolutely refused to have anything to do with one of the masks I have. He’d dust everything else, but not that. And by the by — I heard rumors of some unfortunate political sacrifices during the last big election, pre-Ebola. And I don’t mean sacrifice, as in giving up an evening to meet with the constituents.
I thought of you as the storms swept across Texas, Linda. Scary. Texas is the only place where I ever came close to having an automobile washed off of a road. I also remember dodging golf sized hailstones on my bicycle. Those huge, towering cumulus clouds can be frightening with their potential.
Traditional Africa was always lurking on the edge. Those masks contained a great deal of power from a tribal perspective, even more so if they were Poro masks. No wonder Phillip was wary around them. (I just rotated my seat to see the medicine mask that hangs on my wall.) I am not the least surprised that Juju still works its way into elections. –Curt
What a great story. Can’t wait to read more of it.
Thank’s Alison. –Curt
Love the story – had the radio been rained on? 😉
Covered porch. Now whether it got rained on in the delivery… I suspect it was well taken care of. You wouldn’t want to irritate the Lightning Man. 🙂 –Curt
Great story about the radio. But the other parts of the chapter are as rich — body parts used to create potions, a lightning man, a loss of $50. All intriguing. What an experience!
Got your book request yesterday, Rusha. We’ll be putting one in the mail to you and Bert tomorrow. Then you can read all of the stories. 🙂
LFFL
That’s awesome you were in the Peace Corps.
It was indeed an awesome experience. 🙂 –Curt
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Toronto 2015 Medal Table
United States 103 81 81
Canada 78 69 70
Brazil 41 40 60
Cuba 36 27 34
Latest Toronto 2015 Results
Men's team Volleyball
Alvarez runs out of time before recovering to complete Toronto 2015 archery double
By Nick Butler at Varsity Fields in Toronto
Mexico's Luis Alvarez recovered superbly from a near-calamitous mistake in the fourth set to claim gold in the Pan American Games archery final today after Kathuna Lorig, the American who trained Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence to use a bow, won the women's title.
Lorig's victory spared United States blushes as they avoided not winning a single archery gold medal for the first time in Pan American Games history,
This followed their men's team losing the final yesterday to Mexico following nine successful victories dating back to San Juan 1979.
The Mexicans were confident of more success today as Alvarez, a member of that gold medal winning team, cruised past leading qualifier Zach Garrett to set-up a final against defending champion Brady Ellison, winner of last year's World Cup Final in Lausanne.
In a high quality start, five successive nines were shot before Alvarez sealed the set with a perfect 10, with the 24-year-old then shooting three successive 10s in the third set to move into a 4-0 lead.
Luis Alvarez celebrates after his nailbiting victory in the men's final ©Mexican Olympic Committee
Ellison has not been one of the sport's leading stars in recent years for nothing, however, and the 26-year-old returned the compliment with three perfect arrows as Alvarez faltered in the third.
Cue drama as, after a succession of nines, the Mexican required a 10 to claim gold only to miss the opportunity to shoot for it due to exceeding the 20 second period allocated for each attempt.
This led to a score of zero, meaning Ellison scored two points to level proceedings at 4-4 moving into a deciding fifth.
A weaker man may have crumbled at this point, but Alvarez responded brilliantly to shoot two 10s as his opponent could only manage nines, before sealing the set, match and gold medal with the following shot.
"I was like, 'Damn I missed it' because I knew that I just needed a nine...'Okay, okay you can do it, let’s go, let’s go,'" said the 24-year-old, who had beaten Brazilian teenage prodigy Marcus D'Almeida in the quarter-final.
"I was just one second late but it was okay but I just said 'well that went not okay but it’s okay, let’s go for the next set.'
"It was good, really good."
It marked only the second time in 10 Games in which the US has failed to take the men's gold following Cuban Adrian Puentes; victory at Rio 2007, with another blow struck in the bronze medal match as Garrett was beaten by Jay Leon of Canada.
America's Khatuna Lorig claimed the biggest title of her career at Toronto 2015 - a career spanning four decades and four national teams ©Getty Images
There were no mistakes made in the women's event, however, as 41-year-old Lorig shocked Mexican favourite Aida Roman in the semi-final before comfortably beating Ana Maria Rendon, who led Colombia to team gold yesterday, 6-2 in the final.
After starting out competing for the Soviet Union, she won a team bronze medal using the surname Kvrivichvili as part of the Unified Team at Barcelona 1992 before competing for her native Georgia at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000.
She then switched nationality to the US but was unable to compete at Athens 2004 while her change was processed'
At Beijing 2008, however, she carried the US flag at the Closing Ceremony before finishing fourth individually at London 2012.
She since trained Hollywood star Jennifer Lawrence in how to shoot a bow ahead of her appearance in the movie franchise, Hunger Games.
Today's triumph was the biggest win of her illustrious career.
“That’s a dream come true,” she said after receiving her gold medal.
“I can’t wait to have that at the Olympics and the World Championships, that beautiful song, that anthem played for me.”
Karla Hinojosa won the all-Mexican bronze medal match over team mate Roman to claim the final place on the podium.
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Decision on crowds at Tokyo 2020 to be made by March
A decision on whether spectators will be permitted to attend the Olympic Games will be made within the next two months, according to Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori.
