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Here’s why Nikola’s (NKLA) future looks pretty grim
The lack of investment from GM and the cancellation of the development of the Badger are major blows to Nikola’s growth prospects
Electric vehicle manufacturer Nikola Corporation (NASDAQ: NKLA) has not been having a good time lately. Over the past few months, the company has faced fraud allegations, undergone a change in management and lost a lucrative partnership. The future ahead does not look bright for the Arizona-based company and here is why.
EV market
In general, the electric vehicle market is gaining importance in the wake of environmental concerns and stricter rules against pollution by traditional vehicles. As more countries adopt tougher rules on emission, the adoption of electric vehicles is likely to see a rise. A report by CleanTechnica estimates EV sales in the US to increase 70% year-over-year in 2021 versus 2020.
However, regulatory challenges, high costs and a reluctance on the part of customers to switch to electric vehicles due to the convenience factor that traditional vehicles provide are headwinds in the path to growth for EVs.
Nikola vs. Tesla
Where does Nikola stand amid all this? Nikola was once seen as a company with potential to become a notable player in this industry alongside Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) but now its prospects appear to have been dented quite a bit. Tesla has made progress in leaps and bounds and is now a dominant player in the EV market but Nikola currently does not appear to be in any position to compete with its larger rival.
Let’s start at the top. Nikola has no revenue and the company is still running at a loss. It has no game-changing technologies to justify its market valuation of over $7 billion. The automobile industry is very capital intensive one and Nikola does not have a proper roadmap to raise funding if and when it needs to. Another downside is the additional cash burn the company is likely to go through on its path forward.
The initial partnership with General Motors (NYSE: GM) was seen as a huge win for Nikola as it would have given the company a strong partner in terms of investment and manufacturing capability. However the scaled-down deal which encompasses a simple supply agreement is nothing to get excited about. The lack of investment from GM and the cancellation of the development of the Badger are major blows to Nikola’s growth prospects.
Nikola’s reputation suffered a massive blow on fraud allegations made by Hindenburg Research, the subsequent investigations by regulatory agencies, and the exit of founder and former executive chairman Trevor Milton. The expiry of its lockup period, which paves the way for former CEO Milton and other employees to exit their stakes in the company, is another cause of concern.
All in all, the sentiment on Nikola is currently pessimistic and most experts believe it might be better to wait and watch before making a decision on this stock.
Nikola’s stock has fallen 47% in the past three months.
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Growing mountains or shifting ground: What is going on in Earth’s inner core?
May 12, 2020 11:45 am by Lois Yoksoulian | Physical Sciences Editor | 217-244-2788Physical Sciences
A new study of Earth’s inner core used seismic data from repeating earthquakes, called doublets, to find that refracted waves, blue, rather than reflected waves, purple, change over time – providing the best evidence yet that Earth’s inner core is rotating.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Exhaustive seismic data from repeating earthquakes and new data-processing methods have yielded the best evidence yet that the Earth’s inner core is rotating – revealing a better understanding of the hotly debated processes that control the planet’s magnetic field.
The new study by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Geologists do not fully understand how the Earth’s magnetic field generator works, but suspect it is closely linked to dynamic processes near the inner core-outer core boundary area, the researchers said. Shifts in the location of the magnetic poles, changes in field strength and anomalous seismic data have prompted researchers to take a closer look.
Geology professor Xiaodong Song.
“In 1996, a small but systematic change of seismic waves passing through the inner core was first detected by our group, which we interpreted as evidence for differential rotation of the inner core relative to the Earth’s surface,” said geology professor and study co-author Xiaodong Song, who is now at Peking University. “However, some studies believe that what we interpret as movement is instead the result of seismic waves reflecting off an alternately enlarging and shrinking inner core boundary, like growing mountains and cutting canyons.”
The researchers present seismic data from a range of geographic locations and repeating earthquakes, called doublets, that occur in the same spot over time. “Having data from the same location but different times allows us to differentiate between seismic signals that change due to localized variation in relief from those that change due to movement and rotation,” said Yi Yang, a graduate student and lead author of the study.
Geology graduate student Yi Yang.
Photo courtesy Yi Yang.
The team found that some of the earthquake-generated seismic waves penetrate through the iron body below the inner core boundary and change over time, which would not happen if the inner core were stationary, the researchers said. “Importantly, we are seeing that these refracted waves change before the reflected waves bounce off the inner core boundary, implying that the changes are coming from inside the inner core,” Song said.
The basis of the debate lies in the fact the prior studies looked at a relatively small pool of somewhat ambiguous data generated from a method that is highly dependent on accurate clock time, the researchers said.
“What makes our analysis different is our precise method for determining exactly when the changes in seismic signals occur and arrive at the various seismic stations across the globe,” Yang said. “We use a seismic wave that did not reach inner core as a reference wave in our calculations, which eliminates a lot of the ambiguity.”
This precise arrival time analysis, an extensive collection of the best quality data and careful statistical analysis performed by Yang, are what give this study its power, Song said. “This work confirms that the temporal changes come mostly, if not all, from the body of the inner core, and the idea that inner core surface changes are the sole source of the signal changes can now be ruled out,” he said.
The National Science Foundation and the Natural Science Foundation of China supported this study.
To reach Xiaodong Song, call 217-714-5125; email xsong@illinois.edu.
The paper “Origin of temporal changes of inner-core seismic waves” is available online and from the U. of I. News Bureau. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116267
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Millennial drivers ‘overwhelmingly naive’ about the practicalities of car ownership
Younger drivers are “overwhelmingly naive” when it comes to the practicalities of car ownership, with only 38% of under-35s knowing how often their car needs an MOT.
Vehicle leasing firm UK Carline asked more than 1,000 car owners about the items they keep in their vehicles and their knowledge of car maintenance and safety, revealing huge disparities between younger and older drivers.
Just one in five (20%) Millennials keep their breakdown service’s contact details in their glovebox, compared to 48% of older generations. Furthermore, only a quarter (25%) of young drivers keep an ice scraper handy, while 62% of older drivers are prepared for icy conditions on the roads.
Similarly, it appears that being selfie-ready is more important than getting from A to B, with over one in ten (14%) younger drivers admitting to keeping make up in their vehicle – which is more than those who keep a sat nav in their car.
Practical knowledge of car ownership was also shown to be lacking for under-35s. As well as not knowing that their car needs an MOT test every year, less than a third (31%) know how to check its coolant level (62% for over-35s), despite it being a key part of the UK driving test since 2003.
It seems that, when it comes to their cars, Millennials are prioritising comfort over safety. 48% know how to retune their car radio, but only 24% know how to change a wheel and only 38% know what all the warning signs on their dashboard mean.
Jonathan Nolan, general manager at UK Carline, said: “It’s important for car owners to keep the right sorts of equipment in their car in case of emergency, as well as knowing basic car maintenance and how to fix common problems.
“It was quite shocking to see how little knowledge people had of basic car maintenance, such as checking oil levels and tyre pressure. Having this knowledge is not only important for keeping cars in top condition and preventing costly bills at the garage, but is also vital for safety on the road.
“The research has highlighted that although younger drivers seem to be overwhelmingly naive, everyone could do with brushing up on their car knowledge and how to carry out vital checks to stay safe. These are usually quite simple to do, and could make all the difference when it comes to the health and safety of your vehicle.”
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USNS Comfort Will Depart for New York on Saturday with Trump, Modly in Attendance
Supplies and personnel are loaded aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., March 24, 2020. Comfort is preparing to deploy in support of the nation’s COVID-19 response efforts and will serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients currently admitted to shore-based hospitals. This allows shore-based hospitals to focus their efforts on COVID-19 cases. US Navy photo.
THE PENTAGON – Hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) will leave for New York City on Saturday, with President Donald Trump and Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly on hand to see off the ship from Naval Station Norfolk, Va. Read More →
Marine Corps Training Continues – With Some Modifications – to Keep High Readiness Despite Pandemic
U.S. Marines with 1st Marine Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, participate in urban operations training during exercise Native Fury 20 in the United Arab Emirates on March 22, 2020. US Marine Corps Photo
THE PENTAGON – The Marine Corps is dedicated to remaining a “fight tonight” force for the United States despite the coronavirus pandemic and will continue training to mission-essential tasks as determined by local commanders, the commandant said today. Read More →
UPDATED: USS Theodore Roosevelt Quarantines Sailors on Guam as Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads
Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Maria F. Potts-Szoke, assigned to Naval Medical Research Center, prepares a sample for investigational analysis in Naval Medical Research Center’s mobile laboratory aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) on March 19, 2020. US Navy Photo
This post has been updated to include statements from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday and from U.S. Pacific Fleet.
THE PENTAGON – A Navy aircraft carrier in the Pacific has pulled into Guam to deal with a growing outbreak of COVID-19, with the ship planning on testing the entire crew of about 5,000 and quarantining personnel as needed at Navy medical facilities on the island.
Large Scale Exercise 2020 Will Be Postponed Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Concerns
Ships from the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and the America Expeditionary Strike Group transit the South China Sea on March 15, 2020. US Navy Photo
THE PENTAGON – The Navy has postponed its Large Scale Exercise 2020, an event conceived of by the last chief of naval operations as the first real opportunity to execute Distributed Maritime Operations and re-orient the fleet towards advanced operations in support of the National Defense Strategy. Read More →
UPDATED: 8 Sailors on USS Theodore Roosevelt Have COVID-19; Port Calls Canceled as Navy Investigates Outbreak
A U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the Tomcatters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 31 flies above the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), Feb. 27, 2020. US Navy photo.
This post has been updated to reflect that additional COVID-19 cases have been discovered aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
THE PENTAGON – Three sailors aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) have tested positive for COVID-19 and are being flown off the aircraft carrier to a Defense Department hospital in the Pacific region. These are the first cases of sailors on a deployed ship testing positive for the virus. Read More →
UPDATED: SECDEF Esper: Hospital Ship Comfort to New York in Less Than 14 Days
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USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) returns to Naval Station Norfolk after a five month deployment on Nov. 15, 2019. US Navy Photo
This post has been updated to include information from a press briefing by Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday.
THE PENTAGON – Hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) will ship out to New York City in less than 14 days, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said on Tuesday. Read More →
Modly: Parallel Fleet Studies Could Reshape Future of Aircraft Carriers
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) transits the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 14, 2019. US Navy Photo
THE PENTAGON – The Navy has taken several cracks over the years at trying to define a new future aircraft carrier, one that might be less expensive or less vulnerable. Read More →
Navy Mulling Taking Sailors off Forward Deployed Ships as Part $40B Savings Drive
Sailors assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG-78) respond to a man-overboard drill during a steel beach picnic in the Mediterranean Sea on Aug. 25, 2019. US Navy Photo
Manning forward-deployed ships with fewer sailors, making less carrier strike groups available to deploy and reducing the size of command staffs are moves the Navy is considering as part of its drive to reduce $40 billion from its budget, according to a February memo outlining the cuts under consideration reviewed by USNI News. Read More →
Navy Kicks Off Study of Next-Generation Carriers, Naval Aviation
An MH-60S Sea Hawk assigned to the Eightballers of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 8 flies next to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) while they transit the Pacific Ocean, Feb. 15, 2020. US Navy photo.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly is commissioning a six-month study on the future of the aircraft carrier and carrier-based aviation, the Navy announced today. Read More →
VIDEO: Navy Commissions USS Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams
U.S. Marine Corps Chief Warrant Officer 4 Hershel “Woody” Williams (Ret.) reflects on what took place on Iwo Jima at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 17, 2018. US Marine Corps
The Navy commissioned Expeditionary Sea Base USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB-4) during a ceremony in Norfolk on Saturday. Read More →
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Share this Story: Chris Selley: Pierre Poilievre's kind of nerve is what the Conservative leadership needs
Chris Selley: Pierre Poilievre's kind of nerve is what the Conservative leadership needs
It isn't too much to ask a party leader to have enough confidence in his party, his movement and his ideas to arouse him to at least some annoyance when they’re unfairly deprecated
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Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre reacts to the government's fiscal update in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada December 16, 2019. Photo by Blair Gable /Reuters
Glee is spreading among Liberal partisans at the thought of Pierre Poilievre succeeding Andrew Scheer as Conservative leader. The theory is he is so pugnacious, so obnoxious, so poisonously, sneeringly partisan as to be literally unelectable.
It is true that the man longtime Conservative cabinet minister John Baird nicknamed “Skippy,” in tribute to his enthusiastic Question Period performances, does not suffer from an excess of gravitas — though Poilievre’s reported support for his leadership bid from Baird and Jenni Byrne, a former senior adviser to Stephen Harper, lend him some within party ranks. His candidacy hasn’t made any measurable dent thus far in public opinion polls. And the opposition war rooms would certainly have fun unpacking his baggage.
Chris Selley: Pierre Poilievre's kind of nerve is what the Conservative leadership needs Back to video
Never mind Poilievre questioning the value-for-money proposition of compensating residential school victims (for which he apologized), or his use of the term “tar baby” in the House of Commons (for which he did not, and nor should he have, because it was a perfectly apt and inoffensive analogy in the context he used it), or the dreaded Green Light from the Campaign Life Coalition. Having been Harper’s parliamentary secretary, Liberals will blame him for every supposed atrocity of the Harper era.
All that said, the notion that people widely viewed as pugnacious, obnoxious and partisan-to-a-fault can’t win in Canadian politics is belied by reality. A quick glance around the federation brings Jason Kenney, Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau immediately to mind.
That’s not to say they won because of those character traits: Kenney’s and Ford’s leadership opponents would likely have fared just as well. Trudeau hoodwinked many with his Sunny Ways fraud, but he might well have won as the classic born-to-rule Liberal he turned out to be. If his government continues venting credibility at the rate it established late in its first mandate, the next Conservative leader could well become prime minister no matter who he is.
Pushing back is a delicate proposition, of course, requiring a mixture of legitimate conviction, restraint and eloquence that’s vanishingly rare in Canadian politic
Of course, this race ought to be about more than who can win. Some ideas would be nice. An honest assessment of just what the Conservative Party of Canada represents in 2020 would be nice. But especially after Scheer’s milquetoast campaign, some pugnaciousness would be rather nice as well.
It was ludicrous that Scheer couldn’t answer a question as simple as “why do you support same-sex marriage now when you didn’t 15 years ago?” But it was equally ludicrous how often he was asked. If he wasn’t going to answer, he could at least have objected to being asked so many times — if only to spice up the press conferences!
On abortion, he was even more maddening. Unlike the idea that same-sex couples shouldn’t enjoy equal marriage rights, the idea that Canada ought to have moderate legal restrictions on abortion just like every other progressive Western nation is entirely mainstream everywhere except in the media. Scheer’s position should have been perfectly defensible: personally opposed, no intention to legislate, will allow private member’s business to proceed as it should. By the time a normal human being is asked 100 times to repeat that entirely reasonable position, he should evince at least some annoyance, exasperation or irritation.
Instead, no doubt as instructed, it was the same robotic talking points, over and over again.
Pushing back is a delicate proposition, of course, requiring a mixture of legitimate conviction, restraint and eloquence that’s vanishingly rare in Canadian politics. (“Scheer goes ballistic at press conference” is a headline just waiting to print in response to a heavy sigh.) Baird’s temperament might be the closest to the one I have in mind in this country, but that’s not happening. And while it would be pointless to wish for a Canadian Boris Johnson, because such a creature could never exist, for all his myriad faults and buffoonish moments he does have the disarming, optimistic and self-deprecating character I’m thinking of.
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Watching Scheer on the campaign trail answering the same dreary, peripheral questions over and over again, I would sometimes think of Johnson’s various entertaining run-ins with BBC’s Jeremy Paxman — my favourite of which dates from the 2009 Conservative party conference in Manchester. Paxman wanted to know about a particularly rowdy evening Johnson and David Cameron had reportedly shared as members of the Bullingdon Club, which offers the poshest of Oxford University students the finest wines available to humanity and consequence-free misbehaviour.
“Did he go around throwing flower pots through windows?” Paxman asked Johnson of Cameron.
Johnson scoffed, noting the allegations (such as they were) were 25 years old. “Is this really what (BBC) Newsnight has come to?”
“It is what Newsnight has come to,” Paxman replied.
“The blessed sponge of amnesia has wiped the slate of memory. The details of that night mercifully escape me,” Johnson replied. “I don’t think people … will give a monkey’s about this.”
Indeed they didn’t.
Again, that degree of swagger and eloquence is far too much to ask of Canadian politicians. But it shouldn’t be too much to ask a party leader to have enough confidence in his party, his members, his movement and his ideas to arouse him to at least some degree of annoyance when they’re unfairly deprecated. If Conservative members aren’t excited by the prospect of a Poilievre leadership, they shouldn’t be half as mortified as Liberals think they should be.
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The airline was rebranded to the current Jet2 brand in 2002 and commenced its first commercial service in February 2003 between Leeds Bradford and Amsterdam Schiphol which operated twice daily using a Boeing 737-300. Further through 2003, several other services were established to Sun and city destinations that were designed to attract tourists. In 2004, a second base was established at Manchester, operating from the older terminal one. Jet2 acquired a further fleet of 737 aircraft and purchased its first Boeing 757. The third-base opened at Belfast International, while the fourth base was established at Newcastle.
The company’s headquarters were relocated from Bournemouth to Leeds in 2006 and in the following year, the company established Jet2Holidays, offering ABTA and ATOL protected Jet2 holiday packages to British people. It also introduced several second hand Boeing 737-800 aircraft in January 2011, followed by the eighth base at Glasgow in March. In September 2016, Jet2 received its first brand new Boeing 737-800 of an order for 30 aircraft.
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World No. 1 Novak Djokovic Tested Positive for COVID-19
June 23, 2020 (New Delhi) Tennis legend and world number one Novak Djokovic on Tuesday has been tested positive for novel coronavirus, but so far has been asymptomatic.
Djokovic along with his family was tested on his arrival in Belgrade, Serbia. His wide also tested positive while children’s tests revealed to be negative.
‘’The moment we arrived in Belgrade we went to be tested. My result is positive, just as Jelena’s, while the results of our children are negative,” Djokovic said in a statement released on his website.
Djokovic further said, “I am hoping things will ease with time so we can all resume lives the way they were. I am extremely sorry for each individual case of infection. I hope that it will not complicate anyone’s health situation and that everyone will be fine. I will remain in self-isolation for the next 14 days, and repeat the test in five days.”
Meanwhile, he has reportedly not shown any symptoms but will now self-isolate for 14 days.
The development comes after the reigning Wimbledon and Australian Open Champion organized an exhibition matches for the event ‘’ the Adria Tour’’.
The tournament witnessed Housefull stands, players not following social distancing norm at the nets, posing group pictures for social media, and attending press conferences together.
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Video: Andrew Shaw ejected for late, blindside hit on Rangers’ Fast
By Cam TuckerJan 14, 2017, 8:27 PM EST
Andrew Shaw‘s return to the Montreal Canadiens lineup was brief.
Back on the ice in game action after a concussion sidelined him in December, Shaw played 5:06 in the first period against the New York Rangers on Saturday. He recorded 22 penalty minutes.
Shaw was tossed from the game after an interference major for a late, blindside hit on Jesper Fast. As seen in the clip above, the puck was nowhere near Fast when Shaw turned and delivered the late hit.
Now, will the league administer supplemental discipline for this latest incident?
Shaw has numerous run-ins with the league’s Department of Player Safety, including early this season when he was suspended during the pre-season. He also avoided suspension for a slew-foot on Buffalo’s Johan Larsson right after his first ban this season.
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The grade 5 class at Prince Philip School in St. Catharines would like to thank you for organizing such a great field trip. We enjoyed visiting your beautiful museum and can’t wait to come back with our own families in the future.
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Petrol sold to Nigeria from Europe worse than black market fuel
by Biodun Busari
in News, Business
…Petrol from illegal refineries in Niger Delta is better than imported petrol
A new laboratory analysis has revealed that petrol imported from Europe to Nigeria is of low quality compared to the one refined from illegal refineries in creeks and swamps of the Niger Delta.
Most of the oil companies in the country such as Chevron, Exxon, Shell and others extract and export up 2 million barrels per day of high quality, low sulphur “Bonny Light” crude from the Niger Delta. It is an infinitesimal percentage of this oil locally refined as a result of its four state-owned refineries are either closed or underperformed.
This leads to the foreign dealers exporting to Nigeria about 900,000 tonnes of low quality ‘”dirty” fuel annually. These European refineries and hundreds of small-scale artisanal refineries produce high quantities of illegal fuel from oil stolen from the channel of oil pipelines interwoven in the Niger Delta.
This indicates the fact reported by an international resource watchdog group, Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) that Nigeria has some of the hazardous air pollution in the world, with dense clouds of choking soot covering gridlocked cities, that lead to poor health conditions as well as damaged vehicles.
The intense of toxicity of the samples of oil imported to the country from Europe is 204 times in diesel and 43 times in petrol higher than European Union (EU) pollution limits, which come as s surprise to researchers that took the samples to government-licensed filling stations in Port Harcourt and Lagos.
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The Laboratory did not conceal the pollution of the black market fuel but showed that its quality exceeds that of the imported one.
“Our research suggests that Nigeria is having dirty fuel dumped on it that cannot be sold to other countries with higher and better implement standards. The situation is so bad that the average diesels sampled are of an even lower quality than that produced by artisanal refining camps in the creeks of the Niger Delta,” said Florence Kayemba, SDN programme manager.
According to the SDN, it is disturbing to discover that levels of particulate substance in Port Harcourt and Lagos are 20% worse than Delhi in India, which is the most populated city in the world, where emergency levels of photochemical smogs are rampant.
“The Niger Delta already suffers environmental, health and livelihood impacts from decades of oil spill pollution, gas flaring and artisanal refining. This research indicates that it not only experiences the repercussions of producing crude oil, but also in the consumption of dirty official and unofficial fuels,” said the report.
An anonymous industry which tracks legal and illegal oil cargo movements disclosed that an estimate of 80% of Nigeria’s petroleum come from the Netherlands and Belgium, as the two countries have some of the biggest refineries in Europe.
This corroborates the allegations made in a 2016 Public Eye investigation and a Dutch government report in 2018, that European refineries and commodity brokers were diluting petroleum with benzene and other carcinogenic chemicals to create fuels hundreds of times over European pollution limits for the weakly-controlled African economy. It thus leads to significant particulate pollution, damage to vehicles, and negative health issues for populations.
Ghana has drastic steps to control this hazardous issues by reducing sulphur from 3,000 to 50 parts per million, but Nigeria has debated that it needs to adapt. Meanwhile, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Ivory Coast and Benin in 2017 resolved to stop the imports of “Africa quality” oil products as part of a United Nations environment programme initiative.
“This is even more concerning at a time when Nigeria is facing an outbreak of coronavirus. High levels of pollution and pre-existing respiratory and other health conditions may increase the risk that COVID-19 poses to the health of the population,” said Matthew Halstead of Notics, which conducted the laboratory research.
The solution at hand suggests that the country should look away from these European “dirty” fuel because of the recent drop in oil prices resulting from COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, the growing rate of the illegal artisanal refineries producing 5-20% of fuel in Nigeria should be used, which is better in quality that the toxic, hazardous European fuel.
Tags: Black market fuelEuopeEuropean UnionImported fuelNigeria
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Intriguing Christmas Reads…
On 12/08/2008 11/05/2011 By NikeChillemiIn Author-Author, Crime Fiction, Fun Stuff, Holiday
What’s going on this Christmas season in murder and mayhem, you might ask. Well, I have the answer with these intriguing Christmas reads ’cause here’s what the discerning murder mystery loving elf will be reading this year…
In Double Threat at Christmas (Steeple Hill), Megan McClain had the motive, means and opportunity to commit a double murder. Unless she proves her innocence, she’ll spend a lot more than Christmas in jail. Detective Paul Wallace doesn’t appreciate her interference when she starts nosing around and uncovers two unlikely suspects, especially since as far as he’s concerned she might be guilty. That’s because she is hiding something. Something that scares her even more than her feelings for the handsome cop.
Christmas Crime in Colorado (Harlequin) is shocking when Brooke Johnson, seeks a quiet Christmas after escaping her traumatic past, but instead finds her look-alike roommate dead and “to die for” police detective Michael Shaw vowing to protect her from a cunning serial killer.
In Season of Glory (Steeple Hill) who poisoned British executive Dylan Owen during a Christmas getaway at the Scottish Captain in Glory, North Carolina is the question. It’s obvious to him the killer is also staying at the inn. To trap the culprit, he’ll have to recover first. Which means letting lovely nurse Sharon Pickard closer than he’d like. The more they search the decked halls for clues, the more they fall for each other. But if they’re to share a lifetime of love and holiday meals, they’d better unmask the murderer—fast.
The heroine in A Deadly Little Christmas is extremely likable in this delightful read. The novel starts off with a bang when a bomb goes off under the Christmas tree on the psychiatric ward f St. Anne’s Hospital, killing seven. However feisty, middle aged nurse Caroline Rhodes is determined to deck the halls and overcome the devastation and depression, only to find she can’t escape her past. Not only is she a suspect in the eyes of the FBI, she’s also on the killer’s hit list. Aided by an elderly professor at the university, Caroline goes on the offensive to prove her innocence. (can be ordered at Amazon)
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lynnrush
Thanks for the suggestions, Nike. These sound very interesting.
Nike Chillemi
Merry Christmas.I’m a sleuth for a good murder mystery at in any season
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“The gardens at Norse Hill Estate are simply amazing, and the diversity of the tropical plants is phenomenal. Some of the specimen plants such as the vanilla orchids, the cocoa trees and the jade plants are better than what I have seen at most of the world renowned gardens I have visited over the years. Norse Hill Estate is one of the most delightful places I have ever been and the wonderful staff made our stay unforgettable.” Ruthann Spears Krohn Conservatory, Cincinnati, Ohio If Reidar Johanssen, the Norwegian shipping magnate who is largely credited with the architecture and construction of Norse Hill, his wife, Iris, was the queen of the gardens. Through the years, she planned, plotted and managed the estate’s botanical gardens with a keen eye for the indigenous flora, along with the exotic flowering plants, ferns and trees she imported. Albert, Norse Hill’s lead gardener since 1965, built the network of exploration trails under Mrs. Johanssen’s direction. He retired in 2014. Guests encounter shimmering peacock ferns, colorful croton, hibiscus, allamanda, jade, red and yellow ixora, plumbago and poinciana, and hundreds of orchids. Fragrant allspice (called pimento in Jamaica), almond, breadfruit, cocoa, fig and nutmeg trees share the grounds with avocado, banana, orange, papaya, pineapple and tangerine trees. Trail walkers find serene ponds and tranquil meadows framed by groves of bamboo. And the abundance of tropical flora naturally attracts a variety of rare, colorful birds and butterflies – including Jamaica’s own “Doctor Bird” hummingbird. The gardeners are delighted to take guests on tours. Don’t be surprised if you learn the Latin, English and Jamaican names for plants and trees in this exceptional collection!
Jamaica’s Famous Doctor Bird
The Red-billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus) has been called the most spectacular hummingbird in the Caribbean, and is found only in Jamaica. Lesser known except to ornithologists and birding enthusiasts is the other member of the Doctor Bird’s genus, the Black-billed Streamertail. The two differ considerably in appearance and behavior. The Black-billed birds are found only in the extreme eastern end of Jamaica, and have mixed to form hybrids in the zone where the John Crow Mountains meet the Blue Mountain range. Visit Norse Hill with your binoculars ready and you might spot one of these rare hybrids.
Jamaica boasts 43 endemic species of orchids, including 26 species of the Lepanthes genus. The homerus swallowtail butterfly, whose wingspan can reach 6 inches, is found in only two regions in Jamaica, one being that junction of the Blue and John Crow Mountains at the Rio Grande River – close to Norse Hill. The homerus is threatened by illegal poaching, but conservationists are working to protect the butterflies’ remaining colonies.
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When Northwoods was seeking out a head brewer to turn the reins over to, Cathi immediately stood out as the ideal candidate. With five years of experience in the Boston and Seacoast brewery scene under her belt, Cathi brings a unique and valuable skill set to the table. A true leader, her organization and enthusiasm ensures that the Northwoods team is consistently delivering to the best of their ability. Her energy and attitude is contagious, and her creativity and imagination when it comes to potential recipes are endless. Once she has an idea, she sees it to fruition. Cathi is thrilled to work with others who share her passion for beer. Northwoods has enabled her to make more beer than ever, and she is grateful for the fingerprint she gets to leave on each pint.
Geoff Gyles- Brewer
Geoff has worked in the brewing industry for five years now. A true team player, he recognizes the importance of every step of beer production and does all he can to ensure the well-being of the beer at each stage of the game. His background knowledge of highly sanitary production brewing practices helps Northwoods to produce the most quality product possible. His love of beer and breweries helps Northwoods to stay current while also paying respect to its roots. He appreciates the opportunity to work with Cathi, Alex, and other brewery friends in collaborative efforts.
Alexander Kopf- Assistant Brewer
Alex comes to Northwoods with over 22 years experience in brewing. A valued member of the brew team, he is continuously working towards improving our efficiency and quality control. Over the years, Alex has ingrained himself within the brew community and has grown his knowledge through the connections he’s made and educates himself with whatever beer literature he can get his hands on. He appreciates the community feel that Northwoods provides, and enjoys getting to work with other local businesses, the owners, friends, and the other members of the brew team.
Northwoods Brewing Company’s beer is available on draught at select bars and restaurants in the Seacoast area. See the locations and get directions on our interactive map.
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Northwoods Brewing Company is proud to produce a wide variety of craft brews using locally sourced ingredients whenever possible. Stop by for a pint, flight, and your favorite pie. We also deliver beer and pizza within a 5-mile radius.
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Multi-ship contract
Vroon Offshore Services Aberdeen has been awarded a long-term contract with BP. Under the multi-million pound contract, Vroon Offshore will provide emergency response and rescue vessels (ERRVs) to support BP’s on-going and future operations in the North Sea and West of Shetland. The contract is for two years with the option to extend to five.
Five modern, purpose-built ERRVs from Vroon Offshore’s versatile fleet of forty vessels will provide the service to BP. They are the VOS Fabulous, VOS Vigilant, VOS Innovator, VOS Discovery and VOS Fairness.
Craig Harvie, managing director of Vroon Offshore Services Aberdeen, said: “The award of this major contract strengthens our relationship with BP with whom we have worked for many years. It underlines the confidence our customers place in our safe, valued-added and cost-effective approach.
“The significant investment in our fleet in recent years has cemented our position as a market leader in the UK Continental Shelf and the Irish Sea. With this modern and versatile fleet and highly qualified, experienced colleagues, we are committed to providing safe, reliable and cost-effective services which meet the needs of our customers who operate in some of the challenging North Sea environment.”
Vroon Offshore Services operates a diverse fleet of 40 ERRVs. A major part of the fleet has cargo-carrying capabilities, while some vessels have towage and tanker-assist features. With its own rescue-craft maintenance workshop in Montrose an office in Great Yarmouth, for local support, the company employs 50 people onshore and 1,000 seafarers.
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Tutta Bella Neapolitan Pizzeria
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High-priority pie.
Writer Kimberly Budziak
When the President of the United States comes calling, you answer. Even if that means arranging for a full-size, 1,800-kilogram Neapolitan pizza oven to be delivered to the tarmac of Washington’s Paine Field Airport so that you can personally cook for Barack Obama.
“He was touring the Boeing facilities and couldn’t make it to the restaurant,” recalls Joe Fugere, owner of Seattle’s Tutta Bella Neapolitan Pizzeria. “So he figured, ‘It’s a pizza place, can’t they deliver to Air Force One?’ But that’s 30 miles away and our pizza doesn’t travel well. It’s meant to be enjoyed hot and I really wanted to figure out a way to get it to him fresh.” So naturally, the determined entrepreneur had a traditional wood-fired oven transported to the airport where he and his team cooked authentic Neapolitan pies for a crowd of 60, complete with a special-edition version just for Mr. Obama. “It’s called the El Presidente,” says Fugere. “Olive oil and mozzarella. Locally made Isernio’s Italian sausage. Roasted peppers and Mama Lil’s peppers. And because he likes spicy food, Calabrian chilies.”
Since Tutta Bella’s inception in 2004, the company has been a part of a small group of restaurants to receive Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana (VPN) certification—in Canada there are currently only eight companies coast to coast with the designation. The pies are thin crust, fire-roasted, and use only the best and freshest ingredients. As the certification standards indicate, “the finished pizza, when eaten, should present the following characteristics: soft, well-cooked, fragrant, and enclosed in a high, soft edge of crust”.
Best do as President Obama did and finish with tiramisu as well. But enjoy it at Seattle’s buzzing Westlake location, next door to the Pan Pacific Seattle. Here, you’ll have the benefit of a beautiful patio and views of the Space Needle beyond.
Aug 28, 2014 Updated: May 16, 2015
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8 hurt as kids’ bus flips
By Ikimulisa Livingston
June 19, 2012 | 4:00am
Five special-needs students were lucky to walk away with just cuts and bruises yesterday morning in Queens after a taxi blew a red light and hit their school bus, causing it to flip over, authorities said.
The southbound cab met the westbound bus at 150th Street and 87th Street at 6:25 a.m. The kids, ages 4 to 11, were en route to Yeshiva HS and PS 80. They were treated at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. So was their driver, also for minor injuries.
A bus matron suffered serious injuries and was taken to Jamaica Hospital, as was the cabby, who was also injured but not charged, cops said.
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Review of Stephen J. Novak, The Rights of Youth: American Colleges and Student Revolt. 1789-1815
Cohen, R., Sep 1979, In: Higher Education. p. 230-232
Review of Eileen Eagan, Class. Culture and the Classroom: The Student Peace Movement of the 1930s
Cohen, R., Aug 1983, In: Higher Education. p. 480-483
Review: Towards a Crosslinguistic Assessment of Speech Production Dechert and Raupach (eds.)
Ebsworth, M., 1984, In: Language Learning.
Review: Sociolinguistics and Language Acquisition, Wolfson and Judd (eds.)
Ebsworth, M., 1986, In: Language in Society. 15, p. 99-101
Book review: Psychosocial research related to hospitalized children
McClowry, S., 1987, In: Journal of Pediatric Nursing. 2, p. 215-216
Review of Herbert London's Armageddon In The Classroom: An Examination of Nuclear Education
Leou, M., 1989, In: Teacher’s College Record. Summer, NY.
Review: Understanding Research in Second Language Learning: A Teacher's Guide to Statistics and Research Design. James D. Brown, Ed. Cambridge U. Press. 1988.
Ebsworth, M., 1990, In: Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 12
Review of Charles H. McCornlick, This Nest of Vipers: McCarthyism and Higher Education in the Mundel Affair. 1951-1952
Cohen, R., Sep 1991, In: Journal of Higher Education. p. 597-99
Review of Calvin Trillin, An Education in Georgia: Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes. and the Integration of the University of Georgia
Cohen, R., 1993, In: Georgia Historical Quarterly. p. 779-781
Review of E. Culpepper Clark, The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama
Cohen, R., Dec 1994, In: Higher Education. p. 501-504
Review of Kenneth Heineman, Campus Wars: The Peace Movement in America's State Universities in the Vietnam Era
Cohen, R., 1994, In: Northwest Ohio Quarterly. p. 166-172
Review: Second Language Practice: Classroom Strategies for Developing Communicative Competence. George Duquette, (ed.). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Ebsworth, M., Nov 1996, In: NABE News. 26, p. 15-16
Review: Word's Out. William Leap. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1996.
Ebsworth, M., Jul 1996, In: Out and About. 11 p.
Review of: Min, P. G. (Ed.), Asian Americans: Contemporary trends and issues (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995) and Walker - Moffat, W., The other side of the Asian American success story (San Francisco, CA: Jossey - Bass Publishers, 1995)
Lee, O., 1996, World Communication, 25, 2, p. 105 - 106.
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Review of Larry Colton, Goat Brothers
Cohen, R., 1996, In: History of Education Quarterly. p. 390-392
Review of Patricia Sullivan, Days of Hope: Race and Democracv in the New Deal Era
Cohen, R., Oct 7 1996, In: Nation. p. 27-30
Review of James Tracy, Direct Action: Radical Pacifism in the United States From the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven
Cohen, R., Dec 1997, In: Journal of American History. p. 1113-14
Review of Gary Nash, Charlottte Crabtree, and Ross Dunn, History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past
Cohen, R., Feb 1998, In: Social Education. p. 116-118
Review of John A. Andrews, The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics
Cohen, R., Jun 1998, In: Journal of American History. p. 320-321
Review of Nadine Cahodas: The Band Played Dixie: Race and the Liberal Conscience at Old Miss
Cohen, R., 1998, In: Georgia Historical Quarterly. p. 1062-64
Review of Teaching mathematics: Toward a sound alternative
Simon, M., 1998, In: Journal of Curriculum Studies. 30, p. 235-238
Reading reading research: A multivocal review [Review of the book Handbook of reading research III]
Stahl, K., 2000, Reading Research Quarterly, 36, p. 74 - 85.
Review of John A. Hardin, Fifty Years of Segregation: Black Higher Education in Kentucky 1904- 1954
Cohen, R., Aug 2000, In: Journal of Southern History. p. 668-689
Review: Bilingual Education and Social Change. Rebecca Freeman. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 1998
Ebsworth, M., 2001, In: Language and Education.
Review of the book Teaching History in the Digital Classroom, by D. A. Cantu & W. J. Warren
Turk, D., 2003, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
Review of the book The Story of America: Freedom and Crisis from Settlement to Superpower, by A. Weinstein & D. Rubel
Review of the manuscript Necessary intervention: Regulating sexism in religious schools
Turk, D., 2003, Journal of Equity & Excellence in Education.
Review of the manuscript The American Promise: A History of the United States, vols I and II, edited by J. L. Roark et al
Turk, D., 2003, [No source information available].
Review of the website Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, http://www.gilderlehrman.org
Review of the book Bridges of Memory: Chicago’s First Wave of Black Migration, by T. D. Black, Jr
Review of the website American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/lhtnhome.html
Review: Eisenstein Ebsworth, M. 2005. G. Melchers and P. Shaw. World Englishes: An introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Ebsworth, M., 2005, In: Language Policy. 4, 4, p. 425-429
Review of the book Dialogue with the Past: Engaging Students and Meeting Standards Through Oral History, by G. Whitman
Review of the book Fireweed: A Political Autobiography, by G. Lerner
Turk, D., Oct 2005, History of Education Quarterly.
Review of the manuscript The Company He Keeps: White College Fraternities, Masculinity, and Power, 1825-1975, by N. Syrett
Review of the website Veterans History Project, http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/
Review of the book Going Coed: Women’s Experiences in Formerly Men’s Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000, ed. by L. Miller-Bernal & S. L. Poulson
Turk, D., 2006, History of Education Quarterly.
Review of the book Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920, by M. R. Klapper
Turk, D., 2006, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.
Review of the book Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2nd ed), by V. Yow
Turk, D., Feb 2006, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
Review of the book Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, by C. Berkin
Review of the website The Whole World was Watching: An Oral History of 1968, http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/index.html
Review of Gael Graham, Young Activists: American High School Students in the Age of Protest
Cohen, R., Oct 2007, In: Peace and Change. p. 600-604
Review of Robbie Lieberman, Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest
Cohen, R., Oct 2007, In: Journal of American History. p. 302-303
Review of the book College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Coeds, Then and Now, by J. Glazer-Raymo
Review of the book Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945, by M. R. Sanua
Turk, D., 2007, AJS Review.
Review of the book Politeness and face in Caribbean Creoles, by S. Mühleisen& B.Migge (Eds.).
Nero, S., 2007, In: World Englishes. 26, 3, p. 390-392
Book review: Democratic constitutional design and public policy
Lejano, R., 2008, In: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. 10, 1, p. 94-95
Review of book Why Are So Many Minority Students in Special Education?Understanding race and disability in schools
Trainor, A., 2008, In: Remedial and Special Education. 29, p. 58-59
Review of the book Asian Englishes: Beyond the canon, by B. Kachru
Nero, S., 2009, In: Journal of Asian Pacific Communication. 19, 1, p. 163-172
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Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance
51 Pages Posted: 19 Jan 2005 Last revised: 22 Jul 2010
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Malcolm P. Baker
Harvard Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Joshua D. Coval
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Jeremy C. Stein
Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 266-298, May 2007
Posted: 25 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2009
Date Written: December 2004
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to greenfield investment financed with an SEO. With a merger, acquirer stock is placed in the hands of investors, who, because of inertia, do not resell it all on the open market. If there is downward-sloping demand for acquirer shares, this leads to less price pressure than an SEO, and cheaper equity financing as a result. We develop a simple model to illustrate this idea, and present supporting empirical evidence. Both individual and institutional investors tend to hang on to shares granted them in mergers, with this tendency being much stronger for individuals. Consistent with the model and with this cross-sectional pattern in inertia, acquirers targeting firms with high institutional ownership experience more negative announcement effects and greater announcement volume. Moreover, the results are strongest when the overlap in target and acquirer institutional ownership is low and when the demand curve for the acquirer's shares appears to be steep.
Baker, Malcolm P. and Coval, Joshua D. and Stein, Jeremy C., Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance (December 2004). NBER Working Paper No. w10998, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=637495
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Voting delegates in the Legislative Council must be an active member of the Chapter which they will be voting for, designated by the Chapter, and carrying credentials signed by the President of the Chapter indicating that said person is authorized to be a voting delegate for that Chapter.
Floor delegates are observers from the Brotherhood of each Chapter, who may participate in Convention business as specified in Section 4 of this policy.
A proxy is a Brother acting on behalf of a Chapter, which is unable to have full representation at a National Convention.
It shall be required that in the event of the absence of a voting delegate, the absentee voting delegate inform the National Secretary of their absence two (2) weeks in advance of the meeting.
The absentee voting delegate shall follow the proxy procedure as stated in the National Constitution.
Only the two (2) voting delegates from each Chapter may vote on matters of National concern.
National concern shall be defined as questions of National Policy, election of National Officers, amendments to the National Constitution, the place of regular Conventions, the expenditure of National Funds, or any other matter which may in any other way affect the functioning of any Chapter or the National Organization.
On matters not of National concern, if the presiding officer so designates, all Brothers may vote.
At National Conventions, voting cards (paddles) shall be supplied to the voting delegates for voting on motions, etc.
No National Officer, permanent member of the Board of Trustees or the presiding officer may be a voting delegate.
The presiding officer of the Legislative Council shall be determined as follows:
The National President shall preside if present.
If the National President is absent, the National Vice President of Chapter Maintenance shall preside.
If both the National President and National Vice President of Chapter Maintenance are absent, the National Vice President of Expansion shall preside.
If the National President and both National Vice Presidents are absent, the National Secretary shall preside until the Legislative Council nominates and elects a floor delegate to preside.
The presiding officer of the Legislative Council may vote only to break a tie.
The National Secretary shall take minute at all meetings of the Legislative Council.
The Legislative Council, acting as the voting delegate to the National Convention or as its own entity between conventions, cannot transact business unless the National Secretary or alternate is present, except to reschedule the meeting by majority vote.
The National Secretary must appoint an alternate in the event of impending absence from a meeting. If the National Secretary fails to appoint an alternate, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees shall either serve as the alternate or appoint an alternate. The above mentioned alternate must be a Brother.
The alternate will only serve to record the minutes, produce records which be requested, and if the situation requires, to act under Section 2.1.4 of this policy as temporary presiding officer.
The National Secretary or alternate must have the National Records in possession at the meeting.
A quorum, as defined in the National Constitution, must exist in which any official business is conducted or legislation enacted.
At each Legislative Council meeting, the following business shall be conducted:
Roll call of voting delegates and determination of a quorum.
Reading, correction, and approval of the minutes of the previous meeting.
Reports of all National Officers.
Reports of all National Committees.
Reports of all Chapters
Unfinished or old business.
New business.
Announcements.
Close meeting.
Inauguration Banquet.
Adjournment by the presiding officer.
The order of business shall be determined by the Legislative Council and the presiding officer. Barring any preference, the order of business specified in Section 4.2.1 shall be followed.
Any Brother present may place a motion before the body when said Brother is recognized by the presiding officer.
Any Brother who is recognized by the presiding officer may second a motion.
All motions shall be presented in writing and shall contain the name of the petitioning Brother.
National Convention Location
Chapters shall be offered to host Convention in the order of the Greek Alphabet rotation, with the Alumni Chapter being offered to host after the last active Chapter. The Chapter shall have thirty (30) days to respond to the National Secretary, in writing.
Confirmation of the host Chapter of the National Convention shall be decided by a simple majority vote of the Legislative Council at the previous Convention, or by Alternative Technology Ballot.
The host Chapter shall decide whether pledges may attend Convention meetings, and the decision must be announced at least sixty (60) days prior to Convention. Meeting chairpersons shall have final authority over whether pledges may attend that specific meeting.
The host Chapter shall submit a tentative date and location in writing to the National Secretary no later than September 30 of the calendar year prior, and shall submit the final date and location in writing to the National Secretary no later than December 15 of the calendar year prior.
Officer Elections may only take place at a National Convention or a properly called emergency Convention, with a quorum of the National Convention present.
For officer elections, discussion shall be limited to a speech of no longer than five (5) minute from each candidate, with no opposing candidates present, followed by a question and answer session. Then there will be three (3) minutes of pro statements, six (6) minutes of con statements, and three (3) final minutes of pro statements, with no candidates present during these pro-con statements. The duration of the question and answer session will be a uniform ten (10) minutes for each candidate of every office.
The question and answer session and pro-con statements will be governed by the definitions and procedures outlined in Appendix A.
Candidates for National Offices must furnish resumes to all Chapters, National Officers and permanent members of the Board of Trustees at least fifteen (15) days prior to National Convention.
The host Chapter shall provide printed copies of resumes submitted by the above deadline to each Brother attending elections.
Candidates who submit materials during the submission period before convention will be eligible to be nominated for an office.
A candidate must receive a majority of total possible votes to win an election.
If there are three (3) or more candidates for a position and no candidates receives a majority of total votes, then the candidate who received the fewest votes will be dropped from the ballot and the vote will be re-run. This process will continue until there are only two (2) candidates remaining on the ballot.
The Legislative Council shall deviate from Robert’s Rules by concealing the vote tally for Officer Elections; only the winner’s name will be announced.
The host Chapter shall provide a printed copy of the “Candidates’ Bill of Rights”, located in Appendix B, to each Brother attending elections.
The presiding officer shall appoint a Parliamentarian at each meeting.
The basis of parliamentary law shall be Robert’s Rule of Order.
Robert’s Rule of Order may be suspended by a vote of two-thirds (⅔) of the Legislative Council. Upon suspension of Robert’s Rules of Order, final parliamentary authority shall lie with the Legislative Council, under the guidance of the presiding officer.
The National Constitution may not be suspended.
This policy shall be revised as necessary by the National Convention, and approved by a two-thirds (⅔) vote of the Legislative Council.
NON-GERMANE STATEMENTS/QUESTIONS: Any statement or question that is ruled duplicate, rambling, “funny but unhelpful”, and/or extraneous.
INAPPROPRIATE STATEMENTS/QUESTIONS: Any statement or question that is ruled inflammatory, malicious, inaccurate, and/or containing excessive rebuttals.
CHAIR: Presiding Officer of the Legislative Council or Convention.
Question And Answer Sessions. The Chair shall be assertive in keeping order on the floor during question and answer sessions in the hope that a single strong rebuke of an out-of-order question, if necessary, will discourage subsequent similar questions. As such the Chair shall:
Remind the Brotherhood to address and treat all candidates with respect.
Warn the Brotherhood that although legitimate and carefully-phrased “tough” (negative) questions will be allowed, inappropriate questions will be swiftly ruled out of order.
Advise candidates that they are free not to answer any question that they are uncomfortable answering.
Repeat the above reminders before each candidate’s Q&A session.
Quickly rule inappropriate and non-germane questions out of order, interrupting if necessary.
At their discretion, allow a speaker ruled out of order either to rephrase their question or to rescind the question.
Exercise power of censure to refuse recognition to any Brother upon a second inappropriate question or excessive non-germane questions; and if necessary, exercise the right to eject a Brother from election proceedings for flagrant violations of decorum and/or order.
Have the power to make factual corrections without counting against time limits, reducing the need for floor speakers to include corrections as part of their questions or answers.
Pro-Con Statements. The Chair shall be assertive in keeping order on the floor during pro-con statements in the hope that a single strong rebuke of an out-of-order statement, if necessary, will discourage subsequent similar statements. As such the Chair shall:
Quickly rule inappropriate and non-germane statements out of order, interrupting if necessary.
Exercise power of censure to refuse recognition to any Brother upon a second inappropriate statement or excessive non-germane statements; and if necessary, exercise the right to eject a Brother from election proceedings for flagrant violations of decorum and/or order.
Have the power to make factual corrections without counting against time limits, reducing the need for floor speakers to include corrections as part of their statements.
Right to NOT answer a question.
Right to be asked appropriate questions (e.g., relevant to the position, relating to past fraternity work).
Right to be treated with respect.1)
Right to run for any office they see fit.
Right to solicit information from past officers and other Brothers.
Right to have a pro-con session.
Right to a vote.2)
Right to know a candidate's background in the fraternity and qualifications for office.
Right to know about a candidate's future plans for the time the Brother will be in office.
Right to ask questions of the candidate prior to the election.
Revised March 17th, 2018
Rob Smith, National Secretary
Refers to the fact that candidates will not be slandered or made fun of whether they are in the room or not.
Refers to the fact that we should vote and not just accept by acclamation.
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Political Observer on Populism
The Future is Now – Freedom and Democracy
Imagine. It is a rainy Tuesday evening. You realize that you wanted to tidy up the attic since a long time. Imagine. You find an old box. You open it, and a huge quantity of paper bobs up. And then you remember: your grandmother always told you that once, in the old times, the newspapers were printed. From your perspective, from a rainy Tuesday evening in the 22nd century, it is pure madness. You are curious, though. You just grab the first on top of the heap.
You open it. A stale smell of dust and ink. Page five. An article about the European Parliament. Yes, you think, you heard of that. Probably from your grandma. You start reading.
Yesterday in London Nigel Farage announced that the group ‘Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy’ will be re-established. In a crowded conference room, he smiled – for the benefit of the photographers – next to Robert Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, then he gave the speech. The role of the Polish MP (Congress of the New Right) is pivotal in this moment, because after the departure of Iveta Grigule from the Latvian Farmers Union, now there is again at least one MP from seven different countries. Nigel Farage stated, as a triumphant opening of the press conference: To paraphrase Mark Twain, ‘Rumours of our death have been greatly exaggerated’.
But who is Mr Iwaszkiewicz, and who are his colleagues?
The other countries represented are Italy, with seventeen MPs from the 5 Star Movement of the former comedian Beppe Grilllo. Sweden, bringing two MPs of Sverigedemokraterna, as well as Lithuania with two representatives of Partija Tvarka ir teisingumas (Order and Justice Party). Rounding out the group, we find Petr Mach from Czech Republic, and Joëlle Bergeron from France.
The name of this Parliamentary group is universal and redundant at the same time. It is not clear who could oppose freedom, but the point is: which values, characteristics, and extension do we apply to the term ‘freedom’?
An old Chinese philosopher once told me: ‘You see, when you want to catch a hare, if you go hunting with dogs or falconry, on foot or horseback, it will always remain a hare. Freedom, however, never remains the same. It changes according to the type of hunt. And if you train dogs to capture it for you, it is likely that they bring back a dog’s freedom’.
Even more complicated is to understand how distorted can be the concept of direct democracy. Especially when this is vindicated by politicians who participate in elections and claim to represent the people. This is called representative democracy, I would suggest. The Romans said: excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta. If you have nothing to excuse yourself, do not apologize. You would otherwise implicitly admit guilt.
Now you stop reading, because all this Latin and reasoning is fatiguing you. Outside it keeps raining. You browse the wavy paper between thumb and forefinger. Then you get back to the article.
It is probably worth to remember that an MP of the Five Star Movement claimed that, according to a conspiracy theory documentary (Zeitgeist), ‘in America they’ve already started to implant microchips inside human bodies. To record, to control the population. (…) With the internet many minds are awakening and truth is emerging’. The truth. Another concept which is too often dependent on perspectives.
A spokesperson of the party (Roberta Lombardi) wrote on her blog that Fascism was not that bad. ‘We have to acknowledge that it started in a promising way’. Truth, democracy, freedom. How much can words change of meaning? And are these values truly universal, or rather the exclusive benefit of a lucky minority?
UKIP would certainly exclude Muslim people, for example. As well as Eastern Europeans. And black people. And gay people. And even if you’re a straight British, it is better if you march through the city shouting Hitler-youth songs, as Farage himself did. And, as everybody knows, signing a law for same-sex unions would cause to your country natural disasters such as storms, disease, pestilence and war. Right, Mr Silvester?
Xenophobia is a familiar ground also for the Swedish Democrats. Even if they re-styled the image of the party trying to distance themselves from their neo-nazi past, replacing it with a graceful blue flower, this doesn’t work all the time. Unless considering a verbal abuse against a Swedish-Kurdish comedian as a clear sign of freedom and democracy.
And finally, who is Mr Iwaszkiewicz? Well, the leader of his party claimed that the ‘average woman is not interested in politics, (…) only those who know something about politics should vote’. Since he is also convinced that women are less intelligent than men, his logic is pretty strong. He even said that there is no written proof Adolf Hitler was aware of the Holocaust.
One can only conclude that the range of meanings that the words ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ can assume is incredible broad. So broad, that the meaning itself risks to disappear.
You put away the newspaper, you look outside the window. It doesn’t rain anymore. You think that the good, old times, were not that good in the end.
“What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been hitherto in the political order? Nothing. What does it desire to be? Something.“
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
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Rumors That Had Impacts
Reasons Why The Local News is Negative
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Rumors are basically hearsay, tell tales that are passed down from one person to the other.
Rocky Witherspoon
The local news is negative because bad news captures a person’s attention more than good news.
Galen Outlaw
Do you know the impact of different pieces of a newscast on people’s lives? In every society, the newscast is a key element that affects the lives of individuals.
Rumors are fake news or false stories about men, women or things.
Murphy Briscoe
Technology has changed a lump sum of things including how news is generated.
Rumors are easy to spread even when they are false, although some turn out to be true.
Newspapers and TV play an essential role in people’s daily lives as it enhances awareness on many issues such as politics, business, trends, etc.
Life has become fast-paced to a point where only a few are aware of what is going on in their localities.
Jasper Bullock
For local television, one of their aims is to get recent news for people to watch or read, but it’s not always easy to get the right news source as some might be fake news.
The news industry is changing daily because of the presence of different social media platforms that allows people to share information easily.
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C Squared Newsroom
Events industry veteran Rohan Marwaha joins C Squared
“I am delighted to be joining C Squared and working with the team to build on their impressive achievements thus far.”
Publishing company C Squared appoints former Informa global conference and exhibition specialist
London, UK and Global ---- International events and publishing company C Squared http://www.csquared.cc has appointed Rohan Marwaha to work across the company’s portfolio.
Working alongside current managing directors Jeremy King and Danielle Redwood and financial controller Leigh MacNeill, the team will form a new executive committee created to drive and build the company’s portfolio of products in the media sector.
Marwaha is an experienced conference and exhibition executive. With over 14 years with Informa/IIR he developed a new business unit, which included most notably the global Cityscape portfolio of events and products. As well as working in both the UK and Dubai, he has launched events and publishing products all over the world.
As part of this management restructure, chairman and founder of C Squared, Charlie Crowe will take on the newly formed role of non-executive chairman and will focus his entrepreneurial energy on other ventures, while continuing to support the team as they build the business.
Rohan Marwaha, group managing director comments, “I am delighted to be joining C Squared and working with the team to build on their impressive achievements thus far.”
“We have great confidence that with the support of all the stakeholders the new management team will take the business to new levels. It is an exciting time for the company and its event and publishing portfolio with the Festival of Media Latam http://www.festivalofmedia.com/latam our next event from 5-7 October,” adds Charlie Crowe.
Marwaha commences at C Squared from 06 June 2016.
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About C Squared
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DeKanting Philosophy:
Writing this essay made me sad. I had come across a group of self-assured philosophers, singing the praises of Kant. That was a moment of solitude. Sheep praising the wolf. When I brought up objections, pointing at the enormous connection between Kant and Nazism, I was haughtily told “We, in philosophy, do not judge thinkers on one sentence”.
This depicts how followers of Kant behaved in Nazi occupied Europe:
Dog Philosophy: Obey, Always To Obey The Mighty. Confucius, To Kant
One Sentence, One Idea Can Move The World, And Not For The Best:
In the Twelfth Century, Saint Bernard (de Clairvaux; Abelard’s, and humanity’s, enemy) was asked how he, the saintliest and most influential Christian (he told Pope Urban II what to do), could defend homicide.
Saint Bernard haughtily replied: ”It is not homicide, but malecide, the killing of evil.” Bernard, one of the known universe’ most evil men, then launched the Second Crusade, the Cistercian order, the Knights Templars, the Inquisition, and the killing of millions, for centuries to come.
People who are viewed as philosophers, by a large following, have much more influence than is generally attributed to them.
Some are anti-philosophers, those who give guidance, honor and cover to the satanic minds who grab power and lead civilization to the abyss, driven only by the greedy instinct of the self-destructive predator.
Locke helped slavery. Rousseau, Kant, Herder etched in the stone of (pseudo) philosophy the erroneous systems of moods and thoughts which brought Nazism. Yet, they still have lots of cognitively impaired followers. Truly these guys are not philosophers, but plutocratic puppets. That makes them all the more dangerous.
How does one subjugate people? By making them feel wrong. Then it is easy to make them think wrong. In the end they believe it is smart to engage in whatever will and up oppressing, or even, could destroy them.
In the philosophy of the predator, destruction, whether means, or end, is an intrinsic good.
The archetype modern example here is Prussia, and the fascist, racist, anti-Judaic Nazi Germany it ended up creating… bringing the annihilation of Prussia.
The Germans, under the influence of a triumphing Prussia in the Eighteen, and Nineteenth Centuries Century, were led to believe it was smart to dislike, despise, hate, oppress, subjugate, exploit, dehumanize, Poles, Slavs and Jews. Superficially, it worked. Until September 10, 1914, when the all devouring Frankenstein of Prussian racial fascism had to beat a hasty retreat on the battlefield.
(Indeed, in parallel, and to be able to enforce all this oppression, subjugation, contempt, dehumanization, maximal force, that is, military force, had to be used. Thus, in Prussia and its admirers, militarism was inseparable with racism. Prussia had an army comparable in size to France, in the Seventeenth Century, with a tenth of the population. This militarization paid off handsomely: after coming close to total annihilation, under the gay aggressor Frederick II, Prussia grabbed immensely rich Silesia, its mines and industry, from Austria.)
Instead Of Reading Hitler, Read Kant, It Does Just As Well:
Thus a mood of exploitative racism and hungry military aggression was created by Prussia’s masters. All they needed were parrots to sing their praises. And they were many, the most prominent of these birds repeating songs of evil was Kant. Now for some comic relief. It turns out that Kant is still much admired, 70 years after his followers exterminated tens of millions of innocent civilians (they wanted to do more, but they were rudely interrupted by carpet bombing).
How was the mood created? In no small part by making people admire a pseudo-philosopher, Kant. Kant was racist, militarist, mechanical. A perfect philosopher for a racist militaristic regime.
“The reason a people has a duty to put up with even what is held to be an unbearable abuse of supreme authority is that its resistance to the highest legislator can never be regarded as other than contrary to law, and indeed as abolishing the entire legal constitution.” –Kant
In other words: dictators (=”highest legislators”) rule, disobeying them is immoral. That could only please Kant’s paymaster, the hereditary dictator of Prussia. Remark: This, that resisting the dictator is immoral, nothing new: I call that the Qur’an Fascist Principle (Sura IV, Verse 59).
“O Ye Who Believe! Obey Allah, and obey the messenger and OBEY THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE IN POWER.”
This is the essence of Hitler’s Fuhrer Prinzip. Kant was just a guy who heard about the Qur’an. This makes Kant vastly inferior to Voltaire. Voltaire read the Qur’an, and dragged the emperor of Mecca, Muhammad his name, it in the mud, to the point that the Politically Correct censored him, in the Twenty-First Century (!) Voltaire was right, so he gets censored, Kant is a Nazi, so he gets lauded. In a world where human values are inverted, a plutocratic world, in other words, this all makes sense.
Not only Kant was a fanatical Jihadist of the worst type, but Kant was a racist, and could be said to have invented the (false) theory of scientific racism. Sometimes the idiocy gets even funny: Kant thinks Africans smell bad. But it’s all scientific. Says the pseudo-philosopher:
“We know now, for example, that human blood turns black (as is to be seen in blood coagulum) …. Now the strong body odor of the Negroes, not be avoided by any degree of cleanliness, gives reason to suppose that their skin absorbs a very large amount of phlogiston from the blood, and that nature must so have designed this skin that in them the blood can dephlogisticate …”
Negroes are of course born idiots, and in this Kant follows another of the Prussiano-Anglo-Saxon pantheon of evil philosophy, Hume:
“The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling. Mr. Hume challenges anyone to cite a single example in which a Negro has shown talents... So fundamental is the difference between these two races of man, and it appears to be as great in regard to mental capacities as in color.” -Kant
Kant is the first author of no racial mixing (later implemented by the Nazis). A new concept in Europe:
“The mingling of stocks (due to great conquests), little by little erodes the character and it is not good for the human race in spite of any so-called philanthropy.”
