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Preview: Mandarin Oriental to Open Dubai Resort in 2017
September 15, 2014· · tags: Arabian Gulf, dubai, luxury events, madarin Hotel
Here’s a hotel to keep in mind for top-tier business travelers to the UAE: Mandarin Oriental will open a luxury urban resort in Dubai in 2017. The Mandarin Oriental, Dubai‘s 200 rooms and suites will include 12 over-water villas (top-picks for CEOs), accessible via private bridge. Each villa will have its own infinity edge pool and a private swim platform, allowing for direct access to the Arabian Gulf. Speaking of infinity edged pools, the resort will be centered around a variety of them that lead down to the beachfront. The innovative design will use glass walls, cabanas and exterior landscaping. The resort will also have multi-purpose function rooms, including a 5,600-square-foot ballroom with glass walls opening onto a landscaped beachfront terrace for social and business events. Mandarin Oriental, Dubai will also have nine restaurants and bars including a signature pier-top restaurant with docking facilities (private yacht, anyone?). Other dining venues will include a poolside restaurant, two bars (with sunset pier!), lobby lounge and a signature Mandarin Oriental Cake Shop. read more
MiddleEast: Dubai unveils US$3 billion city project
December 17, 2013· · tags: Al Habtoor City, Arabian Gulf, Business Bay and Dubai Water Canal, dubai, Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Metropolitan Hotel, MiddleEast, Sheikh Zayed Road
Dubai’s brand new US$3 billion (AED11 billion) Al Habtoor City project unveiled by the Al Habtoor Group last month will transform the city’s Business Bay and Dubai Water Canal area into a meetings and incentives ‘destination within a destination’, a local hotelier has claimed. The entertainment and hospitality development, which will span 10 million square feet on Sheikh Zayed Road and involve an extension of the canal, which already runs into Business Bay, will lure big international meetings business, according to Rupprecht Queitsch, General Manager of the JW Marriott Marquis Dubai, which will boast 1,608 rooms in total when its second tower opens next year. “The extension of the canal will take place outside our hotel and create a destination that is a dream for meeting planners,” he said. “With existing and new hotel inventory combined, meetings and entertainment facilities, plus the location, which is very close to the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC), the area will become very important in terms of meetings business.” Al Habtoor City is the first project to be built on Dubai Water Canal ‑ a multi‑billion-dirham project connecting the Business Bay area to the Arabian Gulf, which is scheduled to […]
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Undine – VIFF 2020 Review
Posted on September 23, 2020 September 23, 2020 by Shane Scott-Travis
VIFF favorite, German auteur Christian Petzold (Phoenix) is back with a modest-scaled new film that messes with mythology, fusing magical-reality elements with modern day fairy tale vestments while also adorned in a doomed romance thriller. It’s ultimately something of a mixed bag, but Undine is also never boring and on occasion is quite radiant and often very achingly romantic.
The most obvious and enjoyable attraction to Undine is the film’s star and Petzold’s new muse, Paula Beer (this is their second film together after 2018’s Transit), who earlier this year brought home Best Actress at Berlinale. Beer is the film’s eponymous heroine, Undine, a historian living in Berlin who lectures on urban development. It’s in the lecture hall after one such session that she clandestinely runs into Christoph (Germany’s answer to Joaquin Phoenix and Pertzold’s other new muse, Franz Rogowski) and soon the two are getting on like a house on fire. Undine, when we first meet her, is recovering from romantic failings, but when she meets Christoph their attraction is almost instant.
Christoph, who’s a diver, has his own relationship baggage, but after meeting Undine the two are drawn to one another and resistance is futile. Watching their romance blossom, bolstered by the skilled lensing of cinematographer Hans Fromme and Petzold’s unabashedly amorous, and maudlin (not a dis), affection for cinematic romance, makes the affair between Undine and Christoph a dizzying thrill. Surreal and almost sanctimonious one minute, and playfully comedic the next, Beer and Rogowski brighten their every frame.
But as all loves go, at least the ones written on the silver screen, ambiguities and upsets unfold, the least of which being Undine’s true nature, which has a little something to do with an undersea ancestry of a most fabulous nature. When she matter-of-factly tells her paramour “If you leave, you have to die,” there’s something more than fatalistic in her admonishment.
Undine maintains a visual grace throughout but unfortunately the story starts to lose focus and meander on a few ill-advised tangents that take away from what’s gone on before, and it’s a pity. As the film reaches to a hurried resolution and after a disorienting chronological bump, Undine seems to undo some of the magic and mystification it so elegantly established early on. And it’s here, not at all in the telling but in the wrap up and resolution that the film really falters and we realize that Undine is but a minor, lowkey diversion from a major and remarkable filmmaker. While not without its many charms, Undine, at the watery finish, sinks when it’s supposed to swim.
Taste of Cinema Rating: 3.5 stars (out of 5)
Author Bio: Shane Scott-Travis is a film critic, screenwriter, comic book author/illustrator and cineaste. Currently residing in Vancouver, Canada, Shane can often be found at the cinema, the dog park, or off in a corner someplace, paraphrasing Groucho Marx. Follow Shane on Twitter @ShaneScottravis.
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Rogero names two to top city positions
I'm kind of busy today and don't have time to be a smart ass (an ass, maybe, but smart - no), so I'll just post Knoxville Mayor-elect Madeline Rogero's spin release as presented. Besides, I don't even cover the city. (I love using that line. Heh.)
Anyhoo, Rogero named Eddie Mannis and Bill “Wild Man” Lyons to some top deputy positions. (Actually, Lyons was already a top deputy, but I digress.)
Mayor-elect Madeline Rogero today announced the appointment of two top deputies to the mayor in her administration, citing their excellent backgrounds to help carry out the city’s initiatives.
Eddie Mannis, owner of Prestige Cleaners, will serve as chief operating officer/deputy to the mayor, and Bill Lyons, current senior director of policy and communications for the city, will become chief policy officer/deputy to the mayor.
“I am grateful that these two very capable individuals have agreed to serve in leading roles for our new administration,” Rogero said.
“Eddie’s extensive background in business and the community will make sure that we are providing the highest and most efficient level of service to the public possible, and Bill’s experience in developing a number of important civic programs will help achieve my goal of ensuring that all the people of Knoxville have a voice in what the city does.”
Mannis will take a leave of absence from Prestige Cleaners, a business he started in 1985. By emphasizing quality in operations, Mannis grew Prestige to become one of the leading corporate citizens in Knoxville.
Mannis and Prestige Cleaners started the popular HonorAir Knoxville program that recognizes the service and sacrifice of our region’s World War II and Korean War veterans. He has led many flights to Washington, D.C., for veterans all expenses paid to view memorials in their honor. He serves as chair of the Dogwood Arts Festival board of directors and is a member of the board of the Knoxville Chamber.
“I am very excited about joining this administration and helping the mayor-elect carry out her vision for moving Knoxville forward,” Mannis said. “I plan to use my business experience to help manage the city’s resources efficiently and make sure that the programs of this administration are carried out in the most effective manner possible.”
Lyons worked closely with Rogero in the Bill Haslam mayoral administration while she was director of community development for the city.
At the city, Lyons developed an urban growth approach that focused on the city’s core neighborhoods. He co-chaired the public process for the Downtown North redevelopment district and co-chaired the task force that recommended the Office of Neighborhoods be created.
He created the position of sustainability coordinator that led to the city’s Solar America Cities designation, the LEED certification of the Transit Center, and along with the mayor-elect co-chaired the Energy and Sustainability Task Force.
Lyons led the process that guided downtown redevelopment and supported reuse of historic buildings through disciplined use of PILOT and TIF funding mechanisms. As former chair of Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation, he led the public process that led to the redevelopment of Market Square, the addition of the Market Square Parking Garage, and the Regal movie theater downtown.
“I appreciate the opportunity to continue serving the city and mayor-elect Rogero in this new role,” Lyons said. “I look forward to developing strategy and helping manage the positive public initiatives planned by this new administration.”
Dr. Lyons is on leave from the political science department at the University of Tennessee, and the Bill Lyons Pavilion on Market Square is named after him for his previous service to the city and his role in downtown development.
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Charles Ernest Baker holds the position of Secretary, Vice President & General Counsel of Ball Corp. Mr. Baker is also on the board of Rexam Ltd., Ball UK Acquisition Ltd. and Ball UK Holdco Ltd. and Member of The Canadian Bar Association, Member of American Bar Association, Member of Association of Corporate Counsel, Member of The Law Society of Upper Canada and Member of The Colorado Bar Association.
He previously held the position of Partner at Fraser & Beatty.
Charles Ernest Baker received an MBA from the University of Denver, an undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and a graduate degree from the University of Toronto.
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Col. Holbrook and the Early Triumph Days
Lt. Col. C.V. Holbrook joined Triumph in Coventry in 1918 as Works Manager and he talks about the development of the firm from bicycles to motorcycles and cars.
For some years before nineteen hundred and fourteen I was at the War Office engaged in assisting to introduce mechanical transport into the army. In August nineteen hundred and fourteen on the outbreak of war the Triumph Motorcycle Model H was selected to be the principal motorcycle for army purposes. It was a simply designed machine, 500cc, belt drive, no gearbox and a very simple front spring form. I personally was well-acquainted with the model. I had owned myself three between 1910 and nineteen hundred and fourteen and had found it to be a well-made and very reliable machine.
It must have been about August 6th 1914 that I was authorised to phone Mr Bettmann in Coventry. He told me that he had about fifty machines in stock and I told him to despatch them that day to an army depot in Bulford.
The price was fixed later by the War Office Contracts Department and from then on the whole Triumph output was purchased. Even then the output was not big enough for requirements and many dozens two stroke machines were purchased. It was evident that despatch riders and others always tried to get allotted a Triumph and undoubtedly the Triumph H was the popular machine with the army. Other makes of motorcycles were allotted to Royal Navy, Flying Corps and Machine Gun Corps, etc., but the whole output of Triumph went to the Army.
It was about mid-August that Mr Bettmann, I first met Mr Bettmann. He became – he came to the War Office to see me and that was the beginning of an association and later a personal friendship. In nineteen hundred and seventeen the War Office Mechanical Transport Department was transferred to the Ministry of Munitions and Sir Cable-Holden formerly a Director of B.S.A. went over to the Ministry with it, and I went also as his Assistant.
At the end of nineteen hundred and seventeen Sir Cable-Holden resigned and I was appointed to succeed him. This seems the history of the beginning of mechanical transport in the Army, but during those years Mr Bettmann paid me frequent visits and with the Ministry’s help the Triumph output was increased to about a hundred a week, all of which were allotted to the Army.
When the war ended in nineteen hundred and eighteen I decided to leave the Army and resigned in September, October 1919. Much to my surprise, in November, Mr Bettmann came to see me and said that now I was no longer in the Army he felt free to speak to me and invited me to join the Board of Triumph Company as Works Director. I accepted and went to Coventry late November nineteen hundred and nineteen. During my appointments at the Ministry of Munitions I met and had close contacts with many well-known personalities of Coventry at that time. Mr Percy Martin, Chairman of B.S.A. and Daimler, he was Controller of Petrol Engines at the Ministry and I spent a considerable time in the Ministry helping him. Sir Alfred Herbert, Sir Edward Iliffe, later Lord Iliffe , Mr, later Sir John Siddeley, later Lord Kenilworth; Sir Arthur Duckham not of Coventry, the well-known in Motor Trade Oil.
After a month or two with Mr Bettmann I learnt some of the history of the Triumph Cycle Company. I am speaking from memory of many years ago. Mr Bettmann and Mr Shoots (SP. ED – not Schulte) , both engaged in the past with the Singer Sewing Machine Company in the early nineteen hundreds decided that they would like to form a Company for the assembly of pedal cycles and take part in the great boom of pedal cycles at that time. They purchased a little factory in Much Park Street and started assembling parts made by other Companies. It was an instantaneous success and they were well satisfied with their returns. At this stage they were joined by a Mr Fridlander, a well-known Coventry man and at that time the motorcycle developed and became popular. A Mr Schulte joined them. The Priory Street factory was built and Mr Schulte developed with great success the Triumph motorcycle. He was assisted by a genius, a Mr (Charles – ED) Hathaway and on his, Mr Hathaway death, continued by a Mr Frankton, The Triumph motorcycle gradually became very popular. Mr Schulte was a great enthusiast and sales increased I believe to about fifty a week. Mr Bettmann devoted his energies to his old love pedal cycles and Mr Schulte devoted his energies to the motorcycle.
The war came in 1914. Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey became Chairman and the factory, as I have said before, devoted its energies to increasing the output, all of which was already sold to the War Office. I rather think the pedal cycle laid fallow during the war. A year after the war ended Mr Schulte resigned and I took his place. In nineteen hundred and twenty there was a boom in the sale of motorcycles and Triumph maintained their output at about seventy a week, but many of the army Triumph motorcycles were thrown on the market and the Triumph Company purchased a great number and started a re-conditioning, re-building bay and sold a great number at satisfactory prices.
In 1922 the slump in motorcycles commenced. Mr Schulte before leaving had developed a new design 550cc machine, chain drive, 3-speed gearbox, newly designed frame and forks. This model was put on the market late 1921 at a price somewhere near £130. The sale at this price was very poor, less than thirty per week. Competitive machines at the same price, somewhere near £130 also did not sell and all was gloom. In nineteen hundred and twenty-two a cheap but good Triumph motorcycle was designed and offered at the November 1922 Motorcycle Show at about £42. This was an instantaneous success and over 33,000 were sold in the year. Rootes Brothers of Maidstone, never been Triumph agents before, took over 2,000 in that year, but alas the following year the slump continued. Competition got more intense and the motorcycle did not appear to be a lasting business. This was the moment when Triumph tried to enter the car business, but with meagre success.
Although in one year Triumph exported more cars to Australia than any other British firm. There is little more to say. The motorcycle business was sold in spite of signs of recovery, the car business was too competitive and the Triumph factory was not designed suitably for mass production and just before the Second World War the same thing happened to Triumph as to many more car firms before and since.
Colonel Sir Claude Vivian Holbrook (1886-1979)
1934. Name changed to Triumph Co. Ltd.
1936. Triumph decides to split motorcycle and automobile production into two separate and independent companies in January.
1941. Work on a new motorcycle factory at the village of Meriden started (reputed to be at the geographic center of Britain).
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Artificial intelligence robot with emotional air strikes
Recently, Xi Jinping in the "review", a variety of artificial intelligence robot, the development of intelligent Gowild technology companies in the world's first social emotional robot "childe white" our lovely, very eye-catching.
It is reported that "the robot of Artificial Intelligence Review" developers including iFLYTEK, Gowild, intelligent technology required, Ninebot, Roobo, cloud, and blue Kang company, in the understanding of the artificial intelligence technology the robot of artificial intelligence development, learning much about the technology fully affirmed. As early as last year, Xi DA and Li Keqiang congratulated the opening ceremony of the world robotics conference. Why
do state leaders attend robot related activities frequently?
Artificial intelligence tuyere to strike a good opportunity for the overtaking of the Chinese bend
NPC and CPPCC, artificial intelligence, unmanned etc. has become a hot topic, to benefit from the policy and Dongfeng Industrial development needs, in 2015 alone, the number of China's investment in artificial intelligence agency has reached 48, is expected in 2020 China artificial intelligence market scale will reach 9 billion 100 million yuan.
The global mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) is being held, and the discussion on the commercial application of artificial intelligence is also concerned. In this regard, "AI+", represented by "Gong Zi Xiao Bai", will answer the question well.
Since the announcement of the launch of "childe Xiao Bai" in Beijing, the first sale of 1000 Jingdong has been snapped up by netizens in just three days, and the monthly sales volume has reached more than 2000 units, creating the best record for the single sale of robot industry. In addition, the "white childe" was also the young consumer groups to evaluate the "personality, fashion, feeling and affordable fashion products, as early as 2015 on the tens of millions of Pre-A financing, valuation of 130 million, 2 months over 3 times, repeatedly refresh the artificial intelligence financing speed, precise positioning of" childe "a main market of young mice was verified to first express. This does not mean that the market has recognized the emotional robot represented by Xiao Zi Bai, and has attracted more investment institutions' attention.
"Childe white LED Internet plus enclosure AI+ to grasp the mental competition
Today, Internet plus the rodeo competition, is rapidly evolving into the mental competition, from the "Internet plus" to "AI+" rapid iterative evolution. And, "AI+" will become a major trend in social work, education, and other aspects of application and development, such as "AI+," AI+ financial security "unmanned" AI+, "education, sports, health care and other social applications of artificial intelligence set off wave of reconstruction of business model and competition rule.
From the "artificial intelligence" to "AI+", officially launched the white childe, artificial intelligence will no longer be the scene in the movie, but as the most advanced and basic technology, is to promote the development and Reform in various fields and become the cornerstone technology of the fourth industrial revolution, artificial intelligence is expected to catch up from behind in the new China a round of technological innovation tide, is likely to become Chinese overtaking opportunity.
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The design of emotional robot "development of Gowild intelligent technology company, our smart white childe" petite, highly popular with young people. Its development, with "return to human nature, return to emotion, reshaped the connection" as a belief, has a powerful knowledge map and data analysis ability. It is not only the small housekeeper of the user, but also the small assistant of the user's life. The longer it gets along with the user, the more the user is understood.
It is reported that the "young white" second generation of emotional social robot boy white [Youth Edition] will be officially launched in May 18th. It not only adds to the sense of fashion and interest on the basis of the first generation, but the concept of "pocket edition" will make it the best playmate for young people. At the same time, the two generation version will move towards pan entertainment, and launch various IP products, creating a new pattern of AI+ pan entertainment. It will make people "sprout" and look forward to full.
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From the Indiegogo congregation raised $2 million 200 thousand to develop the robot "Jibo", to the Japanese high school admission robot "Pepper", from Rolle developed the robot "Robby", then to "Alfa dog robot of artificial intelligence, Google and South Korea chess player Li Shishi" man-machine war "(AlphaGo), and then to the development of artificial intelligence Microsoft Tay online chat robot...... Various kinds of robots have a wide range of functions, but the direction of development is serious. Most of them are lack of perception in technology. They are not smart enough to understand feelings and "through human nature".
Some people say that the more developed the social network is, the more lonely people are. When both hardware and software are becoming more and more powerful and intelligent, some human specific emotional needs are magnified. It is imperative to create a consumer, intelligent, emotional, sociable robot to supplement the market gap to meet the needs of human beings.
Therefore, the development of intelligent Gowild technology companies in the world's first social emotional robot "childe white" Adorable force ", the champion
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Ability to stop fluids from passing through. For example, certain materials, such as plastic sheeting, resist penetration by water.
Incapable of having things passed through to penetrate.
Not being affected by something.
Any article or device used in any given activity; tools, instruments, utensils, etc.
To provide the means for carrying out an act or to use.
Implied
Something that is inferred but is not explicitly stated and may be deducted from relevant information.
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Property that is used consistently for many years without challenge by the actual owner.
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Legal Doctrine: all new homes are assumed to meet all building codes and are fit for habitation.
Bursting inward.
Impost
A column that supports the end of an arch.
Load bearing portion of a wall.
A fund set aside for future needs.
Impounds
That portion of a monthly mortgage payment which is placed in an account to be used to pay for property taxes, private mortgage insurance and insurance.
To fill or saturate all of the spaces of any item with another substance.
A mark, imprint, dent or something made by physical pressure.
An imitation of the behavior of someone else.
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Land that has been developed for use and has had installation of such utilities as water, sewer, roads and building structures. These improvements make the raw land increase its usability, thereby increasing the market value.
Change to a house that adds value, prolongs its use or adapts it to different use.
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Electric resistance welding with the use of electric current pulses.
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Napoleon III was maybe a great leader for France until he started to deal with foreign affairs. Nov 09, 2016 · The United States of America has overwhelmingly voted for the 70-year Donald J Trump to become President Nikita Khrushchev was a good leader, who wanted to help people. It will show the life of Napoleon from when he was a young boy, till he died in 1821. Brian schmidt cosmicpinot 5 sep 2013 peter doherty – election 2013 essay michael childress mark king. Napoleon conquered a substantial portion of Europe in the early 19th century, and he served as the emperor of France twice Sep 09, 2019 · Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military general, the first emperor of France and one of the world's greatest military leaders. Such a great leader must have many admirable qualities Those leaders were special and unique. Napoleon revolutionized …. Napoleon’s rise came in a time of chaos, during the French Revolution Jun 02, 2020 · MGT 280 Becoming a Great Leader Research Essay Assignment Expectations Use the APA-formatted template (MGT280 Case1) to create your submission. We must remember that Napoleon was modelled after Joseph Stalin, one of the most ruthless leaders to have lived. He was an excellent student, and he studied the tactics of previous rulers. These talents were refined and reached their height during the battles of Ulm, Austerlitz and Jena in the period of 1805-1806 Widely regarded as one of the best military and political leaders in history, Napoleon Bonaparte's achievements and reforms clearly created a positive outcome for France. Essay On Silence Of The Lambs
Napoleon, through his military conquests and political alterations, made France a great nation. During his first military victory as a commanding general at Piedmonte, Napoleon would be seen as a generous leader. One ground Napoleon may hold been such a great leader and radical because was he was raised in a household of groups. He had great qualities..Napoleon was born on 15 August 1979 in Ajaccio, which is the capital of the island of Corsica. Napoleon was one of the first leaders to rule over so many territories at the same time, which in France made him and innovator and a hero Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte was a tremendous military leader. His new tactics, leadership skills, and many conquests led him to be praised by many people Napoleon, a main character in George Orwell's Animal Farm, was very cruel. In this image we again see Lawrence’s use of limited but effective colors <p>So you better learn some romantic Russian phrases to charm a cute native speaker! The second essay is a short essay on Great Leader of 150-200 words. Napoleon Buonaparte was a military genius who, at the age of sixteen, gained the rank of lieutenant in the French Army.
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Class 11 Essays Winning the business war could be dependent upon many factors such as focus in creating a plan, flexibility, good people with skills and equipment, a good leader with abilities to motivate and manage people.4 Napoleon Bonaparte was considered a masterful soldier, an excellent administrator and a brilliant individual in the history, who had made use of these factors to win his battles.5 He played a …. A great leader will strive to find out how your mind works He does not show good and true leadership skills. Source: Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802, shortly after being appointed Consul (leader) of the French Republic Document 3 “I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. so why does everyone consider him such an effective leader? It will show the life of Napoleon from when he was a young boy, till he died in 1821. so why does everyone consider him such an effective leader? As a military genius, Napoleon won many battles to expand France and was always welcomed back to France as a hero. The Kingdom of Great Joseon, now known as Korea, was a dynasty and a really strong empire for more than 600 years. He had an almost never-ending list of success. Unfortunately this noble soul, apostle of peace and love was shot dead by a frantic Nathu Ram Godse on 30 January 1948. He was devoted, loyal to the nation, was easy to follow Napoleon, a main character in George Orwell's Animal Farm, was very cruel.
After seizing political power in …. Napoleon was one of the greatest conquerors in the history of the modern world. Written By: Jayeon Kim. Napoleon revolutionized military organization and training. Bonaparte proved he had many traits of a great leader. Napoleon was a great leader of France and the person that the country needed after the revolution. Jan 08, 2015 · essay on othello is a great leader a man truly worthy of admiration click to continue Since its development, audio visual has become something extremely important that it is now a necessity rather than a luxury in order for the common man to. However, even the corrupt exhibit admirable qualities; A reader carefully examining Orwell's text is forced to conclude that Napoleon is unquestionably a good leader in his charismatic, albeit Machiavellian, …. Having come from a poor Corsican family, the leader continued his ambition to rule over the vast. Beginning with the military school, Napoleon worked hard, loved to read and discover new information for himself.
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Dolly Parton For Glastonbury Festival Slot?
Country music legend rumoured to be playing 'Sunday Legends' slot...
Dolly Parton has been linked with an appearance at the Glastonbury Festival in 2014.
The country music icon is claimed by The Sun newspaper to have been lined-up for a performance on the Pyramid Stage in the "Sunday Legends" slot.
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St. Kitts and Nevis argues for highlighted attention for SIDS at the World Heritage Committee
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POST-JUDGMENT APPLICATION IN GUYANA LAND APPEAL DISMISSED BY CCJ
August 11, 2018 MyCaribbean
Port of Spain, Trinidad. The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) today dismissed a postjudgment
application, brought by Mr. Deonarine Natram, to reopen the court’s recent decision in
Narine v Natram. In the previous judgment, dated 10th May 2018, the CCJ had settled a dispute
over land in Guyana between two brothers, Mr. Kowsal Narine and Mr. Natram. The CCJ
declared that Mr. Narine had been in possession of the disputed property since 1991 and that any
right Mr. Natram had to the land had been ended.
In June 2018, Mr. Natram asked that the judgment be reviewed, or the appeal reheard on the basis
that the Court’s judgment was in error. The application stated that, based on section 22 of the Title
of Land (Prescription and Land) Act, his brother, Mr Narine, could not have been in possession
for the statutorily required period of twelve years. He stated that the counterclaim he filed in 2003
would have stopped time from running in his brother’s favour. He added that the Court could hear
his application as the order had not been issued due to an outstanding issue on costs.
The Court decided to hear the unusual application since the final order had not been issued, relying
on its recent decision in The Queen v Gilbert Henry, where it stated that when an order has not
been finalized, a court may review its decision in exceptional circumstances. Both parties were
then asked to make written submissions.
Upon review of the submissions, the Court found that the issues raised in Mr. Natram’s complaint
did not merit reopening the appeal. The CCJ accepted that while there was a counterclaim for
damages. There was, as pointed out at the hearing by Mr Narine’s attorneys and accepted by Mr
Natram’s attorneys, no specific claim for possession of the land. If there had been then section 22
would be applicable. There was therefore no basis to sustain an allegation that there were
exceptional circumstances here to warrant the reopening of the appeal. The application was
dismissed and costs were awarded to Mr. Narine, the appellant in the substantive case.
The full judgment of the Court is available on the Court’s website at www.ccj.org.
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The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.
— Fidel Castro
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Michael started playing bass at age 15 at the time of the Punk explosion.
Michael played with a regular line up of school friends in a band that frequently changed it’s name, at various times they were known as The Hurt / The Ancient Greeks / Downtown and played infrequently around the few bars that allowed punk bands to play gigs. Success never materialised though an appearance in an early copy of ‘viz’ magazine and a single that made the ‘john peel’ show playlist were the highlights.
Michael switched to rhythm guitar and continued to write and record his own material for a number of years though as a hobby rather than for anything serious.
Getting together with Jamie ‘Baldy Holly��� Bell to play a couple of charity gigs (vocals and two acoustic guitars) was the humble beginnings of the ‘Baldy Holly Band’ As the line up of the band evolved, and Mala Watson(lead) and Aaron Overton(Drums)joined, the need for a Bass player arose and harking back to his musical roots Michael once more took up the baton, switching from acoustic rhythm guitar back to Bass.
In 2008 Michael acquired his first ever Double Bass and soon introduced this into the band helping to forge the unique sound that is ‘The Baldy Holly Band’.
“As a kid growing up in Benwell, Rock ‘n’ Roll music was the order of the day in our house. I never lost touch with my early musical roots, and it was great when me and Baldy got together, to play those early gigs. These days the music we create is nothing short of sublime! One thing is for certain-with Baldy at the helm- Rock n Roll is here to stay!”
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Stentor ¾ Double Bass – Shadow pick up
Peavey 1200 x 12 channel PA system
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June 16 @ 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
© 2021 The Baldy Holly Band
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Posts published by “Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner”
Volleyball team coach leaves after three years at Mills
By Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner on May 4, 2009
After three years with the athletic department, volleyball head coach Daniel Rasay will be stepping down from his position in search of new opportunities.
As a former member of the University of Hawaii volleyball team, that won a national championship in 2002, Rasay began his position here at Mills with high expectations.
SAMEAPI fails to acknowledge cultural differences
By Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner on April 6, 2009
April has rolled around again which means, for me, a mysterious throbbing below the surface of my temple has been revived. But it isn't until I stroll into the Student Union and study the fliers and intricately decorated posters fluttering in the breeze that I realize the simple, yet plain cause of this annoying, throbbing pain.
Tennis team serves up victories in Los Angeles tournament
The tennis team returned this past spring break with three out of four wins under their belt - making this year's team trip to L.A. the Cyclones' most successful one yet.
The Los Angeles trip is an annual tradition for the tennis team, and takes place every spring break.
Swimmers volunteer time and qualify for nationals
By Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner on February 2, 2009
The Mills College swim team resumes a successful winter season this semester with the largest number of swimmers qualified for nationals. Not only did they complete a rigorous training week before the spring semester began, but they also managed to squeeze in a community service project on Martin Luther King Junior's birthday holiday.
After fall endurance training, crew begins season
By Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner on January 21, 2009
The crew team begins training for their spring season this February, with an intensity level carried over from a rigorous fall non-traditional season, set in place by an enthusiastic new head coach.
When Angela Badran stepped up from her previous position of four years as assistant coach to take the place of Wendy Franklin-Willis as head coach, she brought with her a fresh attitude and a
new dynamic.
Gardasil vaccine – good or dangerous?
By Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner on October 6, 2008
"We chose to help protect ourselves against cervical cancer and other HPV diseases. Now the choice is yours."
Recognize that line? It comes from an ad for Gardasil, the vaccine reported to offer protection against cervical cancer and Human Papillomavirus, or HPV, for women ages 11 through 26 years old.
Cross Country team places third in Invitational
By Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner on September 22, 2008
On September 13th, Cyclones raced to the top at the Mills College Cross Country Invitational, placing overall third out of six competing schools. With three races under their belt in less than a month, the win only foreshadows what's in store for the fiercely dedicated team.
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Psychiatric nurse practitioner joins Mills counseling staff
By Lindsay Baillie on March 3, 2015
Psychiatric nurse practitioner Deborah Johnson is excited to work with fellow Mills students as part of the counseling staff. (Richard Pan)
The Cowell Building recently opened its doors to a new psychiatric nurse practitioner; Deborah Johnson joined the Mills counseling staff in February to work with privately insured graduate and undergraduate students.
The recent hire of Johnson is part of a pilot program in collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. At Mills, she will be able to prescribe medication, talk to students about treatment options and provide an outlet for students who are unable to leave the campus for psychiatric help.
“Since this is a pilot program, there are still details to be ironed out, but we are very pleased that this collaboration with UCSF will help us to enhance our mental health service for many students here at Mills,” Dr. Dorian Newton, assistant dean and director of Counseling and Psychological Services, said in an email.
Johnson is currently an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Community Health Systems at UCSF and received her Post-Master’s Nurse Practitioner Certificate at UCSF. Johnson has a Master of Science, is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse and a Board Certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Registered Nurse.
Johnson will be available to students who carry private insurance and different forms of Kaiser Insurance — not those who carry the Student Health Plan. Students with Kaiser Insurance have separate access to psychiatric services through their plans, Dr. Newton said.
Second-year MFA student Dani Rubinstein-Towler, who has private insurance, thinks that this is a positive change.
“Mills is taking more of a step forward to help students who need mental health counseling,” Rubinstein-Towler said. “Everyone can get some sort of help now.”
Johnson hopes to bring an interdisciplinary approach to counseling. She believes that medicine is only one piece to mental health and strongly recommends students who need medication to get some form of counseling. Johnson said that the new program will bring out the best of what she and psychologists can offer.
She is open to learning what’s important for Mills students through mental health and is interested in collaborating and connecting with the staff and students on campus.
Johnson’s office is located in the Cowell Building. Her office hours are on Mondays from 9 AM to 6 PM. Johnson urges students who may need medication over the summer to visit her office early in the spring, to ensure they have prescriptions to last into the fall semester.
Appointments can also be made by calling the Cowell front desk at 510-430-2130.
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HGTV and Food Network Simulcast "All-Star Gingerbread Build" Nov. 28
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TNT's #1 New Cable Drama "Snowpiercer" Receives Third Season Order
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HBO's "Euphoria" Second Special Episode to Premiere Early on HBO Max on January 22
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The Biggest Band Breakups, Icons of Pop Music, Celebrity True Crime Mysteries and a Spy Thriller Highlight a February 2021 Lineup with All New Original Stories
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HBO's "Black Art: In the Absence of Light" Debuts February 9
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French-Hebrew Language Thriller "Possessions" to Debut on HBO Max on January 28
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BET Greenlights Third Season for Hit Scripted Drama "Tyler Perry's Sistas"
The series renewal lands in anticipation of the mid-season premiere of "Tyler Perry's Sistas" Wednesday, January 27 at 9:00/8:00c.
Peacock Is Going Back to Bayside as Critically Acclaimed Comedy "Saved by the Bell" Is Renewed for a Second Season
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Egypt / Libya / Religion / World News | By Brandon Jones
Egypt attack Libya after Islamic State murders Coptic Christians in video
Islamic State released a video on Sunday to show the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya and President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned that his country would respond to the deaths as it saw fit.
Speaking on national television hours after the release of the video, Sisi said Cairo would choose the “necessary means and timing to avenge the criminal killings”.
Egypt’s state news agency MENA quoted the spokesman for the Coptic Church as confirming that 21 Egyptian Christians believed to be held by Islamic State were dead.
photo/Islamic State flag
A spokesman for the Armed Forces General Command announced airstrikes on state radio Monday, marking the first time Cairo had publicly acknowledged taking military action in neighboring Libya.
The video, which appeared on the Twitter feed of a website that supports Islamic State (ISIS), depicts several men in orange jumpsuits being led along a beach, each accompanied by a masked militant. The men are made to kneel and one militant, dressed differently than the others, addresses the camera in North American-accented English.
“All crusaders: safety for you will be only wishes, especially if you are fighting us all together. Therefore we will fight you all together,” he said. “The sea you have hidden Sheikh Usama Bin Laden’s body in, we swear to Allah we will mix it with your blood.”
The men are then laid face-down and simultaneously beheaded.
In a statement released Sunday evening, White House press secretary Josh Earnest condemned the purported killing as “despicable” and “cowardly,” adding that the group’s barbarity “knows no bounds.” The White House statement did not refer to the hostages as Christians, but only as “Egyptian citizens” and “innocents.”
“ISIL’s barbarity knows no bounds,” said Earnest, using another acronym for the terror group. “It is unconstrained by faith, sect, or ethnicity. … This heinous act once again underscores the urgent need for a political resolution to the conflict in Libya, the continuation of which only benefits terrorist groups, including ISIL. We call on all Libyans to strongly reject this and all acts of terrorism and to unite in the face of this shared and growing threat.”
Mina Thabet, a researcher at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, who has been communicating regularly with the families of the hostages, said he believed that all but one of the victims in the video were Egyptians.
Thabet blamed the Egyptian government for what he asserted was a delayed response to the hostage crisis. “There is blood on the hands of the authorities who could have saved them but failed to.”
In the weeks between the abduction and the release of the video, the families of the kidnapped Egyptians criticised what they saw as an inadequate response to the kidnapping.
The men’s families complained that Egypt’s ministry of foreign affairs did not immediately respond to their inquiries. One relative said the ministry had advised the families not to speak to the media.
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Ellsbury should be in a Fowler mood…
Dustin Fowler continues to open eyes in Yankees training camp. As a center fielder, he looms as a potential successor for the King of the DL, Jacoby Ellsbury.
Fowler is currently ranked as the #9 prospect on MLB.com's list of Top 30 Yankees Prospects.
It's almost been a given that shortstop Jorge Mateo will eventually be moved to center field to make way for the superior play and leadership of top prospect Gleyber Torres. Yet, here is Fowler saying "Whoa, wait a minute!".
We hear so much about the prospects acquired by the Yankees last summer which elevated the organization to the best or second best farm system depending upon whom you ask. The homegrown Yankees seem to get lost in the shuffle. I've quietly heard Fowler's name for several years. He was drafted in the 18th round of the 2013 Draft. The Yankees paid him $278,000 to forego his letter of intent for Georgia Southern University.
Fowler opened eyes last year at AA Trenton with 12 HR, 88 RBI, and .281 BA. He also stole 25 bags. A lefty, the 22-year-old Georgia native is viewed as a potential 5-tool player if his power continues to develop. It would make more sense to keep Fowler in center than to move Mateo there unless one of the two is moved in a potential trade.
Fowler is an interesting player. He has improved each year and is pushing his potential much higher than an 18th round pick. Kudos to the Yankees scouts who discovered him. High school kids are incredibly hard to forecast. But here's a kid that has already exceeded expectations.
It's very possible that Fowler could be the player the Yankees were seeking when they invested 7 years and $153 million in DL's-bury. I don't think Ellsbury will make it to the end of his contract with the Yankees (I know, a statement of the obvious). The question is when and how much will it cost the team to unload the disappointment.
Fowler leads me to envision this possible future lineup:
C-Gary Sanchez
1B-Greg Bird
2B-Jorge Mateo
SS-Gleyber Torres
3B-Miguel Andujar
RF-Aaron Judge
CF-Dustin Fowler
LF-Clint Frazier
DH-Tyler Austin
This lineup may never materialize but it looks good on paper, in my opinion. Most likely, Didi Gregorius stays at short, Torres is moved to second, and Starlin Castro goes to third. Another speculated path would put Bryce Harper in the outfield and/or Manny Machado at third. Regardless of what happens, Fowler (at some point in the future) looks excellent in center regardless of who surrounds him.
So, here's hoping Fowler's journey leads him to the vast area in center at Yankee Stadium. And Jacoby Ellsbury? Don't let the door hit you on the way out…
Former Yankees pitcher Caleb Cotham has retired. He was part of the package that went to the Cincinnati Reds in the trade for Aroldis Chapman. He had been part of the Yankees bullpen in 2015 before the trade after a very productive year in the minors. Only 29, he posted on Tweeter that he is “no longer willing to pay the emotional/physical price to rehab/play at the highest level”. After being removed from the Reds’ 40-man roster last fall, he had recently signed a minor league deal with the Seattle Mariners. I wish him the very best with his post-playing career.
Naturally, on a day I chose to pick on Jacoby Ellsbury, he hits like he is supposed to. In yesterday’s spring game against Atlanta, Ellsbury went 3-for-3 with 2 stolen bases. It’s just a facade. He’ll trip and land on the DL tomorrow. Fowler also made a difference. He walked in the 6th, after replacing Brett Gardner, with the bases loaded to force in a run. He scored later in the 6-run 6th inning on a Clint Frazier groundout. He also tripled in the 9th. After jumping ahead 7-2, the Yankees held on to beat the Braves, 8-7.
They move to 11-3 for the Spring.
I know this is a Yankees blog but I have to run a little off-topic. Okay, a lot off topic. So if you are interested in Yankees talk only, please quit reading.