Organisers are bracing themselves for a tough call on whether fans will be allowed to attend Tokyo 2020 as new variants of COVID-19 create further uncertainty across the globe.
Earlier this month, a state of emergency was declared in Tokyo in a bid to curb surging coronavirus figures.
Tokyo 2020 officials will now hope to see a decline in cases before announcing their stance on the admission of spectators.
"I think we will have to make a very difficult decision around February to March," said Mori at an online lecture hosted by Japanese news agency Kyodo News.
Around 4.48 million tickets for the Olympics have already been sold as well as 970,000 for the Paralympics, through the official ticketing website and various lotteries.
Tickets will be valid for 2021, with only 810,000 of Japanese ticketholders for the Olympics requesting refunds last month.
Sales of tickets were forecast to provide ¥90 billion (£657 million/$857 million/€727 million) in revenue.
Yokohama Stadium was at full capacity in November for a three-day experiment ahead of Tokyo 2020 ©Getty Images
Tokyo 2020 Athletes' Village Mayor Saburō Kawabuchi previously claimed holding the Games without spectators would be "like cooking a meal with no seasoning".
In November 2020, there appeared to be growing optimism among officials over the prospect of fans attending Tokyo 2020 after a series of high-tech devices were tested at a packed Yokohama Stadium.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike claimed she was hopeful of having "full spectators present", while Tokyo 2020 chief executive Toshirō Mutō revealed a plan for fans would be drawn up "by next spring".
The 32,402-seater Yokohama Stadium - which will host the Olympic baseball and softball competitions - reached 100 per cent capacity during the three-day experiment with fans screened for body temperature and high-spec cameras tracking movement.
Fans were also allowed to attend an international gymnastics competition held in Tokyo in November.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has said he is "very confident" spectators will be able to attend the Games and claimed he expects a "reasonable" crowd size at the event.
But the chances of crowds at Tokyo 2020 appear increasingly slim, with the capital city reporting a further 1,433 COVID-19 cases within the past 24 hours.
A state of emergency is expected to be declared in Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo after tighter restrictions were introduced in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba.
Tokyo 2020 organisers have been devising ways to allow fans to attend the Olympic and Paralympic Games ©Getty Images
A Kyodo News survey also recently found around 80 per cent of Japanese people want this year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo to be cancelled or postponed.
Senior IOC member Richard Pound suggested prioritising athletes for the COVID-19 vaccine would be the "most realistic way" of ensuring Tokyo 2020 is held this year.
Two academics have warned athletes not to pin their hopes on vaccinations to compete at Tokyo 2020, however.
"Trying to say that we need to provide these athletes with vaccines because these [Games] are a part of our heritage and our national pride is going to be a tough sell," Jason Kindrachuk, infectious diseases expert at the University of Manitoba, told Reuters.
"Especially when you have a vaccine rollout programme that hasn’t been working very well, you are going to have some people who are frankly quite angry and unhappy about that idea."
Ken J Ishii, a vaccination expert at the University of Tokyo, told Reuters that a rushed vaccine rollout could miss potentially dangerous side-effects and may leave competitors at risk.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are scheduled to run from July 23 to August 8, with the Paralympics due to follow from August 24 to September 5.
January 2021: Mori claims Tokyo 2020 has to "proceed as planned" despite rising COVID-19 cases in Japan
January 2021: Survey finds 80 per cent of Japanese people want Tokyo 2020 cancelled or postponed
January 2021: Athletes' Village Mayor claims Tokyo 2020 with no spectators would be "like cooking a meal with no seasoning"
November 2020: Koike reveals hope of Tokyo 2020 "with full spectators present"
November 2020: Foreign fans could be allowed at Tokyo 2020 as organisers draw up plans
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Britain names first athletes on Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic shooting team
World record holders, world champions and Commonwealth Games medallists are among the first set of athletes to have been selected to represent Britain in shooting at this year's Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Seonaid McIntosh, gold medallist in the world 50 metres event at the 2018 World Championships, leads the team chosen for the Olympics, with world record holder Matt Skelhon headlining the Para shooting squad.
A total of 10 athletes - six Olympic and four Paralympic - have been named on the team for the Games, postponed from 2020 to this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
McIntosh, a three-time European champion and world record holder who is considered Britain’s most successful female rifle shooter of all time, is joined in the Olympic squad by Matt Coward-Holley, Kirsty Hegarty and Aaron Heading.
Coward-Holley became Britain's first world champion in Olympic trap shooting in 2019, while Hegarty, the first Northern Irish athlete to be selected for Tokyo 2020, has Commonwealth Games and European silver medals in her collection.
Six athletes have been selected to represent Britain in Para shooting at Tokyo 2020 ©ParalympicsGB
Four-time Commonwealth Games medallist and four-time World Cup medallist Heading completes the line-up, with further selections due to be made by British Shooting later this year.
Skelhon is the star name in the team for the Paralympics having won gold at Beijing 2008 and two titles at the 2019 World Championships.
London 2012 bronze medallist James Bevis, world champions Tim Jeffery and Ryan Cockbill, and Rio 2016 Paralympians Lorraine Lambert and Issy Bailey have also been named to the Para shooting team.
They are the first athletes chosen for Britain's Tokyo 2020 Paralympic squad.
"We have a strong team going to both the Olympic and Paralympic Games," said British Shooting performance director Steven Seligmann.