For comparison, Rome had African (Libya), and Arab emperors (or “Augusta”). Rome happily mixed all races.
That racist principle was used by Kant with lots of direct impact. The Spanish Crown was encouraging a policy of interbreeding and had ordered the Mexican governor to comply. The governor had, however, opposed the order. Kant encouraged him (in contradiction to making obedience the highest principle; Kant acted as if racism was an even higher principle than obedience). In a letter to the governor of Mexico, Kant wrote:
“[Of the idea that] nature would develop new and better races of produce them through the commingling of two races there is little ground for hope in as much as nature has long since exhausted the forms appropriate to soil and climate, whilst cross-breeding (for example of the American with the European or of these with the Negro) has debased the good without raising proportionately the level of the worse — hence the governor of Mexico wisely rejected the order of the Spanish Court to encourage interbreeding.”
Heil Kant!
Kant’s account of race also includes the superiority of the white race and that the others will become extinct. For details, see Wulf D. Hund’s “The Racisms of Immanuel Kant,” a book which begins and ends with this quote from Kant:
“All races will become exterminated … except for the whites.”
Kant’s insults against Jews are too numerous to count. The Jews are by nature “sharp dealers” who are “bound together by superstition.” Their “immoral and vile” behavior in commerce shows that they “do not aspire to civic virtue,” for “the spirit of usury holds sway amongst them.” They are “a nation of swindlers” who benefit only “from deceiving their host’s culture.” Nicht so klar? Here it is, for the brin impaired. Kant: “THE EUTHANASIA OF JUDAISM IS THE PURE MORAL RELIGION.”
Johann Herder (1744-1803) quoted Kant’s lectures on practical philosophy: “Every coward is a liar; Jews, for example, not only in business, but also in common life.”… Nazis made a “hideous misinterpretation of Kant”? Or is it that some people are just hideous stupid?
So why is Kant still popular? Adolf Eichmann, on trial in Jerusalem, found the explanation:
“Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one’s need to think.”
In other words, Kant is the perfect philosopher for weak-willed idiots. All the more as he invented a weird, pseudoscientific jargon which appeals to those who find too difficult to learn true science, the uneducated and unintelligent. Hence said jargon became wildly popular with philosophically inclined half-wits.
Tolerating Kant, is tolerating Nazism. Adulating Kant, is adulating the essence of Nazism. Time to get acquainted with those facts.
In other news, one of the world’s most powerful men died when his jet got flipped by a snow plough. In Moscow. He had just been plotting with one of the world’s dictators. Interesting how plutocrats live on the edge. (More on this later.)
Indeed, plutocrats do not have much too fear, besides snow storms, as long as those who view themselves as “philosophers” drink the cool Kant aid.
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Very enlightening. I always thought Kant was a kind of Turing Test, a machine trying to sound human and completely failing. Now you expose the machine’s murderous programming and its consequences.
I was brought up in fond awe of classical philosophy. Socrates was extolled as the highest ethical voice in centuries when he told his friends that he would not try and escape his (unfair) sentence, because the harm he would do to laws would be much worse than the harm he would be spared. If he said that (we have to believe Plato) he was indeed commendably ethical at his own expense (although his sentence was justified on several counts; I take him to be a sophist, a capital offense). So we can excuse him on grounds of misplaced honesty.
With your attacks on the Pluto Troïka and Kant, you’ve been helping me crystallize my deeply felt mistrust in those luminaries of my youth. Classical studies, touted as the means to build free souls, actually were the reverse. Another example is the veneration for Cicero, a two-bit mouthpiece (aka lawyer) for his plutocratic employers, and the accompanying hatred for populist activists of his time, including Catilina or Caesar himself.
Dear Dominique: Thanks. I doubt professional philosophers will find this enlightenment so endearing. It has long been clear (to me) that the most respected philosophers in the Anglo-Saxon universe, are all trash cans.
Agreed to all. I had a similar trip myself. I went from veneration of the SPA troika to increasing suspicion. Now I view them part of the plutocratic mindset, like the Qur’an which they preceded by a millennium, and enduringly popular precisely because of that.
When one knows the broader ethical and historical context around Socrates, he does not look good at all.
BTW, Kant made numerous statements supporting the Prussian war machine, dictatorship, and its top plutocrat, Frederick II (the gay character Hitler loved to see his own picture appear next to, a curious juxtaposition, considering the Reich’s need for lots of babies…)
Yes, Cicero by dealing with the Conspiracy of Catalina the way he did, an act of pure free will, not just followed Aristotle closely, but buried the Republic. That, too, nobody ever says, instead focusing on Caesar… When Caesar, clearly was stuck between a rock and a hard place, and, roughly, at least in its later years, tried his best.
Andrew Tripp Says:
Andrew Tripp. Patrice, you say: “The Nazis systematically used Kant to defend themselves, claiming they had followed his philosophy exactly. That ought to have buried Kant.”
Andrew Tripp: Patrice, way to ignore the fact that your example ignores that they hideously misread Kant. There are many selfish and narcissistic utilitarians, so does that bury utilitarianism?
What’s wrong with the statement that the Nazis adapted a misinterpretation of Kant for their own purposes, as they did with Nietzsche? Any surface level knowledge of Kant and of the Eichmann trial reveals that.
Patrice see that’s why in philosophy we don’t rely on single sentences to sum up entire thinkers. There’s a whole ocean of context to that quote, and Kant’s views in general, that are necessary for understanding him. Saying Kant’s philosophy is compatible with Nazism based on single quotes is just plain bad faith arguing.
Andrew: You claim I do “bad faith” arguing. Kant, indeed, argued that he was doing “good faith” arguing. So you are doing the parrot. (You insulted me first! ;-)!)
In truth, Kant was a racist, militaristic, vicious undertaker of the Prussian dictatorship. All his important ideas are about that. And you are a follower, so logically, you insult me. Anybody modern will know who is the vicious racist pig. Yet, of course, as the government of the USA, to this day, pays considerable retirements to authentic Nazi war criminals who killed thousands in extermination camps, anything goes…
Andrew, Hideously misinterpreted jargon? Because Kant is all about pseudoscientific JARGON, indeed. Gee, how surprising! Kant’s jargon was made to be abused, or more exactly, to abuse people with.
Nazis did not use Goethe, Schopenhauer, or Nietzsche as a defense, when on trial (although Hitler tried to use Nietzsche, he grossly failed). When on trial, Nazis used Kant. Why? Kant was a fascist compatible philosopher (like Herder). Kant defines virtue as “the moral strength of a human being’s will in fulfilling his duty” Suitably murky.
““the moral strength of a human being’s will in fulfilling his duty” Suitably murky.”
I think it’s not that murky. I once was in a meeting with Bundeswehr officers. They were the epitome of civism, human rights and democracy. After the meeting, the French delegation – which included Army officers and students – had a chat over coffee. One officer told me “How they have changed! Now, if ordered to shoot you, they’ll cry before, during and after. But they’ll do it.”
Moral strength, very Kantian indeed.
Yes, scary, indeed. That’s the difference between a people brought up in a democratic spirit, and those brought in a system where the big decisions are taken by someone else.
The French learned, long ago, to take the big moral decisions by themselves, much more than the Germans. Nazism, though, contributed to the change. When the Battle of Paris happened, it’s not just Von Choltiz, the “Butcher of Sevastopol” who disobeyed. So did his superior, a SS general. Choltiz told the higher SS that he was ready with 3 tons of high explosives, to destroy Notre Dame, according to his orders. The SS general said: “I did not give these orders, the Fuerer did!” Choltiz replied that history will remember him, his SS superior, as the destroyer of Paris. The higher SS sighted, and backed off…
I think deNazification of Germany is still on-going. Things had stalled in the army, because the Americans were happy with the Nazis and the nicely rebounding Von Manstein was in charge (to all too great an extent). VM blocked the influence of the (surviving) anti-Hitlerian officers. (5,000 had been executed, most of them higher officers, from the so called Von Stauffenberg plot…)
Contrarily to what I hear from many who may not be fluent in Deutsch, I do not think that Germany is anything but super respectful of France at this point. Merkel has her own problems right now, which pretty much hog-tie her (national fronts in both Deutschland und Frankreich). Anyway, Germany is probably in recession… When, and if, that becomes official, things will change…
As an aside – the Wehrmacht Code of Conduct did include the formal right for officers and soldiers to disobey an illegal or criminal order. Hundreds of officers were court-martialled for exactly that, and let go by the military courts.
Of course their later career was short-lived and snowy, but so was that of a lot of their more obedient brothers in arms.
The urge to obey was an inner one.
Dear Dominique: Once again you faites preuve of your remarkable knowledge… I read about 150 cases of refusals to execute criminal orders that were striking enough to deserve formal military court. However the politicians, that is, the higher-up Nazis, gave orders to the judges to not prosecute a single one. They were afraid that the defendant would win, and thus open the floodgates of a rebellion against Nazi criminality (as happened in Spring/Summer 1944).
The career of the Total CEO was also short-lived and snowy. Thor won over Pluto. I was going to make an essay on this, but it may be in poor state, all the more as I know/knew lots of people who knew him well… And thought highly of him…
I presume you are the dimwitt Patrice alluded to?
Just one of them, there was a whole crowd of them. Stupidity is stronger, en masse.
This all started with the evil English philosophers, Locke, Hume… And Rousseau, as you said. Rousseau made the first direct secular attacks on civilization.
Prussia itself was financed by London…
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PCLC celebrated the work of our vital volunteers and supporters recently at our annual Volunteer & Supporters Appreciation Dinner. Claire Williams was the recipient of our esteemed Kath Neilsen Award for outstanding contribution to the Centre.
The Award was created in honour of Kath Neilsen, a founder and long-term supporter of the Centre. It acknowledges a volunteer who has demonstrated a superior understanding of the Centre’s values and the principals of social justice; along with a reliable and respectful approach to interactions with our clients.
Claire was previously an employee of the Centre for six years and has since remained a dedicated volunteer. Claire explains, ‘I found my feet as a lawyer while working at PCLC. The great staff, plus a sense of belonging to a team that are working to end family violence, made the job very rewarding’.
To support herself through university Claire worked with people with a disability as a part-time job and gained a life long understanding of the difficulties faced by those with special needs. After leaving PCLC, Claire had a stint in a policy role with government and then started her own practice in Frankston – Justice Crew Legal Services.
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Making the Shift to Active Energy Management
September 26, 2017 meriah.jamieson
The energy landscape is on the brink of disruption. Because of this, forward-looking companies are already hard at work making the necessary adjustments. And it’s important to understand that every organization will eventually need to adapt because of these universal energy trends that are affecting everyone: decarbonization, decentralization, and digitization.
These three trends define the new energy landscape.
But they also bring new opportunities. Energy users will have more control over how they buy and use energy than ever before, and will eventually go beyond simply consuming energy to producing it as well. Advancements in blockchain and peer-to-peer technologies will create an open and efficient method of recording energy transactions in a new, decentralized energy network.
That’s a lot of disruption, and it’s all happening quickly. To make the most of the opportunities presented by this new energy landscape, companies need to make a fundamental change to keep up — a shift to active energy management. Below I’ll go through what active energy management is and the steps you can take to begin making the shift.
Active Energy Management is the process of integrating energy supply, energy demand, and sustainability data, programs, and strategies for greater efficiency and maximum results. Simply put, this means that the procurement officer, operations manager, and sustainability director in an organization need to work together — to form a cohesive strategy, share data, and deploy joint initiatives.
It may be surprising that a trend toward this type of alignment isn’t already universal. But our recent internal survey of clients at the Energy & Sustainability Perspectives Summit revealed that 55% rate lack of organizational alignment as the top factor preventing them from reaching their energy and sustainability goals. Active energy management is the best first or next step for organizations in this position.
Active energy management integrates energy and sustainability decision making, providing a holistic view of the data and resources needed to reduce consumption, drive innovation, and maximize savings.
But how do you get there? How can an organization begin making the shift to active energy management? Here’s where to start.
3 Steps to Begin Active Energy Management
Get data.
The first step is to obtain information. If you already have access to reliable data, you’re one step ahead. If not, deploying a solution that can harvest accurate energy and sustainability metrics should be a top priority. AEG is a great example of this, as accurate data enables them to manage energy efficiency across dozens of large, disparate, multi-use stadiums.
Make the data useful.
It’s not enough to merely have data. You need a way to accurately extract its meaning. The answer here is software solutions like Resource Advisor, which operates as just that, an advisor to help you reach your energy and sustainability goals. Blackstone leverages reliable analytics to make more than 20 portfolio companies more sustainable.
Upgrade to an integrated strategy.
This third step is the most challenging. It requires that established patterns of decision-making give way to new strategies and new ways of working together within an organization. But it can also be the most rewarding; when a company takes this step, they’ve truly embraced active energy management.
A fundamental change is required, transforming traditional departments into something new, different, and unfamiliar. Right now, many companies have separate departments that decide how to buy energy, how and when to use energy, and how to become more sustainable. But the decision-makers in each of these domains have insights and expertise to offer each other. When energy and sustainability strategies are managed together, blind spots are quickly discovered and new opportunities present themselves.
With energy decision-makers connected and with the right technology in place, an organization has a powerful asset — people working together supported by technologies that work together. This creates a cohesive team and strategy that are resilient and able to respond to new changes with speed and flexibility.
One of the biggest benefits of our EcoStruxure architecture is its interoperability — our solutions work together across domains. But for connected technology like EcoStuxure to have maximum impact, personnel, programs, and strategies also need to be connected.
In other words, we’re at a time when technological connectivity is in many ways outpacing connection between people and ideas. Shifting to active energy management is the solution to that problem.
Thriving in the New Energy Landscape
In summary, in many organization today energy and sustainability strategies are managed independently with each silo having its own source of data. This inconsistency in data often combines with a lack of cohesion between departments and is leading to missed opportunities.
Companies who want to thrive in the new energy landscape should integrate their energy and sustainability strategies to find new opportunities. We call this Active Energy Management. And it’s the best path to achieving your energy and sustainability goals.
As the new energy landscape emerges, exciting opportunities for innovation are presenting themselves. Those who adopt a forward-looking, integrated energy and sustainability strategy will put their organization in the best position to succeed. Those who delay will be in danger of being left behind.
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Meet Veronica Menin and Diego Tosoni, two of five partners from the newly opened Love Life Wellness Center in the hip and funky Wynwood district. Love Life is a socially conscious “all-in-one” wellness center where you can get your yoga on, get a massage, experience reiki, enjoy a plant-based meal and even bring your dog in for a class of Doga. (Yoga for Dogs!)
We first introduced you to Veronica in Episode 3 where she spoke about her former company, Peace A’ Cake and how she broke into the vegan bakery business. After making the decision to step away from Peace A’ Cake, she contemplated moving, getting far away and clearing her mind. But before she could hop on a plane, an opportunity presented itself to her that she couldn’t ignore. Spurred by her yoga teacher, Megan Elizabeth to create a juice bar/yoga studio, Love Life Wellness Center was born thanks to the collective minds of Megan, Nick, Veronica, Joe and Diego – Love Life’s backbone and guiding forces.
Diego first met Veronica earlier in his life but as fate would have it, their paths crossed again years later and now Diego is an integral piece of the Love Life equation. As we affectionately refer to him, he is the “Diego Of All Trades” because he contributes in so many different facets to Love Life’s look – from the mural on the front of the building to the tables and artwork that you see inside. His creative eye and artistic touch is sprinkled all over Love Life in obvious and not so obvious places and together, Veronica and Diego are each other’s Yin and Yang.
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We hope you enjoy the podcast,
Alex & Jeanette
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Annals of Applied Probability
Ann. Appl. Probab.
Volume 29, Number 3 (2019), 1778-1807.
Effective Berry–Esseen and concentration bounds for Markov chains with a spectral gap
Benoît Kloeckner
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Applying quantitative perturbation theory for linear operators, we prove nonasymptotic bounds for Markov chains whose transition kernel has a spectral gap in an arbitrary Banach algebra of functions $\mathscr{X}$. The main results are concentration inequalities and Berry–Esseen bounds, obtained assuming neither reversibility nor “warm start” hypothesis: the law of the first term of the chain can be arbitrary. The spectral gap hypothesis is basically a uniform $\mathscr{X}$-ergodicity hypothesis, and when $\mathscr{X}$ consist in regular functions this is weaker than uniform ergodicity. We show on a few examples how the flexibility in the choice of function space can be used. The constants are completely explicit and reasonable enough to make the results usable in practice, notably in MCMC methods.
Ann. Appl. Probab., Volume 29, Number 3 (2019), 1778-1807.
Received: November 2017
Revised: July 2018
First available in Project Euclid: 19 February 2019
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doi:10.1214/18-AAP1438
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Primary: 65C05: Monte Carlo methods
Secondary: 60J22: Computational methods in Markov chains [See also 65C40] 62E17: Approximations to distributions (nonasymptotic)
Concentration inequalities Berry–Esseen bounds Markov chains spectral gap property Markov chain Monte-Carlo method
Kloeckner, Benoît. Effective Berry–Esseen and concentration bounds for Markov chains with a spectral gap. Ann. Appl. Probab. 29 (2019), no. 3, 1778--1807. doi:10.1214/18-AAP1438. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1550566842
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What I’m listening to: My favourite podcasts
I’ve been a podcast listener for a while now – and I’m obsessed! Here are my top recommendations.
I missed the boat the first time round when everyone was raving about it, but two years ago I decided to give it a go and I instantly knew why it got so much hype. This true-life crime story is told by Sarah Koenig and you follow her has she tries to understand a murder investigation in Baltimore, America.
For most people, the first season was the peak of Serial’s greatness and the second season didn’t quite live up, however, for me the second season was even better. I studied International Relations at university (as well as journalism), so the story that was told about an American solider being captured by the Taliban really resonated with me. At times, it’s hard listening but the themes of morality, corruption and crime and punishment are so, so interesting.
As it’s from the same producers as serial, I knew I was going to enjoy this podcast. You have to give this one time to get you into it – the first few episodes I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it, but halfway through and I was totally hooked. S-Town stands for shit town and it follows the life and explores the character of a man called John who is a troubled soul who hates the town he lives in. The story is pretty harrowing, but again, like Serial, it brings up so many important questions about life. Honestly, give it a go!
My Dad Wrote a Porno
Now if you haven’t heard about this podcast already then you must be living under a rock. My Dad Wrote a Porno is a podcast where Jamie (the one who’s dad wrote a porno) reads the erotic literature aloud and his pals Alice and James interrupt with laughter, jokes and comments as he goes along. It is impossible to describe quite how funny it is – but to illustrate, it does have me almost bursting into laughter on crowded transport very frequently.
With a huge back log of celebrity interviews, I could spend hours listening to Desert Island Discs. The principle behind the show is that each guest is asked to select eight music tracks that mean something to them – basically, if you were a castaway, which eight pieces of music would you choose to take with you. Then, Kirsty young interviews them about their telling choices. From David Beckham to Caitlin Moran – there’s something for everyone here.
After reading Elizabeth Day’s book, also entitled How To Fail, I thought I would give the podcast a go. She interviews notable celebs on their life failures. If you’re anything like me, sometimes when reading glossy mags or watching TV interviews with stars, their scripted answers and beaming smiles can leave me feeling a bit underwhelmed. Elizabeth ensures she digs deep into their character as they discuss their own self-proclaimed ‘failures’ in their lives. I particularly liked the episodes with Frankie Bridge and Also Daisy Edgar-Jones (star of Normal People).
She can. She did.
The presenter, Fiona, interviews savvy, sassy and seriously successful female business owners. Not only does she ask about their particular business and sphere of work, but she delves into things like work ethic, stress and juggling their personal lives. I loved the episodes with Lydia Millen and Kirssy Cela – both women who I really admire.
Disclaimer: if you don’t like Russell Brand, you won’t like this podcast. It’s hosted by the zany comedian and each time he interviews an expert in various philosophical roles. He tackles big topics like gun control, government corruption, poverty and mental health. My favourite episodes include ‘Selfie–obsession: Can narcissism ever make us happy?’ and ‘Can we really stop terror?’. You will learn A LOT!
Update: Russell’s podcast has since moved onto Luminary, a podcast service, but you can still listen to old episodes on your usual podcast app – and he also still uploads teasers to platforms such as Apple podcasts.
Keeping it Candid
I’d been following Sophie Milner on Instagram for a while and when it popped up to say she was starting a podcast I thought it would definitely be worth a listen. Sophie sits down with fellow blogger friend Millie Cotton and each week they discuss a variety of different topical subjects – anything from the gender pay gap to the (sometimes condescending) term ‘influencer’. I like how down to earth the girls are, just casually chatting away – you almost feel like you’re part of their friendship group, listening in on their lives and opinions. I was lucky enough to get tickets to a live recording of their podcast, at the W London on Monday. Here’s a sneak peek…
Update: Keeping it Candid is now presented by Millie and her friend Lauren. Definitely still worth a listen as they address the same sort of topics!
I’m keen to get your podcast recommendations, so comment below!
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Classic Flow at Perth International Arts Festival
Friday, February 10, 2017 — Classic Flow, a podcast series by ABC Classic 2 that pairs guided yoga and meditation practice with a bespoke classical music playlist, will appear in a special extended live format as part of the Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF) Chamber Music Series at 7 am to 8:30 am on Saturday 18 February and Sunday 19 February, at Winthrop Gardens, University of Western Australia.
Participants will glide through a glissando of blissful, low-impact yoga guided by respected practitioner Lara Zilibowitz, while a classical music concert performed by local Perth musicians, cellist Sophie Curtis, and pianist Adam Pinto takes place in the surrounding gardens. Special guests the West Australian Young Voices will add to the immersive sensory experience.
Yarmila Alfonzetti, Program Associate, Classical Music at PIAF, said “The combination of yoga and classical music feels like the most natural thing in the world. In this vinyasa style of moving meditation both practices come together in synchronised beauty to focus the mind.”
“This is a wonderful opportunity for a new audience to enjoy great classical music and ABC Classic 2” added Richard Buckham, Manager of ABC Classic FM. “And we’re looking forward to showcasing more of our talented Australian musicians to the PIAF audience.”
Classic Flow is Australia’s first podcast for classical-music loving yoga fans and has been created by the ABC to appeal to a busy, health-conscious, yoga-lover who wants to be able to take a short-form class with a favourite instructor at a time and place convenient to their working week. The 7 x 30 minute guided practice is accompanied by a bespoke and specially-recorded playlist by Australian musicians. It’s a private yoga class and classical concert that fits in your pocket!
Listen to Classic Flow online (www.abc.net.au/classicflow) or - so you don’t miss an episode - subscribe on the ABC Radio app and all the usual places including iTunes or your preferred podcast app.
“Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.” – BKS Iyengar
ABC Classic 2 is an online music station playing familiar classical tracks. It aims to take classical music off the radio and out of the concert hall to unexpected places. Listen online or via the ABC mobile app. ABC Classic 2 is music to brighten your day.
Andjelka Jankovic Communications, Perth International Arts Festival
ajankovic@perthfestival.com.au
Ramona Curmi Producer, ABC Classic Flow, ABC Radio
curmi.ramona@abc.net.au
Classic Flow - Arvo Pärt, Spiegel im Spiegel
abc.net.au/radio/programs/classicflow
instagram.com/classicflow_yoga
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Announcing Rancher 1.0 GA
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Today we achieved a major milestone by shipping Rancher 1.0, our first generally available release. After more than one and a half years of development, Rancher has reached the quality and feature completeness for production deployment. We first unveiled a preview of Rancher to the world at the November 2014 Amazon Re:invent conference. We followed that with a Beta release in June 2015. I’d like to congratulate the entire Rancher development team for this achievement.
As an open source project, Rancher was developed in close collaboration with the user and developer community. Some of you have been with us from the very beginning and have seen dramatic enhancements and changes since our initial preview release. Some of you were even bold enough to deploy Rancher in mission-critical production environments prior to our GA release! Rancher simply would not be where it is today without your feedback, suggestions, and contributions. With your help, Rancher has now over a million downloads and over 2500 beta program participants. We can’t thank our community enough and are looking forward to working with each and every one of you as we continue to improve and shape Rancher into the best container management platform.
In this blog post I would like to also reflect upon what we have built by explaining what problems Rancher is designed to solve, how the community is using Rancher in practice, why users find Rancher to be uniquely suited for their applications, and how we plan to continue to develop Rancher post 1.0 GA.
We’ve created a quick demo to introduce the new release.
The problem Rancher solves
Rancher is a complete and turn-key container management platform. As organizations start to deploy Docker containers in production, the immediate challenge becomes the integration of large collections of open-source technologies. As illustrated in the following figure, container management involves solving problems spanning across storage, networking, monitoring, orchestration, and scheduling.
Rancher develops, integrates, and distributes all of the technologies necessary to run containers in production. At Rancher Labs, we integrate and distribute market-leading container orchestration and scheduling frameworks such as Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, while developing the necessary app catalog, enterprise user management, access control, container networking and storage technologies ourselves. The result is a complete platform that offers superb developer and operator experience. With Rancher, organizations no longer need to worry about keeping up with and integrating a myriad of technologies from the fast-moving container ecosystem. Instead, they deploy Rancher once and can then focus on developing the applications that make their business better.
How organizations use Rancher
Most organizations today employ or are moving toward an agile software development pipeline. As users adopt containers, tools like GitHub, Jenkins, and Docker Hub solve the front-half of that pipeline. Users deploy Rancher so that they can test, deploy, upgrade, and operate containerized application on any public cloud or private data center.
Why Rancher is unique
We set out to build Rancher because we saw the need for a complete and turn-key container management platform. The resulting product, Rancher, has a number of unique qualities:
. Rancher is 100% open source. We believe leveraging the power of an open source community is the best way to build platform software, and we are confident that organizations will pay for enterprise support and thus help fund our development effort.
. Time and time again, developers have told us they love Rancher’s simple and intuitive experience which enables them to focus on building applications as opposed to having to build the underlying infrastructure software themselves.
. Rancher implements enterprise management features such as LDAP and AD integration, role based access control, unified infrastructure visibility and audit, and a unified application catalog.
Infrastructure agnostic
. Rancher runs on computing resources in the form of Linux servers, which are a commodity offered by all clouds and data centers. Rancher does not rely on proprietary features supported by one cloud provider and not others. Rancher builds a rich set of storage, networking, load balancing, DNS, and metadata services that work consistently for containers running on any cloud.
Support for both Swarm and Kubernetes
. Modern DevOps practices do not impose the choice of application frameworks across the organization. As a result different teams tend to choose their own container orchestration and scheduling frameworks. Rancher is the only container management platform today that can support both Swarm and Kubernetes.
What you can expect after 1.0
We are lucky to have passionate users and open source community members. The community wants us to continue to improve networking and storage features, implement richer enterprise-grade visibility and control features, onboard and certify more application catalog entries, and support additional container orchestration and scheduling frameworks. You can get a good idea of what users and community members want by looking at the Rancher Forums
and the list of open issues
on Rancher’s GitHub page. With 1.0 behind us, you should expect the feature development velocity to increase. While maintaining a stable release branch, we will continue to release new features and capabilities on an aggressive release schedule. Stay tuned!
To see Rancher 1.0 in action, join us this Wednesday at 1:00 pm Eastern time for an Online Meetup on building your own Containers-as-a-Service platform with Rancher 1.0. We’ll be joined by the container team at Sony PlayStation, who will be sharing some of their experiences using Rancher.
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Sense 8 interface can be used and downloaded in no-HTC smartphones
The Taiwanese company is not only news for the release of HTC 10, but also for being testing a new version of its own Sense interface for its smartphones and also for smartphones from other brands, thanks to its testing program and will soon appear publicly in the Play Store for smartphones of all kinds.
Like any Android phone maker, HTC put on the market their devices with its own layer of customization, known as Sense, to embellish and customize the Google mobile operating system (Android). The novelty this time is that the Taiwanese company may soon open the new version of Sense Home for all Android smartphones that publicly appear on the Play Store.
Ausdroid has been the media that has managed to intercept a message that HTC allegedly sent to a participant in the testing program, which encourages HTC phone owners to install Android 4.4 or later, to test the new Sense. Among the features of Sense include Blinkfeed (which includes everything of interest in the media, both social and news in one place), the ability to view specific applications in Home and at the base where it is and to change the appearance of the operating system with custom themes.
The reasons for this openness would be sought in this last main feature of Sense: in fact, more or less adapted customized, HTC Home can be done through purchases in this application. Thus, if the Taiwanese company decides to go to the bottom, could extend the shopping application to all Android phones. Moreover, HTC is trying to be a leading manufacturer for several years, not only by selling its devices, but also induces the purchase of its services outside its own market, something that could be a smart decision and profitable.
Currently it is known whether the project, dubbed as GOOGLE_PLAY_SENSE_GP, will bring the same interface on all HTC Android smartphones of last generation, which will include all the innovations of Freestyle mode.
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Rereading childhood Books: A Poetics
Alison Waller
**Shortlisted for the ESSE Book Award 2020**
Childhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape to our ongoing identities. Bringing the latest work in Memory Studies to bear on writers' memoirs, autobiographical accounts of reading, and interviews with readers, Rereading Childhood Books explores how adults remember, revisit, and sometimes forget, these significant books.
Asking what it means to return to familiar works by well-known authors such as Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and Enid Blyton, as well as popular and ephemeral material not often considered as part of the canon, Alison Waller develops a poetics of rereading and presents a new model for understanding lifelong reading. As such she reconceives the history of children's literature through the shared and individual experiences of the readers who carry these books with them throughout their lives.
© 2019, The Author(s). The attached document (embargoed until 07/08/2020) is an author produced version of a chapter published in Rereading Childhood Books: A Poetics uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.
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Kick off your fall house-hunting by checking out these homes in Whitestone, Astoria and Richmond Hill
By Emily Davenport
These homes are for sale in Beechhurst, Astoria and Richmond Hill.
As summer winds down, we fall back into our routines of school, work and other important business. However, even though it’s almost fall, there’s still plenty of time to find the home of your dreams.
This week we’re showing off a bright co-op in the Beechhurst section of Whitestone with a recently reduced price, a penthouse in Astoria with huge windows and an incredible view of the city skyline and a Richmond Hill colonial with plenty of room.
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7-15 162nd St. #3B, Beechhurst, NY 11357
Details: This RECENTLY REDUCED bright and sunny co-op in Beechhurst has been completely renovated and beautifully maintained. Features include three bedrooms, one full bathroom with a double sink vanity, a kitchen with stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops and ceramic floors, and a private terrace. The building also gives you access to an in-ground pool, a clubhouse, tennis courts and a cafe. Plus, it’s near all modes of transportation.
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For more information, contact listing agent Stephanie Danias at 516-848-6814.
30-11 21st St., Astoria, NY 11102
Details: This penthouse apartment in Astoria is in immaculate condition and boasts incredible views of New York City skyline. Features include two bedrooms, two full bathrooms with radiant heated floors, a living room, dining room, a kitchen with stainless steel appliances, tons of closet space, and a washer and dryer. The wall to wall windows provide an incredible amount of light and gives views that will make you the envy of family and friends.
For more information, contact listing agents Athanasia Adam at 917-708-2500or Alexandra Kotronis at 347-545-7122.
118-04 91st Ave., Richmond Hill, NY 11418
Details: This recently reduced Richmond Hill colonial needs a little TLC to help make this house into your dream home. Features include three bedrooms, one full bathroom, a formal living room and dining room, a kitchen, den and a detached two-car garage. The full attic and full basement provides additional storage and the property is close to all forms of public transportation.
For more information, contact listing agents Carolyn Meenan at 917-796-2990 or Kathleen McCarthy at 516-790-2195.
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Holy cow, it’s almost autumn already?? Where has the time gone so quickly? Like, holy crap. Speedy indoor summer, ugh. Well, I’ve kept busy by reading, reading, and oh yea, more reading. I mean, is anyone surprised? And these books are sure to keep you all busy as you stay home and socially distanced from others.
So, welcome back to Miranda’s Book Nook with more of my latest book recommendations that’ll keep you company all autumn long. I hope you find these books as engaging, fun, and comforting as I have.
The second I first learned that Kevin Kwan was coming out with his first new book since the worldwide phenomenon that is the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, I was stoked. Here, we get a brand-new tale of a young woman torn between two men: her influential WASPy fiancé and George Zao, the man her family’s tried to keep away from her since she was a teenager. Y’all, let me just say that this book was so indulging and deliciously decadent that I just couldn’t put it down and had to devour it in a single setting. Sorry not sorry, it’s so juicy, dramatic, and engaging.
The book starts off as nineteen-year-old college student Lucie Churchill ventures to the luxe island of Capri for her friend’s wedding (which is here to give Colin Khoo and Araminta Lee’s ceremony from CRA a run for its money) with her older cousin in tow. From day one, she meets the ruggedly handsome George Zao and his over-the-top mother Rosemary. She can’t stand how cultured, gallant, and knowledgable he is, and certainly not that she can’t stop thinking about him. After they are caught, ahem, snogging (trying not to say too much to avoid spoiling) by her disapproving, blue-blooded cousin Charlotte, Lucie never sees George ever again. Well, until years later when he reappears in New York City and her happy place in the Hamptons. Lucie, as the daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and a blue blood New Yorker father, she’s always favored her white side, which has spilled over into nearly every aspect of her upbringing. But somehow, the second Lucie spots the still-chiseled George vacationing in East Hampton, she can’t help but be drawn back to him despite the teeny fact that she’s engaged to an over-the-top new money influencer. (I kept saying ick the whole time that dude was around, just FYI.) To avoid George disrupting her carefully curated life, Lucie does whatever she can to try to dissuade George from permanently occupying his own place in her Upper East Side world. It’s so juicy and dramatic, and I loved every single page. I need a film adaptation like now, just to hear George’s marvelous monologues, which I still can’t stop thinking about.
Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
Yes, I used to be a Twihard, and yes, I read this new Twilight book within days of its initial publication release. Duh. I mean, was that ever a question? If 2020 has taught me anything, it’s that fandom never really goes away (thanks Hunger Games, Jonas Brothers, and One Direction); it just lays dormant for a bit — and can come back with a vengeance, just as strong as ever.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Stephenie Meyer went back and rewrote the first book in her bestselling saga from Edward’s angsty teen boy slash vampire perspective. After the first draft was leaked and posted online years back, now, she’s finally finished it and it is here! So, what’s it about? It’s the same time frame, plot points, and characters first seen in Twilight, just flipped around and told from Edward’s side aka the lion’s instead of the lamb’s. This companion novel takes on a darker side as vampire Edward attempts to stay away from Bella or if he’s meant to kill her and drink her blood rather than fall in love. It’s definitely a lot darker and angstier than the original, and I definitely was intrigued by this darker version.
Reading this book seriously felt like I was back in middle school, in the heyday of my Twilight obsession, staying up way too late each night just to finish another chapter. Because, that’s been me for the week it first was out. Now, it’s nearly 700 pages, which like what a chunker, and I could barely hold it, LOL. But, it’s so much fun to go back to this beloved franchise and see it from a different perspective. I liked that it was Edward’s, one because he was the other main character besides Bella, and two because as a mind reader, that means we also get to see the viewpoints of the other Cullens (and their backgrounds!) and Forks students. That part was super fun. Plus, Edward had some zingers, like when he retorts “no blood, no foul” about himself in response to a question about being hurt. Literally made me chuckle out loud.
CLUELESS: A Totally Classic Picture Book by G.M. Berrow, Illustrated by Heather Burns
Yes, you read that correctly. Amy Heckerling’s totally tubular, iconic ’90s cult classic has been reworked into a children’s picture book, and I’m totally buggin’ out about it. Like, obviously the movie is a classic that I can still quote every line and then I had to see the original musical years back because I love this 90s-style world so much. A book about it, like yes, please! The book, out just in time for the movie’s 25th anniversary, reimagines the Bronson Alcott students as pint-sized fashionistas living their best lives in elementary school. This is an awesome way to share your love of this tubular flick with your little ones and introduce them to a good teen movie.
This illustrated children’s book features all the classic nostalgia, Easter eggs, characters, fashion-forward ensembles, but all kid-friendly, obviously. Here, we follow precious tots Cher and Dionne who meet newbie Tai at Bronson Alcott Elementary. Tai, much like her film counterpart, is a fan of skateboarding and baggy clothes. Cher and Dionne are determined to help make their new bestie fit in with the stylish Beverly Hills crowd as these popular kiddos try to tell her how to dress or what hobbies she should like. But in the end, they realize that everyone’s different and that what makes them so flipping awesome!
We have Cher’s classic home, the same like way-classic language from the film, her computer program to match outfits (which I’m still waiting on IRL, plaid matching outfits (!!), all her rad friends, epic fashion looks that are exactly as we remember from the movie, and a sweet story about fitting in, standing out, and friendship. Just the romances are missing, after all, it is a book for kids. It’s precious and you’d like totally be missing out if this wasn’t added to any young kiddo’s reading list. Missing this picture book? OMG, as if! Thanks to a physical advance copy, courtesy of Hachette Book Group, I’ll definitely be reading this to my young cousins every time I see them. Sorry, but they need to be educated about the iconic world that is Clueless.
Available: September 1
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Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe*
First off, nearly every single Netgalley review for this new YA novel gives it either four or five stars (out of five), which to me indicates that it has to be something special. And after reading the first few pages alone, I can confirm it most definitely is. After only a couple pages, I desperately want and need to keep reading because the narrator Henri’s point of view is just so relatable, authentic, engaging, and completely captivating.
This diverse teen romance (yes, this is what we need more of in the genre!!) is whip-smart, fun, and relatable for many readers. Henri “Halti” is a NYC native, the first-generation son of Haitian immigrants, and who is the epitome of a charming, well-liked teenage boy. He’s smart, a good kid, an entrepreneurial dog walker. He started his own part-time dog walking site/brand as a way to help pay for college tuition for next year, and his eyes are set on Columbia University. At first, he doesn’t notice Corinne Troy as anything but the hyper-smart, annoying girl from school. She’s sort of his school rival as they push one another’s buttons. She’s a very Type A student and seems perfect to him. After she moves into his building on the Upper West Side and her mom hires Halti to walk her new pooch Palm Tree, she soon discovers his scheme and blackmails him to help her become popular with their school peers (and seem less intense about academics) in exchange for her silence about the truth of his business. (Side note: I love Corinne, hahaha she’s a gem and quite a fun character!)
It’s a quick, fun YA read that I have a hard time setting down because it’s just so enjoyable, even so early in the book. Philippe’s tone of voice for Henri is so witty and genuine, which makes this book even more captivating. There’s such a precious, innocent slow burn romance that’s perfectly timed with the book’s pace which was absolutely adorable and I can’t stop smiling, it’s that cute. By the ending, Henri did a stupid, stupid, dumb thing because he was so desperate to get into Columbia, and it made me so so pissed. But, in the end, that’s a good thing for this book because I could feel his emotions and it made me feel things as any good novel should. In the end, wow, it’s so raw and vulnerable, but then the epilogue delivers the cute HEA we all craved and that made me Smile.
The Key to Love by Betsy St. Amant*
This was a sugary-sweet romance, and honestly, that’s really all I could say. It’s wholesome and pleasant, but sometimes you just need that. Here, pastry chef Bri hails from a small town in Kansas and she’s ever the romantic, willing to wait however long it takes for her own HEA and prince to show up. In contrast, gruff travel writer Gerard is anything but, and a past relationship has made him jaded to the ideas of love. He’s assigned to cover the bakery where she works, which has gone viral thanks to a love lock wall in the backyard, the owners’ matchmaking schemes, a European theme, and a “cute blonde who works there.” And by the first page, I’m already dreaming of macarons.
It’s clearly set up to be a cutesy, wholesome opposites-attract trope, and it doesn’t get off to the best start for this reader. It’s told in back and forth perspectives and it’s a super slowww slow-burn and enemies-to-lovers romance with banter. Like OMG, them quoting Pride and Prejudice to each other in French is so adorable and funny. It’s fun, sweet, and cute. That’s about it. Then, it gets very emotionally charged by the end with a reveal about her parents and a big bombshell, however, all that feels like an at-the-buzzer revelation that could have been teased or started earlier.
The writing is good and captivating, but there’s no extra oomph to make this book shine, and it ends up as another cutesy baking romance story. Then, each chapter ends with a cliffhanger that’s barely addressed in the next section or from the other point of view and it feels abrupt and catches you off guard because there are so many lingering questions left as a new time frame, event, or something is revealed. Then, the ending gets super religious, which almost comes out of left field because religious beliefs and God-talk wasn’t even addressed until the tail end. It caught me off guard because religion wasn’t really mentioned as a guiding factor at any point beforehand. Then, the end of the book didn’t address her final actions before they got their HEA, and to me, it feels like part of their, and her, journey is incomplete as individuals and as a pair.
Available: October 13
The Transatlantic Book Club by Felicity Hayes-McCoy*
First off, the Irish setting gives me so much wanderlust and the bookish storyline makes me happy! In this multicultural Irish family fictional story, the story follows communities across both a small Irish town and an American town chock full of Irish immigrants.
It starts off with Cassie, who moves back to Ireland to be with her grandma after her grandfather passes away, and soon after that, the duo heads to this small US town where her Gran Pat had once visited her cousin as a teen. Once back in Ireland after the trip, Cassie takes a part-time job at the local library, which like, yay, I love bookish themes in my novels! Immediately, there are several narrators between Cassie, Pat, librarian Hannah and her mom Mary, all of whom can be a bit difficult to discern who’s who with so much happening all at once; The novel’s very ambitious in that way. Plus, in the beginning, several chapters are purely exposition and intros, and it’s very, very slow to get into the main story. The main idea is that Cassie sets up a transatlantic book club for the both the towns of Lissberg and Resolve, where they’ll chat weekly, at one time, via Skype about a book, or just a social call. This book features so much descriptive language that plays out like a movie in my head, but having too many points of view is making things difficult to keep track of, along with barely any transition between flashbacks and the present-day setting. That part feels abrupt and confusing as a reader. However, something clearly happened in the past and I’m very curious to find out what. There’s not a ton of action throughout and it wasn’t easy to get into. I wanted to love it so badly because books and travel are my weakness, however, I just couldn’t get into this one, unfortunately. It was fine, but nothing more than that.
Available: November 10
Pretending by Holly Bourne*
OK, this latest ARC! I loved it, now I don’t think it’s five-star worthy because one, that’d hard to achieve and two, it’s something I’d go to reread actively. But, I did thoroughly enjoy this women’s fiction (which should just be fiction in general, but I digress) novel. From page one, narrator April is snarky, relatable, witty, and I just love this tone and language. It’s so relatable and fun that I just want to keep reading. Then, it’s set in London, which is my ultimate guilty pleasure as an Anglophile, so yay, score one. I’m like super into this novel from so early on, mainly because April feels so honest and real. She’s vulnerable and genuine, making a stellar protagonist and I’m so invested in her journey and story.
Now, April, at the beginning, hasn’t exactly had the best luck with men (join the club, girl, join the club), and she’d fed up with that shit. So, she’s after revenge on any guy that’s hurt any girl and made them worthless. She sets out to make a new dating profile and date (or catfish) men as Gretel, the girl in her head that she thinks men want and is the complete opposite of the real her. This way she can break their hearts like they so often do to her. She matches with Joshua, who just seems so endearing and sweet, like I keep saying ‘aww precious’ about everything he does, that, and their first date is super cute, except that she’s pretending to be someone else. But, this experiment is helping the real her because April is becoming more confident and not overanalyzing every little detail, but of course, she starts to see they are quite compatible even though she’s admitted that he’s not good-looking, not bad-looking, and not a good kisser, like eesh. DM conversations help show the passage of time and recount different days and dates to move things along. It’s just so vulnerable and open, which makes everything feel so real and raw. Josh is so endearing yet a bit clueless, so I’m not sure if they really have this connection and he’s The Guy because he is falling for the fake her and he’s super clingy.
All in all, this book is witty and captivating, and I can’t put it down; I have to keep reading. I loved this read because I get it, everything April feels, and it’s real, authentic, yet still frothy, light, and fun that keeps you turning the pages. So many women’s fiction nowadays revolve around a man or romance, and getting a man to fall in love with a girl, her needing or wanting love. And it’s refreshing to see that this book isn’t that because love and relationships are real, raw, and messy, just like life really is. I just want more content, and have so many lingering questions about where her story goes from here. There’s an epilogue that is quite ambiguous, so you can’t help but wonder who is that man at the end she speaks of, like is it Josh or someone else? I have so many questions left and I just want to know and keep reading more!
Also, the book definitely needs a trigger warning as April discusses and deals with her past sexual assault. But, I think it’s brave that she’s acknowledging and searching for a way to move forward, but it could definitely be triggering depending on your past.
*Advance reader copies of several of the books listed were provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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Music Review: One Direction’s “Made in the AM”
Posted in Pop Culture by mlsiwak
Being that I’m currently in London, England, I thought a music review about a locally-grown boy band was a bit necessary… Agree? Let’s take a closer look, track-by-track, of the newest album to come out of U.K. hometown favorite One Direction.
1. “Hey Angel”
First off, I would like to preface this by saying that this randomly popped on shuffle as the Tube in the morning arrived at the Angel station. True story, so that’s perfect right there. Okay, now back to the song. It’s catchy and makes me want to dance. However, the lyrics: if they are calling out the “angel” to “come to the other side,” are they insinuating that they are on the evil spectrum, like a devil persona? But, lyrics aside, let’s get back to dancing along.
2. “Drag Me Down”
This song has been out since summer, and I have to admit that I still can’t believe I heard the boys sing it LIVE for the first time on Good Morning America. (An awful mistake I will never again.– To clarify, that’s in reference to the waiting and the weather, not seeing them live for free.)
3.”Perfect”
Again a popular hit, but I can’t get sick of it. It’s such a good tune and it is still my alarm every single morning. (Hey, shouldn’t it be?) But seriously, if you don’t think Harry (who wrote the song) wrote it based on T.Swift, listen closely to one specific line at the end about “if you’re looking for someone to write break-up songs about.” Not a very tricky mystery, Mr. Styles.
4. “Infinity”
Okay, so I really liked this as the first preorder track. But, as now I have the entire album, I kind of almost forget about this hit. It’s not bad, it’s just fairly typical of the One Direction sound.
5. “End of the Day”
This is a fun, upbeat song that makes me want to sing (and dance) along. Nothing else to say about it. Also, yes Liam, this is a perfect instinct where your lyric (once again) references hospitals. (Note: this is a reference to something Mr. Liam Payne discussed at the 1D concert I was at in London.)
6.”If I Could Fly”
I. LOVE. THIS. BALLAD. It’s so beautiful and soft, I love it! One of the only ballads about true love. However, I guess should it actually be called “For your eyes only” or something, I mean they say that way more than the actual title which is only muttered at the very beginning of the song.
7. “Long Way Down”
Another good slower tune. I also would like to point out that I do dance along to this track. And it’s harder to dance to, but I have. Anyway, the song, it’s really pretty and I like it. One of my faves.
8. “Never Enough”
This has a very different, but still good, beat. It’s upbeat and fun; I like it. However, the “random noises” you hear between lyrics sounds like something out of the Lion King… Now that I said that, I’ll never be able to un-hear that. Also, this is a song that Liam thinks he could sing over and over again (Haha, anyone catch that small reference to the older days?? Okay, I’m done now.) for the rest of his days, so that indicates something. And you could, I’d be fine with that. It’s really good and fun.
9. “Olivia”
It is so interesting how the first eight seconds shows how the recording process happens, I like that– it’s interesting. It’s upbeat, but not my favorites. The chorus where they sing “I love you, I love you, I love you…. Olivia,” it sounds a bit like they were saying a line and like “word vomit” essentially followed the line; that’s what it sounds like. (Note: No offense to any Olivia’s out there screaming of joy about a track that share their name.)
10. “What A Feeling”
This has serious flashback vibes, with the music and the title. But, that aside, it’s good, in a very retro vibe. The chorus where they all sing together, reminds me of the boys’ X Factor days of all singing in harmony.
11. “Love You Goodbye”
Every album needs at least one break-up song, right? Rumored to be based on the emotional heartbreak of the break-up of Louis Tomlinson and long-time girlfriend Eleanor Calder, it is very emotional and I like it. But then again, ballads tend to be my preference.
12. “I Want to Write You a Song”
Not my favorite song, but it’s still a cute song about an innocent first love story. This seems to have some indie, songwriter, playing-guitar-around-a-campfire vibes embedded in this tune, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
OKAY, WE FINALLY MADE IT HERE. This is definitely one of my favorite tracks on the entire album. I love the music, the lyrics, everything. I love it. And the meaning about it being for the fans is to sweet. Especially, how Niall and their songwriting team brought in the fans to sing on the chorus, like it’s truly for and by the fans. Adorable. Also, that part that “this is not the end,” is a perfect reminder that the boys are going on sabbatical/hiatus (Note: this is in reference to an interview conducted by Nick Grimshaw on Radio 1.) It’s such a cute dedication to the fans and how much they support the boys each and every day.
14. “Temporary Fix”
Love this song! I love the upbeat tempo, and it’s giving me serious “Alive” vibes. For those who don’t know, “Alive” is one of my favorite songs from the “Midnight Memories” album. It’s fun!
15. “Walking in the Wind”
Not my favorite song, but it’s still a cute song. This gives me some indie, songwriter, playing-guitar-around-a-campfire vibes, again not a bad thing. Also, very reminiscent of older hits ala “Story of My Life.”
16. “Wolves”
Upon re-listening to this track, I’m liking it even more! It’s fun, upbeat and I’m enjoying it! The intro is giving me like 50s vibes? Right?!? But, it’s dance-y, also reminds me of “Alive,” which I like.
17. And finally… “AM”
This is very cute. A little cheesy that it’s a song about how good memories are “made in the a.m.” But, it’s adorable.
This is really good FIFTH album boys. I hope you enjoy your… hiatus, and when you come back, know that you’ll still have a fan right here.
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Releasing my inner fangirl at a One Direction concert in London
Posted in Miranda Goes Global, Pop Culture by mlsiwak
So, last Monday was the day I went to the ONE DIRECTION concert in London!!! (Can you hear my inner fangirl shrieking?) It was so incredible to see the boys live for the third time, and this time in their home country! 🙂 It was a great night. Now, on to some of the great highlights from their fourth show in London:
Harry told Karen Payne (Liam’s mum), who was there with his older sister, to “stand her pretty a** up” during the show. And they were seated in the same side of the stage as me. No biggie. But, what Harry said was so him and absolutely hilarious.
When reading signs, Liam and Harry found a couple there on their anniversary and they said they had their first kiss watching Elf, to which Harry said, “nothing like… to put you in the mood.” Oh, that’s so Harry…
Liam spoke of how all of his lyrics are about skinny jeans, hospitals and drinking… Well, he’s not wrong… I wonder what a psychologist would say about that one? (And yes, Liam: psychology is a real word. Note: this is a reference to an interview they did with Ellen Degeneres.)
Liam asked if his mum and sister were liking the show. Awww, he’s too cute.
During WMYB (and the whole encore really) Liam and Louis had a huge water fight, chucking entire contents of several water bottles at each other while Harry/ Niall were singing their parts… It was hilarious.
There were so many amazing moments, songs and it was so awesome to be able to see them at their real height and see their faces! 🙂 Ready for some pictures?
View from my seat! So close to the stage!
Boys on the main stage.
Niall and his guitar.
Harry mastering the “tip the mic stand” move.
Awww, buddies Liam and Niall…
Side note: who’s looking forward to the release of “Made in the A.M.” next month??
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Posted in Miranda Goes Global by mlsiwak
Hi guys! So, after spending such an incredible summer living in Manhattan, I’ve had to leave. Sad face. But, that means my fall semester adventures can officially begin! I couldn’t be more excited to spend my time living in London, exploring all over the U.K. and Europe, interning with a local business and experiencing all the wonders of traveling, as I so love to do!
Since it’s crunch time for me to get ready for my epic travel adventures, I thought today’s blog post would focus on travel tips and perhaps things I want to do abroad/in London.
WHAT TO KNOW WHEN GOING GLOBAL:
1. Pack light. You don’t need twelve pairs of pants, several ball gowns and six pairs of boots (numbers approximate.). A few pairs of pants, shoes, etc are plenty. Remember, there’s always laundry. And if you pack too much, then you can’t go shopping… So, isn’t it worth it not to overpack?
2. When traveling for an extended period of time, always choose your outfits ahead of time. What I do is lay out all my options and take pictures of complete outfits. It also helps to show you how versatile each piece can be. If you can’t wear an item multiple ways, leave it at home!
Example from my NYC packing!
3. Dress for comfort on the plane! Especially when you’re on a long flight, always wear clothes that are light and easy to move in. Also, grab a pair of compression socks when traveling internationally! Do you really want an increased risk of blood clots and DVT/ cankles?
4. Make sure you have some identifiable trait that makes your luggage easy to distinguish. I mean, everyone has a black rolling suitcase. Sometimes, I travel with a brightly colored pink suitcase or have a colorful ribbon or luggage tag, so I’ll always be able to i.d. my bags at baggage claim.
5. When on the plane, sleep as much as you can! You don’t want to waste a day when you arrive being jet lagged. (A sleep mask is a great investment!) Hint: the window seat is the best place to fall asleep, as you can lean on the wall. Or, if you are not able to sit at a window seat, you can rest on your tray table or just lean back, but please don’t be that person who leans way too far back, giving the person behind you no space for comfort. (For inspiration on how to avoid jet lag: remember Gilmore Girls? This is what not to do.)
6.When packing, ROLL don’t fold or place flat. Rolling allows you to take up less space, and thus, you can add more to the suitcase. Or you can put everything in Ziplocs or Space Bags, and make sure to get the air out!
7. Just in case your baggage does not make it to your destination on time, always always always make sure to add some extra undergarments, deodorant/ toiletries and a change of clothes in your carryon. (When traveling abroad, you do not want to board the plane with one tiny little purse exclusively.) Adapt to a backpack or big tote and put your essentials inside. This was my lifesaver in Israel last year. (No luggage for 3 out of 10 days is definitely not ideal, but I survived due to preparation.)
8. Pack snacks! You’ll definitely get hungry on a long flight and sometimes the little peanuts or the prepackaged meals won’t really help. So, always bring easy snacks for the length of the flight. However, please don’t be the person with the airport fast food. The entire plane will instantly dislike you, as it stinks up the whole cabin.
9. Speaking of the airlines food options, if you have a meal allergy or specific preference always make a note under the “special requests” section when booking your flight! The last thing you want is to be given some food item that you cannot eat. You can even do it after the ticket is bought, as long as they have 24 hours notice to be able to order everything.
10. With a long flight, I always like to go to the bathroom about an hour before landing to freshen up. Change any clothing items that are no longer fresh or clean/ not weather appropriate, and you can also use this time to freshen up your hair and makeup from the flight.
My London Bucket List:
What do I want to do in London?
Hello? London. Home of TOPSHOP. But, I think that one is quite obvious.
Since I’m staying in Kensington: PETER PAN statue (Finding Neverland!) and Royal Family sightings perhaps?
Well, I already know this one: see One Direction live at the O2 arena!! (Eeep, I’m legit soo excited!)
Fitness/ dance classes at Seen on Screen! (Seems like fun for a dancer like me!!)
Travel… EVERYWHERE. (Well, time and budget permitting)
West End shows! (Obviously…)
Singalong film at the Prince Charles Cinema? I think yes. (I mean, Grease singalong?!?!)
Historical sites that are obviously necessary to visit.
Well, since celeb spotting was a thing in NYC… How about royal spotting?? 😉 Also, I wouldn’t say no to 1D spotting… 😉
Shopping, obvi… (Think Harrods, Spitalfields Market, etc)
I can’t wait to go to London!
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My favorite looks from the Billboard Music Awards red carpet
Posted in Fashion, Pop Culture by mlsiwak
With tonight’s BBMAs in Vegas, I thought it was appropriate to discuss my fave looks from the carpet.
First off, so excited to hear about the upcoming Balmain x H&M collab! (I mean, Justin Bieber’s Met Gala tux was epic!!) Jourdan Dunn and Kendall Jenner stun in the future collection, and I’ll def have to stop by my local store when the collection is released!
Tonight’s hostess Chrissy Teigen looks perfect in her perfectly tailored and perfectly styled 70’s-inspired jumpsuit. It looks ahmazing on her. One of the night’s best dressed for sure!
And of course, Miss T. Swift looks perfect in the night’s biggest trend: jumpsuits. And her Bad Blood video? Epic. (Bonus: who caught her cats’ namesakes walking side by side? I did!) Watch it right now if you haven’t seen it.
DWTS alum Danica McKellar stuns in her silver, sparkly one-shouldered gown. Gorge.
And here’s One Direction. let’s just stare at their beauty for a minute, shall we? (Liam’s smolder.) Plus, who heard Liam’s “we would like to share this with our brother Zayn??” Too adorable. (I can’t wait to see them live in their town: London! First, I saw them in my home state, and now the tables have flipped! Eeeep I’m so excited about it— best study abroad ever!)
And Ed Sheeran also looks great for one of my fave artists EVER.
And there’s IDINA. Still can’t I saw her perform LIVE!! She’s incredible! If you get a chance, go see If/Then on tour (an awesome show and Idina will be reprising her role this summer!!)
Great looks aplenty, what were your favorite moments and looks from the show?
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Directioner Update
After five years, the face of the mega-popular pop band One Direction has changed as we know it.
The official press release, published March 25, reported, “After five incredible years Zayn Malik has decided to leave One Direction. Niall [Horan], Harry [Styles], Liam [Payne] and Louis [Tomlinson] will continue as a four-piece and look forward to the forthcoming concerts of their world tour and recording their fifth album, due to be released later this year.”
Malik responded in the press release, “My life with One Direction has been more than I could ever have imagined. But, after five years, I feel like it is now the right time for me to leave the band. I’d like to apologise to the fans if I’ve let anyone down, but I have to do what feels right in my heart. I am leaving because I want to be a normal 22-year-old who is able to relax and have some private time out of the spotlight. I know I have four friends for life in Louis, Liam, Harry and Niall. I know they will continue to be the best band in the world.”
Giving his only interview since the big news, Zayn revealed to The Sun, “I did try to do something that I wasn’t happy doing for a while, for the sake of other people’s happiness. I feel like I’ve let the fans down, but I can’t do this anymore. It’s not that I’ve turned my back on them or anything; it’s just that I just can’t do that anymore because it’s not the real me.”
Liam, like the other boys, responded via Twitter:
Celebs and fans alike have been posting their thoughts via Twitter about Zayn’s desires for happiness and a normal life.
What are your thoughts on Zayn’s decision to leave? Will you remain a 1D fan?
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The American Music Awards happened. It’s time for my Red Carpet Breakdown.
Must-see looks of the night:
1. Miss Kendall Jenner, fashion’s latest haute couture It Girl of course is in attendance, and her dress… looks messy, sloppy. Not well put together. I mean, she’s a tall, beautiful girl, stop going for the obvious sexpot look your family is known for, be the high fashion model “Kendall,” you wanted to be called.
2. Selena Gomez, who will perform (for the first time ever) her latest song about the Biebs. This ages her soooo much. It’s too dark, too long. She’s young, having fun: you don’t need to age yourself this much! And that strict bun does not help that cause.
3. PLL star Lucy Hale: not crazy about the dress, a little ill-fitting. But, I LOVE LOVE LOVE her hair! The length with the ombre and the styling– perfect!
4. I’m loving “Jealous” right now, and here he is, Nick Jonas in the flesh. He looks very dapper, but I’m afraid the silk suit is a little too Academy Awards than AMAs. But, hey, no complaints, obvi, just like any other female fan. (lol.)
5. “All About that Bass” singer Meghan Trainor. Love this look, from head to toe. She’s been vocal about not being a size two, and I see a gorge ensemble that I’d want to steal. Perfectly tailored, the bag is jus the perfect amount of “pop.” She looks great. And I’m loving her song, “Dear Future Husband” right now, it’s great.
6. ONE DIRECTION… sports black-on-black. They look good, well-done, boys. However, Niall looks like the odd man out: the only one dressed very casual when his bandmates are dressed to the nines (Liam! Louis! Zayn!). He looks like he took clothes off the rack from 5SOS’ wardrobe, tbh. And Zayn’s hair: it’s DANNY ZUKO.
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Reviewing 1989. (The album, not the year)
I know it’s a little late, but I’ll be reviewing T.Swift’s new pop-online album. First off, I wanted to say how I was initially concerned that I wouldn’t like the album, but I really do like it. It’s well-written and very catchy. A+ Miss Swift. Can I just say how yesterday at chapter, our president asked who had this album. I proudly raised my hand: it’s that good.