I am very excited about the upcoming Sons of Anarchy spinoff pilot called Mayans MC. Developed by Kurt Sutter and Elgin James, Mayans MC occurs in the same universe or mythology as Sons of Anarchy but after Jax Teller's death.
The Mayans were originally adversaries and eventually allies for the Sons of Anarchy MC, Redwood Originals charter. The Mayans (Oakland/Northern CA charter) were led by Marcus Alvarez (played by Emilio Rivera). In the new story, Alvarez is the Founder and National President of the Mayans Motorcycle Club. But the focus will be on the Santo Padre charter on the Mexi-Cali border. The charter President is Esai "Taino" Osorio (John Ortiz), a cousin to Alvarez.
The protagonist is a young prospect named Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes (played by JD Pardo). According to the press release, EZ is the gifted son of a proud Latino family, whose American Dream is snuffed out by Cartel violence. Now, his need for vengeance drives him toward a life he never intended and can never escape.
Edward James Olmos plays EZ's father, Felipe, and Clayton Cardenas plays his brother Angel, a full patch member of the MC.
Other cast members include Antonio Jaramillo as Michael "Riz" Ariza, Vice President of the Santo Padre charter, and Richard Cabral as Johnny "El Coco" Cruz, a full patch member. The release for the Cruz character tells of an Army sharpshooter who once shot a cigar out of his Sergeant's mouth from a half mile away...while stoned. Irish actress Sarah Bolger has joined the cast as the first female regular. She’ll play Emily, the beautiful “guera” next door and childhood sweetheart of EZ. Per the release: But when Romeo departed, this Juliet didn’t unsheathe the dagger, she traded it in for diamond studs and a mansion on the hill.
Filming of the Pilot takes place this month in Los Angeles. There is no word yet if FX Network will pick up Mayans MC for its fall lineup. This is an exceptional cast with an incredible story to tell. I am excited about the potential of the show and want to do my part to promote it.
Kurt Sutter is a genius with this genre as evidenced by Sons of Anarchy. Charlie Hunnam might not be in this potential new series but I am sure JD Pardo and his new castmates will rise to the challenge.
Posted by Scott Fiedler at 7:30 AM
Labels: Caleb Cotham, Dustin Fowler, Elgin James, FX Network, Jacoby Ellsbury, Kurt Sutter, Mayans MC, MLB, Sons of Anarchy, Spring Training, Yankees
Julia's Rants March 10, 2017 at 4:43 PM
Ellsbury will never reach his full potential....he is much too fragile.
This is where I think the "business" of baseball is bull shit. There is no way that the Yankees will release Ellsbury because they owe him $86 million. No other team in baseball wants to give any thing more than a bag of balls for him. Here's my point. If we trade him, we eat all of his salary and get nothing substantial in return. If we release him, we get nothing in return except a player in our system that produces at a higher level. Is that not worth $500,000?
Ken Reed March 11, 2017 at 12:59 AM
IF they release him, we still have to pay him his $86m! If they sit him on the bench, maybe he will come to realize he should ask for his release (retirement) at HALF PAY?!?
I can dream can't I?
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“Go 2” by XTC - album review
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Their second album - and their second of 1978 - arrived in October, fronted by a wonderfully sarcastic mini-essay on the cover, pouring scorn on the cynical world of the marketeer who would try to seduce YOU, the record buyer, with alluring imagery to secure the sale. The Swindon four line-up: Andy Partridge (24, guitars, vocals), Colin Moulding (23, bass, vocals), Barry Andrews (22, organs, synths, clavinet, grand piano, saxophone, vocals) and Terry Chambers (23, drums, vocals). Evidence of the quirkiness in store is immediately apparent on the jerky opener “Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!)” described by Partridge as “A song about kids in England going to dance halls. People would get very drunk and then attempt to dance like robots to stuff like Kraftwerk.” Vivid! Hypnosis is the next play via the woozy and repetitive “Battery Brides (Andy Paints Brian)”, written in tribute to Brian Eno, which makes perfect sense. Flirtations with punk-ska serve up side one surprises on “Crowded Room” and “Red”, which went down very well as raucous set closers in their live gigs at the time. The Jamaican flirtation continues on side two with a great many of the dubbeat variety. Coming across like Perry-in-the-Black-Ark, “Life Is Good In The Greenhouse” has allsorts of little effects and synth twinkles bubbling away, with a suitably strange story to go with it: “Life is good in the greenhouse, Rather be a plant than be your Mickey Mouse”. “Go 2” was well received by the UK press and, although artistic and personal tensions between Partridge and Andrews would soon see the latter depart, XTC continued to move forward purposefully.
A1 [02:34] XTC - Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!) (Andy Partridge) New Wave
A2 [04:35] XTC - Battery Brides (Andy Paints Brian) (Andy Partridge) Trance Rock
A3 [02:40] XTC - Buzzcity Talking (Colin Moulding) Post-Punk
A4 [02:53] XTC - Crowded Room (Colin Moulding) Post-Punk
A5 [02:58] XTC - The Rhythm (Colin Moulding) New Wave
A6 [03:01] XTC - Red (Andy Partridge) Ska / Rocksteady
B1 [04:35] XTC - Beatown (Andy Partridge) New Wave
B2 [04:41] XTC - Life Is Good In The Greenhouse (Colin Moulding) Dubbeat
B3 [02:03] XTC - Jumping In Gomorrah (Andy Partridge) Ska / Rocksteady
B4 [02:20] XTC - My Weapon (Barry Andrews) New Wave
B5 [04:24] XTC - Supertuff (Barry Andrews) Dubbeat
B6 [03:38] XTC - I Am The Audience (Colin Moulding) Dubbeat
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Know here How to record video on Zoom Meeting or Google Meet
All people are at their homes due to coronavirus Covid-19 in the country (worldwide), because there is a lockdown around the world, if it comes to India, the lockdown period in the country has been extended, and in the third phase, it is going to stay in the country between May 4 and May 17. All government and private employees are dependent on video conferencing. That's why we've seen that the demand for apps that offer video calls around the world has also increased, which is why we've seen that the Zoom app is being used globally, although Google Meet App has now come into practice.
Through both these platforms, if you have a conversation with one of your own, etc., you tell you that sometimes there may be some things that can be negated in the future, and you can be let down, so you have an option to record all these video calls. Let's tell you that this feature is available on both the Zoom App and the Google Meet App. You can record your calls on both platforms. Although some people won't know about it, it's possible. Today we're going to tell you how you can record your video calls on Zoom App and Google Meet App, etc. Let me say so that you follow every step through which you can easily do so.
How to record Zoom Meetings?
The zoom app offers this feature for both free and paid subscribers. This means that you can do this very quickly. Although let's tell you that local recordings can't be made on Android and iOS, the cloud recording option is available for paid subscribers. Let us now know how to record zoom meetings.
If you are the host of a Zoom call, you can just click on the record button to record this video call. Also, if you are a paid subscriber, you can choose from the lock and cloud option, that you have to make this type of recording, and just click the record button and record it. Local recordings automatically convert to MP4 files and are saved on your computer as soon as the meeting ends. Also, tell you that you can pause this call from recording at any time, or even turn it off completely. The option is also available here. However, if you are a normal user, you will need to ask your host for some mission, after which you can record the call. For this, you can give you the right to record by clicking on the Allo record by clicking on the peacock by going to your host management participant and selecting the participant.
How to record video calls in Google Meet
Video recordings from Google Meet have been made free for September 30. Also, you can only join Google Meet through your Gmail account. This recording is then available only to users of G Suite Enterprise Account. You can make this recording by following some of the steps below.
When you are in a meeting, you need to click on the three vertical dots that are visible on your lower right corner. You will then have to click on the record meeting option, after which the recording is about to start. In addition, you can also stop this recording at any time by clicking on these three dots. This recording is then going to be saved in your Google Drive. However, google Meet also gives everyone a notice that someone is recording this video.
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Cambridge University & City Tour With University Alumni Guide
The university colleges of Cambridge are widely considered among the prettiest and most academically successful in England, with a history dating back centuries. This walking tour from the city center takes you to the heart of Cambridge University and the famed King's College, and shines a light on the famous actors, inventors, mathematicians, Nobel Prize-winners and scientists who have lived and worked here.
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We are accredited Green Badge guides who have been successfully guiding in Cambridge since 2011. Thanks to our wonderful clients, we have for many years been the top-ranked Cambridge walking tour on Trip Advisor. We will take you on a journey through 2,000 years of history, and try to have some fun along the way. This is a private tour for you and your companions only. Due to Government restrictions on public gatherings, the maximum group size is 5.
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Looking for an independent and flexible way to see Cambridge? This self-led audio tour via smartphone app offers a convenient, budget-friendly sightseeing option. Upon booking, download the app to your phone, and enjoy lifetime access to the recording. When you’re ready, make your own way to 9 King's Parade, pop in your headphones, and let the tour—recorded by a former Cambridge student and resident—guide you around the city.
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Learn about the secrets of Cambridge University on this private guided walking tour. Explore the colleges with a knowledgeable insider—a former student. By going on a student-guided tour, you’ll be able to ask questions about what life at Cambridge was like, and hear fascinating anecdotes. You won’t have to worry about navigating as your guide will lead the way and take you to multiple colleges, chapels, and libraries.
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Our walking tour takes in some of the famous colleges and historic sights of the city as you meander down quaint alleyways and tread the cobbled streets. You will hear quirky facts and stories of the colleges and their colourful alumni, all set within the context of English and world history, plus many fascinating tales of city life through the ages not generally mentioned in the guide books. We will take you to a church 1000 years old and reveal it’s hidden secret, down side streets to places of interest visitors don't normally see. You will go back in time to medieval Cambridge to discover how the University all started, visiting colleges over 700 years old and hearing their history. We will show you what it is to experience life as a student in a Cambridge College. All our tours are unique as we specialise in small groups and encourage interaction and questions
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This tour is a great choice for history fans. Learn about Cambridge’s past and how it became the world-class University city it is today. Save time waiting in long visitor lines by having a ticket to the Round Church included. You’ll explore the historic church which dates back to the 12th century, before walking into the center past Cambridge University colleges. See the Senate House, the Cambridge University Press bookshop, the Cavendish Laboratory, and many of Cambridge’s most interesting sights in one day.
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Discover Cambridge the way you want, at the pace you want, on a private 2-hour walking tour. Use the flexible itinerary to tailor your sightseeing to your interests, and learn about the city’s history and university from your private guide. Choose to visit famous colleges like Trinity and Queens’, admire King’s College Chapel, or just absorb the atmosphere and architecture on a stroll through the medieval streets. Entrance fees at own expense.
Cambridge Student Life: COVID-safe immersive podcast walk
Love podcasts? You'll love our immersive walking tour of Cambridge! The digital audio guide can be downloaded anytime directly on your smartphone! We've teamed up with expert historians, storytellers and students to give you a unique and engaging experience of Cambridge! Join local historian & PHD student, Katie as we discover the story behind the birth of Cambridge University and what it’s like to be a student at Cambridge! On this self-guided podcast tour, we'll discover the beautiful picturesque city of Cambridge and get a more intimate look at the culture, history, and soul of this famous town. Visit some of the most famous colleges and get acquainted with their various traditions (both familiar and odd), student's lives, and fun facts about their past.
Cambridge Private Tour: Secret Society Exploration Game
Inject your sightseeing experience of Cambridge with fun and intrigue by opting for an interactive smartphone experience. While still allowing you to explore at your own pace, this experience leads you to top Cambridge attractions using riddles and GPS technology. This experience provides a great introduction to Cambridge for first-time visitors and families.
Private Virtual Walking and Punting Tour of Cambridge
Enjoy an immersive 105 minute video experience that captures the beauty and wonder of Cambridge. Accompanied by our expert tour guide, you will first explore the cobbled streets by foot. You then go punting on the river as you glide through the Backs and the beautiful college grounds. The landmarks visited are the very best Cambridge has to offer and you will enjoy a unique and unbroken perspective. Time is taken to appreciate the intricacies of the architecture on display with extensive panoramic and close-up shots provided. Your Cambridge tour guide provides a captivating commentary throughout, combining historical expertise with memorable stories. Your tour can be accessed at any time of your choosing from anywhere in the world with lifetime access. Also included is a free map of Cambridge with tour-route & landmarks highlighted. If you are booking a trip to Cambridge, your tour can help plan your itinerary. On arrival, it can be used as a self-guided walking tour of Cambridge.
Comprehensive Cambridge Collection: 4 podcast walks to discover the city
Love podcasts? You'll love our immersive walking tours of Cambridge! The digital audio guide can be downloaded anytime directly on your smartphone! We've teamed up with expert historians, storytellers and students to give you a unique and engaging experience of Cambridge! Our tours will take you to some of Cambridge's most iconic landmarks as well as taking you off the beaten track and away from the crowds to discover some of Cambridge's lesser known gems! Our first podcast tour will give you an introduction to Cambridge, where you'll learn what its really like to study at the University of Cambridge. The next tour will guide you along the scenic routes of the Backs where you'll be able to get a picturesque & unique view of the River Cam. The Instagram tour will show you many unusual spots & hidden gems while also taking you through iconic attractions. Our final tour will allow you to uncover the extraordinary inventions that have been born out of this beautiful university town.
Riverside self-guided walk and picturesque views of Cambridge Colleges
Love podcasts? You'll love our immersive walking tour of the Cambridge Backs! The digital audio guide can be downloaded anytime directly on your smartphone! We've teamed up with expert historians, storytellers and students to give you a unique and engaging experience of Cambridge! Join local historian & PHD student, Katie, for an excursion down one of Cambridge’s most scenic and peaceful routes; the Backs. Incidentally, the Backs is the area that runs along many of Cambridge’s famous colleges and the walk is studded with beautiful architecture, a quaint wooden bridge, sprawling green spaces, and quirky stories. We'll begin the podcast tour alongside the river at Scudamore's Quayside Walk over the wooden bridge of Silver Street and immerse yourself in Cambridge's history and moving stories. The tour will walk us through student life and will give us magnificent views of King's College and its Chapel. Don't forget to bring your camera for some breathtaking views of the river Cam!
Cambridge's Famous Inventions and Graduates - Podcast Tour
Love podcasts? You'll love our immersive walking tour of Cambridge! The digital audio guide can be downloaded anytime directly on your smartphone! We've teamed up with expert historians, storytellers and students to give you a unique and engaging insight into some of Cambridge's most famous graduates! Dive deep into the history of the picturesque town of Cambridge and explore extraordinary inventions of the city! Listen to historians Sam and Alice as they guide us on this self-guided podcast tour. We'll learn about the King's Parade and get intimate with Cambridge's rich graduation ceremony and its interesting traditions. Make our way to the Corpus Clock and try to find the mythical creature on it, while discovering the history of this unique and wonderful invention. Explore the nooks and crannies of The Eagle's Pub, steeped in history with incidents of genius celebrations to great war stories.
Walking Tour of the Sights and Highlights of Cambridge
I tailor each tour to the individual interests of the tourists in the group. I am fascinated by Cambridge's history and its magnificent sights, and have in-depth knowledge of its past and present. I can draw on my special expertise in the history of science, mathematics, and computing in Cambridge. My approach is thorough yet not too serious, sometimes light-hearted and always considerate. We shall explore the very heart of Cambridge, where new and old look out at us from every nook and cranny – hear stories of mediaeval strife and riots, struggles and labours of many a generation of students and scholars, and triumphs of the human thought. On our way, we shall discuss how ideas and life itself have changed over centuries, and what today’s Cambridge is like – both the City and the University.
Cambridge Like a Local: Customized Private Tour
Get to know the city through the eyes of a passionate local. With no set itinerary, you can customize the tour or leave it up to the local for an insightful introduction to the city. Make travel about the people you meet not just the places you see. With our walking tours, you’ll skip the mundane historical tours and discover the city through a local’s eyes. Experience a tour that will transform the way you travel to make it as much about the people you meet, as it is the places you see. Our local guides (Lokafyers) are passionate about their city and eager to share their knowledge and perspective. Since Lokafyers are not professional guides and tour occasionally, they provide an experience that’s authentic and personal, like a friend showing you around their city. By the end of the tour, you'll feel comfortable navigating the city and confident that you have all the information you need to make the most of your stay.
Self-Guided Cambridge Instagram Tour - Top Photo Spots
Join us on this creative walking tour that takes you along some of the prettiest streets of Cambridge in search for Cambridge’s Instagram Spots! The walking tour is studded with many unusual spots and hidden gems of Cambridge while also taking you through its iconic and must-visit attractions. Guided by the influencer Ella and historian Alex, this self-guided walking experience offers a trove of photography tips for those beautiful instagram-perfect shots and spend an offbeat day in Cambridge! Vidi Guides creates immersive audio experiences that are like podcasts. Download the app and your Instagram tour to explore Cambridge independently and safely!
Cambridge University Group Tour With University Alumni Guide
We regularly provide private tours for organizations and assorted schools from around the world. Having shown tens of thousands of students around Cambridge, we have the diverse skill set needed to ensure that students both understand the tour and genuinely enjoy it. Our student guides have a great insight into Cambridge. They have detailed knowledge of the University's incredible history combined with personal experiences about how this ancient institution really works. While there are plenty of details to cover, we are committed to providing interesting and enjoyable tours rather than reducing the city’s fascinating history to a dry collection of dates that puts people to sleep. As this is a private tour, we can completely tailor the experience to the needs of your group. You can specify convenient meeting points and themes you'd like covered. If requested, tours can also include special features, like quizzes and competitions, to entertain younger people and keep them engaged.
Cambridge iPhone Photography Tour
We will take you on a walking tour of Cambridge Historic Centre and show you the best places to take pictures from using your iPhone. We will also show you how to best use your iPhone to take pictures. As well as help you edit your images straight from the iPhone editing software.
Long Melford: Discover the stories behind the village green on an audio tour
Visit Long Melford with this self-guided audio tour for anyone who wants to discover more of the village than just it’s views. Join me on this walk around the green, get to know the village like a local and hear how it got its start in the wool trade. Along the way, you’ll hear a few of the stories that get talked about when the locals get together in the pubs. You’ll hear about: • The Abbots of St Edmunds • Where John Lennon caused a flood • What caused the riot act to be read for the last time in England • And why a man had butter melting under his hat There is a whole way of life around the green to discover. You might even fancy a bit of "ordinary" at the end of the tour.
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Beauty of Arabic language? Tedblogguest “From Lebanon to the world”
In: cities/geography | education methods/programs | Events/Cultural/Educational/Arts | Lebanon/Middle East/Near East/Levant | social articles | women
Archaeologists believe that Phoenician traders, who set out from the shores of Lebanon, spread their alphabet across the ancient Mediterranean world, unleashing a chain reaction that they couldn’t have conceived of even in their wildest dreams.
Tedblogguest, organizers of TEDxBeirut, posted this Jan. 6, 2014:
From Lebanon to the world: Why today’s talk on the beauty of Arabic is so important right now
Today, we are honored to spread that word again as Suzanne Talhouk’s talk from TEDxBeirut,
“Don’t kill your language,” becomes the first talk in Arabic featured on TED.com.
Like the alphabet of those Phoenician traders, this talk emerged from a deep-rooted need that TEDxBeirut has come to satisfy — the itch to speak out on the issues that matter to people here in Lebanon.
The stage of TEDxBeirut 2012. This annual event has become a beacon of hope in the Lebanese city. Photo by Assaad Chbeir
To Speak the Truth
The release of this talk comes at a particularly difficult moment for the Arabic language and for Lebanon, as both are still trying to find their place in the world.
For both, the potential is all there: both are endowed with an amazing wealth of ideas. (The Arabic language can claim a vocabulary more than 12 million words; Lebanon can claim as many millions and more of its descendants scattered around the world.)
Both are warm and well-connected. (The Lebanese are renowned for their hospitality; Arabic script is cursive, joining letters together like Lebanon joins different communities, and sparked traditions of literature and calligraphy.)
Both can lay claim to a rich heritage. (Arabic gave the world Averroes and Avicenna; Lebanon gave the world Kahlil Gibranand Fairuz).
Yet, all this potential is weighed down by baggage from the past. You may know that Lebanon went through a civil war from 1975 to 1990. Like Belgium in WWII, Lebanon became the fighting ground of many nations. Beirut, at its center, was the cosmopolitan scene where warring languages were, and still are, spoken.
Lebanon is more cosmopolitan than ever and even more hotly contested. The Lebanese continue to speak in different languages with each other, and public discourse focuses on issues beyond our borders — so much so that there is rarely an honest public conversation about the issues that affect the lives of people living here.
This leaves people feeling helpless in affecting real change around them.
It is a lot like the divide between formal and vernacular language in Arabic. Except the cost of the conversations we never have in Lebanon is hefty and paid for in intermittent violence as well as in gridlock in education, healthcare and the economy.
It is no wonder why Lebanon, for all its Mediterranean charm, is also among the countries with the highest rates of depression in the world.
The Right to Bear Good News
We started TEDxBeirut as a way to share big ideas and real issues with a small local community. It grew, quickly and organically, to become the bearer of good news in Lebanon, a counterweight to our grim public life — which remains mute on issues like education or the economy.
When we talk to people about TEDxBeirut, our speakers and the work they do, we see their faces light up as if they suddenly found hope again.
Attendees at TEDxBeirut fill in the blank on the question, “All we need is _____.” Photo by Nina Sharabati
Finding a Lost Generation
Many of our speakers are over the age of 30. That means we have speakers who grew up in the civil war, who worked on rebuilding and who continue to do so. Most — if not all of them — grew up speaking at least two languages and — more likely — three as is the norm in Lebanon, where the native Arabic is also the least appreciated language.
What makes these speakers so exceptional is their flair for addressing the toughest problems we face in Lebanon, from recycling (Ziad Abichaker: A garbage love story) to technology start-ups (Bassam Jalgha: Why can’t we have our own NASA?).
The work these speakers do today shows the potential of their lost generation, which has so much more to give than war. TEDxBeirut puts these speaker front and center — in plain sight — for people to meet, learn from and be inspired by. Allowing this generation to be discovered sets off positive chain reactions with amazing effects.
Lebanon is Full of Potential
Beirut is brimming with incredible people with bold ideas. We loved Suzanne Talhouk‘s candor from the first moment we met her and, as we worked with her, her talk began to change how we talk and write in Arabic and how we think of our native language.
It even began to change our habits. But the reception the talk received on the web went even further than we could have imagined. The talk went viral soon after it was posted, and it unleashed a conversation between Arabic speakers from Morocco to Iraq, and the curious from across the globe.
Suzanne’s movement, which started in Lebanon, was soon enthusiastically carried forward by volunteers to countries like Jordan.
Lebanon is a place that can be difficult and, at times, violent. But we at TEDxBeirut choose to press on and be witnesses to the good news and hidden heroes working here. Otherwise, we’d miss the greatest opportunity of all: to stand for something more than the sum of our parts. That is everything to us.
Now, on with the conversation — in as many languages as possible.
A TEDxBeirut balloon. Photo: TEDxBeirut
The next TEDxBeirut will take place in mid-2014. It is organized by John Chehaybar, Reem Maktabi, Farah Hinnawi, Rim Baltaji. Find out much more here »
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How Globalization can function adequately for the poorer countries?
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How Globalization can function adequately for the poorer countries? (Mar. 24, 2010)
Joseph Stieglitz, Nobel Prize for economics, had written a book in 2002 “The great disillusion” where he critiques the function and ideological unilateral rules of the games of the international institutions such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization. I already published reviews in two parts of the book; this post focuses on Stiglitz’s recommendations for the international institutions (supposed to be public institutions) to reform in order to give a chance for Globalization to coming effectively to the rescue of the developing States. Thus, in order for world economy and financial stability be the norm then three urgent reforms are needed.
First, the international institutions such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization have to focus on collective global problems that require collective participation. For example, when global market economy is not running satisfactorily; when one State harms others and gets away with it (no indemnisation procedures) then there are over production of certain commodities and under production of others. We have to tackle defense spending that does not generate any public benefits. For example, public education sectors must be financed by international institutions since private sectors have failed to consider that urgent facet in states’ economy. For example, we have the environment, oceans, atmosphere, CO2 emissions and the other harmful gases, sanitary challenges and discharges, clean water sources, diffusion of contagious diseases, famine, and natural calamities are becoming global problems that require global resolutions and cooperation. All the global problems are interrelated: poverty leads to degraded environment and deforestation which in return increases poverty. There are financial interventions that are beneficial locally in reducing local pollution.
Second, the mode of governance such as control, management, decision making and administration of international institutions has to be drastically reformed. The economic and financial interests of developed States have established unilateral set of rules and regulations on how to be applied globally without any serious input from the concerned parties in the developing countries. Developing States were targeted for hegemony behaviors. For example, in the IMF administration it is the finance ministers of the developed States and their central banks governors who are presiding as decision makers. In the World Trade Organization it is the ministers of commerce in the developed countries that run the show: they have particular perspective in matters of global trade. Who has the right of vote in these international institutions? The poor States and the workers have no representatives in these institutions to offer pertinent alternative feedback as to their difficult situations. The voting rules and representation around the table of decision makers have to be reformed drastically. The fact is that the IMF is rich because it is the developing countries that are reimbursing their debts at high interest rates.
At least, reforms in the structures of official direction in the IMF and WB can help in the short term. For example, African delegates should be allowed to participate and be listened to even if they still cannot vote. Participation in meetings can aid the developing State representatives gather pertinent information and intelligence on world problems may partially fill the gap in intelligence dissemination. The IMF and WB should invest in developing “think tanks” institutions in the developing countries in order for their representative to be at par with ongoing discussions.
Third, transparency within the international institutions administrations have to be made public since they are public. Public pressures should be directed toward greater transparency in management and decision processes; on time data should be available for the concerned parties and not only for the multinationals and the developed State governments. There is urgent need to open the working environment to independent and free press and researchers of developing countries. Transparency is best catalyst to encouraging democratic tendencies in developing States and fair availability of information in a timely fashion.
Thus, favoritism in behavior and focus on the interests of the richer States must be examined and expressed by the public before conditions escalate to global problems. As deliberations in international institutions become accessed directly to larger audiences, instead of being held in closed chambers, then the environmental challenges and the interests of the poorer sections in world societies will be heard and discussed openly. The current decision processes are not critiqued and analyzed by the public on a timely manner: it is generally too late to critique wrong decisions before they are applied. Public access to timely information and intelligence would pressure the IMF and WB to reconsider their debatable economic assumptions and ideology; so far, what is decided is restricted on “what is good to the financial institutions”. Mass protests in World Forums were mainly targeting the secrecy and opacity of the decision processes. So far, the disseminated information by the current structures of the international institutions is viewed with great suspicion by the poor States; so far, reforms were lukewarm and basically the kind of talked intent for reforms but not effective in practice.
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Black Friday has traditionally been the kick-off of the holiday season for the retail industry, but this year, like many other things in 2020, normal is no longer normal. As a result of the pandemic, three-quarters of consumers report they will not be setting foot inside a physical store on Black Friday this year, according to a Harris Poll survey. At the same time, that survey found that 40% of consumers plan to shop online for Black Friday deals and that nearly two-thirds of Americans will be well underway with their holiday shopping before Thanksgiving.
This is not necessarily bad news for marketers who are prepared to adapt to the “normal of now.” Despite all of the COVID-19 impacts, Deloitte predicts that holiday shopping will actually increase this year, topping $1 trillion in sales between November and January.
The evolving shopping patterns that are shifting when and where and how consumers make purchases has created an expanded playing field for brand marketers. What used to be three separate moments over the course of late November/early December – Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday – will now be combined and expanded over the course of the entire month of November and into December.
The Home Depot kicked off its Black Friday specials on Nov. 6, Walmart announced early deals on Nov. 11 and Best Buy launched its “Treat Yourself” early shopper savings program the first week in November, all designed to capture the billions of dollars that consumers plan to spend on themselves and others this year. All of these retail trends speak to a larger retail narrative now unfolding: Consumers are shopping earlier and they are becoming far more sophisticated with how they research items and ultimately make purchasing decisions.
And there are multiple indicators pointing to the permanency of many of the once considered “temporary” fixes retailers deployed to adapt to the COVID-19 retail environment. For example, one recent survey found that 87% of consumers want brands to continue to offer curbside pickup and other processes that limit the need for in-person visits even after COVID-19 subsides.
For marketers who embrace these emerging trends, the benefits are clear. According to The New York Times, Target reported curbside sales grew more than 700% in the last quarter and Best Buy reported nearly $5 billion in online revenue in the second quarter of 2020 with four out of every 10 dollars spent coming from curbside or in-store pickup.
These retail behavior shifts are just one of the changing trends reshaping the marketing landscape. While news of the large increases in time spent streaming have widely been reported, what has not been so widely picked up is the fact that much of this time has not been additive to overall TV viewing. The number of holiday shoppers that are now totally unreachable to brands through traditional linear television campaigns has exploded with more than 3 million households shedding their cable subscriptions in the first half of 2020 alone.
Now marketers are not only needing to adjust their overall holiday promotional programs to encompass a 10-week timeframe (versus a handful of specific days), but also shift their marketing budgets to where consumers are actually spending the majority of their content viewing time.
These shifts are also fueling another trend impacting marketing strategies this holiday – the need for fresh creative. With an elongated holiday shopping and advertising season, we are beginning to see multiple brands develop two and even three complete rounds of holiday-focused creative campaigns to ensure their messages remain fresh and relevant. Brands are engaging shoppers earlier with messaging designed, for example, for the “self-purchaser” who will shop for themselves first this year before shifting to others on their gift-giving list later in the season.
Another trend taking shape against this backdrop is one of urgency and flexibility. Many brands are concerned about a repeat from the spring, where COVID-19 dramatically impacted inventory availability. This possible scenario is why many brands are promoting their products early and heavily, well ahead of the traditional Thanksgiving weekend. It is also shaping marketer budget decisions as more dollars flow into flexible platforms such as streaming that can turn on a dime to focus spend in geographies with inventory or to specific products not impacted by shipping constraints. With this flexibility comes the option to deploy small targeted campaigns to niche audiences as well as large scale takeover campaigns designed to reach every streaming household.
What only just one year ago we would have deemed to be the normal holiday strategy playbook to attract and retain consumers is no more. Consumers have shifted how, when and where they want to shop. Linear television has ceded its position as the dominant vehicle to reach most shoppers at a time when marketers face a new holiday calendar that is both longer, but also fuller, with rich opportunities to engage shoppers that plan to spend more this season. Brands must now embrace this opportunity to try new approaches and win the loyalty of consumers this holiday season and beyond.
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Started by Hannah Davis at 03 Feb, 2020 8:38 AM
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[Seattle, WA, 2020]
Hannah stared at the chart for a long minute, something was coalescing, if only she could concentrate. The board had about a dozen photos, linked with string to an array of locations across the Seattle-Tacoma urban area. One photo was quite familiar to her. Quietly, she kissed her fingertips, then touched the photo of her fiance Scott, tacked up next to the others. Her personal ritual complete, she stepped back again and narrowed her eyes with arms crossed at the old-school display. There was a common connection here, she could feel it. If only-
Then she saw it. A building common to most, if not all, known disappearances across the city. It had been cased, much like every other location common to two or more subjects. But it stuck out, now that she had added the latest round of intel. Many more connections now accrued in or near the building. Hannah turned on her heel and grabbed her car keys, determined to find her fiance.
"Where are you going, Hannah?"
"Um," she said as she stopped in her tracks at the voice behind her. She turned around with a fake smile, "To get coffee?"
Her mentor, Detective Hudson crossed his meaty arms. He clearly didn't believe her. "You're not going off half-cocked on some insight into your investigation, are you?" It wasn't the first time, and he knew it wouldn't be the last.
"No, no, no, no, of course not, detective. Just… coffee. One cream, two sugars, right?" she pointed a finger briefly at him.
Hudson sighed deeply, "You remember my order. Yes, fine. That had better be it, Hannah, or you'll be jeopardizing your next assignment. Remember-"
"Yes, careful and deliberate," she finished his sentence, one she heard many times before. "A rushed investigation is a botched investigation. I remember, Detective." She turned back towards the door and waved a hand behind her, "Be back in a jiff with that coffee!"
Now in her car, Hannah let her affected expression drop. The last year had been the longest in her life, and she wasn't completely over her fiance's disappearance. Scott was her high school sweetheart, and they were beginning to plan their wedding. She was even starting to plan for maternity. But then, he just… vanished. She couldn't believe that she might finally get answers, if they were to be found in this building.
She realized she was speeding, her knuckles white on the steering wheel. Hannah took control of her emotions again and relaxed, though it was a relative thing. Her heart still beat frantically, pumping adrenaline through her system. Eventually she pulled up to her location, a seemingly nondescript house on the outskirts of the city. A little wrap-around porch and white picket fence made it look like someone's grandmother lived there. The peeling paint and boards across the broken windows indicated it had been abandoned long ago.
Hannah took a deep breath before exiting the car. She drew her pistol, but kept it low as she approached the front of the building, her shoulder leading and her head on a swivel. She still had no idea what she'd find here. It could be a meth den for all she knew. She reached the door and when her fingers brushed the knob it swung open with a creak. It hadn't been latched.
Stepping in, she began to wonder why this house in particular was linked to all the disappearances. It clearly hadn't been used in a long time. No furniture or other accouterments of a domicile were anywhere. Just a small collection of belongings indicating a vagrant had called this home for a brief time. Dust collected on every surface, and cobwebs hung ominously from every corner.
She searched each room, though it was starting to look more and more like another dead end. Yet another location that yielded no clues whatsoever. She was starting to doubt her intuition… Hudson was right. She sighed deeply and turned to return, her breath catching when she saw it. An interior door with a strange symbol carved in the wood. She couldn't tell what it meant, but it was something, at least.
Hannah approached the door and pushed it open, revealing a stairwell leading into a darkened basement. She retrieved her flashlight and shined it into the gloom, crossing the hand that held it across the one holding her pistol. The position ensured that her weapon always pointed where the light did, so if she needed to fire quickly, she could. The flashlight didn't illuminate very deeply into the stairwell, though similar strange markings were painted on the walls on either side. These somehow seemed fresher than the abandoned house would imply.
She walked carefully into the basement, down the creaking wooden steps. The air became heavier and danker as she descended. She methodically shifted her light around, getting as full a picture as she could. The strange markings didn't end, only becoming more numerous and more complex. It was a struggle to remain calm, as she knew, she just knew that she had finally reached a climax in her investigation. At last, answers would be revealed to her.
The air became thicker and her vision began to swim. She was on the concrete floor now, still advancing, one foot in front of the other. It wasn't entirely clear where she was going, just the basement seemed to be funneling her. She rubbed her eyes and forced her vision to focus, though somehow fatigue was beginning to set in. It was becoming more and more difficult to continue. She was dogged, however, and she kept pressing.
"No," she whispered as consciousness began to fade. Her arms dropped, her weapon, then flashlight clattering to the floor. "Must… continue…" she forced as another footstep was taken. Then another. Then she dropped to her knees, unconsciousness finally winning out. She slowly pitched forward, but she did not fall flat on the concrete floor, but onto a soft grassy meadow.
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[Bassilith Island, Aereth, 2020]
A sharp crack of a report made Morgyn look up from his shearing. He clicked his tongue and put the clippers aside and jogged back to his house. He found the armoire quickly; he was used to this by now. Retrieving a neatly folded cloth and a short rope he exited his house and went to where the report came from.
Hannah slowly came to, her head reeling like she had been drinking… or maybe dizzy? It was hard to tell. She groaned as she lifted herself into a kneeling position, looking around the environment she found herself in. "What the hell?" Then a cold breeze brushed her skin and she realized she was naked. "What the HELL?" She said louder, standing up and making an attempt to regain modesty with her hands. Her glancing around became a bit more frantic, looking for some sort of out - the circumstances that brought her here not making it through her mind.
"Uh, hello there," a voice tentatively called. "Don't panic now."
Hannah whirled instantly to the voice and narrowed her eyes, though she didn't see anything but a few trees. Her hand instinctively reached for her sidearm, which made her cringe as she just slapped her thigh. "Who the hell are you and what the hell did you do with my clothes?" She demanded.
"I'm Morgyn," Morgyn said plainly from behind his tree, "and that's a long story." He tossed his parcel in her general direction. "Put that on, it's one size fits most."
Hannah frowned and regarded the parcel, initially unsure. But with a lack of options available she obliged by untying the rope and unrolling the parcel, that she discovered was a sheet, or maybe a toga? Something like that. "What am I supposed to do with this?" she asked.
"Just… wrap it about yourself however you wish, and secure it with the rope belt. It's a simplistic garment, but will be adequate until we can get you proper clothes."
"My clothes were adequate," she grumped even as she fashioned the sheet into a wrap-dress. She tied the belt as suggested and found it to be… well, adequate. "Okay," she said at last, using the backs of her hands to extract her hair from under the garment and arranging it out of the way.
Morgyn came around the tree a bit sheepishly, as if he expected her to have lied. He breathed a bit, then smiled. He was of early middle age, grey just starting to color his temples and beard. His garb was very utilitarian, calling to Hannah's mind the stereotypical peasant wear at a Renaissance Faire. "Not bad. Follow me, I'm sure you have lots of questions. I can answer… well, some of them." He then turned on his heel and started walking away.
Hannah glanced the other way, wondering if she could head off on her own and find her way home. After a moment of chewing her lip she made her decision. There was no guarantee she'd find her way back to Seattle, if this was even Washington. "Wait up," she said as she jogged to catch up with Morgyn.
Hannah fidgeted in the chair, mostly due to the itchiness of the woolen "garment" Morgyn had provided. She looked around the farmhouse; a glorified hovel, random bleating drifting in from outside from time to time. It was a simple affair, built for function rather than comfort. Morgyn worked not far away, fixing some tea he had promised on the short walk over.
He appeared at the other side of the table, pressing a hot cup of tea into her hands. "You'll be hungry and thirsty after your… travel."
Hannah found he was right. From her memory she had lunch only a couple hours ago, but she was starving. Morgyn produced some bread and cheese which, along with the tea, she began to consume. At a break, she spoke through her chewing. "Can you tell me what the hell happened to me?"
"You traveled," Morgyn said, as if it explained everything. From the look on her face he could tell she needed more. "You're from Earth, right? From your accent, North America?"
She nodded, a bit perplexed. Isn't that where they were? "Seattle."
"Most travelers come to Aereth accidentally. They stumble upon a portal and end up here. Very few arrive deliberately. There's a number of portals linking worlds. Some are stable and remain in place. Others change location or come and go over time." He shrugged as if it didn't matter too much. "The nature of the portals only allows things that are alive - or were once alive - to pass through. Anything…" he waved a hand vaguely, "unnatural doesn't make it. Metals, plastics, that sort of thing."