"All of those selected are quota place winners in their own right and they have demonstrated significant performances on a world stage to merit their selection.
"In selecting now, it gives them the best opportunity to focus on their preparations over the coming months."
Britain has also selected athletes for Tokyo 2020 in sailing, canoeing, sport climbing and triathlon.
November 2019: Glory for McIntosh at ISSF World Cup in China
October 2019: World Championship-winning shooter McIntosh named Scottish Sportsperson of the Year
August 2019: McIntosh earns 50m rifle three positions gold at ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup
July 2019: Carroll and Coward-Holley seal trap titles at ISSF World Shotgun Championship
September 2018: Two world records set as ISSF World Championships continue in Changwon
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Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). Fresh Air, 1878. Watercolor heightened with white opaque watercolor, with scraping and selectively applied glaze, over charcoal on moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper, 20 1/16 x 14 in. (51 x 35.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 41.1087 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 41.1087_SL3.jpg)
Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). Fresh Air, 1878. Watercolor heightened with white opaque watercolor, with scraping and selectively applied glaze, over charcoal on moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper, 20 1/16 x 14 in. (51 x 35.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 41.1087 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.41.1087.jpg)
Winslow Homer, who rose to national prominence in the 1860s for his magazine illustrations and oil paintings of modern American life, took up watercolor in the 1870s. Fresh Air is one of the most ambitious of an early series of plein air watercolors depicting fancifully dressed shepherdesses that Homer made at Houghton Farm, a patron’s country estate in upstate New York. He created brilliant effects of light and atmosphere by exploiting the natural transparency of the medium and the brightness of the white paper. To achieve the subtle coloration in the sky, he applied overlapping washes of grays, pinks, and blues and then blotted them together.
ARTIST Winslow Homer, American, 1836-1910
MEDIUM Watercolor heightened with white opaque watercolor, with scraping and selectively applied glaze, over charcoal on moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper
DIMENSIONS 20 1/16 x 14 in. (51 x 35.6 cm) Frame: 30 x 24 x 1 1/2 in. (76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE Signed and dated lower right: "Winslow Homer / 1878"
COLLECTIONS American Art
Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent and the American Watercolor Movement
Curator's Choice: American Watercolor Masters: Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent
ACCESSION NUMBER 41.1087
CREDIT LINE Dick S. Ramsay Fund
CAPTION Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). Fresh Air, 1878. Watercolor heightened with white opaque watercolor, with scraping and selectively applied glaze, over charcoal on moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper, 20 1/16 x 14 in. (51 x 35.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 41.1087 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 41.1087_SL3.jpg)
IMAGE overall, 41.1087_SL3.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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Nermina Ferkić looks out over the St. Louis cityscape from the top of the St. Louis Wheel at Union Station on Sept. 30, the one-year anniversary of the ferris wheel opening. The St. Louis Wheel, standing at 200 feet tall, changed the look of St. Louis’ skyline and presented a new way to view the city from above.
The St. Louis Wheel at Union Station celebrated its one-year anniversary of opening on Sept. 30. People sharing the wheel’s ‘birthday’ could come and ridefor free on that date.
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Posted on August 30, 2018 by gcochran9
The current craze for surgically mutilating troubled high school girls (Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria) can be looked at another way: as a really slick exercise in negative eugenics. Being nuts is fairly heritable: I have no doubt that many of these girls’ mothers were cutting themselves ( while listening to grunge) back in the 90s. If you remove their ovaries, these girls aren’t going to have descendants: end of story.
Genetic tendencies to insanity in the next generation will be weaker than they otherwise would have been. This approach is far more effective than castrating autogynephilic Decathlon winners and economists, because it’s happening early in the reproductive schedule.
You might think it would be difficult to induce parents to have their daughters spayed, but apparently you can convince bien-pensant liberals of absolutely anything, as long as it’s false. Gotta keep up with the Jim Joneses. They even pay for it!
Generally, negative eugenics has a bad reputation. Deservedly so: usually it was coercive, and people have a right to be left alone. But if you can con them into damaging or destroying themselves, that’s all right. That wouldn’t be possible if people were stuffed full of sense and agency, but of course they’re not. They don’t automatically think for themselves or come to correct conclusions, even on old, long-settled questions. Many of them are saps, really. Sad.
Apparently the real goal of the powers that be is to purge some kinds of insanity from society, rather like Oliver Wendell Holmes: Three generations of lunatics are enough.
Don’t pay attention to what the New York Times says: look at the long-term consequences.
104 Responses to Nits Make Lice
Whoa. Great point. But aren’t the single moms who predominate as parents of these kids reliable lefty voters? Why does Establishment want to zero them out?
Zenit says:
Maybe the “Establishment” sees that the “voting” scam outlived its usefulness and plans to wind it down anyway. Maybe there is no “Establishment” at all, and we all are raving and drooling conspiracy theorists.
Jan Assman says:
It’s called tongue in cheek humor.
Cloveoil says:
Swiftian satire.
crew says:
But aren’t the single moms who predominate as parents of these kids reliable lefty voters? Why does Establishment want to zero them out?
Perhaps they think they have a source of new people?