Tracklist for 1989:
Welcome to New York. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this song!!! And not to mention, it came out the day I found out I was accepted to go to NYC this summer. I call that fate. It’s so catchy and peppy. It’s making so excited to be in the city this summer. And it’s the official NY tourism song, insane right? Yes, “New York has been waiting for me.” Love this song.
Blank Space. Easily one of my favorite songs off the album. It’s pure perfection and I love it! “It’s gonna be forever or worth the pain. I got a blank space baby and I’ll write your name.” I love it. PERECTION in terms of a song.
Style. So peppy and upbeat, it makes me want to dance! 🙂 Ugh, I’m waiting for a dance to it on DWTS!
Out of the Woods. The iTunes preview doesn’t do this song any justice. It’s great. And is it really about HARRY STYLES??? Can someone confirm? As a journalist, I want to know the truth! (Haha, lol.)
All You Had to do Was Stay. Amazing. Love it. So great.
I Wish you Would. LOVE LOVE. Great song. So peppy.
Bad Blood. Oh wow, this is so catchy. More importantly, who is Taylor feuding with??
Wildest Dreams. At first, I didn’t like it. But it’s growing on me as a sweet ballad.
How You Get the Girl. I LOVE THIS SONG. Hands down, one of the best off the album. It’s very dance-y and I love it. It’s even my alarm.
This Love. Not bad, a sweet ballad.
I Know Places. Kinda haunted. (haha, I just realized that pun. Oh wow, that was not intended.) But, really good.
Clean. The one song I’m not crazy about.
No matter my tastes, I think we can all agree that Taylor did a great job on this album, and as Brad Paisley said, “New York’s gain is Nashville’s loss.”
And speaking of music, One Direction just released a new track off their soon-to-be-released album, called “Ready to Run.” I love it because it’s more than their traditional past songs that are very dance-y. It’s a beautiful ballad, and I really like the mature sound. Great job, One Direction, great job. It’s mature, well-written and catchy. I love it. People are comparing it to Steal My Girl: but I don’t see that. (Partly because I wasn’t a fan of the previous single, but Ready to Run: it’s good.)
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It’s here. It’s new. I’ll review it.
So, the new One Direction video for “Steal My Girl” was released today. And I thought I’d provide shot-by-shot commentary of the video using screenshots. Here we go.
We start with the boys exiting a trailer in the middle of the desert, waiting to meet their video director.
Surprise! It’s Danny DeVito!
He assigns the boy banders all a superpower to portray.
Here’s a shot of Niall looking like he has in past videos, hello LWWY moment. You can tell it’s summer.
Now, I’m not entirely sure the plot or the purpose of everything. But, hey, it made me laugh…
Boys on a mountain during sunset.
Louis and Danny made a new friend. He has the best glasses of the three.
Sunset shot. With balloons in the background. Artsy?
Here’s Harry’s big solo moment, very overdressed and he could stand to get a haircut.
How do you explain the scene of Zayn and the sumo wrestlers.
And Liam leads a marching band? With a cast on his wrist. 😦 Can we know what happened?
Louis and his monkey pal are getting closer (holding hands, how does Eleanor feel? lol.)
More balloons on the mountain at sunset!
Who can forget this image of Harry dancing, in the rain, with Danny DeVito. I certainly can’t.
Rain! And one last group shot.
And cut, Danny DeVito deems the video finished.
Now go watch the video in it’s full glory.
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New post. New thoughts.
Hi everyone. Sorry I haven’t had much time to devote to this blog recently: a journalist’s job is never done, as I’ve been crazy busy with homework, class projects and everything thing else I’ve overcommitted myself to. (But, I sort of love my life that way.)
I thought I’d just sit in ramble for today’s post. Just talk.
What’s been happening since I last posted?
George Clooney is officially off-the-market and married an amazing high-profile human rights lawyer.
I’ve become obsessed with “Once Upon a Time” AND “How to Get Away With Murder.” As well as, “Manhattan Love Story,” “A to Z,” “Red Band Society” and of course, Greys and Scandal. Great shows, start watching. (I mean, #TGIT, anyone?)
The whole Ebola news thing everyone should be aware of is big news.
Applying to study and intern in NYC this summer and London this fall. (Dream: to intern at a publication like Seventeen. Fingers crossed!)
I interviewed a major YouTube star (“HelloKaty”) and wrote a profile on that. Read it here.
One Direction announced the track list for their fourth studio album, “Four.”
Neil Patrick Harris will host the 2015 Oscars.
Taylor Swift’s new pop album “1989” will be released any day now. And “Out of the Woods” may be inspired by a Mr. Harry Styles.
Everyone’s been obsessing over “American Horror Story” which stars my camp alum, Emma Roberts.
The Kansas City Royals will officially be playing in World Series. (GO CARDINALS!)
One thing I’ve noticed about the world: is such a huge focus on the superficial sides. And while, I love fashion and celeb gossip, I admit that’s not what matters: family, doing what you love, etc– that’s what matters, not what you wear or how popular you are, it’s how you perceive yourself and who you want to be. No one can belittle who you are or tell you who to be except for yourself. Be brave, be strong, be yourself. Because no one else for stick up for yourself other than you.
I just wish more girls, and people in general, would be able to be 100 percent themselves and not worry about how others perceive them. So, if you want to wear a certain outfit or attain for a certain career: go for it. Chase your dreams. Be a superstar. Be amazing. You are amazing. You don’t need anyone else to tell you that. Your opinion is the only one that matters.
Alright, I’m off to watch Greys, Scandal and the Cardinal game, as well as work on some essays. Thanks for reading. xx
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BuzzTaxi sells titles across the globe
BuzzTaxi Communications has announced deals for its documentary and factual entertainment titles across a number of territories.
By Kelly Anderson
BuzzTaxi Communications has announced deals for its documentary and factual entertainment titles across a number of territories. In a pan-Asian deal AETN is acquiring three one-off documentaries: Beasts of the Bible (1 x 90 min HD) from Associated Producers; Science of the Soul (1 x 90 min HD), also from AP and Shanghai Bride (1 x 60 min) from Scopofile Productions. Latin America’s MGM Networks have picked up The Role That Changed My Life (52 x 30 min, HD) from Pyramid Productions. HGTV’s Top Ten (26 x 30 min, HD) from Firvalley Productions has been licensed to cable net Tele Maison in France, while another series from Firvalley Production, Women on Top (26 x 30 min) has been picked up by the Halogen Network to air in the U.S. along with Film Festival Project (4 x 60 min, HD) from Pyramid Productions. Broadcaster Nonstop in Scandinavia has picked up new seasons of The Role That Changed My Life, Film Festival Project (4 x 60 min, HD), Inside Hollywood and Whatever Happened To? (eps 53-104). All will air on a pan feed throughout Scandinavia, in addition to Nonstop’s new service in Africa.
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Odisha govt to sell 131 acres of Jagannath temple land in one year
The decision was taken at a high-level review meeting chaired by chief secretary G C Pati here at secretariat on Tuesday.
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Protests by citizens and priests of Jagannath Temple over slow progress of infrastructure development in Puri for Nabakalebara marred a preparatory meeting for July 18 Rath Yatra in Puri on Wednesday.
BHUBANESWAR: The state government has identified over 131 acres of land belong to Shree Jagannath Temple, Puri for sale through auction process. The decision was taken at a high-level review meeting chaired by chief secretary G C Pati here at secretariat on Tuesday.
The objective to sell the temple land is to enhance the corpus fund of Jagannath Temple. For selling of land, the chief secretary has asked the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) to make necessary changes in the existing law of 2003, official sources said.
The Puri temple has altogether 57,000 acres of land across the state.
“There are around 1900 acres of temple land lying in Bhubaneswar, Khurda and Jatni areas. The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) has been asked to sale 131 acres of land in the first phase to generate revenue for the temple,” said SJTA chief administrator Suresh Mohapatra.
The BDA has been asked to sell the land since it has expertise in land transactions. “The BDA will take five per cent of the land cost,” he added.
The temple administration has targeted to generate revenues worth Rs 2,000 crore within one year by selling of temple land.
Since a huge portion of temple land has been grabbed by miscreants in different areas, the chief secretary has directed the SJTA to construct boundary walls around such land, sources said.
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Q&A With Rock Star Triathlete Coach & Pro Triathlete Kerry Sullivan Now On Replay
Newest Rock Star Triathlete coach Brad Haag will be interviewing Rock Star Triathlete coach and pro triathlete Kerry Sullivan
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Live Workshop How To Go To the “Pain Cave” Workshop with Kerry Sullivan Now Available for Download!
The Pain Cave is a special place that often athletes have to go to have a good performance. It’s a place that one has to have the physical capacity and mental toughness to endure.
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Live Q&A RESCHDULED
Unfortunately Justin was unable to make the Q&A session. It will be rescheduled for another time in the near future.
Justin Trollé is a Level III USAT Coach and over the past 10 years he has coached International elite athletes in New Zealand as well as elite athletes here in the USA including Mark Fretta, Greg Billington, Lauren Goldstein-Kral and Sarah Groff.
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How To Respond to Pace Changes In A Race – LIVE Workshop Now Available For Download.
When racing to finish as high as you can in a triathlon, the dynamics and tactics of racing change. Often there comes a time in every race where you need to decide if you are going to respond to someone or a group of people speeding up.
Conversely, there can also be times when people around you may be fading off and you need to decide whether to stay with them or go.
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Duane Dobko has 17 years of competitive swimming experience and 7 years of triathlon experience. He was a former school record holder for the University of Minnesota in the 100 yard backstroke and was a Canadian National champion in the 50 meter backstroke in 1994.
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As an athlete, Blake has over a decade of racing experience across all distances from sprint distance to Ironman. Blake has completed 25+ Ironman races and has gone from an athlete with no racing experience or background, to an 8 hour/top 5 Ironman finisher.
As an endurance coach, Blake has been working with athletes for 10 years. He combines a Bachelors Degree in Education, with a USA Triathlon certification and nearly a decade of experience.
Over the last 10 years, Blake has worked with over 200 athletes of all ability levels; this includes athletes who set out to complete their first sprint triathlon, as well as athletes who race as elites and have raced at the World Championships. No matter what your goals are for the year, talk to Blake, the chances are good that he can help you get where you want to be!
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Fast Triathlon Transition Like A Pro – Live Workshop With Ben Greenfield Now Available For Download.
Transitions are often called the 4th event in a triathlon. When looking at the fastest triathletes, their transition times are also the fastest too. It’s an easy place for athletes to take some time off and a depending on how competitive you transition, it can make or break you.
In this call, you’re going to pick up a few secrets to shave seconds off your transition time…keep reading to download now or listen…
Triathlon Medical Q&A With Dr. John Post Now Available For Download!
Dr. John Post is an orthopedic surgeon. He is also Medical Director, Training Bible Coaching official Dr., 6 Time Kona Finisher and Rock Star Triathletes official Orthopedic Surgeon and medical consultant.
John is unique compared to many Dr.’s out there in that he understands the elements and mind set of triathletes as he is one. As such he gives great advice one how to triathletes dealing with injuries and other medical issues that can arise from racing.
In this call we discuss:
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-If weight training is beneficial for triathletes…
To listen now or download for later, just keep reading…
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Back to the future at Anston PC?
All change at Anston Parish Council, where Dominic Beck chairman, was replaced by John Ireland the previous chairman!
Our Dominic must have been adjudged as failing as chairman of Anston PC! We agree with them, at least on this point!
On this subject Dominic Beck has been tight lipped, occasionally retorting to enquirers that he had, “stood aside!”
This inglorious experience should teach him something, but I won’t be holding my breath !
This entry was posted in Abuse of power, Anston parish council and tagged Anston Parish Council, Dominic Beck, Labour, Labour Chicanery, Labour Party, RMBC, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council by Rik. Bookmark the permalink.
28 thoughts on “Back to the future at Anston PC?”
This charade reminds me of the ‘revolving chair’ farce in Russia when Putin stepped aside as President, became Prime Minister and is now President again.
The Labour councillors on APC have learned the lesson well.
Stitch-up,what stitch-up??
Next May 2014 when Anston becomes an Independent Parish council, it will be interesting to see who the Chairman is then. I think Stuart Thornton would be a good choice for chairman, with the thorough and professional way he goes about things.
Graham. I ask you again how often you go to meetings and was you at the meeting? There is a lot more to this than the headlines suggest and it will come out in due course. I will repost this link to the letter from an ex Labour councillor who supports Stuart and suggested he was struck at another meeting http://www.dinningtontoday.co.uk/community/readers-letters/nothing-has-changed-1-5654928 Cheers Tim
Ex labour. That says it all!
Dominic Beck stood aside? At the last Anston Parish Council meeting, which began as the annual meeting, Beck had already had a resolution put on the agenda for the normal council meeting. The chairman can not propose nor second a resolution from the chair, because this would negate their ability to stay impartial. They have two choices stand aside and let the vice chair take over or stand down altogether as chair. Beck did neither, if he had stood down he would have had to state to the meeting that he did not wish to be re-elected he did not. Councillor Dalton proposed Ireland this was seconded, councillor Jepson proposed councillor Crowther who declined the nomination; this just left councillor Ireland. Then Beck proposed Dalton for vice chair. This of course was a smoke screen, it left Beck in the position of being able to propose his motion of censure; the problem is that he was still chairman when he had the motion put on the agenda. So what is he to do? He gets his surrogate mummy to get him off, This does two things it allows him to move the resolution and gets him away from the glare of the adverse publicity he has been getting. Without there being a conspiracy to stitch up councilor Thornton mummy Dalton would not have had her little boy kicked off as chairman.
Judy is very supportive of Dominic and every other councillor. I just wish your PMT improves so you can be more positive about the good work Labour are doing in the parish. I will be voting for them again especially Cllr Crowther who is doing a great job. Bravo Team Labour!
Tim Anston on June 1, 2013 at 9:14 am said:
Please explain what great job they have been doing? Since 1975 Anston has become nothing more than a housing estate with no facilities and central shopping zone.
Graham on June 1, 2013 at 5:58 pm said:
I just hope I am not living among racists Who vote for UKIP ?
Colin Tawn on June 1, 2013 at 9:52 pm said:
That is both a sloppy and an untrue statement. On what evidence do you claim UKIP are racist? I don’t want your personal pro-Labour rant but I do want you to post either a link or hard evidence that shows UKIP is a racist party
Taking your illogical statement to the nth degree labels the majority of Rawmarsh electors as racists, I’m sure they will be very happy for you to hang that label round their necks.
H4H on June 4, 2013 at 11:30 am said:
I was drawn to comment on previous posts when delusional support, in my opinion, was weakening what we all should be working towards. Again, I feel compelled to comment when I read the branding of anyone who votes UKIP as bigoted or racist. I may not agree with their politics but while I live in this democratic society the public should be given the right to choose what issues are important to them. This is not a dictatorship.
You cannot bully the electorate by branding them racist if they do not share your opinion on poignant issues. If anything this is the lazy option, which they have become tired of in this area. There are undoubtably issues that voters have their concerns with and immigration is obviously high on that agenda. If UKIP are taking ‘safe’ Labour seats then surely there is a discussion that needs to take place. Whilst I believe that UKIP play the ‘race card’ all too easily, to ignore it completely is to bury your head in the sand.
A little food for thought: If we are going to preach about tolerance whilst your party supporters and members celebrated and effectively danced on the grave of Lady Thatcher, then what gives you the credibility to challenge yet another vile act against a fellow human? Save the political ramblings, this is an observation made at a social level.
Sally Kate Taylor on June 9, 2013 at 11:45 am said:
Took me 5 mins.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ukip-councillors-racist-rants-more-1897414
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/21/ukip-councillor-alan-jesson-facebook_n_3312256.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324335/UKIP-councillor-Eric-Kitson-said-Islam-cancer-racist-Facebook-page-step-down.html
http://www.dailyshame.co.uk/2013/05/satire/one-down-ukip-councillor-quits-because-hes-actually-proper-racist/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-22765204
http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2013/05/19/more-ukip-horror-as-investigation-exposes-racist-abuse
Tim Anston on June 1, 2013 at 10:06 pm said:
So you will like this article http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/selenagray/100219364/im-in-shock-ive-just-discovered-that-my-mother-and-sister-are-ukip-supporters/ . and this article Carry on with the insults Graham, Cameron tried that and it drove more people to UKIP. I understand that more traditional Labour supporters have flocked to UKIP than Tories. I class myself as a moderate and will vote UKIP to get red of Kevin Barron. At local politics I will vote or stand as an Independent. While in Sheffield today, you were no further than three metres from a UKIP supporter.
Graham on June 1, 2013 at 10:15 pm said:
Tim maybe we can share a cuppa sometime?
You idiot! When UKIP go on about immigration they a playing the race game especially appealing to ordinary bigoted elderly conservative voter or younger people, especially in Rawmash, who are to an extent victims of what has happened to working class people in this country over the last few years. They’re jobless and have awful prospects and they are responding violently to what they see as a threat. It’s important to state that immigrants or people from different ethnic backgrounds or religions are not our enemies. UKIP leaders and their cronies are racist and we should see them for the vile people that they are by twisting issues to benefit themselves!
Colin Tawn on June 1, 2013 at 11:37 pm said:
Tut Tut! You cannot debate sensibly so you resort to calling me an idiot, is this the best you can do?
‘UKIP leaders and their cronies are racist and we should see them for the vile people that they are by twisting issues to benefit themselves!’ Ah I see, so that is why UKIP gained 154 extra council seats in the local elections a couple of months ago because they bamboozled and conned “elderly conservative voters or younger people”?
Is everyone in your world who is anti-Labour an idiot or a racist?
Graham on June 2, 2013 at 12:01 am said:
Comment rejected, advise you go to bed
RotherValleyVoter on June 2, 2013 at 12:14 am said:
As a Labour member, I find your recent posts both childish and offensive. Your comments about UKIP is insulting to the electorate and voters of Rawmarsh who rightly rejected nepatism and cronyism. The Labour membership in Rother Valley and Rotherham is dying a slow death and people like you are the cause. The arrogance of some RMBC councillors is well known and believe me as a long time activist, the general electorate are turning against a party that they feel does not listen, no longer shares their views or concerns and a party that has turned its back on them. Lifelong Labour voters are going to be looking elsewhere come next May and throwing unsubstantiated claims at the opposition will not cut it! If you are trying to find a job and you are undercut by foreign agency workers recieving less than minimum wage, if you are a self employed builder,with a mortgage and family and are regularly losing contracts to foreign gangers, if you are one of these people you aren’t racist because you look to a party that has the answers to your worries and concerns. Its our party that should be speaking to these people and offering solutions not insulting them by calling them fascists and racist! Walking blindly on whilst complacently gambling that the lifelong voters will stick with us is suicide. Nepatism, cronyism, complacency, arrogance and being out of touch with its core vote..welcome to the modern Labour Party in Rotherham.
What a racist you are! Germany for the Germans! I am happy to be out of touch if you are the product. Please learn more about immigration and the true benefits of Europe. I will make it clear that I stay in the Labour Party so bigoted people like might leave. You have to live with your own conscience not me!
RotherValleyVoter on June 2, 2013 at 6:24 pm said:
Graham, your comments below just go to reiterate my point about some elemnents of the Labour Party in Rotherham. Your comments only further alienate real Labour people. If you took time to listen to Labour’s message nationally rather than rely on the self serving leaders of Rotherham’s Stalin State, you would realise that my comments simply echo Ed Milliband’s and leading thinkers such as Maurice Glasman. It isn’t me who should educate myself, it seems as though you need to catch up with the times and Labour Policy. I refer to Ed Milliband’s speech of June 2012 to the Institute for Public Policy Research .
http://www.labour.org.uk/to-deal-with-peoples-concerns-on-immigration-we-must-change-how-
S Thornton on June 1, 2013 at 11:24 pm said:
You say ” I do not believe that he is violent or we have anything to fear”, then its a bit odd that in previous posts you have personally attacked me by calling me “Rocky Thornton” and you say ” I am not one for rumours” well you must be, because you seem to have listened to others and made your mind up that I am at fault for the events that happened. As I keep saying “take off the red tinted glasses”, there are two sides to every story.
Is your middle name not Rocky?
rothpol on June 1, 2013 at 11:33 pm said:
Can’t you resist childishness such as this! Or is it a question of, best not to blog when drunk?
Another offer of a cuppa to Mr Thornton.
firtleberry on June 1, 2013 at 11:35 pm said:
Thank you for enquiring about my Pit Mans Truth it is doing very well thank you. Why do you not address the points I have made about the way the witch hunt against councillor Thornton was conducted by your wonderful Labour councillor. Answer the point about how Beck vacated the chair in order to conduct his vendetta. Answer the point about him abusing his position as chair to put the censure motion on the agenda, when he did this he knew full well he would have to vacate the chair to move it. I do not give a damn about the party they are in I care about the way in which they conduct themselves and Beck and his cronies are political bankrupts. Even the local Labour Party leadership are embarrassed by the goings on at Anston.
Graham says he is a Christian Socialist, since when did Christians resort to name calling and abuse? I am an Elder of the United Reform Church and amongst my many Christian friends none of them use language that includes words like “racist, idiot and bigot”.
Perhaps Christian Socialism does not emphasise the word Christian enough but instead focuses on Socialism.
RotherValleyVoter posted a link to a speech given by Ed Milliband, your recent comments show you are well out of step with your party’s leader. Perhaps you are in the wrong party.
Colin Tawn on June 10, 2013 at 1:34 pm said:
For Sally Kate Taylor to support her claims that ‘UKIP is racist’ she posts links to several ‘news’ items, and all of them highlight a UKIP party member who made racist comments. What SKT failed to do was point out that Farage has thrown him out of the party, unlike Labour MP’s who manage to keep their snouts in the trough.
I take it therefore that SKT does not care about Islamist preachers spouting racist and hate crime bile or Diane Abbott being forced to apologise for racist comments:
Labour only has itself to blame for stoking the flames of racism. During its period of government, it set up the now disbanded UK Borders Agency and the Points Based System to bring in draconian controls on non-EU immigration. Their Immigration Minister in the final days was Phil Woolas, who ran a disgraceful racist campaign in his Oldham constituency and was subsequently convicted of electoral offences and removed as MP. Labour’s response to the campaign by UKIP and the Tories against immigrants is to say that it failed to control it sufficiently when in office and should have done more to keep migrants from the new EU states of Bulgaria and Romania out of the UK.
If a person denies clear evidence of racism, defends a racist, and attacks a leading anti-racist institution, is it fair to conclude that they are in fact a racist?
It is a genuine question. The answer in some cases will, undoubtedly, be yes. However, others may find themselves in the position of supporting a racist and denying their racism, and attacking anti-racist organisations: because they believe that a little racism is necessary, in furtherance of a greater political cause. Those people are not racists themselves. They are merely tolerating and facilitating racism, making it more difficult to challenge, giving it an alibi.
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Black Coffee A Mystery Play in Three Acts
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The Time of the Angels Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch - The Time of the Angels
Carel is rector of a non-existent City church (it was destroyed in the war). In the rectory live his daughter, Muriel, his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth, and their West Indian servant, Patti. Here too are Eugene, a Russian emigre, and his delinquent son, Leo. Carel's brother, Marcus, co-guardian with him of Elizabeth, tires to make contact with Carel but is constantly rebuffed. These seven characters go through a dance of attraction and repulsion, misunderstanding and revelation, the centre of which is the enigmatic Carel himself - a priest who believes that, God being dead, His angels are released. At the end, Muriel finds herself with the power of life and death over her father.
The Cuckoo's Calling Robert Galbraith
Robert Galbraith - The Cuckoo's Calling
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his long-time girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Landry walks through his door with an amazing story. His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, fell, famously, to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rockstar boyfriends, desperate designers, and every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. You may think you know detective novels, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know the world of the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen it investigated by a detective like this one.
The Hound of the Baskervilles / The Valley of Fear... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles / The Valley of Fear
This volume contains two of the greatest Sherlock Holmes novels penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast which roams the mist-enshrouded wilds of Dartmoor. Now the Hound seems to be stalking the young Sir Henry, the heir of the Baskerville estate. Is this devilish spectre the manifestation of the family curse? Or is Sir Henry the victim of a vile and scheming murderer? Only Sherlock Holmes can solve the mystery. In The Valley of Fear a cipher message and a horrible murder begin this dark, powerful tale in which Sherlock Holmes faces his old arch enemy Professor Moriarty once more. The solution to the riddle lies far away from the disturbed calm of a country house in Sussex, halfway across the world in a location known as 'The Valley of Fear'.
The Best of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Best of Sherlock Holmes
The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch-sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's ' Baker Street Dozen', creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world's most famous detective.
Witness for the Prosecution Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie - Witness for the Prosecution
Headlining this book is Witness for the Prosecution - Christie's highly successful stage play which won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best foreign play. A stunning courtroom drama, it tells the story of a scheming wife testifying against her husband in a shocking murder trial. The wild beauty of a seaside house perched high on The Devonshire River Tern provides a stunning back-drop in Towards Zero - as a psychopathic murderer homes in on the unsuspecting victims. Passion, murder and love are the deadly ingredients in Verdict, making it one of Christie's more unusual thrillers and prompting her to label it "the best play I have written with the exception of Witness for The Prosecution". Go Back for Murder tells the story of the young and feisty Carla who, orphaned at the tender age of five, discovers her mother was imprisioned for murdering her father and determines to prove her innocence.
A Severed Head Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch - A Severed Head
Martin Lynch-Gibbon believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medusa informs him, 'this is nothing to do with happiness'.
Spider's Web Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie - Spider's Web
Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. She has the chance to find out when she discovers a body ... in her drawing-room. Desperate to dispose of it, she attempts to persuade her house guests to become accessories and accomplices. Now, as the search begins for the murderer in their midst, supposing a police inspector arrives...
Dick Francis - Shattered
When jockey Martin Stukely dies after a fall at Cheltenham, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen videotape. Logan is a glassblower on the verge of widespread acclaim. Long accustomed to the frightful dangers inherent in molten glass and in maintaining a glassmaking furnace at never less than 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, Logan is suddenly faced with terrifying threats to his business, his courage, and his life. Believing that the missing video holds the key to a priceless treasure, and wrongly convinced that Logan knows where to find it, criminal forces set out to press him for information he doesn't have. To survive, he realizes that he himself must sort out the truth. The final race to the tape throws more hazards in Logan's way than his dead jockey friend could ever have imagined. Glass shatters. Logan doesn't ...but it's a close-run thing.
A Study in Scarlet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
The hit BBC series "Sherlock" offers a fresh, contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. The debut episode took as its inspiration the very first Sherlock Holmes novel, "A Study in Scarlet" - and this new edition of Conan Doyle's novel will allow Sherlock fans to discover, or re-discover, the power of that classic story. "A Study in Scarlet" is the genre-defining work with which popular crime fiction was born. A potent mix of serial murder, suspense, cryptic clues, red herrings and revenge, the novel introduces us to the world-famous characters of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade and sees Sherlock and Dr. Watson meet and join forces for the first time as they track a mysterious killer that stalks London's streets. In addition to the original text, this edition also has an introduction by Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat, who explains how it inspired the Sherlock script.
Postern of Fate Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie - Postern of Fate
Now in their seventies, Tommy and Tuppence move to a quiet English village, looking forward to a peaceful retirement. But, as they soon discover, their rambling old house holds secrets. Who is Mary Jordan? And why has someone left a code message in an old book about her 'unnatural' death? Once more, ingenuity and insight are called for as they are drawn into old mysteries and new dangers.
Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie - Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective
Meet the Master His name is Mr. Parker Pyne. London is his home. His specialties are the dark corners of the human soul and the hideous secrets that men and women can conceal... on a blood-soaked, guilt-shrouded hunting ground that extends from the most elegant pleasure spots on earth to the farthest primitive reaches of the globe...
What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie - What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw!
For an instant the two trains ran side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth McGillicuddy stared helplessly out of her carriage window as a man tightened his grip around a woman's throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Mrs. McGillicuddy's friend Jane Marple, would take her story seriously After all, there are no other witnesses, no suspects, and no case -- for there is no corpse, and no one is missing. Miss Marple asks her highly efficient and intelligent young friend Lucy Eyelesbarrow to infiltrate the Crackenthorpe family, who seem to be at the heart of the mystery, and help unmask a murderer.
Parker Pyne Investigates Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie - Parker Pyne Investigates
Mr. Parker Pyne states quite clearly that he is not a detective but 'a heart specialist'. Deception, accomplices and manipulation are all part of his method of operation and he works to cure unhappiness more frequently than to investigate crime.
The Mousetrap and Other Plays Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie - The Mousetrap and Other Plays
Collects eight classic theatrical whodunnits, including mysteries surrounding the fatal reunion of two lovers, an act of kindness that leads to a charge of murder, and the daughter of a murderess investigating her mother's case.
Dangerous to Know Tasha Alexander
Tasha Alexander - Dangerous to Know
Set in the lush countryside of Normandy, France, this new novel of suspense featuring Lady Emily Hargreaves is filled with intrigue, romance, mysterious deaths, and madness. Returning from her honeymoon with Colin Hargreaves and a near brush with death in Constantinople, Lady Emily convalesces at her mother-in-law's beautiful estate in Normandy. But the calm she so desperately seeks is shattered when, out riding a horse, she comes upon the body of a young woman who has been brutally murdered. The girl's wounds are identical to those inflicted on the victims of Jack the Ripper, who has wreaked havoc across the channel in London. Emily feels a connection to the young woman and is determined to bring the killer to justice. Pursuing a trail of clues and victims to the beautiful medieval city of Rouen and a crumbling chateau in the country, Emily begins to worry about her own sanity: she hears the cries of a little girl she cannot find and discovers blue ribbons left in the child's wake. As Emily is forced to match wits with a brilliant and manipulative killer, only her courage, keen instincts and formidable will to win can help her escape becoming his next victim.
A Fatal Waltz Tasha Alexander
Tasha Alexander - A Fatal Waltz
At her friend Ivy's behest, Emily reluctantly agrees to attend a party at the sprawling English country estate of Lord Fortescue, a man she finds as odious as he is powerful. But if Emily is expecting Lord Fortescue to be the greatest of her problems, she is wrong. Her host has also invited Kristiana von Lange, an Austrian countess who was once linked romantically with Emily's fiancé, the debonair Colin Hargreaves. What Emily believes will be a tedious evening turns deadly when Fortescue is found murdered, and his protégé, Robert Brandon - Ivy's husband - is arrested for the crime. Determined to right this terrible wrong and clear Robert's name, Emily begins to dig for answers, a quest that will lead her from London's glittering ballrooms to Vienna's sordid backstreets. Not until she engages a notorious anarchist in a game of wits does the shocking truth begin to emerge: the price of exonerating Robert can be paid only by placing Colin in deadly peril. To save her fiancé, Emily must do the unthinkable: bargain with her nemesis, the Countess von Lange.
A Poisoned Season Tasha Alexander
Tasha Alexander - A Poisoned Season
London's social season is in full swing, and the Victorian aristocracy can't stop whispering about a certain gentleman who claims to be the direct descendant of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. But he's not the only topic of wagging tongues. Drawing rooms, boudoirs, and ballrooms are abuzz with the latest news of an audacious cat burglar who has been making off with precious items that once belonged to the ill-fated queen. Light gossip turns serious when the owner of one of the pilfered treasures is found murdered, and the mysterious thief develops a twisted obsession with Emily. But the strong-minded and fiercely independent Emily will not be shaken. It will take all of her considerable wit and perseverance to unmask her stalker and ferret out the murderer, even as a brewing scandal threatens both her reputation and her romance with her late husband's best friend, the dashing Colin Hargreaves. A Poisoned Season is a delicious blend of sparkling romance, heart-pounding suspense, and rich historical detail that only Tasha Alexander could create.
A Caribbean Mystery Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie - A Caribbean Mystery
An exotic holiday for Miss Marple is ruined when a retired major is killed! As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major's attention wandered. He never did finished the story!
The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie - The Secret Adversary
A crime novel in which two desperate youngsters, short of money and restless for excitement, place an advertisement saying they are willing to do anything and to travel anywhere, but their first assignment for a sinister client plunges them into more danger than they could have imagined.
Hickory Dickory Dock Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie - Hickory Dickory Dock
An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel is not normally the sort of crime that arouses Hercule Poirot's interest. But when he sees the bizarre list of stolen and vandalized items - including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of a soup - he congratulates the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a 'unique and beautiful problem'. And, reasons Poirot, if this is merely a petty thief at work, why is everyone at the hostel so frightened?
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“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
“Writing is the process of finding out what you have to say.”
–Anonymous (Because I can’t remember which famous writer said this)
“In the characters too, exactly as in the structure of the incidents, [the poet] ought always to seek what is either necessary or probable, so that it is either necessary or probable that a person of such-and-such a sort say or do things of the same sort, and it is either necessary or probable that this [incident] happen after that one. It is obvious that the solutions of plots too should come about as a result of the plot itself, and not from a contrivance, as in the Medea and in the passage about sailing home in the Iliad. A contrivance must be used for matters outside the drama—either previous events which are beyond human knowledge, or later ones that need to be foretold or announced. For we grant that the gods can see everything.”
–Aristotle (Poetics)
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
“(They) didn’t know they were novels.”
–John Barth (talking of his first two novels)
“If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.”
“By the way, would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of barroom vernacular, this is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.”
. . . But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with a rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
–Billy Collins (Introduction to Poetry)
“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.”
–Hart Crane
“Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.”
There was a little farder who pushed his mother harder
–E. E. Cummings (First poem, age six)
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
“Every novel should have a beginning, a muddle, and an end.”
–Peter De Vries
“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”
“It’s a filthy trick to publish a writer before he’s grown up.”
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again, since it is life.”
“Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?”
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
“(A poem is) never a put-up job…. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a loneliness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness.”
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
“The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.”
–Natalie Goldberg
“When you are in your left brain you are not in your right mind.”
“If you write from your heart an interesting thing happens; it turns eloquent and even you are forgiven some leeway in syntax, and it is also a teacher: Your heart will make you a writer.”
“Let’s dress you up for town!”
–Eric Halliwell (talking to a poem)
“When you’re beginning, you’re not sure, is this a poem, or is it just a shot at a poem or is it kind of a dead thing? But when it comes alive in a way that you feel that’s your own utterance, then I think you’re in business.”
“However it it is brought into being, true concentration appears—paradoxically—at the moment willed effort drops away. It is then that a person enters what scientist Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi has described as ‘flow’ and Zen calls ‘effortless effort.’ At such moments there may be some strong emotion present—a feeling of joy, or even grief—but as often, in deep concentration, the self disappears. We seem to fall utterly into the object of our attention, or else vanish into attentiveness itself.”
–Jane Hirshfield
“I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.”
–A. E. Housman
“Writing is that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”
“When you think that you’ve written something exceptionally fine, strike it out!”
–Doctor Johnson
“You do not need to leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do not even listen, simply wait.
Do not even wait, be quiet, still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
“Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.”
“In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.”
“In the Eskimo language, the words for ‘to breathe’ and ‘to make a poem’ are the same.”
“There is nothing sweeter, she thought, than the sound of music within.”
–Benjamin Markovitz (A Quiet Adjustment)
“A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.”
“The best style is the style you don’t notice.”
“Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.”
“When you are drawing a horse, go for four legs.”
–Thomas Parker (writing teacher UC Berkeley Extension)
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
“I do have a poet’s vein. I do like flowers and say odd things.”
–Line from the film, Poetry directed by Lee Chang-Dong
“To break the pentameter, that was the first heave.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
“Those who wish to sing, always find a song.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
“The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.”
–Edwin Schlossberg
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”
“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
“Never pay any attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!”
“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”
“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
“Writing is, for most, laborious and slow. The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in his blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up. Like other gunners, he must cultivate patience. He may have to work many covers to bring down one partridge.”
–E. B. White (Elements of Style)
“You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.”
–E. B. White
“Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.”
–E. B. White (The Elements of Style)
“Writing is both mask and unveiling.”
“A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.”
“The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.”
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!”
“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
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Beyoncé, Please Give Us Sexy Yoga Pants For All Women
People Are Mad That Forever21's Activewear Still Won't Fit Everyone
A Young Photographer Who Wants Fashion to Give Black Women Their Bodies Back
A Creative Director on Interpreting Runway Trends for Sexy Plus-Size Clothes Without Charging More
by Ashley Hoffman | September 30, 2015 at 9:44 AM
Growing up as the daughter of a seamstress in Alabama, Jodi Arnold was always wired to design. As the creative director and VP of design at Eloquii, Arnold can do anything for women who wear sizes up to a 24, except fail to deliver all the high fashion looks the straight size women get in the kind of quality fabrics women ask for. So the only move for Eloquii to make is to hawk what’s hot and fight the deluge of shapeless one-fits-all garbage with trim faux leather culottes and dresses as quickly as possible, and then make fixes if customers say the sleeves are too tight.
As far as design goes, Arnold is committed to making everything fitted for a range of body types, she has secret elastic tricks up her sleeve, and she pulls no punches about the fact that those geeky Wes Anderson Gucci looks that are back again are not the sexy threads her bombshell customers want to raise hell in. (But of course, when they do, she insists that Eloquii shows them how to wear these trends, including their new shoes, in a “chic” way.)
We called her up to learn about why she feels it’s Eloquii’s obligation not to charge their customers more for a size 18, the technical process of designing for this market, and her theory on why other businesses don’t give women the structured clothes they want.
What do you remember about the first times you were designing for different body types?
I feel like I was doing that often for myself before. I was wearing a 12 to a 14 and most things that I wanted to were an 8 or a 10, so it’s already been something in the forefront of my mind. I myself could not even fit in my own collections. So always my whole life, when I was dressing myself, I was trying to think about different body types because I couldn’t find clothes.
What did you want in your size that you couldn’t have?
I wanted something waisted and constructed, and I always had to resort to things that were draped or straighter in fit. I felt like everything was too tight. I kind of had more of an apple size all my life, and I couldn’t find anything waisted, fitted, and tailored.
Let’s talk about the techniques…the faux leather culottes on Eloquii stand out to me as something in touch with what women want to wear now. Based on what you said, what were some ways you made things that were waisted, fitted, and tailored, but still somewhat roomy without being shapeless?
If something is fitted in the waist, there are still ways inside to give the waist an elastic on the seam that you don’t really see. People think an elastic is one inch wide, but it can be right on the seam to give a slight bit of comfort to someone who might have a larger waist. We use a lot of darts. Those culottes, if you look at them, there’s elastic with two darts in the back of them. Darts can give roundness. If you have a big butt, you have to make a flat piece of fabric go around. We use a lot of darting and seams to mold around the body for the customer who wants things to be molded. She doesn’t want something that isn’t well-fitted to her body, and a lot of that can be done with darts and seams.
Jodi Arnold on her customer, “I feel we have an obligation to give her something within the same price range as straight sizes.”
How does this look from a design perspective?
A lot of times, we put a dress on, it will be very flat and there will be no room to fill it out, so we just cut the dress and the fabric. What you want is for the molding to open up the seam and open up the dart so you remold or refold the dart in places that are flattering and adapt the garment. A lot of knits, you don’t have to do that with. You aren’t draping. There are more structured knits, and if they have give, they have more structure. Stretchy fabrics still need to be molded a lot on the body. We can sketch it once, but once it’s on the model a lot of it’s redone depending on the shape and her curves.
What’s been some of the most illuminating feedback you’ve gotten about fit?
The first thing is that the bicep is always too tight so that’s something we keep in mind. We thought that the size of her bicep is normally going to be a certain size because of her hip measurement, and normally we’re reading that something is fitting too tightly in the arms, or that someone with a stomach doesn’t want something split in a certain place. Fitting the garment is a constant conversation. What we thought would work for most people, we found out it did not, even skirt length. A lot of the skirt lengths we thought were trendy, the midi and the mid calf…a lot of people did not want. You know, it’s about trying the trends and waiting for the response.
Would you say that anything is off limits?
No. We just think everyone should be able to try any trend whether it’s horizontal stripes or large swirls. I think she should be given everything straight fit people are and it’s our job to offer it tastefully with the fabrication that works the best. I don’t think there’s anything she should not do. I think that we need to be giving it to her and showing her how to wear it.
Why do companies keep showing the same shapeless clothes that aren’t fitted for women who wear these sizes?
I think it’s really hard from a business point of view to do this right. It’s much easier to make a garment that’s a size 16 and an 18 in one top or a size 20 and a 22. To make one thing that fits more people is better from a cost perspective, but from a fit perspective, it’s not going to work because it’s not going to fit as well. It’s probably a little daunting to figure it out from a technical design standpoint, and that’s the only reason I can think of…and I guess return rate, which is something we’re always looking at. There’s less return rate if more people can wear that one garment, but is that really what she wants? I doubt it. You’re not going to get one garment that’s going fit different shapes, which is what people are aiming to do. We know a lot of dresses won’t fit everyone so we have an assortment for different body shapes, but people are still approaching it from the point of view that it’s an easier sell if I can do this one square and there’s less of a return rate. But I kind of doubt that it’s the aesthetic that body positive people want.
How does what you see on social media influence the design process?
For me, I’m always eating up any kind of visual thing. I don’t just rely on plus size images alone, I’m looking at what they’re doing overall in fashion and the way that fashion is moving so that the customer should also get the same straight size things.
Should the price of a size 16 be different from the same style in a size 2?
I think whether it should be is obvious. A product takes more fabric and a little more construction, but I feel we have an obligation to give her something within the same price range as straight sizes. That means working with the margins and squeezing and trying to figure it out…what the prices should be. If something uses 30% more fabric, she’s not going to buy it if it costs more. It doesn’t matter. She’s going to pay something similar to what her straight size friend is. So it’s our job to be constantly looking at ways to keep the aesthetic integrity of the clothes and cut it to a price that makes sense. If her straight size friend has a blouse that costs $68, then that’s what she’s going to pay.
What are some challenges you face in incorporating trends for this market?
I’m a little worried about the new retro eclectic things that Prada, Gucci, and Marni show, and that’s what everyone else wants and interpretations of that are odd when they’re knocked off, even though I love it so much. The Victorian romantic trend that we’re seeing isn’t what our customer wants. She does not want mock or high necklines based on the feedback we’ve gotten so far. How many women want a high collar? So many of the things on the Gucci models look so geeky and Wes Anderson. It’s not necessarily what plus-size women want to wear. It’s about the straight size trends that I love…and thinking about..’what is still a sexy way to wear those trends?’…to touch on them. I don’t think plus-size women want a lot of what we’re seeing, the ruffly and the frilly clothes. So how do we take that trend and still have it aligned for plus-size?
People talk about all the aesthetics that need to die in this market. What’s a design trap or a misconception that you’ve seen disproved?
That the crop top trend works for so many plus-size women. I’m always seeing women confident in bold florals and bold colors. You know pushing the envelope with shape, bodycon, and crop tops. It makes me really happy that it’s catching on, and there is a nice way, a nice chic way that you can wear anything on any body type.
Border Flock Dress
White Closed Eyes Print Drop Shoulder Sweatshirt
Etsy – MoonlightMakers
Yoga Gives You Super Powers Tank Top, Womens Graphic Racer back Tank, Screen Printed, Yoga top, Funny Gift For Her, Shirts with Sayings
Rhoda Crisscross Mid Heel Slide Sandals
'All American' Chemise (Plus Size) (2 for $60)
Metallic Stripe Tassel Scarf
Want Now + Wishlist
Fuzzy Stripe Top (Plus Size)
Dolman Wrap Maternity Dress
Soleil Lip Foil - Seadragon
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Blog The Story of a Performance Collapse feat. Prometheus
Nov 05, 2020 | Martin Weißbach
The Story of a Performance Collapse feat. Prometheus
Scandio is in charge of the development of a logically centralized gateway for a renowned international manufacturer of household appliances in the SmartHome environment, which enables the exchange of information between household appliances and backend services, for example to remotely control an existing household appliance via app.
Several thousand household appliances are simultaneously connected to the gateway via a permanent TCP connection to enable bidirectional message flow.
Because the gateway has to meet the highest performance and availability requirements, performance metrics are created using regular load tests and compared with earlier figures from older development stages in order to detect performance regressions early on. One of these tests revealed that one of the services that make up the gateway placed a 5 times greater load on the CPU of its host than previous versions when new household devices (mocks) were continuously connected. Since this service is responsible for managing the TCP connections to the home devices and is essential for the exchange of messages, such a higher load on the CPU directly results in fewer home devices being connected per host instance.
CPU profiles of Go-Apps
Of course, we can’t just accept a performance loss of this magnitude, and so we began to investigate the causes. We were quickly able to identify the two specific software versions of the service called Websocket Manager (WSM), which holds the long-lasting TCP connections to the home appliances, which are worth investigating. Which means the last version with known low CPU load and the first version which is characterized by high CPU load. During the first test several versions were skipped. At this point, we would like to say that one version is not the same as one product increment. By using semantic release and corresponding build stages, the version of services developed by us is incremented in a much more detailed way.
The changeset between these two software versions was large and included some refactoring commits. After a first superficial search through the source code for the obvious, we were unsure which change would have such catastrophic effects. As a next step, we gave our WSM a debug endpoint [1], which can be activated in a configurable way, and started from tests on our notebooks. Among other things, this debug endpoint can be used to create and retrieve CPU profiles that can then be evaluated offline. Of course we had hoped to discover an outlier even with small numbers of household appliances. Our hopes were disappointed. The two software versions modified with the mentioned debug endpoint therefore had to be deployed on the load test stages in order to generate the CPU profiles from there during a running load test.
The results were somewhat shocking, because nobody had expected this:
As can be seen in this section of the complete CPU profile, the HTTP endpoint (1) and the downstream middleware causes a high CPU load. In our Kubernets clusters we have set up Prometheus [4] via Helm [7] Chart [5,6] to make available various metrics of our cluster as well as our own services. As can now be seen from the trace, the Prometheus Library or its instance needs a lot of time at runtime to sort the metrics and insert updates (2) during the processing of an HTTP request.
The labels on Prometheus’ metrics are the problem
So the problem has to do with Prometheus and metrics generated at WSM. But at this point we saw all black cats passing the door from left to right. We had a similar problem with our old and now superseded implementation of the reverse proxy. The problem at that time was that we added the URLs including complete and not sufficiently exactly normalized paths as labels to the metrics, which Prometheus only tolerates up to a certain degree. What happens after that can be seen in the CPU profile above.
The search in the changeset started again and in fact we had previously only taken metrics for inbound requests at the WSM from its internal REST endpoint, but now also from the public endpoints for web socket connections. The changeover took place within the scope of using a dedicated middleware [2] for our gin servers [3] at WSM. This middleware adds the path as a label in a rather naive way: namely completely, including query parameters. When a household device opens a connection to Heimdall, the following URL including path is usually shown:
wss://<domain>.<name>.com/websocket?appliance=<id>.
The query parameter is the problem because the Prometheus middleware builds the label “url” with the following content: /websocket?appliance=<id>.
From this follows immediately that each individual household device gets its own instance of the metric for, for example, the number of calls to the endpoint, but also for the status codes that are transmitted on the endpoint. This corresponds exactly to the observation revealed by the CPU profile: Prometheus can no longer insert new metric instances into the set of known instances on the client side with reasonable effort.
It should be noted that metrics can have more than one label. A label is the key for which there is a figure. The metric itself has a figure again. The figure of the metric itself is only increased if all figures of all labels are equal. Each permutation of the label figures is effectively a new instance of this metric. An example:
The metric defined in the Prometheus Client Library is called "http_request_counter" and adds up the number of calls and adds additional information like the concrete called path or the delivered status code. Each new path or status code that is not yet available as a figure results in a new instance of the metric at runtime, which is managed accordingly.
Fortunately, these findings can be used to provide a quick and viable solution. The used Prometheus middleware [2] allows the implementation of a hook function (similar to the Template Method Design Pattern [8], but not quite comparable to the classlessness of Go), in order to adapt the figure of the “url” label based on the inbound request to the own needs. This hook is explicitly intended for the normalization of paths, so it already addresses exactly the problem we have just identified. Our implementation of the hook then rather follows the principle of a crowbar: We always set the figure to “” (empty string). Why is this practical? The used Prometheus middleware [2] also adds the name of the handler as a label, which finally processes the request at the end of the middleware. This handler comes from us, i.e. we know the name and can therefore directly assign metrics to concrete endpoints.
Starting from 150,000 different labels the Prometheus client library port for Go is no longer functional.
Do not use labels whose amount of possible values you do not know or cannot estimate, or whose amount has not a fixed size.
If you want to use middleware solutions for generating standard metrics for REST endpoints, see if and how paths and URLs are set as labels.
Variant path elements that encode resource IDs, for example, will also sooner or later go to waste if they make it to the metric as a label value.
If not explicitly stated otherwise, all online references were last checked on Oct. 19, 2020 for actuality.
[1] https://github.com/gin-contrib/pprof
[2] https://github.com/zsais/go-gin-prometheus
[3] https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin
[4] https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/
[5] https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable/prometheus
[6] https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/prometheus-community/prometheus
[7] https://helm.sh
[8] Gamma, Erich, et al. “Design patterns: Abstraction and reuse of object-oriented design.” European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1993.
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In the Coromandel, on top of Mt. Moehau
By Eric Crampton • 17/08/2014 This post was syndicated from Offsetting Behaviour - View original source
We love Moe, but I was a bit disappointed last night.
Moe’s a furry monster who lives on top of Mt. Moehau in the Coromandel. And he has a NZ kids’ tv show that’s well worth watching. Last night, we watched the episode where Moe, who was running a fan to cool him off because the heater was too hot, was to learn about something beginning with the letter ‘P’ that could help him to conserve electricity. Moe thought electricity was something magic that came out of a power bar without limit.
Understandably, I was expecting something other than a trip to the Benmore power station. They did a great job showing how electricity is generated, but that doesn’t really help Moe to understand why he should turn off the heater rather than run a fan in addition to the heater if he’s too hot.
‘P’ shouldn’t have been for Power Station (Whare hiko).
Our 6 year old learned a different lesson. We’ve been running a space heater in his room on cold nights in the rental house we’re in while our house is being fixed and before moving to Wellington. He turned it on out of habit on a very warm night last weekend. When it turned cold again, he didn’t turn the heater back on. When I asked him why, he told me, “Mom said I’ll have to Pay for the electricity”. Which she must have told him would be the consequence of running the heater on a warm day. I told him not to worry about it on cold nights as I’d cover it, but that he would if he flipped it on when it wasn’t cold.
No trip to Benmore Power Station can do more than a simple lesson in Prices. P. Prices. Which perhaps translates as utu, but perhaps not. [Update: I’m told the transliteration of value is wariu, and utu is used colloquially.]
Your fun definition as belated part of Maori Language Week:
(verb) (-a,-ngia) to repay, pay, make a response, avenge, reply.
Utua ai au e rima herengi i te wiki (HP 1991:26). / I was paid five shillings per week.
(noun) revenge, cost, price, wage, fee, payment, salary, reciprocity – an important concept concerned with the maintenance of balance and harmony in relationships between individuals and groups and order within Māori society, whether through gift exchange or as a result of hostilities between groups. It is closely linked to mana and includes reciprocation of kind deeds as well as revenge. While particular actions required a response, it was not necessary to apply utu immediately. The general principles that underlie utu are the obligations that exist between individuals and groups. If social relations are disturbed, utu is a means of restoring balance. Gift exchange, a major component of utu, created reciprocal obligations on the parties involved and established permanent and personal relationships. Traditionally utu between individuals and groups tended to escalate. Just as feasts were likely to increase in grandeur as an exchange relationship developed over time, so could reciprocal acts of vengeance intensify. Utu was not necessarily applied to the author of the affront, but affected the whole group. Thus utu could be gained through a victory over a group where only the most tenuous of links connected the source of the affront with the target of the utu. Any deleterious external influence could weaken the psychological state of the individual or group, but utu could reassert control over the influences and restore self-esteem and social standing. Suicide could even reassert control by demonstrating that one had control over one’s fate, and was a way of gaining utu against a spouse or relative where direct retaliation was not possible. Such indirect utu often featured within kin groups.
He mea peita anō hoki e ia, ā he utu tika tāna utu i tono ai mō āna mahi (TW 28/8/1875:170). / They were also painted by him and the price he asked was right for his work.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 48;) See also utu ā-hāora
I love the sense of reciprocity that’s built into price on this definition, but I’m not so sure about the link to hostility and revenge. Same in English though… you’ll pay a price if you think otherwise….
Perhaps Moe should subscribe to the New Zealand Initiative’s weekly updates. P is for Price came up a couple weeks ago there….
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Derek Syms says:
When our fathers first built the dams it was so all kiwis could have cheap electricity, this is the reason we has uninsulated houses, electricity was going to be cheap forever.
This was the age we lived in back the cheap power, cheap houses, cheap food. We were in a time when we looked after the tax payers.
Oh how times have changed..
Maybe cold fusion will level things out again as energy will be in abundance just like it is in the universe.
ShadowMind says:
Umm, the abundant energy in the universe isn’t from COLD fusion; stars are a bit on the hot side. 15 million degrees hot.
I was meaning that as soon as cold fusion affects the physics community the guideline s will have to be redrawn. This is talking about a paradigm shift, in the way we look at the world.
I didnt say cold fusion provided all the energy in the universe. Even daft theory talks about the universe being 75% dark energy.
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Lisa Lake returns to RTVC – City Times
Lisa Lake returns to RTVC
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Lisa Lake, professional television broadcaster and philanthropist, has completed a full circle back at City College – only this time, she is on the other side of the desk.
Last year, the Radio and Television and Multimedia Department approached Lake with the idea of teaching a class. The department chair, Laura Castaneda, said she knew Lisa would make a great professor at City.
“She not only comes with invaluable experience as one of San Diego’s most familiar faces in local TV, but she is also an alumni of this department,” Castaneda said.
Lake said she had never considered teaching, but her skills reassured her that she could be the best candidate.
“I know (the) program, I know (the) industry,” Lake said.
As a San Diego native, Lake graduated from Helix High School. She then moved to Georgia to pursue an English degree from Spelman College, and soon found her way back to San Diego. Lake became a fellow City College Knight, as she took classes in the Radio and Television program to pursue her broadcasting career.
“It was one of the best things I have ever done,” Lake commented about the classes. “I owe everything to (the radio and television) department.”
Through the program Lake received an internship with a local KGTV affiliate. She became the morning news anchor from 1995 to 2008 on ABC television.
Offering her professional skills to the students of City College, Lake now teaches RTVC 121 Performance for Television.
“It is perfect for anyone interested in doing on-camera work, on-hands experience in talk shows and news and weather reporting,” said Lake about the RTVC 121 class.
In the class students get practice in reading from a teleprompter and on-camera interviewing skills.
Lake’s bubbly personality and willingness to mentor makes her the perfect pick for a professor in the program.
“Lisa Lake is as down to earth as they come. She is passionate about her work, her family and now, her students,” comments Castaneda.
The department is proud to have Lake join them. “She knows what it’s like to be out there and her students will always gain that knowledge from her,” Castaneda said.
Lake is also proud to be a part of the department.
“This is one of the best. You don’t find the type of equipment they have anywhere else,” Lake stated.
Aside from teaching, Lake is actively involved in National Crossroads. This is a program designed to aid female parolees with residence and support services while they re-enter society.
Lake’s future is open to many possibilities. “Right now, I just want to expand my role,” she said.
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All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. All rights reserved. View in: QuickTime RealPlayer. The Cambrian Explosion: For most of the nearly 4 billion years that life has existed on Earth, evolution produced little beyond bacteria , plankton , and multi-celled algae. But beginning about million years ago in the Precambrian, the fossil record speaks of more rapid change. First, there was the rise and fall of mysterious creatures of the Ediacaran fauna, named for the fossil site in Australia where they were first discovered.
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The wait is finally over.
After a long summer without basketball the NBA finally returns tonight, when the New York Knicks visit the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Tonight, Cleveland is the center of the sports world as the Cavs will drop their 2015-16 championship banner and give the players their rings at the same time that the Cleveland Indians host Game 1 of the World Series. After over 50 years of title-less sports in Cleveland, two of their teams might bring home titles in the same year.
Yeah, it’s kind of a big deal.
But let’s get back to basketball, as the NBA opens their 2016-17 season at the height of the league’s popularity.
The Knicks have lost six straight games to the Cavaliers, dating back to LeBron’s debut in Cleveland in 2014.
Cleveland has held the Knicks under 90 points in 5 of their last 6 meetings.
Last season, Kevin Love averaged 17.3 points per game and 12.0 rebounds per game against the Knicks.
LeBron James has scored a total of 1206 points against the Knicks in his career, the 6th most he has against any team.
LeBron James has a 14-12 record head to head with Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony.
It is hard for me to imagine the Knicks overcoming all of the energy which will be in Cleveland tonight. After hanging the banner and receiving their rings, I think the Cavs will be inspired to a hot start.
The Knicks may fight back into the game and make it interesting, but the Cavs will ultimately pull away and get the win on opening night.
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Hard to Drill
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Holemaking is difficult enough as it is. Add tough materials into the mix and it can be a money pit. These tips can help
Chip packing. Drill walk. Premature wear. Tool breakage. These are just a few of our favourite issues faced by machinists when drilling—problems that can quickly escalate to “I’ll just go fishing” status when Inconel, titanium, cobalt-chrome or hardened steels are part of the equation. The good news is that most cutting tool manufacturers design tooling to tame even the wildest of alloys. It’s your job to find those tools and then apply them properly. It’s okay, we are here to help.
Choices, choices
The good part about searching for the right tools is you won’t have to look far. David Vetrecin, Iscar Canada’s holemaking product manager, says the company’s Sumocham modular drill equipped with an ICM head is ideal for stainless steels and high-temp alloys. Walter USA LLC product manager Sarang Garud suggests his D4140 replaceable tip drill offers performance similar to that of solid carbide in a broad range of materials. Manfred Lenz, holemaking product manager for Seco Tools LLC, says solid carbide is preferred for smaller diameter holes, but the Crownloc Plus drill with a P or M-geometry head is a cost-effective and high-performing alternative. OSG applications engineer Alyssa Walther, fresh off a week of internal product testing, recommends the WHO-Ni (also called the WHO-55) for nickel-based alloys and hardened steel up to 55 Rc.
Click image to enlargeThose are just a few examples. All are excellent products. All have their share of sweet spots and success stories. While the advice on which one to purchase might vary depending on who you ask, each of the experts we interviewed offers similar recommendations. Walter’s Sarang Garud, for instance, points out that tool geometry is an important factor when drilling tougher materials, although the reasons might surprise you.
“The right geometry helps assure proper chip formation and evacuation, something that’s far more critical in drilling operations than it is on turning or milling operations,” he says. “Without good chip evacuation, the drill immediately seizes. Proper geometry goes a long way towards extending tool life.”
For austenitic stainless steels and superalloys like Hastelloy or Inconel, Garud says to look for drills with ‘easy-cutting’ geometries—typically a positive rake angle of 10° to 15° to effectively curl the chip. That’s the same reason spiral-flute drills tend to perform better than those with straight flutes. Finally, PVD coatings generally perform better in these materials, while CVD is more effective in hardened steels and cast irons.
Baking the cake
Garud also notes that hydraulic or shrink-fit toolholders are far better at minimizing runout, a crucial aspect of any high performance machining application. Iscar’s David Vetrecin agrees, pointing out that these toolholders are more rigid than traditional Weldon shank and ER collet holders, further improving tool life and hole quality when drilling hardened materials and tough, gummy, high-temp alloys.
He also suggests paying close attention to your cutting fluids. “I’ve walked into far too many shops that were running a general-purpose coolant, with a concentration that was way too low,” says Vetrecin. “They usually see tool life three to four times higher after switching to a properly mixed cutting fluid with the extreme pressure (EP) compounds needed for machining tough materials. In addition, we recommend using high pressure coolant whenever possible, as this reduces heat and helps evacuate chips.”
Underfeeding the drill is another common problem. Nickel-based alloys in particular tend to harden, making a bad situation even worse. Again, the setup must be very rigid, lest chipping occurs (something the ICM head with its reinforced cutting edge helps prevent). Steer clear of double margin drills, as holes made in high temp alloys tend to shrink behind the drill, sometimes trapping it. “Drilling in superalloys and hardened steels is a little like baking a cake,” he quips. “Without all the right ingredients, it’s not going to turn out very well.”
Click image to enlargeKeep cool
Heat is the enemy, explains Manfred Lenz of Seco Tools. He concurs with Vetrecin’s comments about keeping the feedrate up to reduce work hardening, but says that many shops run higher spindle speeds than they should, exacerbating the problem. “You can’t expect someone who drills steel and aluminum all the time to understand superalloys. They’re used to be running at 600 sfm, so they drop it down to 300 or so on their first Inconel job, but it’s still way too fast. That’s why I always tell customers to follow the cutting tool manufacturer’s recommendations. This is true for all materials, but doubly so with high temp or hardened materials.”