So that's what happened to my clothes, she thought. Polyester. The modern fabric, which is basically plastic. "So… what is an Aereth?"
"This planet."
"Wait," she said, setting her tea down carefully. "This is another planet? How do I get back?" Her heart started accelerating in panic.
He sighed deeply, "You don't. At least, nobody's figured out how. Anyone who arrives here, stays here."
Hannah's heart instantly collapsed. Her entire life, her career, everything she's known, is - was - back in Seattle. She won't see any of that anymore. Emotions started welling and threatening to break her down in the moment. "Excuse me," she said abruptly and stood from the table, her chair howling loudly as it slid across the wood floor.
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She almost left, almost ran into the woods. Maybe he was lying and she had been kidnapped and brought to some cabin deep in British Columbia. Maybe if she ran to where she woke up she'd trigger the portal again and return home. Maybe it was all a dream and she'd wake up any moment. Maybe...
But she didn't. If he was telling the truth, just running off in a random direction was suicide. Who knows who or what she'd stumble into. Instead she leaned against the door jamb leading to a small porch and watched the animals graze. It was oddly calming, and her panic began to settle and she wiped the tears from her eyes. She started to methodically calculate the facts as she would as a detective.
"I call them sheep," Morgyn said softly behind her, "since they're almost, but not quite, entirely unlike them. Close enough as makes no real difference."
She turned to him with an odd eye, "You speak as if you were from Earth. In fact, if this is another planet entirely, how is it I can understand you at all?"
Morgyn spread his hands with a wry grin, "Ah, that story is long, but the short version is this. Nearly a hundred and fifty years ago my great-great-grandfather arrived on Aereth from New York City. He had his adventures, but eventually settled down with a family. He found a location that Travelers often arrived in, and built this cabin. He had learned the local language, but kept up his English with the arriving Travelers. He functioned as a sort of welcoming committee. Providing food and lodging until they acclimated and headed out to forge their own lives. He passed on the tradition of helping new arrivals and the English language to his children, and over the generations we have learned a bit on how Earth has progressed." He chuckled briefly with a shake of his head. "I know more about Earth technology than perhaps any non-Traveler. Tell me, do people have flying cars yet, or personal cleaning robots?"
Hannah blinked a moment, instantly thinking of a cartoon from her childhood. "N- no," she stuttered a moment with the odd question, "No, cars are still on the ground, and robots aren't really a thing in that way."
"Ah. It has been almost fifteen years since the last time I met another traveler."
"Well," she said, her own grin forming, "We do have supercomputers so small they fit in your pocket that have instant access, with the swipe of a finger, to the sum total of all human knowledge. We use them to argue with strangers and look at cat pictures."
Morgyn blinked a few times, a frown forming, "You are mocking me."
Hannah laughed, the first genuine laugh since arriving. "No, sorry, that's a gross simplification. It's a cell phone, but with a couple decades of advancement."
"Ah," he said, vaguely recalling someone mentioning a cell phone years ago.
Hannah frowned as she looked off into the distance. "You haven't seen anyone in fifteen years? Yet I know of at least a dozen people who have disappeared near this portal within the last year."
"Well, like I said, some portals move in space or time. Those others probably just arrived… elsewhere."
"Oh," Hannah said, her hopes of finding Scott vanishing as soon as they had bubbled up. The following silence was broken only by occasional bleating. Eventually she asked, "So, what now?"
"Now, I will do my best to prepare you for life on Aereth. You can stay here as long as you like, I have a spare room dedicated to Travelers. Once you are ready, I have a basic pack prepared with a few coins to get you started. The rest is up to you."
"Where do I go then?"
He shrugged, "Wherever you like. But I can point you towards some of the nearest settlements."
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[A few months later]
Summerhold was a medium-sized keep surrounded by farms and residences. The keep itself was an imposing structure situated on a small knoll, with the twenty-foot wooden walls enclosing the entire hilltop. The elevation made it look more impressive than it actually was, and gave the walls added defensive height. The farms and town were enclosed by a much smaller and longer palisade, ensuring any attack would be delayed long enough for the populace to evacuate to the keep. Hannah had walked through the initial gate, simply following the various traders and travelers heading for the keep. Hannah had asked someone why. Apparently the main trade faire was within the keep's walls.
Entering the keep's courtyard, Hannah's eyes scanned the place like a tourist. Everything looked like it was straight out of a Renaissance Faire, or a medieval period movie. Guards languishing at the gate, horses and carts clogging up the road, and a variety of peasantry arguing with each other over this or that. She kind of just followed the crowd, still new to this whole "medieval life" thing.
Over the past few months, she had absorbed as much knowledge from Morgyn as she could. He admittedly didn't have a lot to share; his life was spent at his farm, periodically bringing wool to sell in Summerhold, and greeting travelers like herself. Most of that time together was ensuring she had a grasp on the common language of Aereth. When she felt she was ready, she started out on her journey.
Hannah didn't come to Summerhold by chance. It was a purposeful trip, with a purpose in mind. Morgyn had offered to escort her, but she had insisted on going alone. She had to figure things out on her own eventually anyway. Morgyn had given her a few items to start, but it was extremely basic. She needed to find her own style, and her own identity. She needed to find where she belonged in this new world.
Her ears perked at the sounds of haggling, they were approaching the market square. An array of awning-covered stalls offered every conceivable option. From fruits and vegetables to tools and carts. Nearly everything could be found for sale. Hannah peeled off of the caravan and eyed one of the stalls. It had an assortment of dried meats and cheeses, and the smells were intoxicating.
"Please, try one of our smoked hares!"
Hannah eyed the man briefly but held up a hand, "Sorry, not hungry," she said and hurried off to the next stall. It was a common occurrence; each stall's trader offered their wares, some more insistent than others.
But she did end up finding what she was looking for. Proper clothes that she liked, and were relatively comfortable. She purchased a maroon velvet dress and a black leather jerkin to go over it. Additional outfits were purchased for spares. With Morgyn's suggestions in her mind, she also acquired some traveling supplies. A proper backpack, trail rations, and other supplies. Then, there was the most important question. What weapon would she select?
The weaponsmith had quite a few options for sale. Most of which were some kind of blade. Hannah made a face at those; she was used to her pistol. What caught her eye were the ranged weapons. Crossbows and longbows, among other more exotic options. She lifted a longbow that caught her eye and tested the weight of the pull.
"Ah, a nice selection, miss. Carved by Aelfyn of the High Kingdoms."
Hannah looked at him with a side-eye. She knew a sales pitch when she heard one. "Uh huh." What little Morgyn told her of the Aelfyn made this man's claim a touch implausible. Plus, the detailing wasn't that impressive. Still, she did like it. "What are you asking?"
"For this fine specimen? No less than eighty crowns."
Hannah nearly choked. But she kept it cool, "You're joking. This isn't worth more than thirty." She had no idea what it was really worth, but she knew how to haggle. Her father ensured that when he helped her buy her first car.
The merchant scoffed, but she could see the grin behind it. She was a sale, it was just a matter of reaching terms. "You are certainly a woman of refined taste. Surely you can see the craftsmanship here. I must ask for seventy."
It went back and forth for a short time, and Hannah did end up purchasing the bow for sixty crowns. She still had no idea if that was a good or bad deal. She'd find that out when she went to use the thing.
That was something else, she considered as she shouldered her new acquisitions. She'd need archery lessons...
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The Alberta Healthy Communities Approach (AHCA) is a continuous step-by-step process based on developing connections and collaborating with others.
There are two broad ways to improve peoples’ health and wellness. The most common is by encouraging individuals to change certain health habits such as eating a healthy diet, becoming active and eliminating tobacco use, among other ‘health behaviours’. The second is by creating environments that support making the healthier choice the easier choice. The Healthy Communities Approach focuses more on this second category.
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Asset-based community development: Exists when the community focuses on the knowledge and abilities of its members and existing structures. A focus on what’s strong rather than what’s wrong (C. Russell, 2016, [TEDx]).
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After leaving the gravel at Laura we headed off down the bitumen for Port Douglas, stopping for the night at the Palmer River Roadhouse. Palmer River was the location of a large gold field in the later 19th century. Not much remains of the gold field infrastructure, although there are a number of 4WD tracks out into the scrub that take you to the old workings and building remnants. One runs for an 80 km round trip from near the Roadhouse, but there is not much enthusiasm to do it at this stage of our journey. Palmer River is at the northern end of the Atherton Tableland and as we continue south we pass by vast banana plantations beside the road. The country is flat here and the bananas just stretch away in some places as far as the eye can see. This in part explains why the bananas got killed off on the hillsides down around Coffs Harbour, no longer economic with this sort of competition. The road down to Port Douglas involves descending the Great Dividing Range to Mossman, a rather twisty and steep descent in places. Once through Mossman we reach Port Douglas and book in at the same place we were a few weeks back.
On the deck at the Tin Shed
From the Yacht Club
Those prawns
Homealone and I are quite taken with the ‘Port’ and find it a comfortable spot to stay. There is a particular attraction here to keep bringing us back. Prawns in a bucket on the deck of a place called the ‘Tin Shed’ (or something like that), Allthego confuses it with the Yacht Club. One sits on the deck and looks out over the inlet and boats towards the Daintree and Cape Tribulation. Nice spot to while away some time! Homealone hasn’t seen prawns (her favourite seafood) for a few weeks and can’t resist, Allthego goes for the seafood basket. The establishment though has changed the prawn presentation, they used to hang on the side of a bucket over ice, now they are sitting up, tightly packed in, looking at you from a bowl. Where to start! Homealone had no problem. We also managed to get a vanilla slice in town, the one that we saw last time and claimed to be the ‘best’ vanilla slice. We will see.
Port Douglas ‘Best vanilla slice’
Jochems’ vanilla slice. from Bowen
Ingham custard slice
After R & R in the Port we packed up and continued south to Brisbane, one night stands in an unrushed way. Stopping the night at Ingham, Bowen, Sarina and then a free camp beside the Boyne River near Gladstone. Morning tea along the way was adequately catered for as we picked up some vanilla slices at Ingham and also Bowen. Interestingly, the one at Ingham was not sold as a ‘vanilla’ slice but as a ‘custard’ slice. Allthego has tried to find out if there is a difference, quite a lot of stuff on the internet about vanilla slices. Authorities suggest the ‘vanilla’ slices are made from ‘vanilla custard’ and that the ‘custard’ nomenclature is an ‘Australianism’ compared to ‘vanilla’ which harks back to the French. I don’t know and have given up on this. The one from Bowen came from the town’s famous Jochems Bakery. Of these 3 Allthego favoured the Jochem’s, it was nice and creamy. The so called custard slice was a bit stiff and the pastry wasn’t flakey. The Port Douglas one turned out to be a ‘ring in’ and had actually been made in Cairns, it too was nice and creamy but it was a bit loose and oozed out the sides. Maybe we had mistreated it as it had been in the truck awhile before being eaten!
So in the big vanilla slice taste off it is hard not to go past the one from Gillian Brown’s Artisan Bakery at Springfield Lakes, closely followed by the Jochems and Port Douglas. The over all reason is because all three were nice and creamy with a good white icing and not too sweet. Maybe, Allthego needs to see if there has been any change in the Springfield Lakes version since the last tasting, it was a while ago.
Our last stop off was at Tiaro, near Maryborough. Tiaro has a nice free camp facility for RVs and also has a great butcher. Pork products in particular, so we made room in the esky for some ham, ordinary bacon and some bacon chops. These bacon chops are just what you need for a good brunch. If you ever pass through Tiaro this shop is strongly recommended for Pork lovers.
Tiaro free camp, Van on a bit of a slope here
Close up of a bacon chop
Bacon chops sold 2 to a pack.
The journey to the Tip and back has now finished. We had a great time and are now home after travelling around 8,600 km, the direct road distance from Brisbane to the Tip and back is about 5,300 km, so we have also done 3,000 odd km in side trips and chasing down vanilla slices. Until next time I will leave you with a little thought, from someone else “if you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there!”
Posted in Cape York 2020
Destination Laura
The drive out along the 130km Portlands Road (which is what the road to Chilli Beach is formally known as) to the Peninsular Development Rd did not seem nearly as ragged as when we drove in! Familiarity breeds contempt they say! It was then another 40km or so to the Archer River Roadhouse where we had decided to stay the night. It is all bitumen so a pleasant change from the gravel.
Mt Tozer, along the Portlands Rd
It is spring so the wildflowers are coming out
Orange grevilleas were plentiful
The Archer River is another one of the significant waterways that the PDR has to cross. The bridge here is more of a causeway so it gets flooded quite early in the wet. The Roadhouse has a pleasant campground beside the river but well above the water line, except in major floods. There is also a clever use of relics from the old Telegraph line infrastructure, the clothes line. Apparently, they periodically have some of the white porcelain cap things pinched as souvenirs by tourists. But they have plenty in stock to replace them, having raided the poles themselves when the line was closed down!
This chap was quite calm crossing the Archer River
Getting the clothes out on the Telegraph Line
Archer River
On the way back we stopped for a series of one night stands at the various roadhouses down the Cape. The next stop along the way south from Archer River was our ‘favourite’ spot of Coen, this is where we had the flat van tyre and discovered the problem with the fridge. No dramas for us this time. But, it was our turn to help someone else. A couple traveling to Weipa had pulled in for a lunch stopover in the van park and when upon restarting their car, lo and behold a flat battery. Allthego’s jumper leads got them going ok. He was an RACQ guy, just like the fellow who helped us a few weeks back. Coincidences!
Coen Hotel
Coen Heritage House
We are not yet in ‘real time’ with the blog because we are actually considerably further south than Coen, Sarina (to the south of Mackay) to be precise.
After Coen we had a night at the Musgrave Station Roadhouse, another one of the former repeater stations like Moreton Telegraph Station. A bit of light entertainment here with the crocodiles in the dam beside the campground. They get fed daily by the station workers, probably left overs from the Roadhouse. They are the ‘harmless’ freshwater crocs, pretty snappy still though!
Musgrave Station
A couple of snappers coming for a feed.
Like a bit of raw meat!
We topped up with fuel and the chap advised us to go through Lakefield National Park to Laura, which we had done when we came north. Same reason, road from Musgrave to Laura was terrible, road works and corrugations a plenty. So we did, saw some brolgas and magpie geese. The road through the park is really quite good, some pretty scenery.
Road through the Park
Magpie goose in flight
Brolgas
We finally hit a landmark coming into Laura, THE END OF THE GRAVEL.
End of the gravel at Laura! Gravel to the left, bitumen to the right.
It was now all bitumen to Brisbane. We made for Port Douglas for some R & R after all the red dirt and corrugations!
Chilli Beach
Chilli Beach is a remote stretch of the Cape’s eastern coastline about 30 km north of the Aboriginal community at Lockhart River. The road out to Chilli Beach from the turnoff is a bit of a slog. 135 km of mostly gravel, there is about 25 km or so of bitumen along the way and a few patches of bull dust. Corrugations here and there . Plenty of road work is going on to improve the experience or take away from the experience depending upon your point of view. Some low bridges across the creeks to compliment a few shallow gravel crossings. Chilli would be inaccessible in the wet. The distance from Moreton Telegraph Station, then into and out of Chilli plus the distance south to the next fuel at Archer River places a little stress on our range. So, we made a trip into the Aboriginal community at Lockhart River to fill up and get a few food supplies.
Typical creek crossing on the way in
Some water to wander through
Camp site at Chilli
We are camping at the National Park area just back from the beach. There are 25 sites and you need to pre-book them. No ‘walk in camping’ here. So you have to be pretty sure of your timing, as usual we were spot on and took up site 25. Just perfect. There were only 3 other parties in camp. So it was rather quiet after dark! Just the wild pigs rooting around in the scrub, crocodiles grunting as they slowly consumed their prey and dingos baying at the moon. Hard to sleep! Just kidding! It was very quiet! Despite the mini gale blowing from the southeast, the south east trade winds at their best. But we were in behind some vegetation and well protected.
Chilli Beach , trade winds blowing
Junk on the beach
Restoration Island
Chilli is also positioned within sight of the inner reef shipping channel and we saw a number of ships making their way down the coast. It was this channel that Cook took after he left Cooktown and enabled him to round Cape York. William Bligh some years later also took this channel north to Java after being set adrift following the mutiny on the Bounty. Restoration Island on which he landed and named is just off Chilli Beach, and can be clearly seen despite the weather conditions. Bligh named it ‘Restoration’ not because of Bligh’s crew being ‘restored’ by a diet of oysters, but because it was the anniversary of the restoration of the Stuarts on the English throne.
We had two nights here, no power or water laid on so we relied on the solar and our water tanks. No worries. The weather was not great, apart from the wind there was thick cloud cover and plenty of sea mist. It was not the clear blue sky, crystal clear water, white sandy beach and arching coconut palms of the promotional material! But, it was still remote and the prevailing weather showcased a Chilli beach that may be more the norm than the unusual. The northern end of Chilli is also positioned such that it is in the way of a never ending stream of junk material floating in from south east Asia, plastic bottles and caps of all descriptions, ropes, netting, rubber thongs and toys, plastics. Teams do periodic clean ups and average 5 tonne of material a year from the beach.
Brush Turkey
Some more sun
More sun
We had some snags over the fire one night and were entertained by a couple of scrub turkeys. They are different to the ones you see in Brisbane; they have a purple gobbler (is that right, the loose skin around the neck?) rather than the yellow one we are familiar with. On the morning we left Chilli the weather gods came good and we had a couple of hours of early morning sunshine and blue skies. The beach looked like that promotional material!
What do we do with this?
Just a bit of muscle required
Some minor drama on the road out with a tree trunk across the road, held us up for a short time. Fortunately, some fellow nomads came the other way and assisted Allthego in clearing the road of the obstruction! Homealone took pictures and a video for laughs. That is a good place to leave the story as we now head back and resume the route south to Archer River and Coen.
Heading south
Leaving Seisia the road south takes us the same way when we came north. No alternative route south! First obstacle is to navigate the corrugations and get across the Jardine River, which is Queensland longest perennial river. It flows huge volumes of water. Thankfully, we had safe deposited the return ferry ticket. No worries here and after the crossing it was along the Bamaga Bypass Road down to Bramwell Station for the night.
Road south
Crossing the Jardine River
It was a reasonably sunny day, a bit of cloud but all clear so we pulled into Fruit Bat Falls for another look. It was mid morning and not a lot of people around so the swimming pool was quite clear of fellow bathers. Allthego took the plunge and swam around, more like a paddle as the pool of water is about waist high in most places. The bottom is covered with several centimetres of loose sand and the odd rock or two. Water quite warm. Invigorating. No crocs here. Above the waterfalls it is quite shallow but there are a number of spar like holes in the rock platform, Allthego found one that was neck deep, plenty of sand on the bottom.
Fruit Bat Falls
Allthego having a splash
Guess who in one of the spar holes?
Time got on though and we needed to head off to Bramwell, arriving late in the day but in time for the station dinner which we had pre booked. Again, not many in the campground. We had 30 for dinner and the interesting chat about the history of the station and some of the former owners and characters who had lived and worked there over the years.
Campground at Bramwell Station
Dinner venue at Bramwell Station
Next morning we moved on a short distance to Moreton Telegraph Station for the night. This is actually one of the former ‘repeater’ stations for the old telegraph line. There are some telegraph line relics here to look at, including 3 (could have been more) original poles lined up down a paddock as they would have originally appeared. The camp ground here sits beside the Wenlock River, one of the major streams that floods and cuts the road in the Wet.
Moreton Telegraph Station
Original telegraph poles at Moreton Station
Raft for fording the Wenlock
Plenty of water is broadcast over the camp ground and we have some green grass for a change rather than the usual sand and red dust. There is now a bridge across the Wenlock but as late as 2006 one had to ford the river on rafts, particularly when the waters were high. Lying in the paddock is one of the old rafts. Numerous fuel drums were carefully joined together either side of some steel grating which one drove onto for the trip across the river. Scary stuff!
Today’s bridge across the Wenlock
Wenlock River in a calm time, the Dry
Photo of the Wenlock in 2006, car coming out after fording, no bridge.
As the journey continues we are going to make a side trip out to Chilli Beach on the east coast. We had originally planned to do this on the way up, but had to head off to to Weipa instead to try to get the fridge fixed. The turn off to Chilli is about 40 km of corrugations south of Moreton Telegraph Station and we will do that in the coming morning.
Seisia and trip to the Islands
We have now moved south a short distance to Seisia and are set up at Loyalty Beach, this place is a bit like Punsand Bay. It is right on the waters edge, some nice shady campsites, there is an evening restaurant (simple menu items) and a bar set up. It is also the stepping off point for day trips out to Thursday Island and Horn Island. Birds were all over the ground here, going around snapping up seeds and grubs. Our esky is holding up well and doing a good job, one minor problem being that it was acquired from Mitre 10 in Wiepa and they remove the bungs and keep them behind the counter. There was a smallish sign that said something like ‘please ask for the bung at the front counter’. Allthego was so excited at getting this esky that it must have gone from his mind that he needed to get a bung. This explained why the back seat of the truck was so wet, water had leaked out through the drain hole. So ever since Weipa we have been looking out for bungs and making do with duck taping the drain hole. Works ok. But why take the bungs out? Maybe some people lose bungs and go into Mitre 10 and pinch the bungs out of the eskies on display. No Mitre 10 till we get to Cairns.
Loyalty Beach campground.
What bird is this?
Another bird
We took the Thursday and Horn Island day trip. You can almost see Thursday Island across the water from Seisia, you certainly see Horn Island and the much larger Prince of Wales Island. TI is about 3 sq km and has 3000 people on it. HI is about 50 sq km and has around 700 people. TI was established in the late 1880s as a replacement for the settlement at Somerset which the Jardines had set up. Somerset had proved to be a failure logistically, enough ships simply did not go there, or past it, and it only had a small harbour area. So TI replaced it as the administrative centre. The Old Telegraph Track, which Allthego has mentioned previously, was the route taken by the Telegraph Line from Cairns to Thursday Island (via an underwater cable). It was completed in 1887, linking Brisbane and TI, and was closed down in 1987, exactly a hundred years later. Today there are ooddles of public servants here, upwards of 20 departments are in operation. Enough said.
One of the guns on Green Hill
The most northerly pub in Australia
Japanese cemetery on TI
The ferry to TI takes about an hour and covers the relatively short distance in a sweeping ‘S’ shape so as to avoid the reefs in the Strait. It is a journey in its own right! Once on the Island we board a bus, socially distanced seating of course, and head off to see the sights. First stop is on Green Hill overlooking the harbour. It is here that a fort was built in the late 1800s in response to a perceived Russian invasion threat. The restored, but decommissioned, guns point down the channels into the harbour and have a range of 10km. The fort was also manned during both the World Wars. TI was, like Broome on the west coast, a centre for pearl shell harvesting from the mid 1860s. The cemetery has a memorial to the many Japanese divers who died in pursuit of the pearl shell. Also, on TI is Australia’s most northern hotel.
King Kibusu, last of the Torres Strait head hunters and cannibals, converted to Christianity around 1870.
Some local art on Horn Island
Self explanatory, this was a nice picnic area on Horn Island
It was then off across the bay to Horn Island on a ferry to continue the tour there. The local museum was chockers full of WW11 material detailing the role of HI during the war, as well as local cultural pieces. HI was the closest Australian airbase to PNG and was used by the Australian and US air forces as a base for operations. As a consequence it was a target for Japanese air raids, of which I think there were 7 or 8. This made it the second most bombed place after Darwin. Interestingly, TI was never raided because a Japanese princess was buried there! We then toured around a number of the former gunnery installations that are being restored. There is also a team of archeologists undertaking ongoing digs to document and preserve this part of our history.
One of the restored gun placements on Horn Island.
Allthego at the ready, the target would have been safe.
The following day we had a lazy time around camp. Allthego went off for a short drive to see some of the WW11 aircraft wrecks in the bush. There were also numerous remnants around the Bamaga Air strip of WW11 fuel dumps. Old fuel drums rusting away slowly in the scrub. Bamaga was also an air base during WW11.
DC3 wreck, en route from Brisbane to PNG
WW11 fuel drums
Beaufort Bomber wreckage
There were no vanilla slices at Bamaga or Seisia for that matter!
Sunset at Loyalty Beach, Seisia
And as the sun sets slowly in the west we are now preparing in earnest for the trek back down the Cape. Bramwell Station the next stop.
On the way to the Tip, of Cape York
We are now on the last leg of the journey to the Tip. Heading for Punsand Bay camping ground which is about 15km from the top. There is nothing much north of there, but for a narrow winding road to the parking area from which one has to walk about 750 m or so, but more on that later.
We are taking the Bamaga Bypass Road from Bramwell, which does a wide loop to the east before coming back west to meet the ferry at the Jardine River crossing. It cuts the Old Telegraph Track at a half way point. The Old Telegraph Track was constructed originally when the telegraph line was extended up the Cape in the 1880s. It is now a 4WD haven, but not for vans. Along the Bypass Road we stop off at the short detour to Fruit Bat Falls. This is another one of those iconic postcard photo places. Water tumbles over a 1.5 m ledge into a broad croc free swimming hole. But the weather was a bit unpleasant, cloudy with a bit of scatty rain. Allthego didn’t go for a plunge. We will return here on the way back, hopefully in better weather. There are a lot of those carnivorous pitcher plants around the track to the Falls. Pigs also plentiful as the ground has been rooted up extensively among the scrub beside the track and boardwalk.
Road into Fruit Bat Falls
Picher Plant
Back on the road it is a short drive through to the ferry crossing. $135 return ticket! It is like a stones through across the river, but no alternative. The Bypass Road has been a fairly good drive with a long stretch of bitumen in the middle. The other side of the ferry is a different story, plenty of corrugations for the 40km into Bamaga and Seisia, twin towns and the most northerly settlements. It is another 30 km onto Punsand Bay. On the way back we are going to stop at Seisia (pronounced She-sa), it is the spot for the ferry out to Thursday and Horn Islands.
Jardine River Ferry crossing
Punsand Bay is a very pleasant spot beside the ocean, quite a good restaurant and bar area. Their speciality is wood fired pizza, done in an enormous oven. But no pizza currently available as the Pizza chef has gone. Looking for a replacement. Allthego was tempted and disclosed his amatuer interest, but also lost interest quickly when it was indicated that they did 120 or so pizza a night, no time for a red while cooking!
Camp among the trees
The main game here was to go to the Tip. This is a half day type exercise involving a drive up through the rainforest to the carpark. There is then a choice of two routes. The first up and down along a rocky ridge line. Not an easy walk for people with knee afflictions and an aversion to heights. Homealone aborted the trek half way and awaited while Allthego continued on, finally returning after reaching the Tip. Given the time we had taken the tide had receded allowing us both to go back and make it to the Tip, along the shore line among the mangroves. An eye was kept out for crocs but none bothered us. The weather was the only disappointment, a pretty strong wind and scatty rain. But there were patches of blue and sun in between showers. Plenty of sea mist around.
View from the ridge line walk to the Tip
Made it too
On the way back to camp we detoured to the location of an abandoned settlement called Somerset that had been established by John Jardine as a trading type post in the 1860s to service ships sailing across the top. HIs son Frank later moved here. He and his wife are buried in remote graves along with a number of others. Not much is left of the settlement, apart from the graves and 3 forlorn cannons and a flag pole being swallowed up by scrub.
Cannons at Somerset
Trek to the Tip
This must be Australia’s most remote souvenir shop. It is at turnoff to Punsand. They do click and collect and mail order as well.
At Punsand there is a track off along the Tip coastline that gives a lookout down the west side of the Cape. Not far out to sea is Possession Island, Cook stopped here after rounding the tip and establishing it as the most northerly reach of the east coast. He went ashore there and raised the English flag claiming the east coast for the Empire. There is a lonely memorial there commemorating the event.
Possession Island is in the middle right,
Weipa vanilla slice
Cooktown vanilla slice and bonus chocolate mouse cigar!
On a final note Allthego located the most northerly vanilla slice he could find. It was at Weipa, one had not been sighted since the street markets at Cooktown. What these Cape residents miss out on! The Cooktown slice was unusual, it was homemade with those lattice biscuits and came with a chocolate mouse stuffed cigar thing as a bonus, perhaps to justify the price of $5. Not memorable, but gets an honorable mention for initiative! The Weipa slice was standard stuff. We will see what we find heading home!
Cooktown Orchid, Queensland’s floral emblem
We had 3 nights at Punsand before starting the slow journey back down the Cape. First stop is Loyalty Beach at Seisia for the trip out to Thursday and Horn Islands. Before leaving we had a morning coffee at the bar and Allthego spotted a Cooktown Orchid in the garden. Have been looking for these without success, later learnt that they flower after the wet in March and April. So we have been lucky! Thanks for irrigation in the garden it seems!
Weipa bound
We are off to Weipa to get the fridge fixed. We were originally intending to do Weipa on our return south. A call to a local electrical fridge type person had revealed that YES he could help us and that we should contact him upon arrival. Weipa is a 265 drive from Coen, through Archer River and then following the Peninsular Development (PDI) into Weipa. The road is a bit variable, sealed for a while after Coen, followed by some terrible gravel, corrugations and patches of bull dust. Some more bitumen before Archer River, then gravel, creek crossings etc. All part of the journey, one is reminded of the saying that travel ‘is more about the journey than the destination’, famous last saying!
Road to Weipa
Weipa campground
The PDI veers west out to Weipa whilst the main road north to the Cape is called the ‘Telegraph Road’, it goes to Bramwell Junction. We head to Weipa, along the way we make a call and find that our man who can help ‘can’t for a few days’ as he is off ‘on country’. This is code for almost anything up here. So, a couple of calls later we find someone else who can help us. He will call back and make a time. Encouraging, as he is a Dometic authorised repairer, he does call back and we make a time for the next day.
Bauxite loading
Heap of bauxite awaiting loading
Loading infrastructure
Meanwhile, after grinding along a stretch of corrugations into Weipa we book into the Caravan Park fronting the beach. Weipa is a ‘Mining Town’ that is trying to discover tourism beyond fishing. Bauxite is the main game, however, and red dust is everywhere. The tourism things are closed down for COVID reasons. Numbers are obviously down and the park is about half full. A nearby camper also has fridge problems which we hear about fairly often over the next couple of days. We take the opportunity to share the love and retell him our problems as well. He still comes back for more!
There is a great spot here overlooking the Gulf where one can sit and eat cheese and biscuits, whiling away time as the sun sets. We have had two sunsets of different character, one clear and the other shrouded in smoke haze (from the traditional country burning practices).
Smokey Weipa sunset
Sunset at Weipa
Weipa campground, Barramunchies
Our fridge man shows up and diagnoses compressor problems, a snapped hose and escaped gas. Still hopeful of a fix he is to call Dometic for the part. Next afternoon Allthego is frustrated and calls him back. NO GO it can’t be fixed here. Closest spot to try is Cairns. Hmmm. Time for an Eskie, after a dry call to one shop where the best option was $600 job, we dropped into Mitre 10 and acquired their 30 can option. 27 litre job. So begins the ‘new journey’ north reliant on the eskie and periodic ice refills. Sounds a bit grim but has worked out fine. Washed a bit of the slippery slimy stuff off the bacon, cabanossi etc and the brie cheese held up well.
After three pleasant nights in Weipa we turn our eyes north to the Cape and head off back down the PDI, after about 70 km we take a short cut along the Batavia Downs Rd and rejoin the Telegraph Road 57km short of Bramwell Station, our stop over for the night. The short cut saves us about 120km of backtracking down the PDI. It was a good road! Bramwell Station is famous for it’s dinners and night time live entertainment. Hardly anyone there though. COVID has hit them hard. Instead of 120 for dinner, they can only have 30 (booked out though) and no live music. This spot is, basically, just down the road from the middle of nowhere. Management is particularly cautious the night we are there because the next day they are facing an inspection by Qld Health inspectors on COVID compliance requirements. Obviously, the bureaucrats are focused on the risky spots. Originally, we were planning to stay here for two nights but pulled back to one and rebooked for a spot and dinner in a weeks time.
Bramwell Station
Camp ground at Bramwell
We had a roast at Bramwell, saved from the defrosting fridge
Next morning we will head for the Jardine river ferry crossing. The famous ‘Old Telegraph Track’ starts a few kilometres north of Bramwell Station and whilst it is tempting the terrain and creek crossings are not suitable for caravans.
Old telegraph Track route goes down here.
Instead, we will head along the more genteel Bamaga Bypass road to the ferry crossing. We are about 310km from the Tip! Almost there!
Back again after doing about 1800km up and down the Cape
We are now at Coen on our way back down the Cape. We were here 16 days ago on our way up the Cape. The internet is quite good here and allows the downloading of files, hence the ability to resume the blog after 16 days! North of Coen things are a bit problematic internet wise and depend on timing and where one stops.
Along Battlecamp Rd to Laura
Laura Homestead
Battlecamp Rd stop sign for roadworks, there wasn’t one at the other end, not even a stop go person!
Remembering back we left Cooktown for the next stop at Laura. We decided to take the Battlecamp Rd from Cooktown to Laura rather than back track south down the Mulligan Highway to Lakeland and then head north to Laura, this is all bitumen. The Battlecamp Rd is all gravel, not too bad though despite some roadworks along the way. Red lights out in the middle of nowhere. Allthego had done some calculations showing that it was a shorter route, it was by about 4km.
Laura Hotel campground
A large termite nest
Laura Homestead outbuildings
It was a pretty drive up and over the Battlecamp Range. It was along this road somewhere in the late 1800s that there was an aboriginal massacre. The details of this are all a bit sketchy and there are a number of versions and anecdotal evidence of the extent and responsibility for the massacre. The general claim is that upwards of 150 aboriginal ‘fighters’ made a ‘last stand’ armed only with spears against whites with guns. It is an event that has spiked Allthego’s interest and he is going to look further into the event on return to Brisbane. The road passes by the National Trust’s old Laura Homestead, one of the first cattle properties in the region and then turns a bit south and west to arrive at Laura. We are here for the night before heading for Coen the next day.
Having a break on the way to the Art Gallery.
At left is a female figure, in the centre a spiteful spirit figure and at right an echidna.
Allthego leading the way to the Art Gallery
Near Laura is an extensive area of Aboriginal ‘Quinkan’ rock art. The interpretation Centre is unfortunately closed due in part to COVID, so we are limited to have a look at the Split Rock art gallery which is about 10km to the south of Laura. This involves a bit of a trek up from the road to rock art sites, a few steps to climb. Quite interesting spot to ponder the work. Quinkans are supernatural spirits that live in the surrounding sandstone and are painted in the rock art. They do their work at night. Timaras or Tall Spirits are the good spirits. They are long limbed and thin bodied providing camouflage among the trees, and allowing them to slip into rock crevices. Imjims are the bad spirits and have long bulbous tipped appendages. They bounce like kangaroos and live like frogs. There are also paintings of animals and human figures on the walls.
Tall spirits, friendly
Allthego received some local intelligence in Laura that one should take the bypass road up through the Lakefield National Park rather than go straight up along the Peninsular Development Rd (the main route north to Weipa). Terrible stretch to Musgrave Roadhouse (corrugations and roadworks a plenty), much prettier and quieter to head through the Lakeland National Park and rejoin the PDR at Musgrave Station and the onto to Coen. It seemed good advice and this time it was. Lakefield NP is very pretty country, towards the end of the dry things were not as green as they would be after the wet and the creek crossings were quite benign. Had a BLT for lunch at Musgrave Roadhouse before pushing onto Coen for the night. We had two nights at Coen.
Lagoon along Lakefield NP road
Hann River crossing Lakefield NP
Saltwater Creek, Lakefield NP
It was here at Coen that we had our first side trip off into the bush in search of Mango Lagoon. This Lagoon is a bush camp site about 60km off into the scrub along roads of varying quality. It was described in our guide Hema Guide book as a must see type location in pristine country. Well, maybe after the wet and things have dried out a bit this might be the case. But it was a long dusty winding road to nowhere and back of course. Some dirt tracks thorough forest. A bit disconcerting though when it dawned on us that we had headed off into the scrub alone. In the event of mishap things could have been interesting to say the least. We saw only one other vehicle in the entire day! Lesson learnt here, not that it really had to be, carelessness more the issue I think.
Road to Mango
Another road near Mango Lagoon
Mango Lagoon
Coen has also marked two minor dramas on our journey. A flat tyre on the Van, easily fixed with assistance from the campground repair team descending on us from out of their vans. One of whom was a retired RACQ road guy. Even repaired the tyre for us. Cost Allthego 3 tins of lager and they almost wouldn’t take those. The tyre gremlin was a bolt straight through the tread. Allthego had noticed this tyre tended to stay a little deflated before we had left Brisbane. The bolt head seems to have ‘sealed’ the hole and the rugged roads since Cooktown (also running on lower tyre pressures) have flexed it letting the air out. No great issue in the end. The other problem was of more consequence. A blown compressor in the fridge, freezer slowly defrosting and things thawing out.
There is a problem
Problem being removed
We changed plans and are heading into Weipa to see if we can get it fixed. We had planned to see Weipa on the way back. In a way lucky, if we had been further north there are no ‘fixing options’ and we would have had to backtrack to the Weipa turnoff.
We headed out of town today for the Hopevale Aboriginal community, about 60km north of the river. Pleasant drive along a sealed road out to the Community. Once through the town though the road reverted to gravel winding its way through undulating country behind the coastal sand dunes. We were on our way to Elim Beach. The Community operates a fairly basic camping ground out there, no power and limited water. But great shaded camping sites overlooking the beach. Very quiet here! Apart from generators.
Track out to Elim Beach
Campsites at Elim Beach
Campsite beachfront at Elim
We initially started walking along the beach to the coloured cliffs but it was going to take a while so Allthego trotted back and got the truck and we took it along the waterline to the cliffs. Very vibrant mix of sand colours in the cliff lines. Elim Beach is the place where a Lutheran pastor established an aboriginal mission community in the 1930s, very isolated back then. With the outbreak of WW11 the pastor was interred as a German citizen and the community was broken up and forcibly moved to Woorabinda, inland from Rockhampton, where they were mixed in with many other aboriginal groups in a settlement. This was not a popular move for the displaced people! After the war there was a lot of agitation to return to Elim and finally a group was repatriated and the township of Hopevale was established.