Exactly – these girls, however kooky, could have conservative kids, or maybe get born-again in a few years. Why take the chance, when we can replace them with reliable voters from here to eternity.
megabar says:
First of all, while I can readily believe that genetics is a major factor here, I can’t rule out environmental effects. There are so many things going wrong with health in Western societies, such as diabetes and autism, and the rate of increase strikes me as unlikely to be fully genetic. Perhaps our environment exposes vulnerabilities is certain genes, and so it’s a combination of nature and nurture.
Secondly, if you want to have a mostly egalitarian and ethical society, you have to figure out the most ethical way to achieve eugenics.
For example, public welfare or jail time (especially for violent crime) could come with some restrictions on breeding. Limited numbers, or perhaps a requirement to artificially inseminate — perhaps using stellar genetic donors from your preferred ethnic group. This way, the kid looks and behaves similar to the parents, but with a more adapted set of genes. The other side of it — paying talented women to have more kids — seems to be a delicate proposition, as that’s unfair to other women. But on the whole, if there’s a will, there are reasonable ways to do this.
On the other hand, perhaps we’re getting close enough to a technological solution, which can simply nudge genetics in the right direction without any social engineering. I’m not close enough to the research to know if we’re close to that being plausible, in the broad sense of adaption (as opposed to knocking out single-gene diseases). And frankly, even if I’m told we are close, I’m wary of this approach. It seems risky and full of dangerous unknowns. For example, what if we breed ourselves to be so docile that we succumb to any warlike aggressor? That is, perhaps we overly optimize to fitness in this specific world. Of course, any eugenics is vulnerable to that.
Of course its environmental: you can’t explain either rapid onset GID or the rise in late transitioners*, by biological factors: its sociological. It doesn’t correlate with availability of the healthcare, it spreads as a meme.
(* Incidentally this rules out Blanchard’s AGP somewhat, as he predicted his late transitioner type would have a neurological abnormality.)
An odd thing about LGBT is… both sides tend to be blank slaters. Its an odd one and I don’t care who wins because no-one can be right with that attitude.
An odd thing about LGBT is… both sides tend to be blank slaters
The LGBT crowd utilize both positions simultaneously.
Position 1: I was ‘Born This Way’. Sexual preference is immutable and genetic/biological.
Position 2: Gender is a social construct. Gender identification is fluid.
Or: born that way but you’ve not to question what it is.
Glengarry says:
Born this way and that way, bigot.
“For example, what if we breed ourselves to be so docile that we succumb to any warlike aggressor?”
Hasn’t this already happened? Or is happening?
ronald mcdonald (@ronmcdonald187) says:
Warlike aggessor….or warlike government
14sonnenrad88 says:
“I can readily believe that genetics is a major factor here, I can’t rule out environmental effects”
Barely, and we’re talking a VERY small amount.
http://www.unz.com/jman/the-behavioral-genetics-page/
mtkennedy21 says:
I think the type II Diabetes epidemic is caused by the food pyramid.
biz says:
So probably you’d be reducing the proportion UMC whites prone to psychological issues in the gene pool while probably doing nothing about the proportion of others prone to psychological issues in the gene pool. Is that eugenic?
DataExplorer says:
What is UMC? How many girls are getting this procedure done? Surely just a handful out of 100s of millions.
Its just LARPing… most Rapid Onsets don’t seek healthcare and defame those who do as ‘truscum’. A word that seems to mean ‘true scum’.
Despite some people’s attempts to paint gender identity and self-identity itself as something deep and meaningful to people, this is pretty damned shallow.
Wency says:
I was curious about this. I guess “truscum” describes trannies who get surgery and then assert that those who did not are less trans than they.
The other word they have is TERF, which describes feminists who get creeped out by MtFs that show up in woman-only spaces and hit on them.
Most of the “rapid onsets” are lesbians, so you might think they’ll be breeding less even without surgery. Though I saw a stat recently that the teen pregnancy rate is elevated among self-identified lesbians.
‘Truscum’ means admitting they have a problem, rather than possessing an identity: matters of trans identity are secondary to absent for them. TERF just means a 1970s type feminist.
Reading the new lit it seems 1/2 common sense and 1/2 half-hearted attempt at moral panic given they draw comparisons to ‘contagious’ eating disorders – a well known myth. The authors – or peer reviewers I wager – fail to address basic problems in writing about the issue. They mention briefly – so as to avert a shitstorm? – the differences between early and late-onset GD, but speak of it as though it were merely a chronological matter. Late onset GD people typically transition after a midlife crisis: do they even feel dysphoria before that point if they desist for so long? Politics aside, the vague language use still typical of psychiatry contributes no ends to transgender nonsense. This is not about doctors or ‘experts’ versus a few mentally ill freaks who dot admit they have a problem. The field of psychiatry actually facilitates all kinds of nonsense.
I don’t know… it certainly spreads like a meme but for that reason it has no consequence… when they grow out of it after refusing ‘transmedicalist’ healthcare and even the requirement of dysphoria. sites like Reddit and Tumblr supposedly encourage dysphoric teens to go to doctors: yes such social media pushes the concept, including the idea that nonspecific symptoms should be considered to be proof of transgender, But a quick check shows those communities eschew medicalisation and even the need for dysphoria to be present; the paper says they might encourage teens to make demands of doctors.