And doubling up on Garud’s coating recommendations, Lenz says there have been new developments in coating technology lately, with niobium nitride (NbN) among them. “It’s a game-changer in a variety of applications, but especially demanding materials. Shortly before its introduction, we wanted to do some additional field testing, so we sent a drill and some inserts to a well-known aircraft manufacturer. They emailed back a week later to say they weren’t going back to their old grade, and ‘when can we get some more?’” The product wasn’t even in the catalog yet, so Lenz ended up delivering specials until Seco could ramp up production. “It was that effective,” he says.
Click image to enlargeSuper hard
OSG's Alyssa Walther has a similar story to tell, this one on hardened materials. “The WHO-Ni is an up-sharp, coolant-fed drill designed specifically for demanding aerospace and medical applications,” she says. “Its WXS coating is optimized for high heat and high hardness applications, with a heavy core diameter for optimal stability and a low helix design that maximizes chip removal. But we also have drills for super hard materials. The WH-70 drill, for example, handles steels up to 70 Rc, while our XH-DRL is actually known as a tap extractor but can also be used to drill holes in hardened workpieces. Granted, it’s not very fast—you’re probably running a feedrate of around 0.012 mm/rev (0.0005 in.), with a generous supply of lubricating oil and pecking like crazy, but they’re very effective when applied properly.”
Walther makes a valid point for anyone who might be tapping or thread-milling holes in superalloys that backs up what others warned about: work hardening.
“A lot of times, people will come to us and say, ‘Hey, your catalog says the feeds and speeds are correct for Inconel 725, but our taps keep breaking.’ And after a little investigation, we usually find the problem isn’t the tap—it’s the drilling operation beforehand. They didn’t realize their drill was dull or they were running too fast or feeding too slow and the material around the drilled hole is hard as a result. That’s why we tell people to routinely inspect their drills—if the chisel edge has broken down, they’re probably overfeeding it, or they didn’t have the correct geometry to begin with. Either way, it’s important to look at the entire process because the problem might not be what you think it is. And if things aren’t going right, call us,” says Walther. SMT
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Powell River citizens urge Island Timberland to hold off logging in their community
May 5, 2015 /in Forests, Local Groups & Members, Press Releases /by Sierra Club
Company undermines its own environmental policy by ignoring public outcry
Sierra Malaspina, a local group of Sierra Club BC, is joining other citizens of Powell River who are deeply concerned about Island Timberland’s logging plans and operations underway in an area of private land within the city of Powell River.
This area, called lot 450, is important ecologically and recreationally to the community of Powell River. Trees close to McFall Creek are presently being logged.
Sierra Malaspina is especially concerned about:
Possible loss of habitat of birds and other species;
Logging adjacent to two creeks, McFall and McGuffie Creek; and,
Losing the opportunity to enjoy this forest close to people’s homes for decades to come.
“The citizens of Powell River expect Island Timberland to immediately stop logging in lot 450. This is an area that people call home. The company should follow its policy, share detailed information about their plans, hear our concerns and seek to address them.“ says Wes Bingham, of Sierra Malaspina.
The group wrote the company on April 30 outlining its concerns and requesting further information. The letter also requested that logging plans be put on hold to allow an opportunity for the community to provide input and address concerns before any more harvesting happens.
Island Timberland Manager Morgan Kennan responded that “Island Timberlands is not considering hosting a public forum to discuss the details of our activities on our private forest lands at this time. Unfortunately we do not share reports and plans of our activities widely with the general public.”
The company’s response contradicts its own environmental policy. On its website, Island Timberland commits to “considering feedback from the public, encouraging public involvement and responding to public health and environmental impacts” of their operations.
“The conflict with Island Timberland in Powell River shows the serious problems caused by lack of meaningful regulation for logging on private land. Communities are experiencing fewer and fewer benefits and more and more negative impacts, from loss of clean water to the loss of tourism opportunities”, says Jens Wieting, forest and climate campaigner with Sierra Club BC.
Wes Bingham, Sierra Malaspina, Powell River: 604-485-9273.
Jens Wieting, Sierra Club BC: 604-354-5312
Email exchange between Sierra Malaspina and Island Timberland
Island Timberland’s Environmental Policy
Email from Sierra Malaspina to Island Timberland:
From: E. Zaikow ezaikow@shaw.ca
Sent: April-30-15 5:04 PM
To: Environment
Cc: info@cdpr.bc.ca
Subject: Logging in Lot 450
To: Morgan Kennah, Island Timberland manager of sustainable timberlands and community affairs
Dear Ms Kennah,
The Malaspina Sierra Group has many concerns about harvesting timber in Lot 450 during nesting season. The area noted as “1” on the map in the Powell River Shopper contains the fish bearing creeks of both McFall and Mcguffie. These areas previously left uncut are listed in the Powell River official Community Plan as Sensitive Areas and have led the public to believe these important areas would be left intact as a buffer. These corridors link through to the trails in Willingdon Park. Both these corridors are so important for wildlife, the birds, fish, animals, plants and the many people who use them.
These areas are listed as sensitive areas, and I believe should be set aside from logging. In no case should logging go ahead without consulting with community members about the scope of logging. Neither should logging happen in nesting season. There are many migratory and other birds nesting at this time.
When harvesting was previously done in the area along the pole line, I believe the timber company at that time hired Wayne Campbell, an ornithologist to come and do an audit of the birds before they spot logged. Is your biologist’s report available to the public?
There are Great Blue Herons nesting close by in the McGuffie Creek area and may be disturbed by any noise logging will create. As you know, the Great Blue Heron species is declining due in part to habitat loss and any noise may disturb this colony as it has just recently located there.
We are therefore asking you to put your plans on hold and would like to see a meeting held to address the public’s concerns and have an opportunity to provide input to be considered in your plan of the areas to be harvested.
Betty Zaikow
Malaspina Sierra Group
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The Benefits of Opening a Banner Franchise
by Dev Team | Oct 18, 2017 | Sign Industry
By opening a banner franchise, you’re investing in a profitable industry whose demand and reach is not just sustainable, but continually growing.
It’s not an uncommon dream or goal to be your own boss and start your own business, and opening a banner franchise could be your pathway to successfully doing so.
While many aspiring entrepreneurs hem and haw over the type of business they’d like to open, we’re here to tell you that franchising with Signarama is not just the easy choice to make, it’s the best one.
Of course, that doesn’t mean potential franchisees should take such a life-altering decision lightly. You’ll want to feel comfortable in the industry you choose, even if you don’t have experience in it, and you need to know that the time and equity you’ll be investing will be worth it. And so while this can be a difficult decision, we’re here to tell you it doesn’t have to be, and help you come to that discovery yourself. Why? Opening a banner franchise like Signarama, simply put, can be one of the smartest business decisions you’ll ever make.
Once the business is started, though, the continual dual challenge of business owners is growing brand awareness and increasing sales.
But what if we told you there’s a simple secret at your disposal that unlocks both? Spoiler alert: there is, and it’s utilizing the power of promotional products. And while Signarama is known for being a sign and banner franchise, at our core we’re ultimately a promotional products franchise.
Think about it: Nearly every sign or banner you’ve ever read is a promotional product, advertising and informing whomever sees it.
Armed with that knowledge and viewing the business through that lens, why wouldn’t you invest in a promotional products franchise opportunity?
Read further as we present an overview of what this secret involves, a look at the industry, and why choosing a banner franchise like Signarama is the right choice for your business dreams.
In a series of studies, researchers found that the power of promotional products has a tremendous reach for both new and returning consumers.
88% of people remember the name of a company from which they’ve received a promotional product.
85% of customers who were exposed to promotional products did business with the company, and nearly 80% said they would do business with them again.
71% of customers remembered seeing a specific advertisement in the previous week.
So what does that mean? In short, that people love free stuff, they remember you better and for longer periods of time when you give it to them, it’s as good of a marketing tactic (if not better) than anything else out there, and that more people will spend more money on your products.
The revenue that promotional products franchises are generating mirrors these results. Per data from IBISWorld, the industry generated $21 billion of revenue in 2016 and averaged 2.4% growth annually over the past five years.
Are Banners Really Promotional Products?
Of course they are! The conventional thought when discussing “banners” might be a giant piece of cloth hanging in a public place – like a “Grand Opening” sign in the mall, or a championship banner hanging from the rafters of a sports arena – but “banner” means much more in the sign and banner franchise industry.
In addition to those classic staples of the banner world, Signarama also offers several other types of banners. We have everything in our repertoire from banner stands to inflatables to flags. But we also offer a few more banners that fall in line with the traditional “promotional product.”
Examples of “promotional products” that fall under our banner offerings include pennants and banner pens, as well as several other traditional promotional items.
Why Signarama?
So why is Signarama the banner franchise you should turn to? Here’s a look at what makes us such a great franchising opportunity:
Signarama was founded in 1986 by Ray and Roy Titus in Farmingdale, New York. Since then, Signarama has been a prominent force in the sign industry, building a reputation for innovation, exemplary support, and high quality products and services for business owners around the world.
Signarama was named the #1 sign franchise and ranked #74 on the Franchise 500 list by Entrepreneur Magazine, in addition to several other awards.
Our business is a turnkey investment, with an affordable franchise fee, royalty rate, and initial investment.
Backed by the power and experience of franchising giant United Franchise Group, our comprehensive training program is among the very best in the business, and our outstanding support is available for the life of your business.
We offer conversion opportunities, international opportunities, discounts for veterans, and the United Franchise Group Foundation supports children in need.
If you’re interested in learning more about starting your own banner franchise, contact us today and download your FREE infographic in the side column to learn how to open a Signarama franchise in 10 easy steps.
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Teaching tolerance in the classroom
Dec. 18, 2003, midnight | By Brittany Moyer | 17 years, 1 month ago
Two senior girls hold a poster high in the air for onlooking classmates. Atop the poster, in thick red marker, are the words "Teen Mothers," a group of which these girls are a part. "We don't like annoying questions like, ‘What did your parents say?' or, ‘Did it hurt having a baby?'" one girl reads from her poster. Finishing her presentation, she looks down and begins to cry. Her classmates are momentarily silent, then burst into applause.
Discussions like this one are common in Diversity Workshop, a six-year-old program that attempts to confront intolerance in Blair's population. The program, MCPS' only student-run high-school diversity seminar, aims to have each Blair sophomore participate in a three-hour interactive workshop, the signature component of the program. However, the Communications Arts Program (CAP) has had difficulty finding a way to sandwich the workshop into its already busy program.
Usually, the Diversity Workshop sessions occur during tenth-grade English and history classes. But because CAP sophomores have separate classes in these subjects, they are oftentimes left out of Diversity Workshop. Many consider this ironic, since CAP is characterized by its less-than-diverse population. According to CAP Coordinator Dolores D'Angelo, CAP is 81 percent white, which is not representative of Blair's senior class' 29 percent white composition.
"If any group needed Diversity Workshop, it would be the one with the least diversity," two-year diversity leader Lilah Shreeve says, referring to CAP. "CAP as a program is isolated from everything else at Blair."
Early this school year, significant problems arose amongst the CAP ninth-grade students, according to CAP freshmen. When Ashley Bayton, a black CAP freshman, found herself a victim of racial slurs during school, she sought help by attending Diversity Workshop meetings, where she related her experience with racism to other students. Moved by Bayton's story, Joann Malone, founder and sponsor of the program at Blair, helped Bayton get Diversity Workshop into the ninth-grade CAP curriculum this past November.
Malone, a social studies teacher, originally introduced the Diversity Workshop program to Blair in 1998. "Everybody suffers," she says slowly. "And everyone can feel compassion. We can all open our minds, and the workshops help us do that," she says.
The turning point of each workshop, according to Malone, is an exercise called Hidden Identities, in which each participant says three things that someone wouldn't know by looking at them. "We've had stories of rape, death, suicide and harassment. It all just comes out," Malone says.
The key ingredient for the program's success lies in the trust that underlies sometimes-frank conversations. "You know no one will tell your secrets because you know their secrets, too," Malone explains.
Still, Diversity Workshop hasn't been added into the tenth-grade CAP curriculum because the CAP logistics don't allow time for three-hour workshops. "It's really hard to fit them in, with all of our curricular responsibilities and huge interdisciplinary projects," explains CAP NSL teacher Lansing Freeman.
Tenth-grade history teacher David Swaney feels differently. In his eyes, the workshop's effects outweigh the missed class time. "Who cares about the final exam?" he asks. "[Diversity Workshop] is more important."
The recent experience of the workshop in ninth-grade CAP, which freshmen called "amazing," may be the springboard to generate tenth-grade teacher acceptance. "Everyone feels like they can talk together after the workshop," says CAP freshman Avi Silber. "In school, you usually don't see people be emotional. But seeing people cry as they tell their secrets, you come out feeling some sort of a connection."
The workshop experience has generated significant changes in some lives. Silber has become a Diversity Workshop leader and joined the Gay Straight Alliance. "I felt so motivated to make a difference and spread what I had experienced," says Silber.
Brittany Moyer. Brittany is a senior in the Communication Arts Program at Montgomery Blair. She has taken pride in being part of Blair's girls' soccer team, Blair's <i>a capella</i> group InToneNation, and of course <i>Silver Chips</i>. Outside of school, Brit goes crazy for arts & crafts, outdoorsy … More »
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Sim Brother Series 2, Day 55 (Tuesday 15 October 2002)
Nudity and Unity
Hi, I'm Geri!
You might remember me from being the second eviction from here and before you ask, no, I am not going back inside. The housemates are currently having a good time but let's see what their day has been like.
Morning in the House
It was a fairly typical morning in the Sim Brother house. Samuel prepared breakfast for himself and Lucy. Both of them had been quite low since losing the archery contest.
Samuel - "What would you like for breakfast? Potato salad or a green salad?"
Lucy - "Whatever."
The Rich House had a soak in the jacuzzi where the subject of conversation was fashion, style and modelling.
Serena - "When I leave here, I think I will become a fashion model. I wear stylish tennis outfits so it's only a lateral progression to model stylish clothes."
Nicole - "I've heard Emperor Fashions have some new clothes in that they want modelling"
Divide Despair
1.59PM - Dave and Nicole were kissing in front of Serena as if she wasn't there. She was not impressed and went outside to speak to Samuel over the Divide.
Serena - "I'm fed up with those two behaving like lovestruck teenagers. I feel like the odd one out and I wish the Divide was down."
Hot Problems
The air conditioning appeared to be down. In order to remain cool, Dave and Nicole had stripped off. Fortunately our cameramen were able to save the show being axed by only getting a rearview shot of Dave ...and Nicole.
Serena - "When I watch the Late Show, I'll look at you differently from now on."
Relieved and Reunited
7.11PM - The Housemates were instructed to go to their respective bedrooms and music was piped in.
Serena - "I wonder what's up?"
Nicole - "An intruder perhaps."
It was what the housemates had all been waiting for. The Divide had come down. As part of the renovation, Sim Brother technicians were renovating the larger garden and installing a swimming pool.
9.14PM - It took 1Å“ hours for the technicians to finish the job and unlock the doors to let the housemates out. They were overjoyed and their first move was to dress up in lavish costumes by way of celebrating. It was also the opportunity to reunite old friends as Nicole and Lucy hugged.
Dave told Sam how much he enjoyed his work, especially the part he played in the "Lethal Weapon" series. Sam was too polite to tell him that he had been mistaken for Danny Glover. However, while they were all busy, none of them had noticed that the Poor Bedroom had been boarded up. What was Sim Brother doing inside?
Grateful Dave
11.07PM - Dave came to the Diary Room
Sim Brother (rl) - "Hi, Dave. Nice costume!"
Dave - "That's very kind of you to say. I just wanted to say thankyou for bringing the Divide down. I haven't been here as long as the other guys but in the time I have been in here, I've noticed how demoralising it can be. I think that bringing this divide down will make us all feel a lot better for the eviction tomorrow. I don't think any of the girls are looking forward to it."
Which of the girls will be starting her last day in the Sim Brother house?
You can find out tomorrow ( SB - which is now today )
I apologise for the delay in the posting of this report. This was due to "Real Life" constraints holding me up and I hope this has not marred your enjoyment. Please tune in again at Midnight to find out who has been evicted and what they have to say to Will Wright.
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That comes as no surprise in “Othello,” sharply directed here by Nigel Shawn Williams on a modern set with overly literal projections of trickling blood and what look like lice. (“I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear,” Iago tells us in one of his chilling soliloquies.) As the Moorish general in the Venetian army who marries Desdemona, the white pearl of that society’s aristocracy, Michael Blake establishes the psychosexual drama from the start. He wears his confidence like a cockscomb but is clearly more at a loss in love than he ever was in war.
Though race can’t help but be a theme in “Othello,” it is not the main one here; Iago’s hatred, and Othello’s susceptibility to it, seem to stem less from each man’s response to outsiderness than from their common fear of cuckoldry. (Iago imagines that Othello has slept with his wife, Emilia, here a soldier in Desdemona’s retinue, not just her maid.) In a superb performance, Gordon S. Miller (a ringer for Tony Hale of “Veep”) gives us Iago as a hypercompetent desk jockey who turns, after hours, into a vicious, fake-news-spreading incel.
Book During Shoulder
By the time Emilia points out that the failings women regularly stand accused of are merely reflections of men’s worse ones — “The ills we do, their ills instruct us so” — it’s too late for Desdemona. She has made her bed and will die in it. I left “Othello” thinking, oddly enough, about Vice President Mike Pence and other politicians who observe the “Billy Graham rule,” not allowing themselves, even at work, to be alone with women who aren’t their wives.
That idea came into relief, in both senses, in “Little Shop” and “Private Lives,” the sour Noël Coward comedy of divorce and infidelity. But it became most obvious when the tragedy of “Othello” flipped into the comedy of “Merry Wives.” The absurd fear harbored by Mr. Ford that his wife is sleeping with Falstaff is matched only by Falstaff’s absurd fantasy that Mistress Ford and her bestie, Mistress Page, are gaga for him.
Mr. Cimolino’s charming production is set in a town like Stratford at the time of the festival’s founding in the early 1950s. (The set resembles what you see while wandering the residential streets.) It’s an apt connection, not just because of the story’s inherent theatricality: The women devise and enact “scripts” of comeuppance for the men.
“ There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning failure ” – Tina Retina
Though they are radiantly successful, we are always aware that the success depends on leveraging their limited powers. (One scene is trenchantly set among hair dryers in a beauty salon.) Especially in the haunting conclusion, a community prank that suggests the birth of theater itself, I thought about how acting was one of the first professions available to women.
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Theoretical studies of intersystem crossing effects in the O+H2 reaction
Mark R. Hoffmann, George C Schatz
A theory of intersystem crossing effects is developed that is applicable to atom-diatom and related chemical reactions where global potential energy surfaces can be developed. The theory is applied to singlet-triplet interactions in the reaction O(3P, 1D) + H2 → OH(2Π) + H. This theory uses quasiclassical trajectory surface-hopping methods to determine dynamical information based on a diabatic representation in which the usual nonrelativistic potential surfaces define the diagonal potentials, and matrix elements of the Breit-Pauli spin-orbit operator determine the couplings. A key result is that the spin-orbit matrix elements may be determined adequately using relatively low level theory such as complete active space self-consistent field methods, and with significant truncation of the electronic state basis set. In addition, the spin-orbit matrix elements is found to have a relatively simple dependence on internuclear geometry, such that determining global spin-orbit coupling surfaces is much easier than determining the Born-Oppenheimer surfaces.
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Hoffmann, M. R., & Schatz, G. C. (2000). Theoretical studies of intersystem crossing effects in the O+H2 reaction. Journal of Chemical Physics, 113(21), 9456-9465. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1319937
Theoretical studies of intersystem crossing effects in the O+H2 reaction. / Hoffmann, Mark R.; Schatz, George C.
In: Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 113, No. 21, 12.2000, p. 9456-9465.
Hoffmann, MR & Schatz, GC 2000, 'Theoretical studies of intersystem crossing effects in the O+H2 reaction', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 113, no. 21, pp. 9456-9465. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1319937
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N2 - A theory of intersystem crossing effects is developed that is applicable to atom-diatom and related chemical reactions where global potential energy surfaces can be developed. The theory is applied to singlet-triplet interactions in the reaction O(3P, 1D) + H2 → OH(2Π) + H. This theory uses quasiclassical trajectory surface-hopping methods to determine dynamical information based on a diabatic representation in which the usual nonrelativistic potential surfaces define the diagonal potentials, and matrix elements of the Breit-Pauli spin-orbit operator determine the couplings. A key result is that the spin-orbit matrix elements may be determined adequately using relatively low level theory such as complete active space self-consistent field methods, and with significant truncation of the electronic state basis set. In addition, the spin-orbit matrix elements is found to have a relatively simple dependence on internuclear geometry, such that determining global spin-orbit coupling surfaces is much easier than determining the Born-Oppenheimer surfaces.
AB - A theory of intersystem crossing effects is developed that is applicable to atom-diatom and related chemical reactions where global potential energy surfaces can be developed. The theory is applied to singlet-triplet interactions in the reaction O(3P, 1D) + H2 → OH(2Π) + H. This theory uses quasiclassical trajectory surface-hopping methods to determine dynamical information based on a diabatic representation in which the usual nonrelativistic potential surfaces define the diagonal potentials, and matrix elements of the Breit-Pauli spin-orbit operator determine the couplings. A key result is that the spin-orbit matrix elements may be determined adequately using relatively low level theory such as complete active space self-consistent field methods, and with significant truncation of the electronic state basis set. In addition, the spin-orbit matrix elements is found to have a relatively simple dependence on internuclear geometry, such that determining global spin-orbit coupling surfaces is much easier than determining the Born-Oppenheimer surfaces.
JO - Journal of Chemical Physics
JF - Journal of Chemical Physics
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It doesn’t mean we aren’t angry.
Members will have seen the result of the HE ballot, which saw a turnout of 41%, with a 70% vote in favour of a strike and 80% for action short of a strike (80.5%). The turnout was disappointingly short of 50% threshold required by the current legislation.
Our employers will no doubt be relieved that they will not be faced with strike action (some members may feel the same, especially those still paying debts incurred from the USS strike action this time last year).
But this does not mean that staff are not angry about the issues at the heart of the ballot.
Talking to members here we know just how furious staff are about successive below inflation pay rises (and the prospect of paying more for our USS pension despite the recommendations of the JEP). We share your outrage at the casualization of the sector. We too are infuriated with the failure of employers to take meaningful action to address inequalities. We also know how overloaded everyone is due to increasing workloads and performance expectations.
Staff here have sent a clear message, via the recent staff survey, to senior management about their dissatisfaction with their leadership of the University. Staff reported a lack of confidence, a lack of trust and a sense that the senior managers do not listen or respond to feedback. Over the past few years staff and students have also repeatedly spoken out against excessive pay at the top of our University. And in the recent ballot many staff here also voted for strike action over pay and equalities.
Our employers should take note.
The message from the national ballot is that a significant number of UCU members are very angry about Pay, Precarity, Inequalities and Workloads. Locally, the staff survey signals problems at the top of the University of Southampton.
This is a moment for the senior managers to show that they can listen and respond.
The University Executive Board could seize this opportunity to work with staff and students. They could stand with staff on Pay and defend our pensions. They could take meaningful action on equalities. They could work towards ending the over-use of casual contracts. They could tackle excessive workloads, presenteeism and bullying. We believe they should.
Health and safety – shared concerns
At our General meeting last year, we reported that the branch was experiencing problems trying to engage with the senior management to address serious safety concerns at this University. Managing risks to the health of staff and students is, and should be, a shared concern. This is an area where the trades unions can work in partnership to keep us all safe and well. Sadly that partnership is breaking down.
Nationally UCEA (the body that represents employers), the trades unions, and USHA have agreed that “in exercising their statutory functions, trade union health and safety representatives have a key role to play in representing the views of staff groups, participating in employers’ health and safety consultation structures and promoting opportunities for joint working and collaboration”. This is something that we want senior managers to recognise. This role for trades union representatives makes sense; union reps are ‘on the ground’ in our workplaces, and so can monitor safety and take action to address risks. Crucially, they are also protected by health and safety legislation, making it possible for them to speak out when needed.
The TUC describes the benefits of the ‘union effect’ on health and safety: organised workplaces are safer workplaces and, when asked, 70% of new trade union members say that health and safety is a “very important” union issue (more important than pay). UCU health and safety representatives across the UK make a real difference in Universities, helping to prevent workplace hazards, injuries and accidents, and intervening on matters ranging from open plan offices to excessive workloads, and prevention of bullying, through to fire safety and the storage of chemicals.
We are saddened that our attempts to work with the University to ensure and improve the health, safety and welfare of staff, students and visitors, appear to have been thwarted in recent months. In the closing months of last year this manifested in the senior management’s repeated refusal to hold an emergency Joint Negotiating Committee meeting, delayed responses to communications about our concerns, and a refusal to allow our national H&S officer to support our representatives undertaking an inspection. We had invited our national H&S official to support our H&S reps in an inspection of Building 53 because we have long had serious concerns about safety, following casework related to staff sickness, problematic water quality, and a dangerous incident with a pressurised system. Despite giving ample notice of this inspection UCU, were told at short notice that our official, Adam Lincoln, was banned from entering the building. Adam frequently accompanies UCU reps in such inspections across the country and at our General Meeting he wryly observed that he had found it easier to conduct such inspections in some of the UK’s most challenging prisons than here.
We had hoped that by undertaking this inspection we could clarify the actions needed to protect people working in this building. Reluctantly, because of the serious nature of the threats to health and well-being, the joint campus trades unions decided to report our concerns to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). We are awaiting their response.
UCU are now taking the unprecedented step of detailing our concerns here in the hope that the senior managers will take action to protect staff and students. We are concerned about the following reported hazards and threats to health and wellbeing:
1. We do not believe that senior managers have enacted appropriate control measures, mitigation and remedial actions in Building 53 in response to concerns listed in our previous communications to the employer (beginning in 2014) and as set out in the formal complaint to the HSE (also copied to the senior management). The health and safety risks to staff health and wellbeing posed by significant structural defects with Building 53, include but are not limited to:
a. pipework in this building has been installed incorrectly and uses wrong and incompatible components. This has led to several “minor” incidents and at least one spectacular, and potentially fatal, near miss.
b. exposure of staff (and potentially students) to harmful dust that includes a category one sensitising agent, and that several colleagues appear have been harmed
c. potential drainage problems, due to drains that are not constructed of appropriate material
In addition to these specific issues in Building 53 we have raised further concerns that:
d. Near-miss and incident information is not being passed on from the safety office to Departmental managers
e. The campus trades unions are experiencing difficulty in obtaining safety information from the University about halls of residence, notably pertaining to fire safety and cladding.
2. We do not believe that effective or appropriate health and safety consultation arrangements are in place across the University to enable the University, its employees and recognised trade union representatives to cooperate effectively. The reorganisation of trade union representatives on the Health and Safety Committees and forums represents a negative shift away from a culture of joint working and cooperation.
3. The Joint trades unions Joint negotiating Committee (JJNC) is the appropriate body to resolve disputes and disagreements in relation to these matters. The senior management have refused repeated requests for an emergency JJNC to discuss matters relating to Building 53.
We will be reiterating the concerns outlined above to the senior management. We have offered to resolve B53 issues via a working group and joint inspections and we hope to be able to tell members that we have made progress soon. Please tell us if you have additional health and safety concerns about your workplace at the University.
When he spoke at our General Meeting last year, Adam Lincoln outlined the new UCU Workloads campaign designed to tackle the problems associated with the ever-increasing workloads. Following the sad death, from suicide, of a colleague at Cardiff last year we feel impelled to speak out about workload-related stress at University of Southampton. We note the successful campaign at Liverpool Hope University which resulted in the HSE serving an enforcement notice on that University for failing to properly assess workplace stress risks. [apologies, for the paywall]. At our General Meeting last year, members agreed that we needed to run the workload campaign locally, and we are recruiting a number of new Health and Safety representatives who will focus only on these workload concerns. This will be a key UCU branch priority for 2019. If you think you can help, or want to find out more please contact Amanda (ucu@soton.ac.uk).
While we are here we would also like to promote the Hazards Campaign manifesto for a ‘safety system fit for workers’. Launching the manifesto Janet Newsham said: “Work contributes to a huge amount of public ill-health, to health inequality, lower life expectancy, fewer years of healthy life, kills over 50,000 people in the UK each year, makes millions ill, injures over half a million and the quality of jobs contributes to poverty and ill-health. But all of this is preventable. The right framework of strong laws, strict enforcement and support for active worker and union participation will have massive payback for workers, employers and whole economy.” The campaign seeks to create “a health and safety system based on prevention, precaution and participation of strong active unions.” Southampton UCU are committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of staff and students and we hope that the senior management shares this commitment.
New Year – New Hopes
This time last year we were preparing for what turned out to be the biggest and longest strike action taken at this branch – to protect our USS pensions. UCU members came out in the rain and snow (and occasionally in the sunshine) in unprecedented numbers to defend their defined benefit pension. UCU made a clear case that our pensions are deferred salary and that the proposed changes and cuts to benefits were unacceptable, coming as they had after years of below inflation pay settlements and significant increases in workloads.
The strike campaign revealed fundamental flaws in the valuation of the pension, and in the way that many of our employers – including our own VC – represented our interests in negotiations with USS. Our pressure on our employers won concessions from USS, not least the establishment of the JEP, which reviewed the methodology and valuation of our pension. Unfortunately, intransigence on the part of USS and some employers means that we have to continue to press USS to implement all the recommendations of the JEP. To that end this branch has written an open letter to our VC Sir Christopher Snowden to ask him to ensure that the JEP recommendations are implemented.
Against the backdrop of this vital national campaign about USS, this branch was busy in 2018 supporting UCU members facing job cuts and highly disruptive organisational change. We helped staff facing Voluntary Severance across several departments, and those affected by Voluntary Redundancy in Health Sciences. We were sad and angry that the VC and senior managers reneged on earlier promises of ‘no more reorganisations’. Once again we found ourselves having to protect individual members and groups facing threats to their livelihoods. Sadly it was often necessary for us to push the senior management to adhere to employment law and recognise the damage of poorly managed organisational change.
Members of the branch attended numerous consultations with senior management on a range of issues from the project restructuring our Faculties from 8 to 5, as well as reviews of professional services, and closures of units. We constantly asked senior management to follow, and where necessary, improve, policies. Over the course of 2018 we were forced to raise many concerns, in particular, about the abuse of appraisal and performance metrics. Members also raised complaints about the introduction of the new Clarity travel system and, thanks to positive engagement by the senior management side with UCU, many initial problems were resolved. We will continue, of course, to take your complaints about the new travel process to the management team – please let us know of difficulties you experience.
In 2018 we lobbied the University Council as part of our campaign to improve University governance. We highlighted staff and student concerns about the cuts to frontline staff and dissatisfaction with the excessive rates of pay for both the VC and the ever growing number of senior managers. Linked to this, and prompted by members we created a petition about the new VC, and you may have seen that the UCU elves reiterated our demands before the Christmas break. We will continue to push the university to improve senior management.
Throughout the strike and beyond we had several successful branch General Meetings and these were well attended and sparked vigorous debate. We held three branch strategy days, and have been able to offer training for new representatives. We have outlined priorities for the branch in 2019 as follows:
• Better Governance – more diversity in membership of key governance committees and restore effective staff representation at Senate and more public sector and education to Council.
• Improve Appraisals – fix the many problems with new appraisal metrics and processes to restore the positive and developmental appraisal process negotiated with UCU
• Ensure Equality – focus on the gender pay gap and take action on unconscious bias
• Deliver Living Wage – work with sister unions to ensure living wage for all staff at the University and push for fairer VC and senior management salaries
• Defend Health and Safety – focus on excessive workloads and overwork culture at the university, stamp out bullying and harassment, but also continue to push senior managers to mitigate serious risks to health of staff and students.
Alongside these our network of volunteer caseworkers and reps will continue to support members across the University. As ever the more members we have the stronger we are – so please do speak to your colleagues about joining UCU. We will be continuing our series of UCU workshops and Take a lunch break meet ups. We welcome ideas from you about how to get members involved in the work of the local branch.
As we head into Semester 2 we will retain our optimism for 2019. Let us hope that the new VC is able and willing to listen to frontline staff and our students, and will work with us to improve our University.
Open letter from Southampton UCU Executive Committee to University of Southampton President and Vice-Chancellor regarding the USS Pension Scheme
Dear Sir Christopher
We write with concern as to the recent developments regarding the USS pension scheme.
As you know, nearly a year ago staff here at Southampton took unprecedented action to defend their USS pensions. Since the JEP report and the decisions of UCU and UUK to endorse the JEP’s recommendations, USS has stated that it will now undertake a fresh valuation of the USS pension scheme using March 2018 data. This new valuation requires participating employers to be consulted on the assumptions used to value the scheme’s liabilities
https://www.ussemployers.org.uk/sites/default/files/field/attachemnt/2018-technical-provisions-consultation.pdf
The JEP estimated that if all its recommendations were implemented, current benefits (minus the match) could be secured for 29.2% – 3.2% higher than the current 26%, but substantially lower than the 36.6% previously proposed by USS.
In the new technical provisions, USS states that it is not persuaded of the case for two of the proposals made by the JEP: the postponement of de-risking in the first 10 years and the smoothing of contributions over two valuation cycles. However they also say that, even without implementing these two recommendations, contributions can be as low as 29.7% if they can agree suitable contingency arrangements with the employers.
The USS consultation with the employers finishes in mid-February and we ask on behalf of Southampton UCU members and members of the USS pension scheme here that this University will call for the full implementation of the JEP, including the postponement of de-risking and the smoothing of contributions.
We seek assurances that this University will:
call for the full implementation of JEP recommendations;
support measures to secure the lowest contributions possible for staff (mindful that pay has not kept pace with inflation);
support further work by the JEP to improve the methodology for future valuations which would have the support of all sides.
We look forward to your response and formally request permission to communicate such to our members.
On behalf of Southampton UCU Executive Committee
Vote YES for a fair pay deal
Earlier this year UCU members were asked what they wanted to do about the derisory pay offer made by our employers. Responses from UCU members here more than cleared the 50% bar demanded by TU legislation – you said, overwhelmingly, that you want to take action on pay.
The Pay and Equality ballot closes Friday 19th October at 12 noon.
Senior managers have ‘implemented’ a 2% pay increase – but do not be fooled by this. The value of your wages has been going down. The last above-inflation pay rise was in 2014. UCU have asked for a pay increase of 7.5% or £1,500, whichever is greater.
We note that the VC’s pay was a whopping £433,000 (including pension) in 2016/17. Sir Christopher is paid more than double the head of our local hospital, although the hospital budget is larger than that of the university, and they have more staff. We note also that in 2007, the then VC, Bill Wakeham was paid ‘just’ £242,000 (including pension) so Sir Christopher’s pay represents an increase of 79% over 10 years. It is time that University senior managers showed front line staff that they are valued too.
UCU also want a nationally-agreed framework for action to close the gender pay gap by 2020. The most recent gender pay return for University of Southampton shows a mean gender pay gap of 20.2%. Women here are paid, on average, 20% less than men. Women continue to be under-represented at the highest levels of the pay scale and little effective action has been taken to address this inequality.
The 2018 pay claim asks for a nationally-agreed framework for action on precarious contracts. We have a small army of staff employed on fixed term and hourly-paid contracts. This ‘disposable’ labour force deserves a better deal.
Finally our UCU negotiators have pointed out that increases in workload and excessive hours also contribute to the decline in pay of University staff. We have had a year of more cuts to staff and yet no decline in the work to be done. The work of all the people who have left and the vacant posts deliberately left unfilled has been redistributed. During the strike at the beginning of the year people kept saying how good it was to ‘go home on time’ and to spend weekends with family and friends. Staff here routinely take work home after their working day is over. Most work more than their contracted hours. Many of us are bombarded with work emails at all times of the day and night. We have put up with almost constant restructuring, moving from 3 to 8 to 5 Faculties, facing the cuts associated with “INEX”, “Hartley” and “Wellington” projects. We have delivered more and more for this University and yet we are not recompensed. Our pay claim asks for a payment to recognise these excessive workloads.
There is still time to avoid a dispute this year. Sir Christopher, as a key voice in Universities UK, could represent us and use his excellent contacts to press for a better deal for University staff.
In the coming weeks we will be working to “Get the Vote Out” and will be visiting workplaces to encourage members to vote and asking non-members to join UCU. If you can help – please contact Amanda (ucu@soton.ac.uk).
You should receive your ballot papers over the next few days. We must achieve a turnout of at least 50% to take lawful industrial action so your vote is vital.
You can read the union’s full claim here and click here for further information and the latest in the campaign.
Please Vote YES to strike action and YES to action short of a strike (ASOS).
*this blog was updated on 6/9/18 to add details about hospital chief, and previous VC pay (thanks to our member for reminding us of these comparisons). We also added the date that the ballot closes.
Something for the holidays – brief update on the USS Pension ‘holiday’
In the late 1990s the University of Southampton like other employers reduced its USS pension contributions to 14%. Tom Pike, Vice President of Imperial’s UCU wrote an open letter earlier this year saying “with the benefit of hindsight can be seen as the source of the current technical deficit — if employers had maintained an 18.55% contribution there would be another £7 bn in the fund, based on the known subsequent net levels of USS investment return.” Universities UK have argued that the ‘special rate’ of 18.55% met the cost of the future benefits then accruing, and met the shortfall in funding terms relating to the USS’s predecessor scheme, known as FSSU. Universities UK claim that linking the reduction in contributions to the current (disputed) deficit is misinformed.
More on USS pensions (and why the USS consultation is just a paper exercise).
Aug 22nd, 2018
Members will have seen the SUSSED statement, and had personal emails, informing them that USS is consulting on increased pension contributions from both employers and employees. USS have announced that they have opened the statutory consultation about these increases. The USS consultation is, we suspect, like all previous USS consultations – simply a paper process to comply with regulations. We have no evidence that USS has ever responded to input from scheme members or made any changes following such consultations.
To summarise the USS statement, the planned increases in contributions would be staggered, from April 2019, adding 0.8% to the existing 8% employees pay for April 2019 and this will rise in two steps to 11.7% in April 2020. Employers would also pay larger phased increases, and their 1% match of voluntary additional contributions would come to an end. These plans are being imposed by the USS Trustees under the scheme’s “rule 76” as the Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC), composed of UCU and employer representatives, has not yet reached agreement on how to balance contributions and benefits to the actuary’s satisfaction. USS claim the increases are needed to cover the projected (but much disputed) deficit in the scheme.
Following the strike action earlier this year a Joint Expert Panel was set up to look at the USS valuation and the alleged deficit. The JEP is continuing its work and will report to the JNC in September 2018. USS have said that their Trustees will continue to engage constructively with the JEP.
The valuation of the pension is at the heart of our dispute. The November re-valuation offered a gloomy forecast of a growing deficit. This re-valuation was provoked and supported – as we subsequently discovered – by a minority of employers with vested interests in shifting to a defined contribution scheme. (Members will recall the additional and coordinated voting by several Oxbridge Colleges).
In response to the earlier September 2017 valuation of the pension, USS suggested that employing institutions could afford increases, and as Mike Ostuka recently noted it would have been possible to retain the current pension benefits (minus the 1% match) via a more modest 5.8% total increase in contributions.
The November re-valuation of the scheme ‘created’ an allegedly much larger deficit but in recent months this has dropped from £17.5bn to £8.4bn in response to new modelling based on revised mortality trends and bond yield forecasts.
Our action earlier this year forced the employers and USS to suspend their plans to reduce our pension benefits and they agreed to set up the JEP. We believe it is unlikely that the current proposals to increase contributions will actually be implemented as the employer costs are very high; they result from the trustees following the rulebook without waiting for the JEP or JNC.
Rather than wasting time engaging with the USS paper consultation, members here might like to write to our VC asking him not to support those in USS and Universities UK who want to reduce the value of our pensions. After a year of demoralising cuts and restructuring it is time that our VC stood up for his staff.
For those who want to read more on about the pension UCU has provided regular updates about the JEP. Mike Otsuka has threaded a series of his blogs about USS. There are also a number of new USSBriefs on this topic.
“Don’t let our pensions go extinct” – Or, it’s not over ’til it’s over
It’s now been a month since the Dinosaur of Solidarity led striking members around the campus in a conga, celebrating our strength of resolve that was evident from the fourteen days of successful strike action held during February and March.
We hope that branch members are aware of the result of the e-ballot consultation on UUK’s proposal, in which nationally members voted almost 2:1 in favour of suspending strike action to allow for the formation of a Joint Expert Panel; the JEP will be charged with scrutinising the valuation methodology of the USS scheme. We understand that UUK and UCU are meeting this week to scope out a framework for the panel. We also understand that objections have been raised both in this forum and by UCU press office about UUK’s press release on Friday 13 April, after the result of the consultative ballot became known. We await a report to HEC on these deliberations.
We have so much to be proud of as a branch. We’ve delivered a continual and joyous message of solidarity throughout the strike (Nota bene: it’s not over ’til it’s over). Our commitment to consensus and democracy may make the message we deliver seem out of step with other parts of the union, but we’ve maintained a respectful conversation within the branch about the way the dispute has been managed; we have done our utmost to consult with our members on substantive issues, and we have tried to help all members make decisions for themselves.
We would love to see the warmth and cooperation of the strike weeks continue in the branch’s activities in the months to come: while none of us wanted to cancel classes or lose income, and most of us really didn’t like being out in the cold and wet, almost every other aspect of the picket was life-enhancing: the singing, the baking (if you ignore an extra kilo or two), the space and time to meet and talk with new colleagues, the shared sense of purpose, the support of our students, the teach-outs, the generosity of strangers. While senior management opine about – without ever demonstrating – collegiality as a value, we found a way to make it work in the snow and the rain.
The Dinosaur of Solidarity is our gift to our colleagues, local and national; she may have been (contrary to reports) a serendipitous creation, but she is also a symbol of what is best about our branch: a collective expression of a positive will for change, fairness, courage, and good humour when faced with management’s baffling and sometimes surreal vision for our community. By tapping into our enhanced collegiality we not only keep ourselves ready, should need arise, to get back out on the pickets, but we also will be able to be a proactive force for good in the university, like never before. It’s wonderful to see our membership so dramatically increased, but it’s even more wonderful to have so many colleagues energised in the pursuit of a better, more democratic workplace.
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Take a Moment to Celebrate, But There is Still More Work to be Done!
Your voice is being heard!!!
Yesterday’s Senate Gun-Control amendments were defeated!!!
Thankfully, the most egregious measures were defeated last night. One was a Feinstein amendment that would have allowed the Attorney General to keep law-abiding gun owners from buying a gun.
These denials would not have been based on a criminal conviction, but would result from a bureaucrat placing a person, even erroneously, onto a government watch list.
Then, there was a Murphy amendment that would have imposed Universal Background Checks — aka, gun owner registration — on every private purchase of a firearm.
Both of these amendments failed handily — as did the Republican, gun control “lite” alternatives.
The Battle is Not Over Yet
There are more amendments that could still come to the Senate floor. One such amendment could be an anti-gun Collins-Ayotte amendment.
In press reports, Ayotte has bragged that her amendment would “only” apply to 2,500 individuals on the “No Fly” and the “selectee” lists.
But there are many problems with her language:
There is no statutory limit to the number of people who could be placed on lists based on “credible” secret evidence.
So in theory, every member of Gun Owners of America and every member of the National Rifle Association could be placed on those lists, based on the New York Times’; assessment that we are “complicit in terrorism.”;
Collins-Ayotte claims to provide due process to people illegitimately denied firearms, but you will need to be wealthy enough to pay for your own attorney.
As GOA’s chief Legislative Counsel explained in a memo to the Senate today:
We’ve gone through this exercise before with the so-called “right to review” in the NICS Amendments Improvement Act of 2007. In that statute, disarmed veterans supposedly had a “right of review” comparable to the Collins amendment.
As it turned out, the cost of involving that review ran anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000. As a result, the review became irrelevant.
Collins has created “due process,” at best, for “the 1%.”… After the fact, the court “shall” award attorneys’ fees to the prevailing party — including the government. [But over the years, provisions like this have] had little impact for non-wealthy litigants forced to pay the costs of litigation up-front and faced with, at best, a slight chance of reimbursement at the end of the process.
There may be other amendments put forward as well. So Gun Owners of America will keep you updated as news becomes available.
But for now, please call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on all gun control, including the Collins-Ayotte amendment.
This proposal could come up today or tomorrow. But because the time frame is so short, emails would be ineffective. So making phone calls is our only avenue right now.
Thank you Gun Owners Of America for this article.
Stay Prepared, Stay Safe!
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Cheap Theatre in Toronto the Week of March 14th
March 15, 2016 Lin Young
Five Shows Under $25 in Toronto this Week
In honour of the multiple festivals currently playing in the city, our picks for inexpensive theatre outings this week is ‘stories.’ All of these picks are either adaptations from folk tales or classic lit, or are just engaged with exploring the nature of storytelling itself. They all look exciting, and best of all, they won’t break the bank. Check ’em out under the cut!
Mosaic Storytelling Festival. Presented by St David’s Anglican Church and Open Door East End Arts Collective. Sage Tyrtle tells the story of one brave girl. Mar 20 at 3 pm. Pwyc. Show Info.
The Goose Girl. Little Red Theatre presents a story based on a Norwegian folk tale, about a goose girl who falls in love with a sweet boy. Suitable for ages 4-11. Mar 16 at 3 pm. $11, child $9. Show Info.
Cabaret: the Musical by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Trinity College Dramatic Society). An American writer falls for a nightclub singer in Nazi-era Berlin. Mar 16-19, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Show Info.
Orpheus & Eurydice by Julia Krauss and Nicholas Walsh (Theatre TOnight). The audience is invited to explore relationships past and present through the context of the myth. Mar 16-20, Wed-Fri 9 pm, Sat-Sun 8 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. In the Rehearsal Hall. Show Info.
New Ideas Festival. Alumnae Theatre presents its annual showcase of new writing, works-in-progress and experimental theatre featuring works by Deanna Kruger, Caitie Graham, Anne Tait, Ramona Baillie, Stacey Iseman, Linda McCready, Carolyn Bennett and others. Opens Mar 9 and runs to Mar 27, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $15, Sat readings at noon pwyc. Show Info.
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Standard Specification for Reference Masses and Devices for Determining Mass for Use in the Physical Testing of Hydraulic Cements
ICS Code (Measurement of volume, mass, density, viscosity): 17.060
This specification covers the minimum requirements for scales, balances, reference masses, and glass graduates used in the physical testing of hydraulic cements.
Requirements for analytical reference masses and balances are not included in this specification, but are to be found in Test Methods C 114. The use of restrictive terminology, classes, ranges, etc. has been intentionally avoided to allow the use of this specification by other standards-writing bodies with similar requirements for reference masses and devices for determining mass, if desired.
These requirements are not sufficiently descriptive to be used as the sole specifications for the purchase of reference masses or devices for determining mass without amplification.
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Standard Specification for Reference Masses and Devices for Determining Mass and Volume for Use in Physical Testing of Hydraulic Cements
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October 24, 2017 Nathan Wilkerson Religion
Happy 500th, Reformation!
This coming October 31st marks the 500th anniversary of Luther’s nailing of The 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany – an event which most historians mark as the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
For his contribution to our understanding of the gospel of grace. To some degree every believer in Christ today (Catholics included) is indebted to him for his corrective of
the abuses which had become rife in his day. Even those who do not profess faith in Christ are his beneficiaries since his courage to stand on personal conscience before God rather than capitulate to ecclesiastical mandate paved the way for the Renaissance and the modern age.
If you don’t believe me, I encourage you to read “The 95 Theses” below and consider what life might have been like had his correctives not been heard.
This October 31st, I plan to dress up, but not as a ghost, ghoul, or scantily clad nurse. I will dress up as Martin Luther, because five hundred hears later, I want to acknowledge that gutsy little monk who dared to defy the most powerful institution on earth for the sake of the gospel.
Happy Reformation Day to all!
The 95 Theses
(or “Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences”)
Out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it, the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and Sacred Theology, and ordinary lecturer therein at Wittenberg, intends to defend the following statements and to dispute on them in that place. Therefore he asks that those who cannot be present and dispute with him orally shall do so in their absence by letter. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, in saying, “Repent ye, etc.,” intended that the whole life of his believers on earth should be a constant penance.
And the word “penance” neither can, nor may, be understood as referring to the Sacrament of Penance, that is, to confession and atonement as exercised under the priest’s ministry.
Nevertheless He does not think of inward penance only: rather is inward penance worthless unless it produces various outward mortifications of the flesh.
Therefore mortification continues as long as hatred of oneself continues, that is to say, true inward penance lasts until entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.
The Pope will not, and cannot, remit other punishments than those which he has imposed by his own decree or according to the canons.
The Pope can forgive sins only in the sense, that he declares and confirms what may be forgiven of God; or that he doth it in those cases which he hath reserved to himself; be this contemned, the sin remains unremitted.
God forgives none his sin without at the same time casting him penitent and humbled before the priest His vicar.
The canons concerning penance are imposed only on the living; they ought not by any means, following the same canons, to be imposed on the dying.
Therefore, the Holy Spirit, acting in the Pope, does well for us, when the latter in his decrees entirely removes the article of death and extreme necessity.
Those priests act unreasonably and ill who reserve for Purgatory the penance imposed on the dying.
This abuse of changing canonical penalty into the penalty of Purgatory seems to have arisen when the bishops were asleep.
In times of yore, canonical penalties were imposed, not after, but before, absolution, as tests of true repentance and affliction.
The dying are freed by death from all penalties, are already dead as far as the canon laws are concerned, and have a right to be released from them.
Imperfect piety or love on the part of the dying person necessarily brings with it great fear; and the smaller the love, the greater the fear.
This fear or horror is sufficient in itself, to say nothing of other things, to constitute the penalty of purgatory, since it is very near to the horror of despair.
Hell, purgatory, and heaven seem to differ the same as despair, fear, and assurance of salvation.
It seems as though for the souls in purgatory fear should necessarily decrease and love increase.
Furthermore, it does not seem proved, either by reason or by Scripture, that souls in purgatory are outside the state of merit, that is, unable to grow in love.
Nor does it seem proved that souls in purgatory, at least not all of them, are certain and assured of their own salvation, even if we ourselves may be entirely certain of it.
Therefore the pope, when he uses the words “plenary remission of all penalties,” does not actually mean “all penalties,” but only those imposed by himself.
Thus those indulgence preachers are in error who say that a man is absolved from every penalty and saved by papal indulgences.
As a matter of fact, the pope remits to souls in purgatory no penalty which, according to canon law, they should have paid in this life.
If remission of all penalties whatsoever could be granted to anyone at all, certainly it would be granted only to the most perfect, that is, to very few.
For this reason most people are necessarily deceived by that indiscriminate and high-sounding promise of release from penalty.
That power which the pope has in general over purgatory corresponds to the power which any bishop or curate has in a particular way in his own diocese and parish.
The pope does very well when he grants remission to souls in purgatory, not by the power of the keys, which he does not have, but by way of intercession for them.
They preach only human doctrines who say that as soon as the money clinks into the money chest, the soul flies out of purgatory.
It is certain that when money clinks in the money chest, greed and avarice can be increased; but when the church intercedes, the result is in the hands of God alone.
Who knows whether all souls in purgatory wish to be redeemed, since we have exceptions in St. Severinus and St. Paschal, as related in a legend.
No one is sure of the integrity of his own contrition, much less of having received plenary remission.
The man who actually buys indulgences is as rare as he who is really penitent; indeed, he is exceedingly rare.
Those who believe that they can be certain of their salvation because they have indulgence letters will be eternally damned, together with their teachers.
Men must especially be on guard against those who say that the pope’s pardons are that inestimable gift of God by which man is reconciled to him.
For the graces of indulgences are concerned only with the penalties of sacramental satisfaction established by man.
They who teach that contrition is not necessary on the part of those who intend to buy souls out of purgatory or to buy confessional privileges preach unchristian doctrine.
Any truly repentant Christian has a right to full remission of penalty and guilt, even without indulgence letters.
Any true Christian, whether living or dead, participates in all the blessings of Christ and the church; and this is granted him by God, even without indulgence letters.
Nevertheless, papal remission and blessing are by no means to be disregarded, for they are, as I have said (Thesis 6), the proclamation of the divine remission.
It is very difficult, even for the most learned theologians, at one and the same time to commend to the people the bounty of indulgences and the need of true contrition.
A Christian who is truly contrite seeks and loves to pay penalties for his sins; the bounty of indulgences, however, relaxes penalties and causes men to hate them — at least it furnishes occasion for hating them.
Papal indulgences must be preached with caution, lest people erroneously think that they are preferable to other good works of love.
Christians are to be taught that the pope does not intend that the buying of indulgences should in any way be compared with works of mercy.
Christians are to be taught that he who gives to the poor or lends to the needy does a better deed than he who buys indulgences.
Because love grows by works of love, man thereby becomes better. Man does not, however, become better by means of indulgences but is merely freed from penalties.
Christians are to be taught that he who sees a needy man and passes him by, yet gives his money for indulgences, does not buy papal indulgences but God’s wrath.
Christians are to be taught that, unless they have more than they need, they must reserve enough for their family needs and by no means squander it on indulgences.
Christians are to be taught that they buying of indulgences is a matter of free choice, not commanded.
Christians are to be taught that the pope, in granting indulgences, needs and thus desires their devout prayer more than their money.
Christians are to be taught that papal indulgences are useful only if they do not put their trust in them, but very harmful if they lose their fear of God because of them.
Christians are to be taught that if the pope knew the exactions of the indulgence preachers, he would rather that the basilica of St. Peter were burned to ashes than built up with the skin, flesh, and bones of his sheep.
Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
It is vain to trust in salvation by indulgence letters, even though the indulgence commissary, or even the pope, were to offer his soul as security.
They are the enemies of Christ and the pope who forbid altogether the preaching of the Word of God in some churches in order that indulgences may be preached in others.
Injury is done to the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or larger amount of time is devoted to indulgences than to the Word.
It is certainly the pope’s sentiment that if indulgences, which are a very insignificant thing, are celebrated with one bell, one procession, and one ceremony, then the gospel, which is the very greatest thing, should be preached with a hundred bells, a hundred processions, a hundred ceremonies.
The true treasures of the church, out of which the pope distributes indulgences, are not sufficiently discussed or known among the people of Christ.
That indulgences are not temporal treasures is certainly clear, for many indulgence sellers do not distribute them freely but only gather them.
Nor are they the merits of Christ and the saints, for, even without the pope, the latter always work grace for the inner man, and the cross, death, and hell for the outer man.
St. Lawrence said that the poor of the church were the treasures of the church, but he spoke according to the usage of the word in his own time.
Without want of consideration we say that the keys of the church, given by the merits of Christ, are that treasure.
For it is clear that the pope’s power is of itself sufficient for the remission of penalties and cases reserved by himself.
The true treasure of the church is the most holy gospel of the glory and grace of God.
But this treasure is naturally most odious, for it makes the first to be last (Mt. 20:16).
On the other hand, the treasure of indulgences is naturally most acceptable, for it makes the last to be first.
Therefore the treasures of the gospel are nets with which one formerly fished for men of wealth.
The treasures of indulgences are nets with which one now fishes for the wealth of men.
The indulgences which the demagogues acclaim as the greatest graces are actually understood to be such only insofar as they promote gain.
They are nevertheless in truth the most insignificant graces when compared with the grace of God and the piety of the cross.
Bishops and curates are bound to admit the commissaries of papal indulgences with all reverence.
But they are much more bound to strain their eyes and ears lest these men preach their own dreams instead of what the pope has commissioned.
Let him who speaks against the truth concerning papal indulgences be anathema and accursed.
But let him who guards against the lust and license of the indulgence preachers be blessed.
Just as the pope justly thunders against those who by any means whatever contrive harm to the sale of indulgences.
Much more does he intend to thunder against those who use indulgences as a pretext to contrive harm to holy love and truth.
To consider papal indulgences so great that they could absolve a man even if he had done the impossible and had violated the mother of God is madness.
We say on the contrary that papal indulgences cannot remove the very least of venial sins as far as guilt is concerned.
To say that even St. Peter if he were now pope, could not grant greater graces is blasphemy against St. Peter and the pope.
We say on the contrary that even the present pope, or any pope whatsoever, has greater graces at his disposal, that is, the gospel, spiritual powers, gifts of healing, etc., as it is written. (1 Co 12[:28])
To say that the cross emblazoned with the papal coat of arms, and set up by the indulgence preachers is equal in worth to the cross of Christ is blasphemy.
The bishops, curates, and theologians who permit such talk to be spread among the people will have to answer for this.
This unbridled preaching of indulgences makes it difficult even for learned men to rescue the reverence which is due the pope from slander or from the shrewd questions of the laity.
Such as: “Why does not the pope empty purgatory for the sake of holy love and the dire need of the souls that are there if he redeems an infinite number of souls for the sake of miserable money with which to build a church?” The former reason would be most just; the latter is most trivial.
Again, “Why are funeral and anniversary masses for the dead continued and why does he not return or permit the withdrawal of the endowments founded for them, since it is wrong to pray for the redeemed?”
Again, “What is this new piety of God and the pope that for a consideration of money they permit a man who is impious and their enemy to buy out of purgatory the pious soul of a friend of God and do not rather, because of the need of that pious and beloved soul, free it for pure love’s sake?”
Again, “Why are the penitential canons, long since abrogated and dead in actual fact and through disuse, now satisfied by the granting of indulgences as though they were still alive and in force?”
Again, “Why does not the pope, whose wealth is today greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build this one basilica of St. Peter with his own money rather than with the money of poor believers?”
Again, “What does the pope remit or grant to those who by perfect contrition already have a right to full remission and blessings?”
Again, “What greater blessing could come to the church than if the pope were to bestow these remissions and blessings on every believer a hundred times a day, as he now does but once?”
“Since the pope seeks the salvation of souls rather than money by his indulgences, why does he suspend the indulgences and pardons previously granted when they have equal efficacy?”
To repress these very sharp arguments of the laity by force alone, and not to resolve them by giving reasons, is to expose the church and the pope to the ridicule of their enemies and to make Christians unhappy.
If, therefore, indulgences were preached according to the spirit and intention of the pope, all these doubts would be readily resolved. Indeed, they would not exist.
Away, then, with all those prophets who say to the people of Christ, “Peace, peace,” and there is no peace! (Jer 6:14)
Blessed be all those prophets who say to the people of Christ, “Cross, cross,” and there is no cross!
Christians should be exhorted to be diligent in following Christ, their Head, through penalties, death and hell.
And thus be confident of entering into heaven through many tribulations rather than through the false security of peace (Acts 14:22).
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Ankylosaur tail pathologies.
May 22, 2011 April 14, 2016 / pseudoplocephalus
My most recent paper with my coauthor and supervisor Phil Currie appeared online at Historical Biology this week. It is the last of the chapters from my MSc on ankylosaur tail club biomechanics (although I am still working on ankylosaurs, the focus is now on the phylogenetic relationships within the ankylosaurids and their biogeography). However, it contains very little about the biomechanics of tail clubs…
Most of my MSc thesis used a lot of math and fancy-dancy computer modeling to look at whether it is biologically feasible for ankylosaurids to have used their tail clubs for forceful impacts (and therefore as offensive or defensive weapons). But another way to look for evidence of behaviour is to look for injuries, which can sometimes, if you’re lucky, give you clues about some of the more dramatic moments in an animal’s life. So as I was looking at specimens for my MSc (and into my PhD), I always kept an eye open for anything unusual or abnormal that could be a pathology.
What I would love to tell you is that I found healing fractures in the handle vertebrae or knob of the tail club, because that would be pretty good evidence that ankylosaurids were smashing things with their tails. Sadly, I have not seen anything like that in any of the tail club specimens I’ve seen. There are several explanations for the absence of handle pathologies:
Ankylosaurids did not use their tails for forceful impacts.
Ankylosaurids did use their tails for forceful impacts, but the impact forces were never enough to cause the tail to break.
Ankylosaurids did use their tails for forceful impacts, and the impact forces were so great that a fracture was probably catastrophic and unlikely to heal.
Ankylosaurids did use their tails for forceful impacts, and injuries occurred sometimes, but we haven’t found any injured specimens yet.
Out of all of the above scenarios, I think #4 is the most likely. Ankylosaurids could pack a wallop with their tails, especially those with the largest knobs. I am quite sure injuries occurred sometimes, but I bet they were reasonably rare and the chances of finding a healed tail club are probably low.
What else did we find? Well, there’s a tail club knob that may have become infected – it’s on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum Field Station if you happen to be visiting Dinosaur Provincial Park this summer, and you can check it out for yourself. There’s a big hole on the right major osteoderm, and this osteoderm is also much taller in posterior view.
In two pelvis specimens, I saw large holes where some of the sacral vertebrae attach to the ilium. One of these is AMNH 5337, on display in the Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History. I am unsure what exactly may be causing these holes, but in the paper we speculate that they may be similar to the extra fenestrae that sometimes occur in ceratopsian frills (see Tanke and Farke 2007). Perhaps these are areas of low mechanical stress and the bone is simply resorbed. They are certainly unusual, and it would be interesting to see if any other dinosaurs show evidence of lesions like these.