Short drive back on a slowly rising tide
On the beach at the Coloured cliffs
Coloured sand cliffs at Elim Beach
Elim Beach is a place one could easily return to for a few days of isolation and reflection! On our way back we called in at Isabella Falls. These are a popular water hole, no crocs. There was a small flow of water across the road and a gentle waterfall into a pool. In the wet one could imagine this to flow spectacularly.
Isabella Falls
Back towards town we headed south down the Mulligan Highway to the turn off to Archers Point, another wander along gravel roads for 20or 30 km; lost track now of the distance. Archers Point is out on the coast, a quiet secluded place with a creek outlet into a bay with rocky shores and an offshore island. Plenty of people out here in vans free camping on the beach and headlands. “Doing time for Queensland” one of the chaps told me. He and the wife were parked on a cliff looking out to sea and the island, taking in the fresh air. Looks a good spot to visit another time.
Archers Point
Archers Point campsites
We then headed back to Cooktown to wrap up camp and prepare for the next stage of the journey north the next morning up the Cape to Laura.
Cooktown and Cook, some magpie geese
One of the consequences of COVID has been the deferral to some other time (or maybe never if some have their way) of many of the events that were scheduled for the 250th anniversary celebrations of Cook’s ‘discovery’ of the east coast of Australia, the western part of which was then known to Europeans as New Holland. But known to the indigenous inhabitants for tens of thousands of years. Allthego remembers and has in his boxes at home many bits and pieces from the 200th anniversary celebrations back in 1970, when he was just a young Allthego. Some big celebrations and visitations of dignitaries had been planned for Cooktown, now deferred. They would have taken place a couple of weeks before we arrived in town. Allthego had hoped to add to that collection of memorabilia for future Brown generations to look through! Haven’t even had a stamp issued!
So we were left with just wandering around looking at the things that remained from the 1970 and earlier festivities.
Endeavour River from Grassy Hill
This marks the spot where Cook tied the Endeavour up to a tree.
The Cook statue
A statue of Cook looking out to sea across the Endeavour River. The spot on the river bank where it is considered the Endeavour had been beached for repairs after running aground on a reef off Cooktown. There is also Reconciliation Rocks where Cook and a shore party engaged in an act of reconciliation with local aborigines after there had been some violent encounters and ‘misunderstandings’. Cook had also climbed Grassy Hill, we drove up, which overlooks the Endeavour River to the west and to the east looks out over the sea. Cook climbed up here a number of times to try to locate a safe sea way out of the river and through the reef to the north. There was great views from atop the hill.
Reconciliation Rocks
Anchor and cannon from the Endeavour
Cook Museum in the old Catholic Convent School
The James Cook Museum was well worth the couple of hours we spent there. It is in the restored Sisters of Mercy Convent School built in 1889. A magnificent old building. There are three big Cook items on display in a temperature controlled display case. Endeavour’s anchor and a cannon that had been salvaged from the reef which the ship had struck. There is also a piece of the tree to which the Endeavour had been lashed when it was beached on the river bank. One wonders whether there are any more pieces of said tree around still. A bit like a holy relic maybe?
Portion of MIlbi Wall of reconciliation
Magpie Goose in a tree
Magpie goose
Late one day we visited Keatings Lagoon on the outskirts of town, 600 m walk down beside a dry season shrinking water hole. Along the way we came across a flock of magpie geese paddling around the edge of the lagoon, they became disturbed and took off into the surrounding trees, quite a sight.
We are now planning a day trip out to Elim Beach to visit the coloured sands and cliffs north of the Hopevale Aboriginal community.
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Partisan pessimism
December 29, 2007 ~ Andrew Norton
Newspoll regularly asks voters whether, in the next six months, their standard of living will improve, stay the same, or get worse. Their results always show that supporters of the political party in opposition federally are more pessimistic than supporters of the governing party.
As I noted a couple of years ago, at most times the causes of this are hard to disentangle. Some of it is probably real. Living standards of opposition supporters may genuinely be negatively affected by the government’s policies – eg Labor supporters relying on handouts that may not be so readily available under the Coalition; Liberal supporters suffering from increased tax and regulation under Labor. And people whose living standards have declined may blame the government, and therefore appear as supporters of the opposition in the polls.
These factors are least likely to apply as a new government begins; voters cannot blame its past policies for their current problems, and the inevitably slow-moving machinery of government means that few objective changes are likely to occur within six months. But as a Newspoll conducted in mid-December, and reported in the Australian this morning, shows this doesn’t stop reversals in who feels optimistic about their future living standards and who feels pessimistic.
In July 2007, 25% of Coalition supporters thought their living standards would improve in the next six months, compared to 17% of Labor supporters. In December 2007, these figures were almost reversed: only 16% of Coalition supporters were optimistic, but 24% of Labor supporters. Labor optimists are at their highest figure since December 1995, the last Newspoll standard of living survey before Labor lost office in March 1996.
On the Coalition side, there was a huge leap in pessimism between July and December. In July, only 10% thought that their living standards over the next six months would get worse, but by December that had more than doubled to 23%. Not since 1994 have Coalition supporters been so pessimistic. The drop in Labor pessimists isn’t nearly as dramatic as the increase in Coalition pessimists; down four percentage points to 14%. But that’s the lowest figure since the Keating era.
Do strong partisans of each party incorporate who is in power into their judgments of trends in their standard of living (do, for example, Howard haters feel their standard of living is higher now that he is off playing golf)? Or is it just that survey respondents draw on their partisan allegiance to help them answer a question that doesn’t always have an obvious easy answer (standard of living is a vague concept; personal circumstances can change in ways that are not fully predictable)?
Perhaps it is a bit of both; but another reminder that answers to questions that ask survey respondents to compare over time should be treated with particular caution.
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12 thoughts on “Partisan pessimism”
Andrew E says:
Brendan Nelson declared in his Christmas message that Australia was heading in the right direction. Any Liberal who thinks otherwise is going against their party’s leader.
Geoff Honnor says:
Perhaps. But any Liberal who believes that Brendan Nelson is the answer is railing against the boundaries of common sense.
Brendan is the answer to the question ‘Who will we use as leader during Rudd’s inevitable honeymoon, before replacing him with someone else?’.
Sacha says:
If Brendan is the answer, what was the question?
Spiros says:
Who can make Simon Crean look like an effective leader of the opposition?
Ok – it’s time to put bets on who the Leader of the Opposition will be at the next federal election. If the parliament runs full term, my money’s on Turnbull (unless he wants Nelson to fall in the almost inevitable defeat in 3 years time).
Sacha – If we assume that Labor’s chances of winning the next election are at least 90% it would make sense to leave Nelson.
Andrew, why?
Losing an election isn’t fatal. Gough Whitlam, Nick Greiner, Jeff Kennett and, dare one say it ?, John Howard, all lost an election before they won one.
If Turnbull is the future of the Liberals, he should be the leader now.
What’s more, if Nelson is the dud that everyone thinks, he may lead the Liberals to a landslide loss, like so many recent state Liberal leaders have done, and then Turnbull will be too old by the time they have a chance of winning an election.
Spiros – Brendan may not be so bad at the day-to-day point scoring that occupies much of an Opposition’s time. My main concern about him as a potential PM is that he has no obvious underlying philosophy behind what he says and does, but that may even be a virtue in the early Opposition period.
“he has no obvious underlying philosophy behind what he says and does”
That is certainly true, but then it’s also true of Malcom Turnbull (unless you call relentless self-promotion an underlying philosophy).
I suppose that means you would like Tony Abbott to lead the opposiion into the next election. He has underlying philosophy in spades, much more than any of his colleagues, though not I think the classical liberal kind. Perhaps more the philosphy that so energised the Spanish inquisition.
It’s not a bad idea if you want to see the Liberal numbers in the HOR reduced to single digits.
“Brendan may not be so bad at the day-to-day point scoring that occupies much of an Opposition’s time.”
and if not, Andrew, he’ll certainly be prime fodder for government point-scoring on the opposition. Nelson presents as a vacuous non-entity who uniquely combines the worst characteristics of Uriah Heap and a fading GQ casual-wear model. His treacly, oleaginous utterances are an ear jarring melange of insincerity and unbelievability. PJK was spot-on when he described him as Andrew Peacock without the substance. Finally, he’s a lame duck from the outset. It was manifestly clear that he wasn’t the popular caucus choice; rather, a marginally palatable fall-back position. The polls and his propensity for embarrassing gaffes will see him off inside 6 months.
“PJK was spot-on when he described him as Andrew Peacock without the substance”.
‘Twas John Stone who said it.
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Openings: ‘John Cato Retrospective’ / Erika Diettes ‘Sudarios (Shrouds)’ at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale
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Opening date: 17th August 2013
BiFB dates: 17th August – 15th September 2013
Venue: The Mining Exchange, 12 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat
Opening hours: 9am – 5pm daily
I have the great honour of being guest speaker at the John Cato Retrospective and book launch at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale on the 17th August, 2013. My essay … And His Forms Were Without Number from the 2002 retrospective I co-curated at the Photographers Gallery, has been included in the book. John is one of the most underrated but influential artists in the history of Australian photography and it is wonderful that a book is being published about his work. Finally, the recognition he so strongly deserves.
I have also written the catalogue essay for another core program, Erika Diettes Sudarios (Shrouds) that also opens on the same day. This was one of the most complex writing assignments that I have undertaken for the subject matter is very difficult and I wanted to do the work justice. I will publish the essay in an upcoming posting. The artist is flying over from Colombia for the opening so it will be great to meet her.
I hope you can make the trip to Ballarat for these important events!
John Cato Retrospective
“The meeting of land and sea has always held a mystic fascination for me. Through my camera, my experience of it has been heightened, my awareness of its wonder deepened. Above all, I remember its clamourous silence.”
John Cato 1976
John Cato was one of the first photographers in Australia to consider the lyrical and poetic aspects of landscape and to create extended series of photographic essays. He wanted to ‘explore the elements of landscape’ and gave himself 10 years to complete his study, two years for each of the five elements. His practice would take him into the desert for extended periods of time. He would spend 40 days, seeing, observing and waiting for the perfect conditions for the shot, on one occasion exposing 3 rolls of film and being satisfied enough to use only 11 photographs from them. These powerful images, free of manipulation, capture the essential qualities of natural elements and indeed how John Cato saw the world.
This exhibition of work from 1971-1991 honours the achievement of John Cato as mentor and as teacher. It pays homage to his significant contribution of photography in Australia. John Cato was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1926. From the age of 12 years he was apprenticed to his father the photographer Jack Cato. John Cato had been a press photographer with the Argus newspaper and a commercial photographer in partnership with Athol Shmith for 20 years before experiencing ‘a kind of menopause’. He walked away from a successful career, quietly burned all his commercial work and became an educator and fine art photographer. Cato was involved in the foundation years of the Photography Studies College, still in South Melbourne, and a lecturer there and at Prahran College of Advanced Education becoming Department Head in 1979 until he retired in 1991 by which time it was called Victoria College. He felt ‘duty bound’ to hand on his experience. He loved teaching and he was a much-loved teacher. Many of his past students are now highly regarded photographers, whilst others hold important positions in universities and art institutions around Australia.
Cato exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions and his work is featured in many public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.
Text from the Ballarat International Foto Biennale core special guide.
The exhibition is curated by Paul Cox.
John Cato (Australian, 1926-2011)
Tree, a journey #1
From the Tree, a journey series 1971-73
Gelatin silver photograph
Tree, a journey #18
Double concerto #13
From the Double Concerto series 1985-91
Erika Diettes Sudarios (Shrouds)
Many times, with my camera, I have been a witness of the moment when people have to close their eyes as they recall the event which divided their life into two parts. My decision to create Sudarios (Shrouds) comes from unanswered questions that came out of my pervious series Silencios (Silences), which dealt with survivors of the Second World War who live in Colombia. Similarities are also to be found in Río Abajo (Drifting Away), a series which focuses on the victims of forced disappearance, and A Punta de Sangre (By Force of Blood), a series in which I examine the idea of the search for the bodies of the disappeared by their families, who, in the midst of despair, find a ray of hope in the vultures that might lead them to the remains of their loved ones. To date, I have received the testimonies of more than 300 victims of the violence in Colombia. They have confided intimacies of this violence to me: not only its harrowing details, but the way they rebuild their lives and keep going despite what they have suffered.
The women who serve as the models in Sudarios were first-hand witnesses of acts of horror. The intention of the series is to enable the spectator to observe the moment when these women close their eyes, with no other way to communicate the horror that they witnessed and the intensity of the sorrow they were subjected to. They were forced to feel on their own flesh, or in front of their own eyes, that there is no difference between man and the most savage beasts of nature; but that we are the only species capable of mass murder and the only ones who do not adapt to our own kind (N. Timbergen, 1968). I am convinced that this series speaks of something that is timeless, universal and infinite.
Erika Diettes is a visual artist who lives and works in Bogotá. Her work explores the problems of memory, sorrow, absence and death. She has a Masters in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, with a major in photographic production, and a degree in Social Communication from the Pontificia Universidad de Bogotá.
Erika Diettes website
Erika Diettes (Colombian, b. 1978)
From the series Sudarios (Shrouds)
Digital black and white photograph printed on silk
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Installation photographs of Erika Diettes Sudarios (Shrouds) at Iglesia de Chinquinquirá (La Chinca). Santa Fe de Antioquia [COL] December 5-9, 2012 © Erika Diettes
Installation photograph of Erika Diettes Sudarios (Shrouds) at Ex Teresa Arte Actual. México D.F. [MEX] May-Jun, 2012 © Erika Diettes
Installation photograph of Erika Diettes Sudarios (Shrouds) at Trinity Episcopal Church. Houston TX [USA] Feb-Apr 2012 © Erika Diettes
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Garde Loses The Battle As Villa’s War Continues
By Back Of The Net March 30, 2016 June 1, 2016
In late March 1916, the battle between the British and Ottoman empires for control of the town of Kut in southern Iraq was reaching its deadly conclusion with the Ottomans eventually breaking the Brits and gaining control of the garrison. Known as the Siege of Kut, it would later be described as the most abject capitulation in British military history. On April 29, exactly 147 days after it started the battle drew to close with over 40,000 dead or wounded and another 13,000 British troops captured. The impact of those 147 days was felt across the British Empire, which took years to recover from.
British troops fought for 147 days in vain during their defence of the Kut garrison (Image from getty)
100 years later, Aston Villa finds themselves facing a similar recovery time after going through their own 147 day war. When Remi Garde took over 147 days ago, he was pitched as the savior of the club, the man destined to turn its fortunes around and save it from its biggest threat – relegation. Yesterday the Frenchman departed from the club by mutual consent with Villa all but relegated and left in disarray. It wouldn’t be fair to blame Garde for the mess that has been left behind as his responsibilities were firmly on the battle and not the garrison, which has sadly been poorly managed from the top down.
Villa are all but confirmed as relegated (Image from JMP/REX/Shutterstock)
Owner Randy Lerner has made more than a few miscalculated moves over the past few years including several key appointments like Tom Fox as Chief executive and Hendrik Almstad as Sporting Director. Both arrived from Arsenal with the promise of bringing exciting football to the midlands but their failures have been yet another black mark on the clubs recent history. Poor signings in the summer along with bad management of assets has left Villa facing years of upheaval in order to return to where they once were. Lerner, who has publicly stated his wish to sell the club must take a majority of the blame but like most foreign owners in similar situations has decided to stay away viewing from afar as the club continues to tumble. Now faced with near certain defeat though, Lerner has decided to wave the white flag and has begun the process of transforming what remains into a resemblance of a club.
Owner Randy Lerner has taken a hands off approach in recent years that has backfired dramatically for Villa (image from PA)
Out went Fox and Almstad in favour of more accomplished football men. West Midlands businessman Steve Hollis arrived as chairman whilst former FA chief David Bernstein and villa legend Brian Little have joined a football board. After these appointments, it was only a matter of time before Remi Garde was shown the door with the view that an Englishman (or at least a Brit) should replace him. Nigel Pearson, Sean Dyche and Steve Bruce are all attractive options whilst David Moyes appears to be the glamour card if they can entice him to manage the club in the Championship next year. Whether any of these men will have better luck than Garde had will be dependent on how much control they are granted. Garde had little to no say in transfers and was unable to bring in players during the January window, which he felt could have made the difference. That was under the Fox administration granted but ultimately he has operating as a puppet of Lerner who holds the power and more importantly the cash. Garde departs a broken man, defeated by his return to English football as a manager. He will return after a short break to another club to show how good a manager he can be if he is given full control of the garrison.
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‘Versatile and novel, savoury patisserie ticks many boxes’
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Lydia Baines, digital & communications manager at Puratos UK, asks whether savoury patisserie is destined to be the next frontier in snacking
Government, industry and media attention on reducing sugar has led to a rise in consumer demand for savoury options.
The trend for snacking is on the up too – driven by the increasing number of people leading busy, on-the-go lifestyles and the perception that snacking is an effective way to maintain energy levels throughout the day. The combination of these factors has led to growing consumer interest in savoury snacks that are lower in added sugars.
Brands have been quick to offer NPD to meet this interest and, since 2013, the number of ‘unique’ flavours within savoury snacks has increased by around 21%.
Of those, options that offer the consumer originality, versatility and great taste have proved the most popular.
With such an array of choice, it’s not surprising today’s savoury snack-seeking consumer is looking for something new and unique and it is here, I believe, savoury patisserie can step in. Delicious, versatile and novel enough to attract attention in a crowded market, savoury patisserie ticks multiple boxes.
Savoury cakes appeal to consumers who are shying away from added sugars, while still offering an element of indulgence – being, by definition, still a cake. Snacks offering this balance between heath and indulgence are proving popular, with Mintel reporting in May that there is a strong openness from consumers towards indulgent snacks with healthier characteristics .
As well as providing consumers with the ‘novelty’ factor they crave, savoury patisserie also offers
the consumer the convenience and versatility their lifestyle demands as it is a great option for breakfast, a snack, a light lunch when served with salad, or even an alternative dinner.
This month we have launched a Satin Savoury Mix, which can be used to create savoury patisserie suitable for snacking, such as savoury muffins, loaf cakes and more. With the current and growing trends for healthier snacking and lower-sugar options, this provides bakers with the opportunity to extend their offering by creating a range of savoury patisserie options.
The mix proved a hit with consumers in the testing stage, with 75% saying they found the concept of savoury cake attractive and 62% saying it was new and different. I believe this is indicative of what we will see in the future and savoury patisserie will only grow in popularity.
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Published: 13 Jan 2021 07:24 PM BdST Updated: 13 Jan 2021 07:24 PM BdST
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Wet weather and the potential for a more seamer friendly wicket means England are in no rush to name their bowling attack for the first Test against Sri Lanka starting in Galle on Thursday, captain Joe Root said.
Less than 24 hours before the start of the two-match series, Root said they were still undecided on who will play, and suggested seam could play a bigger role on what is traditionally a pitch that takes plenty of turn.
"There has been quite a lot of rain over the last few days so we want to make sure we are clear on the starting 11, and make sure we have the best tools for these conditions and the surface," Root told reporters on Wednesday.
"Throughout the winter (Test tours to Sri Lanka and India) we will exploit pace as a tactic in these conditions, whether it is reverse swing or a more hostile spell of bowling. It can be very effective.
"With the weather around, seam might play a bigger part than has been spoken about previously."
Sri Lanka battled against genuine pace on their recent tour of South Africa with two heavy Test defeats, though those were on wickets that had plenty of seam movement and bounce.
England are still in contention for a place in the final of the ICC’s Test Championship at Lords in June, but will likely have to win this series as well as their four-game tour of India to get there.
"We have to look at what is right in front of us, look at this first game and get a result," Root said.
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13 Rescued After Flash Flood at Anna’s Ranch
November 4, 2018, 11:13 AM HST (Updated November 4, 2018, 11:13 AM)
The Hawai‘i County Fire Department responded to a Flash Flood Search and Rescue at Anna’s Ranch in Waimea on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018, at 4:21 p.m. 13 individual were found, seven of the individuals were trapped and two of the individuals were injured.
Upon arrival, responders found three of the party on the west side of the stream. They reported there were a total of 13 in the party that were swimming in the mountain stream when a Flash Flood came through without warning. The search immediately began along the stream for the missing.
Upon arrival of Chopper 1, three other were located walking thru the north side pasture. A short time later, four others were located in different areas stranded on the rocks along the stream. They were rescued and then air lifted to the staging area to be treated by waiting medic units. A while later, the final three hikers were located on the rocks behind a large waterfall. Extrication involved technical rope rescue and repelling/ascending a 150–250 foot cliffs in dark, wind and rainy conditions over a five hour period of time.
24 fire fighters were involved in the Search and Rescue which ended on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 12:33 a.m.
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Eric Oswald Digestive Health Research Institute (IRSD), Université de Toulouse, INSERM, INRA, ENVT, UPS, France
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Michèle Boury Digestive Health Research Institute (IRSD), Université de Toulouse, INSERM, INRA, ENVT, UPS, France
Marcy Belloy Digestive Health Research Institute (IRSD), Université de Toulouse, INSERM, INRA, ENVT, UPS, France
Nadège Bossuet-Greif Digestive Health Research Institute (IRSD), Université de Toulouse, INSERM, INRA, ENVT, UPS, France
Jean-Philippe Nougayrede
DIGESTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Université de Toulouse, INSERM, INRA, ENVT, UPS, France, France,
PhD, Lyon, France, 2000
Senior researcher, IRSD, Inserm, France
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Protocol for HeLa Cells Infection with Escherichia coli Strains Producing Colibactin and Quantification of the Induced DNA-damage
Authors: Nadège Bossuet-Greif, Marcy Belloy, Michèle Boury, Eric Oswald and Jean-Philippe Nougayrede, date: 08/20/2017, view: 8434, Q&A: 0
Strains of Escherichia coli bearing the pks genomic island synthesize the genotoxin colibactin. Exposure of eukaryotic cells to E. coli producing colibactin induces DNA damages, ultimately leading to cell cycle arrest, ...
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We focus on the biology and prevalence of marine mammals and other marine vertebrates as well as the factors that affect the animals’ survival and population development. We study this by means of aerial surveys, telemetry data and data on the animals' health status, which enable us to quantify the effects of anthropogenic disturbances at both the individual and population level.
We are responsible for the national monitoring of marine mammals and underwater noise and contribute to the development of new management initiatives, both nationally and internationally. In addition, we conduct research to understand how the factors that affect the behaviour and health of individual animals interact and influence the distribution and dynamics of different populations. This becomes increasingly important as the marine environment becomes more affected by human activities such as fishing, noise from construction activities and ships, emissions of chemicals and climate change.
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Through international projects, we uncover the relationship between climate change and the up-concentration of environmental contaminants including their impact on the health of fish, birds, mammals and humans. We particularly focus on predatory animals and birds in the Arctic and the Baltic Sea, where, among other things, we study diseases that can be transmitted from wild animals to humans (zoonoses). In addition, we specifically focus on understanding ecosystem dynamics, and in this context, we study food chains and climate change and how they affect the composition and exposure of environmental contaminants and diseases. Some of our core activities are to incorporate temporal and geographical trends into risk assessments in the circumpolar AMAP and BONUS programs.
Read more at Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
Rune Dietz, Professor, Department of Bioscience - Marine Mammal Research
Christian Sonne, Professor, Department of Bioscience - Marine Mammal Research
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Ever since diesel engines became common in ships about 100 years ago, there has been an increase in the human contribution to ambient noise in marine waters. However, ships are not the only source of the problem. Offshore activities, such as construction of offshore wind farms, oil and gas exploration and military activities, such as disposing of old ammunition and antisubmarine sonars also contribute to the noise. For these reasons, we monitor underwater noise in Danish marine areas for the Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark and conduct research to quantify the effects of underwater noise on marine mammals and fish. As underwater noise knows no borders, we also participate in international research projects and expert groups that coordinate monitoring and regulation of underwater noise in the Baltic and the North Seas (within the framework of the regional seas conventions HELCOM and OSPAR, respectively).
Jakob Tougaard, Senior Researcher, Department of Bioscience - Marine Mammal Research
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The section for Marine Mammal Research is responsible for coordinating and conducting the national monitoring of the Danish marine mammals. We have many years of experience in tracking the population dynamics and prevalence of our three most common species: The harbour seal, the grey seal and the harbour porpoise. Seals are monitored throughout Denmark by plane at their haul-outs on land. Harbour porpoises are monitored by plane, from ship and by passive acoustic listening stations that detect their echolocation clicks under water. The surveillance of marine mammals is part of the NOVANA program (the national surveillance program of the aquatic environment and nature).
Anders Galatius, Senior Researcher, Department of Bioscience - Marine Mammal Research
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We collect dead, stranded marine mammals, regulated seals and bycaught porpoises and seals in order to measure their blubber thickness in connection with a project for the Danish Environmental Protection Agency. The f blubber layer is a measure of the animal's health and nutritional state: When the animal is healthy and receives the quality and quantity of food it needs, energy is stored in a subcutaneous layer around the animal. The thickness of the blubber layer varies over the year to regulate heat loss from the animal to the water. In addition, blubber thickness varies with gender, age and reproductive status, as well as there are differences between populations. Therefore, a large number of animals must be collected to describe the blubber thickness of Danish marine mammals quantitatively.
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Example of spatial modelling of the prevalence of porpoises using MAXENT–modelling*.
Marine mammals are influenced by anthropogenic disturbances, but it is usually not possible to observe these effects directly – both because the animals are difficult to observe and because we wish to understand the effects of the potential impacts before they actually happen. For this reason, we use different types of models to examine population effects. Among other things, we use spatial models to predict animal abundances in different areas at different times of the year and agent-based models that simulate the behavioral reaction of individual animals to disturbances. The population dynamics emerge through the interaction between the individual animals in the model.
DEPONS is an example of an agent-based model for harbour porpoises: http://depons.au.dk.
Jacob Nabe-Nielsen, Senior Researcher, Department of Bioscience - Marine Mammal Research
*MAXENT-modelling
From Sveegaard, S., Nabe-Nielsen, J., & Teilmann, J. (2018). The prevalence and status of porpoises in marine habitats in Danish waters.
Harbour seal equipped with an Argos satellite transmitter. The seal was tagged on Anholt as part of a large research project, the aim of which was to study the movement patterns and prevalence of harbour seals in the Kattegat area. Photo: Anders Galatius ©
The study of animal movement patterns enables us to monitor survival rates and reproduction of species and populations and to gain a solid understanding of the distribution and interactions among individuals, populations and species. By looking into these patterns and interactions, we can learn more about the animals' ecology, including foraging, reactions to disturbances, mating, distribution and migration. A broader and deeper understanding of movement patterns, behaviour and disturbances plays a key role in our research and has fundamental value for our work with managing and protecting each species.
We focus on tagging porpoises and seals in Danish waters. Among other things, we use the research results for consultancy tasks with public as well as private sector clients.
Jonas Teilmann, Senior Researcher, Department of Bioscience - Marine Mammal Research
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Can Yuna save Malaysia?
Published on 26/07/2016 by brandconsultantasia
More than 4 years ago the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak set up a department tasked with building the Malaysia nation brand. We had a number of meetings with the head of the new department but her understanding of what constitutes a nation brand was very different to ours and so we didn’t get involved.
But we gave her plenty of ideas, one of which was that the Malaysian entertainer Yuna should be the face of any Malaysia nation branding initiative. I even wrote about it on my blog here.
Yuna never became the face of the Malaysian nation brand but she did feature in some Malaysia Airlines marketing campaigns but they didn’t really understand how to get the best out of such a potential game changer.
During those 4 years, Yuna’s career has continued to blossom and recently she became the first Malaysian to feature in Billboard’s Top 10 R&B Albums and Billboard’s Top 20 R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. The best selling single on that album was Crush, a collaboration with Usher.
With such success comes confidence and in an interview with Elle magazine Malaysia, Yuna ripped into the haters in Malaysia who weren’t happy with her for hugging Usher.
I heard recently that the special department was being disbanded which is a waste because the Malaysia nation brand needs some help. Used properly, I still think this impressive young artist can rescue a once iconic nation brand.
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The Gull Next Door
A Portrait of a Misunderstood Bird
Marianne Taylor
A uniquely personal meditation on Britain's gulls by one of today's leading wildlife writers
From a distance, gulls are beautiful symbols of freedom over the oceanic wilderness. Up close, however, they can be loud, aggressive and even violent. Yet gulls fascinate birdwatchers, and seafarers regard them with respect and affection. The Gull Next Door explores the natural history of gulls and their complicated relationship with humans.
Marianne Taylor grew up in an English seaside town where gulls are ever present. Today, she is a passionate advocate for these underappreciated birds. In this book, Taylor looks at the different gull species and sheds light on all aspects of the lives of gulls—how they find food, raise families, socialize and migrate across sea, coastland and countryside. She discusses the herring gull, Britain's best-known and most persecuted gull species, whose numbers are declining at an alarming rate. She looks at gulls in legend, fiction and popular culture, and explains what we can do to protect gull populations around the world.
The Gull Next Door reveals deeper truths about these remarkable birds. They are thinkers and innovators, devoted partners and parents. They lead long lives and often indulge their powerful drive to explore and travel. But for all these natural gifts, many gull species are struggling to survive in the wild places they naturally inhabit, which is why they are now exploiting the opportunities of human habitats. This book shows how we might live more harmoniously with these majestic yet misunderstood birds.
Marianne Taylor:
Marianne Taylor is a freelance writer, editor, illustrator and photographer. Her books include RSPB British Birds of Prey, The Way of the Hare and Wild Coast: A Celebration of the Places Where Land Meets Sea. David Lindo is a naturalist, writer, broadcaster, speaker, photographer, wildlife tour leader and educator. His books include How to Be an Urban Birder (Princeton).
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How We Are All Interconnected Through the Soundscape
August 22, 2014 | By Rachael Steineckert
The health of a habitat isn’t usually measured by sound, but bioacoustician Michael Stocker has spent his career listening to organisms in their ‘acoustic communities’ to understand exactly what sound can teach us about ecological relationships.
Founder of Ocean Conservation Research, Stocker spoke last Tuesday at our Monthly Gathering in San Francisco. Accompanied by sound clips of crickets, dolphins, birds, and fish, Stocker shared his unique approach to the largely unknown relationship between how sound works, and how organisms use it.
Creating Relationships Through Sound
As an example, Stocker explained that dolphins have developed a complex relationship to sound that allows them to be the social creatures they are. Like bats, dolphins use echolocation- also called biosonar- to navigate their environments. However, dolphins' biosonar has an added layer of complexity that can be measured on sonar readings as well as observed in dolphin behavior.
While on the move, dolphins create multiple layers of sounds: one to navigate and sense their surroundings, and one to communicate with each other. This means that they have the advanced ability to simultaneously be ‘looking around,’ and telling each other what they’re seeing.
Even more interesting is that mother dolphins name their offspring. The mother will assign a unique sound to each child, which it uses to identify itself throughout life. So when a dolphin is in distress, it will call out the name of another nearby, like a cry for help.
Most importantly, however, Stocker continually emphasized the 'collaborative, cooperative' element in all sonar relationships. He used the example of Japanese families who relied on crickets to alarm them of invaders.
The crickets became so familiar with the individuals in each household that they continued chirping even when humans were very close. But when the crickets stopped, the families knew someone else had arrived. In this way, organisms use sound to benefit themselves and connect to their surroundings.
We Are All Connected Through the Soundscape
"A healthy habitat can be heard," Stocker said.
Whether through scientific research like his, or the wisdom shared by our indigenous partners, we are deepening our understanding of just how intimately all organisms are connected.
As we realize this connection, we recognize the human impact on our sound communities. One of Ocean Conservation Research's biggest missions is to understand the effects of noise pollution on marine life.
The Pachamama Alliance hosts Monthly Gatherings like these every second Tuesday of the month. Each gathering features a different speaker, discussion, or presentation where participants can engage in the inspiring ideas that are changing the world.
Check out our upcoming events including Monthly Gatherings!
Learn more in Michael Stocker's book 'Hear Where We Are: Sound, Ecology, and Sense of Place.'
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N.B. reports 3 new COVID-19 cases between Christmas Day and Boxing Day; active cases drop to 38 – CTV News Atlantic
HALIFAX —
New Brunswick has reported a total of three new COVID-19 cases between Friday and Saturday, while active case numbers dropped to 38.
On Saturday, New Brunswick Public Health reported two new cases of COVID-19 in two different regions.
Saturday’s new cases involve:
An individual in their 60s in Zone 1 (Moncton region)
An individual in their 20s in Zone 7 (Miramichi region)
Both cases are self-isolating and are travel related.
On Friday, one new COVID-19 case was announced. The case involves an individual in their 40s in Zone 2 (Saint John region). The case is related to travel and is self-isolating.
CASE BREAKDOWN
New Brunswick has had 590 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Of those, 543 have recovered. There have been eight deaths, leaving 38 active cases in the province.
There is currently one person in hospital, in an intensive care unit, as a result of COVID-19.
To date, 149,999 COVID-19 tests have been conducted in New Brunswick.
CASE LOCATIONS
The number of cases are broken down by New Brunswick’s seven health zones:
Zone 1 – Moncton region: 153 confirmed cases (9 active cases)
Zone 2 – Saint John region: 129 confirmed cases (3 active cases)
Zone 3 – Fredericton region: 118 confirmed cases (11 active cases)
Zone 4 – Edmundston region: 33 confirmed cases (10 active cases)
Zone 5 – Campbellton region: 138 confirmed cases (1 active case)
Zone 6 – Bathurst region: 13 confirmed cases (2 active cases)
Zone 7 – Miramichi region: 6 confirmed cases (2 active cases)
EXPOSURE NOTIFICATION ON AIR CANADA FLIGHTS
On Saturday, Public Health identified a positive case in a traveller who may have been infectious on Dec. 19 and Dec. 20 while on the following flights:
Air Canada Flight 8476 – from Grande Prairie to Calgary, arrived at 4:39 p.m.
Air Canada Flight 150 – from Calgary to Toronto to, arrived at 11:20 p.m.
Air Canada Flight 8910– from Toronto to Moncton, arrived at 11:23 a.m.
Public Health says anyone on the flights should continue to monitor for symptoms and follow the directives given to them during the travel registration process and when they entered New Brunswick.
Click here for a full list of potential COVID-19 exposures in New Brunswick.
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Premier Doug Ford expressed frustration at the news that Canada will not receive any new doses of the Pfizer vaccine next week, though the general overseeing Ontario’s vaccine rollout plan remains hopeful the distribution delay won’t impede plans to immunize the general population by early August.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Ford called the news that Canada will receive no new Pfizer vaccines next week “troubling” and “a massive concern.”
“Until vaccines are more widely available, please stay home, stay safe and save lives,” he said.
The news comes as the province recorded another 1,913 cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, with officials cautioning that Toronto Public Health — which consistently logs the most new infections each day — is “likely underreporting” its number of cases.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Health said the artificially low total of 550 new cases reported by the city was due to a “technical issue,” but did not provide any further details.
For reference, over the three previous days, Toronto Public Health logged 815, 1035 and 903 cases, respectively.
Other public health units that saw double- or triple-digit increases were:
Peel Region: 346
York Region: 235
Durham Region: 82
Windsor-Essex: 81
Waterloo Region: 79
Middlesex-London: 73
Halton Region: 71
Hamilton: 63
Niagara Region: 52
Simcoe Muskoka: 48
Ottawa: 41
Huron-Perth: 37
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph: 31
Lambton: 28
Southwestern: 22
Eastern Ontario: 14
Chatham-Kent: 13
(Note: All of the figures used in this story are found on the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard or in its Daily Epidemiologic Summary. The number of cases for any region may differ from what is reported by the local public health unit, because local units report figures at different times.)
Over 200,000 Ontarians vaccinated so far
At a technical briefing for media Tuesday morning, members of the COVID-19 vaccination distribution task force offered a rough breakdown of which groups of received a first dose of vaccine:
About 83,000 long-term care residents, staff and caregivers.
About 25,000 retirement home residents, staff and caregivers.
More than 99,000 health-care workers in other sectors.
With the more than 200,000 vaccines administered, Ontario has completed the first round of immunization at all long-term care homes in Toronto, Peel, York and Windsor-Essex — the four regions with the highest transmission rates of the virus. The first round of immunizations has also been administered at all long-term care homes in Ottawa, Durham and Simcoe-Muskoka.
Still, Minister of Long-Term Care Merrilee Fullerton cautioned, “The rise of community spread during the second wave is posing a serious threat to our long-term care homes.”
The province aims to finish vaccinating those at all remaining long-term care homes by Feb. 15.
At Tuesday’s technical briefing, members of the COVID-19 vaccination distribution task force also addressed how the province is responding to Pfizer’s announcement last week that it was slowing down production of its vaccine, resulting in delivery delays for Canada.
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The impact in Ontario will vary week to week, officials said, with an 80 per cent reduction in the number of doses that were originally expected the week of Jan. 25; 55 per cent the week of Feb. 1; and 45 per cent the week of Feb. 8.
In turn, the province will reallocate its available doses of the Moderna vaccine to more regions, while also extending the interval between doses of the Pfizer vaccine in some situations to ensure that everyone who has had a first shot will have access to their second.
Residents and staff at long-term care and high-risk retirement homes who have received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine will receive a second dose in 21 to 27 days, the province says. All others who receive the Pfizer vaccine will receive their second dose between 21 and 42 days after the first.
For those who receive the Moderna vaccine, the 28-day schedule will remain in place.
As for whether the province still expects to immunize the general population of Ontario by late July or early August, General Rick Hillier said that will come down to whether there are any further hiccups with vaccine availability, but that he remains optimistic.
Toronto to halt operations at mass vaccination clinic
Following the announcement of the delay, the province asked the City of Toronto late Tuesday to immediately stop operating a “proof-of-concept” mass vaccination clinic at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
The clinic, which began operating only on Monday, had aimed to vaccinate 250 people per day, but the city noted that was entirely dependent upon vaccine supply.
People scheduled to receive the shot at the clinic over the next three days have had those appointments cancelled, Toronto Public Health said in a statement.
“The City’s Immunization Task Force is continuing to plan for city-wide immunization clinic roll-out and will continue to work with the province to determine next steps once vaccine supply is re-established,” the city said.
Just over 34,000 new tests processed
Meanwhile, Ontario’s network of labs processed just 34,531 test samples for the novel coronavirus and reported a test positivity rate of 6.8 per cent. Testing levels often fall over weekends, but there is capacity in the system for more than 70,000 tests daily.
The seven-day average of new daily cases fell to 2,893, the lowest it has been since Jan. 4 this year.
For the seventh time in eight days, the numbers of cases reported resolved outpaced new infections. There are currently about 27,615 confirmed, active cases of COVID-19 provincewide.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health said there were 1,626 patients in hospitals with COVID-19. Of those, 400 were being treated in intensive care, the most at any point during the pandemic, and 292 required a ventilator to breathe.