Yea and they actually use the word ‘deceive parents’ – a hallmark of the shrill is the fallacious appeal to parents as knowing best despite the existence of dysfunctional families – a context in which gender dysphoria happens to be very, very common. I often wonder how often ‘trans’ people just wanted to avoid being like their mums and dads, but the spurious wisdom and authority of parents is always sanctified in any moral panic. Its like an indicator. If this seems shocking to right wing readers, read TMWWBQ to learn the family backgrounds normal of early onsetters.
That last bit fascinates me and it has for a long time: both sides of gay debates are blank slaters, the pro-gays are (or were until very recently) anti-family along crypto-Freudian lines, whereas the naive pro-family people lionise family itself unconditionally – as though family itself prevents such dysfunction. Mmm… I think real life is more complicated than that.
Anyway, papers here:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330
Abraham Lincoln says:
It’s a trial run for future initiatives.
They won’t be successful, then. What % of the population has been affected by these issues; and what % of them will experience lasting effects from it (ie. not grow out of it)? It must be a far smaller % than an already very small % (rapid onset) of a small % (T) of a small percent (LGBT).
Citizen A says:
LoL, why worry about people who are not going to count in the long run.
Let people do foolish things, nature does not care about the bullshit.
It just is, and will keep on going.
After all, evolution really doesn’t get your feelingz….
David Chamberlin says:
A tiny percentage of these women/girls/whatchamacallits go the extreme of going under the knife to change sexes. Females have a lot more choice in their sexual preferences than men do. That is just how it is. Men overwhelmingly are born that way, straight or gay. Women can opt to be gay.
This completely explains the lousy science discirption “rapid onset gender disorder” or even worse “a social contagion” that spreads through a group. In any case I don’t care. Let people find love where ever they can find it, even if it leads to people not reproducing. The world is filled up with people anyway.
Zimriel says:
But men aren’t born that way. Homosexuals tend to “find” their first partners when very young, and those partners are… more mature.
My guess is you live in a world with evil lurking everywhere.
Your guess would be mostly wrong. There may be some genetics to gayness, and even more influence by prenatal stress. But working with sexual offenders used to be one of my subspecialties, and male offenders most often molest males at very close to the age they were first molested themselves. It’s one of the things known in the straight community and in the gay community, but it is forbidden to talk about it with each other. Both deny it when it becomes public. This from last year, just as an example I recently read. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-happens-when-men-have-sex-with-teenage-boys_us_58ab8c69e4b029c1d1f88e02?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
I’m not sure I’d describe that as “love.”
This article says one third of abused children will eventually abuse their own children. ttps://www.aswllp.com/Sexual-Molestation-Abuse/What-are-the-Long-Term-Effects-of-Childhood-Sexual-Abuse.shtml
Pedophiles are the lowest of the low. i am not arguing with anybody that thinks homosexuals are all pedophiles, it’s just too stupid to respond to. I know you are not a troll Village Idiot but Zimriel is.
Is it molestation if the ‘victim’ is sex-aware? I’m not bothered with legal defs of consent, which also led to those silly accusations on US campus lately: such definitions have discredited themselves. And widespread acceptance of statutory rape was what kicked off that whole stupid chain of events.
Pro-gay? No, anti-softness. No-one dragged in the bushes so no rape.
A certain percentage are “born that way” and the rest are sucked in as teenagers.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Blown that way? I don’t know, I hope not.
pyrrhus says:
Yes, I’m seeing this in my extended family. The mother is a bonkers drama queen, and her parents were bonkers academics. Three generations is enough…
HenryScrope says:
I think individuals should be 18 before any sort of mutilation, and then it should be voluntary.
After that if they accept the radio set that’s fine.
I wonder, would you apply that rule to circumcision?
Unless it’s a medical necessity, then yes, 100%. Neither male nor female genital mutilation should be performed on children.
I’m inclined to agree but obviously actually implementing such a policy in the US would be quite divisive in regard to Jewish and Moslem religious beliefs.
It’s a test of our countries’ legislators, can they take on powerful minority groups to protect the rights of children? I think they will fail that test but we can live in hope.
Mark F. says:
This is horrific. However, it should be mentioned that conservative theocracies like Iran also like “sex changes” as they can’t tolerate homosexuals as well as masculine women and feminine men.
I don’t know: this seems to be the root cause in Southeast Asian military cultures. But in SW USA it was true not only of militarists such as Navajo, but more peaceful Pueblo peoples.
Sex change in Native American communities? My reading suggests that two-spirit nonsense first gained traction in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Earlier attestations are a reach.
Not true: European explorers were shocked by berdaches and needed to borrow the word berdache from Spanish to conceptualise it.
Such people are biologically real but not a constant across cultures or time:
http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2009/03/has-male-homosexuality-changed-over.html
I followed through the links and stand corrected
I thought they just gave gays flying lessons and that was it.
Whew, Cochran rolled a 20 on this post. Bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage–he’s a biter.
bob sykes says:
Which is why I support abortion on demand: the eugenics benefit.
Even greater eugenics benefits with infanticide and filicide.
Heck, you could solve the problem overnight if you culled the herd to the 300th postpartum trimester.
Niké's left breast says:
GC may also have an strong ethical case here: the reduction of PAIN (Poly-Acronymic Identitarian Narcissists) has long been accepted as a moral imperative. File this under “Modest Proposals”.
Convergent social evolution, going back to what works. Conservatives Yamnaya-American Christians and happy-go-lucky Aztec-Namnaya hybrids will inherit the (American) earth, it seems.