And finally, several specimens of anterior free caudal vertebrae had rough, rugose bone textures on the neural spines and sometimes on the transverse processes. In two specimens (a Euoplocephalus at the AMNH and the Talarurus mount at the Palaeontological Institute in Moscow) some of these anterior vertebrae are fused together. At first I thought these might be infections, but as it turns out, the anterior caudal vertebrae of whales and crocodiles can fuse as a mechanical response to stress from swimming motions (see Galatius et al. 2009 and Mulder 2001). It is conceivable that this was occurring in ankylosaurids either as a response to keeping the heavy tail club elevated off that ground, or as a result of tail club swinging.
I wasn’t able to draw any definitive conclusions about tail-clubbing in ankylosaurs based on my pathology survey, and trying to diagnose bone pathologies in fossils is EXTREMELY challenging. Perhaps it is something that gets easier with time. But I had a lot of fun with this project and I think it is worthwhile to look at palaeopathologies as potential sources of information, as long as you’re careful how you interpret them.
References!
Arbour VM, Currie PJ. 2011. Tail and pelvis pathologies of ankylosaurian dinosaurs. Historical Biology, online 19 May 2011.
Galatius A, Sonne C, Kinze CC, Dietz R, Beck Jensen J-E. 2009. Occurrence of vertebral osteophytosis in a museum sample of whitebeaked dolphins (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) from Danish waters. Journal of Wildlife Disease 45:19–28.
Mulder EWA. 2001. Co-ossified vertebrae of mosasaurs and cetaceans: implications for the mode of locomotion of extinct marine reptiles. Paleobiology 27:724–734.
Tanke DH, Farke AA. 2007. Bone resorption, bone lesions, and extracranial fenestrae in ceratopsid dinosaurs: a preliminary assessment. In: Carpenter K (ed). Horns and beaks. Bloomington (IN): Indiana University Press. p. 319–348.
American Museum of Natural History, ankylosaurs, Dinosaur Provincial Park, PIN, Royal Tyrrell Museum, the literature
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7 thoughts on “Ankylosaur tail pathologies.”
If clubs were used for interspecific fighting i.e. used to strike armored bodies, we may find a busted handle someday. Coombs, however, doubted they were. For all practical purposes #2 is right if, as he wrote, clubs were used against the “fragile metatarsus of a menacing carnosaur.”
Btw as far as I know, the T. gigantea pathology paper was never published. Too bad; I wonder if the recently collected postcrania displays any additional pathologies.
Can you circle the holes you're talking about specifically? The picture is small and all i'm seeing are the normal spaces between the transverse processes?
CORRECTION: Above, I meant intraspecific fighting i.e. two ankylosaurs of the same species (hypothetically) battling with clubs.
My suggested interpretation of the pathologies:
http://multiply.com/gi/ffd2009:notes:33
Note: it's for members only but anyone can join.
Tarchia
Anonymous – on the pelvis picture, look at the left side and the fourth transverse process from the top. It's a little hard to see because of the glass reflections, but there's a sizable divot on the ilium in that area.
Starman – Unfortunately the Tarchia skull pathology description exists only as an SVP abstract. Also I don't usually sign up for website unless I have to, but please feel free to post your interpretations in the comments here and I will respond as best I can.
Yeah, I saw the abstract when it came out over a dozen years ago. Now that the postcrania has been collected an eventual paper on the specimen might as well include the skull and its pathology.
I remember from a documentary that an ankylosaur tail club was found with depressions on both lateral ends that indicated possible physical trauma due to forceful impact. I wanted to ask for your opinion on the finding.
This is a link to the clip I found that discusses the finding:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00cjjzp
And its point in the original documentary in case the link above doesn't work:
https://youtu.be/AhfTDdtmJgA?t=40m11s
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Your data will - on the basis of Art. 88 GDPR in conjunction with § 26 Section 1 or Section 2 of the Federal Data Protection Act / BDSG - be processed for the purpose of making a decision on the establishment of an employment relationship with you. For the purpose of dealing with the application, the data will be stored by us for a period of six months from the conclusion of the application process, after which it will be deleted. If you take up employment with us on the conclusion of the application process, the processing of your data beyond this time is permitted in accordance with the above legal basis for the purpose of establishing and implementing an employment relationship.
You are not required to provide your personal data either contractually or in legal terms. However, an online application is not possible without the provision and saving of data. If you voluntarily provide us with special categories of data, including details of your origins, political, religious or ideological convictions, membership of a trade union, medical condition or sexual orientation, you also provide your consent to the processing of this data. Such processing will only take place to the extent that is absolutely necessary for the above-mentioned purposes. You are expressly requested not to communicate such data to us.
If you have subscribed to a newsletter distributed by our publishing company, we will process your email address for the purpose of sending you our newsletter on a regular basis. When you subscribe to the newsletter you will receive from us an email with a link for the purpose of verifying your email address.
The legal basis for sending you the newsletter is your consent, which you provide us with on subscribing to the newsletter (Art. 6 Section 1 a GDPR). The provision of data on your part is not mandatory, but your email address is required for the distribution of the newsletter. The entry of your name, title and place of residence is voluntary and serves the purpose of enabling us to address you in person and inform you about events in your area. Any data you have provided us with as part of your subscription to the newsletter will be deleted as soon as you unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time by, for example, clicking on the relevant link at the foot of each newsletter (on the withdrawal of your consent, please see 5.5). When you cancel your subscription to the newsletter you will also no longer receive any promotional emails as described in Section 4.2.
Newsletter2Go is used as our newsletter software. In this process, your data is transmitted to Sendinblue GmbH. Sendinblue GmbH is prohibited from selling your data and using it for purposes other than sending newsletters. We also use the services of Emarsys Interactive Services GmbH in Berlin. Our newsletter is implemented on the basis of Art. 28 GDPR.
4.6.1 Creation of log files
When you visit our websites, the following details are saved in a log file:
(1) the IP address and if relevant the MAC address of your computer or mobile device,
(2) the date and time of your access,
(3) the names of the files you access and the data volume which is transmitted,
(4) the type of operating system and web browser used, including the language settings,
(5) the website from which you reach our website (referrer URL),
(6) the websites which are accessed from our website by the user's system.
It is necessary for a large part of this data to be saved for technical reasons, so that the website can be displayed on your device, as well as to ensure system security. In addition, the above data is evaluated in anonymised form for statistical purposes and for the purpose of optimising our website. We do not link this data with your other personal data. In part the data is made available to external contract processors, which process the data on our behalf in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.
4.6.2 Use of web fonts
On our websites we use external web fonts, so-called "Google Web Fonts" on our website. Google Fonts is a service provided by Google Inc. "("Google"). The integration of these web fonts takes place by a server call, usually in relation to a server operated by Google in the USA. This informs the server which website you have visited. The IP address of the browser used by the terminal device of the visitor to the individual website is also stored by Google. For more information, please refer to Google's privacy policy, which can be found here:
www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about
www.google.com/policies/privacy
The integration is based on our legitimate interests (Art. 6 Section 1 f GDPR) in a technically secure, maintenance-free and efficient use of fonts, their uniform presentation and taking into account possible licensing restrictions connected with their integration.
4.6.3 Use of cookies
a) General
In order to make visiting our websites attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called "cookies" on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted again after the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called "session cookies"). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us or our partner companies to recognise your browser on your next visit (so-called "persistent cookies"). Cookies can't be used to access other files on your computer or to determine your email address.
b) Use of cookies
Like most of the websites you visit, our website uses cookies to improve the user experience, both for single and repeat visits to the website. For example, you can quickly and easily switch between pages, save your configurations and use third-party tools (e.g. YouTube videos) on the website.
Cookies are generated either by our website ("first-party cookies") or by other websites whose contents appear on our website ("third-party cookies"). These third parties may set cookies when you are logged into their websites and visit our website. We have no influence on the cookie settings of these websites. Please visit the websites of the third-party providers in order to obtain further information on their use of cookies.
c) Legal basis for the storage of cookies
The storage of the necessary and functional cookies is based on our legitimate interests (Art. 6 Section 1 f GDPR) in the optimisation and needs-based design of our website. The storage of cookies for statistical or marketing purposes is based on the consent of the user (Art. 6 Section 1 a GDPR). These cookies are therefore only set if the user consents to their storage by means of the cookie reference on the website.
d) Switching off and deleting cookies
Most browsers are set to accept cookies automatically. If the standard settings for cookies are stored in your browser, all the processes run unnoticed in the background. However, you can change these settings. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. A general objection to the use of cookies used for marketing or advertising purposes can be declared for many of the services via the http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ website or the EU website http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. In addition, the setting of cookies can be prevented by deactivating them in your browser settings. Please note that in this case not all the functions of the website can be used.
e) Overview of the cookies used by us
Necessary cookies are set in order to make our website usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Saved for:
Session "Shop"
Shop "Logged in Usercore or not"
_opendict_session
_Session "OpenDict"
_trainer_session
Session "Trainer"
_users_core_session
Session "UserCore"
_wb-rails_session
Session "MyPONS"
_cmpRepromptOptions
Euconsent
eupubconsent
Legacy cookie consent (only outside the EU)
Identifies the current session, the user and the shopping basket.
Protects against CSRF attacks
Stores the language/subshop which the customer calls up.
Enables the customer to be identified when returning to the shop, even if the session has already ended.
Stores the used device e.g. for the correct display of the shop
The elements that are not to be cached are stored here.
Functional cookies enable a website to store information already entered (such as the preferred language) and to offer the user improved, more personalised functions. Functional cookies are used, for example, to enable requested functions such as the playing of videos. These cookies collect anonymous information and can't track the user's movements on other websites.
Dictuser
Enables returning dictionary users to be recognised
Enables a one-off registration for the dictionary
opendict_session
Marks a session in the user's dictionary
Marks a session in the learning portals
JSESSIONIDSSO
Saves users having to sign in once more when they visit Pons GmbH websites (single sign-on in relation to www.pons.com)
last_search
Saves the last search carried out by the user in the dictionary
last_left
Saves the last source language selected by the user in the dictionary
Saves the last selected language on the graphic interface
last_source
Saves the last selected source language in the text translation
last_bilingual
Saves the last selected language pair in the dictionary
wb-rails_session
Marks a session in OpenDict, the vocabulary trainer or in the "My PONS" section
Uetsid
Enables users to sign into PONS.com on a single occasion (signing into the shop)
Enables users to sign into PONS.com on a single occasion (signing into the vocabulary trainer)
Enables users to sign into PONS.com on a single occasion (signing into "My PONS")
Enables the recognition of returning users
Stores whether a user is logged in or not
Cfduid
Cloudfare: used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on per-client basis
Feature flags (general purpose)
ud-sid
ud-sid-present
Session (dictionary)
_pons-ga-pu-rs
Power-user identification (GapAway)
TypeAhead.queryCache
Cache for Autocompleter
pons-dictionary-searchhistory
Selected interface language
mew_favs_migrated
Favourites migrated (dictionary applications
mewFavoritesMigrated
Tree.chapter_*_*_*
The Tree.chapter cookie saves the chapter which the user last selected.
message.module_learnin g_state_not_saved.show n
The message.module_learning_state_not_saved.shown cookie is saved if the unregistered user finishes a learning module and a message is displayed that his/her learning status is not saved.
Statistical cookies collect information about the way a website is used - for example, which pages a visitor most frequently visits and whether he or she receives error messages from a page. These cookies do not store any information that allows the user to be identified. The collected information is aggregated and therefore evaluated anonymously. These cookies are used to record usage in order to improve the performance of a website and thus the user experience.
ivwbox.de Cookie
See 4.6.5 below
Cookies for marketing purposes are used to display advertisements that are relevant to the user and tailored to his or her interests. They are also used to limit the frequency with which an ad appears and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They register whether a user has visited a website or not. This information may be shared with third parties, such as advertisers. Cookies to improve targeting and advertising are often linked to third-party site functionality.
See 4.6.10 below
When delivering the advertising material, we also work together with the following advertising partners, who use the respective cookies on our behalf (Art. 28 GDPR).
Yieldlove GmbH
IDM Group France
AdDefend GMbH
4.6.4 Web analysis by Google Analytics
On our website we use the Google Analytics service. This is an analytical service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House 4, Barrow St., D04, ESW5, Ireland (Google). The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website is as a rule transmitted to Google in the USA, and processed there. The same applies to your anonymised IP address. In addition, Google Analytics analyses the data contained in the log files, the Internet address of the website which you accessed before your visit to our website (referrer URL), and the search term with which you found our website via a search engine.
Google processes the data on our behalf in order to evaluate the use of our website and compile reports on the activities on our website. Google uses the data contained in the log files, for example, in order to compile statistics on the frequency with which our website is accessed. In this process pseudonymised user profiles of visitors can be created on the basis of the processed data.
We only apply Google Analytics with activated IP anonymisation. This means that within the member states of the European Union or in the European Economic Area your IP address is truncated by Google. Only in exceptional cases will be the full IP address be transmitted to Google in the USA and then truncated there.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser as described above. You can also prevent the processing of data generated by the cookie by downloading and installing the plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. With effect for our website an opt-out cookie is set in the browser which you are currently using. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you will need to click on this link again. If you use several devices or browsers, you must click on this link for each individual device in each individual browser.
For the exceptional cases in which Google transmits data to the USA, Google has subjected itself to the "EU-US Privacy Shield". The European Commission has decided in its Adequacy decision (EU) 2016/1250 that this will ensure an adequate level of data protection.
The data is processed on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Section 1 a GDPR). For further information about Google Analytics please see the following Google website: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.
4.6.5 Web analysis by the "scalable central measurement system"
We use the "scalable central measurement system" (referred to below as the "SZM") provided by INFOnline GmbH, Brühler Straße 9, 53119 Bonn, Germany. The SZM sets cookies on our behalf (see 4.6.2 above). The purpose of the SZM is to obtain statistics on the use of our website so that we can prove to our advertising partners the amount of traffic on our website, i.e. the number of visitors and the intensity of their use of our website. We can also use the SZM to determine which groups of people visit our website so that we can tailor the advertising on our website more closely to their interests. IP addresses are truncated before being transmitted to INFOnline, so that individual visitors to our website cannot be identified. Further information on the SZM can be found at https://www.infonline.de.
The data is processed in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 f GDPR on the basis of the interests mentioned under 4.6.2. In addition, we have an interest in showing visitors to our website advertising which will be suited to their interests, and to sell advertising space on our website to advertising partners.
For the purpose of market research and the display of interest-oriented advertising, the statistical data determined by the SZM is transmitted in anonymised form to the following organisations: Informationgemeinschaft zur Feststellung der Verbreitung von Werbeträgern e.V. (IVW), Arbeitsgemeinschaft Online-Forschung e.V. and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Media-Analyse e.V..
The provision of your data for the SZM is on a voluntary basis. However, as a rule browsers automatically accept cookies. If you wish you can reject the SZM measurement by setting an opt-out cookie. If you wish to set an opt-out cookie, please click https://optout.ioam.de/ . If you delete your cookies you need to click on this link once more. If you use several devices or browsers, you need to click on this link once more for each individual device in each individual browser. As described in 4.6.2 above you can also prevent the setting of cookies and accordingly the use of the SZM by making the appropriate setting in your browser.
The truncated IP addresses are saved for a maximum of 60 days, and the data recorded by the SZM for a maximum of six months.
4.6.6 Web analysis by Hotjar
On our websites we use "Hotjar", a web analysis service provided by Hotjar Ltd., Level 2, St Julian's Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julian's STJ 1000, Malta (referred to below as "Hotjar") Among other things Hotjar uses cookies to enable an analysis of your use of our website. The cookies used by Hotjar are stored on your terminal device for varying lengths of time, some of them only during your visit, others for 365 days. The information collected in this way is transmitted to Hotjar on a server in Ireland and stored there. The following information is collected by the tracking code: device-specific data collected by your end device and your web browser:
IP address of your terminal device (collected and stored in an anonymised format)
email address including your first and last name, if you have provided it to us through our website
screen size of your terminal device
device type and browser information
geographical data (country only)
language used to display our website
user interactions
mouse commands (movement, position and clicks)
Log data that is automatically used by our server when using Hotjar:
referring domain
visited websites
date and time of access
Hotjar uses this information to evaluate your use of our website, to create reports on the use of our website and to provide other services in connection with the evaluation of our website. Hotjar also uses the services of third parties (e.g. Google Analytics and Optimizely). These third parties may store or otherwise process information that your browser transmits during your visit to our website (possibly including the IP address).
We use Hotjar in order to identify possibilities for improving our website, diagnosing technical problems, analysing user trends and optimising the website in general. Through the statistical evaluation of user behaviour we can improve our websites and make them more interesting for you as a user. This is also our legitimate interest in the processing of the above data by the third party provider. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in the user-oriented design of our websites (Art. 6 Section 1 Sentence 1 f GDPR.
For further information please see the Hotjar privacy policy here.
You can prevent the saving of your user profile and information about your visit to our website by Hotjar, together with the setting of Hotjar tracking cookies on other websites, by clicking on this opt-out link.
4.6.7 Web analysis with etracker
On our website we use "etracker", a web analysis service provided by etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstraße 1 20459 Hamburg Germany (referred to below as "etracker"). User profiles can be created from the data under a pseudonym. Cookies can be used for this purpose. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of your Internet browser. The cookies make it possible to recognise your browser again. The data collected using etracker technologies will not be used to personally identify visitors to our website without the separately granted consent of the person concerned, and will not be merged with the personal data of the bearer of the pseudonym. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in the analysis, optimisation and cost-effective operation of our online offer in (Art. 6 Section 1 Sentence 1 f GDPR). You can object to the collection and storage of data at any time with effect for the future. In order to object to the future collection and storage of your visitor data, you can obtain an opt-out cookie from etracker using the following link. This will ensure that no visitor data from your browser will be collected and stored by etracker in the future: http://www.etracker.de/privacy?et=V23Jbb.
This will set an opt-out cookie called "cntcookie" from etracker. Please do not delete this cookie as long as you wish to maintain your opt-out. For further information, please refer to the etracker privacy policy: http://www.etracker.com/de/datenschutz.html
4.6.8 Use of Youtube videos
We include videos from "Youtube", a social media platform from Google, on our website. When you call up a website in which a video from YouTube is integrated, data is transmitted to a Google server and stored there. If you have a user account with Google and are registered, Google can use this to assign the visit to your user account. Google stores this data as user profiles and uses it for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or needs-based design of its websites. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (also for users who are not logged in) for the purpose of presenting requirements-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles. Please contact Google directly for this purpose.
We include content from YouTube on the web pages of our Internet presence in order to make this content directly available to you without you having to call up the content separately on YouTube. This means that you can use the functions of the social media platform YouTube on our website. This allows us to improve our services and the user experience for you and make it more interesting. This is also our legitimate interest in the processing of the above data by the third party provider. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in the user-oriented design of our offers (Art. 6 Section Sentence 1 f GDPR).
If you wish to prevent the transfer of data, you will not be able to use the functions of Youtube. Irrespective of this, we recommend that you regularly log out of your user account after using a social network, but especially before activating integrated content, as you can then avoid any assignment to your profile with the respective provider. Further information on data protection and data use by Google can be found on the following Google website: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de
4.6.9 Use of Cloudflare
We use the so-called content delivery network ("CDN") of the technology service provider Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (referred to below as "Cloudflare") on our website. A content delivery network is an online service with the help of which especially large media files (such as graphics, page contents or scripts) are delivered through a network of regionally distributed servers connected via the Internet. The use of the Cloudflare content delivery network helps us to optimise the loading speed of our website. The processing takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in the secure and efficient provision and improvement of the stability and functionality of our website.
Cloudflare with its headquarters in the USA is certified for the US-European data protection agreement "Privacy Shield", which guarantees compliance with the data protection level applicable in the EU. Further information can be found in Cloudflare's privacy policy at: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/.
4.6.10 Web analysis with Facebook Custom Audience Technology
On this website we use the "Facebook Custom Audience Technology" of Facebook, Inc. 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Facebook"). This is a tool provided by Facebook that enables us - through the use of cookies, web beacons and similar technologies - to measure and collect information from users who have visited our site and who have shown interest in certain services provided by us. This enables us to make our advertising activities on Facebook more relevant to users, for example, by displaying certain ads only to users of our website. We do not share any personally identifiable information with Facebook. The data collected using this technology is only transmitted to Facebook in an encrypted format. Personal data of individual users cannot be viewed by us. The data is processed on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Section 1 a GDPR).
You can prevent this information from being collected by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser's privacy options or by deactivating cookies. For more information about Facebook's Privacy Policy, please visit https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation or contact the data processing office at Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland via the web form linked at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation .
4.6.8 Advertising with DoubleClick
On our website we use DoubleClick, an online marketing tool from Google. DoubleClick uses cookies to serve ads relevant to users, to improve campaign performance reports, and to prevent a user from seeing the same ads more than once. Google uses a cookie ID to help identify which ads are being served on which browser, so that it can prevent them from being shown more than once. DoubleClick may also use cookie IDs to track conversions related to ad-based enquiries: for example, when a user sees a DoubleClick ad and then visits the advertiser's site on the same browser to make a purchase. The data is processed on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Section 1 a GDPR). If you do not wish to continue to have anonymised data collected by Doubleclick, please click on the following opt-out link https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en. This opt-out cookie deletes the previously stored information and prevents any further collection of information. For more information about Google's privacy policy, please visit https://privacy.google.com/intl/en/# and https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/?hl=de.
4.6.12 Advertising with Google Adwords
On our website we use Google Adwords, an online marketing tool from Google, to provide advertising on our website and on third-party websites for previous visitors to our website. The ads are displayed based on information stored in cookies that Google places on your computer. The text files contain information about your visit to our website, in particular product views that are activated during subsequent visits to this or third-party websites for specific product recommendations. The cookie contains a random alias. If you visit our website within a certain period of time and view our products, Google can recognise you by your pseudonym. However, the information cannot be assigned to you personally. We or Google will not combine this information with your personal data and will not pass it on to third parties. The processing of the data is based on your consent (Art. 6 Section 1 a GDPR).
You can prevent the storage and use of information in a cookie set by Google by clicking on the following link http://www.google.de/ads/preferences and making your settings there. For more information about Google's privacy policy, please visit https://privacy.google.com/intl/en/# and https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/?hl=de.
4.6.13 Advertising marketing by Yieldlove
If you access our free Langenscheidt online dictionary (e.g. de.langenscheidt.com), the website will display online advertising from Yieldlove GmbH, Hamburg, in order to present you with advertisements which correspond to your interests. The corresponding advert identifies the name of the provider, e.g. "Google Ad". In addition this service helps us to improve our website and make your experience as a visitor as interesting as possible. For this purpose we collect statistical information about you, which is processed by the relevant provider. This processing is in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 f GDPR and represents our legitimate interest in improving the website and advertising products and services.
What kind of cookies does YieldLove use?
We use analytical cookies in order to record and statistically evaluate the behaviour (e.g. advertising banners clicked, subpages visited, search queries made) of our users. We also use cookies for advertising purposes. The profiles created with the help of these cookies on user behaviour (e.g. advertising banners clicked, sub-pages visited, search queries made) are used by us to display advertising or offers tailored to your interests ("interest-based advertising"). We also allow other companies to collect information from our users by means of advertising cookies. This enables us and third parties to display interest-based advertising to the users of our online service, which is based on an analysis of their usage behaviour (e.g. advertising banners clicked, sub-pages visited, search queries made) in total and not limited to our online service. Yieldlove provides advertising banners on behalf of its customers. All our banners use cookies. With the help of third party providers we place these banners on third party websites, such as news pages.
For diagnostic purposes, troubleshooting and fraud detection, in some advertising units we collect user information using cookies that have a lifetime of 6 months. The user information collected includes user agent, device, HTTP referrer and IP. This information is not retained for more than 7 days. Yieldlove takes reasonable steps to protect all the information we process from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, alteration or notification. We take physical, electronic and procedural security measures to protect the information we process. As a result, we restrict access to this information to authorised employees only. For the cookies that our third party providers place for advertising purposes, we refer to the disclaimers they have made available on their own websites on the subject. Please note that we can only refer to these disclaimers because they change regularly and Yieldlove has no control over them.
Third party providers and opt-out
A centralised opt-out for various third party providers, especially US providers, is also available at the following link: optout.networkadvertising.org. You can also opt out separately for each individual company we work with. The following companies are responsible for data collection for the delivery of usage-based online advertising on behalf of Yieldlove GmbH:
4w Marketplace
4w Marketplace (www.4wmarketplace.com) uses technology to bring you advertisements that are relevant to you. The provider of 4w Marketplace is 4w Marketplace with its registered office in Fisciano (Salerno) - 84084 in Via Giovanni Paolo II n.100. If you do not wish 4w Marketplace to continue collecting anonymous data, please click on the opt-out link below. This opt-out cookie will delete the previously stored information and prevent further collection of information.
Privacy policy: http://www.4wmarketplace.com/privacy/
Opt-out: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/it/le-tue-scelte https://www.neustar.biz/privacy/opt-out
Amazon (https://www.aps.amazon.com) uses technology to present advertisements relevant to you. The provider of Amazon publisher services is Amazon publisher services based in Washington - 410 Terry Ave. North, Seattle, WA 98109-5210. If you do not wish Amazon publisher services to continue collecting anonymised information, please click on the opt-out link below. This opt-out cookie deletes the information previously stored and prevents further collection of information.
Privacy policy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_left_sib?ie=UTF8&nodeId=468496
Opt-out: www.amazon.com/adprefs/ref=hp_468496_advertisingpref2
Adform (https://www.adform.com) uses technology to present advertisements relevant to you. The supplier of Adform is Adform, based in Wildersgade 10B, 1, 1408 Copenhagen, Denmark. If you do not want Adform to continue to collect anonymised data, please click on the opt-out link below. This opt-out cookie deletes the information previously stored and prevents further collection of information.
Privacy policy: https://site.adform.com/privacy-policy-opt-out/
Opt-out: https://site.adform.com/privacy-policy-opt-out/
Ströer SSP
Ströer SSP (https://www.adscale.de) uses technology to present advertisements relevant to you. The provider of Ströer SSP is Ströer media Deutschland GmbH, Cologne - 50999 Köln, Ströer-Allee 1. If you do not wish Adscale to continue to collect anonymised data, please click on the opt-out link below. This opt-out cookie deletes the information previously stored and prevents further collection of information.
Privacy policy: http://www.adscale.de/datenschutz
Opt-out: ih.adscale.de/adscale-ih/oo
Oath (https://www.oath.com/) uses technology to present advertisements relevant to you. The provider of Oath is Oath (EMEA) Limited based in Dublin - 5-7 Point Square, North Wall Quay. If you do not wish Oath to continue collecting anonymised information, please click on the opt-out link below. This opt-out cookie deletes the information previously stored and prevents further collection of information.
Privacy policy: http://privacy.aol.com/
Opt-out: https://aim.yahoo.com/aim/ie/en/optout/
AppNexus (https://www.appnexus.com) uses technology to present advertisements relevant to you. The AppNexus Group, based in New York, provides AppNexus - 28 W. If you do not wish Appnexus to continue collecting anonymised information, please click on the opt-out link below. This opt-out cookie deletes the information previously stored and prevents further collection of information.
Privacy policy: https://www.appnexus.com/en/company/privacy-policy
Opt-out: https://www.appnexus.com/en/company/platform-privacy-policy#choices
Conversant (https://www.conversantmedia.com) uses technology to present advertisements relevant to you. The provider is Conversant Inc., Chicago (IL) - 101 North Wacker, 23rd Floor Chicago, IL 60606. If you do not wish Conversant to continue collecting anonymised information, please click on the opt-out link below. This opt-out cookie deletes the information previously stored and prevents further collection of information.
Privacy policy: http://www.conversantmedia.com/legal/privacy
Opt-out: http://optout.conversantmedia.com/
Criteo (https://www.criteo.com) uses technology to present advertisements relevant to you. The provider of Criteo is Criteo based in Paris - 32 Rue Blanche - 75009 Paris - France. If you do not wish Criteo to continue collecting anonymised information, please click on the opt-out link below. This opt-out cookie deletes the information previously stored and prevents further collection of information.
Privacy policy: http://www.criteo.com/privacy/
Opt-out: https://www.criteo.com/privacy/
District M
District M (https://districtm.net) uses technology to present advertisements relevant to you. The provider of District M is District M based in Montreal - 5455 Gaspe Ave #730, Montreal, QC H2T 3B3, Canada. If you do not wish District M to continue collecting anonymised information, please click on the opt-out link below. This opt-out cookie deletes the information previously stored and prevents further collection of information.
Privacy policy: https://districtm.net/en/page/platforms-data-and-privacy-policy/
Opt-out: https://cdn.districtm.ca/optout.html
Doublecklick
Doubleclick (www.doubleclickbygoogle.com) uses technology to present advertisements relevant to you. Doubleclick is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow St Dublin 4 Ireland. If you do not wish Doubleclick to continue collecting anonymised information, please click on the opt-out link below. This opt-out cookie deletes the information previously stored and prevents further collection of information.
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4.6.14 Advertising marketing by IDM Group France
If you use the website or the app of the PONS online dictionary at www.pons.com, these services use online advertising services provided by IDM Group France, Champs-sur-Marne, to present you with adverts that meet your interests. The advertisement is labelled with the name of the provider, e.g. "Google Ad”. In addition this service helps us to improve our website and to make your visit more interesting. In order to do so, we collect statistical information about you that will be processed by the provider. This processing is based on your consent (Art. 6 Section 1 a GDPR) and our legitimate interests (Article 6 Section 1 f GDPR) in improving your website experience and promoting our products and services.
Cookies & web beacons
The providers listed at https://de.pons.com/#privacysettings will be automatically informed about your visit to our website. For this purpose a web beacon is used to place a cookie on your computer.
Please note that we neither have control over the extent of the personal data that is collected by the respective plug-in provider, nor do we know the purpose of the processing or the period for which your personal data will be retained. Depending on the provider, your personal data may be transferred to and processed in third countries, e.g. the United States. It is possible that a provider will disclose your personal data to its business associates, third parties or the authorities.
You can prevent the installation of such a cookie
(i) by a respective setting in your browser that blocks the installation of third party cookies,
(ii) by deactivating the individual provider’s interest-related advertising under https://de.pons.com/#privacysettings,
(iii) or by generally blocking cookies under e.g. http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin.
Further information about the processing of your personal data in the course of the provider’s operations is provided by its privacy policy.
4.6.15 Advertising marketing by AdDefend
For the display of repetition advertising PONS uses AdDefend, a service provided by AdDefend GmbH, Borselstrasse 3, 22765 Hamburg. This service uses cookies with a randomly generated ID, in order to find out if you have previously visited our website.
For this purpose the service creates a pseudonymised user profile under this specific ID. This processing is based on your consent (Art. 6 Section 1 a GDPR) and/or our legitimate interest (Art. 6 Section 1 f GDPR) in improving our website and promoting our products and services.
You can at any time reject the use of these cookies by AdDefend by taking advantage of the opt-out possibility which is available at www.addefend.com/de/opt-out/. However, this opt-out applies only to the specific device you are using, and also becomes ineffective if you delete your cookies.
The purpose of the use of AdDefend is to ensure that advertising on our website is displayed, even if adblockers have been activated in your browser.
The provision of your data for AdDefend is voluntary. As a rule browsers accept cookies automatically, but you have the possibility of preventing the use of AdDefend by setting an opt-out cookie. If you wish to set an opt-out cookie, please click on this link: www.addefend.com/de/opt-out/. If you later delete your cookies you will need to click on this link once more. If you use several devices or browsers, you will have to click on this link for each individual device in every individual browser. As described in 4.6.2 you can also prevent the saving of cookies and accordingly the use of AdDefend by making the appropriate settings in your browser.
4.6.16 Registering/signing in with your Facebook access data
If you are registered with Facebook Inc., 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, you can register with our website using the button "Register with your Facebook user data". When you wish to register you are transferred to Facebook, and can sign into our website with your Facebook user data. If you register in this way, Facebook provides us with the following data from your Facebook profile: user name, surname, first name. We use this data exclusively for the purpose of your registration/login as a customer. For the purpose of the processing of your data by Facebook and your rights in this respect, please see the Facebook privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php. We have no influence on the processing of data by Facebook. If you object to such an exchange of data between Facebook and ourselves, you should avoid registering with us via your Facebook account. In turn data from our website can also be transmitted to Facebook Inc.. The legal basis for the transmission of data from or to Facebook is your consent (Art. 6 Section 1 a GDPR). The provision of the data is voluntary. Registering with Facebook is not a requirement for the conclusion of a contract with us. The data which we receive from Facebook is deleted immediately after your registration/login.
4.6.17 a) Special data protection provisions relating to the "PONS ONLINE DICTIONARY"
In addition to the remaining terms of this privacy policy, the following applies to our "PONS ONLINE DICTIONARY" service on www.pons.com :
If you register with the "PONS ONLINE DICTIONARY" service, the processing of your data enables you to create your user account and your profile (so-called "visiting card"), so that other registered users can find out more about you and get in touch with you, the creation of personal vocabulary lists and the identification of your posts with the user name you select when you register.
In accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 b GDPR, the legal basis for this – if you have entered data in input fields which are not designated as mandatory – is your consent (Art. 6 Section 1 a GDPR). If and when you delete your user account, your data will also be deleted immediately. The data will be deleted at the latest if you have not signed in for a period of four years, unless the posts are relevant for copyright purposes. In this case the applicable periods will be determined by copyright legislation.
In addition to those mentioned above, additional recipients of the data will be all other registered users of the "PONS ONLINE DICTIONARY", who can view the data in your "visiting card" and your posts.
The processing of your data is not a requirement. The "PONS ONLINE DICTIONARY" can also be used without the provision of additional data. However, to register with the "PONS ONLINE DICTIONARY" the minimum requirement is the entry of your email address and user name, so that we can send you confirmation of your registration and you can log in later with your user name. You can select a pseudonym as your user name. All other information you provide is on a voluntary basis. However, if you do not register, many functions of the "PONS ONLINE DICTIONARY" will not be available to you (e.g. changing or adding dictionary entries, access to forums, the sharing of posts and sharing personal vocabulary lists).
4.6.17 b) Special data protection provisions relating to the "Langenscheidt Schule Wörterbuch App"
Special Terms of Use https://en.pons.com/p/conditions-of-use apply for the use of “Langenscheidt Schule Wörterbuch App”. In order to access the app content, an access code has to be activated on the Langenscheidt website. This access code is connected to the corresponding user account and user device. For you to be able to manage your licenses, we store your device name, the date of your access code activation and the date of your last online access of the app. We will process this data until the withdrawal of your consent, but at least for 3 months after the end of the contract.
4.6.18. Survey Monkey
For the conduct of surveys on our website we use the services of SurveyMonkey Europe UC, 2 Shelbourne Buildings, Shelbourne Road, Dublin, Ireland. If you voluntarily participate in this survey, SurveyMonkey will collect information about the device and application you are using to participate in the survey. This includes your IP address, operating system version, device type, system and performance information, and browser type. If you are participating in the survey through a mobile device, SurveyMonkey will also collect the UUID of the device. SurveyMonkey also uses third-party tracking services, which in turn use cookies and page tags (also known as web beacons) to collect usage data and user statistics. We have no control over the amount of data collected by SurveyMonkey. For more information about the cookies SurveyMonkey uses, its privacy policy and how long each cookie is stored, please visit https://www.surveymonkey. de/mp/legal/privacy-policy/#pp-section-10.
You can prevent the installation of cookies by deleting existing cookies and deactivating the storage of cookies in the settings of your web browser. Please note that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of our website to their full extent.
We use SurveyMonkey to provide you with surveys. For this purpose, we have a legitimate interest in processing the above-mentioned data, which is based on Art. 6 Section 1 f GDPR.
SurveyMonkey Europe UC is a subsidiary of SurveyMonkey Inc., based in the United States. It cannot be ruled out that your data collected by SurveyMonkey may also be transferred to the USA. However, SurveyMonkey Inc. has signed the Privacy Shield Agreement between the European Union and the United States and is certified as compliant. As such, SurveyMonkey is committed to complying with the standards and regulations of European data protection law. For more information about the EU Privacy Shield and its application, please visit https://www .privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000Gn7zAAC&status=Active."
5. Rights of data subjects
If your data is processed by us you are a data subject as defined by the GDPR, and you have the following rights in relation to the data controller. You can assert all of these rights by sending an email to kundenservice@pons.de or to one of the addresses indicated in Sections 2 and 3.
5.1 The right to information and data transferability
In accordance with Art. 15 GDPR you have the right to require us to provide you with information:
about whether we have saved your data and, if so, what data and for what purpose,
about the source of the data
and to what recipients or categories of recipients your data may have been passed on.
In accordance with Art. 21 GDPR you have the right to receive the data you have transmitted to us on the basis of your consent or a contract, provided that the processing of the data was automated. If you wish and if it is technically possible, we will also transmit this data to a third party at your request.
5.2 The right to correction
If the data relating to you is incorrect or incomplete, you have the right to demand that your data should be corrected and if relevant completed by the data controller (Art. 16 GDPR).
5.3 The right to the deletion or blocking of data
You have the right to demand that we delete your data in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR or block it in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR. If you delete your customer account with our publishing company we will delete your data, unless we have the right to save it for the fulfilment of contracts which have not yet been completed, for the assertion of legal claims, or in compliance with statutory obligations.
5.4 The right of objection
To the extent that we process data exclusively for the purpose of safeguarding our interests on the basis of Art. 6 Section 1 f GDPR you have the right to object to the processing of your data for reasons arising from your individual situation. If you make such an objection, we will no longer process the relevant data, unless we can prove that such processing is essential for the protection of those of our interests which take precedence over your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing is for the purpose of asserting legal claims.
In addition you can at any time object to the processing of your data for advertising purposes without incurring any other charges than the transmission cost at basic rates. You can at any time and free of charge object to being sent advertising emails, for example by clicking on the relevant unsubscribe link at the foot of an advertising email. Such an objection will also mean that you will no longer receive newsletters in accordance with 4.5.
5.5 The right to withdraw consent
If you have given your consent to the processing/use of your data, you can withdraw this consent at any time by sending an email to kundenservice@pons.de. Such withdrawal will not affect the legality of the processing of your data prior to the withdrawal of your consent. We will then delete your data, unless we have the statutory right or obligation to retain and process it.
5.6 The right to complain to the regulatory authorities
You have the right to register a complaint with the regulatory authorities, in particular with the State Office for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Königstrasse 10a, D-70173 Stuttgart.
If our website contains links to other websites which are not operated by us, we are not responsible for the compliance with data protection regulations on the part of such websites.
Personal data which is exchanged between you and our publishing company via our websites is in principle transmitted in encrypted form. In addition we take technical and organisational security precautions to protect the data which you have entrusted to us against manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised persons. Please note, however, that in the case of email communications we are unable to guarantee full data security, which means that it is advisable to send confidential information by post.
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REVISED NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING City
REVISED NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING City of Happy Valley Hearings Officer Notice is hereby given that the City of Happy Valley Hearings Officer will hold a public hearing on the following REVISED date regarding an application for Design Review associated with a proposed 20,327 square-foot fleet and logistics facility and a Variance to minimum landscape buffer standards along parking areas. Date & Time: Thursday. June 29, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. Hearing Location: City Hall, 16000 SE Misty Drive, Happy Valley, OR 97086 File & Subject: File No. DR-02-17/VAR-03-17 (Design Review and Variance) Proposal: Design Review of a 20,327 square-foot fleet and logistics facility. The proposed development consists of one office building, six vehicle repair bays of varying sizes ranging up to 100 feet long, and receiving and storage facilities. The applicant is applying for a Variance to minimum landscape buffer standards along parking areas. Location: 15800 SE 130th Avenue (on the east side of 130th Avenue, approximately 500 feet south of Highway 212), further described as Clackamas County Assessor Map No. 22E11DB: Tax Lots 1300, 1400 and 1500. Applicant: Clackamas Fire District No. 1 Applicable Criteria: Applicable Policies from the City of Happy Valley Comprehensive Plan; Title 16 (Development Code) of the City of Happy Valley Municipal Code, including Chapters 16.24, 16.41, 16.42, 16.43, 16.44, 16.48, 16.50, 16.61, 16.62 and 16.71. Staff Contact: Michael Cynkar, Associate Planner, 503-783-3821, michaelc@happyvalleyor.gov Interested parties are invited to attend the hearings or to submit comments in writing prior to the meeting time. Written testimony may be submitted in advance or in person at the hearings. Those wishing to present verbal testimony, either pro, con, or to raise questions, will be asked to speak after presentation of the staff report. Testimony should pertain to the applicable criteria. The decision on the Design Review of the fleet and logistics facility and the Variance by the Hearings Officer will be made in accordance with said criteria. Failure to raise an issue in writing prior to or before the close of the written comment period, Wednesday, June 28, 2017 by 5:00 p.m. or failure to provide sufficient specificity at the public hearing to afford the Hearings Officer an opportunity to respond to the issue precludes appeal to the Land Use Board of Appeals based upon that issue. The applicant and any person who submits written comments shall receive notice of the decision. The failure of the applicant to raise constitutional or other issues relating to proposed conditions of approval with sufficient specificity to allow the Hearings Officer to respond to the issue precludes an action for damages in circuit court. The decision-making criteria, application, and records concerning this matter are available at the City of Happy Valley City Hall at the above address during working hours (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays), please call for an appointment. For additional information, contact Michael Cynkar, Associate Planner, at the above address and phone number. The meeting site is accessible to handicapped individuals. Assistance with communications (visual, hearing) must be requested 72 hours in advance by contacting Marylee Walden, City Recorder, at 503- 783-3826. Publish 06/14/2017. CLK15902812
Publication: OPC Legals
Section: OPC Legals
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Harmonic average of slopes and the stability of absolutely continuous invariant measure
GÓRA, PAWEŁ, Li, Zhenyang and Boyarsky, Abraham (2012) Harmonic average of slopes and the stability of absolutely continuous invariant measure. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 396 (1). pp. 1-6. ISSN 0022247X
gora2012b.pdf - Accepted Version
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2012.05.067
For families of piecewise expanding maps which converge to a map with a fixed or periodic turning point touching a branch with slope of modulus equal to or less than 2, the standard Lasota–Yorke argument fails to prove stability. It is the goal of this paper to use instead the harmonic average of slopes condition for a large class of maps satisfying the summable oscillation condition for the reciprocal of the derivative. Using Rychlik’s Theorem for a family of perturbations we prove weak compactness in L1 of the density functions associated with them. From this it follows that we have stability of absolutely continuous invariant measures of the limit map.
Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Mathematics and Statistics
GÓRA, PAWEŁ and Li, Zhenyang and Boyarsky, Abraham
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
10.1016/j.jmaa.2012.05.067
Absolutely continuous invariant measures; Stability of acim; Piecewise expanding maps of interval
DANIELLE DENNIE
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[6] Zhenyang Li, P. Góra, A. Boyarsky, H. Proppe, P. Eslami, A family of piecewise expanding maps having singular measure as a limit of ACIM’s, Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0143385711000836 (in press).
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Ex-Argentina attacker Lavezzi makes sex video blackmail complaint
May 13, 2020, 2:32 PM ·1 min read
Retired footballer Ezequiel Lavezzi and his model and actress girlfriend Natalia Borges, pictured here in 2017 at the wedding of Argentine great Lionel Messi to Antonella Roccuzzo (AFP Photo/EITAN ABRAMOVICH)
Buenos Aires (AFP) - Former Paris Saint-Germain and Napoli forward Ezequiel Lavezzi has made a complaint he is being blackmailed over sex videos, Argentine judicial sources said.
The 35-year-old former Argentina international, who retired in December, claimed to have received messages threatening to publish intimate images of him on the internet if he didn't pay $5,000 for each one.
Lawyers representing Lavezzi, who also played for Chinese side Hebei Fortune and San Lorenzo in his homeland, made the complaint to cybercrime prosecutors.
With Argentina under coronavirus lockdown, Lavezzi is currently staying on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy, a French overseas territory, alongside his partner, Brazilian model and actress Natalia Borges, who also received threats on her social media accounts, according to sources.
The Argentine press has dubbed the affair a "pornoextortion".
According to Lavezzi's lawyers, the content of the videos is likely to be genuine.
Stephen A. Smith blames Lamar Jackson for the Baltimore Ravens' loss to the Buffalo Bills
ESPN's Stephen A. Smith put all the blame for the Ravens' 17-3 Divisional Round defeat on Lamar Jackson.
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Posts tagged ‘Tony Award’
TONY Predictions 2017!
I am so in love with the idea that this year’s Tony Awards might heavily feature two of my all time favorite theatrical events. “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” the genre-busting pop-opera and “Little Foxes” which makes audiences (and critics) see double with the divine Laura Linney switching up with Cynthia Nixon. I admit to bias here, but I have the Drama Desks Awards this past Sunday to second my emotions.
Yes, I think “Natasha, Pierre…” will win many, many of its 10 nominations on TONY night, this coming Sunday. Including, I’m calling it now, Best Musical, Best Director of a Musical Rachel Chavkin, who won the DD on Sunday, Best Set of a Musical Mimi Lien, Best Lighting of a Musical, and Best Orchestrations Dave Malloy, who also wrote the incredibly, ketchy and thrilling sung-through musical score, which may also get Malloy ANOTHER Tony in that hotly contested category.
I’m going to go with the more influential than ever Drama Desk Winner for Best Actor in a Musical and think that in a surprise Andy Karl will prevail in this category. He tore his ACL, and I’ve torn mine and trust me, it’s VERY, VERY painful, and takes a LONG time to heal, and Karl, formerly nominated as Bway’s “Rocky” overcame this excruciating experience to OPEN “GROUND HOG DAY” and continue on performing it, singing and dancing as he did before, turning it into a hit, where people are coming to see HIM as well as the show. He also won an Olivier Award in London for this performance. THAT counts bigly with Tony Voters.
And his HUGE, BLACK, frightening-looking knee brace is in full view the ELEVEN times he has to change into his clothes in front of the audience. And he’s clearly in pain doing all this. This counts heavily with the TONY voters, who know the show must go on, no matter what the pain level.
I think Broadway vet Karl wins this category over 23-year-old newcomer Ben Platt in “Dear Evan Hansen.” The TONY voters, I have to add, are older and more homogeneous than even the #Oscarssowhite Academy members. Yes, AMPAS is more diverse and forward thinking than the TONYs. And pain counts. Ben Platt will have other chances.
They’re not necessarily going to GET a musical about the Internet. Some of them DON’T EVEN HAVE INTERNET. So…It’s too young for TONY, but “Natasha, Pierre…” is a masterpiece based on a masterpiece, Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”, so it’s just right. It’s got the most nominations. It’s right in the Tony voters comfort zone(s). Usually the show with the most nominations wins. Let’s see if that holds true this year on Sunday night when the awards are handed out at 8pm EST on CBS.
Surprisingly, “Natasha, Pierre…” won in EVERY CATEGORY for the Drama Desks that it was nominated for. And because it opened earlier Off-Off Bway, it was only eligible for the parts of it that were NEW to this production. And those category were Best Director of a Musical, Best Set of a Musical, Best Choreography and Best Orchestrations.
Another category that I think “NPATGCO1812” will win is Best Featured Actor in a Musical. I think the TONYs will help the astonishing Lucas Steele along on his way to mega-stardom. It doesn’t hurt that though he’s cited as Supporting, he has a larger part than Pop Superstar Josh Groban, who is also nominated in the lead category, where he faces Karl AND Platt, unfortunately, or the award handily would be his.
Lucas Steele is Anatole, Groban’s Pierre’s wayward, hedonistic brother-in-law, a very, complicated. LARGE part of the villain, as it were, of the extremely small section of “War and Peace” that has here been excerpted. He’s hot. He’s a little dumb. And he plays the violin. And he’s charismatic beyond belief and has been with “NPATGCO1812” for FIVE YEARS in all its’ growing and re-growing on its’ way to Bway. And he hits notes that are stratospheric, to say the least.
Bway vet Gavin Creel of “Hello, Dolly”, although he won the Drama Desk Award in this category, is funny, yes. But that’s about all there is to that part. , AND he was not up against his main competition, Lucas Steele that night.
Bette Midler, of course, even though she DIDN’T SHOW to pick up her Drama Desk win, as Best Actress in a Musical, will easily win in this category.
If I’m leaving out Best Play, it’s because “Oslo,” a play that bored me to death, has won every other Best Play award this year. And,yes, will probably devour the TONY, too. I wish my former guest Michael Aronov was going to win Best Featured Actor in a Play.
But I think that award, like it did at the Drama Desks, will go to Danny DeVito for “The Price.”
And as far as the Supporting or Featured Actresses are concerned, I think, like the Drama Desk it will go to Jenn Collela for “Come From Away.” And Best Featured Actress in a Play will be Cynthia Nixon. Pairing up for a win with her co-star Laura Linney, giving the performance(s) of their careers in the brilliantly double cast “Little Foxes.” What a theatrical event! And this was all Laura’s IDEA! And the Tony Voters know it and she’s never won. </a
And Best Actor in a Play? Oops, I almost forgot. Kevin Kline in “Present Laughter” and yes, he won the Drama Desk, too.
#Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, #Josh Groban, #Lucas Steele, #Bette Midler # Hello, Dolly, #Gavin Creel, #Dear Evan Hansen, #Ben Platt, #Andy Karl, #Groundhog Day, #Kevin Kline, #Present Laughter #Rachel Chavkin, #Laura Linney, #Little Foxes, # Cynthia Nixon
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Hello Dolly
Jenn Collela
Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
“Bandstand” Another Great New Musical Arrives on Bway!
Broadway is just bursting with musicals as the season is quickly drawing to a close and the Drama Desk nominations have been announced (See post before this one.) And a marvelous surprise was awaiting me when I saw “Bandstand” last night. It’s one of the best! And in the year of “Natasha, Pierre…and the Great Comet”,”Come From Away” and “Hello Dolly” that is really saying something. I had heard nothing about it. Didn’t know what I was in for. But trust me. It’s a Wow! I know I just said that about “Hello Dolly,” but this is a NEW musical. Brand new, with an entirely new score set at the end of World War II, as the boys come home to…Cleveland.
I know that doesn’t sound like a great premise for a musical, but believe me, it was tremendous. Tremendously rewarding in its’ own sweet way. And it heralds the arrival of a sparkling new bunch of musical talent. Composer Richard Oberacker, who co-wrote the lyrics with Rod Taylor, has written a marvelously melodic, but also dramatic score with one terrific tune after the other.Written in what I guess you could call Swing time.
The band is made up of overseas warriors coming home to find no jobs in Cleveland.(Think “Best Years of Our Lives”) and no work.
Laura Osnes is the only previously known quantity as the leading lady. Formerly “Cinderella” herself, and of course, “Hamilton”s great Tony-winning choreographer, Andy Blackenbuehler, who here makes his stunning directorial debut and well as keeping the dancing GIs and snappy home girls as peppy as a gin fizz.
But the real find is their incredible young leading man, the charismatic Corey Cott, who opens the show and brings down the house in a wife-beater! Wailing a solo tune that bears his name “Donny Novitski.” The hairy-chested but wiry and very, very angry Cott howls up a storm about his plight and the war (and his Polish last name).
Corey Cott turns out to be the man of the hour from “Gigi”! He was the Louis Jourdan role in the delightful musical of the classic movie, which played all too briefly last season on Bway.
Cott’s got it all, and is allowed to show his great musical as well as emotional range here, as he returns from the war, truly scarred and troubled, whose only solace is playing his music.He convincingly morphs into ambitious band-leader D0nny Nova, who falls madly in love, natch, with the adorable Ms. Osnes. She is a local girl and a Gold Star war widow, and Danny was her late husband’s best friend. Julia, who has the unfortunate last name of Trojan. So she is Julia Trojan for most of “Bandstand”, and Osnes does her best work ever in this challenging, dramatic role, where she has to go from shy Sunday school church singer to swinging big band belter. And she does. And she’s been awarded a Drama Desk nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. This is in a year when her co-nominees are none other than Bette Midler, Patti LuPone,and Christine Ebersole. She and Cott sing their hearts out. And win ours in the process.
But I’m up in arms about the criminal overlooking of Corey Cott come awards time, which is upon us. Donny Novitsky a.k.a. Donny Nova is as equally challenging and demanding a role as Osnes’ Gloria Trojan. He should’ve been recognized. His vocal range is amazing and his sense of humor right on target. He sees Frank Sinatra as his competitor. “He’s over-rated and he sings flat.”
I also have to say, I found “Bandstand”s book, funny and sharp, and amazingly well-written. And again it’s Oberacker and Taylor, who wrote it along with all the orginal music in the show. “Bandstand” is certainly a winner on all fronts. I couldn’t have enjoyed it more. And the fact that the main music is being played onstage by “Bandstand”s centraI characters, gives the 1940’s inflected music extra-snappy pizzazz, and oomph is another charming, jazzy plus. I hope audiences find it and embrace it the way Danny and Laura so romantically embrace each other in this tuneful war-time( and post-war) romance.
It’s at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater on W.45th Street, right in the heart of Bway. And I hope Bway audiences take it to their hearts, too.
Awards, Broadway, Broadway Musicals, Camp, Comedy, Dance, French, Gay, New York, Theater, Tony Awards
Andy Blackenbueler
Bandstand
Best Leading Actress
Broadway Musical Comedy
Corey Cott
Laura Osnes
Patti LuPone
First Tony Casualty “The Visit to Close
Just shows you what a blood sport Broadway and the TONYs are. You don’t win any TONYs even if you ARE Chita Rivera and written by Kander and Ebb, you close prematurely. Read it and weep.
KANDER & EBB’S FINAL MUSICAL
STARRING CHITA RIVERA
WILL PLAY FINAL PERFORMANCE
New York (June 8, 2015) – Producers announced today that The Visit starring Chita Rivera will play its final performance on Sunday, June 14th (3 PM). Previews began on March 26th and opening night was April 23, 2015. The Visit is at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street).
The Visit was nominated for 5 Tony Award® nominations including Best Musical. It is the final collaboration of John Kander (music) and Fred Ebb (lyrics). Book is by Terrence McNally and it is directed by John Doyle with choreography by Graciela Daniele.
Speaking on behalf of the production, lead producer Tom Kirdahy said “The Visit has created a sensation on Broadway and generated interest in productions around the world. We are eager for the release of the original recording of our CD and look forward to future productions across the globe. It has been our great privilege to present the legendary Chita Rivera in the final Kander and Ebb musical. This has been one for the history books”.
The cast is led by Tony Award® winner and 2015 nominee Chita Rivera as Claire Zachanassian. Ms. Rivera received the 2015 Drama League Award for Outstanding Performance of the Year for her role. The Broadway cast also features Tom Nelis as Anton Schell, George Abud as Karl, Jason Danieley as Frederich Kuhn, Matthew Deming as Louis Perch, Diana Dimarzio as Annie Dummermut, David Garrison as Peter Dummermut, Rick Holmes as Father Josef, Ken Krugman as Rudi, Chris Newcomer as Jacob Chicken, Mary Beth Peil as Matilde Schell, Aaron Ramey as Otto Hahnke, Elena Shadow as Ottilie, Timothy Shew as Hans Nusselin, with John Riddle and Michelle Veintimilla.
Final performances are Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday at 7 pm. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm with matinees on Saturday at 2 pm and Sunday at 3 pm. Tickets can be purchased at Telecharge.com (212 239-6200).
David Garrison
final performance
John Kander
Final Casting of Chita Rivera’s “The Visit” Announced, Kander & Ebb’s last musical
ADDITIONAL BROADWAY CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR
KANDER AND EBB’S
FINAL MUSICAL
“T H E V I S I T”
C H I T A R I V E R A
R O G E R R E E S
New York (January 30, 2015) – Additional Broadway casting was announced today for the highly anticipated musical,The Visit, soon to open on Broadway. The Visit will begin performances at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45thStreet) on Thursday, March 26 with an Opening Night set for Thursday, April 23. General on sale will begin on January 31, 2015.
Joining the previously announced Tony Award® Winners Chita Rivera and Roger Rees, will be Jason Danieley,Matthew Deming, Diana Dimarzio, David Garrison, Rick Holmes, Tom Nelis, Chris Newcomer, Aaron Ramey,Timothy Shew, and Michelle Veintimilla.
Based on the satirical play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt as adapted by Maurice Valency, The Visit features music and lyrics by the Tony Award® winning team John Kander & Fred Ebb, book by four-time Tony Award® winning playwright Terrence McNally. It will open on Broadway this spring, starring two-time Tony Award® winning Broadway legend Chita Rivera and Tony Award® winner Roger Rees. Helmed by Tony Award® winning director John Doyleand choreographed by Tony Award® nominee Graciela Daniele. Tickets will be available on Telecharge.combeginning January 31.
In her juiciest role yet, Chita Rivera is Claire Zachannassian, the world’s wealthiest woman, who returns home to Anton (Roger Rees) who captured her heart then shattered her dreams. What she does next shocks the town and makes for the most thrilling and intriguing musical in years. From the team that brought you “Cabaret”, “Chicago”, “Kiss of the Spider Woman”, this tale of romance, seduction and betrayal proves that revenge is the best revenge.
http://www.TheVisitMusical.com
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Diana Dimarzio
“Into the Woods” is 4D. Drab, Disappointing, Depressing & Disneyfied
Yes, that’s right “Into the Woods” is in 4D. Not 3D. The D’s being Drab, Disappointing, Depressing, and yes, Disneyfied. What a great waste of a Great What-Might-Have-Been. A golden opportunity squandered and cheapened like the Golden Egg that the Giant’s Golden Goose lays (off-screen in Giantland) and that Jack (of Beanstalk fame) steals. It looks more like a giant basketball, than an egg. But it serves as a metaphor to represent what the makers of this mess have turned a great musical into. A Golden Basketball. Or something that the whole family can use and bounce around, hurting or offending no one.
Except perhaps those of us who saw the ORIGINAL Broadway production in the ’80s. I can barely describe the power it had in that first incarnation.
The niftiness( and shiftiness) of combining all those great Grimm fairy-tales of childhood lore into one complicated Jungian mash-up.
And then, and THEN, because all these presumptuous fairy tale characters, Jack main among them, have caused the death of the giant, his wife, a giantess, descends to stalk the land and squishes half of the cast to death.
Believe it or not, this was a musical that I always felt was Stephen Sondheim’s reflection of the AIDS crisis, which was at its’ fever peak, at the time of the original Broadway production. Suddenly, for almost no reason, half the characters we had come to like, some of them a lot, like the Baker’s Wife, just DIED.
And this was a metaphor for the AIDS crisis. Half or more of all the people I knew, mostly gay, although some not, phfft, were gone never to return.
So in that sense the original ’80s “Woods” was heart-breaking, soul-searing and profound and when Cinderella, beautiful beyond description, sang “No One Is Alone” to the survivors of the Giantess’ wrathful apocalypse, it was utterly moving and I remember it to this day, a jewel-like, ineffable Broadway musical moment. It was cathartic.
I was waiting to feel SOMEthing like that in this facockta movie version. But no. I didn’t get it. Although they had the super, sharp Anna Kendrick sing it. Not a traditional beauty with her hawk-like, aquiline features, she radiates intelligence, which is all to the good and she sings beautifully, but THEY KEPT CUTTING AWAY FROM HER!?! Which in this case ruined the impact of the iconic song and the film’s climatic moment utterly diluted and lost.
This is just one small example I can pull from MANY in this film, trying to illustrate just how watered-down, and MILD. Nearly pure pablum this disappointing Disneyfication is.
What a shame!
The death of one of the central characters was absolutely pivotal to the original and her death by gigantic squashing was traumatic in the original because she was the one really decent character (spoiler alert!) the Baker’s Wife, who you really cared about. The role was considered a lead and won Johanna Gleeson a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, no mean feat, in any year.
Here played by Emily Blunt, the part seems curtailed, and well, blunt-er. And certainly her death is. She sort of falls out of frame, slowly, like she was simply, well, falling. A little girl in the row where I sat said “Mommy, what’s happened to her?” In fact, the child kept voicing simply confusions all the way through the movie.
Emily Blunt’s part has been curtailed in its’ impact to feature more of her co-star Meryl Streep as the Wicked Witch. And thank goodness they have Meryl in this movie! SHE’S terrific in it. She sings and screams and cackles up a storm, and casts spells with the help of perfectly executed special effects. Her performance seems larger than life and it is! It should be. And she’ll get her 19th Oscar nomination and then lose to Patricia Arquette for “Boyhood.”
But as good as she is when she’s all made up in horror garb and face-to-give-you-nightmares, when she transforms into the beauty she once was about half-way through the film (and of course, loses all her magical powers), she plays it as a blue-and-green version of Kim Kardashian, which makes her not at all the heroine she turns into in the stage version. She’s a reality show joke. So the film loses its’ moral compass there, too.