Notably, a daily report generated by Critical Care Services Ontario and shared internally with hospitals puts the current number of ICU patients with COVID-19 at 418, with 303 still on ventilators.
Public health units also recorded 46 additional deaths of people with the illness, bringing the official toll to 5,479.
Twenty-nine of the further deaths were residents of long-term care. A total of 254, or just over 40 per cent, of long-term care facilities in Ontario were dealing with an outbreak of COVID-19.
The province said it administered another 14346 doses of COVID-19 vaccines yesterday, and that 224,134 people have been given a first dose. A total of 25,609 people in Ontario have gotten both shots.
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It’s taken me months, but I’ve finally catalogued all the tracks I’m currently working on. I should have done this from the start because it was a ton of work, but, if there’s a wrong way of doing things, you can be sure I’ll usually try that first =P
Up until now, I used the “lucky dip” approach, where I just opened one of 5 folders and plucked a random track to work on. I literally closed my eyes, scrolled and worked on the one the cursor landed on. While that was obviously very rock ‘n’ roll , I knew good tracks were being forgotten about, so I started my database using the simple power of spreadsheets. It’s much less fraught with danger than throwing TV’s out of hotel windows, but it’s just one more thing to do on top of being my own archivist, mastering engineer, cover artist, videographer, session musician, producer, mixer, arranger, composer, promoter, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy……….
I even occasionally have to make my own tea !!
So…….after making mouse-clicking an olympic sport, I catalogued 418 tracks.
It’s a good number that I’m sure Sesame Street skipped.
I opened every one of them, and brought each one up to speed. Some of these tracks are 10 years old, andchannels were in the red, patterns were all over the place and needed consolidated, vsts were missing ( because I’ve just changed to a new PC, and I’ve had to install hundreds of VSTs as well ), and then I had to colour everything.
A few who know me might recall I have some kind of synesthesia and see sound in terms of colour, so Kick is black, bass is blue, hats are yellow and so on…….so I had to do all these things for 418 tracks !!!
Then I recorded each track on the database with Name, location , style, bpm, percentage complete, a brief description, and if it has been mastered.
All 418 are release-worthy and will be released.
I’ll be working on ALL of them simultaneously. I don’t work on one exclusively until it’s finished. I work on ALL of them, like an artist adding a dab of blue to one painting, then putting another on the easel and adding a little flesh colour etc……
I work this way until 1 is finished and I’m happy no more can be added and my vision is as fully formed and 3-D as I can make it.
There were a lot more but I binned the useless ones.
The upside of all this for YOU, is that the Carbinax conveyor belt is now gonna be running like a well oiled machine.
All those good tracks that were buried, are now locked ‘n’ loaded, and releases will come thick and fast, so I’m good for at least another 20 albums……at least !!
The next album will be predominantly Detroit techno / acid, and I have some great remixers onboard for that too. After that, there will be an ambient album, and I’m thinking about tracks for the album that will come after that, and another album that will be released on Touched in 2021
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Richie Welch says:
Bring them on I say! Looking forward to all 418!! Take care and where can I get one of those mugs🤣
carbinax says:
ha….I had the mug specially made. I wanted a bigger one….like a “proper” mug, but it’ll do for now =)
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Family History: GenTravelling around Cornwall.
By Dr B on April 1, 2019 • ( 7 )
As this post is published we will be travelling into deepest Cornwall, not on a tourist jaunt, but as “Gentravellers” exploring five generations of the Waters family, Dr B’s maternal ancestors. In one week we have five questions to answer:
Between 1783 and 1881 what caused the family to move from Gwennap to Goonvrea to Chacewater to St Blazey and finally to leave Cornwall for Cumbria in 1881?
Which copper and tin mines did they work at?
Which Methodist chapels did they worship at?
What was the effect on them of Corn Laws, Enclosure Acts, and the development of Trevithick Steam Pump Engines?
What is the story behind the creation and ending of a “different” family business?
Here’s a set of maps showing the area of interest and the specific mining villages.
Waters family in Cornwall, England
Family Outline
In 1753 my 4x Great Grandfather, Richard Waters, was born near Gwennap. He was a miner all his life digging copper, then tin from the depths of Cornish rock. He died in the same place he was born.
Richard had a son, William (1), born in 1783 also in Gwennap, and he too was a miner. But by 1841 he had moved with his family to Goonvrea near St Agnes where he continued to work in the mines until his death in 1864.
William (1)’s son Joseph was also born in Gwennap in 1812, but by the time his father was recorded in Goonvrea, 1841, Joseph was married, living and working as a miner in Chacewater. By 1848 Joseph had moved again, working in the mines around St Blazey.
William (2) was born to Joseph and his wife Jecoliah in Chacewater in 1841, before moving with them to St Blazey by 1848. In 1872 his third son was born, William (3) also in St Blazey, who was my Grandfather.
To round off, by the census of 1881 William (2) and William (3) had moved to the rich iron mining village of Haverigg in Cumbria. My mother emerged as the 13th child of William (3) in 1920 making us both Cumbrians …… not Cornish!
Early Victorian travel
If you can follow all that on the map of Cornwall above they may not seem like great distances compared with today’s motor car and railways, or even the migration from Cornwall to Wisconsin in the 1800s. But these relocations must have been driven by a great need because in those days folks weren’t moving an entire family to have a better sea view or to be closer to better schools. It must have been hardship of one kind or another, probably mine closures, but that is one of the questions, and why would one mine be better than any other if the cause was the global collapse of the tin market?
A second area of interest is the rise of Methodism in Cornwall with followers being branded as non conformists, preachers like John Wesley preaching outdoors because they were banned from preaching in established Protestant churches. I think that many of the chapels that were built during this era I’m investigating have since been knocked down, but there must be quite a bit of history to be found about them. We must also make a quick visit to Gwennap Pit, the “amphitheatre” where Wesley himself is said to have preached to 20,000 Cornish folk as part of his regular visits to the county on horseback.
John Wesley at Gwennap Pit, Cornwall, England
The final piece of research concerns a photo I recently found online which was taken in St Blazey in 1903 apparently. I dispute the date, because the two young men named and supposedly shown on the cart were only 4 and 6 years old at the time. It was the St Blazey annual “show”; take a look at the family name and business on the cart that won second prize! Now THAT is rather different from working down a tin mine!
Waters Family Butchers, 1903?
And finally finally, maybe no detailed articles for a week as we move from village to village, but do look out for our regular “Pasties & Places” postcards!
‹ Imaginative Ancestry #5: A PEST in Cobbett’s England!
Postcard from Cornwall: #1 St Agnes…. ancestors and Poldark ›
Categories: 1800s, Cornwall, Waters
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Imaginative Ancestry: A day in the life of a Bal Maiden.
Postcard from Cornwall: #1 St Agnes…. ancestors and Poldark
Imaginative Ancestry #5: A PEST in Cobbett’s England!
The life of Sarah Elizabeth in an English workhouse, 1867-1874.
I hope you take photos of the amphitheater. I’m interested to see what shape it’s in!
Will do ….. if it stops raining long enough😂
Eilene Lyon
Have fun digging up family history!
Andrew Petcher
Interesting stuff. I may be thick but I don’t understand the point that you are making about the final photograph (a great picture by the way).
I see you have changed your profile picture again. The comment about ‘obscure heritage’ intrigues me. I assume from it that it is more difficult to investigate family history in Nepal?
Hi Andrew, just settled down in our Newquay hotel after a long drive across the morning then an afternoon around St Agnes exploring the local museum, a cemetery, a famous coastal tin mine, and a Mechanics Institute! Champa slept in the car! The point, I think, about the final photo, is that I made a discovery that some of my Cornish ancestors were NOT tin miners but butchers, and that the date I was given for the photo cannot be correct because in 1903, Bernard and Leo Waters were much younger than shown in that photo. Regarding my dear wife’s family tree, you’ve given me an idea for another post about why it’s impossible, maybe another conversation with Sid!
Every picture tells a story Brian. Enjoy your evening in Newquay. I haven’t been there for 40 years but will be following in your footsteps in two weeks time after a stop over in the Forest of Dean.
Forest of Dean! Very brave, all have 6 toes in there!
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The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Akwaeke Emezi
August 2020 Indie Next List
“I am staggered by the immersive, fluid, irresistible prose Emezi has perfected in their third novel, The Death of Vivek Oji. This tale follows the captivating, curious Vivek through the aftermath of his mysterious death, while simultaneously examining the people and relationships closest to him. Vivek, his cousin Osita, and a distant third-person narrator lead the reader through a grounded, lively picture of Nigeria, family and friendship bonds stretched to their breaking points, and the passing of this unique, complex young boy. Through addictive, multifaceted characters and a simply beautiful story, Emezi inspects masculinity, otherness, and love. This is one of the most magical, compelling, exciting, thought-provoking, and important books of our time.”
— Margy Adams, Loganberry Books, Shaker Heights, OH
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR’S CHOICE
"Electrifying." — O: The Oprah Magazine
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, USA TODAY, Vanity Fair, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Shondaland, Teen Vogue, Vulture, Lit Hub, Bustle, Electric Literature, and BookPage
What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew?
One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in friendships with the warm, boisterous daughters of the Nigerwives, foreign-born women married to Nigerian men. But Vivek’s closest bond is with Osita, the worldly, high-spirited cousin whose teasing confidence masks a guarded private life. As their relationship deepens—and Osita struggles to understand Vivek’s escalating crisis—the mystery gives way to a heart-stopping act of violence in a moment of exhilarating freedom.
Propulsively readable, teeming with unforgettable characters, The Death of Vivek Oji is a novel of family and friendship that challenges expectations—a dramatic story of loss and transcendence that will move every reader.
Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of The Death of Vivek Oji, a New York Times bestseller; Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature; and Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation, they are based in liminal spaces.
Praise for The Death of Vivek Oji:
“[A] dazzling, devastating story . . . A puzzle wrapped in beautiful language, raising questions of identity and loyalty that are as unanswerable as they are important.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Electrifying” —O: The Oprah Magazine
“Brilliant . . . This is a book full of line-level beauty; a book of multiple perspectives, each rendered organically and fully; a book of mystery and community and love. . . . A special read that will not soon be forgotten.” —Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Friday Black
“Remarkably assured and graceful. . . . Emezi has once again encouraged us to embrace a fuller spectrum of human experience.” —The Washington Post
“This affecting novel of self-invention . . . poses searching questions about gender and acceptance.” —The New Yorker
“Instead of getting flattened by death, Vivek becomes more vivid on each page. He glows like the sun, impossible to look at directly yet utterly charismatic. I missed him when the novel was done.” —NPR
“One of the most highly acclaimed novels of 2020.” —Newsweek
“Powerful . . . [a] slim book that contains as wide a range of experience as any saga — a little bit like Vivek’s brief yet gloriously expansive life.” —Los Angeles Times
“One of the best books of 2020. . . . a vivid, propulsive experience. . . . about freedom and our capacity to imagine what it’s like to be someone else, or perhaps, more so, what it’s like to experience them as they are.” — Goop
“A testament to Emezi’s immense literary prowess.” —Elle
“Equal parts heartwarming and emotionally shattering, the life and death of Vivek Oji is truly unforgettable.” —Teen Vogue
“Emezi has a gift for prose that is often as visceral, tender and heartbreaking as what it describes. . . . While the novel sets out to solve the mystery of Oji’s death, what gives it power is how it uncovers the story of a person shielded by the peace of self-acceptance against the pain of the world. Here is proof of what good fiction does best: it is an antidote to invisibility.” —The Guardian
“Emezi’s tender prose deftly depicts the inner lives of Vivek, Osita and those around them. . . . While the mystery surrounding Vivek’s death is finally revealed towards the end of this spellbinding mystery, what proves most satisfying is all that is learnt in the search for truth.” —Financial Times
“Emezi is a beacon of literary genius… in Emezi’s skilled hands, the mosaic of love, pain, community, family, trauma, and beauty, that make the crown to which Vivek is the bloody jewel, is crafted into an unforgettable and deeply moving story.” —Lambda Literary
“A robust literary triumph. . . . A sensitively drawn, achingly beautiful portrayal of the boundaries of personal, gender and societal identities.” —Chicago Review of Books
“While there are many books that stay with us long after we put them down,The Death of Vivek Oji is as permanent as a tattoo.” —Paper Mag
“Equal parts brilliant and heartbreaking as readers are taken on a journey to discover the hidden parts of Vivek's life and the mystery surrounding his death.” —Marie Claire
“[One] of our greatest living writers, Akwaeke Emezi is back . . . . a story of chosen family, discovery, love, pain, grief, and how colonialism infects individuals and nations.” —Shondaland
“Electrifying . . . The Death of Vivek Oji is a masterful contemplation on gender identity and fluidity, the heavy weight of shame, and the importance of having friends and family who accept you rather than attempt to ‘fix’ you.” — Salon
“Propulsive and resonant. . . . Emezi is a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self.” —Esquire
“Although Akwaeke Emezi introduces us to Vivek Oji in death[,] it is his life that will resonate with readers, long after they've turned this book's final page.” — Refinery29
“A work of elegant musicality and ingenuity [that draws] the reader into a world of memories, talismans, photographs, spirits, and intimacies.” —Myriam Gurba, Zora
“A masterful winding and unwinding of the tethers of love, shame, identity, intimacy, and violence. . . . The story takes us into the intimate worlds of each character, with chapters moving fluidly between consciousness and the voice that sees all of them moving and making choices. . . . [The Death of Vivek Oji] made me want to live.” —Man Repeller
“The Death of Vivek Oji is an alchemy of personal family story and untouchable myth. It circles itself, like a shark preparing to take down its prey; reader, you will be disarmed.” —LitHub
“An astonishing book . . . With warmth and great detail, Emezi explores the complicated friction of cultural clashes and the loss of youthful innocence.” —Stylist
“A deep, tender look at a family unraveling around the tragic and early loss of someone they loved but never understood. . . . beautifully captures an ordinary family in all its loving, hurtful, messy glory.” —Shelf Awareness
“Emezi offers a richly textured depiction of a middle-class community in Nigeria . . . Vividly written and deeply affecting.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Praise for Akwaeke Emezi:
“Dazzling.” —Los Angeles Times
“Extraordinarily powerful.” —Edwidge Danticat, The New Yorker
“Remarkable and daring.” —The New York Times Book Review
“The arrival of a major talent.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self.” —Vanity Fair
“Like watching the beginning of something big.” —Vox
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Publication Date: August 4th, 2020
Fiction / Family Life
Paperback, Large Print (August 18th, 2020): $29.00
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Home Politics Amid Alliance Strain, Nitish Kumar Appoints RCP Singh Party Chief
Amid Alliance Strain, Nitish Kumar Appoints RCP Singh Party Chief
Ramchandra Prasad Singh, a member of the Rajya Sabha, has been chosen by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to lead his party, the Janata Dal United. The decision was formally taken at the party’s national executive today but, sources say, Mr Kumar had communicated his wish to appoint him as the JDU chief to senior leaders a few days ago.
By handing over the party to his close confidante, Mr Kumar has made himself unavailable to ally BJP, whom he holds responsible for reducing his party’s seat tally to 43 by propping up Chirag Paswan’s LJP in the recently concluded Bihar assembly election, sources say. Mr Singh will look after the party’s affairs, including its dealings with the BJP.
The decision shows that all is not well in the ruling National Democratic Alliance in which the BJP has been playing the role of a dominant partner since the state polls.
RCP Singh, a former Indian Administrative Service officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, is known to be close to Nitish Kumar. He belongs to the same caste as the Chief Minister.
Mr Singh has been working with Mr Kumar for years. He was Mr Kumar’s personal secretary during his Railway Minister days. He became the principal secretary when Mr Kumar became the Chief Minister in 2005.
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AARP AARP Blogs Thinking Policy
How HIPAA Can Maintain Privacy, Enable Exchange of Electronic Health Records and Improve Patient Care at the Same Time
By Claire Noel-Miller, Jane E. Sung, June 10, 2016 11:00 AM
have gone digital, replacing paper medical records with electronic ones. For consumers, this should have meant that complete and up-to-date medical files seamlessly flow between physicians and follow patients from one doctor to the next.
In reality, many health care providers don’t exchange electronic health data, in part because they misinterpret the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rules as saying that it’s illegal. Some may also be playing it safe, as violating the law — even unintentionally — could result in hefty fines.
The result? Information necessary for patient care is often not available to the right clinician at the right time. Misinterpretation of HIPAA can also create obstacles for family caregivers who do not get the information they need to care for their loved one at home. It does not, however, have to be this way because HIPAA is not a roadblock: It already goes a long way to enable an effective and confidential flow of digital information.
HIPAA: Clearing things up
Safeguarding consumer health information is critical. HIPAA ensures that unauthorized individuals do not get hold of electronic health records and guarantees peoples’ access to their own medical information.
HIPAA also sets rules for how health care providers (and others such as health insurers) can safely use personal health information, including electronic health data. To protect the privacy of medical files, consumers generally must authorize clinicians to share electronic health records. But the law does not prohibit health care providers from sharing digital medical records that are necessary for patient care. Clinicians can exchange such information without prior consent, although patients have a right to object to their records’ transfer.
Better care for consumers
For consumers, the potential benefit is immense. Thanks to HIPAA, hospitals can share patients’ digital records with nursing homes, for a smooth transition to follow-up care. The rules also mean that care team members spread across multiple settings can exchange digital health data to better coordinate care for patients with complex needs.
With real-time medical data right at their fingertips, clinicians can also avoid unnecessarily duplicating tests, stay away from drugs already proven not to work, and effectively monitor patients’ recovery once they leave the hospital for rehab — all of which leads to better health and safer care for consumers.
Misconceptions about HIPAA are only one of many barriers to clinicians’ routinely exchanging patients’ electronic health records. But clearing up such misunderstandings would get patients a great deal closer to reaping the full benefits of the digital revolution that has swept through doctors’ offices and hospitals.
Claire Noel-Miller is a senior strategic policy adviser for the AARP Public Policy Institute, where she provides expertise in quantitative research methods applied to a variety of health policy issues related to older adults.
Jane Sung is a senior strategic policy adviser with AARP’s Public Policy Institute, where she focuses on health insurance coverage among adults ages 50 and older, private health insurance market reforms, retiree coverage, Medicare supplement insurance and Medicare Advantage.
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Without Government Who Would Expose Us to Malware
When the state confiscates a domain name do they have to renew it until the investigation concludes? Apparently not. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) seized a series of domains related to Megaupload when it decided to go after Kim Dotcom. What were once legitimate sites service the wants of users are now service up malware and porn. This didn’t happen as a result of somebody compromising the account used to register the domain names, it was only made possible because the FBI allowed the domains to expire:
Earlier this week, something suspicious started happening with Web addresses related to sites seized by the FBI from Megaupload and a number of online gambling sites. Instead of directing browsers to a page with an FBI banner, they started dropping Web surfers onto a malicious feed of Web advertisements—some of them laden with malware.
The hijacking of the Megaupload domains wasn’t the result of some sophisticated hack. Based on evidence collected by Ars, it appears someone at the FBI’s Cyber Division failed to renew the domain registration for CIRFU.NET, the domain which in turn hosted Web and name servers used to redirect traffic headed to seized domains. As soon as they expired, they were snatched up in a GoDaddy auction by a self-described “black hat SEO marketer,” a British ex-pat who calls himself “Earl Grey.”
As of Thursday afternoon, all of the server names associated with the domain no longer resolve to Internet addresses. GoDaddy has apparently suspended the domain registration, and Earl Grey has been ranting about it ever since on Twitter. The CIRFU.NET domain currently remains in limbo.
This raises a couple of concerns. First, if the FBI liable for allowing domains related to an investigation to expire? Since the FBI is seldom held accountable for its failures I doubt the answer to this question is yes. Related to this question is whether or not the FBI is liable for exposing visitors to Megaupload to malware. Even though the site wasn’t providing file hosting it was under investigation and therefore people believed they could safely visit the domain for laughs (who doesn’t enjoy laughing at the FBI). It was only due to the FBI’s incompetence that malware was being served by that domain. Finally, if the FBI isn’t held liable for this kind of failure does that mean it can effectively censor sites by seizing domains and letting them expire? Why go through the rigors of a trial when you can just make up an investigation, seize a domain, and sit on it until it expires and can be bought up by some spammer? Perhaps domain registrars would step in to prevent such shenanigans but I’m not entirely sure since they let expired domains get purchased by spammers all the time.
Had the FBI never targeted Kim Dotcom it’s almost certain that the Megaupload domains wouldn’t have expired because they were part of his business model. When you’re deriving income from something you tend to protect it. So we can just write this off as another example of the government exposing Internet users to dangers they wouldn’t have otherwise faced.
Author Christopher BurgPosted on May 29, 2015 May 29, 2015 Categories News You Need to KnowTags Law and Disorder, Security, Superdickery, Your Government Doesn't Love You
Remember When Obama Opposed Surveillance
Rewind to 2008. George W. Bush was finishing up his eighth year as president and many people were furious about all of the civil liberties he wiped his ass with since 2001. In comes Barack Obama who promises to curtail the surveillance powers enacted under Bush. Now we’re approaching Obama’s eighth year as president and he has not only failed to curtail the state’s surveillance powers but he’s actively campaigning to preserve it:
President Barack Obama called on the Senate Tuesday to extend key Patriot Act provisions before they expire five days from now, including the government’s ability to search Americans’ phone records.
“This needs to get done,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “It’s necessary to keep the American people safe and secure.”
Is there any question why I don’t believe politicians?
Widespread surveillance has become a sticky issue. Part of the reason for this, in my opinion, is the fact both major political parties are performing constant maneuvers to oppose whatever the other party supports. In 2008 the Republican Party fully supported the surveillance state created under Bush precisely because it was created under a Republican president. The Democrats opposed the surveillance state because the Republicans supported it. When Obama came to power the Republicans started changing course on the surveillance state. Since the Republicans were changing course the Democrats had to as well less they be on the same side of an issue as their opponent. Now we’re in a position where the Republican Party is moving away from fully supporting the surveillance state and the Democratic Party is moving towards fully supporting it. What this issue has really shown us is that neither party has any principles and bases their stances almost entirely on what the other party espouses.
As the surveillance state is convenient for whatever party is in power it will never go away. Whatever party is in power will support it while the other party opposes it (I use the word “opposes” very loosely because they don’t really have any strong feelings other than opposing what the other party supports). This is why it’s important for everybody to utilize the security tools available to them. We’re always going to be spied on by the state so we need to defend ourselves regardless of what way the political winds are blowing. Politics won’t change the surveillance state but cryptography will help you defend against it.
Author Christopher BurgPosted on May 29, 2015 May 29, 2015 Categories PoliticsTags 1984 was a Warning not a Blueprint, National Security Agency, Politics, Superdickery, Your Government Doesn't Love You
Like You and Me, Only Better
I don’t consider myself anti-union per se. There’s nothing wrong in my book with workers coming together to support one another. But most unions today aren’t really groups of workers fighting for better pay and benefits. Instead they’re a few well paid individuals who agitated relationships between employers and employees to ensure an environment exists where their six figure salary can continue to be justified. In fact I’d argue that most unions today don’t give two shits about the workers they supposedly represent. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Los Angeles:
Labor leaders, who were among the strongest supporters of the citywide minimum wage increase approved last week by the Los Angeles City Council, are advocating last-minute changes to the law that could create an exemption for companies with unionized workforces.
The push to include an exception to the mandated wage increase for companies that let their employees collectively bargain was the latest unexpected detour as the city nears approval of its landmark legislation to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020.
The union heads have been pushing for these $15.00 per hour minimum wage laws in various municipalities under the guise of fighting for the workers. But now they’re turning around and exempting the very employees they supposedly represent from the new minimum wage increases. I guess they feel that union laborers aren’t as good as non-union laborers, which is a strange attitude for a union boss to have.
This move does make sense though. If union shops are allowed to pay less than $15.00 per hour it encourages more companies to utilize union labor. More union labor means more employees giving a percentage of their paycheck to the union itself and that means the higher ups can bump up their six figure salary. These unions aren’t fighting for workers, they’re fighting for union executives.
Author Christopher BurgPosted on May 29, 2015 May 29, 2015 Categories Corruption CornerTags Politics, Superdickery, You're Doing it Wrong
Markets Versus the State
States throughout the world try to restrict markets. These attempts never succeed because the handful of individuals that comprise the state are up against the creativity of very person living under it. This is what so-called “black” markets exist.
Russia decided to place an embargo on foods from the European Union and United States in response to sanctions created against it by those regions. The embargo hasn’t stopped the importation of food from either region. But the embargo makes it risky for importers of these now illicit goods to openly advertise. In the past “black” market actors have relied on limited forms of advertising such as word of mouth. One advertisement agency has come up with a solution that allows “black” market providers to advertise their goods more widely and protects them from state agents:
Last summer, Russia imposed a full embargo on food imports from the European Union (as well as the U.S.) in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine. This left authentic European food merchants in Moscow in a bit of a bind.
But one Italian grocery store there, Don Giulio Salumeria, kept selling its real Italian food—and came up with a bizarre out-of-home stunt to advertise to consumers without tipping off the police.
With help from agency The 23, the store developed a unique outdoor ad that could recognize police uniforms. Whenever the cops would appear, the ad would cycle out of its rotating display—in essence, physically hiding from the authorities.
Here’s a video showing the sign in action:
Obviously this solution isn’t perfect. Since it relies on recognizing police uniforms it won’t hide the advertisement from off-duty officers walking around in their regular clothes. However it is a demonstration of market innovation and could easily be expanded. In the next iteration they should have the sign store a facial picture of anybody recognized as an officer. Then have it compare faces of anybody passing by with known police officers and hide the advertisement if there’s a match. That way the sign would be able to hide its advertisement from off-duty and on-duty officers.
Innovative ideas such as this one are why the state will always fail when it attempts to restrict markets.
Author Christopher BurgPosted on May 28, 2015 May 28, 2015 Categories MarketsTags Agora! Anarchy! Action!, Law and Disorder, Miraculous Markets, Technology, You're Doing it Right, Your Government Doesn't Love You
Paying Taxes is Dangerous to Your Personal Information
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is one of the, if not the, best examples of government incompetence. Almost all of us are required to interact with the IRS. Our interactions, unfortunately, involve handing over a great deal of personal information. This is a major problem since the agency has a poor security track record. Recently it has admitted to losing control over the personal information of 100,000 tax victims:
The IRS announced today that criminals used taxpayer-specific data acquired from non-IRS sources to gain unauthorized access to information on approximately 100,000 tax accounts through IRS’ “Get Transcript” application. This data included Social Security information, date of birth and street address.
These third parties gained sufficient information from an outside source before trying to access the IRS site, which allowed them to clear a multi-step authentication process, including several personal verification questions that typically are only known by the taxpayer. The matter is under review by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration as well as the IRS’ Criminal Investigation unit, and the “Get Transcript” application has been shut down temporarily. The IRS will provide free credit monitoring services for the approximately 100,000 taxpayers whose accounts were accessed. In total, the IRS has identified 200,000 total attempts to access data and will be notifying all of these taxpayers about the incident.
Perhaps I’m hypercritical but it seems to me that we shouldn’t have to submit any of this information to an agency that has demonstrated a complete disregard for keeping it safe. I mean, the IRS’s website doesn’t even have a valid means for users to securely connect to it. If the IRS doesn’t care enough to pull a valid Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate to protect users then why are we supposed to trust it to store our personal information?
The worst part about this is that the 100,000 people who just had their personal information accessed have no recourse. Since the IRS is the government it is shielded from liability and accountability. That makes matters worse since an organization that is shielded from liability has little motivation to invest resources into fixing its mistakes.
Author Christopher BurgPosted on May 28, 2015 May 28, 2015 Categories News You Need to KnowTags Security, You're Doing it Wrong, Your Government Doesn't Love You
Police Dislike When the Tables are Turned
As policing in the United States continues its downward spiral into thuggery people are finally starting to fight back. More people are recording police encounters to hold officers accountable. Demands are being made in many major cities to curtail police powers. And in a few places people are actively interfering in police attempts at kidnapping. All of this has many of the more psychopathic officers upset:
Whatever the reason, Melbourne police are grateful that for the second time in recent weeks experience and training overcame fear as officers found themselves surrounded and assaulted by hostile anti-police crowds.
This Friday night, Lt. Steve Sadoff saw 22-year-old Phoenix Chansler Low coming out of the Main Street Pub with an open container.
“The officer told him to go back inside or get rid of it,” said Melbourne Police Commander Dan Lynch. “From there it went downhill. The subject was very intoxicated and he began fighting with the officer.”
The scary thing was what happened next. A crowd of people started closing in on Lt. Sadoff and he was attacked from behind, Lynch said. Sadoff used his taser to get Low off him, and it scared the crowd away long enough for him to radio for help and make the arrest.
The person who attacked Sadoff from behind got away.
The “touch on crime” crowd want you to focus on the fact that an officer was attacked and not the fact that the officer initiated the situation by getting in the face of a person who had performed no crime (carrying an open alcohol container outside of a bar does not involve a victim and is therefore not a crime). Had the officer let the patron be nothing would have happened.
“This is the second incident in the past few weeks where officers were making an arrest and the arrestee or people around attempted to interfere with the officer attempting to do his job,” Lynch said. “It is tremendously concerning to us. Every confrontation an officer has is an armed confrontation and the officers are trained to use the minimal amount of force necessary.”
No, this is the second incident in the past few weeks where people prevented officers from kidnapping somebody. People are getting fed up with unaccountable police officers kidnapping and shooting people who haven’t hurt anybody. Decades of little police accountability combine with officers who enjoy power trips has eroded the public’s faith in modern policing. Since they lack faith in the institution they are unwilling to cooperate with it. If officers are really becoming concerned about this trend then they should start taking measures to regain the public’s trust. That starts with refusing to enforce victimless crimes and actually using minimum necessary force to resolve situations (not just talking about it).
Author Christopher BurgPosted on May 28, 2015 May 28, 2015 Categories News You Need to KnowTags Law and Disorder, Not So Crazy Libertarian Ideals, United Police States of America, You're Doing it Right, Your Government Doesn't Love You1 Comment on Police Dislike When the Tables are Turned
Markets Have Not Ruined Video Games
According to Lorne Lanning capitalism is destroying the gaming industry. In his eyes the for-profit game development model has lead to a world where creativity is stifled by large developers. The Foundation for Economic Education has a good rebuttal by pointing out that the video game industry wouldn’t even be a thing without markets. I want to take it a step further though.
Lanning believes the solution to capitalism in video gaming is independent developers:
In today’s marketplace, Lanning pointed to the indie victories we’ve witnessed with titles like Octodad or Monument Valley. Yes, it takes money to make money, but it doesn’t have to take tens of millions.
What he doesn’t stop to consider is that independent developers are enjoying a great deal of success thanks, in part, to the major game developers that he seems to despise. There has never been a better time to be an independent game developer. This is because the development tools have become cheaper (often free) and more capable and getting titles in front of customers is dead simple.
Consider Microsoft. As much as I dislike Windows I can’t fault Microsoft for how it treats developers. Over the years it has created excellent development tools, streamlined game development with its DirectX framework, and created a distribution platform that every Xbox and Windows gamer has access to. If I want to release a game for the Xbox Microsoft is very much interested in helping me see my dream come true because it stands to profit from my success. And Microsoft isn’t the only game in town. Valve has given independent developers an amazing distribution platform for PCs with Steam. It has also given game developers a great engine called Source. I haven’t even mentioned Sony, with its PlayStation store, Google with its Play Store, or Apple with development tools and App Stores for both OS X and iOS.
It was only a few years ago when independent developers had to front the expense of developing, advertising, and distributing titles. This often resulted in a hodgepodge of a million online stores, product keys you had to keep track of, and other assorted headaches. Now an independent developer can download excellent, free developer tools and publish the completed title to the Xbox Games Store, the PlayStation Store, Google Play, Steam, and the Apple App Stores. From there users can click a few buttons and have the game downloaded to their system with minimal hassle.
Markets gave rise to today’s large developers. These large developers then created development tools and platforms that helped give rise to independent developers. Someday the independent developers will become large themselves and likely create new tools and platforms to give rise to new independent developers.
Video games have gone from a geeky hobby you got beat up for enjoying to a multi-billion dollar industry. The only reason we have capable gaming hardware, quality development tools, and easy distribution platforms is because developers of old satisfied customer wants enough to acquire the capital necessary to build these things. Had the Nintendo Entertainment System or Sega Genesis flopped it’s possible that video games would still be a niche industry. Dedicated gaming hardware such as consoles and graphics cards would likely be much less capable than they are today. Development tools would probably still be primitive due to the lack of investment in improving them. Distribution would almost certainly still rely on a hodgepodge of disparate websites and produce keys. After all, why would a large developed like Microsoft put any money into the growing the gaming industry if it didn’t stand to profit? How would Valve have acquired the capital necessary to build Steam if Half-Life hadn’t raked in so much money?
I think Lanning’s real objection to today’s gaming industry is that the best selling titles aren’t the titles he enjoys. As somebody who doesn’t enjoy today’s most popular series, such as the titular Call of Duty, I can relate. But the success of those blockbuster series hasn’t hampered the games I enjoy. Series I enjoy, such as MegaMan and Armored Core, have seen releases in recent times. Inafune, one of the creators of the MegaMan series, has even branched out on his own to release a spiritual successor. Igarashi, one of the masterminds behind Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, has also branched out to release a spiritual successor. Capitalism hasn’t destroyed the gaming industry, it has propelled it forward. All of the capital acquired by releasing blockbuster titles has given way to tools that help independent game developers. Hell it’s unlikely Oddworld, Lanning’s most well-known title, would have never seen the light of day if it wasn’t for blockbuster titles from the 8-bit and 16-bit console days creating a major gaming industry.
Author Christopher BurgPosted on May 27, 2015 May 26, 2015 Categories MarketsTags Basic Economics, Geek Stuff, Miraculous Markets
Watching Cronies Fail
A major benefit of providing solutions to government meddling is watching as the government’s cronies fail. Cab drivers in Mexico, as cab drivers in much of the world, are unhappy with ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft. Their unhappiness is understandable since they’ve been shielded from competitors by their government for decades. When you haven’t had to compete in a market it can be scary facing competition because it makes you realize that you have to actually provide a superior service if you want to thrive.
On Monday cab drivers in Mexico went on strike to protest Uber. The protest was a plea for the Mexican government to ban Uber. The end result was to give Uber a great dead of publicity and convince a lot of people to try Uber since they couldn’t get around using traditional cabs:
Monday’s protest from Mexican Taxi drivers, against ride-sharing mobile apps such as Uber, has proved a boon for the San Francisco-based company. After offering a protest-edition special with two free 10-dollar rides, downloads of the app rose by 800 percent, Uber Communications Director for Mexico Luis de Uriarte said on Tuesday.
Unlike Uber, the signs of regulated taxis were off in Mexico on May 25, as some 5,000 drivers took to the streets of Mexico City. Chanting “Get out Uber!” union leaders demanded the government impose a ban on the smartphone-based service.
With the hashtags #UberNoPara (Uber doesn’t stop) and #MexicoNoPara (Mexico doesn’t stop), Uber launched a campaign offering two MEX$150 (US$9.8) fares for free between 7:00 a.m. and 9:59 p.m. on Monday. The initiative not only have become a commercial success, it brought PR blowback on the taxi drivers.
Uber and Lyft are providing a solution to a market that has been crippled by government regulations for decades. Many localities put an artificial cap on the number of legal taxi cabs that can operate. Other localities, while not putting an artificial cap in place, require potential taxicab drivers to pay a licensing fee, which adds a barrier to entry. The result has been lackluster taxicab services in much of the world. With ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft anybody can act as a taxicab. Suddenly cronies that have been protected from competition are facing the competition of anybody with a vehicle and they’re floundering.
Providing solutions to government create problems weakens its grip by showing how unnecessary it is. While government protected taxicab drivers were refusing to provide services ride-sharing swooped in to save the day. Because of this people are unlikely to accept any prohibition against ride-sharing services.
Author Christopher BurgPosted on May 27, 2015 May 27, 2015 Categories MarketsTags Miraculous Markets, Not So Crazy Libertarian Ideals, Technology, You're Doing it Right, You're Doing it Wrong, Your Government Doesn't Love You1 Comment on Watching Cronies Fail
Go and Make It
This is effectively what us agorists have been advocating for decades:
What if we stopped attacking people for a cause and started attracting people to a cause? What if we became creators instead of mere critics and conquerors? Rather than waging war—either figuratively (in arguing) or literally — what if we channeled all of our passion and energy into disruptive acts of creation?
What if we bypassed electoral politics and established a more cooperative era…one in which the best ideas win?
In this new age, politicians would be replaced by innovators. Political capital would be replaced by creative capital.
Social change would not be planned by bureaucrats. It would emerge from the collective creativity of artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs working in cooperation.
Agorism utilizes counter-economics to provide goods and services in a manner that doesn’t feed the state. Permits are not acquired, taxes are not collected or paid, and regulations are not consciously adhered to. Instead goods and services that people want, not what the government says the ought to have, are created and sold for a lower price since all of the cost of bureaucratic overhead is absent.
We living in a world where solutions can be more easily created. “Go and make it,” is an excellent slogan for a new revolution. It encompasses the power of individuals to create solutions and the fact that the new revolution won’t be fought with the state’s tool of war but with markets.
Author Christopher BurgPosted on May 27, 2015 May 27, 2015 Categories LibertyTags Agora! Anarchy! Action!, Not So Crazy Libertarian Ideals, You're Doing it Right
United States Government Looking to Repeat Security Blunder
As we’re recovering from two vulnerabilities caused by old export restrictions on strong cryptography tools the United States government is looking to repeat that failure:
The U.S. Commerce Department has proposed tighter export rules for computer security tools, a potentially controversial revision to an international agreement aimed at controlling weapons technology.
On Wednesday, the department published a proposal in the Federal Register and opened a two-month comment period.
The changes are proposed to the Wassenaar Arrangement, an international agreement reached in 1995, aimed at limiting the spread of “dual use” technologies that could be used for harm.
Forty-one countries participate in the Wassenaar Arrangement, and lists of controlled items are revised annually.
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is proposing requiring a license in order to export certain cybersecurity tools used for penetrating systems and analyzing network communications.
Another great example of the state making the same mistake, only harder. Restricting the export of strong cryptographic tools put everybody at risk of attack and an export restriction against penetration testing tools would put everybody at risk of missing basic vulnerabilities in their networks.