Indeed! Purely anecdotally, a decade and half back, I used to date such a formerly self-cutting, batshit crazy, bipolar chick. She was a single mother. Her only daughter Rachel (who was around 4 at the time) has now turned out to be a “Nick.” I am not surprised: craziness does run in genes.
On the other hand, I also have a friend with 180 IQ, whose father, after making him and another 4 or 5 babies with several other women besides his former wife (my friend’s mother), apparently decided that he had had enough, chopped off his penis, removed his testicles, and put breast implants in.
I think that the larger point of all this is that, while before female emancipation, selection operated only on men, it now operates on women also.
It’s going to be a hard next few centuries 😦
These days in college the advice is: Never stick it in the crazy!
Why did you ignore that advice?
More likely Borderline Personality Disorder – they sometimes call themselves bipolar. BPAD isn’t impossible from your description, but they usually aren’t cutters.
Alternated between depression and mania. Lithium helped, when she finally began taking it, said therapy course triggered by an episode so bad, she got confined to a mental hospital for weeks, almost losing custody of own daughter. Hence: bipolar (and drank beer like a horse, at the time).
In the early days, got her to enroll into the local community college, but she couldn’t manage to finish it, beyond couple of semesters. Was affectionate yet dumb: could not do fractions or critically analyze text; but could draw in 2D and write love letters well. Too much fun in bed and on the dining table. Built specifically for that purpose, I surmise.
Smithie says:
Probably superfluous. But if they were somehow surgically-altered into lobstermorphs…
archandsuperior says:
“Gotta keep up with the Jim Joneses”
I giggled at that.
dearieme says:
It’s like anorexia, isn’t it? Your first instinct is to feel sorry for the poor loonies. Probably your second instinct too.
Woof says:
Kind of reminds me of the old Russian cult, the Skoptsy, that required its male members to castrate themselves and its female members to remove their nipples and parts of their genitals. Now whether it is a case of mass hysteria that most people are vulnerable to, or a case of genetic freaks that need to be culled, is far from clear. That the human brain is capable of the most stupendous stupidity is depressingly obvious, but just how universal is the urge to destroy one’s sexuality?
Not everyone is that stupid.
EvolutionistX says:
To be honest, I think most parents of teenagers would like to spay or neuter their kids. I’ve met plenty of conservative Christians who go very hard into trying to convince their kids that all forms of sexuality or sexual attraction to others is bad, pregnancy is bad, reproduction is bad, etc. Of course they have this idea that their kids will, somewhere around the age of 30, snap out of it, get married, and produce grandchildren, but how you get from A to B has never been clear.
Arranged marriage? It is the old time Biblical way, after all.
JerryC says:
Cool story, but don’t “conservative Christians” have a higher than average birth rate?
Dmitry Anisimov says:
Sulpiride is effective libido reductor.
“I’ve met plenty of conservative Christians who go very hard into trying to convince their kids that all forms of sexuality or sexual attraction to others is bad…” You are misunderstanding. Forbidding sex outside of marriage, especially in teen years is not at all the same thing as saying all sexual attraction is bad. It was in fact the most common parental behavior until quite recently among both religious and non-religious people.
I’m also betting you don’t know a tenth of the conservative Christians that I do.
I’ve met plenty of conservative Christians who go very hard into trying to convince their kids that all forms of sexuality or sexual attraction to others is bad,
I’ve spend 33 years deeply enmeshed in the conservative Christian subculture and I have NEVER encountered anyone who thought like this. NOT ONE. Quite the reverse, the married clergy wax quite eloquent about how awesome married sex is, and that it’s better if you wait. I’ve never heard an anti-sex message, not once.
they have this idea that their kids will, somewhere around the age of 30, snap out of it, get married, and produce grandchildren
That unfortunately is a “thing” — usually among those who spent their 20s fornicating up a storm, either because they weren’t raised Christian, or walked away from church for a decade or so. To their credit, they generally regret their pasts and want their offspring to wait for marriage — but they also want their kids to achieve middle-class prosperity first (which means, usually, waiting til 30+ to marry.) And they haven’t really given much thought to the fact that these two goals are radically at odds with each other. Since they themselves were not abstinent til the wedding night, the implications of delaying the wedding til age 30+ seemingly have never dawned on them. They have no clue how horrible being celibate through the 20s can be, and therefore they naively imagine their offspring will just focus on career development til the time is (financially) right.
Gone is the era when young lovers would marry with nothing, and build their lives together. Some members of the misbegotten courtship movement, even assert that a man must own a house before he can dare pursue their daughters! Sometimes i think these idiots don’t actually want grandchildren.
how you get from A to B has never been clear.
Dating works. Kissing dating goodbye, doesn’t.
the same anonymous with yet another randomized email address... says:
Since they themselves were not abstinent til the wedding night, the implications of delaying the wedding til age 30+ seemingly have never dawned on them.
I should add…. I was one of the few who DID wait til I found a wife in my 30s. I can explain in quite agonizing detail how awful 20-something celibacy can be.
So when I hear this “I don’t want my kids getting married til 30” crap from fellow Christian parents, I have some things to say…. and the usual response is, “Oh, wow, I never thought of that!”