British comedian James Corden is mis-used too as the Baker. He seems ten years too young to be Blunt’s hubby, and he just over does or over-bakes all that he has to do. He’s too much of a muchness. Whereas Blunt in what should be the leading role, is just not enough.
There are high-points, though. Main among, the surprisingly comic duet of the two Princes, Cinderella’s Prince, and Rupunzel’s Prince, wailing about “Agony” on the rocky outcroppings of a stream. Chris Pine, as the really sleazy Prince Charming, shows you just why Cinderella keeps running away from him, couldn’t be better in this scene. And Broadway’s Billy Magnusson matches him beat for bare-bresting bro beat, as they keep trying to out do, or out-complain or out-splash each other, as each claims to have the greater “Agony”, and they both end up soaking wet! Hilarious. Billy for those who don’t know was Spike in Christopher Durang’s Tony-Winning play “Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike.”
And then the film settles down to its’ gobbledygook of a book. And the tedium layer in this lonnnng film gets higher and higher.
Broken thankfully, by Meryl, chewing as much scenery as she can fit in her green mouth, as she knocks both “The Last Midnight” and “Children Will Listen”(the other great Sondheim song) out of the ball-park, hitting high-notes you never thought were in her register. Such a shame that she never got to do “Evita” when she was the right age for it. And MADONNA got to do the screen version! What a sad story that turned out to be!
And yes, a lot of the Sondheim score is present and accounted for, but a lot also seems to be missing, replaced by even inane-er dialogue by James Lapine, who simply should be shot at dawn for participating in the tragic abortion of a film musical.
And they think THIS is going to appeal to a family audience?!?! It’s going to give little children nightmares. Like Lilla Crawford’s performance as Little Red Riding Hood will surely do for the rest of my life. For all the wrong reasons.
Johnny Depp is great in a VERY small part of the Big Bad Wolf. In this case, I WANTED him to devour Lilla Crawford completely. But no such luck, she is saved, and alas we have to endure looking at her and listening to her sing(flat) for the rest of this overlong, un-fulfilling movie.
So the dueling, vain Princes, and Meryl’s Witch-for-the-Ages, make the unbearable bearable.On my Top Ten List, it’s not.
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Cinderella's Prince
Joanna Gleeson
No One Is Alone
the Baker's Wife
Oscar Apple Cart Upset by Late-Breaking “Into The Woods?
Stephen Sondheim and movies of his work have never really clicked with the public. See Elizabeth Taylor in “A Little Night Music”, and of course, more recently “Sweeney Todd” with Johnny Depp. But Musicals are catnip to the Academy.
Depp is back again as the Big Bad Wolf whose nemesis is Little Red Riding Hood, a very lethal Little Red Riding Hood. But the word from the screenings yesterday is that Meryl Streep is once again going to be back at the Dolby Pavillion for something like her 20th nomination. But which category will she be in? Could she win? She’s got three Oscars already.
The always excellent Emily Blunt has the Baker’s Wife role in the film and that’s the part that has historically won awards. Joanna Gleeson on Broadway won a Tony for Best Actress. And pert, pretty Anna Kendrick is getting good W.O.M.(word of mouth) as Cinderella. A former Oscar nominee for Best Supporting Actress for “Up In The Air” could she also be up again of her sparkling Cinderella?
And where does that put Meryl’s Wicked Witch? The Academy put her in lead last year for “August:Osage County” when many thought she’d be Supporting and Julia Roberts would be lead, but the categories were reversed.
That could happen to Emily Blunt, too. And she and Anna Kendrick could be up against the here-to-fore unstoppable Patricia Arquette in “Boyhood.” Would they knock her out of the leading contender spot? In Supporting.
Meryl’s Witch certainly could. The plot sickens.
British, Broadway, Broadway Musicals, Camp, Comedy, drama, Film, Theater, Tony Awards
Baker's Wife
Jack in the BeanStalk
Joanna Glesson
“Twelfth Night” on Bway ~ One of the Best I’ve Ever Seen!
How can I begin to describe the joys of the impossibly wonderful “Twelfth Night” now on Broadway? It’s simply one of the best productions I’ve ever seen IN MY LIFE!
The two-time Tony Award winning genius Mark Rylance is probably on his way to another award (or awards) for his astounding performance as Olivia in “Twelfth Night.” Not usually considered a memorable role in Shakespeare’s comedy, which is usually played, as always by a woman, and as a sort of wan, sad, elegant lady,who is mourning the death of her brother. Olivia is usually the straight person in a cast of characters who are off-the-charts loony.
And here the masterstroke is Rylance plays Olivia as the looniest toon of the lot. He seemed to be channeling Margaret Dumont of the Marx Brothers movies. His love-struck Olivia becomes the absolute center of this production, and the play, too, and it seems absolutely right. AND HILAROUSLY so.
The audience, some of whom were seated on the stage, was absolutely getting EVERY SINGLE Elizabethan joke and laughing so much, it made this marvelous “Twelfth Night” the longest “Twelfth Night” I’ve ever sat through.
With a half-hour pre-show added, wherein you get to see the actors get into their costumes and make-up right on stage and the musicians tune up their authentic, period instruments, this un-cut version was heading to the four-hour mark. But I didn’t mind one bit. I was in theatrical heaven!
One always wishes, if one is a bardolator, that one could travel back in time to Elizabethan England, and see just what it was that made Shakespeare so great. And the brilliant thing that Rylance and his director of many productions, Tim Carroll have done is that they are so exact in a replication of how this comedy of Shakespeare’s was probably done, you absolutely believe you are in Elizabeth’s England, and that you’re discovering this great play for the first time and finding it to be one of Shakespeare’s most enjoyable. In the hands of Rylance and co., all of whom are on their Elizabethan A-Game, “Twelfth Night” really ranks among one of Shakespeare’s greatest.
It’s an absolute delight from start to finish. All four hours of it.
And we, the press, were warned off coming to see it last night, because the light-board failed, and so we were not going to see it as it was meant to be performed, I was told, by the worried press agent. I decided to go anyway. And we discovered, when we entered, the stage was flooded with candle-light!
And that just made it magical! We were time-traveling!
There did seem as the play went on to be more and more stage lights focused on it, so perhaps the lighting board was being repaired as the show went on, but they were all white or a very pale blue lights
But of course, Shakespeare’s King’s Players DID perform by candle light.
And the stage at the Belasco was full of candles. There were six or eight chandeliers that were dropping candle wax on the actors, and an upstage set piece with more and more candles on it. sort of in the shape of a Christmas tree. So the stage was ablaze with honey-colored light. Which had a warming, charming, and totally disarming effect, which was just right.
And all the female parts are played, as they were in Shakespeare’s time, by men. Rylance’s Olivia dominating every scene, as we watch the character go from a very demure, lady-like, mournful royal in widow’s weeds atop a small tiara, to a hyped-up matron who is hiking up her skirts and losing her beads, as she falls head-over-heels in love with the young Cesario, who is really a girl Viola, dressed, in disguise as a page-boy. Rylance,who usually blows everyone off the stage, he is such a strong performer, but here he is matched quite evenly by the great Samuel Barnett as Viola, equally convincing as a man or a woman. Tony Nominee and Drama Desk Winner, Barnett will be familiar to Broadway audiences from “The History Boys” a few years back.
I knew he had greatness in him, and the promise he showed in “History Boys” comes to full fruition as this glorious beautiful Viola/Cesario, who matches Rylance’s antic, love-crazed Lady Olivia, beat for comic beat.
And he’s not blowing the great Stephen Fry off the stage as Malvolio. Oh no! Making his American and Broadway stage debut, Fry a major stage, film and television star in England is simply magnificent as Lady Olivia’s simpering steward.
Fry is a towering figure. He’s a huge man, and he makes Rylance’s Lady Olivia seem dainty by comparison.
Also, the large and bosomy Maria of Paul Chahidi, a maid servant of Olivia’s, who is also daintiness personified, as well as the mischievous mischief-maker, who sets much of the plays comic stratagems in motion. Chahidi and Rylance, who are both wearing floor-length gowns, move with such humorously mincing small steps they seem to be floating across the stage, or on roller skates! Hysterical!
The men, who actually play men in this cross-dressed production are at a kind of comic disadvantage, you’d think, against Rylance’s Olivia, Barnett’s Viola, and Chahidi’s Maria(or Mariah or Mary as she’s variously called), but Rylance has wisely peopled the supporting cast with very strong character actors who are as funny as the “women.”
Colin Hurley is a pint-sized Falstaff as Sir Toby Belch, who has to play all manner of drunkeness throughout, and his extremely tall co-hort Sir Andrew Aguecheek is perfectly matched by Angus Wright. Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Maria form the toxic trio of tormentors who want to bring down the supercilious steward Malvolio, leaving a letter supposedly from Lady Olivia that tells him “Some are born great, Some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
Well, “Twelfth Night” itself is having greatness thrust upon it by this astonishing, laugh-riot of a production. Sub-titled “Or What You Will,” which is the Shakespearen equivalent of saying “Whatever”, or “This play is just a trifle. Don’t pay any attention to it. Don’t take it seriously.” And “Twelfth Night,” or as the bill-boards are spelling it “Twelfe Night,” was a name just tacked on to it at the time, because it was performed for Queen Elizabeth I as part of the twelfth night after Christmas celebrations. As if Shakespeare didn’t know what to call it.
The words “Twelfth Night” are never mentioned throughout the play. But I did catch, I think it was Viola saying “What You Will”.
This historic production is a dream come true, and is thrusting a greatness upon “Twelfth Night” as one of the best comedies ever written. It will now always be referred to by all who attempt to match this magic. It’s an impossiblity.
Books, British, Broadway, Camp, Comedy
Malvolio
Margaret Dumont
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Sir Toby Belch
“Hands on a Hard Body” a Warm-hearted Musical Hits Home
I really did enjoy the recently opened “Hands on a Hard Body” the surprising, innovative musical hit that just opened on Broadway starring one of my favorite Bway actor/singers Hunter Foster. Yes, THAT Hunter Foster, who is the very, very talented older brother of the much more famous Sutton Foster, she who has now two Tonys and Hunter doesn’t even have one!
Hunter does however have a Tony nomination for “Little Shop of Horrors.”
Perhaps the super-duper “Hands on a Hard Body” will change all that. Certainly, it COULD. Hunter has the role of his career here playing the much-older-than-he-is, bad-ass, red-neck lead Benny Perkins.
Based on a much-respected but little-seen real-life documentary of the same name, “Hands on a Hard Body” traces the journeys of its’ dozen or so working class Texan characters, who have accepted the daunting challenge of standing with their hands on the hard body of a brand spanking new, gleaming, red as rose Nissan pick-up truck. Whoever can last the longest, in this rather unbelievable, but true competition wins the truck. And hopefully a bigger piece of the American pie, than all of them presently have.
Yes, a cast of have-nots, singing their Country and Western hearts out, to the tune of our sluggish economy and the stagnant social mobility that used be the American Dream.
Contempo, yes, to the max. But I liked that. And I REALLY liked all these characters, and their elucidation musically by Trey Anatasio (of “Phish”) and Amanda Green. And literarily by Pultizer-Prize winning librettist Doug Wright. Who wrote “I Am My Own Wife”. I liked this MUCH better than “Wife”, and was so pleased that there were relatable characters of all ages, sizes and genders singing their hillbilly hearts out.
The way the Musical Numbers are listed in the maddening program, without the names of the characters or actors who are singing them, it’s hard to single out just who sang what. But I found much to my delight(and hopefully yours, too) that every song was a winner.
Hunter Foster really dominates here and I wouldn’t be surprised if he did receive a Tony and/or Drama Desk nomination for his memorable meanie, whose big number was certainly “Hunt with the Big Dogs”, which ended the first act with a BANG! But he also sang many other terrific tunes, too.
Top-tapping music and amazingly interesting choreography by Sergio Trujillo kept “Hard Body” (and the red truck, too!) moving so much that you never noticed its’ seemingly static premise. Kudos are due, too, to its’ sharp director Neil Pepe.
Particularly so during Hawaiian belter Keala Settle’s roof-rasing “Joy of the Lord” which had the larger than life Ms. Settle pounding away on the truck until it turned it into a percussive instrument! Tony/Drama Desk and more nominations are CERTAINLY headed her way for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
Giving her a run for her awards’ money in that category will be Dale Soules, whose Texas rasp, made me feel like she had just wandered in from the Grand Ole Opry, instead of an extensive career in theater.Her big number was “It’s a Fix!”
Also registering powerfully were Jon Rua as born-in-the-USA hispanic kid with a dream who wants to win the truck, so he can sell it and he can go to school and be a veterinarian. His soulful “Born in Loredo” is marvelously moving and mesmerizing. As is the Iraq war vet with PTSS, David Larsen,in his “Alone with Me” solo that also brings down the house. As do they all.
I love that a Broadway musical takes risks like “Hands on a Hard-Body” does. And reaches and fulfills them. I hope audiences find it as enjoyable and moving as I did!
Broadway, Broadway Musicals, Comedy, documentary, drama, Film, Gay, Theater, Tony Awards
Amanda Green
Born in Laredo
Bring Down the House
Broaday
David Larsen
Hands on a Hard Body
Hunt with the Big Dogs
Hunter Foster
Jon Hua
Joy to the Lord
Keala Settle
Neil Pepe
Sergio Trukillo
Sutton Foster
Trey Anatasio
Tune-ful
Oscar Race Changes AGAIN ~ IN A DAY! With Leo as Gay J. Edgar!
It’s now really for real November and we now really for real are in OSCAR SEASON! Yes, dear readers, dear cineastes, November is the really hot-cha month when all the good stuff starts happening. Or not…
Like this morning I started off the day with the beauteous and beneficient Kristen Scott Thomas calling me via satellite from Paris! Oui, oui, bien sur, mes amis! That’s where KST really lives most of the times, though she is of course, thoroughly English. And guess who? Harvey Weinstein is at it again, and this time he’s decided to throw an early season opener “Sarah’s Key” that sort of blipped by unnoticed by most (I knew it was there. I just didn’t get to it. Then it was gone.) Well, he’s putting “Sarah’s Key” back into some theaters and also releasing it on DVD and so Kristen Scott was calling me at a very early hour of the morning here where I am, but for her in Par-ee it was a comfortable middle of the day, a beautiful day to hear her tell it. And you will, and see her, too, coming up on my You Tube channel www.youtube.com/StephenHoltShow and also on my TV show.
The Best Actress race is really packed at the top this year already. There’s really no room with supposed locks – Meryl, Glenn Close(as a man!), Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, and Viola Davis for “The Help”. Lots of competitsh for that fifth slot. Although there’s always the Golden Globes with their ten slots and I think Kristen will fit very nicely in there. For “Sarah’s Key.” Yes, I’ll mention the name of the film again…
And meanwhile, back at the AFI opening in LA, Leonardo Di Caprio really did upend expectations with the(I knew it all along) very GAY J. Edgar, Or Gay Edgar, as I and many people I know are calling it. Not necessarily derisively, either. This is the story that dared not speak its’ name in J. Edgar’s lifetime, and with Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, penning it. He won for “Milk.” What else COULD it be?
And Clint Eastwood has evidently told it quite while and Leo a great, great actor as well as star has never won an Oscar. Yes, ladies and gentle person’s, it’s true. And now that he’s evidently giving the performance of his career as this tormented closeted gay man of the ’30s & ’40’s. Oh, and the ‘6os and the ’70s, too, who could never come out of the closet. And neither could his supposed lover who took the name “very close friend” Clyde Tolson, here embodied by none-other than the super-hunky Winklevoss Twins themselves, Armie Hammer, and HE’S supposedly got a supporting Actor nomination in his future now, too.
So with Leo on board, I think it’s buh-bye for George O’Clooney’s Oscar hopes. He already has one. For “Syriana” for Supporting. But still…
Leo’s been nominated three times AT LEAST and never won and now it looks like with Clint Eastwood at 81 at the helm, we may finally see Leo’s Titanic Oscar ship finally pull into port…
And oh yes, the Academy has decided to honor Vanessa Redgrave, I’m not quite sure how. A dinner? A plaque? She’s already majorly in the Supporting Actress race for “Coriolanus” and now…well now, I think this is the Academy saying VOTE FOR HER! Forget her politics of the past. And let’s give her an Honorary One, or whatever it is they’re doing. And giving it to her. All her. Just her. In one Vanessa-filled night in London…well, if it’s not taking place in Hollywood itself, it really ISN’T rrrrreally official…but it’s the Academy’s way of saying “VOTE FOR HER!”
She’s 72 or 73 or 74 and her beautiful daughter Natasha died so tragically and young during the filming of “Coriolanus”…and she’s BRRRRRILLLIANT in it. And oh yes, who’s the Producer? Harvey Weinstein. Oh yes, him again. So yes, I think THAT category just got closed, today, too.
So right now King George has been de-throned by Prince Leo. And the Academy is giving Vanessa Redgrave their version of an honorary knighthood…”Sarah’s Key” is coming out AGAIN.
And “War Horse” was “sneaked” all over the country this week, and it seems people like it, they really like it. So last week “The Descendants” was the front-runner, but now I think “War Horse” was galloped back on top.
You can see a very astute young You Tube film critic/star (y’know, like me *cough*cough*)over at www.awardsdaily.com and you can hear what he has to say about being lucky enough to have stumbled in to one of these “War Horse” sneaks…It’s a custom as old as the Academy itself. Showing a film to a surprised audience in the hinterlands…Even “Gone With the Wind” was introduced this way…”War Horse” is gonna be a tough one to beat. It’s STILL playing to sold-out houses in New York’s Lincoln Center, and it won the Tony for Best Play last year, though the writing was atrocious. I nearly left at the Intermission, but I stayed…and was amaaaazed by its’ powerful second act.
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Foriegn Policy
Iran Calls for Trial of Israeli Leaders at Int'l Tribunal
TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran has decided to file a complaint with the UN against Israeli leaders, Iran's permanent representative to the Vienna-based UN offices said on Friday.
"We believe Tel Aviv leaders should go on trial and be punished for crimes against humanity in Gaza," Ali Asghar Soltanieh said at an Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting in Vienna.
"The International community is witnessing massacre of civilian and defenseless Palestinian people, most of them innocent women and children, by the Zionist regime of Israel, while the cut of foodstuffs and drug supplies to the region has augmented the intensity of this historic tragedy," he said.
Reminding that the Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip has so far led to the killing of over 1200 Palestinians and wounding of over 5,000 others, Soltanieh, who is also Iran's representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said that the shocking number of death tolls and casualties is on the increase due to the shameful silence of Western governments as the supporters of Zionist regime.
"The Israeli army uses different types of banned weaponries, including phosphorous, cluster and depleted Uranium bombs in its barbaric onslaughts," he said, adding, "…these measures are against the international laws, including the most fundamental humanitarian norms and human rights."
We expect Islamic countries to examine the situation and do whatever they can to stop this slaughter, he said.
"Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has strongly condemned complicity with the Zionists by certain regimes, and said that the silence shown by certain countries and international bodies has paved the way for these crimes," Soltanieh stated.
"And his Excellency stated that any kind of trade to the benefit of the Zionist regime must be avoided and no one should be allowed to import and distribute Israeli products profiting the regime," he said.
The Iranian envoy stressed that the OIC is expected to condemn the Israeli regime and force the Zionists to stop their aggressions and pull out of Gaza, Soltanieh reiterated.
He further pointed out that the Israeli military assaults against Gaza are aimed at an "ethnic cleansing".
Soltanieh further urged the OIC to adopt serious action to make the Israeli regime remove Gaza Strip siege and open all the passages to the Palestinian coastal area.
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Unfathomable Doomsday Chapter 36
Unfathomable Doomsday Chapter 36 – Morning Rising
It really was a battle that left people powerless.
Or rather, a slaughter. A one-sided slaughter.
Lucius had completely lost interest at the thought of evading bullets. He let them shoot through his body, whether it hit his brain, limbs, heart, anywhere… Lucius had forgotten how many times he had died and resurrected again.
Even Lucius himself didn’t remember fear was spreading among the soldiers who still stubbornly fired Lucius with their guns. They forgot that the bullets had no effect on Lucius at all.
On top of that, blood gathered below Lucius’ feet also gradually increased along with the fallen soldier’s corpses. The corpses were mutilated, body parts scattered everywhere on the warehouse floor. But their blood would wound up and gather around Lucius.
“Don’t fret! Hurry and attack!” Ye Fusheng commanded the remaining Black Watch soldiers who fought valiantly. They were about to raise their gun when they found their arms turned into scarlet liquid.
An endless stream of blood started to surround Lucius’s body. The blood became bigger and bigger, as the blood started to grow bigger. Now it was almost grown into the size of a thumb. This also meant that Lucius’s River of Death almost gathered around two hundred people. This meant that it would take 200 times to kill Lucius before he finally died.
But that was impossible.
These troops had lost their will to fight in front of Lucius. It was impossible for a human that didn’t even have a will to fight to kill a vampire.
“Destroy him!”
Being the two strongest soldiers in the entire base, the two nano-armored soldiers rushed out. One of them didn’t hold a gun. Instead, he held a tactical knife in his hand. It wasn’t an ordinary tactical knife, the blade radiated. This knife’s technology wasn’t much worse than the nano-armor they were wearing.
He swung his blade as he approached Lucius, easily cut off one of Lucius’s arms.
“Quick! Disable him!” Ye Fusheng had an expectation after he looked at the two nano-armored soldiers. But he didn’t dare to stay in such a dangerous situation.
“I have to report this information to the base…”
Ye Fusheng wanted to leave that place, He escaped towards the back door. It was fear. He could finally understand what Harkein worried about. This was no longer a battle! It’s hell on earth! Even if they couldn’t kill the monster, the two New Federation of China elite soldiers should be able to stop the monster!
Ye Fusheng ran up to the elevator, pressed the button to the highest floor. Ye Fusheng felt relieved as the elevator door closed, he suddenly felt safe. He looked forward to arriving on the top floor.
Of course, Lucius knew that the selfish scientist had runoff. But he didn’t stop him, there was no way that he could chase him now as the two nano-armored soldiers completely blocked Lucius’s path.
The tactical knife came at Lucius’s neck again, but this time, he didn’t give him the chance to swing it.
“I have a question…” Lucius reached out his hand and grabbed the soldier’s head with speed several times faster than the nano-armored soldier, slamming his opponent’s body to the ground. The other nano-armored soldier tried to aid his companion, but…
“Ahhhhh!!”
At the back of the warehouse where Lucius came in, a horde of zombies suddenly rushed in. They finally broke through the iron gate as they tried relentlessly to hit it. Several level-2 infected zombies rushed towards the nano-armored soldiers, cornered him!
“What’s your rank?”
Lucius looked at the soldier he was slamming him to the ground.
“C rank? B rank?”
“!” He couldn’t reply as his body was entirely under Lucius’s control. This power…how could he be this strong?
A few hours ago, this creature couldn’t match their speed! But now, he completely overpowered him. What the hell was going on? How did this happen? An incomprehensible thing happened, he actually felt his own blood flowing out from his body towards Lucius’s hand.
“So that’s how it is. You’re just a C rank.”
Lucius tightly squeezed the helmet of the nano-armor. As he squeezed tighter, a dull sound of exploding flesh was heard inside the armor.
C rank beings. To Lucius, they were nothing more than baits.
“Next is…” Lucius released the dead nano-armored soldier and looked at the other soldier who was surrounded by a horde of zombies. Then he looked up to the top floor, “dinner time.”
There was only one person.
The only one who survived was Ye Fusheng. This kind of creature shouldn’t exist in the world, and Ye Fusheng’s brain was still thinking that.
No matter what, he had to survive this hell. The exit door to leave the base was right in front of him. Ye Fusheng walked to the gate and was entering the command to open the door on the console. But… it seemed like another elevator had reached the top floor.
Who was that? Ye Fusheng turned around to the elevator door in fear. His heart palpitated. He didn’t dare to blink, he focused his gaze on the elevator door.
The door opened, revealing a tall, jet-black figure inside. The jet-black armor and its crimson goggles were covered in blood.
“Haaah… it’s the Lieutenant.” Ye Fusheng was deeply relieved when he found out the one abroad the elevator was one of his men. “He’s really worth being a lieutenant. Did he come back after killing the vampire?”
But wait… Ye Fusheng almost bit his tongue at the thought…
Kill?
Killing what?
How could you kill him!
He stared intently at the figure in the nano-armor. It quickly fell to the ground as if it had no soul! The helmet fell off instantly, revealing the face of a frightened adult male.
“Help me… Professor…” The soldier reached out his hand, begging.
“Damn it…damn it…” Ye Fusheng tried to retreat, “Did you…become like that too? Become those monsters?!”
The soldier’s lower half body disappeared. As he fell, something else inside the elevator rushed out.
The zombies rushed out, not interested in the professor. Instead, they rushed towards the soldier. Because flesh and blood of a C rank Esper was tastier than an ordinary person anyway.
Right in front of Ye Fusheng, the man who once was his right-hand man was eaten bit by bit by a herd of zombies.
“Hello again, professor.” Lucius walked out of the elevator and confronted Ye Fusheng.
Ye Fusheng shot Lucius in the brain with his pistol with high accuracy, which caused Lucius to step back and temporarily stunned him.
“You can’t catch me!”
The door to the outside world opened, Ye Fusheng ran out and closed the gate as soon as he could.
It was already dawn outside. The sun was slowly rising, the glorious morning sun illuminated the metal tunnel.
The sunlight! Ye Fusheng frantically ran towards the exit, but the gate stopped him. I can escape! Hope emerged inside his heart.
But when he reached the exit, he noticed something wrong.
“What…is…that?”
Azure ice crystal sealed the entire exit of the tunnel! It was a dead-end! The ice crystal brilliantly gleamed against the morning sun.
“Damn it! Fuck!!” Ye Fusheng banged his hand against the ice wall. Even if he broke his hands from it, he didn’t care.
What’s with this ice wall? Just when he thought he could escape…
Ye Fusheng drew his pistol and struggled, pulling the trigger and firing a full clip of bullets into the wall of ice that blocked his way out. But it was useless. It didn’t work as the bullets couldn’t do any damage at all.
If I didn’t hurry… If i didn’t hurry up… Ye Fusheng raised his head abruptly and the sudden realization. He looked back in horror…
Blood dripped from the demon standing on the gate.
“Merry Christmas, Professor Ye…”
Lucius stood in the tunnel, face to face with Ye Fusheng.
Ye Fusheng fell to the ground. Half leaning against the wall of ice at his back, his hand trembled as he held his pistol and pointing it at Lucius.
This pistol was the only thing he could rely on as all the 500 Black Watch troops had been eradicated. He killed every last one of them! The three nano-armored soldiers were also dead under the monster’s hand. And now, he had nothing left to rely on!
It’s impossible!
“I could have escaped! I could have escaped!” Ye Fusheng felt the cold sensation behind him.
Why did the ice wall appear? Why?!
“How do you want to be eaten?” Lucius stood in front of Ye Fusheng and held up both of his hands. His index finger and thumb united together, forming a shape that resembled a pair of eyes. Lucius’s scarlet eyes looked at Ye Fusheng through the gaps.
“Eaten from the head first? Or feet? No… no… just swallow it, one bite at a time.”
Ye Fusheng saw a crimson gap cracked open behind Lucius. Within the gap, thousands of pairs of scarlet eyes sharply staring at Ye Fusheng.
What was that? Hell?
“Uhhhh…” the muffled sounds of the dead began to ring out, one arm after another, reaching out from the crimson gap. Ye Fusheng immediately recognized them. Those were his own men! The soldiers who were killed by Lucius!
“Aaaahhhhh!”
At this time, logic collapsed from his thought. Ye Fusnheng finally understood the meaning of Hakein’s sentence. Sometimes, dying from a bullet through the brain was such a luxury.
Ye Fusheng raised his pistol against his head. Trying to pull the trigger, only to found that it was empty. He didn’t have any single bullet left inside the pistol, and now, even suicide was a luxury he couldn’t afford.
No!!
The soldiers who had turned into the army of living dead drowned Ye Fusheng.
No!!!
Countless zombies bit him pieces by pieces. After a few minutes, nothing but blood was left on the floor.
“Arrogance… is a good emotion then.”
An exquisite emotion.
Arrogance…for a human.
Lucius whispered.
Everything had calmed down. No one survived in the base.
At this moment, the ice wall crumbled down, dissipating into brilliant ice crystal that slowly disappeared in front of Lucius.
Lucius stood under the sunlight. The morning sun basked his pale skin tainted with blood.
“Master…” Arthas stood tall without her cloak, her long silver hair reflected the golden morning sun. Her cat ears shivered, indicating her emotions. Right now, Arthas looked like a pure, innocent ice crystal. Waiting to be tainted.
Welcome…back?
A gentle smile bloomed across Lucius’s blood-stained face. His blood-stained hand reached out and gently touched Arthas’s forehead.
“Well… I’m back.”
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Mekong river cruise
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https://www.thejakartapost.com/trave...next-year.html
Some of the world’s most famous river bodies including the Nile in Egypt and the Mekong in Vietnam will become the playground for new luxury river cruises set to launch next year.
Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection is expanding its fleet with the addition of three new luxury ships that will set sail along the Nile, Mekong and Douro rivers beginning in 2020.
Its ship anchored in Italy is also slated to undergo major renovations and re-emerge as the SS La Venezia early next spring.
Unlike behemoth cruise ships that are built to carry thousands of passengers, river cruise ships are designed as smaller, more intimate alternatives. Uniworld’s fleet has an average capacity of 130 guests.
Mekong Jewel, Vietnam and Cambodia
The newest luxury river cruise on the Mekong has been designed with the environment in mind, with features like a special paint which claims to create less drag; more efficient, high-performance propellers; energy-efficient LED light fixtures; and an energy-efficient air conditioning system. The 13-day itinerary is set to launch January 3, 2020, taking guests from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap, to Phnom Penh, Angkor Wat and more.
What could possibly go wrong.
Iceberg dead ahead.
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Apple registers 5 new Macs and prepares for the iPhone 12
By Aidan Rogers
Apple sued for not removing Telegram from App Store over hate and violent content
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Apple has been sued by the "Coalition for a Safer Web" (CSW) for not removing access to Telegram by blocking instead Parler, a platform...
Samsung Electronics VC Lee Jae-yong sentenced to two and a half years for corruption
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Lee Jae-yong Vice Chairman and the head of Samsung Electronics was sentenced to two and a half years in prison by a court in...
Tesla asked to recall 158,000 cars for “media control units” failures
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The American road safety agency NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) asks the company of Elon Musk to intervene on Model S and Model...
Apple always registers new Macs, iPhones, and all its devices with the commercial register of the Eurasian Economic Commission in order to proceed with the marketing. This time, however, the Cupertino giant has registered 64 devices, most of which have already been marketed and previously registered with the current versions of the operating systems, now updated to include the new versions of iOS and macOS in the descriptions.
Among the devices, however, models not previously marketed were also identified. Apple registers 5 new Macs with macOS version 11.0 then Big Sur. These are product codes A2348, A2438, A2439, A2337, and A2338. Among these, in all likelihood, there are also the first computers with Apple Silicon processor expected to arrive in November and which presumably will was not unveiled in the Apple event on October 3 which will instead be focused on the new iPhone 12, HomePod mini and also MagSafe accessories for the wireless charging, as the advances of the last few hours indicate.
Finally, the massive registration of 64 new Apple devices also includes 39 iOS devices. All of these have also been previously registered in the same register, with the exception of 9 devices already registered but not yet marketed, such as notes AppleInsider from which we report a screenshot of the document. The latter is in all likelihood the new terminals in different models, the long-awaited iPhone 12 that Apple will unveil in a few hours.
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Drawkanoid Draws From Rich Arcade Tradition To Produce Neon Thrills
Published: Friday, January 31, 2020 - 12:00 | By: Alex Santa Maria
Brick Breaking With Styyyyyyle
You ever like a game that you're no good at? You can see others master the mechanics on a whim, but you just keep pounding away at the first few levels hoping to achieve greatness. Maybe there's background music that catches your ear, maybe there's luck involved and you can't stop rolling the dice. Maybe the gameplay seems so simple that you can't believe it's actually as hard as it is. That's me with Breakout. Call it Arkanoid, call it Alleyway, it doesn't matter, I'm just no good and I can't stop playing. New action-arcade release Drawkanoid is for people like me, presenting a new spin on brick-breaking that captures all the fun without the frustration.
Standard bricks intermingle with all manner of geometry. Good thing we're not at war.
It all comes together with the concept. In most brick-breaking ordeals, you control a paddle in one, maybe two directions. You bounce a ball towards a configuration of bricks, with your main goal being an empty screen. Drawkanoid starts similarly, but your paddle is never on the screen for very long. That's because you "draw" it in at whatever angle and size you choose. The ball hits slow motion whenever it hits the bottom of the screen and reacts to whatever paddle you whip up for it. If you take too long thinking or draw in the wrong place, you watch your ball plummet into the abyss and lose a life.
It's not too complicated as far as arcade reimaginings, but these small tweaks work wonders. Each round starts off fast and gets faster, never falling below a fever pitch. Every bounce, shot, and hit shines with a neon tinge, making you feel like you're constantly racking up a high score in Fantavision. Once you clear away a set of marked bricks, a Space Invaders-esque boss descends. Despite their gigantic stature, they go down with a single hit, granting you bonus points, bonus time in the Countdown mode, and a satisfying crumbling into tiny pixels.
Space Invaders killscreen coming up every 45 seconds
The entire game feels like it could have existed in a cabinet with some sort of custom stylus controller. There's even a backing musical track that I would call typical for a game going after the retro 80's feel. It's not bad at complimenting the action, but I've heard better. It's pretty hard to impress with synthy video game music in 2020, so I also don't hold it much against the developers. Besides, you're probably not going to be playing Drawkanoid for very long at any one time. Like its ancestors in the arcades, it's perfect for a few quick runs at a time before moving onto something else.
That's not to say that Drawkanoid hasn't learned anything from the 30 years of gaming history since Arkanoid. Like all the best modern arcade games of our era, Drawkanoid brings in a tiny pinch of progression. You earn a currency playing the game normally and that unlocks passive and active power-ups for your next round. Nothing is one-time use either, it's all building to improve your score and increase your survivability. This may be a bummer for purists and high score chasers, but it works wonderfully well on my roguelike-addled mind.
Capturing the frantic nature of Drawkanoid's neon trails in a screenshot is nigh on impossible.
That's really all she wrote for Drawkanoid, but it's also all you really need. A simple brick breaker probably isn't going to appeal to a huge audience, even with fancy graphics and a novel mechanic. This is doubly true if a member of said audience can't take another dose of 80s-style visuals, but that is the definition of a sad person right there. If you are into the genre and want something that won't make you tear your hair out in frustration, Drawkanoid is here to fulfill your extremely specific needs. They certainly fulfill mine.
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Stock market news: Vodafone Idea shares down nearly 2%
A total of 15,888,597 shares changed hands on the counter till 12:29PM (IST).
NEW DELHI: Shares of Vodafone Idea Ltd. traded 1.76 per cent down in Wednesday's trade at 12:29PM (IST). Around 15,888,597 shares changed hands on the counter.
The scrip opened at Rs 8.68 and touched an intraday high and low of Rs 8.68 and Rs 8.23, respectively, in the session so far. The stock of Vodafone Idea Ltd. quoted a 52-week high of Rs 13.45 and a 52-week low of Rs 2.61.
Total market cap of the Vodafone Idea Ltd. stood at Rs 24080.26 crore at the time of writing this report.
Telecom operator Vodafone Idea said it is “keenly interested” in conducting 5G trials, and asserted that the telco will fully comply with government policy on the issue.
The company reported consolidated sales of Rs 10655.7 crore for the quarter ended 30-Jun-2020, down 9.2 per cent from previous quarter's Rs 11735.6 crore and down 5.41 per cent from the year-ago quarter's Rs 11264.7 crore.
The net loss for latest quarter stood at Rs 25460 crore, up 422.37 per cent from the corresponding quarter last year.
As of 30-Jun-2020, domestic institutional investors held 2.75 per cent stake in the firm, while foreign institutional investors held 7.19 per cent and the promoters 18.48 per cent.
According to BSE data, the stock traded at a price-to-earnings multiple of -0.25 and a price-to-book ratio of 1.49. A higher P/E ratio shows investors are willing to pay a higher price because of better future growth expectations. Price-to-book value indicates the inherent value of a company and is the measure of the price that investors are ready to pay even for no growth in the business.
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Czechs Turning to Tor as Privacy Concerns Increase
According to the Czech News Agency (ČTK), citing Pravo, the number of Czechs using Tor for access to the darknet is steadily increasing. They are not using it for “drugs, arms, or child porn,” for the most part, Pravo published in a late August edition. Czechs are using Tor out of a growing concern for their privacy and internet footprints.
IT expert Ondrej Profant explained that Czechs fear the tracking and tracing of the “traditional internet.” They use Tor and the darknet to avoid leaving a digital footprint. “Facebook, for instance, is monitoring even movements of a mouse,” he said. (This happens everywhere now; a 2011 Microsoft study examined a user’s eye gaze direction on SERPs. They found a practically undetectable method of spotting where users look: a single script, smaller than 1kb, that tracked a user’s mouse cursor.)
That study, while far from the first method of tracking user behavior through unconventional manners, spread major privacy concerns in 2013 when Facebook considered implementing something similar. Facebook was not the first company to do so, nor did news of the surveillance only recently reached the Czech Republic. Profant used it as an example for the most common use of tracking techniques: marketing. He said, though, that the information “may also be interesting for security forces.”
In 2016, the Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD), a daily Czech newspaper, released a figure that represented darknet users in the Czech Republic. According to the paper and data from research firms, roughly 15,000 Czechs accessed the darknet on a daily basis. At that time, researchers believed that Czechs used the darknet for “ordering goods from markets.” The paper wrote that “thousands of Czechs are doing this on a daily basis.”
The darknet, in the 2016 paper, was explained as the place where “one can order weapons, drugs and contract killers.” However, in 2017, so-called “experts” agreed that the darknet functioned as a drug trafficking medium and a method to circumvent state censorship. “In China, for instance, which applies a strong censorship in many areas, the darknet enables access to free information,” one researcher wrote.
The Czech Republic is currently ranked 23 (out of 180) on the World Press Freedom Index. But until 1989, when communist governments of the Warsaw Treaty countries collapsed (1991 for the former Czechoslovakia), citizens faced high levels of censorship. And even though the Communist Czechoslovakia ended years ago, “journalists and activists are using [Tor] to publish something and remain anonymous,” Pavel Ruzicka, a researcher in this sector, told the newspaper.
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Originally published at my old site on 02 June 2009…
Regarding the gushing hoopla surrounding the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to sit on the Supreme Court Of The United States, John Derbyshire wrote the following:
Like my reader, and I’m sure a lot of other Americans, I get mighty annoyed by the unspoken implication in a lot of commentary that anyone not a member of a Protected Minority must have grown up in a twelve-bedroom lakeside mansion and been chauffered off to prep school with a silver spoon in his mouth. Judge Sotomayor was raised in public housing? So was I. Her mother was a nurse working late shifts? So was mine. When did white working poor people disappear off the face of the earth? Where are the eager listeners to their “compelling stories”?
Was it really not possible to correct past injustices without creating an entire — and apparently permanent — class convinced that accidents of geography or biology have gifted them with special insight, wisdom, and “empathy”?
It was possible and it was happening in this country until the Left managed to get control of political institutions at all levels around the mid-Twentieth Century. Slowly, but surely assimilation and acceptance of various new and, in the case of blacks, special groups was happening in a process that was proceeding at a pace that complemented human nature as constituted in that unique place named America. Blacks were becoming more and more integrated into society, first and second generation Italians and Puerto Ricans were assimilating, to name just three of the groups.
For Blacks first, and then later other groups like the Puerto Ricans [ie: the non-White groups], the passing of power into the hands of a Left brought radical upheavals. The radicals were determined to not let the progression occur naturally, but demanded, instead, that human intervention in the form of social engineering by force be the method for achieving equality. Following the same game-plan that they apply to every endeavor of their’s, the Left fought for and passed laws that compelled Whites to accept the non-Whites as equals in all things immediately, no dissent allowed. This was coupled with a massive campaign in the culture involving the constant ridicule and condemnation of any who would dissent from their methods. They falsely portrayed the dissenters as not being against the methods, but, rather, against equality.
The Left practiced a variation of The Big Lie that I like to call The Big Deception which involves a Big Deflection away from the reality of the situation. None of their policies or actions can survive direct questioning, so the Leftists must turn the tables on the questioners and make it seem as though the inquisitors have bad or evil intentions. Overtime and after constant and unrelenting hectoring, the Left’s way of thinking triumphed. They successfully infected enough people so that this diseased mode of thinking became chronic, deep-rooted, instinctual. If the Devil’s greatest triumph was that he convinced people he did not exist, the Left’s greatest triumph has been to convince people that the Leftist way of thinking is normal. It is not. It is a perversion of reason and a horribly mutant form of logic. It is antithetical to human life. Nothing but decay and destruction are left [pun intended] in it’s wake.
Having been told repeatedly by the Left that they were deserving of special treatment because of the supposed injustice they had suffered at the hands of the White man, these groups began to believe it, for they too were infected, but their condition was much more grave.
America had once been as strong, as rugged, as handsome, and as brave as the most perfect Gray Cooper or John Wayne character; now it has become like Gollum.
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Onyx Equinox Announces Fall Premiere, Introduces Main Cast
Crunchyroll announced today that the upcoming Crunchyroll Original series Onyx Equinox will premiere Saturday, November 21. The series will be dubbed in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, and German at launch.
Onyx Equinox, as previously reported, follows a young Aztec boy named Izel who is saved from death by the gods and is chosen to act as ‘humanity’s champion,’ forced to discard his apathy toward his fellow man and prove humanity’s potential on a journey that will take him across ancient Mesoamerica. Created by executive producer and showrunner Sofia Alexander, the show is one of many Crunchyroll Original series that have launched so far this year.
To celebrate this announcement, Crunchyroll also premiered a brand new trailer (as seen above) to invite fans into the world of Onyx Equinox and introduce the main characters:
Izel: Humanity’s reluctant hero. Tasked with closing the five gates of the underworld.
Nelli: Izel’s sister and greatest source of motivation.
Yaotl: The jaguar-like emissary of Tezcatlipoca who accompanies Izel.
Zyanya: A warrior with a powerful ability, seeks to restore her destroyed city.
Yun: K’in’s more individualistic twin. The emotional core of Izel’s group.
K’in: Yun’s mischievous, risk-taking twin who often takes jokes too far.
Xanastaku: A priestess in Izel’s party. Desires to redeem her dark past.
K’i’ik: Izel’s weapon that grows by consuming blood.
Meque: A type of axolotl with mysterious, magical power.
Crunchyroll also announced the English voice cast for Onyx Equinox, which includes a mix of Latinx and up and coming voice talent:
Oliva Brown is the voice of Izel, humanity’s reluctant hero, in Onyx Equinox. Her past credits include Murray in The Beefcake Boys for Dreamworks TV, Baker in Jell-O Wobz for Jell-O and Dreamworks TV, Emily in the game Colony 42, and Isabelle in the game AFK Arena.
Alejandro Vargas-Lugo is the voice of Yaotl, the jaguar-like emissary of Tezcatlipoca who accompanies Izel in Onyx Equinox. Vargas-Lugo has been a voice dubbing actor in Spanish since 1988, lending his voice to films and television series including Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Lucius Malfoy, Secret of the Sahara as El Halem, Tombstone, Balto as Steele, and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy as Grim among many others. English voice dub credits include Tú o Nadie and Fariña.
Columbian-born Carolina Ravassa is the voice of Zyana, and has appeared on The Affair opposite Dominic West, Mr. Robot with Bobby Cannavale & Rami Malek, and has done a few shorts with Reggie Watts. She produced, directed, and starred in the webseries Hispanglosaxon, which won an Imagen Award for Best Webseries. She is known for her voice work in the video games Overwatch (Sombra), Valorant (Raze), Grand Theft Auto V (Taliana Martinez), Max Payne III, Red Dead Redemption II, Just Cause 4, and voices on Big City Greens (Disney), Victor and Valentino (Cartoon Network), Loud House (Nickelodeon) and Netflix. She also worked on Step Up 3-D and Maybe Tomorrow.
Patrick Pedrazza is the voice of Yun, K’in’s more individualistic twin and the emotional core of Izel’s group, in Onyx Equinox. Pedrazza has worked on a variety of video games and TV series including Wasteland 3, Care Bears Unlock the Magic, Brawl Stars, and Rescue Heroes.
Juan Arturo Maldonado is the voice of K’in, Yun’s mischievous, risk-taking twin who often takes jokes too far in Onyx Equinox. Born in Los Angeles, Juan’s first-generation immigrant activist family raised him in a “Spanish Only” household and today Juan is completely bilingual. He is passionate about entertainment, writing, and social activism.
Kimberly Woods is the voice of Xanastaku, a priestess in Izel’s party who desires to redeem her dark past in Onyx Equinox. Woods has worked extensively in original animation, anime, and video game series, appearing as Polly in Nickelodeon’s It’s Pony, Tiese in Sword Art Online, Naho & Hinaki in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Ren Isuzu in Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story and in games including Blade & Soul and Pokemon Masters among others. Woods has also appeared in HBO’s Westworld.
Sofia Alexander is the executive producer and show creator of Crunchyroll’s upcoming original series Onyx Equinox, which follows a young boy through his epic journey across Mesoamerica to save humanity from the gods. In the series, Alexander voices the characters Nelli, Izel’s sister and greatest source of motivation, K’i’ik, Izel’s weapon that grows by consuming blood, and Meque, a type of axolotl with mysterious, magical power.
Arin Hanson will voice Tezcatlipoca on the upcoming Crunchyroll Original series Onyx Equinox. Hason is an animator, voice actor, and internet personality also known online as Egoraptor and as the co-founder of the popular YouTube web series Game Grumps. Past credits include Gateaux and Fibby on the television series Mighty Magiswords and Mancubus on the video game Borderlands 3.
Castulo Guerra will voice Mictlantecuhtli on Onyx Equinox. Guerra is an Argentinian actor with numerous stage, television, and film credits including Jane the Virgin, Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons, Dallas, and the New York Shakespeare Festival’s Othello alongside Raul Julia and Richard Dreyfuss, and Coriolanus with Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington among many others.
Zeus Mendoza is the voice of Quetzalcoatl in Onyx Equinox. He has worked extensively across film, television and theatre including feature films Passengers, Puss in Boots, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Ballad of a Soldier, and Land of Milk and Honey. Television credits include The Rookie, Days of Our Lives, CSI, and CSI: Miami.
Fayna Sanchez will voice The Healer on Onyx Equinox. Her past acting and appearance credits include Dollface on Hulu, Angie Tribeca on TBS. Sanchez is also the host of the horror podcast ‘Nocturna’ from Earbud Theatre’s Tales From The Dead Of Night. Sanchez also have a number of theatrical credits including ‘Veronica’ in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherfucker With The Hat, which earned an award for “Best Ensemble Theatre” & “Pick Of The Fringe” for the Hollywood Fringe Festival, alongside a number of national commercials.
Fans can learn even more about Onyx Equinox this weekend at Virtual Crunchyroll Expo through these panel discussions with the creator and staff.
Friday, 9/4 at 12 PM PT – Crunchyroll Originals Presents: Making of Onyx Equinox – Panel with Sofia Alexander (creator/showrunner), Kuni Tomita (supervising director), and Marisa Balkus (producer)
Saturday, 9/5 at 12:45 PM PT – Crunchyroll Originals Presents: Mesoamerica Animated: Onyx Equinox with Sofia E. Alexander – Panel presented in Spanish with English subtitles with Sofia Alexander (creator/showrunner), alongside Crunchyroll hosts Dulce Benavides and Ismael (Ryu) Orozoco
Sunday. 9/6 at 2:45 PM PT – Mesoamerican Gods: Mythology in Onyx Equinox with Sofia Alexander (creator/showrunner) and Anthropologist Dr. Kirby Elizabeth Farah
Have strong thoughts about this piece you need to share? Or maybe there’s something else on your mind you’re wanting to talk about with fellow Fandomentals? Head on over to our Community server to join in the conversation!
Images and video courtesy of Crunchyroll
Kori is an entertainment writer and Managing Editor at the Fandomentals. In her spare time, she is a fragrance and watch enthusiast, lover of Eurovision, and Yanni devotee.
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Posted: Aug 14, 2018 2:05 PM
In our polarized age of spite-based politics, some partisans have taken the 'enemy of my enemy is my friend' concept to preposterous lengths. One of the more bizarre manifestations of this phenomenon has been the celebration and cultural martyrdom of a number of law enforcement officials who've been fired from their jobs over professional misconduct. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who repeatedly and knowingly lied to federal investigators, was showered with cash by The Resistance after his dismissal, because he was a frequent target of President Trump's ire. If Trump hates him, let's send him some cash. So what if he broke the law? It wasn't just grassroots lefties who got in on the action; multiple Democratic members of Congress also offered McCabe federal jobs in order to help him receive his full taxpayer-funded pension. Now that disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok has gotten the axe, lefty money is flowing in his direction, too: Roughly $300,000 in less than 24 hours, in fact. Might some cushy job offers also be forthcoming?
In a famous episode of the animated comedy series South Park, a cabal of gnomes unveils a business model under which they steal people's used underwear in order to turn a profit. Phase one of this scheme is to pilfer undergarments. Phase two is listed as, '?' (basically, "to be determined"). Phase three is profit! The joke is that they haven't figured out the most important step of their plan, blindly assuming that success will somehow magically be realized. Playing off of that meme, I half-joked on Twitter earlier that the McCabes and Strzoks of the world seem to have found the secret sauce to guaranteeing personal enrichment via throngs of absolute strangers:
1. Severely damage your institution’s credibility through egregious bias and/or misconduct.
2. ????*
*resistance martyrdom https://t.co/FFaPXcyFtX
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 14, 2018
Convincing a sizable chunk of reactionary leftists that the consequences for your own actions are actually Donald Trump's fault has emerged as an easy ticket to reaping six-figure GoFundMe windfalls. This is especially true if Trump has called out the newly-minted victim/hero by name. The truth is that McCabe made a choice to lie to federal officials. The president didn't make him do that. And Strzok sent those many incriminating text messages all on his own. He chose, of his own volition, to tell his mistress and colleague that he'd personally "stop" Trump from winning the presidency. That's not merely a "personal political view" -- which FBI agents are allowed to have, just like everybody else. It's a statement of intent to take action in pursuit of an explicitly partisan end, in the course of carrying out official duties as a lead investigator on two politically-charged probes. The recent Inspector General report blasted Strzok for "cast[ing] a cloud over the entire FBI investigation" into Hillary Clinton's email scandal, and specifically could not rule out bias playing a role in investigative decisions:
Laura is 100% correct. Anyone reporting that the IG report clears the FBI of any accusations of political bias are ignoring the post-July 2016 section where the Weiner laptop emerges. https://t.co/eBj7tEcc7S
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 15, 2018
That same IG's office is currently in the process of reviewing Strzok and other DOJ officials' handling of the Russia matter, as well, so the book is not yet closed on these issues. But at the very least, Strzok's own words have been devastating to the reputation of the agency for which he worked. Even if you prefer to emphasize that there's no ironclad proof of actual impropriety (again, of which Strzok was not cleared by the watchdog's analysis), the ex-agent's virulently anti-Trump texts -- especially the "we'll stop it" and 'insurance policy' messages -- posed a grave embarrassment to his former employer, shaking the public's trust in the Bureau's political impartiality, and unquestionably creating a profound appearance of impropriety.
Strzok's misconduct was sufficient to cause career FBI bureaucrats responsible for internal review processes to recommend a multi-month suspension and a demotion. The Bureau's senior leadership evidently determined that this relative wrist-slap would send the wrong message about accountability, and hinder their urgent efforts to restore public trust in federal law enforcement. So they fired him. Strzok's defenders are claiming this decision was politically-motivated (quite a rich allegation, considering the circumstances of his ouster), but that explanation doesn't hold much water. It's true that Trump's incessant tweets constitute prima facie pressure, but the claim that top DOJ leaders are more or less doing President Trump's bidding should seem a bit silly to anyone who's watched Trump's months-long public harangue against those very same people for...not doing his bidding.
Furthermore, let's not forget the bipartisan approbation with which the appointment of Christopher Wray to lead the FBI was greeted. Wray's subsequent defense of his agency in the face of repeated barbs from the president was similarly met with rapturous applause from liberals. If Wray is an honest, professional straight-shooter with exemplary integrity -- as is the DC consensus -- we shouldn't take seriously whiplash-inducing suggestions that Strzok's firing is a nefarious case of the FBI brass bowing to Trump's personal vendettas. Wray isn't a Trump henchman. And it's not like the damage Strzok has inflicted is shrouded in mystery. It's out in the open, in black and white. Allowing him to remain in the FBI's employ, given everything we know, would've represented an open, festering wound to the Bureau's already-harmed reputation in the minds of tens of millions of Americans. Of course he should be gone. He's not a victim in this, and he's certainly no martyr. He was felled by his own thumbs, which betrayed his hugely problematic mindset. I'll leave you with this tweet from the son of the Republican House Judiciary Committee Chairman, which has gone viral in lefty circles:
I’m deeply embarrassed that Peter Strzok’s career was ruined by my father’s political grandstanding. That committee hearing was a low point for Congress.
Thank you for your service sir. You are a patriot https://t.co/3dNN3AlXCZ
— Bobby Goodlatte (@rsg) August 13, 2018
No, Peter Strzok's career was ruined by the actions and decisions of Peter Strzok. Bobby is welcome to air intra-family grievances if he so chooses, but he's not welcome to re-write history. Even if one thinks the Strzok hearing was a farce (many of the "questions" were ludicrously preening, even as the witness was sneering, arrogant and smug), cheering Strzok as a upstanding, service-minded patriot is, well, deeply embarrassing. By the way, since many in the media suddenly seem rather interested in the views of a political figure's offspring denouncing his parent's actions, I wonder if they'll also hang on every word of Susan Rice's son.
Peter Strzok
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The Battle For The Kitchen Screen Got A Lot More Interesting At CES 2018
When I wrote about the battle for the kitchen TV last June, the launch of the Echo Show was one of the signals that told me companies were beginning to pay attention to the space. Half a year later, my own usage of the Show has helped me better understand why.
That’s because ever since Amazon’s video-enabled Alexa assistant entered our home, it’s the first thing my eyes are drawn to as I enter the kitchen. The continuous scroll of news and weather, integration with popular apps like Pandora and Allrecipes, and access to videos all have quietly made the small screen indispensable for my entire family.
And now, with a slew of standalone smart displays and kitchen-centric video screens at CES last week, I’m more convinced than ever as we enter 2018 the kitchen TV market will be a fascinating one to watch.
Here are some of the kitchen screen entrants from this year’s big consumer show:
Echo Show And The Competitors
In some ways, the Echo Show and its small screen competitors are the early favorites. Whether or not to purchase a $200 or below (today the Show is on sale for $179) countertop video-enabled voice assistant is a much easier decision to make than that of a $3 thousand fridge. And now, with Google pouring money into the space, you can expect many more choices and over time.
CES 2018 featured some new smart displays on, um, display, many of them designed to be used with Google Assistant. I suspect at some point Google will likely come out with a first-party device (like the Echo Show), but for now we have displays from the likes of Lenovo, Philips and JBL and the initial reviews are pretty positive.
Fridge TV
Hard to believe, but Samsung’s already on version three of its Family Hub fridge, a product that is fast becoming the central focus of the CE giant’s broader smart home strategy. I stopped by the Samsung CES showroom at the Aria to check out the Family Hub 3, and I have to say the new screen looks good.
And as is often the case, LG has followed Samsung’s lead with the ThinQ Instaview Fridge but took things one step further by making their smart screen translucent so you can also see what’s in your fridge. You can see a demo of the LG ThinQ Instaview Fridge here:
CES 2018 - LG ThinQ Instaview Fridge
While the idea of fridge TVs continue to gain steam, some argue that there’s a mismatch between the life cycle of cutting-edge tech and that of installed appliances. An appliance is an investment, something most consumers expect to last up to a decade. Technology, on the other hand, can be outdated after a few years. This argument resonated after talking to someone at the Samsung booth, who told me the Family Hub gen-1 likely wouldn’t be updated to the third generation software that is coming out with the Family Hub 3, (though the Family Hub Ones in the field were recently updated to Family Hub 2 software).
Despite this, I think the centrality of the fridge in most kitchens and the early relative success of the Family Hub will fuel interest in making the fridge the star of the kitchen TV market.
The GE Kitchen Hub
One of the more interesting concepts in kitchen TV I saw at CES was the GE Kitchen Hub, a screen/smart home controller designed to sit above your oven. The Kitchen Hub, which was originally conceived in GE Appliances innovation hub FirstBuild, not only has voice and gesture control capability built in but works with Zigbee and Z-Wave to connect to your smart devices.
You can see Digital Trends video walkthrough with the Kitchen Hub below:
GE Kitchen Hub - Hands On at CES 2018
The concept of the Kitchen Hub sits somewhere between the Amazon and Samsung approach, a device that’s separate from a large appliance (and their long life cycles), but one that is also a built-in. The product is priced in that middle territory as well, coming in at $600.
I like the idea of the Kitchen Hub. A separate built-in screen, one that is more affordably priced than a hybrid appliance/TV product and that can also act as a smart home control center is a potential winner. Of course, a lot will rely on execution, but overall this is an intriguing product to watch.
One thing’s that clear: the battle for the kitchen TV became a lot more interesting at CES 2018. Check back at the Spoon and subscribe to our newsletter to monitor our coverage of this market over the next 12 months.
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I+A innovation + adaptation: the real challenge
What could be more weird and beautiful than a desert full of colourful flowers? The “flowering desert” of Atacama (Chile) gives precisely that landscape during September and November, when a wide range of flowers blossom after an unusual heavy rainfall. This phenomenon makes me reflect on the need to change our own preconceptions of “ be” or “should be”, difficult challenge that drive decision makers to be creative and build proposals from an innovative and revolutionary perspective.
Currently, the world we live in it’s shaped by uncertainties for the future and on going in-depth changes. This framework forces to integrate adaptation measures to political and economic agenda as a priority.
It´s expected that in 15 years they´ll be 100 millions more of people living in poverty. This striking and disappointed forecast lives Millennium Goals in a very weak position and is a drastically indicator that other reforms must be done to be prepared to achieve those goals. Is in the context of that reforms that we identify three main factors that determines the challenge of building resilient societies:
1.- A change of global values is needed and means a structural cultural global reform. Is it here when global leaders acquired a relevant importance to design an agenda on education and give proposals for improving the integration of global values.
2.-The role of education in this process becomes one key element to refocus economic-political policies towards a goal of resilience. The more educated we are, the more prepared we´ll be to search for innovative solutions that face adaptation challenges with strength and determination.
Instead of seeing crisis or natural catastrophes as an “end” its necessary to re-educate towards a proactive perspective in which we see it as a “beginning” of something new, that press for structural changes.
3.- A change of mind that lead us to erase all what was considered certain, safe and predictable and jump into the abysm of a new reality: uncertain, unsafe and unpredictable. This individual change of mind could be achieved through the active and continuous activism from leaders and civil society.
One of the big values that are imperative to change is to give much importance to GDP growth instead of growing by the implementation of innovative & adaptive strategies. Innovate shouldn´t be the same as in the past, but guided by a vision of a new world in which humans are agents of change but aware that the leading role is holding by the unknown. This is one of the great steps to be creative: the infinite capacity of getting surprised and be prepared to create new frameworks of resilience.
Promoting change and innovation by investment on infrastructure, I+D, research, work with local communities, flexible fiscal policies or diversification production are some of the urgent measures needed to get to a serious adaptation and resilient strategy.
The original focus of investment on I+D mainly on raising levels of GDP growth are challenging by new parameters that require to divert this focus to a coherent and visionary adaptation strategy. More than ever we need to maximize creativity towards better and more ideas on adaptation measures. Being aware that what was considered “impossible” in the past, is a possible and threaten reality that leave the world in an extreme vulnerable position.
Invest on uncertainty is the most certain way to struggle against climate change impacts.[1]
Let´s accept it, is non-marketable for governments to invest on an uncertain basis, particularly after the recent recovery from global financial crisis but, is a matter of responsibility, not just for their own countries but also in a global context. The role of developed countries (that represents less that 20% of the total population and raise almost 70% of green house emissions of the entire planet) become very important as leaders of change and drivers of climate resilient planning able to help developing countries and themselves to boost capacities and resources.
I+D gives way to I+A for a resilient world based on creativity and innovation at the service of adaptation measures.
Creativity is a strong driver of change and for current uncertain times it becomes paramount. The fascinating mystery of taking challenges and entering into the uneasy dimension of the unknown by searching for new economic models based in behavior and motivation that helps on the road to an effective strategy on innovation and adaptation.