Penetration testing tools, like any technology, can be used for good and bad. If you properly utilize the tools on your network you can discover vulnerabilities that are exploited by those tools and patch them. Not utilizing these tools allows an malicious actor to exploit your network using those tools. Any restriction on exporting these tools will leave networks vulnerable to them.
Why would the United States government propose implementing restrictions that put the entire world at risk? Most likely it’s because government agencies utilize penetration testing tools to exploit networks and would therefore gain considerably by making defending against them more difficult. This proposal shows just how self-centered the state really is because it’s willing to put billions of people at risk just to make its task of exploiting networks a little easier. Its narcissism is so bad that it doesn’t even care that this restriction would also make every network more vulnerable to exploitation by its enemies (if the United States can hack your network then foreign countries such as North Korea can as well).
Fortunately we learned what happens when restrictions are placed on ideas during the crypto wars. Even though the United States restricted the export of strong cryptographic algorithms the knowledge spread quickly. It’s pretty hard to restrict something that can literally be printed on a t-shirt, especially when you have a worldwide network that specializes in information sharing. If this restriction is put into place it will be entirely ineffective at everything but giving the state justification to put several very intelligent people in a cage for the crime of making our networks safer.
Author Christopher BurgPosted on May 26, 2015 May 26, 2015 Categories PoliticsTags Law and Disorder, Politics, Security Theater, Shut Up Slave, Superdickery, Technology, You're Doing it Wrong, Your Government Doesn't Love You1 Comment on United States Government Looking to Repeat Security Blunder
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From: Cocaine- and opiate-related fatal overdose in New York City, 1990–2000
Overdose death attributed to only cocaine-only and opiate only among 15–64 year olds in NYC, 1990–2000 (N = 8,774). Cocaine only overdose deaths were decedents in which cocaine (not in the presence of opiates) was the cause of death; other drugs (except opiates) may also have been contributors of cause of death; Opiate only overdose deaths were decedents in which opiates (without the presence of cocaine) were the cause of death; other drugs (except cocaine) may also have been contributors of cause of death. Cocaine and opiate overdose deaths refers to overdose deaths in which both cocaine and opiates were the cause of death; other drugs may also have been contributors of cause of death.
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HeroClix Online Releases Two New DC Comics Sets, Unlockable Content “Inside the Box”
Posted on December 7, 2011 by Brett Leave a comment
Complete Blackest Night and Superman Fast Forces Collections Available Now
Hillside, NJ – December 7, 2011 – Developers of HeroClix Online today announced the integration of the game’s first DC Comics sets, Blackest Night and Superman Fast Forces, which together add over one dozen new figures to the online experience along with a new map, Sciencells. Additionally, physical Superman Fast Forces HeroClix, released today, now contain codes for the collection’s virtual counterparts.
The Blackest Night collection is now also available as a Starter Set option for new players to the game. Both sets can be used alongside one another in friendly matches and constructed tournaments.
HeroClix Online, currently in Paid Beta, is the digital transliteration of the popular collectible miniatures-focused combat game enjoyed by millions of players and collectors worldwide. Ideal for both casual and tournament game play styles, in HCO players may compete in matches and tournaments, collect and manage their forces and participate in the passionate HeroClix community from anywhere in the world. Anything a player can do in the physical game, he or she can do in HeroClix Online.
For more information on HeroClix Online, visit http://hco.heroclix.com/.
For news updates and announcements, follow HeroClix Online on Facebook and Twitter.
About WIZKIDS/NECA, INC.
A wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Entertainment Collectibles Association Inc. (NECA), WizKids/NECA is a New Jersey-based game developer and publisher dedicated to creating games driven by imagination. The HeroClix brand is the most successful collectible miniatures games on the market today, with over 250 million miniature game figures sold worldwide. For additional information, visit www.wizkidsgames.com.
About DC Entertainment
DC Entertainment, home to iconic brands DC Comics (Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, The Flash, etc.), Vertigo (Sandman, Fables, etc.) and MAD, is the creative division charged with strategically integrating across Warner Bros. and Time Warner. DC Entertainment works in concert with many key Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its stories and characters across all media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home entertainment, and interactive games. Publishing thousands of comic books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Entertainment is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world.
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Cruise, Kidman split
curious_george February 5, 2001, 9:34pm #1
Meg Ryan & Dennis Quaid, Kim Bassinger & Baldwin, now Cruise and Kidman…why can’t Hollywood marriages work?
http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/05/kidman.cruise/index.html
Maybe Bassinger and Cruise will become a couple? Or Baldwin and Kidman?
Montfort February 5, 2001, 9:38pm #2
In slightly-related news, celebrated SDMB couple Montfort and Anniz are splitting this weekend, as Anniz is flying home to Sweden.
I’ll be waiting here for Nicole…
(Sorry, Anniz, I had to do this! I love you! :))
BunnyGirl February 5, 2001, 9:42pm #3
Maybe she got tired of having to watch Battlefield Earth and read L. Ron.
Too bad, really.
Eve February 5, 2001, 9:46pm #4
That sound you hear is the heads of all the “People” editors exploding as they re-do next week’s cover . . .
Hey, there have been long-term show-biz marriages: Lunt and Fontanne, Cronyn and Tandy, Pickford and Rogers, Bert Lahr and his showgirl wife, Ziegfeld and Billie Burke . . . umm, do they BOTH have to be stars?
Scarlett67 February 5, 2001, 11:25pm #5
Apropos of nothing, why do they both appear to have milk mustaches in their pictures on the CNN page?
Welfy February 5, 2001, 11:36pm #6
I find it sad. I was hoping that those two would be one of the couples who could last.
Eutychus February 6, 2001, 12:11am #7
You forgot Bruce Willis and Demi Moore as well.
thinksnow February 6, 2001, 4:20am #8
You also forgot Madonna and Sean Penn.
Clairmont February 6, 2001, 10:02am #9
Since Liz Taylor and whatshisname split, I was hoping for a shot, but it’s not happening.
Okay, I don’t work in construction, but still…
Hollywood stars are so fickle. She doesn’t even know I exist.
Eutychus February 6, 2001, 10:17am #10
*Originally posted by thinksnow *
As has most of the civilized world.
SPOOFE February 6, 2001, 10:49am #11
Kidman just got annoyed that she had to make a movie with her husband every time she wanted some sex. How else would you explain Eyes Wide Shut?
evilbeth February 6, 2001, 10:58am #12
*Originally posted by SPOOFE Bo Diddly *
**How else would you explain Eyes Wide Shut? **
A great work by a great director that many people didn’t care much for. Well, you asked!
Clairmont February 6, 2001, 11:50am #13
evilbeth,
Please don’t get mad.
But “Eyes Wide Shut” wsa a disaster.
I hope that Kubrick’s legacy will ignore this anomoly.
I consider it a glitch on a master’s life work.
blur February 6, 2001, 11:59am #14
Maybe now Nicole will come public with her love for me…
big_yellow_kingswood February 6, 2001, 12:17pm #15
The rest of you won’t know who the hell I’m talking about…
About 2 hours after the news of Tom and Nicole splitting up turned up on the SMH Breaking News page, this soon followed.
He must be getting bored, don’t you think? Or maybe he believes that we’ve forgotten him…
Eve:
Hey, there have been long-term show-biz marriages: Lunt and Fontanne, Cronyn and Tandy, Pickford and Rogers, Bert Lahr and his showgirl wife, Ziegfeld and Billie Burke . . .
Woodward and Newman.
Now, this is SHEER urban legend, but…
We’ve all heard the stories about Tom Cruise being gay. I’ve further heard that Cruise’s first marriage to Mimi Rogers was a sham constructed by the Church of Scientology, for keeping-up-appearances’ sake. And that it ended because Rogers couldn’t live a lie anymore.
Assuming this is true (big assumption, I know), is it credible that history’s repeating itself with Kidman? I don’t think she’s in Scientology herself.
Give us the Straight Dope, Eve. I trust you.
Eve: LOL! Oh yes, as a reader of People, I know this will top any other story.
Peace in the Middle East? Forget it!
The Cruises’ broke up!
Its not really Hollywood marriages.
All marriages have a (what?) percentage rate of divorce.
It just seems like a lot cause you don’t hear about the not famous divorces.
Eve February 6, 2001, 3:01pm #19
I have it from my “Movieline” sources that Tom Cruise is actually straight. Nutty as a fruitcake, but straight. Of course, after 20 years of Scientology, I doubt he knows what or who is is anymore . . .
Another long-term Hollywood marriage—as much as I dislike them—is Ronnie and Nancy. Oh, and Joel McCrea and Frances Dee. Ah—and how could I forget Burns and Allen? And Harpo and Susan Marx?
Say, anyone else notice these glamorous Hollywood marriages always seem to split up when Ukulele Ike is “out of town?” Coincidence? I wonder . . .
Carina42 February 6, 2001, 4:07pm #20
Uh…Who cares?* More importantly, WHY care?
*[sub]well, a lot of people, apparently. It’s the “why” I can’t figure out.[/sub]
Carina, happy to be an icononoclast.
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David Blaine St Magician
GasDr August 22, 1999, 4:10pm #1
They had this show on again the other night and with nothing better to do…I watched it…again. I am fairly amazed, however, by his tricks. Mostly the card in the cops shoe, the card in the beer bottle, and the predicted words appearing on his body written in ashes. Any ideas on how he did these. Camera tricks? Fans in on it? Foresight of ‘victim’s’ likely choice of special people they would pick?
p.s. did he really implant a piece of string under his skin…that could get infected.
ChiefScott August 22, 1999, 4:13pm #2
Magic. Sorcery. Enchantments.
But that doesn’t explain his floating off the ground trick.
Czarcasm August 22, 1999, 4:33pm #3
He’s an evil satanic warlock sent to enslave the world. Fortunately, I alone know his secrets, and for an offering of $500, I will tell you how to protect youselves.
system August 23, 1999, 5:03am #4
I was talking to a co-worker the other day who had seen David Blaine perform on TV. He was describing Blaine’s levitating trick. The really scary part was that he figured it was about an equal chance that either Blaine was performing a trick or that Blaine was actually levitating. I suggested to him that if he thought Blaine was capable of levitating, he should go back to whatever school graduated him and demand a refund.
As far as I’m concerned the trick of Blaine’s I’d most like to learn is how to seduce Fiona Apple.
handy August 23, 1999, 5:19am #5
His levitation trick is real but they use camera trickery when you see it on tv to make it more impressive.
All his tricks & then some are in
alt.magic.secrets
Jorge August 22, 1999, 6:31pm #6
My WAG: an acrylic-tipped rod with a handle at the top, down his pants leg, through inside of his shoe. Takes a lot of strength to push down & do it smoothly (good balance, too). I doubt anyone would notice the clear plastic in person, much less TV.
Pretty damn amazing no matter what. And, as a style of magician, the guy’s untouchable.
“Proverbs for Paranoids, 1: You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.”
T.Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow.
Fear_Itself August 22, 1999, 8:22pm #7
I agree, Jorge, he is standing on some sort of rod that extends from his pant leg, however, he isn’t pushing down on it with his
hands, as they are extended out from his sides in a spooky Christ-like manner. My money is on a sophisticated device (springs or compressed air)inside his pant leg that extends a thin rod, perhaps a steel needle that he balances on. Still, he is the best; anytime a magician can cause his audience to suspend their natural tendency to disbelieve, and actually consider that he has supernatural powers, that is the real magician’s power.
“Believe those who seek the truth.
Doubt those who find it.” --Andre Gide
tanstaafl August 23, 1999, 7:28pm #8
What Blaine does is known as Balducci Levitation. It’s a somewhat interesting trick that depends on standing on tip-toe on one foot. (Really.)
The bad part in the TV special is that they used camera tricks. Blaine does the Balducci Levitation for the audience and they get a series of reaction shots. Then, they attach him to wires and “levitate” him for the camera. They then mix in the footage of the “levitation” with that of the audience.
There is a full description of how to do the Balducci Levitation at
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/7308/balducci.html
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Mark_Mal August 23, 1999, 8:57pm #9
The card tricks are good, but pretty standard. It’s very easy for an experienced magician to get you to pick exactly the card he wants you to pick. So the card in the beer bottle trick was straightforward: Find out the girl’s name (and get a sample of her writing if possible), write her name down on the 2 of hearts, plant it in the bottle, get her to pick the 2 of hearts and write her name on it, then make the card magically appear in the beer bottle. The girl was pretty drunk, so she probably wouldn’t have recognized if the writing was different, anyway.
The mind reading tricks were more impressive. However, there are three things to know about magic tricks: (1) doubt even the most basic premise, (2) the most amazing tricks generally have very simple explanations, (3) the explanation will probably be very unsatisfying when you hear it. Based on that, the most likely explanation of the mind reading tricks was… the volunteers were in on it.
Stephen August 29, 1999, 10:47pm #10
99% of all ‘grand’ elusions have 3 or 4 underlying ‘tricks’ the rest is just presentation. If you know 3 or 4 methods of grand elusions, you can generally figure out how they all work (the assistant is generally doing all of the work (contortion usually) while the magician builds suspense).
99% of all card tricks have 5 or 6 underlying tricks the rest is just presentation. If you know these basics, it is just a matter of looking past the presentation.
David Blaine isn’t above using camera tricks and shills.
The string under the skin was done with a latex prosthetic.
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moriah August 30, 1999, 4:48am #11
Penn & Teller taught me (not personally, in a TV show) one of the best lessons for seeing through a trick (which also comes in very handy for debunking anecdotal accounts of the paranormal, even when it’s on video).
The stunt was a truck running over Teller as he lied… or is it laid… lain? …was prone on the street. Victoria Jackson and a group of about 20 audience members were on the other side of the street to watch in order to assure no monkey business on that side. Victoria reported that all was normal on her side, and the audience backed her up. The truck then ran over Teller.
They then showed how they did it – a fake tire and a truck that was heavily rigged with huge counterbalances on the opposite side – the side that Victoria and the audience were supposedly keeping their eye on.
Penn asked Victoria (something to the effect), “Didn’t you see that ballast?”
Victoria: “Yes, I did.”
Penn: “But you said that everything was normal on that side.”
Victoria: “I lied, Penn.”
Penn: “Well, what about all those audience members?”
Victoria: “They lied, too, we were all in on it.”
In fact, many of the large stunts where impossibly huge things disappear are performed for camera angles and the audience is on it. A magician can readily make an audience an accomplice by telling them off-camera that the joke is on the home viewing audience.
So, when I see anonymous reporters, scientists, or holy people on video giving an eye-witness testimony to the paranormal, I remain skeptical until a proven debunker or certifier is present to document it.
Remember, they’re in on it. All of them.
Brother_Haus August 30, 1999, 5:26am #12
moriah writes:
At last, someone who does not believe. =Brother Haus applauds you, moriah= That joke of a show wasn’t even real.
“What it is, is what it is. And what it should be is a lie someone gave to the people a long time ago.” No one said it better then Lenny Bruce.
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Month: April, 2020
Mattel Commemorates the Heroes of the Pandemic With New Line of Action Figures
Many folks are appreciative of the inspirational corporate messaging and offers during the pandemic, especially when combined with corporate generosity. Still, once in a while, the kind reaction may be: okay, we get it, you are a genuinely enlightened company. Thanks.
This latest development from Mattel may seem like more of the well-intentioned same. But with heroes keeping us safe, healthy, fed and supplied, you can never run out of ways to remind us—and our kids.
Adweek:
Fisher-Price honors delivery drivers, nurses, EMTs, doctors and grocery workers
Step aside, G.I. Joe. Make way, Captain America. Wonder Woman, you can take a break. The coronavirus pandemic has called for a new squadron of real-life heroes to protect the planet on the frontlines of the crisis.
Mattel’s latest special edition collection, #ThankYouHeroes, is adding a few new faces to the classic action figure hierarchy by commemorating delivery drivers, nurses, EMTs, doctors and grocery workers. These Covid-19 warriors, who are diligently working to keep communities up and running, will now fight to keep playtime fun too.
Proceeds from the new Fisher-Price line of 16 action figures and five Little People Community Champions will go to #FirstRespondersFirst, an initiative created by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Thrive Global and the CAA Foundation to support first responders. Mattel is also providing toys to Bright Horizons daycare centers, which recently opened in partnership with #FirstRespondersFirst for the children of first responders.
According to Mattel, these topical toys will be the first of several brand efforts designed to support today’s everyday heroes, with others kicking off in the coming weeks as part of the California-based company’s broader platform for social responsibility.
“Whether these toys are given as a gift to recognize someone working on the front lines, or used as a tool to help children have conversations about how they are feeling, it is our hope that Fisher-Price toys, and play in general, can ultimately make these difficult times easier for both kids and adults,” said Chuck Scothon, SVP of Fisher-Price and global head of infant and preschool for Mattel, in a statement.
In addition to #ThankYouHeroes, Mattel is producing face shields and cloth face masks, and has provided toy donations to nonprofit partners domestically and around the world including Baby2Baby, Feed the Children, LA Family Housing, Partners for Pediatric Vision and UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital.
Mike Pence: Men who wear COVID-19 masks are SISSIES
Mike Pence visited the Mayo Clinic today. The Mayo Clinic requires staff and visitors to wear a protective mask during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mike Pence refused. We see him in a group of visitors, the only one not wearing a mask.
Mike Pence works for a REAL MAN who doesn’t ever wear a mask and doesn’t practice distancing. The president demands that Mike Pence not wear a mask either, even if it is required.
Do not inject chicken soup to cure COVID-19, even though it does ease symptoms of a cold
Scientists don’t believe that chicken soup can cure a cold. But they admit that chicken soup can help ease the symptoms, including congestion. Plus, it’s delicious. So it couldn’t hurt to eat it.
But that in no way suggests that injecting chicken soup is recommended as a cure or preventative for COVID-19. It should not be necessary to say this, but given the dangerous misinformation that is current:
Do not inject chicken soup, for COVID-19 or for any other reason.
Trump actually asks at today’s briefing whether we could inject people with disinfectant to knock out coronavirus
Actual quote from Trump at today’s briefing:
“So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just a very powerful light — and I think you said that hasn’t been checked because of the testing. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too.”
“I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”
Message to Trump supporters: The next great leader of your “movement” died from COVID-19
We don’t know exactly how many people have needlessly died from COVID-19 because of Trump’s mishandling of the crisis. We don’t know exactly how many more will die because of it, or because of the misguided movement to “liberate” America from the current helpful restrictions. Little doubt it is in the thousands of deaths.
Each of these lives is important. Those lives also represent accomplishments that will remain forever unfulfilled in all realms. So if you are one of those who follows some socio-political movement like Trumpism, consider this:
You know that person you hadn’t yet heard about but who could be “the next Trump”? He died from COVID-19, though if Trump had acted sooner and more competently, he wouldn’t have.
Dreams night and day
Night dreams fall away
In first light
This day dream
Gone too
© Bob Schwartz
Easter Poem: This Bread I Break by Dylan Thomas
This Bread I Break
This bread I break was once the oat,
This wine upon a foreign tree
Plunged in its fruit;
Man in the day or wine at night
Laid the crops low, broke the grape’s joy.
Once in this time wine the summer blood
Knocked in the flesh that decked the vine,
Once in this bread
The oat was merry in the wind;
Man broke the sun, pulled the wind down.
This flesh you break, this blood you let
Make desolation in the vein,
Were oat and grape
Born of the sensual root and sap;
My wine you drink, my bread you snap.
Passover Posts Past: The Greatest Hits
Each year this blog includes different Passover posts. Each year at Passover many readers find their way back to these past posts. For those who haven’t been in these parts much, following are a few throwbacks.
Moses on Krypton, Superman in Egypt
In the Siegel and Shuster version, there is no infant floated off in a basket to avoid his death, and no Egyptian princess to find and adopt him. Instead, the Kryptonian infant Kal-el (a version of the Hebrew phrase Kol El, “the voice of God” or “all of God”) is rocketed off in a space capsule to avoid the planet’s destruction. The capsule crashes on Earth, and he is found and adopted by the Midwestern couple, Ma and Pa Kent.
The biblical infant is raised as an Egyptian and given the Egyptian name Moses; Kal-el is raised as an earthling and given the Midwestern name Clark Kent. The time will come for both of them, Moses and Clark Kent, to reclaim their true identities in order to tap into great power, to become super-men….
Matzo: Dealing with Eating the Bread of Affliction
Don’t try to make sandwiches. At the seder, the tradition is to eat a tiny sandwich of horseradish and haroset (a sweet paste representing the mortar of the building the Jews slaved on) between two pieces of matzo. The great sage Hillel supposedly created this sandwich, and his name is attached to it. Even this tiny sandwich throws matzo crumbs all over the place. A full-size matzo sandwich is not a good idea. No matter how wise Hillel was….
American Freedom Seder 2017: Where There’s a Pharaoh There’s a Wilderness
It’s possible you believe there are some special struggles going on right now in America. Which would make it a good time to gather with like-minded friends and family, brothers and sisters, and as a community share a meal and recall that the struggle is never easy or short (and might include some flat, dry bread), but that there is a better nation at the end of the journey. One hopeful, undiscouraged step at a time….
Refugees and the Bread of Affliction
Passover begins this evening. As part of the festival, many Jews will be eating the flat dry bread of matzo at seder tonight; some will eat it for the next eight days. Matzo is known as the bread of affliction, commemorating the hardship of slavery and the hardship of the flight to freedom. As we break bread—flat or otherwise—we might also remember the plight of millions of refugees around the world….
Passover and Freud
What does Freud want? He might not want people attending a Passover seder, offering prayers to a God who isn’t there. But things are not that simple.
Sigmund Freud was a Jew by birth, an atheist by belief. He abstracted and analyzed religion as a powerful manifestation of powerful forces at work. But near the end of his career, he considered whether there was something in God that was more than a mere reflection of psychic need and dynamics.
In his final book, Moses and Monotheism, he suggests that while there is no God, the positing of one had forced the Jews—and all who followed on that spiritual path—to think and act differently. The gift of the idea of God was the imperative to transcend instinct and old ways, to make new and positive sense of the insensible, and to act accordingly….
Passover: Let’s Get Lost
Americans are lost
Jews are lost
Jews are used to being lost
Wake up wandering in the wilderness
Wanting guidance assurances
That it will be all right
Promises will be kept
A land will be found
No assurances
No promises
Then like the afikomen
Broken and lost
Let’s get lost
Passover 2020: With stay-at-home seders, Elijah will be making many more wine stops
The tradition of Elijah at the seder is common in many Jewish communities. The practice of pouring a fifth cup of wine and opening the door for Elijah has a complex history. The theme is the prophet as a harbinger of redemption. The scholarship on this is voluminous, and it is generally concluded that the practice is not ancient, only coming into use after the Crusades.
Setting aside the fascinating history of the cup of Elijah, this much is clear: at Passover 2020, Elijah will be visiting a lot more seders. Instead of big groups, single family seders—many of them virtually connected—will be pouring that extra cup for Elijah to drink. Not to mention all the other extra cups that will be poured and drunk on this Passover, different than all other Passovers.
According to the Bible story, Elijah, like Moses before him, fled to the wilderness. Pursued by Ahab and Jezebel, Elijah wanted to give up. Instead, he found water and food to sustain him, ending up at the very same mountain where Moses stood:
And He said, “Go and stand on the mountain before the LORD, and, look, the LORD is about to pass over, with a great and strong wind tearing apart mountains and smashing rocks before the LORD. Not in the wind is the LORD. And after the wind an earthquake. Not in the earthquake is the LORD. And after the earthquake—fire. Not in the fire is the LORD. And after the fire, a sound of minute stillness.” (1 Kings 19:10-12, Robert Alter translation)
Wilderness, food, wine, a sound of minute stillness. Happy Passover.
Pandemic Passover and Easter: Faith without form
Our religious traditions, from their beginnings, have been about form. Practices, beliefs, texts, communities. These are all forms that are required, recommended, unifying.
It is unavoidable to see an identity between the traditions and forms. That is, the point of the traditions seems to be the forms themselves.
There is a Zen thought that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon itself. We point because the finger shows us which way to go and where something may be found. But the finger is not the way or the thing. The form is not the way or the thing.
There is unique value in gathering around the Passover table, following the order (seder) of together retelling a central story. There is unique value in gathering in church on Easter Sunday and retelling another central story.
The Passover seder is important but not essential. The Easter service is important but not essential. These are forms, the finger pointing at the moon.
What exactly is the moon of Passover and the moon of Easter? To be transformed and to transform the world and all the people in it. If you need examples of that, just look at the central stories of the two holidays and the teachings that surround them. You and the world start off one way and, by the time you are done wandering, you and the world are better. The dark places are a little bit lighter.
How do you get there? You take part in a seder, in person or virtually, or maybe you don’t. You attend a church service, in person or virtually, or maybe you don’t. You wander in a wilderness and find yourself and something new. You die and are reborn spiritually. The seder and the service are forms, valuable but not necessary. You can wander and arrive without them.
Apart but not alone, happy Passover and happy Easter.
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Eliza Brockwell
On October 11, Careers with STEM hosted our Careers Advice Mentoring Day at CBA in Sydney. In store for students and teachers were forewords from Secretary of NSW Department of Education, Mark Scott and Sally-Ann Williams, Google’s Engineering Community & Outreach Program Manager. Following the forewords, we had a panel of STEM influencers including speakers from Google, Commbank, Cuberider, Thales and more. Students were engaged with personal testimonies about the future of work in Australia, why marks don’t matter and gender equality in STEM education.
Secretary for the NSW Department of Education, Mark Scott opened with his experiences in the changing job landscape in Australia, “I’ve been in my job now for a year, and before that I ran the ABC. It’s interesting coming from an area very much involved in technology and viewing the change technology has had on media.”
“It’s always been true that the future will be different but I don’t think in our lifetimes, or many lifetimes before us, there’s been a sense of the dramatic rate of change that we’re going to experience now.”
Speaking to STEM’s gender imbalance, Mark offered a possible solution that comes by changing the perception of STEM for young girls in primary school. He claims that research shows us that girls and boys can be identical in subjects and marks, but the boys will have a higher self evaluation than the girls, seeing an eventual migration of girls away from STEM subjects. How do we affect this?
“There are some really interesting questions about preparing people for STEM that goes all the way back to primary school and the messages we’re sending in schools, the messages society is sending and the messages families are sending.” says Scott. Essentially we need to create positive role models and messages that permeate our schools, our societies and our families that women should and need to be involved in STEM.
Sally-Ann Williams, Google’s Engineering Community & Outreach Program Manager, focused on dissipating the fear of uncertainty in today’s job market. “I’m someone that likes to take a challenge and reframe it.” Williams announced to a crowd of fresh faces. Williams then had students, teachers and adults alike raise their hands if they were uncertain about what they want to do in their career. Hands across the room sprung up. “It’s absolutely ok. You can turn around and reframe it as a challenge. Ask yourself, how can I position myself to be ready, excited and at the forefront of things that I don’t know are coming?”
“There is so much talk about automation, robotics and artificial intelligence and jobs not going to be there, but jobs will be created. I can’t tell you what they are because they don’t exist yet.”
“11 years ago if I said you’d have a job as an iOS developer, you’d give me a blank stare because iPhones and Androids did not exist. It’s something to be excited and enthusiastic about.” says Williams.
Williams also preached the message of ‘CS + X’, the concept of blending computer science and your passion to craft your very own career niche. “CS + X is the future. The X is what you care about, it’s the problems you’re going to inherit, the challenges and opportunities, it’s fashion, it’s art, it’s music. When you blend that with technology, that’s where the opportunity lies.”
Take a look through our photo gallery for a round-up of the day’s activities.
– Eliza Brockwell
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Uber evictions
Submitted by snoopydawg on Mon, 09/21/2020 - 8:38pm
jfc capitalism is profoundly sick pic.twitter.com/oO9Rp0yk7t
— I’m Black and I’m not voting for Biden (@rtyson82) September 21, 2020
Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But for Evicting People
"SINCE COVID-19 MANY AMERICANS FELL BEHIND IN ALL ASPECTS," reads the website copy. The button below this statement is not for a GoFundMe, or a petition for calling for rent relief. Instead, it is the following call to action, from a company called Civvl: "Be hired as eviction crew."
During a time of great economic and general hardship, Civvl aims to be, essentially, Uber, but for evicting people. Seizing on a pandemic-driven nosedive in employment and huge uptick in number-of-people-who-can't-pay-their-rent, Civvl aims to make it easy for landlords to hire process servers and eviction agents as gig workers.
Helena Duncan, a Chicago-based paralegal who also participates in housing activism, saw a Craigslist post from Civvl while searching for jobs. The ad alarmed her.
"It's fucked up that there will be struggling working-class people who will be drawn to gigs like furniture-hauling or process-serving for a company like Civvl, evicting fellow working-class people from their homes so they themselves can make rent," she told Motherboard.
In its Craigslist ads, posted across the country, Civvl explains the opportunity plainly:
"There is plenty of work due to the dismal economy."
"Unemployment is at a record high and many cannot or simply are not paying rent and mortgages," the ads state. "We are being contracted by frustrated property owners and banks to secure foreclosed residential properties."
Civvl aims to marry the gig economy with the devastation of a pandemic, complete with signature gig startup language like "be your own boss," and "flexible hours," and "looking for self-motivated individuals with positive attitudes:" "FASTEST GROWING MONEY MAKING GIG DUE TO COVID-19," its website says. "Literally thousands of process servers are needed in the coming months due courts being backed up in judgements that needs to be served to defendants."
The website also featured a quote, attributed to The New York Times: "Too many people stopped paying rent and mortgages thinking they would not be evicted." A search reveals this phrase hasn't appeared in the Times. The company did not respond to requests for comment or a source for this quote, but the mention of the Times has since disappeared from its website.
The company, at first glance, appears to be some kind of _Nathan For You-_esque prank: siccing precarious gig jobs onto vulnerable people. But Civvl is connected to a larger—and real—gig economy company called OnQall, which describes itself as an app that provides "on-demand task services to non-urban communities beyond main city areas." OnQall is the developer behind other, more believable TaskRabbit-esque apps, like LawnFixr, CleanQwik, and MoveQwik. Given the fact that Civvl is advertising all over the country and that OnQall, though not popular, does exist, it seems as though Civvl actually is an attempt to simplify the process of evicting people who cannot pay their rent during a pandemic.
There is a federal ban on evictions, declared by the CDC, but landlords are still attempting to press on. There is a penalty for violating the ban, which can include a combination of fines and jail time. Civvl did not respond to a question about how the company ensures evictions are legal, though based on the Terms of Service, it appears to pass all risk onto the companies using its platform, stating that it simply "provides lead generation to independent contractors," and does not actually carry out the work itself.
A recent CNN report showed the heartbreaking reality of working in evictions. Francisco Muñez, a mover for a landlord in Houston, cries as he empties an elderly woman's apartment. "Maybe today it's her. Tomorrow it's me," he told the reporter.
"Legal court evictions are on hold," Javier Ruiz, a counselor on the Tenants' Rights hotline for MTO, told VICE. "But most of these management companies, they're not necessarily evicting people through courts. They're just evicting people through pressure. So that's why I see a company like [Civvl] would be coming in."
I have no doubt that lots of people will sign up for doing this because so many are one step away from being evicted themselves and will do whatever it takes to not be. This is why it was clever of the site to misquote the NYT. I see comments like that quite frequently on my local boards.
And of course the people behind this company will take no risk of moving someone out illegally. Oh no that risk belongs to the lucky person who doesn’t read the fine print at the bottom.
This is hideous beyond comprehension and it falls squarely on congress for not giving people relief. Pelosi went from telling us to Calm Down to offering prayers to those being evicted or starving and to those responsible for them doing it. Buy a f’cking mirror, Nancy and look into it!
Immoral Much
Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Mon, 09/21/2020 - 9:48pm
Buy a f’cking mirror, Nancy and look into it!
"You kill Medusa!" -- NetHack
Submitted by janis b on Mon, 09/21/2020 - 11:02pm
I share your utter disgust, than.
... from the link about the company Civvl.
What a depressing evolution in the tragedy of these times
Submitted by The Voice In th... on Tue, 09/22/2020 - 7:19pm
Who was it that said...
@janis b
I can hire half the working class to shoot the other half? Hermann Goering? Or Lenin?
In today's America, you probably wouldn't have to pay them, they would do it for free.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Submitted by Daenerys on Tue, 09/22/2020 - 8:36pm
@The Voice In the Wilderness Half of them are champing at the bit to shoot us dissenters anyway.
So this is how the civil war starts.
This shit is bananas.
Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Tue, 09/22/2020 - 9:16pm
It was Jay Gould, Capitalist Extraordinaire
@The Voice In the Wilderness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Gould
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Submitted by The Voice In th... on Wed, 09/23/2020 - 12:06pm
Ah yes, I thought it was a dictator
@TheOtherMaven
On reflection, it was!
#1.1.1
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Wed, 09/23/2020 - 8:56am
As The Other Maven said, it was neither
a Nazi nor a Commie who said that, but our very own home-grown capitalist.
Although if you let capitalism steep long enough, apparently it turns into fascism. WTF.
I really, really didn't want the Marxists to be right about that.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Submitted by humphrey on Tue, 09/22/2020 - 1:53am
Nancy likes Ronnie!
pic.twitter.com/PVdfs4bmfZ
— Winkle, numb (@WinkleAbides) September 21, 2020
Like RBG, she kept working too long.
@humphrey
Pelosi should have ditched the facelifts and retired to dandling great-grandkids.
Of course she does. Just like Obama does.
The whole purpose of these "centrist" reprobates was to turn the Democratic party into a vehicle for Reagan Republicans. That way, Koch Republicans can have the Republican party, everyone to the left of Reagan can suck it, and America can forever be forced to choose between Reagan types and Koch types. They succeeded famously.
Now, not satisfied with complete economic and political dominance, they're working on making it impossible to conceive of anything to the left of Reagan. That's why they got butthurt about Bernie and even more butthurt about the quick way America signed on with him. God forbid that the space between people's ears should fail to comply with the thousand-year Reich.
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery."
--Marcus Garvey
Submitted by Lookout on Tue, 09/22/2020 - 7:02am
Max and Stacy had a great show
Betting big on double wides. The elite are buying trailer parks anticipating evictions flood.
Michael Hudson is on in the second half, so the whole show was good.
It's neofuedalism, and getting worse!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 09/22/2020 - 10:52am
@Lookout
This country went to fleeing to be free to taking it back to pre 1602 mid-evil times.
Good gawd the corruption that is being exposed is probably just the top few inches of the miles deep iceberg. Outstanding job you traitors. And they haven't just grabbed every penny that was floating unattached they also polluted the earth so much that our survival is in question. Of course they won't be around to witness the end, but by gawd their families will be and one day a reckoning might come.
Hard to listen to this, LO. Thanks for posting it. Not the best thing to listen to this morning after the night Charlie and I had, but needs must and all that.
Remember lots of us thought Obama and Bernie would be our best hope for turning away from this, but both of them sold us out. Yes yes Bernie opened our eyes and created a movement and all that, but then he left us on our own to figure out how to change things. 1 or 2 progressive candidates a year winning is not going to do much to hold back what's coming.k
I'll post now or I will go on all morning.
I was surprised to see this comment on my local board in an article about the house funding the budget.
This whole political scenario is all just a huge chess game, countering moves back and forth, and guess who the pawns are? The American people. They "Politicians" are turning us against each other like rabid dogs whilst they they make themselves millionaires on our tax dollars pleading for our contributions as well. In the end the citizens of this nation will be brutalized by one another. We were once a strong patriotic nation, not so much anymore and we have politicians to thank for driving a wedge between the people they serve, it's disgraceful.
“Restoring the soul of this nation” is just MAGA with more words
Twitter is like a game of telephone
Submitted by usefewersyllables on Tue, 09/22/2020 - 10:06am
Regrettably, the first few
casualties of the coming civil war will probably be the unfortunate folks who sign up for this work simply in order to avoid being the evictees. Sooner or later, one of these conscript crews will come up against someone who doesn't feel like being evicted, and has their "anti-tyranny" arsenal locked and loaded.
What an incredibly effective way to divide people against themselves. The ones on the firing line will just be cannon fodder, as always.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Submitted by fire with fire on Tue, 09/22/2020 - 10:11am
Much advice these days is to make lemonade out of urine
If you lost your job during the closing of public life, and your unemployment compensation is now maybe $500 per week if you live in a generous state, you have been advised to take advantage of the shifting economy as Amazon and Grubhub are hiring like crazy. One of the great economic figures, Joseph Shumpeter, called it "The Creative Destruction of Capitalism." As conditions for business change mainly but not entirely due to technological advance, old operations shut down as new businesses take advantage of the changes.
The world has never seen Shumpeter's theory of creative destruction compressed into a single year as we are now trying to survive the end of the air travel, entertainment, hospitality and restaurant industries as we have known them for three generations. In each case, other industries, like Uber Evictions, are starting up now to take advantage. Millions of secure middle class jobs destroyed, X number of new independent contractor "jobs" come open.
The downward spiral accelerates.
I cried when I wrote this song. Sue me if I play too long.
Continuing on from O's tenure
@fire with fire
Millions of secure middle class jobs destroyed, X number of new independent contractor "jobs" come open.
Gjohnsit wrote that 94% of new jobs created during O's tenure were part time gig economy ones and the rest were mostly part time at low wages.
The writer that is talked about in the Keiser video who died wrote a great article on how most jobs are just busy jobs and don't actually need to be done and are just so people could make money. Instead of going back to MidEvil Times the world could be on a path of leisure and peace. I will try to find that article. It was outstanding.
Submitted by doh1304 on Tue, 09/22/2020 - 2:02pm
A tangental comment
Since the invention of agriculture most "jobs" have been just for the rulers to stroke their egos and provide for their soldiers and flunkies so that they could enforce the stroking of their egos.