BB753 says:
Most conservative Christians are removing themselves from the gene pool by delaying marriage. Muslims have it right: men marry late, women as young as 14. You can’t argue with numbers.
Spanky says:
I’ve met plenty of conservative Christians who go very hard into trying to convince their kids that all forms of sexuality or sexual attraction to others is bad
I kinda doubt that. That sounds like something you heard on an anti-theist YouTube video.
Jokah Macpherson says:
I never fall for it. A handful of folks try to shame me for liking nubile girls but I’m like hey you’ve got kids where did that come from?
Nitan says:
Re your previous Gauss conjecture: seems like Stefan Banach’s parentage was even lower down the social scale. Going to venture that these two had higher g than would be inferred from social station. Are you sure there aren’t more of these cases?
Little is known about Banach’s mother.[8] According to his baptismal certificate, she was born in Borówna and worked as a domestic help.[7] […] Unusually, Stefan’s surname was his mother’s instead of his father’s, though he received his father’s given name, Stefan. Since Stefan Greczek was a private and was prevented by military regulations from marrying, and the mother was too poor to support the child, the couple decided that he should be reared by family and friends.[9]
From the “Moral Treatises of Saint Augustin”: “for who made themselves eunuch for the Kingdom of Heaven, whoso can receive, let him receive.” Self-mutilation may have a new “scientific” name, but its roots are in Christianity.
This sort of thing has existed on the fringes of Christianity, as with a number of other religions, but mainstream Christianity has always condemned it – hence the persecution of the Skoptsy by the Russian Orthodox Church in the 19th Century.
Little spoon says:
How many people fill the following conditions?
1) get rapid onset gender dysphoria
2) get a sex reassignment surgery because of this gender dyaphoria
3) would have had children if not for the sex reassignment surgery
How many people are being culled from the herd here? Like 10 maybe?
Not a significant fraction, but we’re surely talking thousands. Enough to feed many a lawyer when people lose their enthusiam about this.
Matthew Walker says:
You can feed some lawyers that way, but if you want to feed them all (or all but the last one at least), the Kilkenny Cats are a better model.
AbelardLindsey says:
The current craze for surgically mutilating troubled high school girls (Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria) can be looked at another way: as a really slick exercise in negative eugenics.
I first heard of this trend only in the past month or so. I never looked at it this way. But I should, and for some reason, it makes me feel better to look at it this way.
However, ‘changing your sex’ to male doesn’t necessarily mean getting neutered. It doesn’t even prohibit getting pregnant, giving birth or breastfeeding while a male. (One reason I consider transsexuals not very ‘born that way’ but just plain crazy.)
Searching images with “bearded tranny breastfeeding” will show you several examples.
Uh, I’ll take your word for it, thanks.
ghazisiz says:
Gender-confused folk are mostly gentle, harmless people. Delusional, yes, but they are not the phenotype you would most want removed from the world of your grandchildren. There are savage people in America: kids that will shoot you in order to look cool; junkies staggering around from one fix to another, and not caring how they get it; adults whose entire strategy for self-esteem is to make others fear them.
Natural selection at one time removed these phenotypes — differential reproduction (Gregory Clark) and capital punishment (Steven Pinker) have been busy since the Middle Ages. But nowadays we subsidize the reproduction of these people: TANF, WIC, SNAP, Section 8, Medicaid, catch & release for violent crimes, etc.
Modest proposal: castrate violent criminals. Lower testosterone levels should make it possible for them to live outside prison without causing harm, saving tax dollars and making punishment less punitive and more curative. Additionally, for most violent men, the loss of recreational sex would be a much stronger deterrent than prison time. And, of course, there would be an incidental eugenic effect.
catte says:
Gender-confused folk are mostly gentle, harmless people.
Check out kiwifarms sometime.
That was a myth from the three types idea: a true transsexual was nonexistent, and based on asexuality. Already by the 70s it was realized this was a confusion of behavior/identity and personality traits but it formed the backbone of ideas about transsexuals till the rise of the transgender movement.
Aldo says:
Trannies are harmless in the way fags, dykes, and Achmeds are: Talk about peace and acceptance and how you’re not trying to hurt Whitey/White Men/Men, then once your numbers get big enough and/or there’s enough support for you in the host population you start chimpingout (demand wedding cakes baked for you, the right to show your cock to little girl’s faces aka using female bathrooms).
Look at how trannies and fags act: Do they act like abused children or abused animals for how much they and their cucks cry about Whitey/White Men keeping them down? Or do they act like chimps in their territory (hostile, making demands, converting kids, acting like they know Whitey/Men/White Man can’t touch them)?
Nice false flagging.
My sample isn’t representative – psychiatric patients – but the transgender I know are disproportionately violent.
I don’t know any atm; as a whole they aren’t, but they (or Blanchard’s AGP) are more prone than usual to violent crime when viewed as women rather than men. This is of course an artifact of their ‘assigned sex’ – presumably they are less violent than other men in their demographics, owing to castration.
Violent ‘early onsetters’ such as Tara Hudson are rarer but as a group they are more inclined to crimes such as drug use and prostitution, than they are to violence. Various TERF-y sites push the idea of violent trannies but their bias toward sexual and misogynistic crimes presumably reflects their own bias. Given those sites are compiled mostly by lesbians, there exists irony there… because lesbians (being naturally masculinised) also have elevated rates of predatory sex crime compared to normal women.