An humanist approach is strongly needed to make it happen a “Mass flourishing” that Nobel Laureate E. Phelps refer to and gives the basis to get out of this “desert” of uncertainty and constant change that would lead the world into devastation and poverty if there is not an effective, urgent and dynamic plan of action towards INNOVATION + ADAPTATION.
Global leaders: is your term for leading in changing minds and reshape new codes of cultural and economic behavior.
[1] “Don’t just mitigate, adapt!” http://bit.ly/1MKvNxK
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Global Goodwill Ambassador WEF, Lawyer, Facilitator, Political Analyst, Expert on Development Cooperation,Expert on Humanitarian Aid, Expert on Migrations, Asylum and Refugees, Postgraduate course on Mediation, High Studies on Public Administration Management, Specialization course on Investments for the New Economies, Magister in Marketing and Sales Management. World Bank courses on: Policies for Growth, Parliaments and Climate change, Kyoto Protocol, Exploring Topics in Development, Evaluating the impact of Recession and government responses, Frontiers in Development policy, Economics on Climate-Resilient Development, Engaging Citizens: A Game Changer for Development,Trainer on Sphere Project. The Age of Sustainability (Univ. Columbia), European culture and politics (Univ. Groningen.),Understanding Europe: Why it matters and what if can offer you.(HEC Paris), Global Diplomacy (SOAS) Moral Foundations of Politics (Yale Univ.) International Affairs: Globalisation(The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva)
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The Voting News Daily: Attorneys General urge Congress to check corporate spending on elections, Super PACs can be thwarted, even with ‘Citizens United’
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National: Attorneys General urge Congress to check corporate spending on elections | SouthCoastToday.com
Concerned about unlimited contributions by corporations for political advertising, Attorney General Martha Coakley has submitted a formal letter to Congress urging an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to reverse the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The letter sent today to Congressional leadership was signed by AG Coakley and 10 other state Attorneys General. Read More
Editorials: Super PACs can be thwarted, even with ‘Citizens United’ | The Washington Post
Here is the only good news about the super PACs flooding the 2012 presidential race with negative ads funded by huge contributions from the super rich: These vehicles for corruption can be eliminated. Congress can pass legislation to end these candidate-specific super PACs that is well within the bounds of Citizens United. The Supreme Court’s decision in the 2010 case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission paved the way for the creation of super PACs — federally registered political action committees that raise unlimited contributions and use these funds to make expenditures in federal elections. To legally spend these funds, the court said, outside groups must operate independently of the candidates they are supporting. The 2012 presidential campaign has brought us a particularly virulent form of these groups: the candidate-specific super PAC. If not made illegal, they will spread to congressional races as well. Read More
Editorials: The Virtues of the Super PAC | NYTimes.com
With the Republican primary season winding down, it’s time to celebrate two heroes of participatory democracy, two champions of the ordinary voter, two men who did everything in their power to make the ballot box matter as much as the fundraising circuit. I speak, of course, of Sheldon Adelson and Foster Friess. Adelson is the casino billionaire whose super PAC donations enabled Newt Gingrich to upset Mitt Romney in South Carolina and give him a scare in Florida. Friess is the investment manager whose super PAC donations enabled Rick Santorum to prolong the race through February and March. Both men are controversial; both have been cited as prime examples of the corrupting influence of great wealth on our politics. But both did more than anyone else to prevent the Republican primary from turning into a straightforward “money talks” affair. Read More
Blogs: Provisional Ballots: Information Can Help Rescue “Lost” Voters | Election Academy
This week’s Pew Dispatch looks at provisional ballot data from the 2011 election in Ohio. Here’s what the analysis found:
Provisional ballot use increased in 72 counties, remained the same in seven counties, and decreased in nine counties. While the number of overall provisional ballots grew in 2011, the proportion of provisional ballots counted decreased. The study found that most of the provisional ballots were rejected for one of three reasons:
+ 40.2 percent were rejected because the voter was not listed as registered to vote in Ohio;
+ 21.2 percent were rejected for voting at the wrong precinct and wrong polling place; and
+ 16.2 percent were rejected for voting at the wrong precinct within the correct polling place [often called the “right church, wrong pew” problem – ed.].
Alabama: Republican Party still reviewing primary ballots as one presidential delegate hangs in the balance | al.com
Jefferson County Presiding Court Judge Scott Vowell on Tuesday ordered Jefferson County to retabulate the votes from the March 13 Republican presidential primary in precincts that are split between two congressional districts, a review that could change how the state GOP awards one of its delegates. Vowell also ordered the Alabama Republican Party to pay for the review if the state does not reimburse Jefferson County. The order came after a lawsuit was filed Friday by the Alabama Republican Party arguing that votes in 48 split precincts in Jefferson and six other counties failed to identify which congressional district the presidential vote came from. The issue is significant because some of the party’s presidential delegates are awarded based on how each candidate fared within the congressional districts. Alabama Republican Party Executive Director T.J. Maloney, testifying Tuesday, said 16 of the split precincts are in Jefferson County. Read More
Florida: Dominion says Elections Office should have known how to use the election software, avoiding errors in Wellington election | Sun-Sentinel.com
Palm Beach County elections officials could have averted a software glitch that erroneously awarded two Wellington Village Council seats to losing candidates if they had followed the instruction manual, the manufacturer has told state election officials. Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher vehemently denied the claim. “I read the reference guide three times yesterday,” she said. “Nowhere does it tell you to check for this, ever.” Even as the question of who is to blame grew murkier, a clearer picture of the error itself emerged Monday, with the company, Dominion Voting Systems, sending out a national advisory warning election officials how to avoid a similar mistake. In the advisory, Dominion also suggests that the mistake could have been caught before the election had one key test been performed differently. The so-called “synchronization” error was caused when Bucher’s central vote-counting software was lined up to accept races in a different order than they appeared on the Wellington ballot. As a result, election-night totals on Wellington’s three races were shifted in a circle – with village council Seat 4 votes going to the mayor’s race, votes for mayor going to council Seat 1, and votes for Seat 1 going to Seat 4. On Monday, Bucher said the error occurred when her staff entered the titles on the ballot of each position, such as “Seat 1.” Read More
Florida: Report: Florida one of the ‘five worst states for voting rights in 2011′ | Florida Independent
The Center for American Progress released a report today on voter suppression efforts carried out by Republican-led state legislatures around the country, listing Florida as one of “five worst states for voting rights in 2011.” As we at The Florida Independent have been reporting, Florida lawmakers passed a new voting law last year that has drawn fire from federal officials, legislators, advocacy groups and voting rights experts from all over the country. The many critics of the law have said the law is a concerted effort to keep minorities, young people, the elderly and the poor from the polls on Election Day. Florida’s contentious law places prohibitive rules and restrictions on third-party voter registration groups, creates a shortened “shelf life” for signatures collected for ballot initiatives, places new restrictions on voters changing their registered addresses on election day, and reduces the number of early voting days — among many other provisions. Read More
Minnesota: Voter ID amendment is now up to Minnesota’s voters | StarTribune.com
Minnesota’s historic battle over photo ID and the future of the state’s voting system moved from the Capitol to the voters themselves on Wednesday. The House and Senate, with Republicans supplying all the “yes” votes, gave final approval to a proposed constitutional amendment that would require voters to show a photo ID, create a new system of “provisional” balloting and end election day “vouching” for voters without proof of residence. It passed the House on a 72-57 vote shortly after midnight and was approved by the Senate Wednesday afternoon on a 35-29 vote. The decision puts Minnesota squarely in the center of a national debate over election security vs. ballot access. Five states have strict photo ID requirements in law. Wisconsin and several other states are battling the issue in court or in their legislatures. Minnesota now joins Mississippi and Missouri as states that have sought to impose the changes via constitutional amendments. Minnesota’s amendment will likely face court challenges of its own before it goes to voters. Read More
Minnesota: Other states offer clues on how voter ID would work in Minnesota | MPRN
It’s nearly certain that Minnesotans will decide this November whether they want to change the state’s Constitution to require voters to show photo identification at the polls. The Legislature is nearing final approval of the proposed voter ID amendment, which would place the question on the November ballot. What’s less certain is how a voter ID law would play out in future elections in Minnesota. By design, the wording of the constitutional amendment is sparse on details; if approved by the voters, lawmakers wouldn’t lay out exactly how the new system would work until the 2013 legislative session. In the meantime, election officials, voters and advocates on both sides of the issue are scratching their heads over what the proposed voter ID requirement will mean for Minnesota’s future elections. Read More
Missouri: St. Louis County voting snafu on ES&S iVotronics led to uncounted ballots | ksdk.com
When the votes were counted in Tuesday’s election in St. Louis County, hundreds were missing. Poll workers did not properly close out several voting machines. NewsChannel5 learned there were 595 votes that weren’t counted Tuesday night when election board workers went home around midnight. Election officials say those votes are now in, and part of the current unofficial totals. Rita Heard Days is the county’s director of elections and says five electronic voting machines were not properly closed out by poll workers Tuesday night. “This morning we went out and got the machines that had the questionable closures and brought them in and captured those votes,” said Days. … Days says all the missed votes were added to the unofficial election totals Wednesday. Read More
Texas: Feds, AG duel over who must testify in Texas voter ID case | San Antonio Express-News
U.S. Justice Department lawyers told a federal three-judge panel Tuesday that Texas legislators should not be shielded from testifying in a voter ID case. But lawyers for state Attorney General Greg Abbott said deposing statehouse Republicans to determine legislative intent of the new photo ID requirement amounted to a “fishing expedition” by Justice Department attorneys. The panel — Circuit Judge David Tatel, District Judge Robert Wilkins and District Judge Rosemary Collyer — is expected to rule soon on motions to expedite proceedings. A tentative trial date of July 30 is being considered, which would allow the photo ID law to be implemented for the November general election. Read More
Wisconsin: More election night problems in Waukesha | JSOnline
Another election, another controversy over the performance of Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus. Nickolaus may have done her re-election campaign no favors Tuesday night when her plans to post timely election results online and update them periodically for the public failed. Citizens checking for results online were left in the dark for hours after voting ended, while reporters and data collectors for election reporting services resorted to tabulating contested races from yards of paper tapes hanging on walls around a meeting room. The process was akin to reading a long grocery receipt where, in some cases, the tape stretched down the wall and onto the floor in a heap. Problems with Nickolaus’ reporting system were evident soon after the earliest municipal clerks delivered, in person as she required, the voting machine memory packs and paper tapes showing vote totals. When Nickolaus’ staff tried to upload results from the memory cards into the county clerk’s reporting program, it wouldn’t work. “We were shocked,” she said Wednesday, noting that she and her staff had tested the reporting program “many times.” Read More
Blogs: Voted Ballots ‘Remade’ by Election Workers in Wisconsin After Being Printed Too Wide for Optical-Scanners | BradBlog
During yesterday’s Wisconsin primary election, a number of paper ballots were sent out in several counties that were reportedly too wide to be tabulated by the computerized optical-scan systems used to tally ballots in the state. The same exact thing happened just two weeks ago during the Illinois primary sending election officials into a panic and causing delays for some voters. Then, as now, the problem has been chalked up to a paper-cutting error by the printers. Perhaps that’s true, perhaps it’s not. We’ll take them at their word, barring evidence to the contrary. Innocent errors can and do happen. But whether that’s an accurate explanation or not, one way in which the failure was dealt with in both Illinois and Wisconsin continues to be extremely troubling and, frankly, offense: the practice of election workers manually “remaking” the ballots of voters after the election, in ostensible secret, and before they are tabulated. Read More
Wisconsin: 87-year-old voter thwarted in Waukesha for lack of ID | JSOnline
It took persistence – and a second trip to her Waukesha polling place – by a 63-year-old Waukesha woman to vote Tuesday. But she said her 87-year-old mother who couldn’t make the trip back was disenfranchised by a poll worker who asked to see a photo ID. Wisconsin’s new voter ID law was in place for the February primary but not for Tuesday’s general election after a judge ruled it was unconstitutional. The photo ID requirement is on hold while the matter is appealed. The woman, who asked not to be identified because she and her mother were embarrassed, said she ended up calling the Government Accountability Board for help. Kevin Kennedy, executive director of the board, confirmed Tuesday that the incident happened. The woman said she and her mother had moved to Waukesha last May and registered to vote at Waukesha City Hall in January. They went to their Waukesha West High School poll Tuesday but were asked to show identification – which her mother hadn’t brought with her. Her own driver’s license had an out-of-date address on it, she said. “We were listed on their friggin’ poll list,” she said, “and yet we had our names highlighted.” The poll worker said maybe they didn’t register in time, though they clearly had. Kennedy added: “I can’t think of any reason ID would have been required.” Read More
Wisconsin: Lt. Governor: Recall message is national | Politico.com
“We’re a harbinger. We’re a canary in a coal mine,” Kleefisch said on Fox News. “Because what happens in Wisconsin has potential to affect every state in this nation whether Wisconsin voters choose to go forward or backward, back to the failed policies of the past that got us in the budget crunch that we fixed in the first place.” Kleefisch argued that the Walker administration had come into office facing a $3.6 billion budget deficit and had made the difficult but necessary decision to fix the budget crisis without raising taxes. “We asked our public sector employees to contribute 12.6 percent toward their health care, about the national average, 5.8 percent toward their pension, which is about half the national average, and we made some changes to collective bargaining, which was [a] financial [issue] to us,” she said. Read More
New Zealand: The future of Mixed Member Proportional Electoral System | NZ Herald News
Today is the deadline for those who wish to appear in person before the Electoral Commission to send in their submissions on its review of the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) Electoral System. If you do not wish to appear in person, then you can still send in a written submission up until the end of May. The recommendations the Electoral Commission makes to the Government may or may not be adopted, but they will at a minimum ensure a debate on their recommendations. Some of the issues they will consider could have a significant impact on what Parliament and Governments will look like in the future. Read More
Serbia: President Boris Tadic resigns setting up early elections | seattlepi.com
Serbian pro-Western President Boris Tadic said Wednesday he is resigning, paving the way for an early presidential election where he will face a strong challenge from a nationalist candidate. Serbia’s parliament speaker is expected to call the vote for May 6, the same day when parliamentary and local elections are already scheduled. In the presidential vote, Tadic will be challenged by nationalist candidate Tomislav Nikolic who has received tacit support from Russia. Several other candidates are also expected to run, but without real chances of winning. Read More
Sudan: Ruling party denies early elections plan | Sudan Tribune
Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) denied Tuesday calling for early elections in the country and reiterated that it is sticking to maintaining the president of the republic and the parliament until the end of the term of their mandate in 2015. The NCP was reacting to statements made by presidential advisor and former Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Osman Ismail who stated last week that his party is willing to hold new elections if opposition parties accepted the proposal. The Sudanese opposition have already rejected the idea saying basic rights and freedoms should be restored before such elections, saying that the purpose of the early poll would be to reinstall the NCP for more five years and renew its legitimacy. Read More
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Embracing the vision of bivisibility
Claire Zhang
“Just pick a side,” “you can’t like both,” “it’s a phase,” “you’re just confused.”
Bisexual people are too familiar with these phrases and more. Whether it be falsely perceiving people who identify as bisexual or ignoring them altogether, there’s a disregard for bisexuals in our society.
Given the many vague definitions of “bisexuality,” for the purpose of this article, I will be referring to it as attraction to both men and women.
Many bisexuals are not recognized, as some people tend to assume that the sexuality of a person is determined by the gender of the person they’re in a relationship with. For instance, bisexuals are viewed as straight for being in a relationship with someone of the opposite gender, or for being in a relationship with someone of the same gender.
Junior Lauren Ottley, a bisexual woman, says that when it comes to dating “you become subject to a sort of privilege because you can absolutely be straight passing if you happen to be in a straight relationship, but you know that can change as soon as you date a girl.”
One’s partner has no basis to define their sexuality. All this does is encourage false judgments. Bisexuals in straight-passing or gay-passing relationships become invisible to others because people only assume what they see.
Ottley comments, “I personally don’t love labels as a whole because I think, although helpful for education and for self-validation, they can be very confining. One adjective doesn’t describe the entirety of an object, just like one label will never describe the entirety of a person.”
Furthermore, with 25% of bisexuals never revealing their sexuality to anyone, they are often overlooked. In comparison, only 4% of gay men and women have never confided in anyone regarding their sexuality, LGBT Map reported in “Understanding Issues Facing Bisexual Americans.” These people are reluctant to come out because of negative assumptions surrounding bisexuality.
Junior Jill Lee, also a bisexual woman, says that “our society fundamentally misunderstands what it means to be bisexual. A lot of times, people assume it has to fit a certain 50/50 type of attraction to men and women, or they assume it’s just for attention, or that once you date someone of a certain gender you’re no longer bisexual.”
With more people coming out as gay or lesbian, coming out as bisexual is considered to be the new norm to some. Society is working toward being more open-minded; thus, attraction to multiple genders can be viewed as common.
You are bisexual as long as you are attracted to both men and women — it’s that simple. You are still valid even if you’ve only been in relationships with one gender. People who identify as bisexual deserve visibility because they exist and belong.”
However, bisexuals are still ignored in relationships. Others only recognize bisexuals if they are attracted to both men and women at the same time. This is a negative misconception as it encourages the idea that bisexuality promotes home-wrecking, which is incorrect.
Some people think that because bisexuals are attracted to two genders, they are twice as likely to be attracted to someone else while in a relationship. This stereotype is built on false logic and is false. Sexuality has no affect on loyalty in a relationship.
Ottley speculates that these stereotypes root from the “lack of understanding of the bisexual experience … There’s prejudice on both sides, gay and straight, against bisexual people for ‘not being able to choose a side’ or for just ‘wanting a lot of sex’, and these stereotypes are bulls**t. Society has an inaccurate perception of bisexuality because society largely doesn’t understand it.”
In order to reach this goal of visibility, we need to bring awareness to this topic and advocate for societal acceptance of bisexuals.
“Just showing accurate depictions in media is a good first step. A lot of times, television and movies skirt around whether a character is bisexual or not, or show them flirting with everyone because they’re just ‘flirty’ — which is yet another inaccurate stereotype about bisexuals,” Lee said.
By defeating false stereotypes and replacing them with the truth, bisexuals can finally get the visibility and validity they deserve.
“The bi flag is an incredible symbol promoting visibility that is probably underused as most people outside the LGBTQ community aren’t aware of it,” Ottley said. “Having bisexual icons is so important … Seeing stories of bisexual people in media is incredible and having real life icons is even more important. This representation becomes even more important when you start talking about bisexual males and bisexual [people of color]. Intersectionality in visibility is integral.”
It doesn’t matter which gender you prefer over the other. You are bisexual as long as you are attracted to both men and women — it’s that simple. You are still valid even if you’ve only been in relationships with one gender. People who identify as bisexual deserve visibility because they exist and belong.
“While I think more people have become comfortable with identifying as bisexual — which is a good thing — a lot of mainstream society still has to catch up, both within and out of the LGBTQ+ community,” Lee said.
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A salute to Noah’s heroes
Posted on 25 May 2016 25 May 2016 by Lisa Fratt
More On: Dr. Anne Hansen, Dr. Larry Rhein, Dr. Reza Rahbar, Dr. Terry Buchmiller, esophageal atresia, laryngeal cleft, patent ductus arteriosus, tracheoesophageal fistula
Noah Hamm has escaped death more times than his mother Danielle can count. And he’s only 3.
Since Noah was born there have been three constants in his life: Noah’s knack for near misses, his family and a neonatologist/pulmonologist who’s always there with the right care for Noah … and the right words for his family.
“I tell Larry [Dr. Larry Rhein] he’s our George Bailey,” says Noah’s mom Danielle.
Larry gave me hope. Even when things were bad, I always felt better when Larry was there.
Noah was a 29-week twin when Danielle’s water broke prematurely. “The only condition I thought I had to worry about after having a STAT C-section was prematurity,” she recalls.
Six hours after Noah and his sister Dakotah were born at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, specialists told Danielle and her husband Brendan their newborn son needed surgery for esophageal atresia, a gap in his esophagus, and tracheoesophageal fistula, an abnormal connection between his esophagus and trachea.
Nurses brought Noah to Danielle to let her hold her son before transferring him to Boston Children’s Hospital. “They weren’t sure he’d make it through the first night,” says Danielle.
But Noah did make it through the night and through his first surgery, when Dr. Terry Buchmiller, a surgeon at Boston Children’s, repaired Noah’s tracheaesophageal fistula and placed a G-tube to deliver nutrition directly to Noah’s stomach.
A few days after Noah’s first surgery, he was was diagnosed with patent ductus arteriosus; the path between his pulmonary and aortic valves did not close after birth as it should have.
Two weeks later, Danielle could see that Noah didn’t look quite right. She grabbed Dr. Anne Hansen, medical director of the Boston Children’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and doctors discovered the hole in Noah’s heart had blown open. He needed emergency heart surgery.
Rhein made his first appearance in Noah’s life that night.
Noah’s next surgeries
“Noah was dying,” Danielle recalls. “Larry and Timmy Ho (a neonatology fellow) kept him alive.”
Rhein reassured Danielle, “He’s going to make it.”
Danielle clung to Rhein’s words. Hours later, Noah’s bowel perforated, and he needed a second emergency surgery that same night. It was Noah’s last chance.
Rhein made sure Danielle could see her son before surgery. “No one is giving up on you,” she whispered to her son.
Just before Noah’s surgery, Rhein told Danielle and Brendan. “I’ll see our buddy next week.”
Danielle, Noah and Rhein at a checkup
“Larry gave me hope,” says Danielle. “Even when things were bad, I always felt better when Larry was there.”
But Rhein says it’s Danielle and Brendan, a former Marine currently serving in the reserves, who have pulled through for their son. “This family has the resilience and commitment that make all the difference for kids like Noah,” says Rhein.
Noah slowly recouped during his five-month NICU stay. He required multiple intubations and extubations, and he battled infections.
In June 2013, Rhein and Buchmiller recommended the surgery to repair Noah’s esophageal atresia. Danielle and Brendan wanted to wait until Noah was bigger, but the gap was doing too much damage to their son’s lungs.
Danielle was frightened but agreed. The surgery went well, but it wouldn’t be Noah’s last.
Shortly before Noah was discharged, a swallow study showed Noah had a laryngeal cleft (a gap between his esophagus and larynx) and a cyst in his nose, compromising his ability to swallow formula. He would need another surgery.
Dr. Reza Rahbar, Associate Otolaryngologist-in-Chief, cautioned Danielle and Brendan that Noah might need a tracheostomy (a surgical procedure to provide access to Noah’s windpipe and placement of a breathing tube). “I was so afraid to go ahead with another surgery for Noah,” Danielle says.
Rhein called Danielle. “I could hear his kids playing in the background. He explained cold and flu season could be really dangerous for Noah because of his cleft.”
Danielle and Brendan followed Rhein’s advice and went ahead with Noah’s next surgery, setting the stage for the next chapter in Noah’s life — going home.
Noah graduates from the NICU
“Keeping Noah at home alive was scary. He had a feeding tube and apnea monitors, and there were so many medications,” recalls Danielle.
“I know Danielle was scared, but I was confident Noah would do well because Danielle and Brendan are there day and night for their children. They aren’t paralyzed by fear. They have learned to care for Noah and Dakotah’s complex medical needs — from managing medications to deciding when to take Noah to the emergency room to juggling multiple follow-up appointments with specialists,” says Rhein.
Dakota and Noah at play
Noah’s first winter brought new challenges.
“I worried so much about infection control because I knew a cold meant the hospital for Noah.”
Danielle limited Noah’s contact with the outside world … with one exception. One Saturday a month, she brought Noah and his sister to the Home Oxygen Parent Exchange (HOPE) program. Rhein started the monthly program — part music class, part support group — for fragile infants and toddlers and their parents to provide a social outlet, a chance to connect with other parents going through similar issues and a place feel normal.
Despite the family’s extreme caution, Noah was in and out of the Boston Children’s emergency room during the winter. Rhein would call ahead, summarizing the toddler’s complicated history for emergency room staff. He also made sure Noah was placed in a private room to minimize his risk for further infection.
A few months later, in December 2014, Noah faced another crisis.
His trachea collapsed, and he stopped breathing. “It was my worst nightmare.” Danielle performed CPR on her son for two minutes on her bedroom floor.
When she and Noah arrived at Boston Children’s, Rhein delivered the news. Noah needed another surgery — an open-chest operation. “I knew in my heart Noah needed it, but I was so scared.”
Rhein appeared. “What would you do if Noah were your child,” she asked “Noah needs the operation,” he told her.
“I didn’t need to hear any more,” says Danielle.
“Since then, Noah has been a new child,” says Danielle. His colds aren’t nearly as threatening. He’s talking, running and playing. “A child with any one of Noah’s conditions could have done poorly. The Hamms and the thousands of Boston Children’s families like them are a big part of why these kids are doing so well,” says Rhein.
It’s a wonderful life.
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Pretty To Look At, But No One Is Manning The Chair (Kingsman: The Golden Circle review)
Posted on December 21, 2017 by Tim Kuefler
What do you do with a drunken sailor? What do you do with a drunken sailor? What do you do with a drunken sailor, early on the morning?
You kick him to the curb and tell him to sober up. Geez. It’s not that difficult people.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Halle Berry, Elton John, Channing Tatum, Jeff Bridges, Pedro Pascal
Director: Matthew Vaughn
released on blu-ray December 12, 2017
***** 4/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 51%, Audience Score 68%
The Guardian: */*****
Matthew Allard de Vere Drummond, better known as Matthew Vaughn, is an English director, writer and producer. He is best known for directing Layer Cake, Stardust, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, Kingsman: The Secret Service and most recently, Kingsman: The Golden Circle. A pretty good track record if I do say so myself. Given that I own all of those movies, almost all of them are well rated, and I also like most of them. Unfortunately, The Golden Circle is the odd man out in this case – ironic, given the reason that the first Kingsman movie did so well.
Courtesy of Wikipedia…
A year has passed since Eggsy Unwin (Taron Egerton) and the secret organisation Kingsman saved the world from Richmond Valentine’s neurological wave broadcast. He has since taken his late mentor Harry Hart’s (Colin Firth) title of Galahad and lives with Crown Princess Tilde (Hanna Alstrom) of Sweden. On his way home from the tailor shop, he is ambushed by Charlie Hesketh (Edward Holcroft), a former Kingsman trainee who lost his arm and vocal cords during the Valentine incident. Eggsy evades Charlie with his henchmen in a car chase across London, but Charlie’s severed cybernetic arm hacks into the Kingsman servers through the car’s computer system. While Eggsy is away in Sweden, a volley of missiles destroy the Kingsman headquarters and wipe out all of the agents in Britain, including Eggsy’s best friend Roxy. Brandon, a non-Kingsman friend of Eggsy’s, is also killed in the attack.
Being the only surviving agents, Eggsy and Merlin (Mark Strong) follow the Doomsday protocol, which leads them to Statesman, a secret American organisation posing as a Bourbon whiskey distillery in Kentucky. There, they discover that Harry survived Valentine’s gunshot a year earlier, but is suffering from amnesia. Eggsy and Merlin are briefed by Statesman head Champagne (Jeff Bridges) about a secret terrorist organisation called The Golden Circle. They begin their mission by following Charlie’s ex-girlfriend Clara Von Gluckfberg (Poppy Delevingne). When Statesman agent Tequila (Channing Tatum) develops a blue rash, he is replaced by agent Whiskey (Pedro Pascal) as Eggsy’s partner. Eggsy manages to plant a tracking device on Clara during an encounter, but his revelation of the mission to Princess Tilde strains their relationship. After several failed attempts to cure Harry’s amnesia, Eggsy triggers Harry’s memories by threatening to shoot a Cairn Terrier that resembles Harry’s late dog.
Poppy Adams (Julianne Moore), head of the world’s largest drug cartel, broadcasts a message telling the world about a toxin she laced within every recreational drug available, which causes users to develop blue rashes before progressing through mania, paralysis, and ultimately, death. She also demonstrates the antidote on a captive Elton John and offers it to the world if the President of the United States ends his country’s War on drugs and offers her organisation immunity. The President decides to have every affected user quarantined, including his Chief of Staff, Fox, with the intention of letting them all die and therefore ending Poppy’s career. Eggsy, Harry, and Whiskey head to the antidote factory in Italy after intercepting a phone call to Charlie by Clara. Eggsy manages to steal an antidote sample, but it is broken by Whiskey during an ambush by The Golden Circle’s henchmen. During the gunfight, Harry shoots Whiskey in the head, as he suspects that Whiskey is playing both sides, but Eggsy saves him with the same alpha-gel that Statesman had used to save Harry. Princess Tilde calls Eggsy in a state of mania, revealing that she has been affected by the blue rash. Eggsy, Harry, and Merlin discover the location of Poppy’s hideout, “Poppy Land”, in Cambodia and fly there to steal the remote control which deploys the antidote drones.
Upon their arrival at Poppy Land, Eggsy steps on a land mine, but is saved by Merlin, who sacrifices himself while taking the lair’s guards with him. Eggsy and Harry storm through the lair and Eggsy kills Charlie while Harry destroys Poppy’s robotic attack dogs with the help of Elton. They secure the briefcase with the access code to the drones and inject Poppy with a more potent dose of her toxin. She gives them the password before succumbing to an overdose. Before they can activate the drones they are stopped by Whiskey, who, having previously lost his pregnant wife to a crossfire from two methamphetamine users, is revealed to be working alone to ensure that all drug users are eliminated. Eggsy and Harry battle and brutally kill Whiskey in a fight. They release the antidote drones, saving millions of lives around the world.
In the aftermath, Chief of Staff Fox has the President impeached for conspiring to commit genocide on the drug victims. Champ announces that Statesman has acquired a distillery in Scotland to help rebuild Kingsman. To avoid the confusion of two Kingsman agents using the codename “Galahad”, Champagne offers either Eggsy or Harry the agent title of Whiskey, but they decline. Instead, Statesman tech support agent Ginger Ale (Halle Berry) steps in to take the role. Eggsy marries Princess Tilde, and Tequila moves to London to work for Kingsman.
There is a lot going on in this movie, and that is not necessarily a good thing. The plot remained unfocused throughout much of the journey, and given that it clocks in at just over two and half hours, it makes it difficult to even sit through. Some critics are saying that the movie is more conservative others are saying its more bombastic, and both are correct. The movie takes more of the ridiculousness of the first film and amps it up immeasurably, but at the same time, all of the interest in dissecting the spy genre, challenging why we like these movies in the first place, and reinvigorating our interest in the broad strokes… none of that is present.
I’m tired of watching movies that pretend to be a new take on an old formula, and then refuse to deliver the goods. Just because you use a sexual encounter in a weird context (in this context a spy needs to seduce a henchman’s girlfriend to find the henchman. Because obviously the tracker only works if it’s attached to the mucus membrane, and so into the vagina it goes. And to top it off Egerton then argues with his Swedish princess girlfriend for five minutes before he can proceed.
It’s not edgy, it’s not funny, and quite frankly it’s offensive to anyone who cares about monogamous relationships and/or gender equality.
Pros: It’s entertaining to watch this star-studded cast use CGI to beat each other up. Colin Firth, Pedro Pascal, and Mark Strong do a lot to to bolster the audience and engage with the story, heck even though most of the other performances are phoned in, you can tell everyone had fun interacting with each other and pretending to be spies.
Cons: On top of all of the incredible misogyny, that Vaughn claims is a subversion of James Bond cliches, Taron Egerton cannot act to save his life. And unfortunately for us, he is the main protagonist of this film. What makes it worse is that it’s a long film, which takes less chances, and lampoons almost everything to ill effect.
Runtime: 2 hours 21 minutes
Points of Interest: This is the first sequel that Matthew Vaughn has directed. Julianne Moore, Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Colin Firth, and Elton John are all Oscar award winners. The movie originally had a runtime of 3 hours and 40 minutes, and it was suggested to split the movie into two parts, which didn’t happen. But there is a third Kingsman movie planned, with a Statesman movie spin-off in talks.
I think one of the biggest challenges of this movie that I haven’t addressed yet is the size of it’s ensemble. The first film had a fairly tight group of actors all working together to ground the story, despite the surrealistic nature of its tale. The Golden Circle is so encumbered by cameos, code names, and robotic canines, that it loses so much of it’s charm. It chokes on it’s own chutzpah.
But enough with the C word alliteration.
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The big question I still have is, is this movie worth watching? I would argue that for many people, it’s a great pop corn flick with lots of CGI and silliness. But if you expect more from your cinema, ie stories with a good plot, thought provoking themes, and interesting characters, then you can probably leave Kingsman: The Golden Circle on the shelf to age a few more years, theory or no.
That said, I can absolutely, and with 100% confidence recommend you check out Get Out. This early 2017 horror from first-time director Jordan Peele is everything that Kingsman: The Golden Circle is not, and then some. Please please watch this movie, it deserves awards!
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TNSTC – Tirunelveli is the public transport bus operator mainly in the districts of Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Kanyakumari. TNSTC – Tirunelveli was formed with merger of erstwhile KTC Kattabomman Transport Corporation and NTC Nesamony Transport Corporation.
Kattabomman Transport corporation ( KTC ) currently TNSTC Tirunelveli was incorporated on 01.01.1974 after taking over 106 buses operated in this districts from Pandian Roadways Corporation ( PRC ) came in to existence with Nagarcoil as its Head Quarters. Later in 1983 buses served in Kanyakumari district was taken and formed Nesamony Transport Corporation ( NTC ). After formation of NTC, KTC HQ was transferred from Nagercoil to Tirunelveli.
In 1997 when Tamilnadu government decided to change the name of every corporation to TNSTC. KTC became TNSTC – Madurai Region II and NTC to TNSTC – Madurai Region III and new coding for buses started for KTC it started with R and next letter A, B denoted each depot, and for NTC it is same with S. slowly these codings were went off.
To bring efficient administration and services TNSTC Tirunelveli was formed with HQ at Tirunelveli came into picture on October 23 2010, taking buses from operational area of Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Kanyakumari additionaly took Sencottah Depot from Virudhunagar Region with Regional offices at Tirunelveli and Nagercoil. on June 20 2013, a new regional office at Thoothukudi opened for better operations.
Registration Nos: TN – 72, TN – 74.
Presently TNSTC – Tirunelveli operates city buses in three important cities ( Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Nagercoil ) of Tamilnadu. It also operates long distance services from Kaliyakavilai, Mathandam, Kanyakumari, Nagercoil, Sencottah, Tenkasi, Tirunelveli, Thiruchendur, Thoothukudi to Tiruppur, Coimbatore, Salem, Trichy, Velankanni areas.
It has the pride of operating a long run mofussil 3×2 seater from Kuzhithurai 1 Depot on Kaliykavilai – Velankanni 519 Kms within TamilNadu.
Head Office : Tirunelveli.
Body Building Units:
Tirunelveli region has its body building unit at Samathanpuram, Palayamkottai. Nagercoil region’s Body building unit is located at Ranithootam, Nagercoil.
Depots:
Tirunelveli : Tamarabarani, Bypass, K.T.C. Nagar, Valliyoor, Thisayanvilai, Papanasam, Tenkasi, Sencottah, Puliyankudi, Sankarankovil, Cheranmahadevi.
Nagercoil: Ranithootam-1, Ranithootam-2, Ranithootam-3, Chettikulam, Kanyakumari, Vivekananthapuram, Thingal Nagar, Culachel, Tiruvattar, Marthandam, Kuzhithurai-1, Kuzhiturai-2.
Thoothukudi: Thoothukudi City, Thoothukudi Mofussil, Thiruchendur, Srivaikundam, Kovilpatti, Vilathikulam.
City bus: Normal, LSS, Express and SLF
Moffussil: Normal, SFS Super Fast Service, TSS Time Saving Service, EEE END TO END Express, 1 to 1, BPR Bypass Rider, Hill Rider(9M Chasis).
Hill Rider
TNSTC – Tirunelveli operates hill riders to Manjolai, Kothayar, Kutharivetti. Kutharivetti has a special this bus is the one and only in asia to climb a height of 2200 feet from sea level. A public Transport bus taking passenger at a greater height, total 85 Kms takes 04:30 hrs to reah the place.
TN-72N-0959 of Papanasam Depot Route 133 Tirunelveli – Kuthiravetti via Ambai, Kalidai, Manimutharu, Manjoli, Oothu.
EEE END TO END Express
EEE operated between Tirunelveli to Nagercoil and Tirunelveli to Thoothukudi in between they are NonStop.
TN-74N-1611 of Ranithootam 1 Depot Route EEE Nagercoil – Tirunelveli.
TN-72N-1796 of Tenkasi Depot Route 1 to 1 Non Stop Tenkasi – Tirunelveli.
BPR Bypass Rider
TN-72N-1897 BPR of Thiruchendur Depot Route Thiruchendur – Coimbatore.
368 thoughts on “TNSTC – Tirunelveli”
Manoharan on November 3, 2014 at 4:14 PM said:
I was looking for a setc or tnstc bus from Madurai to Sathankulam but did not get one bus operating from Madurai
senthil on November 15, 2014 at 8:00 AM said:
no straight buses from mdu. u hav to reach tvl from mdu and from there there are many buses operating to sathankulam
jeyachandrakannan on November 29, 2014 at 4:15 PM said:
hi., at what time tiruchendur bus start from bangalore?
tn70b on December 24, 2014 at 8:00 PM said:
Sivaraman on February 24, 2019 at 4:17 PM said:
Timings of 1 to 1 buses from Tirunelveli to Madurai. Thanks.
NAGARAJAN on December 7, 2014 at 10:16 PM said:
IS THERE BUS FROM TIRUCHIRAPALLI to TIRUCHENDUR? Timings please.
Arun on December 8, 2014 at 12:37 PM said:
Mor 09:30, 10:00, Afternoon 03:15, Night 09:30 or you can board any SETC which is coming from Chennai – Thiruchendur after 11P.M.
Reshma Ramakrishnan on December 18, 2014 at 12:38 PM said:
I need a sect or tnsct bus from thirunelveli to nagercoil after 2pm.is there any bus?
Arun on December 18, 2014 at 12:49 PM said:
There are plenty of Buses from Tirunelveli you can board a END TO END Express EEE which plies NONStop between Destinations every 15 minutes there is a EEE.
ponmani selvan on December 22, 2014 at 3:52 PM said:
Hai, Can you please list the timings of hill riders from and to tirunelveli new bus stand? I would like to travel to Manjolai and Kuthiraivetti and return within a day. So, please ‘the complete list of timings’!! Thanks:-)
Arunkumar on July 10, 2018 at 4:29 PM said:
Is there is bus from tenkasi to Tirunelveli in morning 4 am
njerald on December 23, 2014 at 3:43 PM said:
refused to stop the bus & not paid the balance
Today I travelled in route number 5B Nagercoil bus around 2.15 PM from Vellmodi to Ranithottam. In that particular bus I had taken ticket to Ranithottam by giving Rs.10/-. the conductor refused to give the balance Rs.3. the ticket number 075073. Then the bus was not stopped at Ranithottam without caring the shout of the passangers the driver stopped the bus at Mathias Nager(near Collectorate). please take necessary action
The list of hill riders pls…
Arun on December 25, 2014 at 8:38 AM said:
TN-72N-0956,0957,0959 from Papanasam Depot are the three hill rider buses serving to Kuthiraivetti and Kothayar via Manimutharu, Manjolai. this buses will be in rotation. The first bus to Kuthiraivetti is 02:45A.M. from Tirunelveli.
ponmani selvan on December 26, 2014 at 8:03 AM said:
moorthy on December 27, 2014 at 8:38 PM said:
is there any bus from ambasamudram to kuthiravetty after 8 am… /
mathankumar on December 28, 2014 at 8:37 AM said:
when will takeup to srivilliputhur bus from theni
Thulasinathan on January 3, 2015 at 4:55 AM said:
Hi, i am from vellore. I would like to visit Thirparappu Falls. I will reach Kuzhithurai Railway station at 1045hrs thru Kanyakumari express. Please kinly guide me to reach Thirparappu falls from Kuzhithurai Railway station. Thanks
Arun on January 4, 2015 at 5:23 PM said:
From Kuzhiturai Railway station you can reach Marthandam Busstand by 10 mins walk from Marthandam you can take 89 to Kulasekaram., from Kulasekaram junction you can get 13F bus or minivan to Thirparappu it is the easiest way or you have to wait for direct buses either to Kaliyal or Kadayloomoodu from Marthandam it will pass through falls.
Thulasinathan on January 4, 2015 at 8:16 PM said:
Thank you sir. I was thinking the same way. But i was not aware of the bus routes such as 89 and 13F. Thanks for the details given.
kumar on January 6, 2015 at 5:06 PM said:
Can anyone provide info related to bus timing from Tirunelveli to TIruchendur
There are frequent buses to Thiruchendur every 10 minutes
kumar on January 7, 2015 at 2:53 AM said:
Thanks for the reply, do you know if the bus stops at Tirunelveli railway station. We arrive at Tirunelveli railway station at 5 am, and want to know if there will be a bus available during that time. Else, we have to rely on cabs
Arun on January 7, 2015 at 10:45 AM said:
From Tirunelveli Railway Station exit straight road you can reach Tirunelveli Junction City Busstand in 5mins walk from city Busstand you can get Bus no 1 & 2 to Tirunelveli New Busstand from there you can board a bus to Thiruchendur freq every 10 mins.
Parameswaran K on February 10, 2015 at 11:19 AM said:
Can you let me have bus services timings to & from Sundarapandiapuran to Tenkasi & tirunelveli ?
Arun on February 10, 2015 at 10:13 PM said:
Sorry we dont have correct timings as of now.
Vinoth Peter on February 10, 2015 at 10:45 PM said:
hi. i will come to madurai soon.
i wanna go from madurai airport to nellai bus stand. so, please tell the bus routes and fares .
please help this
Arun on February 11, 2015 at 11:34 AM said:
There is no proper bus from Airport, you can get a taxi from Airport to Ringroad Jn., Board a TNSTC Tirunelveli Bypass Rider Buses fare is RS 105/-
Siva Kumar on August 12, 2016 at 6:10 PM said:
Hello,The Bus charge of Tiruchendur to is ₹10. Also, to Sivanthi Aditanar College of engineering and to Tiruchendur old bus stand, it’s charge is also ₹10. Please note this, and make a lower charge.
Yuvesh Kumar s on September 29, 2017 at 7:09 AM said:
I want to know is the bus timings from Tiruchendur to Kanyakumari and Tiruchendur to Rameswaram. Direct buses r available are need to switch over pls. Reply.
sekar on February 13, 2015 at 3:34 PM said:
Can anyone please provide info related to bus timing from kanyakumari to Tiruchendur
Arun on February 21, 2015 at 7:57 PM said:
There are very few buses from Kanyakumari to Thiruchendur., from Kanyakumari you have to get bus to Anjugramam., from anjugramam you can get bus to Thiruchendur.
pp on February 16, 2015 at 2:35 PM said:
Is there any bus from kottarakara to tirunelveli or from kollam to tirunelveli. Please give the timings also.
there are buses from Kottarakara to Tirunelveli which comes from Ernakulam and Kollam.,
Sivakumar on February 28, 2015 at 6:46 PM said:
any buses from Tirunelveli to Tirupati
Arun on March 1, 2015 at 8:52 AM said:
From Nellai there is direct buses at 3 PM and 6:30 PM this buses take straight route.
V Sreenivasa Perumal on March 13, 2015 at 3:09 PM said:
Dear sir, when I visited in my native place at Thirunelveli dist near the village kodiyan kulam , the bus which I travelled horrible condition like seats torn off , broken roofs, noisy engine and total the bus was rattling contention and not fit for travel. i even tried to contact customer grievances phone no mentioned in the bus but it was of no use as no one responded to that call. I even checked with driver and conductor and was shocked to hear that this phone does not work and no one answers it. It is kept for name sake and they shared this information with utmost grief. Hence as a Citizen it is my duty to keep you informed about this anomoly and would request your immediate interention in this matter to set right the things in order so that passengers do not face this hardship in future. It is pathetic that if this situation continues it will severely impact senior citizens and pregnant ladies and even result in loss of their lives.
It is shameful to have a telephone number which does not at all function and no one is seated to answer the calls.
This is clear case of fooling the passengers and it a loss for our country and Hence, on behalf of passengers request you to set right things on war footing.
VSPerumal. Mumbai.
Arun on March 13, 2015 at 10:09 PM said:
Mr.VS perumal this is not a compliant site of TNSTC., this is run by group of people who loves TNSTC., there are many silent watchers from Administration and they will read your compliants., we will also raise this issue to the concern authorities.
Thulasinathan on March 13, 2015 at 10:31 PM said:
Dear Perumal, you may mention the bus registration number in your blog, so that any relevant person sees this blog can easily identify that bus. Also mention the useless phone number also then others may also aware of it. Your blog seems most general. And nobody could identify it.
But you can appreciate our TNSTC buses for the tickets fares are very cheaper than mumbai’s BEST buses. Isn’t it? Nowhere in India you can find so cheaper fare on a public transport!! We Love TNSTC.
Chakaravarthy on March 13, 2015 at 10:54 PM said:
Is thr any bus from Nagercoil to Tiruchendur?If yes please provide the timings
There are frequent Buses in every 20 mins to Thiruchendur board Bus no 576 it will take Valliyoor, Thisayanvilai, Sathankulam route.
How much tym it ll take to reach tiruchendur?
2.5Hrs to 3 Hrs
Thank u very much
vishnu on March 17, 2015 at 7:14 PM said:
sir our route bus no;FP350 thriparappu aruvi-kanyakumari bus was not regular and not at time .
V K Rajan on March 25, 2015 at 5:47 PM said:
Kindly let me know the SFS or End to End bus timings from tirunelveli to rajapalayam. Also intimate the bus timings from tirunelveli to theni. thanq.
Arun on March 25, 2015 at 7:52 PM said:
There is no END to END in Rajapalyam Route there are frequent buses in Tirunelveli – Rajapalayam route in every 10m. Dont wait for Theni Bus at Nellai they are only at peak hours you can change over bus at Rajapalayam.
Saravanan on March 27, 2015 at 12:42 PM said:
Kindly let me know whether any bus available at morning 4.30 A.m from Tirunelveli to Tiruchendur. what is the frequency of bus services from Tirunelveli to Tiruchendur
There are frequent buses in Thiruchendur Route for every ten minutes board a SFS it will go fast and skip some towns in between.
p.paramasivam on April 2, 2015 at 5:10 PM said:
sir/madem,
poondhamalli to tirunelveli route and timings, bus number please
Arun on April 2, 2015 at 9:29 PM said:
SETC is there from CMBT – Tirunelveli Route No 180UD there are frequent buses other than that there are buses to Nagercoil, Marthandam, kanyakumari which passes through Tirunelveli.
T. Mannaraja, Senior Inspector. on April 22, 2015 at 11:36 AM said:
give me New MD name and address with qualification
Arun on April 23, 2015 at 11:23 AM said:
Sir this is not official website, this site is run by team of people who loves TNSTC, this is like a public service to the people by providings timings and other details on our observations.
J W Diaz on April 27, 2015 at 3:13 PM said:
sir, please give the bus timings from tirunelveli to kodaikanal
Arun on May 5, 2015 at 12:28 PM said:
Morning 07:30
Syed on April 28, 2015 at 9:04 PM said:
I am planning to travel to tirunelveli from chennai. Are these ultra delux buses are good. I have red somewhere that there are bed bugs and we cannot sleep at all. (THose reviews were old though) How about the AC bus? Are they new and good for travel. I have never travelled in TNSTC. Please advice
There are buses running in good conditions now A/C buses are very low in numbers and they will be full always.
shakthi on May 2, 2015 at 4:40 PM said:
is there any buses from tirunelveli to trivandrum ?
There is no direct bus from Tirunelveli, you have to take the long run buses from Trichy and chennai are available, you can take a END to END bus from Tirunelveli to Nagercoil from there are plenty of buses to Trivandrum every 5 mins
r. shankar on May 6, 2015 at 4:50 PM said:
Reaching Tirunelveli Jn early morning 5 am. How to reach Alwarkurichi. From which bus stand to take bus
Arun on May 7, 2015 at 9:00 AM said:
from Tirunelveli Jn few mtrs walk you can reach Tirunelveli Jn Busstand from there you can take 129 Kadayam bus get down at Potal Pudhur it will take a 45mins to 1 hr journey after reaching potalpudhur, you can take any papanasam bus ask for alwarkurichi, Alwarkurichi is next stop to Potalpudhur.
Prasanna R on May 11, 2015 at 5:52 PM said:
Any buses from nagercoil to Theni and Theni to munnar? I need to travel Nagercoil to munnar.
Arun on May 11, 2015 at 7:49 PM said:
There are very few bus service from Nagercoil to Theni which starts at Mor and eve timings, better you can switch over from Nagercoil – Tirunelveli, Tirunelveli – Rajapalayam, Rajapalayam – Theni, Theni – Munnar. this is one route and other Nagercoil – Madurai (Arapalayam), Madurai (Arapalayam) – Theni, Theni – Munnar
Raja on May 14, 2015 at 10:43 AM said:
I will be reaching Tirunelveli JN at about 19:00 hrs on a Saturday. Are there any buses from Tirunelvel JN bus stand to Kallidaikurichi OR do I have to go to new bus stand. Please also let me know whether the buses will be crowded during that time. Nice blog.
You have to reach new busstand to take kallidakurichi buses will be crowd only during that time but you got buses every 5 minutes 501 papanasam LSS will be there
A.RAJESHKANNAN on May 16, 2015 at 12:13 PM said:
There is no more buses for tuticorin in night time from tirunelveli, and upload tirunelveli to tuticorin bus timings also
Arun on May 16, 2015 at 11:13 PM said:
This site does not belongs to TNSTC. we are working on it soon it will be uploaded.
Kuzhali on December 1, 2015 at 8:34 PM said:
Between evening 7.00 pm – 7.30 pm timing there were 3 point to point (EEE) buses starts one after another from Tirunelveli new bus stand to Tuticorin. And by 7.30 pm route number 150 starts from Tirunelveli to Tuticorin.
I am not sure of other timings. If someone knows the timing please share it. Thanks.
MithraKarthik on May 20, 2015 at 7:43 PM said:
Can I know the bus route from kovilpatti to kanyakumari. And also the timings.
TNSTC on May 20, 2015 at 8:56 PM said:
From kovilpatti new bus stand, there are good number of buses available to Nagercoil/Kanyakumari. If not, take a bus to Tirunelveli. And from there you can take a bus to Nagercoil or Kanyakumari.
Shiva on May 26, 2015 at 6:45 PM said:
Do buses ply from Tirunelveli to Madurai?, I am looking for an early morning bus.
There are plenty of buses running 24X7 in this route. Take any Bye pass rider to reach Madurai from Tirunelveli.
great.. thanks for the reply 🙂
vishnu on May 29, 2015 at 1:32 PM said:
I need to go to tichendur temple from nagercoil.is buses are available from nagercoil to trichendur
There are frequent buses from Nagercoil to Thiruchendur every 20 minutes once, you can take route no 576 to Thiruchendur via Valliyoor
Soma on May 31, 2015 at 4:03 PM said:
Is there direct bus from Tirunelveli to Sivaganga
Arun on June 1, 2015 at 10:19 PM said:
there is no direct bus to sivagangai from Tirunelveli you can change bus at Madurai. Tirunelveli – Madurai Madurai – Sivagangai.
Priyanka on June 5, 2015 at 8:22 PM said:
Is there any buses from thirunelveli to rettai tirupathi???? Can I know the bus timings in the morning from 7 to 12????
There is no direct bus to Rettai Thirupathi, the frequency of bus is very low. from Tirunelveli you have to get a bus to srivaikundam. from Srivaikundam another bus to eral. probably city bus will drop you a km before temple in main road.
Prasana on June 6, 2015 at 10:30 PM said:
May I know the direct bus timings from tirunelveli to kanya Kumari.
Arun on June 7, 2015 at 3:31 PM said:
If you want to see sunrise sunset there is no buses to reach at time netter you can take a EEE END to END Express to Nagercoil and then to Kanyakumari.
sundar on June 11, 2015 at 11:58 AM said:
Hi i want to go tisayanvilai vv engg college mrg 7 am what the first bus time at tirunelveli to tisayanvilai. vv engg college have stop present are tisayanvilai to come to the college
Vinoth Peter on June 13, 2015 at 7:07 PM said:
hi tnstc blog.
Tirunelveli to thisayanvillai – last bus on night times.
it will be helpul..
sundar on June 14, 2015 at 8:54 PM said:
Please tell the bus timing at morning time
Striker on June 17, 2015 at 11:01 AM said:
What are the bus timings for buses between tirunelveli and trivandrum after 1700 hrs its will be helpful
TNSTC on June 17, 2015 at 11:17 AM said:
Tirunelveli to Trivandrum direct buses are less. Catch a End to End service from Tirunelveli to Nagercoil and from Nagercoil there are plenty buses running to Trivandrum.
jayabaskar on June 24, 2015 at 10:04 AM said:
i would like to know the bus timing from tirunelveli to dindigul in early morning
jayabaskar on June 24, 2015 at 12:21 PM said:
can anyone please reply to my earlier request regarding bus timing from tirunelveli to dindigul
TNSTC on June 24, 2015 at 12:26 PM said:
There are comparatively less direct services available in Dindigul-Tirunelveli route. Instead take a bus to Madurai from Dindigul. Generally Madurai to Dindigul buses stops at Arapalayam BS. From there catch the city bus 77B to reach Mattuthavani. From MIBT, you have plenty of buses running 24X7 to Tirunelveli. Take any BPR.
karthick on June 28, 2015 at 6:57 PM said:
What is timing of last bus from kovilpatti to tuticorin
Arun on June 29, 2015 at 9:11 PM said:
09:45 PM is the last bus
ramarathnam R on July 9, 2015 at 3:26 PM said:
We got into the Bus AT TIRUNELLVELI NEW BUS STAND Tirunelveli to Teni TNST bus at 1400 hrs on 07/07/2015 and bought tickets to Srivilliputtur and Paid rs 195 (3*65 ) when the Bus nearing srivilliputtur the conductor asked our TICKETS FOR SOME SERIAL NO REFERENCE i gave all the three ( 3 ) tickets and when i asked the conductor to return my tickets he gave me Rs 7 tickets 3 I was continuously asking to return my original tickets of value Rs 195 he forcefully dropped us at the outskirts of srivilliputur he would have RESOLD THE TICKETS TO SOME OTHER PASSENGERS We saw the no of the Bus TN2201 and the conductor was having big Messi when the bus was plying with thin crowd such Acts of these types of conductor will end the Transport to Heavy Loss only
Sreekanth on July 16, 2015 at 9:33 PM said:
I need bus timings from tiruchendur to kanyakumari
Arun on July 20, 2015 at 11:43 AM said:
We have only limited no of buses from Thiruchendur to Kanyakumari better take route no 570 to Nagercoil via Uvari, Anjugramam. get down at Anjugramam and take a bus to Kanyakumari.
dharma on July 21, 2015 at 11:45 AM said:
is there any bus service from Kanyakumari to Rameswaram. If yes, timings and what are the days. Thank you
Arun on July 21, 2015 at 6:03 PM said:
Yes there are buses from Kanyakumari.
Mor 04:00, 06:15 and 07:30 (Ultra Deluxe 2×2 Pushback)
Night : 18:40, 19:00 (Ultra Deluxe 2×2 Pushback)
Dharma Vya on July 27, 2015 at 12:09 PM said:
Hi Thank you for your reply. May I know Ultra Deluxe 7.30am is Ac Bus? Number of seats, duration of the journey and is the compartment for luggage. The “pushback”, is it reclining seat? How shall I do the booking? Thank you once again
There is no AC service in this route the seats are reclining only you can book through http://www.tnstc.in
karthik on July 23, 2015 at 7:46 PM said:
Could you tell me which place in tirunelveli should I board bypassrider to Madurai?
Is there a bpr at 6AM
yes there is BPR every 15 mins once, you can board at New Bus stand, Vannarpettai North Bus stop.
Thanks Arun, we got the bus at 5:45 AM and reached Madurai Bus terminus at 8:45
amuthan on August 4, 2015 at 7:38 AM said:
i am every day travel to tuticorin to TIRUNELLVELI ,how to apply reglur pass ple
Arun on August 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM said:
You can check with officials in Thoothukudi Old BS. close to exit there is time keeper office you can enquire about the pass.
@amuthan If you have the Tirunelveli-Tuticorin & Tuticorin-Tirunelveli Route number 150 bus timings Please share it. & When is this last bus from Tirunelveli?. After evening these 150 buses seems to be rare to me in my occasional trips to Tirunelveli. Thanks
nizar on August 6, 2015 at 11:50 AM said:
Is there any direct bus from tirunveli to karaikudi
Mor 05:30 AM Direct bus to Devakottai will take madurai Karaikudi route
Anbu on August 6, 2015 at 4:29 PM said:
Kindly provide me the details of All the Bus timings from Thirunelveli to Kuthiraivetti and Manjolai.
Venkatesh K on August 16, 2015 at 10:10 PM said:
I have to start from Kutralam / Thenkasi and I have to catch Guruvayur Express at Tirunelveli (Starting at 7.45 AM). What time should I start from Thenkasi? What is the travel time? What is the Frequency of buses? Please suggest route / BPR etc, I will be starting on Sunday Morning.
Arun on August 17, 2015 at 9:57 AM said:
You should start at 5 Am the running time will be 02:00 hrs from Kutralam to Tirunelveli Jn. from Junction Bus stand Railway station is 200m walkable distance.
Venkatesh on August 17, 2015 at 3:06 PM said:
Thanks Arun! Buses are available at 5 AM?
Arun on August 17, 2015 at 4:08 PM said:
Yes buses are available
Venkatesh on August 17, 2015 at 11:57 PM said:
Thanks Arun!
irfan on August 20, 2015 at 3:05 PM said:
There was any bus between nagercoil -arupukottai
Arun on August 20, 2015 at 10:00 PM said:
yes there are buses from Nagercoil it is at specified time we don’t have it right now., if you want to reach faster take EEE Nagercoil – Tirunelveli, Tirunelveli – Kovilpatti SFS and Kovilpatti – Aruppukottai.
Allwin T Xavier on August 21, 2015 at 1:28 AM said:
I have an exam at psncet,melathediyoor near tirunelveli on 28th august.how i reach there………..
#Look at the above comment#
I am coming from trivandrum………
you can take papanasam buses from Tirunelveli new busstand to PSN, you have to get down at Prancheri bus stop to reach college. from Bus stop you can take a auto to reach college.
Thulasinathan on August 24, 2015 at 8:14 PM said:
இந்த பஸ்சில் பயணித்து உயிர் பிழைத்த ஸ்ரீவைகுண்டத்தை சேர்ந்த பஸ் பயணி கோபாலகிருஷ்ணன் கூறியதாவது, அரசு பஸ்களில் பெரும்பாலான பஸ்கள் டப்பா பஸ்களாகவே இருக்கிறது. சரியான பராமரிப்பு இல்லாத ஓட்டை, உடைசல் பஸ்களை இயக்க டிரைவர், கண்டக்டர்கள் மறுத்தாலும் அதிகாரிகள் அவர்களை கட்டயாப்படுத்தி இயக்க செய்கின்றனர்.
Sir, Do you have old photo of TN 72 N1222
நேற்று நடந்த விபத்தில் அரசு பஸ்சை ஓட்டிய டிரைவர் கடந்த சில மாதங்களுக்கு முன்பு ஓட்டிச்சென்ற இதுமாதிரியான முறையான பராமரிப்பில்லாத அரசு பஸ்சின் ஆக்சில் திடீரென்று உடைந்து விபத்துக்குள்ளாகியுள்ளது. இந்த விபத்தில் மாணவர் ஒருவர் பரிதாபமாக பலியாகியுள்ளார்
Is it true??
Why they blame the TNSTC unnecessary?
Anbu on August 25, 2015 at 8:52 AM said:
Please provide me the details of All the Bus timings from Thirunelveli to Kuthiraivetti and Manjolai.
4:00 , 1:30pm and 3:00pm timings may differ a little as the bus travels on ghat section and it has to return down.
Radhakrishnan on September 11, 2015 at 10:16 AM said:
ticket fare reduced from chennai to kovilpatti…………
Ramesh on September 11, 2015 at 3:27 PM said:
Can you help me for suggesting bus timings from Tiruchendur to Kanyakumari around 2.30 PM on 02nd Oct 2015. Also how much time take to go Kanyakumari from Tiruchendur.
Arun on September 11, 2015 at 11:02 PM said:
Tiruchendur – kanyakumari takes 3 hrs there are very less direct service you can board 570 Nagercoil Bus and a change over at Anjugramam will be easy., for anjugramam there are townies to Kanyakumari.