Hunter-gatherers of the world unite! (NO sarcasm)
On to Biden since 1973
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September 2020 Case Update
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July 2020 Case Update
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California Court of Appeals (unpublished) upholds legality of Pen C § 1203.43 against challenge by Los Angeles DA, in Villegas v. Superior Court Los Angeles (B294683, Second Appellate District, Nov. 19, 2019), available at https://www.leagle.com/decision/incaco20191119043. For a discussion of Pen C § 1203.43 and how it is used, see, e.g., ILRC, N.2 Definition of Conviction (April 2019) at www.ilrc.org/chart. In an outlier case, Los Angeles Judge Kathleen Blanchard refused to grant a request for a Pen C § 1203.43 order for a qualifying applicant, because she found that, despite the clear language in § 1203.43, the dismissal of Mr. Villegas’
August 2019 Update
Nevada drugs are not federal “controlled substances. Because the Nevada controlled substance schedule is overbroad and indivisible, no conviction that references that schedule is a controlled substance offense for immigration purposes. Villavicencio v. Sessions, No. 13-74324 (9th Cir. Sept. 11, 2018). California robbery, Pen C § 211, is an AF as theft, but not as a crime of violence, if a sentence of a year is imposed. Matter of Delgado, 27 I&N Dec. 100 (BIA 2017) (is an AF as theft), US v. Garcia-Lopez (9th Cir. September 2018) (it is not an AF as a crime of violence under 18 USC
July 2019 Update
Big win! Ninth Circuit reverses Young rule on burden of proof. See Marinelarena v. Barr (9th Cir. July 18, 2019) (en banc) at at http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/07/18/14-72003.pdf. The ILRC will soon publish a practice advisory on Marinelarena; check www.ilrc.org/crimes. Marinelarena is a great win for our side. It protects noncitizens who are must apply for immigration relief – for example, undocumented people, or permanent residents who are deportable – and who were convicted under a “divisible” statute, if their record of conviction is vague as to which crime under the statute they were convicted of. This is especially useful for California drug offenses.
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Tottenham Hotspur maintained their push for a top-four spot as they clinched a 1-0 triumph over north London rivals Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday. The first-half was rather cagey with both sides keeping it tight in the midfield, but Spurs dominated the second period and could have simply added more goals to their tally. Harry Kane notched his seventh goal versus the Gunners in the 49th minute of the game, and they managed to hold onto their slender lead for the rest of the match despite a scare at the end.
Three Things We Learned:
Harry Kane continues his fine streak versus Arsenal: The 24-year-old was highlighted as the main threat to rattle the Gunners backline, and he rightly did so as he climbed higher than Laurent Koscielny to net the sole game of the game. Kane had a couple of other chances including a dolly of a ball in the first period, but he will surely be delighted with his showing nevertheless. The England international now has seven goals in eight meetings versus Arsenal, and he is just one behind Emmanuel Adebayor, who holds the record for the most strikes in the north London derby.
Mkhitaryan-Aubameyang partnership fails: A lot was said about the new era with the signings of Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang last month, but their performance was relatively average. Whilst Aubameyang may have not received the service upfront, Mkhitaryan struggled to find his crossing range with a couple of left-footed cross going astray. The Armenia international was criticised for a similar concern during his time at Old Trafford, and the Gunners’ faithful will hope that the 29-year-old does not enter his shell once more.
Arsenal paying the price at the back: The Gunners failed to recruit an experienced defender during the winter transfer window, and it appears to have come and haunt them. Mustafi struggled to track Kane at different stages of the game, whilst Hector Bellerin had a similar struggle at right-back where he saw both Ben Davies and Son Heung-min find space behind him – with the former providing the match-winning assist for Kane. The Gunners went nine straight league games without a clean sheet.
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Basketball-Women | Sports
Lady Jackets Clinch Spot in G-MAC Tournament in Demolition of Tiffin
by Tim Miller
Making it to the 2019 G-MAC Tournament has never been in question for the Cedarville Lady Jackets, but they can officially cross that goal off their list after a 90-50 thrashing of Tiffin on Saturday afternoon. While the Lady Jackets have dealt with a rough two weeks, returning to Callan and smacking a G-MAC foe may give the Lady Jackets the juice they need to push themselves back into contention for the the No. 1 position in the conference.
Cedarville (18-6, 14-4 G-MAC) had an entire week to prepare for the Dragons, and it showed. They dominated on the glass . (plus-14 margin), in the turnover margin (plus-eight), and in shooting (54 percent from the field).
Freshman guard Emily Chapman was Cedarville’s leading scorer, pouring in 15 points on 6-8 shooting. Senior forward Abby Wolford added 14 points (all of which came in the first quarter) and six rebounds.
Senior forward Ellie Juengel enjoyed extended playing time, scoring 14 points on 4-7 shooting from deep (shooters shoot). It was Juengel’s highest scoring output of the season.
Cedarville rocked pink uniforms in support of the Kay Yow Cancer Fund. (Photo: Lydia Wolterman)
“We just had awesome teamwork, awesome energy, from the start,” Juengel said. “We knew our gameplan and we executed really well.”
The bench saw a larger share of minutes than in most games all season, and it produced 44 points and two of the Lady Jackets’ highest scorers (Chapman, Juengel).
“We haven’t been able to get those kids the minutes they really do deserve,” head coach Kari Hoffman said. “I was pleased to get them in there and get them in for a very long stretch in the fourth quarter. They continued to play well and play together.”
Cedarville’s defense was its bread and butter to start the game, forcing three turnovers and allowing just two points in the first four minutes. Senior guard Baylee Bennett splashed the game’s first triple with 5:12 left in the first quarter to put Cedarville up 9-4, and to that point, Tiffin shot just 33 percent from the field.
Wolford exploded to score Cedarville’s final seven points of the quarter, giving the Lady Jackets’ their first double digit lead of the game as well as its largest lead at 26-12.
Cedarville shot 58 percent from the field in the first frame and outrebounded Tiffin by four. The Lady Jackets distributed the ball well, dropping five dimes.
The Lady Jackets continued to accelerate, blowing by the Dragons to go up 30-12 just a minute-and-a-half into the quarter. The spark prompted a timeout by Tiffin as Cedarville took a firm grip in the game in a short amount of time.
Tiffin fought back briefly to bring the game within 12, but Cedarville sprinted forward again. The Lady Jackets maintained a commanding lead and broke a 20-point margin with 2:38 in the period.
As the quarter waned, Hoffman began subbing in players closer to the south end of the bench. Juengel hit a triple with six seconds left in the quarter, and Cedarville went into the locker room with a 47-25 margin.
Chapman scored all 10 of her first half points in the second quarter, shooting 4-6 in the quarter. Sophomore guard Ashlyn Huffman added six points in the quarter, making all three of her attempts from the field.
Every active player but two saw time on the floor in the first half for the Lady Jackets.
Bennett got hot to start the third, making triples on two possessions in a row. Her second put Cedarville up 55-27. After beginning the quarter with all starters, Hoffman’s rotation featured primarily reserves, and for much of the third Cedarville’s lineup either featured one or zero starters on the floor.
Cedarville led 69-36 after three periods. Bennett and Juengel each made a pair of triples in the quarter. Cedarville shot above 50 percent from the field yet again and held a dominating plus-13 margin on the glass.
Starters returned for the first minute of the fourth before exiting the game for a final time, receiving hearty applause from the Cedarville faithful. Cedarville’s bench easily closed out the game, as every player but one scored for the Lady Jackets by the time the final buzzer sounded.
“It’s good to be home and it’s good to win by a bunch,” Hoffman said. “I feel like it’s been a while since that has happened. It was really good to see everyone play well, from the starters to the bench.”
Cedarville will rest until Thursday when they play Lake Erie. Cedarville won at Lake Erie on Jan. 10, 63-51. Senior Day will come two days later as the Lady Jackets will take on Ursuline in the two teams’ only matchup of the season.
Tim Miller is a junior marketing major and sports editor for Cedars. He enjoys having a baby face, knowing too much about supplemental insurance, and striving to perfect the optimal combination of Dwight Schrute and Ron Swanson.
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The Guynn Family
L to R: Jimmy, Jack, & Doug Guynn
Several years ago, as a heartfelt gesture to honor their parents, Jack, Jimmy, and Doug Guynn established the Carroll and Grace “Patsy” Guynn Memorial Fund at the Community Foundation.
The brothers agreed to contribute to the fund in lieu of trading gifts at Christmas and other celebrations. Over the years and now with support from the Guynn family’s younger generation, the fund continues to grow and support initiatives near and dear to their hearts. As Jimmy stated, “the Community Foundation helped my brothers and I design a fund that gives back to the community that gave much to us.”
Through the thoughtful gifts of their sons, the memory and inspiration of Carroll and Grace Guynn lives on and will continue to strengthen our community forever. If you’d like to add your support to this inspiring fund, we invite you to do so.
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christopher cooper
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Software engineer and musician. 23.
I'm Christopher. I love to code and make music. I work as a software engineer. Want to get in touch?
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stop rebasing
2020-11-16: Rebasing is in vogue. But if we don't stop to think before rewriting our history, it will just end up causing us pain in the future.
Kubernetes and open contribution at OCF
2020-03-07: Talk: How we use Kubernetes at OCF to encourage contribution, presented at the UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup.
In 2020 I worked as one of two engineers on Blimp. Our goal was to streamline development in a microservice ecosystem by moving it into the cloud. Since the team was so small, I was simultaneously doing dev, ops, and product work. This meant that I wrote a lot of Go code, made architectural decisions, and became intimately familiar with the inner workings of Kubernetes. The project didn't pan out in the end, but I had a lot of fun working on it.
At UC Berkeley, I was a volunteer manager for the Open Computing Facility. As a Site Manager in spring 2020, I was one of two technical leads for the organization of 100+ volunteers and 8 paid staff. Before that, I served as a General Manager and a Deputy Site Manager, sharing responsibility for the computer lab of 29 computers and the array of servers which provide webhosting, high performance computing, and general server access to the Berkeley campus. (Kubernetes!) Check out some of the services that the OCF provides.
I spent the summer and fall of 2019 working at Brave. I worked on adding a cryptocurrency wallet manager to the browser, and also contributed to the core browser. You can see all my pull requets on GitHub.
I also have been a part of Political Computer Science @ Berkeley. I led the technical development of DARP, a project to analyse digital access and privacy rights around the world.
At Angie's List, I converted a price comparison tool from an outdated web stack to use Angie's List's new Thunderball stack (and along the way made some contributions to Thunderball itself). I also reworked some shared microservice Scala libraries for request processing.
I helped create kotct/dot, a tool for creating universally-available personal configurations, supporting GNU Emacs. This is my longest-running open project. You can find my own dot-compatible emacs config at cg505/.emacs.
I worked for two summers at Studio by Purdue. During Summer 2016, I brought a new tool to life which exposed class and student data, contributing code from top (React/Redux) to bottom (ASP.NET). As the fall semester began, we deployed this app in time for my freshman class to use it during orientation. For Summer 2018, I focused on Passport, which is used widely at Purdue, as well as other institutions such as University of Arizona.
Interested more in my work? Check my resume. Impressed? Hire me!
I like jazz. In fall 2018, I played alto saxophone in a combo at UC Jazz with fellow Cal students. At Purdue I played alto sax in the Purdue Jazz Band. Check out our rendition of "Angel Eyes" featuring yours truly.
In high school I played tenor saxophone in a jazz combo called Red Note. Here's some videos of me playing "The Christmas Song" and "Hotline Bling" with them.
I also sometimes find time for amateur composition and production. You can find some tunez on my soundcloud.
I listen to a lot of music, not just jazz. From Mitski to Tennyson to Injury Reserve, I love to talk to other people who are always trying to discover that next album that they love. See my listening history on last.fm, or try one of my spotify playlists.
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Interested in hiring me? Nice! I'm looking to expand my software engineering experience, which currently includes employers such as Kelda and Brave.
Check out my resume, or hit up my linkedin. Still here? Send me an email at christopher.c.cooper@gmail.com.
If you need to contact me for some reason, shoot me an email at my personal address, christopher.c.cooper@gmail.com.
Alternatively, you can try to reach me on twitter, the fediverse, linkedin, or by just piping the contents of your message to /dev/null. But, email is probably your best bet.
© Christopher Cooper 2020
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RSPB NI give evidence to AERA on Environment Bill - Giving Nature a Home in Northern Ireland - Get involved - The RSPB Community
Giving Nature a Home in Northern Ireland Taking our fight to protect and restore nature to the Northern Ireland Assembly
Taking our fight to protect and restore nature to the Northern Ireland Assembly
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Guest blog by Tabitha Newell, RSPB NI Campaigning Communications Officer
RSPB Portmore Lough, County Antrim. Photo credit: Antrim Lens
Restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly
It has been all systems go since the restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and a key priority for RSPB NI has been to keep our campaign for ambitious Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries Acts firmly on the agenda.
The UN has warned that we have until 2030 to make critical changes if we are to avert a global climate catastrophe. And Northern Ireland is no exception. Our unique species like lapwings, puffins and curlews are facing extreme pressures:
• One in five species is at risk of extinction
• Two-thirds of our rivers are polluted
Post Brexit, Northern Ireland has a significant opportunity to introduce legislation that can prevent further biodiversity decline and put nature at the heart of the solution to the climate crisis. But only if the Government acts now.
So, what’s been happening?
There have been second readings of the Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries Bills in Parliament. These will replace the EU’s framework directives, Common Agricultural Policy and Common Fisheries Policy and introduce a new system of environmental governance.
Following these readings, RSPB NI and a coalition of environmental organisations were invited to give evidence on the bills to the Committee for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (AERA) in Stormont. This was a landmark moment that gave RSPB NI the opportunity to campaign for crucial amendments, including clear targets, environmental governance and accountability.
Photo credit: Leslie Ballantines
The Agriculture Bill
Farmers can play a crucial role in helping Northern Ireland deliver:
• Cleaner air and water
• Healthy soils
• A countryside rich in wildlife
But to achieve this, we need an ambitious Agriculture Act for Northern Ireland that incentivises and rewards sustainable farming practices.
On 20th February 2020, RSPB NI, Ulster Wildlife and Northern Ireland Environment Link met with the AERA Committee to address the importance of transitioning towards sustainable agricultural policies. Evidence was given on the need to reform future payments to focus on ‘public money’ for ‘public goods’. That’s a system that would support farming for delivering public benefits such as water quality, clean air and biodiversity.
While the intensity of agriculture has led to environmental destruction, the team concluded that the introduction of a bespoke agriculture and land management policy for Northern Ireland offers an opportunity for farm businesses to thrive in a new landscape underpinned by sustainability.
Members of Northern Ireland Environment Link, Ulster Wildlife and RSPB NI giving evidence to the AERA Committee. Photo credit: RSPB NI
The Environment Bill
Intended to fill the legislative void left by the UK’s departure from the EU, the Environment Bill is a key piece of law designed to protect and restore nature. The Bill, in its current state, does not offer the same level of protection and accountability as the European courts.
On 27th February 2020, RSPB NI, The National Trust NI and Northern Ireland Environment Link gave evidence to the AERA Committee on the importance of introducing vital legislative framework to prevent further decline and improve our natural environment. This included:
• Time-bound targets
• Non-regression standards
• Robust improvement plans
• Long-term funding
The coalition also voiced concerns over how environmental governance would be possible without specific standards and financial penalties being enforced.
The solution? An Office of Environmental Protection and an independent Environment Protection Agency. While it was acknowledged that delivering a robust Environment Strategy to include both would require considerable resourcing, the cost of failure, for all of us, would be even greater.
Members of Northern Ireland Environment Link giving evidence to the AERA Committee. Photo credit: RSPB NI
The Fisheries Bill
Our lives are inextricably linked to the sea and its wildlife. We need resilient, thriving waters to support our health, wellbeing, culture and economy. But our seas remain under threat and a recent assessment has revealed that the UK is failing to meet 11 out of 15 marine health targets.
On 5th March, the Northern Ireland Marine Task Force and its lead members, RSPB NI and Ulster Wildlife, gave evidence to the AERA Committee on the Fisheries Bill, which aims to:
• Sustainably manage stocks
• Protect ecosystems
• Tackle climate change
While the coalition welcomed the ambitious approach, they voiced valid concerns that without any legal underpinning, the Bill will fail to deliver on its goals and that previous work (and future collaborations) with neighbouring countries may be put at risk.
The Fisheries Bill can play a vital role in helping restore our seas. But it needs adequate resources and a legal commitment to fish at a scientifically sustainable level if it is to deliver a world-leading fisheries management plan that will benefit the people and wildlife of Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland Marine Task Force members giving evidence to the AERA Committee. Photo credit: RSPB NI
After Oral Evidence, what’s next?
The Committee is now in the consideration of evidence phase, after which, Legislative Consent Motions will be taken to the Assembly on specific areas of the bills which require NI approval. As each bill makes its way through Westminster, we’ll also be working across the UK to secure vital amendments, helping to ensure that these vital bills deliver for nature in Northern Ireland.
That’s why we need to keep up the pressure and make sure our local MLAs know we are still counting on them to push for ambitious, nature-friendly Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries Bills. Our lapwings, puffins and curlews are counting on us.
Puffin on Rathlin Island. Photo credit: Andy Hay
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Dell, EMC Canadian leadership come together for Dell Canadian Partner Summit
by Robert Dutt • September 14, 2016
Kevin Peesker, president of Dell EMC Canada commercial division and Michael Sharun, country manager for Dell EMC Canada enterprise division.
NIAGARA FALLS, ON — “A lot can happen in a year.”
With those words, Dell Canada president (now Dell EMC Canada commercial division president) Kevin Peesker kicked off a significantly larger Dell Canadian Partner Summit at the Sheraton on the Falls here. And sure, Peesker walked the assembled solution providers through some of the major changes to impact our world since last fall’s version of this event — Brexit, the Rio games, the emergence of Donald Trump as a US presidential candidate. But it was pretty clear what he was actually talking about.
“We’ve been busy,” Peesker told the audience with a smirk, then admitted that if, this time last year, a partner had suggested to him that Dell, still then getting used to private life, “should do a $60 billion acquisition,” he wouldn’t have believed it likely or possible. And yet, just over a month after last year’s version of this event, that’s exactly what happened.
Fast forward to this year’s Canadian Partner Summit, and it’s a new venue and a whole lot of new faces, coming as it is six days after the official merger of Dell and EMC into the new Dell Technologies organization. There are a lot of new hosts and leaders in the room, with Peesker and his channel chief Tara Fine joined by former EMC Canada (and now Dell EMC Canada Enterprise Division) leadership, including country manager Michael Sharun, channel chief Michael Kerr.
Peesker and Sharun walked partners through the new organizational structure, with client solutions under the Dell brand, and infrastructure solutions and services under separate divisions under the Dell EMC banner, as well as the Canadian leadership of both sides. Again, there were no surprises there, with Sharun and his team constituting the Dell EMC Enterprise Division side of the house, while the pre-merger Dell Canada team remains the same under its new name of the commercial division
Peesker called the new combined entity “the world’s largest privately-held company with world-class enterprise sales and support from the edge to the data centre and all the way around,” and said that the integration of the two cultures had been easy because basically the whole Canadian organizations had been familiar working with each other pre-merger as partners.
“This combination provides a situation where one plus one equals a whole bunch,” he said.
Both executives made their pitch to have more partners selling more of the newly-combined portfolio. But it was Sharun who made the case loudest and longest. That’s hardly surprising. EMC has a large channel, but has not been the kind of “big tent” channel program that Dell has had going forward, so Sharun and the enterprise division has the most to gain from getting more of the “other side’s” partners engaged.
Sharun shared that this year, 80 per cent of EMC Canada’s business is through the channel, a figure which he called a “world-leading” number within EMC, and he said served to show how important the channel’s solution reach is for the former EMC business. That’s especially true because of the increasingly deep focus of that business on solutions-centric areas. Sharun said the company’s business in Canada was less than 40 per cent primary storage, and detailed the areas where growth is coming — converged infrastructure in all its various forms, data protection, and emerging areas such as Internet of Everything, analytics, and data lakes.
It’s in those areas that Sharun urged partners to grow their focus, a message seemingly crafted mostly for the 70 or so per cent of Dell Canada partners that had not been EMC partners per-merger.
Although it was Peesker who used the phrase “better together” to introduce the combined entity, it was Sharun for whom the idea was central to his presentation. He told partners that they could participate in every piece of the high-growth business available, but that they “can’t participate in every piece from every manufacturer,” a bid to get more partners to think across the portfolio and focus on the Dell EMC combo for new avenues of growth.
“There are very few places you can go to get all the pieces” for a solution like converged infrastructure, Sharun told partners. “There’s one, I think. And it’s here in this room.”
The executives talked up a “rolling thunder of announcement” in coming months designed to show the companies have been still actively developing and not just focused on getting the deal done,, discussed the benefits of taking the former EMC business off the “90-day shot clock” of life as a publicly-traded company, and stressed openness and co-opteition where it makes sense for customers, such as in the former EMC having converged plays with both the former Dell and rival Cisco.
Both executives stressed the power of the merged organization — “I don’t know how you can serve customers better by getting smaller,” Sharun quipped — but stressed it was vital to remained focus on innovation and meeting customer need.
“We’ve got a huge portfolio and opportunity, but we can’t go in to customer meetings and talk about the weather,” Sharun warned. “We’ve got to do our research, be factual, be deliberate, and drive a solution. Motherhood and apple pie aren’t going to work.”
Dell’s Canadian Partner Summit continues here Wednesday.
Robert Dutt
Robert Dutt is the founder and head blogger at ChannelBuzz.ca. He has been covering the Canadian solution provider channel community for a variety of publications and Web sites since 1997. View all posts by Robert Dutt →
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The O2, North Greenwich
Original Bad Company members Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke reunite
Bad Company will return to the UK for the first time in four years this October on their ‘Swan Song’ tour. Original Bad Company members Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke will hit The O2 in London on Saturday October 29, so jump on these tickets quick. Special Guests come in the form of Richie Sambora and Orianthi. Robert Plant says "With mean riffs that took no prisoners, smouldering grooves and the voice of all British voices, these guys brought home a special unique angle to the scene. I’m excited to see them make their way back on the road." Doors open: 6:30pm. Under 15s must be accompanied by a responsible adult over 18 years old. Ticket price: £55.00 (includes £8.00 booking fee + £1.50 venue facility fee)
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Lessons from the South – Martial Arts of Vietnam, Part II
Vietnamese martial artists training amidst Cham ruins in Bình Định of southcentral Vietnam.
Source: ZingNews
***What follows in the second installment in our short guest series considering the history and development of the Vietnamese martial arts. Enjoy****
Lessons from the South
By Trần Khải Hoài
In the previous section, we looked at a “flat” reading of Yue/Việt across time and space as a brainstorming exercise to suggest, among other things, that the coasts of southeast China and Vietnam can be viewed as a transitional space between the cultural worlds of a Sinitic North and peripheral South as well as continental and maritime Asia. Here, we continue our discussion by surveying four episodes from imperial Vietnam (roughly 11th–19th C.) that speak to martial arts in the Yue/Việt South, wherein lie meaningful lessons for the martial arts practitioner and scholar alike.
Don’t get cocky
On the 11th day of the 11th month (Dec. 10, 1511), Trần Tuân (d.1511) launched an insurrection in Từ Liêm (western Hanoi) against the Lê Dynasty (1428–1527). The capital was largely vacated as many fled to their native villages in advance of Tuân’s impending assault when…
The emperor [Lê Oanh, r. 1510–1516] ordered Marquis of Mỹ Huệ, Trịnh Duy Sản, to lead an army to attack Trần Tuân. At the time, Tuân’s army pressed to invade Từ Liêm. [Duy Sản’s] army was defeated and retreated back to station at Đông Ngạc and Nhật Chiêu… Duy Sản, having been defeated by the rebels, had only thirty-some men left. They ripped their clothes as a sign [of their resolve] and vowed to attack the rebels. In the hour of the Cock (17:00–19:00), Duy Sản suddenly arrived and stormed Tuân’s camp. Seeing Tuân dressed in red robes and seated on a bed, [Duy Sản] thrust with a spear and killed him. Tuân’s band of followers ran away and scattered.
Clearly, Trịnh Duy Sản (d.1516) had gall. Five years later, he would even have the temerity to murder the emperor. He cultivated such fighting spirit as a member of a formidable military family, the Trịnh from Thanh Hóa. Towards the end of the century, his clan would establish a junta in Hanoi that would rule northern Vietnam for almost two centuries. But the old soldier’s daring would prove a fateful vice.
In the winter of the 11th month (Dec. 4, 1516–Jan. 1, 1517), a new threat emerged:
At that time, because [Trịnh] Duy Sản’s army had exerted itself for a prolonged time and the rebel [Trần] Cảo had yet to be extinguished, he issued [an exhortative] speech to lift the morale of his weary troops … At that time, a meteor fell into his camp. Duy Sản’s army advanced to Chí Linh and fought with Cảo at Nam Giản. [Duy Sản’s] subordinate general named Hạnh died in the battle. Duy Sản saw the rebels taunting him to fight, and he wanted to attack. The [other] generals remonstrated with him, but he did not listen. The rebels again taunted him to do battle. Duy Sản grew enraged and, splitting his army in different directions, advanced to battle, he himself ahead of his soldiers. Duy Sản and Nguyễn Thượng were both captured by Trần Cảo, who took them to his encampment at Vạn Kiếp and killed them.
—Complete Book of Great Yue/Việt Historical Records[1]
Even if our valiant’s pride made him blind to danger and deaf to sound advice, he still should have known that the falling star was a sure sign of a great hero’s fall. (Another historical account details that Duy Sản was ambushed by calvary). His opponent, Trần Cảo was keener to omens. Cảo led a (probably millenarian) magico-Buddhist movement that believed kingmaking numen had come to inhabit him as the reincarnation of a former Buddhist king from the lower Red River Delta. His armies were led in part by his Cham lieutenant and likely included survivors of genocide against Cham peoples in the years prior. Cảo soon went on to seize and ravage the capital. Ultimately, he determined to shave his head as a monk and thus disappeared into obscurity.
Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of this tale is not to be found in heroism, spear fighting, or prophecy, but rather another instrument of war, Duy Sản’s speech. Considering his pedigree with the Trịnh clan from Thanh Hóa, Duy Sản was probably of Mường ancestry. Here, the Mường general composed his speech in literary Sinitic (“classical Chinese”) with all the classical allusions becoming of such writing but, realizing that his illiterate army would not understand it, had it translated into vernacular Vietnamese for oral dictation to his men.[2] Apparently, Duy Sản believed that he could rally his Vietnamese speaking troops by appealing to the high-culture of Chinese antiquity through a hybrid Sino-Vietnamese exhortation (that would have sounded like a translation) against an army of magico-Buddhists based in the delta lowlands and populated by Austronesian Cham fighters. Such was the art of war in 16th century Great Yue/Việt!
Drawing of a Tây Sơn soldier in 1793 by William Alexander, a member of Lord McCartney’s mission. Note the soldier’s Cham style turban and sword resembling the dha. Source: Wikimedia.
Fish-dragons don’t drown easy
In the 12th century, Zhou Qufei (1135–1189) travelled to the far south and marveled, “Elephants can actually swim!”[3] Sometimes, the unbelievable turns out to be true. Martial arts scholars and reality-combat proponents alike can be quick to decry, “That only happens in the movies.” But sometimes such incredulity simply belies a lack of imagination. Consider, for instance, the idea of single-handedly taking on a battleship during the age of firearms with just a sword.
In autumn of the 7th month (Aug. 5th–Sep. 2nd, 1557)… The grand general [Trịnh Kiểm] personally commanded the elephant troops to secretly go around the foot of Yên Mô Mountain to the estuary and emerged to attack the enemy from behind. He sent his subordinate from Hoằng Hóa, the Marquis of Vũ Lăng, Phạm Đức Kỳ, to go first on a skiff. [Đức Kỳ] rushed [Mạc] Kính Điển’s boat and, launching himself, jumped across. He wielded his sword and severed the man holding the parasol in two, felling him to the river. Kính Điển, his hands unable to respond in time, threw himself into the river and fled as his forces scattered into the mountain forests…
Kính Điển swam to Trị Nội Hamlet and hid away in a mountain valley for three months extremely famished. One night, he saw a banana tree drifting through the mouth of a stream. He held onto it and floated out looking for a way back. After several months, he came to Yên Mô’s Trinh Nữ Harbor and met a fisherman from Trà Tu Hamlet who ferried him away to escape. When [Kính Điển] got back [to Hanoi], he vouched for the man and made him Marquis of Phù Nghĩa (“assisting righteousness”).
—Comprehensive History of Great Yue/Việt (1749)[4]
“Native wrestlers”—show of wrestling in Mạc Đăng Dung’s coastal region of Hải Phòng in 1911. Source: Thanh Nien.
When speaking of Vietnamese amphibious warfare, typically the divers of Bạch Đằng are the first to come to mind. But the Mạc were also skilled on the water. Mạc Kính Điển (?–1580) was the grandson of Mạc Đăng Dung (1483–1541), a brave who first garnered attention as a champion wrestler in the imperial military examinations. He went on to lead the palace guard, assume full command over the imperial military, and, eventually, found the dynasty that would rule the Red River Delta for the better part of the 16th century. Clearly a fearsome fighter, he reputedly brandished a 25kg pole-knife, the so-called Dragon Knife that Stabilizes the South.
Đăng Dung may have risen through the military, but he began life as a humble fisherman at Đồ Sơn (Miry Mt.) on the eastern coast. There is good reason to believe that his Mạc clan were ethnic Đãn, a fishing people who lived on boats along the coasts of Fujian, Guangdong, and northern Vietnam.[5] Đãn people once thrived, floating off the shores of Đồ Sơn, where they are credited, among other things, with the introduction of buffalo fighting.[6] Because of Đăng Dung’s purported drifting, waterborne Đãn origins, he and his clan were derided by enemies as “duckweed,” an identity that the Mạc sometimes embraced.[7]
Map of the 1557 battle between Mạc Kính Điển and Trịnh Kiểm. Note that the Thanh Hóa coast was about 10 km further inland than it is today. Source: Google Earth.
But in this case, Mạc Kính Điển was in unfamiliar waters, the Thanh Hóa coast. By contrast, Trịnh Kiểm (1503–1570) understood his homeland well as a later member of Trịnh Duy Sản’s military clan, which would banish the Mạc from the Red River Delta thirty-five years later. When Kính Điển followed Càn River upstream from the coast to the Tống Sơn, Nga Sơn hinterland, Kiểm outmaneuvered him by circling the Yên Mô mountain north of the river and striking Kính Điển from behind. His selection for the skiff assault was equally keen. As a native of the littoral district of Hoằng Hóa, Phạm Đức Kỳ (d.1557) was comfortable navigating the region’s waters.[8]
Of course, the burning question for martial artists is “What kind of kiếm (not a đao mind you) could cut a person in half?!”[9] (For those in the know, Đức Kỳ used the sword technique zhan/trảm). The parasol is also interesting. The historian wrote this account in literary Sinitic, but for “parasol” he chose to insert a Vietnamese term. Apparently, he felt that no word in the Sinitic lexicon could represent the instrument that he had in mind. We also notice that the swordsman’s first thought after launching himself onto Kính Điển’s boat was to take out the guy with the parasol, suggesting that the unlucky fellow may have been charged with defending Kính Điển. The parasol might have been an enlarged version of the rattan shield (mộc may) designed to protect his commander from projectiles—but this is speculation.
Vietnamese folk depiction of Lady Zhao/Triệu on her elephant. Source: Wikimedia.
Girls can fight, too
We have already noted how the Yue/Việt south conjured images of pretty, coy maidens. But fierce warriors like Lady Zhao/Triệu (226–248), a female general pictured with five-foot breasts and riding an elephant, captured the medieval Chinese imagination, too.[10] Such stories about Yue/Việt female warriors could inspire women towards martial pursuits, including the wars of the twentieth century, and, more recently, performances like those of martial arts superstar Veronica Ngô. As for the Vietnamese martial arts community, the most celebrated female martial artists are the Tây Sơn Five Female Phoenixes, among whom Bùi Thị Xuân is by far the most revered.[11] An intrepid fighter, Thị Xuân led elephant troops with the Tây Sơn Uprising (1778–1802), a massive movement originating in south-central Việt Nam that completely upended the social and political order of the lands that would become Việt Nam.[12]
A century later, Nguyễn Bá Huân (1848–1899) retold the Tây Sơn’s dramatic story in vernacular narrative verse. In what is perhaps Bá Huân’s most endearing passage, our martial hero, Trần Quang Diệu, wanders afar in search of skilled fighters who might lend their talents to the Tây Sơn “hissing armies.” Little did he suspect that he would encounter the tiger who nearly ended his life, nor the swordswoman who would become his wife.
For two days, [Trần Quang Diệu] arduously traveled afar,
Through dense jungles and embanked paths,
Far, far away to a stretch of a small stream;
Coming close, he dismounted his horse, intending to wash his feet.
How could he have suspected the danger that would nearly cost him his life?
From a cluster of reeds next to the creek, startlingly a tiger emerged.
A tasty morsel before the old tiger,
The tiger stretched out his sharp claws and immediately pounced to seize him.
But Diệu was no man of modest talent;
He danced with pugilistic skill, advancing and retreating quite solidly.
For two hours, they battled back and forth;
Enraged, the tiger, at last, turned to an awesome stance.
Feigning fatigue, he bowed his head,
Enticing Trần Quang Diệu to charge and attack.
With his two front legs, the tiger flailed in unison,
Catching Quang Diệu’s shoulders—crimson blood spewed out;
Next, with both claws and teeth,
Biting, clawing in rapid succession with dangerous momentum.
Sir Trần, how exhausted he was!
Retreat was impossible, let alone advance!
Suddenly, a horse’s hooves thundered;
A young woman no different from Mộc Lan (Mulan),
Arriving at the scene, descended her horse, left her saddle;
Swinging twin swords, she charged to the rescue.
The tiger went mad beyond words;
Leaving Trần Quang Diệu, he instantly turned to Ms. Bùi.
Thị Xuân slashed his mouth and tail;
The tiger, hurt and terrified, hastily retreated to the bank of the stream.
His two legs clawed the earth menacingly;
Gathering momentum, he leaped forward, determined to crush Thị Xuân.
How praiseworthy! —a fine lady with courage,
Her swords flashed like lightening with perfect skill.
Wounded, the tiger fell at once,
Rolling around several times, and then ran straight into the jungle.
—Tale of a Headscarf Heroine (late 19th C.)[13]
One year before his death, Nguyễn Bá Huân commented on his writing about the Tây Sơn, “Now that I am old, I no longer carry my former ambitions. I just take up brush and paper and jot things down that I heard about the past to whittle away the months and years.”[14] Whatever his motives and historicity of his words, the storyteller’s narratives became immensely consequential for how practitioners would imagine their participation in Vietnamese martial arts, especially since the Tây Sơn legacy has come to be seen as the wellspring of many of today’s Vietnamese martial arts traditions, including so-called Traditional Vietnamese Martial Arts (Võ cổ truyền, lit. “martial arts transmitted from the past”).[15]
Twin phoenix swords vs. iron fan. Source: ZingNews
The passage here is fascinating for many reasons. Like Mạc Đăng Dung, three Tây Sơn fighters are reputed to have wielded “dragon knives” or pole knives in the style of the war god Sir Guan/Quan, including Trần Quang Diệu.[16] But instead of his Golden Dragon Knife, Bá Huân has Quang Diệu fight with his bare hands and feet (assuming that he had removed his footwear to wash) using “pugilistic skill” (quan/quyền). In fact, Bá Huân’s narrative verses are full of descriptions of unarmed fighting techniques that still figure in (at the very least) the idiom of many of today’s Vietnamese martial arts.
Vietnamese martial artist wielding a recreation of Mạc Đăng Dung’s “Dragon Knife that Stabilizes the South” in 2014 on the occasion of the former emperor’s ancestor veneration festival.
Vietnamese martial artist wielding a recreation of Mạc Đăng Dung’s “Dragon Knife that Stabilizes the South” in 2014 on the occasion of the former emperor’s ancestor veneration festival. Source: Thanh Niên
Of course, Bùi Thị Xuân is the true captivating presence of the passage. Interestingly, despite her reputation for fighting atop an elephant, an image reinforced by more historical sources, here, Bá Huân associated her with neither the imposing Lady Zhao/Triệu nor the mysterious Maiden of Yue/Việt. Instead, he casts Thị Xuân in the likeness of Mulan. Naturally, Bá Huân felt that the romanticized northern heroine presented a more fitting countenance for Thị Xuân upon meeting her future husband. Allusion to Mulan and the context of romance may also have inspired the storyteller’s depiction of Thị Xuân swinging svelte jian/kiếm, the “twin phoenix swords” that became her signature weapon.
But perhaps Bá Huân’s most consequential narrative move comes later on, his ending the tale with Thị Xuân at the height of her prowess. By contrast, other versions of Thị Xuân’s story culminate in her martyrdom. (Quang Diệu died variously of beheading and/or the “lingering death,” while Thị Xuân and their teenage daughter were hurled, gored, and/or trampled to death by an elephant). By this elision, Bá Huân presented us with a timeless heroine. Whereas martyrdom can only speak to a cause, as a timeless image, Thị Xuân could inspire female pursuits of martial prowess uncircumscribed by time, place, and purpose. This is the Thị Xuân who finds new life, for instance, in Twin Phoenix Swordsmanship and Vietnam’s martial nuns. What it means for contemporary female martial artists to see themselves, in part, through the eyes of a self-described hopeless, frustrated old man is one thing, but it is clear that like Mulan, Thị Xuân’s story could be reiterated again and again and continues to resonate with martial artists of all ages, genders, and walks of life.
Finally, we should consider how Bá Huân presented Thị Xuân in his concluding passages of praise, which read in part (in the voice of the Tây Sơn chief), “She is mighty and majestic atop her elephant; can she compare with Mulan and Hongyu? How long I have admired [the latter two] in my boson! I thought only of Queen Trưng and Lady Triệu. Who would have known that by heaven’s luck, there should be a heroine such as Lady Bùi?!”[17] Unlike Trịnh Duy Sản, Bá Huân crafted his verse originally in Vietnamese with a seamless synergy of North and South, literary Sinitic and the vernacular. More precisely, he drew no lines. Indeed, Bá Huân’s Yue/Việt heroine was of liminal constitution, at once kin to female warriors of the North and their sistren in the South. His Thị Xuân was thus a fitting testament to the diverse movement, involving a host of Chinese, highland, Cham, Khmer, and Christian actors as well as less categoric bandits, pirates, and vagabonds that was the Tây Sơn. Thị Xuân was along with her warrior sisters like Thị Hỏa, a Cham princess and unsung sixth phoenix who also led Tây Sơn’s elephant armies, a creature who thrived at the Yue/Việt intersection of cultures.[18]
Bàn long cước (“Whirling dragon kick”)—Vietnamese martial artists training amidst Cham ruins in Bình Định of southcentral Vietnam. Source: ZingNews
Stick fighting isn’t just a Shaolin thing
Of monks, magic, and the cudgel:
Because [Từ Đạo Hạnh’s (?–1116)] father, Vinh, afflicted the Marquis of Diên Thành (?–1117) with deviant arts (i.e. black magic),[19] the marquis had Dharma Master Đại Điên use Dharma to beat Vinh to death and hurl him into Tô River. Vinh’s corpse drifted to Quyết Bridge, the place of the marquis’ home. Suddenly, the “man” stood up and pointed at the scene all day without leaving.[20] The marquis, terrified, ran to tell Điên. Điên recited a prayer, “The monk’s wrath shall not pass the night!” In response to his voice, the corpse drifted away.