Capogambino says:
Ghazisiz: – A modest proposal: 6 months off any prison term for those who undergo an irreversible vasectomy or tubal ligation.
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Time and time again I hear the assertion on this blog that education has no impact on how anyone turns out. And now I read that with the right ideology you can persuade people to spay their own daughters. There is a big contradiction in there.
I agree. This is one of the things that right-wingers/HBDers seem confused by.
You can “educate” girls to apply to engineering schools, and you can “educate” admissions to accept them. But you can’t “educate” them to love engineering. A tiny number love engineering anyway; the rest hate it.
You can “educate” people to believe that priming or other spells affect IQ scores, but nothing you can do will affect IQ scores.
It’s not confusing unless you try very hard to be confused by it.
Iodine deficiency affects IQ scores. Brain damage does as well. Education does not.
you can’t make dumb people smarter but the evil media can make narcissists do anything – even mutilate their own children
MEH 0910 says:
"I am hemophilia. I don’t have it. I am hemophilia. So when they come to me and say, 'We’ve got a genetic cure for hemophilia,' to me, that’s just as weird as if you said you’ve got a genetic cure on the horizon for your left foot." https://t.co/LeiZLB8nVl
— Sarah Zhang (@sarahzhang) August 29, 2018
It is good people accept (come to terms with) who they are. It is also absurd that they refuse to believe they have a problem.
This kind of thing is a symptom of the US and its narcissistic fixation on identity, which is the culture of the self writ large.
“Generally, negative eugenics has a bad reputation. Deservedly so: usually it was coercive, and people have a right to be left alone.” Absolutely.
“But if you can con them into damaging or destroying themselves, that’s all right.”
If it’s aimed at being funny I missed it. “Conning people into damaging or destroying themselves” is not “leaving them alone” – is it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Well I can hardly be expected to keep up with someone who aspires to Swifitian wit, but comments texts and emails are easy to miss the point or mis understand because of missing context tone, body language etc.
G.M. says:
To test the theory that homosexuality might be caused by a pathogen, let’s mine the likely vectors: try to develop a discriminator to distinguish between the semen, saliva & fæces of gay & straight men, & see what we can find.
Is spelunking one cave the same as another? Let the microbiome be our guide.
Worth looking at is ‘As Nature Made Him’ by John Colapinto and about David Reimer whose botched circumcision as an infant led to the experts convincing his parents to redesign his tubing as a girl. After all, sex and gender are socially determined so the the kid should never know the difference if he is raised as a girl.
John Money of Johns Hopkins reported the experiment in which he played a prominent role as a success but was not forthcoming on the details.
The details did finally come out and the opportunistic experiment was a disaster. The girl had trouble fitting in at school and was nicknamed ‘The Monster’ by female classmates. I found it interesting that the kid was kicked out of the girl’s toilet when they caught her trying to urinate while standing up. It didn’t go well with the redesigned plumbing but it is fascinating that the instinct remained and was that strong. Also out of female character was the kid’s eagerness to dive in and trade blows with boys who were fighting.
Finally, the parents gave up and told him the truth–he was born a boy. Almost his first question was what his boy’s name was. He immediately adopted that name, male attire, and began living as a male with a female friend. Despite that, the experiment took its final toll and he committed suicide. One would think that that would finally put an end to the ‘gender is socially constructed’ thesis–or at least dent it–but that does not seem to have happened except among a handful of sane researchers.
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Rich Rostrom says:
Further information about the Reimer case: the circumcision was a surgical procedure to correct a urination problem. The urologist used an electrically heated cauterizing knife, which malfunctioned.
AFAIK, John Money was the expert who persuaded the Reimers to raise the child as a girl. That was entirely Money’s idea, and Money rode the case to “scientific celebrity”, presenting his purported results to enthralled feminist conferences.
Ironically, the Reimer case proves that gender identity is fixed, not fluid (as current sex radicals claim); it also shows that it exists in the brain, independent of body form. That means it is possible for neurological and corporeal gender identity to be different.
That apparently happens in a tiny number of cases due to misdevelopment of the relevant tissues. Because social conservatives tend to reject these cases out of hand as “insanity” or “perversion” to be suppressed, this has made these cases into a “Trojan Horse” for sexual radicalism.
Anything neurological is corporeal.
Thanks for correcting the details. It has been some years since I read the book. I do agree with you and would like to add a thought. I have read that even some people born without limbs sometimes suffer from missing limb syndrome. That suggests that at some point there is a strong mental image of one’s body that normally corresponds to the physical image. That image might remain in the mind despite the condition of the body. So many things can go wrong in development that it is possible that some transgendered people actually have the wrong software image for the body they have. That might also explain some of the cases in which a person demands that a body part such as a hand be amputated because it does not really seem to belong on him. Any complex process subject to accident can probably go wrong in interesting ways.
Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria in girls. This looks a lot like a type of fad one sometimes sees in girls from time to time. In ancient Miletus girls began committing suicide after the gorgeous funeral of the first few. Thales, the very wise man, was consulted and he said it should be decreed that all suicides should have funerals stark naked. The suicides stopped immediately.
To bad these families don’t have a Thales to tell them to knock it off. I do wonder if at sometime these girls might bring actions for damages against the medical professionals foolish enough to get tied up in this.
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