Thanks for your reply, There is frequent buses for Nagercoil, Please update
I am really appreciate to you for your reply to all needs about buses. Good job go ahead.
gokul on September 23, 2015 at 4:28 PM said:
any direct bus from coimbatore to tiruchendur
coimbatore to tiruchendur bus timings
TNSTC on September 24, 2015 at 9:32 AM said:
SETC operates to UDs at 7:15 PM and 10:00 PM. Apart from there are ordinary buses available to Tiruchendur from Singanallur BS. You can also take a direct Tuticorin bus and from there you can catch a tiruchendur bus. SETC operates Coimbatore to Tuticorin at 9:30 PM and there are regular buses from Singanallur BS to Tuticorin.
nameen shaik on September 25, 2015 at 11:08 AM said:
Tirunelveli to madurai bus timings in night
There are frequent buses in night between Tirunelveli and Madurai
How to i reach madurai airport from tirunelveli?
dinesh on October 6, 2015 at 12:46 PM said:
if I catch SETC tuticorin to ernakulam bus at 7pm in tuticorin . when will I reach ernakulam in the nxt day morning. pls give me the appox arrival ernakulam time and total duration of this journey .
Arun on October 6, 2015 at 10:23 PM said:
Yes it will reach in mor close to 5 am as it runs on hill ghat section we cant predict right timings
tarun on October 10, 2015 at 3:47 PM said:
the worst website i had seen so far….
Arun on October 12, 2015 at 8:41 AM said:
MR.Tarun could you say in what way the website is worst, we can improve our site as per.
Ponmani Selvan on October 12, 2015 at 7:09 PM said:
Just out of curiosity Mr.Arun, Do u work in tnstc?? U reply to each and every question posted and it is just unbelievable that someone would do that.. I could see some stupid questions up there and people criticizing you for no good reason.. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great.. As I already said, just curious.. 🙂
Thanks for your appreciation Sir, No Iam not an TNSTC employee it just pure observation on buses specially TNSTC is a vast network, It attracted me a lot., so its going on and this credits goes to my team also.
rangafella on October 16, 2015 at 1:55 PM said:
First of all my appreciation to the whole team for this wonderful work. I am also a big fan of the TNSTC and use it regularly. I prefer it to the private agencies.
My question is regarding the schedule of buses from Tirunelveli to Kanyakumari. How much time will it take? What is frequency after 6 pm?
Arun on October 16, 2015 at 7:26 PM said:
Thanks for your appreciation only one bus run in direct route to Kanyakumari via Anjugramam others takes Nagercoil route around 06:30 there is a straight bus. if you take nagercoil route it will take 2hrs15 min
kannan on October 23, 2015 at 5:24 PM said:
hello sir!!
timings for nagercoil to Sivakasi
Sorry for the inconvenience we don’t have updated timings with us as of now, if you are single Tirunelveli – Kovilpatti old Bs and Kovilpatti – Sivakasi switch over will make your journey easy.
rajakumar on October 25, 2015 at 11:48 AM said:
i want to go tirunleveli today 4pm can u let me know bus timimg destination and i want catch 6 30 pm tirunelveli bangalore bus kindly help me
From where you want to reach Tirunelveli without knowing that how can we reply your query
Anand on October 26, 2015 at 10:20 AM said:
Sir i am leaving tirunelveli at 8 pm and i want to reach kanyamumari at 5 am in morning, Please suggest
rangafella on October 26, 2015 at 10:22 AM said:
Which is the best way to reach Tiruchendur from kovlipatti, train or bus? How much time will it take by each mode? Can you also please let me know abt the frequency and timings. Thanks!
Arun on October 26, 2015 at 11:08 AM said:
Trains are not at right time but we have enough buses Kovilpatti to Thiruchendur via Thoothukudi is shortest. Kovilpatti – Thoothukudi 1hr 30mins Thoothukudi – Tiruchendur 1.15 hrs from Thoothukudi old busstand you can board bus to Thiruchendur. there are frequent buses every 5mins once a bus.
Sir i am leaving tirunelveli at 8 pm and i have to reach kanyakumari at 5 am in morning. Please suggest
You can easily reach Kanyakumari from Tirunelveli it is 2.5 hrs travel Tirunelveli – Nagercoil 1.5 hrs and Nagercoil – Kanyakumari 1 hr.
Anand on October 26, 2015 at 1:42 PM said:
Sir Are buses available at night after 9 pm from tirunelveli to kanyakumari
There is no direct bus to Kanyakumari. you have Nagercoil buses round the clock from Tirunelveli. you can go to kanyakumari easily from Nagercoil. or wait in Tirunelveli you will get SETC to Kanyakumari which comes from Chennai.
Thank you very much sir,the information was of great help
Sathesh S on October 27, 2015 at 4:47 PM said:
Hi, I’m planning to visit Thirpparapu Falls, Mathur Bridge,Padmanabhapuram Palace and Muttom Beach. Pls guide me to reach all these places by BUS(Bus No and Stop name). I will reach Kulithurai Railway Station by 11AM. Thansk in Advance.
Rajasekar on October 27, 2015 at 8:54 PM said:
Please send tirunelveli outstation route bus timings and coimbatore bus stand bus timings outstation city
Her is the timings of Tirunelveli
https://tnstc.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/tnstc-express-timings-from-tirunelveli-new-busstand/
For Coimbatore Timings have been Changed it will be updated soon.
Sathesh S on November 2, 2015 at 1:17 PM said:
rangafella on November 2, 2015 at 2:07 PM said:
Take an auto to Marthandam bus stand from Kulithurai station (~2km). From there you ll get buses to thiruparapu falls. Mathur bridge is close to this falls.
To go to Padmanabapuram palace, you ll have to take a bus to Thuckalay from Marthandam. From Thuckalay the palace is around 1.5 km. You can either walk or take a local bus.
Sathesh on November 5, 2015 at 11:29 PM said:
Thanks rangafella…
RATHINAKUMAR on December 1, 2015 at 4:27 PM said:
I REQUEST YOU TO KNOW ABOUT TIMINGS OF KOVILPATTI TO RAMESHWARAM BUS
kathirvelu on December 5, 2015 at 5:36 AM said:
I want to know the bus timing from karur to tirunelveli at 4AM and after 9.PM…
Muniaraj on December 7, 2015 at 6:21 AM said:
Last bus timings of nagercoil to kaniyakumari. In this bus full nit available
Arun on December 7, 2015 at 3:00 PM said:
Buses are available ful night in night buses will be available every half an hour once and buses from madurai will also passes nagercoil to Kanyakumari.
RAJAVEL on December 20, 2015 at 12:28 PM said:
TNSTC Tirunelveli buses complaint mobile nos. mentioned in the buses. But based on my experience the mobile no. are totally waste, Pl. don’t use the complaint number.
Prem Joshua on December 26, 2015 at 11:24 PM said:
Prem on 26 Dec
Hats off to drivers who take just 1 hour and 10 minuites from NGL to Tnvely and the patient conductors with smiling face to give changes.Keep it up
Thanks to the conductors and drivers who take us sae to detination with smiling face in the midst of difficulties.(Ene to End-NGL – TNVLY)
Ramesh Natarajan on January 2, 2016 at 4:20 PM said:
I will reach to nagercoil by 11th jan 2016 at 8:30 pm and I want to go to thiruchendur from nagergoil.how many buses available from nagergoil to thiruchendur after 8:30 pm.
After 08:30 P.M. there is no bus to Thiruchendur. You can switch over at Tirunelveli. take an EEE END to END Express from Nagercoil to Tirunelveli it will reach in 1 hr 15 minutes to Tirunelveli from Tirunelveli you have buses to Thiruchendur every half an hr once till 12:30 night and 1 hr once till 4 A.M.
Valsaraj on January 2, 2016 at 7:31 PM said:
What is the starting bus 🚌 time for madurai from tirunelveli. I need to go by 4am..
you have buses round the clock from Tirunelveli you can get frequent buses at 4 A.M. journey time 3 Hrs board TNSTC Tirunelveli Bypass Rider bus it will reach Mattuthavani.
N J Krishnan on January 3, 2016 at 9:59 AM said:
I am looking for buses to Papanasam Tirunelveli dt from Tirnelveli. what are the timings please?
N J Krishnan on January 3, 2016 at 10:01 AM said:
Looking for buses to papanasam from Tirunelveli in the morning. Wha are the bus timings please?
Arun on January 3, 2016 at 12:20 PM said:
You have frequent buses in morning time take 501 LSS Tirunelveli – Papanasam which will have less stoppings and direct route it will take 1hr 30 mins to reach.
C.K.Rajasingh on January 4, 2016 at 5:35 PM said:
Is there a direct bus from Tirunelveli to Cuddalore? If yes at what time?
There are two buses from SETC
1. 531 UD Nagercoil – Cuddalore 06:30 P.M.
2. 686 UD Trivandrum – Pondicherry 06;45 P.M.
Bala on January 14, 2016 at 7:22 AM said:
Is there a bus at 1am from tirunelveli to tenkasi in 16.01.16
Sam on January 14, 2016 at 3:00 PM said:
is there any bus from nagercoil to upper kothayar! If yes plz provide bus time, jrny hrs, fare, etc.
gyanbhat on February 10, 2016 at 9:40 PM said:
Are there any Volvo or comfortable buses from Madurai to Nagercoil during day time ?
No Volvo from Madurai to Nagercoil
Bhuvana Shankar N on February 16, 2016 at 6:14 AM said:
Please give me the thiruchendur to velankanni bus timings.
In both ECR via & Madurai via…
Please give me the bus timings from thiruchendur to velankanni…
In both ECR & Byepass operations
Thiruchendur : ECR : 04:30, 06:15, 17:30, 18:30.
Bypass Madurai : 07:15, 18:15
Sarath kumar on February 25, 2016 at 1:34 PM said:
thoothukudi to eral routed bus M52 when bus will come to athimarapatti again
p.Kumar on February 29, 2016 at 12:52 PM said:
Tnstc Tirunelvelli,
When will you introduce Electronic ticket machine
subramanian on March 5, 2016 at 5:50 AM said:
will be thankful if anybody tell me bus timings from kanyakumari to tiruchendur and fare.
Arun on March 5, 2016 at 11:08 AM said:
There are very frequent direct bus to Kanyakumari instead of waiting for that you can board 570 to Nagercoil via Uvari, Kudankulam and get down at anjugramam and from there you can reach kanyakumari in 20 minutes. Fare we dont have the right one with us now sorry for your inconvenience.
Praveen on March 14, 2016 at 9:24 PM said:
Is there any direct bus between Thoothukudi and Nagercoil after 2PM? Can you please give me the frequency and timings?
2 P.M., 05:30 P.M., 07:00 P.M., 09:30 P.M. all are via Nagercoil if you plan with family make sure you are advance in 15 minutes timings may vary 10 – 15 mins departure on crowd.
Praveen on March 15, 2016 at 9:39 AM said:
Sir,Whether Thoothukudi to Nagercoil busses start from Thoothukudi New bus stand (or) Thoothukudi Old bus stand and what will be the approximate travelling time between Thoothukudi and Nagercoil?. As I will be visiting Thoothukudi and new to that place I am asking this.
End to end travelling time will be 3 hrs bus will depart from Thoothukudi old busstand only in Tirunelveli Bay, there is buses to nagercoil via thiruchendur also don’t board it it will take 4 hrs travel
Durai on March 21, 2016 at 6:55 PM said:
Sir, I am planning to go to Thevaram from tirunelveli tomorrow please guide me the respective bus roue.
From Tirunelveli there are direct buses to Theni. From Theni you can go to Thevaram.
If you miss direct bus in Tirunelveli, Tirunelveli – Thirumangalam / Thirumangalam – Usilampatti/ Usilampatti – Theni/
Theni – Thevaram is the route.
mohanakrishnanmohan on March 31, 2016 at 8:32 PM said:
Please introduce bus routes from pattukkottai
1.pattukkottai to bangalore/hosur (as many people from pkt working there)
2.Pattukkottai to Erode, Anthiyur, namakkal, salem (as useful for many school/college students )
3.Pattukkottai to pondicherry
4.Pattukkottai to vellore
5.Pattukkottai to theni/cumbum/kumuli (useful for sabarimala and for tourism)
Please kindly do needful as soon as possible because no trains are also running from pattukkottai right now so please do needful
mariappan on April 11, 2016 at 3:01 PM said:
execuse me sir, please consider our route there is no straight buses from chennai and madurai,kovai and tiruchendur,tirunelveli(via nanguneri).around 50,000peoples lived in kalakad town panchayat.some route buses are allotted our peoples used well and enjoy.
maria lane on April 18, 2016 at 12:43 PM said:
Dear Sir, Can u please give me some old photos of Tuticorinto tirunelveli point to point bus.(Mudalvan exp., Mother Exp., Fighter, Ritam, Garuda. and satiya.)
Arun on April 18, 2016 at 10:17 PM said:
We are also searching for old photos once we got it we will share in Our blog.
Brenda on April 22, 2016 at 6:48 AM said:
Bus timing from Tirunelveli to Guruvayur please? ??
prasanth on May 2, 2016 at 12:47 PM said:
please ell me about the buses from nagercoil o madurai and its duration
There are Frequent buses in Nagercoil Madurai round the clock timings will be 4;30 – 5:00 Hrs running depends on traffic
CNP on May 4, 2016 at 2:13 PM said:
Hi sir / madam,
Have a good day!!!
Is there any buses are going to Nagerkovil from Tirunelveli in the midnight?.
If it is available, what are all the timing?
It may very helpful for those going to Trivandrum airport, in order to catch the early morning flights.
there is no bus between Tirunelveli – Nagercoil on night you have to wait for buses that arrives from Madurai it will enter tirunelveli new busstand.
jasmine on May 6, 2016 at 9:38 AM said:
I am from kavalkinaru, I want to know it there are any buses from kavalkinaru junction to Madurai
there are frequent buses to Madurai from Kavalkinaru jn.
THIAGARAJAN on May 7, 2016 at 3:59 PM said:
Sir, would you please send the bus timings from thiruchendur to sivaksi?
sir, would you please give the bus timings for tiruchendur to sivakasi?
Sivakasi : 07:15, 07:55, 17:00, 18:10.
Srivilliputtur : 12:25, 20:00
arun on June 17, 2016 at 10:05 PM said:
Is there any bus to.manjolai from papanasam? next week we planed a trip. If u know those.details. pls help us
venkita moorthy k on May 7, 2016 at 9:41 PM said:
sir can you tell me whether buses to manchaoli starts from thirunelvely alone..? or is there any bus starting from ambai or kaliida kurichy.to kuthiravetty/oothu/mancholai..if yes bus timings?
Arun on May 8, 2016 at 9:53 PM said:
from Kallidaikurichi there is bus service from mor 5;00 and 02:30 P.M. bus have to come from Nellai only the bus will be parked after kallidai RS for lunch break in Noon
Shahul Hameed J on May 18, 2016 at 4:17 PM said:
As We Request, We Need & Want Directly operate Buses from Tenkasi to Erode , Mettupalayam & Karur. We hope & Consider to operate this route. Pls will start this route ASAP.
Beniston on May 20, 2016 at 1:03 PM said:
From what time buses to tutucorin is available from Tirunelveli bus stand? How long is the journey?
for mor 03:45 A.M. buses are available to Tuticorin Journey time 1 hr 15 mins
syed on May 20, 2016 at 4:18 PM said:
i m syed.how is going chennai international airport to tirunelveli bus stand in nighttime.i need bus route
Vaithi on May 27, 2016 at 9:35 AM said:
Is there any bus to kodiakanal from Tirunelveli, if so, plz provide me the timings, thankyou
Vijay on May 30, 2016 at 3:53 PM said:
Can anyone please provide info related to bus timing from kanyakumari to Tiruchendur ?
Arun on May 31, 2016 at 12:23 AM said:
From Kanyakumari there is only limited buses Better you can take bus to Anjugramam from there you can get Thiruchendur, Thoothukudi Buses.
rangaram devarajan on May 31, 2016 at 9:12 AM said:
Or you can take a bus to Nagercoil. From Nagercoil there are a lot of buses to Tiruchendur
Mohanraj on June 3, 2016 at 9:47 AM said:
Dear Sir, I want to know that bus timings from kanyakumari to tirunelveli (or) anjugramam to tirunelveli ? Except (via) nagercoil? Between morning 8 am to 10 am Plz?
Ravi on June 4, 2016 at 9:17 PM said:
Sir please tell me do we
Have buses from katpadi
To arunachalam temple in
The night after 9pm and journey time
As well
Thulasinathan on June 12, 2016 at 6:38 PM said:
Hi Ravi, Buses to Arunachalam temple (Thiruvannamalai) is available from Vellore City Bus stand which is 2-3km from Katpadi. Katpadi and Vellore is linked by hundreds of buses and plenty of shared autorickshaws. (Available every 30secs). From vellore to Thiruvannamalai takes about 2:30hr. Usually every 1/2hr can get buses to Thiruvannamalai but after 9pm the frequency will be lesser. However there are bus services between vellore and Thiruvannamalai whole night. Some Buses come from Tirupati travelling thru Katpadi to vellore to Thiruvannamalai at rugular interval. So you dont have to worry about buses from Katpadi to Thiruvannamali there are plenty of buses available. And at festival time like full moon day you will get hundreds of special buses whole night for Girivalam purpose
Reagan on June 6, 2016 at 2:33 PM said:
How to travel to Thekkady from Tirunelveli?How long does the journey takes?
There are frequent buses to Theni from Tirunelveli. from Theni you can go to Thekkady.
Reagan on June 6, 2016 at 10:21 PM said:
Thanks for the reply Arun.Google says there are buses to kumily too.Hope that will also be a good option.Do you have any idea how long does the Journey takes?We are a NRI family planning for our vacation trip this July.
There are only few services to Kumily. Tirunelveli – theni will take 5 hrs from there another 2.5 hrs
Just came across this site during a Google search.Really appreciate your dedication and hard work to put up with a lots of info and replies that are real cool.Hats off for your good work.Do continue with the same.will definitely refer to my friends and family this site link.
Thanks for your appreciation and support on behalf of Team TNSTC Blog
kandhan on June 9, 2016 at 2:12 AM said:
here i want to know the nagercoil city bus advertisement authority officer name and contact number
This is not an official site of TNSTC it is maintained by group of people.
PAVANASAM.N on June 11, 2016 at 8:04 AM said:
Please provide the Bus Timings from Kovilpatti to A.Subramaniapuram (Near Sivagnanapurm)
Sorry for your inconvenience, This is not a official site of TNSTC and we are collecting timings for kovilpatti soon it will be updated.
Wesly titus on June 11, 2016 at 1:10 PM said:
Hey guyzz when are the buses from Nagercoil to tenkasi
There are buses every half an hr once to Tenkasi from Nagercoil
From papanasam how can i reach manimutharu dam and agasthiyar falls. Please give me the bus number and timing. Thank you
From papanasam how to reach manimutharu dam and agasthiyar falls. If u know bus number and timing please help me. Thank you
How long will it take to reach tiruchendur from tirunelveli bus stand? Type of bus service?
There are frequent 123 service with limited stoppages it will take 1hrs 15mins from New Busstand to thiruchendur.
sethuraman ram on June 28, 2016 at 9:12 PM said:
Is there any direct bus from thiruvanathapuram to courtallam operated by TNSTC/SETC
No direct services you have to do split up journey
1. Thiruvanathapuram – Punalur – Sencottah – Coutralam or
2. Thiruvanthapuram – Nagercoil – Tenkasi – Coutralam.
K Kumaresan on June 28, 2016 at 10:13 PM said:
Is there any direct buses from tiruchendur to kaniyakumari, if so timing, if not what is the best option to travel.
There are only few buses to Kanyakumari on night at 12:30A.M., 06:30A.M., 01:00P.M., better you can take abus to Anjugramam, route no 570 will go to anjugramam from there you can take city buses to Kanyakumari.
Suriya on July 1, 2016 at 1:48 PM said:
Is there direct buses from thiruchendur to rajapalayam.if so please let me know the timings and bus number.
Arun on July 1, 2016 at 5:54 PM said:
There are few direct buses only on time to reach easily make a change over at Tirunelveli. Thiruchendur – Tirunelveli 123 Express and from Tirunelveli board any Theni bus it will go fast and you can reach quick.
porchelvan on July 2, 2016 at 10:47 AM said:
Hi! Can u pls give me the timings of buses to Kochi and do they go to vytilla mobility hub?
From Tirunelveli.. Tirunelveli to Kochi bus timings
There are buses to Ernakulam from Tirunelveli at Mor 08:00, 09:00 Eve 08:00 P.M., 09:00P.M.
ashok es on July 4, 2016 at 4:47 PM said:
hi i am looking for the buses from tiruchendur to madurai timings and the fare.
There are frequent buses to Madurai from Thiruchendur fare must be around 120 + or – 5 .
R.Kannan on July 7, 2016 at 6:47 PM said:
Hi can you please provide me the bus timing from Tirunelveli to Kodayar / Manjolai,
Fred on July 8, 2016 at 7:19 PM said:
To goto Dr.Sivanthi aadhithanar engineering college, from nagercoil – tirunelveli – tiruchendur or nagercoil – valliyoor – tiruchendur. Which is better?
Arun on July 11, 2016 at 10:57 PM said:
Nagercoil – Tirunelveli – Thiruchendur is best option
jai on July 14, 2016 at 10:25 AM said:
Tirunelveli to trivandrum bus timing, full schedule and duration to plan for airport
Amar on July 15, 2016 at 11:07 PM said:
Night for Madurai is there any bus’s.
After 12.00 night
Karthikeyan V on July 21, 2016 at 11:47 AM said:
Kindly operate the new buses from ambasamuthiram to maruthamalai (to be reached earlier 5.30 a.m., 8.00 p.m.), Tirunelveli to Mettupalayam (to be reached at 5.30 a.m., 8.00 a.m. and 7.45 p.m. 9.00 p.m.). And also operate the route from Papanasam to Vellingiri -Poondi (Via: Pollachi, Ukkadam, Perur), Papanasam to Mettupalayam (Palladam, Coimbatore Gandhipuram).
kavipriya k on July 28, 2016 at 11:38 AM said:
Is there any local bus for tiruchendur to kanyakumari.
There are very few buses on time only better yoou can take 570 FP from Thiruchendur get down at anjugramam. from Anjugramam there are frequent buses to Kanyakumari.
kavipriya k on July 28, 2016 at 2:35 PM said:
kindly tell the timing
i am from coimbatore . I went to tiruchendur with my family at the same time we would like to visit Kanyakumari kindly tell the bus roots.
TAMILSELVAN So. on October 16, 2016 at 9:07 AM said:
TIRUCHENDUR TO KANYAKUMARI TWO ROUTS 1.VIA.SATHANKULAM,VALLIOOR 2.VIA. UVARI,KOODANKULAM
Abdul khadir on July 30, 2016 at 1:56 PM said:
Please tell bus timings from tirunelveli to udankudi. I am not able find the bus timings anywhere.
Sorry for your inconvenience we dont have right timings with us.
Prasad on August 3, 2016 at 2:28 PM said:
I want to travel from Nagercoil to Tiruchendur by bus. Whether Valliyoor, Sathankulam route is good for travel? What about the condition of road? Or I opt Tirunelveli-Tiruchendur route? please give me your opinion.
Nagercoil – Tirunelveli EEE / Tirunelveli – Thiruchendur 123 is best
Raja on August 5, 2016 at 9:44 AM said:
How to reach tirunelveli from Virdhunagar?
There are plenty of Buses which passes in Bypass you can board at Virudhunagar New Busstand, Virudhunagar collectrate
Alagunambi on August 8, 2016 at 2:52 PM said:
Does anybody knows what are the bus timing from Tirunelveli to nazareth
Shankar on August 8, 2016 at 6:43 PM said:
Is there bus from kizha Ambur to mela pavoor
Iyan on August 16, 2016 at 3:53 PM said:
Anybody pls tell me… is there any straught buses to trivandrum?pls suggest me…
Arun on August 23, 2016 at 12:42 AM said:
There is no straight bus to trivandrum you have to change over at Nagercoil during day times.
Gopi on August 18, 2016 at 5:19 PM said:
can u tell the morning bus timing from chennai to nagerkoil
vinayagamoorthy on August 21, 2016 at 1:47 PM said:
please send to sivagangai district in no more direct bus in the district………
Rajan on August 28, 2016 at 10:57 AM said:
Dear sir please arrange to provide a full time service in 9M (Nagercoil – Thengapattanam) Route. This is the long time expectation of the public concerned
Kumar on August 28, 2016 at 11:02 PM said:
Travelling from Tirunelveli to Neyaar dam, which is the best option. Going through Trivandrum or is there any buses from Marthandam
There is no buses available from Marthandam. Best option is Trivandrum only.
Vijay Chandar on September 3, 2016 at 12:49 PM said:
Is there any bus from Tiruchi to Rameswaram? If there is no direct bus, are there connecting buses?
Arun on September 5, 2016 at 11:53 AM said:
There are frequent buses between Trichy Rameswaram
Sankar on September 8, 2016 at 4:16 PM said:
Sir.. What’s travel time for buses from Tirunelveli to Tiruchendur.??
Arun on September 16, 2016 at 3:15 PM said:
1Hr 15mins
Narayanan Sankar on September 8, 2016 at 5:18 PM said:
Travel time from Tirunelveli to Tiruchendur…?
mage on September 10, 2016 at 10:54 AM said:
Is there direct bus service from Tuticorin to Irukendi
Mor 06:30 A.M. direct bus to irukankudi by TNSTC
sekar on September 10, 2016 at 5:09 PM said:
Sir shencottah to coimbatore tnstc tirunelveli division bus opperative morning and evening times for daily services
AKSHAY on September 12, 2016 at 9:13 PM said:
Is any chance there for TNSTC-TNV to get new UD in house built and AC buses that can run on mtm/kki/NGL/tnv/shn/tuti/ to chennai/cbe/blr?
UDAYABHANU on September 20, 2016 at 12:05 PM said:
I would like to know whether any bus service is there from Nagarcoil to Papanasm in the morning.
Kavi on October 4, 2016 at 3:13 AM said:
How to reach ervadi from Tirunelveli and let me know the timing also
Arun on October 4, 2016 at 8:38 AM said:
which ervadi are you asking the one between Valliyoor and Nanguneri there are frequent buses every 20 mins once from Tirunelveli crews willl shout a lot for Ervadi via bus
Not that one. i am asking about Ervadi in Ramanathapuram district ( between Kadaladi and Ramanathapuram )
Arun on October 7, 2016 at 4:06 PM said:
you can go via Thoothukudi, ECR this is the shortest and timings 03:30, 05:30, 06:30, 08:00, 09:00, 11:00, 15:00, 16:00, 19:00 (Velankanni) this buses will depart from Thoothukudi Counter in Tirunelveli New Busstand.
Abu on October 17, 2016 at 11:13 PM said:
Kindly ask you I like to go madurai airport from tirunelveli by bus. Please advise which stop I have tell to bus condector?
Arun on October 17, 2016 at 11:19 PM said:
Madurai Ringroad Airport Stop. From there you can take an auto to Airport.
Ajitha on October 23, 2016 at 12:04 PM said:
How to reach VV engineering college from Tirunelveli
Can u pls tell the bus route to VV engineering college from Tirunelveli
Jana on November 2, 2016 at 6:15 PM said:
I would like to know bus service timing
is there from Nagarcoil to tiruchendur
I would like to know bus timing is there from Nagarcoil to tiruchendur
Selva Punitha on January 4, 2017 at 10:50 PM said:
I am looking for a bus from Bengaluru to Tirunelveli or Tenkasi after 7 pm on 13th jan. Is there any special buses? Can you provide the details.
viju k s on January 7, 2017 at 4:34 PM said:
i would like to know bus time of thirunelveli to ramanathapuram and rameswaram
i would like to know bus time from thenkasi or thirunelveli to rameswaram
thiyagy on January 28, 2017 at 4:16 PM said:
Is there any Buses to Tirunelveli to Rameswaram in the after noon say after 200 PM
Shujith on February 21, 2017 at 12:56 PM said:
Sir ,I need Tnstc bus timings from kottarakara to tenkasi..plz provide the information’s me….
A.SESHAGIRI on March 29, 2017 at 11:51 AM said:
Dear Sir, I need e-mail id of General Manager(comml.) (or) Manager(Comml) or Dy.Manager (comml.) TNSTC – TIRUNELVELI. For the public cause I have to write e-mail to them.I will be greatful if you please furnish the same.
RAJU on March 30, 2017 at 4:07 PM said:
பேருந்து வசதி இவ்வழித்தடங்களில் புதிதாக செய்து தருமாறு கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறோம்
காரைக்குடி – திருச்செந்தூர்
( இவ்வழித்தடத்தில் ஒரு நாளைக்கு ஒரு பேருந்து வசதியும் )
காரைக்குடி – தேவக்கோட்டை – R.S.மங்கலம் – திருவாடானை – இராமநாதபுரம் – கீழக்கரை – ஏர்வாடிதர்ஹா – சாயல்குடி – தூத்துக்குடி – திருச்செந்தூர்
Ganesh Kumar on April 4, 2017 at 3:48 PM said:
I need bus timings from Nagercoil to Papanasam during morning times.
I hope there is direct bus available via Kalakadu and what will be the approx time to reach to destination
Mahesh on April 22, 2017 at 10:57 PM said:
Where do I get timings of buses from Monday Market (Kanyakumari Dist) to Tiruchendur?
Rajesh Dhar on April 24, 2017 at 11:36 AM said:
I want bus service from Trivandrum to Kulasekarapattinam. Is there any direct bus? How do i travel? Please help… Thanks
R.Pramoth Arjun on May 8, 2017 at 9:04 AM said:
Is there any direct buses from madurai to kanyakumari if means please mention the timing at Madurai
RAM on April 24, 2017 at 4:23 PM said:
Venkat Raman on April 28, 2017 at 8:31 PM said:
sir i need bus timing tirunelveli to munnar
Night 12:30 P.M. Direct Bus or you can get frequent bus to Theni from there you can go to Munnar.
vasundra15 on May 4, 2017 at 7:21 PM said:
I need a bus time schedule from tirunelveli to pudukkottai in the evening around 6 PM and also travel time
sasibalan on May 8, 2017 at 5:33 AM said:
Sir is there any bus service from sengotach to erode? If not kindly arrange a new service.
Saran chandra bose karaikudi on May 12, 2017 at 11:15 PM said:
Dear friends i am reaching midnight thirunelveli. From there any buses for thiruchendur temple? what time first bus for thiruchendur from thirunelveli? Any midnight train available to thiruchendur? Kindly answer me friends. This summer i want visit thiruchendur murugan with my family. Thank u.s
Maniappan on May 17, 2017 at 11:39 PM said:
Hello, pl. inform the bus timing from Thenkasi to Puliangudi, between 10 am to 1 pm, and return bus timing after 7 pm from Puliangudi toThenkasi. Also requested to mention the approximate time taken for the journey.
Prasath on May 19, 2017 at 11:09 PM said:
I want to know about the buses from rajapalayam to sattur or tirunelveli and vice versa. Give me the details about all buses running along this route
SUNIL SUKUMARAN on May 21, 2017 at 4:56 PM said:
My son has to attend AIIMS entrance examination at PSN College of
Engineering and Technology, PSN Nagar, Melathediyoor
Post, Tharuvai via, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu PIN CODE:627152. Please advise as to how we can reach the destination from Thirunelveli by BUS. please let us know the bus schedule from Thirunelveli to the college from morning 8 AM to 10 AM. As also for return journey please furnish bus availability from PSN college to Thirunelveli in the evening so as to catch a train at 7.20 PM
RAVIKUMAR LD on May 22, 2017 at 6:33 PM said:
Sir there is any direct bus from Krishnagiri to Tutcorin
jayam on May 23, 2017 at 11:55 AM said:
sir need ramanathapuram to velankanni bus time
asai kumar on May 29, 2017 at 5:29 PM said:
hI , Any body can tell last bus timing from tirunelveli new bus stand to moolkarapati or muncipatti
Rajesh on May 31, 2017 at 1:13 PM said:
Tirunelveli to manjolai bus timings….??
Subramani on June 6, 2017 at 10:02 PM said:
Hi, At what time the first Bus from Tirunelveli to tiruchendur starts? and what is the frequency of operation?
Arun on June 9, 2017 at 2:01 AM said:
from 4 A.M. after 5:30 there are frequent buses every 5 minutes 123 Express will go fast in that routes.
V. J. Bernard on June 12, 2017 at 4:03 PM said:
Trivandrum to tiruchendur Bus timings
karthick on June 19, 2017 at 11:11 AM said:
காரைக்குடி – தேவக்கோட்டை – R.S.மங்கலம் – திருவாடானை – இராமநாதபுரம் – கீழக்கரை – ஏர்வாடிதர்ஹா – சாயல்குடி – தூத்துக்குடி – திருச்செந்தூர்
Hariharan on June 20, 2017 at 9:03 PM said:
Chennai to Tenkasi in Pothigai Bus(A184) How many Hrs Jounrey
CT.senthilchidambaram on July 4, 2017 at 9:00 AM said:
Is there a bus between pattukottai and tenkasi via Pudukkottai, madurai or Karaikudi, madurai. If not leave a direct bus between those towns, it will give economical strength to tnstc
Thamothara kannan on July 7, 2017 at 10:32 AM said:
Which bus stop I shall go from tirunelveli to alwarkurii
Mohiadeen on July 8, 2017 at 12:25 AM said:
What time tiruchendur bus start from tirunelveli?
Arvinesh on July 20, 2017 at 8:31 PM said:
Your website providing useful information. Congratulations. I. I want to go to sorimuthu ayyanar temple. Can you give the bus timings from tirunelveli to karayar. Advance thanks
premkumar on July 30, 2017 at 10:18 PM said:
All the buses were boarded with express pp sfs TSS eee 1-1 1-3….unlimited imagination can u mention these with journey time. I often travel by bus but most of the time I saw only argument between the passenger and conductor for slow running of buses…conductor will fedup and tell the word better go by car…please mention travel timings…sorry non stop and bypass rider too…rate wise difference persists…
Subramanian on July 31, 2017 at 7:50 PM said:
How to take bus pass from Tirunelveli to tuticorin point to point (EEE) bus, and where can i get it from?
What is the charge for that? Note: normal charges from Tirunelveli to tuticorin in point to point bus is Rs. 31.
you can enquire in the Thoothukudi Old Busstand Depot Office.
Muthukrishnan L on August 5, 2017 at 7:45 PM said:
Sir, I read somewhere in the portal that there are buses from Nagercoil to Truchendur Route 576 every 20 minutes. From where the buses start from Nagercoil – Is it from Vadasseri? Is it possible to board the buses from Nagercoil Jn. Rly. station? I will reach Nagercoil around 5.45 am. from Guruvayur. Instead of taking a bus from Tirunelveli to Tiruchendur after reaching Tirunelveli, I think of taking a direct bus from Nagercoil to Tiruchendur. Thank you.
Abraham on August 8, 2017 at 7:35 PM said:
Sawyerpuram st.marys girls hr sec school over at 6.15 pm that time no government busis available .one private bus in that time take a over tickets .kindly change any bus timr to that ti
Sawyerpuram st.marys girls hr sec school over at 6.15 pm that time no government busis available .one private bus in that time take a over tickets .kindly change any bus time to that time
priya on August 10, 2017 at 7:48 PM said:
Hi, I have to travel from chennai to tirunelveli by tomorrow. I cant able to book the ticket in my account it shows that no onward services available on this date. could u please tell me the reason.
vinod k on August 11, 2017 at 10:19 AM said:
may you please let me know how to reach Kanyakumari from nagercoil junction. Please provide the Bus number and bus stand name as well
Thenmozhi on August 22, 2017 at 11:00 AM said:
May I know buses from tirunelveli to tiruchendur during mid night. My Train will reach tirunelveli at 3:15 am. So when will the first bus to tiruchendur.
Suresh Wagh on September 7, 2017 at 3:33 PM said:
I want to travel from Tirunelveli to Thoothukudi on 11 th September. I will reach Tirunelvelli Rly. station in the morning.
Where from I need to take a bus for Thoothukudi and what are the timings of the buses from 6.00 A.M. onwards till 8.30 A.M. Available mode for reaching bus stand from Rly station?
mathew on September 7, 2017 at 7:55 PM said:
Kindly let me know the fare between Trichy and tirunelveli……
saidi on September 16, 2017 at 12:26 PM said:
Hi, Can you please list the timings of hill riders from and to tirunelveli new bus stand to papanasanam I would like to travel on this route and return within a day. So, please ‘the complete list of timings’!! Thanks
Suresh V on September 19, 2017 at 12:16 PM said:
Hi Goodmorning to all,
Is there any buses from Ernakulam Depot to Tirunelveli, please advice and give bus timings. Thank you
Gopalakrishnan on September 22, 2017 at 8:17 AM said:
Is there any bus from Tiruchedur to Nagerkoil. If so what timing and how long it take.
Jayaprakash r on September 25, 2017 at 6:56 AM said:
Tomorrow morning 6.30am I have to reach thoothukudi railway station.next I have to immediately plan Thiruchundru temple any bus available. Pls
M MUTHUKUMAR on September 26, 2017 at 7:47 PM said:
Sir, please tell direct buses timing from Nagercoil to Rajapalayam. My old aunt along with luggage has to travel, so he can’t switch over bus in Tirunelveli.
Samy on October 16, 2017 at 7:37 AM said:
Any buses between tirunelveli to kodaikanal.
Baskar on October 21, 2017 at 5:32 PM said:
Please provide info kanyakumari to tiruchendur bus timing for morning 6 to 8am.
cyril on November 5, 2017 at 2:19 PM said:
setc new service start tiruchedur to pala kerala new Night service
via manappaDu kudankulam kanyakumary nagercovil tvm adur kottayam.thousands off people daily travel this route but no direct bus
Thanya on November 7, 2017 at 5:08 PM said:
I ve an exam @ Sree Sowdambika College of Engineering, Aruppukottai. So i want to know the bus timings between 3 to 5 early in the morning from Tiruchendur? Pls tell me the travel time too. Thanks in advance.
S perumal on November 8, 2017 at 3:43 PM said:
What is the bus timing tirunelveli to kollan. PLS tell us from kollam to tirunelveli also
Murali Govindraj on November 15, 2017 at 3:04 PM said:
is there direct buses from Tiruchandur to Kanyakumari? if yes, what are the frequencies if no, what is the route to be taken from Tiruchandur to reach Kanyakumari
soundar rajan on November 17, 2017 at 4:45 PM said:
i have to travel from tiruchendur to nagarcoil through TSTC bus. Can i know at what time the first bus statrts
cyril joseph on November 22, 2017 at 10:18 AM said:
tnstc provide new interstate deluxe service kanyakumary to pala via nagercovil tvm adur kottayam pala night service kany dep time 18.30 pala dep time 20.30 urgently reqiured this service famous st alphosamma church near pala .daily hundreds of people arriving southern tamilnadu but no direct bus this route
Sumit somra on December 1, 2017 at 9:32 PM said:
Please provide bus timing from nanguneri to Nagercoil
sunil on December 13, 2017 at 9:09 AM said:
how to reach tirunelveli from madurai airport? please tell me clearly whether to get auto/ taxi/ bus from airport to maatuthavani? somebody has written that to get bypass rider from ring road. so how to reach that ring road junction from airport? which town bus number? please tell clearly. town bus service frequently available? thanks.
Gunasekaran on December 24, 2017 at 8:21 PM said:
Hai sir. I was feeling bad experience about your staff 24.05.2017.. cbe to tenkasi bus ..Conductor was instructed us to leave palani because he said bus didn’t go madurai….It was proplem people facing… Not me same proplem happens to the other passengers also.pleade make
Sethu on December 25, 2017 at 11:45 PM said:
Tirunelveli to Thiruvananthapuram
EEE or Others type Fast busses peoples must want
Saravanaselvan on December 28, 2017 at 11:07 PM said:
Colud you please tell me the vallior to kalakad first bus in morning time.
Benny on February 6, 2018 at 12:37 PM said:
Tirunelveli to Madura bye pass rider tiaftet 4 o clock and fare pl sir
kumar on February 9, 2018 at 6:40 PM said:
What is the bus timings from Tirunelveli to Manjolai via manimuthar falls and from manimuhar falls to tirunelveli.
Fathahul Rabbani on February 9, 2018 at 8:05 PM said:
Please provide bus timings from tirunelveli to rameswaram ECR road
Aruna on February 11, 2018 at 10:03 PM said:
Can u please tell me the early morning bus timings from papanasam to tirunelveli via ambasamudram
Rajan.D on February 18, 2018 at 12:06 PM said:
Dear sir …. The service on route 309c from Nagercoil to Thengapattanam via;thingal nagar/karungal/pootteti/kalladai/Kannathankuzhi/vizhunthaayambalam/Keezhkulam was stopped on07.09.2016. we are continuously requesting to reoperate the service for the economic developemnt and benefits of the the villages and the people concerned. When this will be consided sir…………….
SOURIRAJAN on May 27, 2018 at 12:41 PM said:
Tomorrow Monday 28 may 2018 night travel to Chennai from Tirunelveli or from.kannyakumari 7 seats request aneeded ?
Sethu on June 7, 2018 at 9:49 AM said:
Hi, Is it possible to know the bus timings between Tenkasi to Tirunelveli after 6 pm?
Birundha on June 28, 2018 at 6:08 PM said:
I search for tirunelveli to papasam at night time. Any bus are at evening or night?
kumar on September 19, 2018 at 3:56 PM said:
I am looking for a setc or tnstc bus from Madurai to vilathikulam bus timings
Mariappan on March 22, 2019 at 3:49 PM said:
Kalakad to MaduraiTNSTC bus allocate sir.
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SquareTangle: A Virtual Art Performance Company
SquareTangle virtual art performance company launches with an open source plug-in for artists and sound designers.
Renowned Australian virtual artists John McCormick and Adam Nash today announced the formation of SquareTangle, a virtual/art/performance company, as a milestone in their Australia Council Inter-Arts Connections Residency at Hidden Cove Solutions.
They have released the first results of this productive collaborative residency, in the form of a plug-in that allows the FMOD sound designer to be used within the Unity game development environment. Continue reading
Live Stage: Celebrating Cage and Cunningham [ NYC]
Celebrate John Cage and Merce Cunningham — A John Cage Birthday Event :: September 5, 2009; 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. :: St Mark’s Church, Parish Hall, 10 Street and 2nd Avenue, New York City :: admission is free; arrive early to get a seat (no reservations).
Kevin Hufnagel will be playing ambient prepared guitar music and Nurit Tilles will perform 4’33,” after which the feature video (95 minutes long) Cage/Cunningham will be shown and Elliot Caplan, filmmaker, will be on hand to discuss it afterwards.
Cage was born on Sept. 5, 1912, and died on Aug. 12, 1992. Hufnagel was the first of 22 artists performing in the 16th annual celebration at St. Mark’s Church Parish Hall, in New York City.
For more information, contact: gwendeely [at] aol.com Continue reading
Live Stage: Carl Stone Concert [ Los Angeles]
Carl Stone will perform at the Eighth Veil, 7174 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA :: September 12, 2009; 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. :: free
Carl will perform as part of Into Infinity, a collaboration between dublab and Creative Commons, which builds on audio loops and circular canvases that are available online to the public for sharing, remixing, and resubmission.
This event is itself part of Mapping sound: the SASSAS 10th Anniversary Concert, a daylong celebration of the tenth anniversary of the sound. concert series. Continue reading
Live Stage: Chris Brown [ San Francisco]
An unusual solo performance by Chris Brown :: August 27, 2009; 6:00 – 7:00 pm :: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St., San Francisco, CA :: Tickets here.
Chris will be playing piano solo with interactive electronics — first an improvisation with live signal processing, like an “alap”, without pulse, then a newly restored old rhythm piece called “invention#7 — branches”, in which he interacts with his “ritmos” polyrhythm software.
It’s part of YBCA’s “new frequencies” series — Chris will be playing in the galleries in front of pieces that are part of their “wallworks” show. Continue reading
8-Bit Trip
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsWFFuYZYI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Swedish musicians Daniel Larsson (music) and Thomas Redigh (animation) succeed in creating the world’s trippiest 8-Bit experience. The video description reads, 1500 hours of moving legobricks and take photos of them. To put that into perspective 1500 hours = 62.5 sleepless days. Raccoon-tailed Mario, Megaman, Puyo Pop, Tetris, Pong, and Karate masters (possibly from Karate Champ?), all make celebrity guest appearances.
Thanks to: Stelios Phili on Flavorwire.com.
Live Stage: Eric Leonardson + Sonic Playground [ Chicago]
Sonic Playground with Eric Leonardson — an interactive music performance using the new Lake Crescent playground :: August 25. 2009; 6:00 – 8:00 pm :: Lake Crescent #532, 1061 E. 41st Street, Chicago, IL.
Join Eric Leonardson in sonically activating the Lake Crescent Playground. This event is a part of the Park District’s “Concerts in the Parks” series, offering Chicago families a fun, affordable way to spend an evening in their own community. Bring a lawn chair or blanket, but prepare to play and listen to the playground in a totally different way. Curated by Inferno Mobile Recording Studio.
Live Stage: Audio Art from Karlsruhe [ NYC]
Ichiigai: audio art from Karlsruhe, Germany :: August 25, 2009; 7:00 – 9:00 pm :: Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, 596 Broadway #602, New York City.
Ichiigai (“not one”) is an experimental audio-art collective which has been exploring a fusion of sound, music, video and art since 2004. Ichiigai is also an artist-run label based in and supported by the State University for Arts and Design (HFG) and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Soundmachine
Live Stage: How to Make Music with Police Cars [ NYC]
How to Make Music With Police Cars and Get away with It — An Artist’s Talk by Lázaro Valiente :: August 26, 2009; 8:00 p.m. :: Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St., Queens, NY ( Directions).
The Police Car Quartet was the first of nine public happenings by acclaimed Mexican artist, Lázaro Valiente, including the Tamal-Car Orchestra, muchos Mexican barrel organs, visual concerts at red lights, public radio Interventions, and many others. Each is a suggestion on how to control traffic in public spaces. Please join us to hear Lázaro speak, perform, and distribute works of art. Continue reading
Live Stage: Z, Reynolds, Dubois [ NYC]
Pamela Z, Todd Reynolds, and Luke DuBois :: August 28, 2009; 9:00 – 11:00 p.m. :: Monkey Town, 58 N 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY :: Make reservations early because seating is limited ::
Working separately and together Pamela Z and Reynolds/Dubois will surround you with moving images and a sonic frenzy of sampled concrète sounds, voice & processing, and violin & processing. In their first shared evening, composer/performer Pamela Z (voice, electronics, video) and Todd Reynolds + R. Luke Dubois (violin, electronics, video) will present a program sonically and visually rich layered works. Continue reading
Live Stage: Experiments … with Amit Pitaru [ Holon]
Garage Geeks present Experiments in Art, Software, Hardware and UX with Amit Pitaru :: August 21, 2009; 8:30 p.m. :: Holon Industrial Zone, Israel.
Like a typical garage geek, Amit splits his nights and days between experimental and commercial work. In this session he will share recent art projects and discuss how they affect his work as software/hardware designer, user experience freak, and (recent) entrepreneur. This is a free event, please bring DRINKS and snacks to share. It might get hot without cold beers at hand, and Amit recommends one for better UX.
Amits recent projects: Sonic Wire Sculptor :: Rhonda 3D drawing tool :: Smashup Dance Project, Continue reading
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Home / Blog / Exclusive Interview with Atlassian’s Lead Designer, Buzz Usborne.
Exclusive Interview with Atlassian’s Lead Designer, Buzz Usborne.
Philippe Hong
Category: Design Talks
Today we’re going to talk about design leadership. At some point in your design career it’s inevitable that you’ll be given the chance to lead and manage others — an opportunity that can be exciting for some people, and a challenge for others. This is what we’re talking about today — tips to help designers become leads, and advice for existing leads who want to improve. We’re glad to have Buzz Usborne today who has some experience in this area. He’s currently Lead Designer at Atlassian, previously Head of Product at Sendle, UX Director at Campaign Monitor & Design Lead at Skype. Before that he worked as a Digital Designer at agencies in USA, UK and Australia. You can find his incredible resumé here.
Hey Buzz, how are you doing? You joined Atlassian 4 months ago, how is it going?
Hey — I’m really well thanks! Yeah Atlassian is going great… it’s a huge team tackling some really big problems, so there’s definitely enough to keep me busy! It’s been a big shift for me too, moving from quite a small startup to one of Australia’s largest tech companies — but there are more similarities than I was expecting.
Any good tips for young designers who wants to join Atlassian?
Yeah… apply! There are always heaps of jobs on the careers site plus there’s also a solid grad and internship program too — so lots of ways to get through the door. As with any job though, knowing someone in the team is the best way to get fast-tracked, so my advice to anyone looking is to come to a few events and make some friends!
Tell us a little bit about what the transition to Design Lead at Skype was like?
Skype was actually my first job working directly for the client, before that I’d always worked at agencies — so the transition was definitely difficult in that respect. But I was extremely fortunate in having an amazing team and a few solid mentors around me at Skype to help cushion my transition. Working alongside and learning from the likes of Eva-Lotta Lamm (now Google) and Steve Pearce (now Global Head of Design at SkyScanner) gave me an excellent head start, I really appreciate how important those mentors were to my transition now. I was also lucky to join a team of designers who were amazing and passionate about their work, so my job was really just about helping them continue to do their best work.
You used to work for digital agencies, what made you change to work for tech companies?
Yeah I’d spent about 6 years prior to Skype working for various digital agencies all over the world, which was a lot of fun and an incredible way to get exposure to lots of different elements of design. But as I got more senior, the more I craved a longer more iterative approach to problem solving — I wanted to work on solving customer-focussed problems that didn’t have an expiration date… which is what attracted me to tech. I still miss that agency mentality of working fast, and designing in a new style or medium every day — but the opportunity to work with amazing people to produce innovative customer solutions still keeps me the most interested today.
Can you tell us a bit about your design process? How do you work with other designers?
Whether I’m working on something by myself, or with other designers, my process always starts with sketching (thanks largely to working with Eva-Lotta at Skype, who is a huge advocate of sketching). No matter how big or small, obvious or difficult the problem — I do my best work when I’ve done a heap of drawing first. I find it helps define the problem and gives me the ability to quickly iterate over a bunch of ideas without feeling too tied to any one approach. These days I find myself encouraging designers around me to do the same, which doesn’t always feel natural (especially when there’s a looming deadline), but it’s always proved to be a successful way to kick off any brief. When it comes to the execution I like to be as collaborative as possible — printing work out, gathering around a screen, going through sketches or research together — whatever it takes to get a shared sense of inspiration, urgency and motivation. Designers work their best when bouncing ideas off each other in an open and collaborative format, so that’s what I look for when building teams and processes. Aside from that, I spend a lot of my free time looking for inspiration in less obvious places, in an attempt to influence and inspire my day-to-day work. I spend a good amount of time on fashion, photography and architecture blogs — reading about psychology and physics — and gathering images of beautiful branding, packaging and typographic projects. I find that looking at the world through an unfamiliar lens and learning new things inspires me so much more than scouring pattern libraries or website showcases.
How do you balance management and design work?
Yeah, personally I find management really tough. For me it’s about finding the right balance between enough structure to help designers do their best work, and the needs of the business. Sometimes that means making judgement calls that don’t seem in the best interest of design, for the sake of the business or the wider team — which is what I find to be the hardest. Ultimately I side with designers, so I really want to give my teams everything they need to be awesome — but sometimes it’s not that simple. Personally, switching off the manager part of my brain and getting lost in a piece of design, my true passion… that’s something I’m still working on!
What do you think are the key values of being a great Design Lead?
I’ve only ever wanted to be the kind of manager that makes the people around them better at what they do. Whether that’s directly, by talking through an idea — or indirectly by providing the time and environment to do good work. I believe that’s the key to good leadership, especially with designers and creatives who are driven by passion, rather than a desire to rise through the ranks. At a more practical level I think a good manager is someone who shields their team from unnecessary distraction, gets the best out of individuals on their worst days, and fights for the best interests of the team. They’re largely invisible efforts, but are the measures I judge myself by.
How do you manage to take out time for side projects?
Side projects, for me at least, are a way of satisfying that creative urge in times when perhaps my day job has required something else of me. So it’s not really difficult to find time, more a necessity. With Prevue, I find myself working best in 1 hour chunks — sometimes before work, other times at the weekend, but never at the cost of spending time away from the computer. I find it difficult to schedule time for side projects, but I’ve found recently that if I capitalize on the occasions when I’m feeling inspired to work, then I end up producing good things.
How do you collaborate with developers?
Developers are problem solvers, just like designers — the only difference is that their medium is code. For me that’s the first thing to understand — so the key to collaborating is more a case of framing what problem you’re trying to solve, and working together on a solution. I also try to be as open minded as possible when working alongside a dev — I have a broad understanding of how code works, but recognizing that they’re the expert and allowing them time and space to produce something awesome is always important. Ultimately we’re all out to ship something awesome that satisfies a customer pain point, so finding common ground is the key.
Sketch or photoshop (or anything else)? Why?
Haha, what a question… I’m probably not going to win any popularity points here! I’ve been using Photoshop for well over a decade — it works for me, I’ve never had any issues, and I’m fast… so that’s my preference. For me, Sketch lacks the fidelity you can achieve in Photoshop — which makes it a bit cumbersome for conceptual work, or developing a visual style from scratch. That said, Sketch is awesome for reusability and pattern-based work (perfect for big UI roll-outs of collaborative design), so these days the tool I use depends on the project I’m working on. I’m also a big fan of prototyping early — so getting something in HTML or as a click-through is preferable to pixel perfection. In my opinion there’s too much emphasis on software, and not enough appreciation that the best design solutions can’t be produced in static screens. I always told my designers that they can use whatever software they felt produced the best outcome — if that happens to be MS Paint, then go nuts!
Last word you want to tell our readers?
Think beyond your role — know that by really understanding your audience, by feeling their anxieties, motivations and backgrounds — you’ll be able to produce better design solutions. It took me far too long to appreciate that good design is so much more than just pretty visuals, following industry trends, or looking at the competition — it’s about creating true customer value. Work on that, and you’ll nail any brief that comes your way. You can find more about Buzz here — thanks to him for his time and all the best for the future! Don’t forget to join our newsletter for more interesting design articles.
About Philippe Hong
Awards Winner Designer. Maker of @Vytein, @UIGarage & @BukketApp. Judge @ CSSDA. Design isn't just about visual.
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Brexit fishing breakthrough close, with EU set to recognise British sovereignty over UK waters
James Crisp
Workers unload fish in the port of Roscoff, western France on November 12 - FRED TANNEAU /AFP
A Brexit breakthrough on fishing could be close, with the EU set to formally recognise British sovereignty over UK waters, The Telegraph can reveal.
Brussels has also accepted a British proposal for a transition period on fishing rights after January 1, but there is no agreement on how long it should last or how it should work.
A fishing transition period would give Britain time to build up its fleet to catch its increased quota and EU fishermen more time to adapt to a smaller share of the fish in UK waters.
Senior Government figures believe that tentative compromise is a prelude for the EU to cave to other British demands on fishing in the coming week of intensified negotiations in London.
France, whose fishermen stand to lose most, heaped pressure on Michel Barnier, the Eu's chief negotiator, to stand firm. Clement Beaune, the French Europe Minister, said there would be no trade deal "without respecting European fishing interests".
Mr Barnier warned that there were "significant" differences between the two sides on fishing, the "level playing field" guarantees and the deal's enforcement. He arrived in London on Friday, a week after a member of his team tested positive for coronavirus.
Michel Barnier arrives at St Pancras Station in London on Friday - Hollie Adams/AFP
David Frost, Mr Barnier's UK counterpart, said a trade deal was "late" but "still possible" before the resumption of face-to-face talks in the capital on Saturday. He warned that the final agreement must "fully respect UK sovereignty", which had "practical consequences" including "controlling our fishing waters".
"An agreement on any other basis is not possible," he said, hinting that he had been under pressure to break off talks.
He said he would do all he could to avoid a no trade deal exit at the end of the year, which the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has warned will cut two per cent off the British economy. "A deal is still possible, and I will continue to talk until it's clear that it isn't," he said.
Mr Barnier told EU ambassadors in Brussels on Friday that he could not guarantee a trade deal would be struck before the end of year deadline. Member states called on the European Commission to publish its no deal emergency plans amid fears this round of talks could be the last to strike an agreement.
The EU is resisting a UK push for annual negotiations on fishing opportunities, insisting on the need for stability and predictability for its fishing industry. But it accepts that the number of fish caught in UK waters will decrease and the British share will increase after January 1.
"The transition period is the most likely idea to be part of the final mix as we go into the endgame," a source close to the negotiations said. "We are working off the same grid, but there is no agreement on what should be in the grid and we could still end up ditching the grid."
Lord Frost offered Brussels a transition period of up to three years in September, but the EU is understood to want a much longer timeframe. The EU demand was estimated by some sources to be at least 10 years, although they warned that the situation in ongoing negotiations was still extremely fluid.
There is no agreement over whether officials should agree now what happens after the end of the transition period or negotiate that during the period itself. There is also no agreement on what the transitional measures should be and if they should build towards an end state or be standalone.
Britain has suggested negotiating the future arrangements during the transition period, but the EU has said any fresh negotiations would also have to apply to the trade deal.
Brussels has insisted throughout that the fishing agreement is tied to the trade deal, which further complicates a final agreement. The UK wants the two agreements to be kept separate to prevent cross-sector retaliation in the case of disputes.
After Mr Barnier spoke to EU fishing ministers on Friday, it was reported that he would offer the UK an 18 per cent increase in fishing quota. A British source dismissed the offer, which had already been rejected once before, as "derisory".
EU sources claimed the UK was demanding an 80 per cent increase in quota for British fishermen, but UK sources said that "misrepresented" the British position.
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Samsung Galaxy S4 is still an affordable device for users. Even though Galaxy S4 is about a year old, it is still just as powerful as the 2014 mobile devices. Users can even access social features such as using Instagram on the device with either Android 4.3 Jelly Bean or 4.4 KitKat. If you are looking for ways to best use Instagram on a Samsung device like the S4, we've compiled a list of best practices to use in maximizing the social feature Instagram.Here are some ways to maximize Instagram on Samsung Galaxy S4:
Using Hashtags on Samsung Galaxy S4. To access Instagram, there is an app to tap and open called Instagram 4.0. Once you click on this app there is an option to access the version and begin using functions such as the hashtag features. Users can gain new followers through hashtags are a great way to gain new followers. If you run a business, you can even hashtag through the Samsung device to market while mobile.
Instagram Apps. Samsung Galaxy S4 users can access over thousands of apps used for Instagram. These downloads are available to connect to the mobile device. The apps which are created by developers are well designed and convenient for the mobile user. The apps used with Galaxy S4 will offer many ways to stay engage and update with the latest versions of Instagram.
Video. Using video for Instagram with version 4.0 allows Samsung Galaxy S4 users to shoot HD movies and record videos on the mobile device. The app allows the user to record and stop recording anytime during the process. Simply, go to the app and press start recording a video. There will be a tap video recorder button. Just hold down the button to enable live recording.
Editing Video. To edit Instagram videos recorded on the Samsung Galaxy S4 device, the user will have to be running the Instagram 4.0 app and have a video recorded. Selecting the recorded video will take the user to a choice of 13 filters. Simply choose one of the 13 filters and then select a photo cover to complete the editing of the video. Once this step is finished, the video will publish and post to the main Instagram feed.
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SoundCloud has struck a multi-year licensing deal with Universal Music, signing on the second major label ahead of a planned subscription service launch later this year. The deal will also allow SoundCloud to monetize Universal tracks with advertising, and even includes user-generated uploads that are based on Universal’s music.
“At UMG, we have long-embraced empowering entrepreneurs and innovative services such as SoundCloud,” said Universal Music Group chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge in a statement, adding: “We look forward to working with SoundCloud and supporting the company’s evolution into a successful commercial service.”
The deal with Universal had long been in the making for SoundCloud. Rumors of an impending announcement first surfaced last summer, but those talks reportedly stalled after SoundCloud got sued by rights holders in the U.K.. SoundCloud settled that lawsuit last month, clearing the way to bring Universal on board.
SoundCloud’s end goal is to build a music service with multiple revenue streams. The company started to experiment with advertising for select publishers last year, and is now getting ready to extend those ads to music licensed from Universal and other partners. In addition, the company is also looking to launch a music subscription service in the U.S. and other countries later this year.
Subscription music with an ad-supported tier — that may sound familiar, as it is pretty much what Spotify and others have been offering for years.
However, SoundCloud has a unique proposition that few others can match: The service always allowed independent creators to upload their own songs and DJ mixes. The Universal deal and others the company is striking with rights holders also cover these user-generated uploads, much in the same way YouTube monetizes user uploads for rights holders.
This means that Universal will be getting its share of advertising and subscription revenue generated with a DJ mix that includes their artist’s music, even if it has been uploaded by an unknown bedroom DJ without prior consent of the major label. The result isn’t just potentially more revenue for rights holders, but also a vastly bigger catalog than most other subscription services.
SoundCloud already has more than 100 million track available on its platform, and will likely get millions more through its partnership with Universal. The company has also previously signed a deal with Warner Music, and now just has to get Sony on board to actually launch its subscription business.
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