The master [Đạo Hạnh] thought of avenging his father, but he had no means from which to draw a plan. One day, he laid in wait for Điên to come out and was about to strike him when a voice in the air suddenly screamed, “Halt! Halt!” Terrified, the master [Đạo Hạnh] dropped his staff and ran off…
After failing against Đại Điên, Đạo Hạnh went into seclusion atop a mountain to practice devotions to the Tantric manifestation of Avalokiteśvara, the “Peacock-necked yogin” with a thousand hands and eyes. Once he was confident of his attainment…
[Đạo Hạnh] went straight to where Điên was. Seeing him, Điên said, “Don’t you recall what happened the previous day?” The master [Đạo Hạnh] raised his head and looked up in the air. All was quiet with nothing to see. Thereupon, he pummeled Điên, who grew sick and died.[21]
—Collection of Luminaries from the Chan/Thiền Garden (early 14th C.)[22]
This story has much to say about the ambiguous role of transgression in spiritual practice. The Marquis of Diên Thành was a man of demonstrable truculence; he once drew a knife in front of the emperor and apparently saw monks as assassins for hire. The other characters, though, are not as straightforward. Đạo Hạnh’s father explicitly practiced deviant sorcery (xieshu/tà thuật), while the seeming villain, Đại Điên, wielded powers attributed to the proper Dharma (fa/pháp). For his part, Đạo Hạnh succeeded in gaining the graces of the Goddess of Mercy only to perform murder.
But perhaps the most interesting thing is the tale’s insistence on the physical execution of violence. Đại Điên harnessed Dharma magic, but still physically beat Vinh to death. Similarly, after his mystical training, Đạo Hạnh did not zap his rival monk with Buddhist sorcery nor unleash the wrath of gods against him. Instead, Đạo Hạnh pummeled him to death. (Although the text is not explicit, we are led to believe Đạo Hạnh cudgeled Đại Điên with his staff, since he carried it with him during his earlier aborted assault and, in Đạo Hạnh’s “training montage,” which is paraphrased above, he performed a magic trick with his staff just before seeking another shot at revenge).
I hope to say more about the significant of Đạo Hạnh’s story for Vietnamese Tantra, millenarianism, and embodied violence in a (distant) future project. But in keeping with the thread of this essay, here I present Đạo Hạnh’s story for another reason, namely it positions the South as a Buddhist center vis-à-vis the North. Đạo Hạnh appears in other storytelling traditions like dynastic histories and what might be called “tales of the strange” (chuanqi), but this account comes from a 14th century collection of hagiographies of Great Yue/Việt monks (making it the oldest text surveyed here in terms of both its production and content). The work represents an effort to construct lineages for Great Yue/Việt’s Buddhist past in accordance with the Meditation Sect’s insistence on human transmission from teacher to student of the enlightenment experience or “transmission of the lamp.”[23] As Chan/Thiền or Meditation Sect was essentially a Chinese innovation, hagiographies like Đạo Hạnh’s and the lineages they delineated served to claim Great Yue/Việt as a religious center at a time when the Mongols (1271–1368) appeared to have extinguished Sinitic “Hua/Hoa” civilization in the north.
This emphasis on lineage stems from Chan/Thiền’s founding myth, which, upon closer inspection, follows a familiar pattern. Bodhidharma is said to have received the “transmission of the lamp” in a direct line of succession from Buddha. Bodhidharma then passed this esoteric tradition from India to the first “Chinese” Chan/Thiền monk, who, in turn, perpetuated a lineage that succeeded to the Sixth Patriarch, the central figure of Chan/Thiền Buddhism. The Platform Sutra, in which the Sixth Patriarch’s origin story is found, identifies him as a Yue/Việt person from the far south. The patriarch’s obscure origins at the periphery were not only convenient for the polemical imperative to forge a lineage, they also had soteriological value. The Six Patriarch was described as an illiterate southern bumpkin who, despite his lack of sophistication, possessed an intuitive understanding of Chan/Thiền. His experience with Chan/Thiền was spontaneous and organic and completely unmediated by discursive thought or dispensation. In short, he embodied southern mystery as yet another iteration of the Maiden of Yue/Việt.
But, ultimately, we are speaking of circulations, not transmissions. As readers are well-familiar, Bodhidharma is also credited with bringing martial arts and qigong to China’s Shaolin Temple. When we bring these stories into conversation with the mythology of the Southern Shaolin Temple, we cannot help but consider that, in the end, we are speaking not of Chinese martial arts’ transmission from north to south, but rather, as far as legends go, their remittal.
Trần Khải Hoài is a PhD candidate in the field of Vietnamese Literature, Religion, and Culture at Cornell University. His connection with martial arts is as a choreographer of martial arts inspired routines for Cornell’s Chinese dance troupe Illuminations and an informant for Augustus John Roe’s The Martial Arts of Vietnam (Boston: YMAA, 2020).
Aside from his role as a Buddhist thaumaturge, Từ Đạo Hạnh is also revered In Vietnam as the patron saint of water puppetry.Source: Chùa Phật học Xá Lợi (Relics Monastery of Buddhist Studies).
[1] Lê Văn Hưu, Phan Phu Tiên, Ngô Sĩ Liên, et. al., Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, Sinographic text (comp. 1697) in volume four of Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, ed. Phan Huy Lê, Ngô Đức Thọ, and Hà Văn Tấn (Hà Nội: NXB Khoa Học Xã Học, 1998), “bản ký,” 15.15a–b, 15.33a.
[2] Lê Quý Đôn, Đại Việt thông sử, trans. Ngô Thế Lợi (Hà Nội: NXB Văn hóa thông tin, 2007), 284–.291.
[3] Zhou Qufei observed, “Elephants can actually swim. When the elephant slaves (trainers] reach a ford, they tether a boat to transport them. After they receive their money, they goad the elephants across.” Zhou Qufei, “Annan guo,” in Lingwai daida, available at Chinese Text Project, ed. Donald Sturgeon, passage 5.
[4] Lê Quý Đôn (1726–1784), Đại Việt thông sử (comp. 1749), Sinographic text in Đại Việt thông sử, ed. and trans. Lê Mạnh Liêu ([Sàigòn?]: Bô Văn hóa Giáo dục và Thanh niên, 1973), “Ngịch thần truyện,” 68b–69a.
[5] Dian H. Murray, Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987), 6–17; Trần Quốc Vượng, “Mấy vấn đề về nhà Mạc,” in Nhà Mạc và dòng họ Mạc trong lịch sử, ed. Ngô Đăng Lợi (Hà Nội: Viện Sử Học và Hội Đồng Lịch Sử Hải Phòng), 22–25.
[6] Quốc Sử Quán Triều Nguyễn, Đại Nam nhất thống chí, ed. Đào Duy Anh, trans. Phạm Trọng Điềm (Huế: NXB Thuận Hóa, 2006), tập 3, 454, 496.
[7] Kathlene Baldanza, Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia, 155–158.
[8] Phạm Đức Kỳ would attempt a similar skiff assault by jumping onto an enemy’s ship later that year, but this time he was repelled, forced to plunge back into the water, and retreat to his own boat. His opponent turned the tables, launching onto Đức Kỳ’s boat and decapitating him (along with Đức Kỳ’s parasol bearer).
[9] Today, kiếm usually calls to mind light double-edged straight swords, while đao suggests larger single edged chopping blades. Most likely, the historian used the term generically as is the case with another Vietnamese word for sword, gươm, which derives from the same Sinograph as kiếm. Considering that Trịnh Kiểm’s armies were being supplied by Lao rulers at the time, my guess is that it was a dha, Thai style single edged sword like the gươm trượng.
[10] Edward Schafer, The Vermilion Bird: T’ang Images of the South, 81. To be more precise, Vietnamese sources say her breasts were 3 chi/thước.
[11] The other four are Trần Thị Lan, Xuân’s aunt Bùi Thị Nhạn, and her two “disciples” Hoàng Thị Cúc, and Nguyễn Thị Dung.
[12] George E. Dutton, The Tây Son Uprising: Society and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2006).
[13] Nguyễn Bá Huân, “Cân quắc anh hùng truyện,” appended to Vũ Thị Ngọc Khuê, Nữ tướng Bùi Thị Xuân (Hà Nội: NXB Văn hóa thông tin, 2008), 102–103. The term translated “headscarf” was really more of a turban than a scarf, but since the Vietnamese headdress in question was worn exclusively by women, here I use “headscarf.”
[14] Nguyễn Bá Huân, Tây Sơn văn thần liệt truyện (Ty Văn Hóa và Thông Tin Nghĩa Bình, comp. 1898, 1979), 5–6.
[15] Augustus John Roe, The Martial Arts of Vietnam: An Overview of History and Styles (Boston, MA: YMAA, 2020), 82–91.
[16] The other two are Nguyễn Huệ with his Crow Dragon Knife and Võ Văn Dũng with his Thunder Dragon Knife. I am unable to determine whether these Tây Sơn fighters actively cultivated a likeness to General Guan or this is a later tradition.
[17] Nguyễn Bá Huân, “Cân quắc anh hùng truyện,” appended to Vũ Thị Ngọc Khuê, Nữ tướng Bùi Thị Xuân (Hà Nội: NXB Văn hóa thông tin, 2008),118.
[18] George E. Dutton, The Tây Son Uprising: Society and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam, 91–92.
[19] Here, I have reconstructed a lacuna in the source text with redactions of the Lĩnh Nam chich quái.
[20] Reading the Thiền uyển tập anh in isolation, I am inclined to read this line “Suddenly, people stood around pointing at the scene all day without leaving.” In this reading, Vinh’s inanimate corpse drifts to the bridge and comes to a stop, and then people gather around, making a commotion that troubles the marquis. How the line is interpreted hinges on what to make of the Sinograph ren/nhân, which can mean both a single person or several people. Here, I translated it “’the man’” to imply Vinh’s undead apparition in accordance with most versions of the Linh Nam Chich Quai, which omit ren/nhân altogether and simply read, “Suddenly, it [Vinh’s corpse] stood up, pointing to the scene all day without leaving.”
[21] The Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái has Đạo Hạnh kill the rival monk on the spot, simply saying “[Đạo Hạnh] pummeled him to death.”
[22] Thiền uyển tập anh, Sinographic text in Nguyễn Tự Cường’s Zen in Medieval Vietnam: A Study and Translation of the Thiền uyển tập anh (Honolulu: HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 1997), 53b–54b. My translation benefited greatly from Cường’s version. Because the source text is corrupted in some places, I relied on other versions of the story in various redactions of the Lĩnh Nam chích quái (15th C.) to fill lacuna and work out problematic passages.
[23] Nguyen Tu Cuong, “Rethinking Vietnamese Buddhist History: Is the Thiền Uyển Tập Anh a ‘Transmission of the Lamp’ Text?” in Essays into Vietnamese Pasts, ed. K. W. Taylor and John K. Whitmore (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018), 81–115.
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Wed, 27 February 2013
CACP - #173 - Drink the Happy Aid
This week Wendy brought in her apparatus from home for Joey to experience. Get your heads out of the gutter it's not what you think, it's worse. Las Vegas, Auntie Bess, and a special guest for The News.
CACP - #172 - The Sky is Falling
Something interesting happened in Siberia. A very shitty cruise vacation. Prison in Australia is redundant. Canada doesn't have the balls and Old Queens. Now Discuss
CACP - #171 - You Don't Act Right
Ever send a picture of your naughty bits to a stranger and then instantly regret it because you know you have become a part of a collection that he shares with anyone who asks? Don't you wish it would just self destruct secret agent style right after they look at it? Well, we may have the perfect app for you.
This week contains a merriment of topics including: personal sex tapes, the Grammys, another night of comedy, family members doing the same thing we did at their age and congrats to Marc and You Tube sensation Sweet Brown on their new jobs.
CACP - #170 - The Boys are Back in Town
This is the week of holidays with Chinese New Year, Mardi Gras, Lent, and Valentine's Day upon us. What are you giving up for Lent? It appears the Catholic Church is giving up the Pope. Joey decided to go big chocolate and booze is for wimps, he's giving up masturbation. What could be more Catholic than denying yourself enjoyment? Matt dazzles us with the Six Seasons of Shopping, and Marc contends with an upstaging Diva Spider.
Hey did you get your Valentine a gift? It's not too late. Click on the Amazon link at cocktailsandcreampuffs.com and you can have a gift certificate sent to your loved one's email in a snap. No stores, no lines, no stress, lots of love!
CACP - #169 - Bigger, Harder, Longer
As we blow out the candles celebrating our 3rd year, we want to take this time to thank everyone who has come back week after week and taken this journey with us. We are very grateful to your devotion and look forward to continuing our adventures together.
This week began with Fucking Men just as every episode should. Wendy claims she didn't look at any naughty bits but we all know the truth. She also shared her new mantra and how she is trying to find a balance between moist and dry. Joey completed work on the film "Give and Take" and is to direct Les Miserables in the fall. However, after taking a Creamie call he may begin to workshop a new women's rights musical, "RvW". A very special NYC "meet and greet" has been announced and the News should offend everyone, especially Asians.
The #1 Creamie contest is heating up. Be sure to show support for your candidate and help them take the crown. Oh yes, there will be a crown.
Wed, 6 February 2013
CACP - #168 - The Wendy and Joe Show
We've made it to SEASON 7! Well, half of us have made it.
The Super Bowl (which we are told is some type of sporting event) has come and gone and the long anticipated commercials were so lack luster that we had to actually watch the game. What is this world coming to? Beyonce's half time show looked great but the sound was dreadful. This is why people lip-sync. Who do you think did it better, Madonna or Beyonce and which member of Destiny's Child kicked out the extension cord?
Fucking Men has finally had its New York premier and Wendy was shocked that there was so much fucking, which is understandable. The title is so misleading.
Finally and most importantly the contestants for the #1 Creamie for 2013 contest have been announced and given their first task. Let the hunger games begin and may the fiercest bitch win!
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Extract an Image from an image field in an Acrobat Form
In January 2017, Acrobat DC added two new buttons to the prepare form panel in Adobe Acrobat DC: Add Image and Add Date:
The Add Image button creates a rectangle that – when clicked in Adobe Acrobat Pro or Reader DC – launches Finder (Mac) or Explorer (Windows) to navigate to an image to be inserted into that field.
To demonstrate this, I have created a business card order form in Adobe InDesign for a Travel Agency.
Note that I have not made the image field in Adobe InDesign. There is a good reason for this: it isn’t possible at the time of writing the article as the option doesn’t exist in the buttons and forms panel in Adobe InDesign.
While this is frustrating, it can be added in Adobe Acrobat. I’ll leave a link to the indesign uservoice feature request to hopefully have this (and the add date button) added in future (ignore that the Adobe Staff says its fixed at the time of writing – I disagree).
For now, I’ll export this file as an interactive PDF and add the add image button to the artwork.
I can then close out of preview and look at the form. This should be fine for testing purposes.
For the purposes of prototyping this form, I’ll type some dummy data and use a stock photo from Adobe Stock.
Fields all look fine, the text can be extracted by either cutting and pasting into my InDesign card template, or using the export option from the Prepare Form tools. While the image isn’t juxtaposed correctly, I can do that once I extract the image from the PDF… or at least I thought.
The image won’t extract
If I go to the Edit PDF tools of Acrobat, the image (and its field) cannot be selected.
The image isn’t shown as an attachment in the attachments tab.
If I use the Export all as images from the Export PDF tab, will that work?
No, it only exports the images of the beer bottles and the Eiffel Tower shown in the original card.
How about if I use the Edit Object tools, right click on the image and select “edit image”? Unfortunately, this is unavailable too.
Using the Enfocus Pitstop Professional Plug-in, can I extract the image this way? No!
Yes, I could zoom in and take a screen capture, or render the PDF in Adobe Photoshop, but neither will retrieve the image to the exact resolution the original image was supplied. Looking at this particular image, if I zoom in at 3200%, it is quite a high resolution image.
At this point, I turned to the internet for help, only to find the following thread on the Adobe Forums that contained a response from an Adobe Staff Member that read as follows:
To me, this is bizarre… the whole purpose of adding an image would be to remove it later for another purpose, especially since the form field doesn’t have any cropping, scaling or rotating options. The whole point of me making this form was so that:
the client didn’t need the full version of acrobat to add the image as an attachment to the PDF;
the client Didn’t need to send the PDF and the image separately;
I could receive one file to prepare the content of the business cards, rather than bits and pieces from various emails or downloads.
However, all is not lost!
There is a way
Create a new InDesign file and place the filled in interactive PDF as an image.
Export the file as a print PDF using the [High Quality Print] setting with the following change to the compression panel:
Now, when the PDF opens in Adobe Acrobat Professional DC, I’m able to use the Print Production Tools to click on the image and then select Edit Image.
Once the image opens into Photoshop, I can see it is the same size as the original.
So yes, it is possible to extract an image from the Image Field of a PDF, but it takes a little work. I’m just frustrated why the Acrobat Team made it difficult “by design”.
Lastly, if anyone from the Acrobat Team is reading this going “he’s having a go at us again”, rest assured, I will be praising the team in an upcoming post.
Filed under Communication, PDFs, Proofing Tagged with acrobat, Acrobat Form, Acrobat PDF, Adobe InDesign, extract, Form, Form Field, Image, InDesign, pdf
Breaking up is hard to do… InDesign files into individual PDFs that is!
UPDATE 2015/9/8: I have created a solution that will save uniquely-named InDesign or PDFs from a Data Merge. See more about this script here.
Several forums dedicated to InDesign advice have recently been asked the following question: “How to split an InDesign file into single page PDFs”.
Splitting a large PDF into single page PDFs is possible via the extract pages feature of Acrobat 9 and up. The resulting pages are then extracted to the same file location as the original PDF but contains an underscore and page number in the filename.
Splitting a large PDF into fixed page lengths (e.g. singles, doubles etc) is possible via the Split Document feature of Acrobat X and up. This also provides limited control concerning the name and location of the resulting split PDFs, as well as other ways of splitting the PDF (e.g. filesize or bookmarks).
So splitting a large PDF into smaller PDFs is possible via Acrobat. However, the brief was “How to split an InDesign file into single page PDFs”.
By default, there is no way to do this directly from InDesign without a script.
UPDATE 2014/8/24: I have written an article for indesignsecrets.com that demonstrates two possible ways of doing this via InDesign that do not require any scripting, but they are not one-step solutions.
However, there are at least four scriptable solutions available as of this moment:
Scripter Loic Aigon produced a script called Custom Export – an InDesign javascript that behaves in a similar fashion to the Split Document feature of Acrobat, but without leaving InDesign.
(updated 5 November 2013) Scripter Dmitry Lapaev offers three scripted solutions, but of these there are two that will be of most use to those who intend to output to print: the first is Quick Export to Adobe PDF (see this link here) and the next is Batch Export to PDF (see this link here).
Yet another javascript with a more sophisticated interface is Scott Zanelli’s Page Exporter Utility that had been discussed on this blog before. Read more about the script here.
Fellow wordpresser Macgrunt has also produced an applescript that allows the export of single page PDFs from one InDesign file. While it does not have a user interface, it certainly does the job. Read more about his script here and read his related blog posts concerning renaming of files.
UPDATE 2014/1/18: There are also paid solutions that can accomplish this task. One such solution is PDF Bee by Chris Paveglio. This has not been tested by Colecandoo, nor is this a paid endorsement.
UPDATE 2014/8/1: There is a new standalone application that allows InDesign to reference an Excel file and prepare single record PDFs. This recent application again has not been tested by Colecandoo, nor is this a paid endorsement.
So the question is answered… right? Yes and no. Yes, it is possible to export to individual or smaller page PDFs, but the naming of the files could be better.
Using an example of business cards that have been data-merged to a new InDesign file, the brief is now to produce PDFs with filenames that reflect the names of the people on the business cards. Using the earlier solutions, the files would still need to be renamed afterwards. So how is this done?
SOLUTION ONE: Loic Again!
Loic has another script called PDF Export Cropper. This script is much more flexible than the previous scripts in that files can be split according to more variables, and the file naming is more flexible. To demonstrate, an example single sided business card has been created. The PDFs are to be named based upon the name of the person, so the field that holds the client’s name has been assigned a special paragraph style that is used nowhere else on the card – in this instance, the style “clientname” has been assigned.
The file is then merged to a new InDesign file. Once the new file is created, the PDF Export Cropper script is run.
A new user interface appears. In this example, within the “Choose Identifier” portion of the interface, the appropriate paragraph style has been chosen. The filename is to be the name of the resulting paragraph style, so all that is left to do is click Export.
And voila! The PDFs are split and named based on the client name that appears on the business card.
The only downside – that the cards can only be one page (that is, if the business cards were double-sided, Loic’s script would not work).
UPDATE 2014-01-14: Loic’s scripts are currently being revised and at the time of writing this update are unavailable. See his post here.
SOLUTION TWO: Hans Haesler
German Swiss scripter Hans Haesler has a similar script to Loic’s script. Sadly for me, it is in German, so I can’t understand the user interface that the script creates. A link to the script and a brief how-to-use for Anglophones is available here.
SOLUTION THREE: Via Adobe Acrobat
Unlike the previous two solutions, this solution requires the data merge file to be merged to one large PDF. It also requires that the field from the database that contains the names to become the future filenames is called PartnerHQ_Id. From here, an Acrobat action has to be run. The action is available from here:
UPDATE 2014/7/19: There is an update to this script available from the original forum that discussed the initial solution. The update allows the PDF to be split into files longer than one page in size. See post 11 in that particular forum for the script.
First, the action will have to be loaded by opening Acrobat, select the File Menu, Action Wizard, Edit Actions. From the new window, select Import and then navigate to the downloaded split files.sequ file.
Next, create a new folder and copy the PDF to merge and the csv or txt file that was used for the data merge into that folder.
Once this is done, open the PDF to be split using Adobe Acrobat and from the File Menu, select Action Wizard, split file
A new window will open, and the file that is already opened should be listed in the window. Click Next.
The actual javascript to be run will open as a window. Click OK.
At this stage, the script presents an error. Click Close.
Voila! The PDFs are renamed based on the client names. The folder also contains the original PDF and the database files.
So there are at least three solutions to this brief.
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New York Radiology Practice Installs Carestream Image Management Platform to Expedite Reporting
Radiologic Associates, P.C., (Middletown, N.Y.) upgraded to Carestream’s Clinical Collaboration Platform (video) to deliver enterprise imaging and vendor-neutral archiving and added Carestream’s Vue Motion enterprise viewer module to deliver enhanced service to physicians at dozens of area hospitals and imaging centers in the Hudson Valley. The group’s 28 radiologists read 500,000 diagnostic imaging studies a year.
“Our new enterprise imaging platform equips radiologists with faster access to imaging studies, which enhances productivity while providing even more responsive delivery of radiology reports,” said Andrew Mazzella, CEO of Radiologic Associates. “It also enables reading of 3D and tomosynthesis exams on our native PACS workstations, which lowers costs and enhances efficiency.”
The group provides radiologists for onsite reading at facilities with larger imaging volumes, as well as radiologists who perform remote reading and provide after-hours support.
Mr. Mazzella adds that now radiologists who read from home experience the same rapid response times when accessing current and prior imaging studies and patient data as those who read at an imaging provider’s site.
“Teleradiology is a significant part of our workflow and our radiologists’ accurate and responsive reporting has allowed us to maintain contracts with hospitals for dozens of years. We partner with the imaging services providers we serve and work very hard to make sure that we understand and address their needs,” Mr. Mazzella explains.
The organization implemented the Carestream enterprise viewer a few months ago to equip physicians with the ability to access patient images and clinical data on iPads and other FDA-approved mobile devices. The viewer offers convenient access to a patient’s current and past imaging exams and clinical history that can include videos, waveforms and reports.
“Today more than 100 physicians use the Vue Motion enterprise viewer to review imaging studies on their iPads and other mobile devices,” notes Robert Cannistra, the group’s Director of IT. “These physicians contact radiologists and orthopaedic surgeons or other specialists to ask questions or discuss unusual findings, which can help enhance patient care.”
Mr. Cannistra adds that the use of Carestream’s enterprise viewer “has significantly improved physicians’ overall satisfaction with Radiologic Associates’ imaging services.”
Radiologic Associates stores 100 terabytes of radiology images on Carestream’s enterprise archive module of its Clinical Collaboration Platform, which offers secure primary and secondary systems to ensure 24/7/365 access. A load balancer allows a seamless transfer between primary and secondary systems when needed.
About Radiologic Associates, P.C.
As the premier radiologic group of the Hudson Valley, Radiologic Associates has been delivering world-class imaging services to Orange, Sullivan and Sussex counties for over 50 years. Our board-certified and subspecialty-trained radiologists have been educated at some of the most prestigious and advanced medical institutions in the country such as Johns Hopkins Hospital, Yale New Haven Medical Center and The Mayo Clinic. With a combination of extensive medical training, vast experience and the most state-of-the-art imaging equipment in the industry, our radiologists deliver the highest level of patient care in diagnostic and interventional radiology. We offer a comprehensive list of exams and services in both inpatient and outpatient settings, specifically designed to meet users’ imaging needs. For more information visit www.rapc.net.
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~ Hockey for Fans and Players of Color
Football player father gets hockey education on son’s way to skating for U of Maine
Posted by William Douglas in Uncategorized
Arizona Coyotes, Cushing Academy, Malcolm Hayes, University of Maine
Television newsman Mark Hayes knew one thing about hockey when his son, Malcolm, first laced on a pair of skates: That he didn’t know anything about hockey.
“Malcolm was invited to a birthday party when we lived in Detroit and they said ‘Bring your hockey bag.’ He was four or five at the time and we didn’t have a hockey bag. So his mother instructed me to go to the sporting goods store and find out what goes in a hockey bag and fill one up for him,” Mark Hayes told me recently. “The rest is kind of history.”
Today, Malcolm Hayes, 19, is a freshman left wing on the University of Maine Black Bears hockey team. Mark Hayes is a morning news anchor for WLWT television in Cincinnati and a former Howard University football player.
He and his wife, Latonya, have taken the journey that more and more minority parents are finding themselves on, guiding their children through a sport that they were rarely exposed to as kids growing up or seldom watched as adults.
Malcolm Hayes in action for Maine’s Black Bears. Hockey was a learning experience for his dad, a former Howard University football player.
“I had no clue because I had no clue about what it took to be really good at it,” Mark Hayes said of hockey. “I knew what it took to be really good at football. Hockey, it’s a different sacrifice. People really don’t understand what it takes to get to that Division I hockey level.”
Popeye Jones knows how Hayes felt. Jones, who was a forward for six National Basketball Association teams over 11 seasons, wasn’t quite sure what to do when his sons, including Seth, became serious about hockey.
Playing for the NBA Denver Nuggets at the time, the 6-foot-8 Popeye approached 5-foot-11 Joe Sakic, the great Colorado Avalanche center, one day for advice.
“He said ‘You’ve got to make sure they know how to skate,'” Popeye, now an assistant coach with the Indiana Pacers, told me recently. “He said ‘They’ll be coordinated and, looking at you, they’re going to be big. Make sure they can skate.'”
Popeye followed Sakic’s advice. Today, Seth Jones is a smooth-skating – and tall – defenseman for the Nashville Predators.
“When you see what your kids are passionate about, you’ve got to let them do it,” Popeye said. “Then your job becomes, if you don’t know anything about hockey, to start watching, start learning about the game. You’ll love it if you start learning about it.”
The Hayes family quickly learned and went all-in on a team sport that perhaps requires more from families in terms of time, travel, expense and support than football, baseball or basketball.
“My dad and my mom were definitely my biggest fans growing up,” Malcolm Hayes told me. “They were always trying to help me be a better hockey player. Even when I was playing both hockey and football, it wasn’t like he (Mark Hayes) was pushing me to practice football more.”
WLWT anchorman and proud hockey papa Mark Hayes learned the game by watching son Malcolm play.
That said, Malcolm conceded that mom and dad initially thought hockey “was going to be like a little phase and I would eventually start playing football or basketball or baseball…I really didn’t like any of those sports.”
Moving to Atlanta and playing football in the sunny South only cemented Malcolm’s desire to become a hockey player.
“Football wasn’t as fun because it was too hot there,” he said. “I would just go to the rink and have a blast. I enjoyed it more than football.”
As Malcolm’s love for hockey grew, so did Mark’s. But sometimes the father felt frustration from being unable to coach or share tips with his youngest son.
Mark’s oldest son, Kenny Hayes, followed in his father’s cleats and was a wide receiver for Howard University’s Bisons. He graduated in 2011.
“It was easy for me to say ‘Hey, try this,’ or ‘Hey, do this,’ or ‘Hey, this is what worked for me.’ I couldn’t do that with Malcolm,” Mark Hayes said. “All I could do is record games on our VCR or DVR and say ‘Hey, check this out. This is how the pros do it.’ I think the most frustrating thing was not being able to help him.”
Recruited as a defenseman, Malcolm Hayes adds scoring punch for Maine as left wing.
His frustration eased when he learned one valuable lesson by watching Malcolm practice and play: It takes a village – and some serious extra coaching – to build a good hockey player.
“I started paying attention to what the other families were doing at the rinks,” Mark Hayes recalled. “They were doing private lessons. I grew up playing football, basketball and lacrosse. I didn’t know you had someone to work with your son on just skills or just skating.”
For eight years in Atlanta, the family had former New York Islanders left wing Yan Kaminsky work as Malcolm’s skating coach and Scott Pearson, a 1988 Toronto Maple Leafs first-round draft pick, as his skills coach.
“My wife would get up at 6 a.m., they’d be at the rink at 6:30 a.m., and back in the car at 7:40 a.m. on their way to school,” Mark Hayes said. “He’d get a nice little hour skate in twice a week then go to regular practices in the evenings.”
University of Maine’s Malcolm Hayes.
The extra practice paid off. Malcolm went on to play hockey at Cushing Academy, a Massachusetts prep school that’s produced several National Hockey League players including Arizona Coyotes defenseman Keith Yandle, Buffalo Sabres defenseman Zach Bogosian, and Boston Bruins defensive prospect David Warsofsky.
“Malcolm has a ton of potential and has a high ceiling for improvement as he is physically far ahead of other players his age,” Cushing Head Coach Rob Gagnon told SBNation’s College Hockey blog last year. “He is big, strong and fast. He is very physical in the corners and in front of the net.”
After one season at Cushing, the 6-foot-2, 220-pound Hayes accepted a scholarship at Maine.”Malcolm Hayes provides our team tremendous size, explosive power, and a significant offensive upside,” Black Bears Head Coach Red Gendron said in July.
Gendron was so high on Hayes’s offensive skills that he moved the freshman from the blue line to left wing earlier this season. He tallied four goals, two assists, and 34 penalty minutes in 29 regular season games for the Hockey East’s Black Bears.
“Overall, I think my year went pretty well,” he told me. “I definitely had my struggles being my first year, and getting acclimated to playing forward at a high level in Hockey East.”
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WarnerMedia To Debut 2021 Slate On HBO Max and Theaters. Sustainability of Cinemas Remain In Doubt
Warner Bros HBO Max Promo
WarnerMedia officially announced its entire 2021 slate would debut on HBO Max simultaneously with their cinema release dates. The move comes on the heels of their announcement that Wonder Woman 1984 would make the same move.
Amid rising COVID-19 cases, restricted theaters unable to capture the magic of moviegoing, and skyrocketing use of streaming services, the future of cinemas have never been more in doubt. Once a consistent national pastime, the act of going to the movies has been decimated by the pandemic.
It’s not exactly a surprise, but the two-hour shared experience, surrounded by large crowds, has devolved into a quiet, lifeless experience, with wet-seats, the smell of disinfectant abound, and anxiety about everyone having their masks down to munch on popcorn. Streaming, on the other hand, has none of that—the highs or the lows. While the theatrical model rested their hopes that distributable vaccine would bring the experience back, studios have not waited in shifting their strategies.
In March, cinemas across the United States shut down, and to date, 104 films have been delayed from their original release schedules. But in some cases that wasn’t the only outcome. Several lower-budget and animated movies went directly to streaming, and saw some substantial success. Trolls World Tour earned over $100 million through on-demand, the largest digital debut for a film in history. Disney+ followed up with moving Mulan to a hybrid streaming, pay-per-experience model, with the focus on getting new consumers to sign up.
(Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures)
While theater chains knew streaming was growing quickly before the pandemic, they never really saw them as an existential threat. In 2019, theaters enjoyed the most successful year in box office history. Nine billion-dollar box office hits led the year, as consumers made it clear that the theatrical experience still mattered. All that has changed.
Before the pandemic, Netflix was evolving into a media superpower that was moving beyond streaming’s roots—in old content and to replace DVD collections and movie rentals— and into the space previously occupied by network and cable television, and even theatrical films. That change accelerated in recent years with Hulu, Amazon Prime, and other services. Soon enough, streaming overtook television. In a study from Deloitte, close to 70 percent of audiences paid for internet video services, compared to 65 percent who paid for cable.
Flush with cash, Netflix too aim at cinematic feature films. Prestige filmmakers began to create content exclusively for streaming. Roma, which won an Academy Award for best international film, was a Netflix exclusive. In 2020, two Netflix films, The Irishman and Marriage Story, were nominated for Best Picture.
In the last year alone, Disney, WarnerMedia, Apple, and NBC, all launched new streaming services. And the same year saw classic cinemas falter. Studios punted on their release dates and theater chains took serious losses. AMC reported a $2 billion loss; Regal, $1.5 billion. Neither has been optimistic about the immediate future. AMC has warned investors that it could run out of cash by early 2021.
Streaming, on the other hand, is not likely to fade. Netflix originally projected to bring in 14 million new subscribers in the first two quarters. They brought in 26 million. Disney, which projected it would need four years to reach 60 million subscribers after its launch in late 2019, hit that threshold in August. HBO Max, which launched in May, reached its goal of 30 million subscribers as well.
Disney CEO Bob Chapek announced the company would make streaming a cornerstone focus. Feature film budgets are now being green-lit specifically for Disney+, from traditional cinema franchises such as Star Wars and Marvel. WarnerMedia has been investing hundreds of millions of dollars in DC Comics projects for HBO Max, and Netflix has been signing prestige cinema directors such as David Fincher to multiyear exclusive deals.
While the cavalry may arrive for theaters in the form of releases such as Avatar, The Batman, and Spider-Man 3 (in addition to what everyone hopes will be the top release of 2021, the vaccines), the cinema experience might have already been altered for good. There’s just no guarantee the paying public will return to movie theaters and studios are not keen to wait. The overwhelming push to streaming for the biggest studios is a grim sign for the theatrical model, even in a post-vaccine world.
With tentpole films such as Tenet underperforming and general audience trust in theaters low, the affordability, safety, and convenience of streaming big-budget original shows and films of their favorite characters—with the comforts home—might mean that there’s no market for theaters to bounce back from. But maybe the social connection of moviegoing will be strong enough to lure audiences back over time.
Sheraz Farooqi is the Editor-in-Chief of ComicBook Debate. He is also a published reporter at Forbes, Newsweek, The Hollywood Reporter, Screen Rant, and Rotten Tomatoes. Sheraz is currently a Graduate Student at Columbia University and has done guest commentary for AJ+ and BBC News Radio. Sheraz strongly believes in charitable and social work. He took part in the Black Panther Challenge and led a children’s hospital toy drive in New York City.
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A Guide to Surety Bonds
By MP Davis Insurance Agency
There are many steps that go into launching a new company. Along with securing financing, choosing an infrastructure, and purchasing business insurance, it’s important to consider your need for a surety bond. This is a legally binding agreement between three parties that guarantees a project will be completed according to contract. They are required under a range of circumstances for a business to operate legally, but many entrepreneurs remain unfamiliar with how they work and why they’re necessary. Below is a brief overview of the topic.
What Entrepreneurs Should Know About Surety Bonds
How Do Surety Bonds Work?
Surety bonds are frequently misunderstood to be a form of business insurance, but there are distinct differences between the two. The three parties involved in a surety bond include the obligee, principal, and surety. The obligee is the party requiring the principal to obtain the bond, and the surety is the party responsible for financially backing it. Surety bonds work to protect the obligee, as well as the public in certain instances. If the principal fails to meet their obligations and a claim is filed against the bond, the surety will step in to compensate the obligee. The principal will then be accountable for repaying the surety.
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MONDAY, Dec. 2, 2002 (HealthDayNews) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the nation's most popular antihistamine, Claritin, for over-the-counter use without a prescription.
The agency says the ground-breaking non-drowsy allergy drug met its three criteria for OTC approval:
That the drug treats a condition that people can diagnose and manage themselves;
That the drug is safe enough to be used without a doctor's supervision;
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Claritin received FDA approval in 1993 as one of the first non-drowsy prescription drugs to treat seasonal allergies. In granting over-the-counter approval, the agency also gave manufacturer Schering-Plough the conditional right to market the drug for the treatment of hives, provided some focus-group studies are concluded and subsequent labeling changes are made, the company says. The company's major patent expires Dec. 19, and a number of competitors are planning on introducing their own versions of the drug.
The OTC doses of Claritin, which will match those previously available by prescription, should reach the stores by mid-December, adds Schering-Plough.
Allergies and asthma affect between 20 percent and 30 percent of the nation, experts say, a figure that has doubled in the last 20 years. These conditions lead to as many as 11 million doctor visits a year, along with 2 million trips to the emergency room and a half million hospitalizations. Their economic toll amounts to 30 million missed days of work and school and upwards of $13 billion in direct and indirect costs annually.
Here is the FDA Talk Paper announcing Claritin's approval for OTC use, and here is the announcement issued by Schering-Plough. For more information on seasonal allergies, visit the National Institutes of Health.
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Has someone tried to fool you with a pension scam?
Adam French Consumer Rights Expert
Have you received potentially fraudulent sales calls, emails and junk mail about your pension? We’ve found that one in three people over 55 has – would you ever trust a cold caller?
It’s shocking that so many people have already been targeted by cold callers about their pension. After all, it’s just six weeks after reforms were introduced to give you much more control over your pension savings.
But how confident are you at being able to spot a scam? Many of those we spoke to admitted they weren’t sure they could spot a genuine investment and four in 10 worried they could be scammed.
How will the scammers try to trick you?
So how are these scammers going to try and fool you? Most commonly we found they offered investment opportunities or a free pension review, or said they could unlock your pension or would let you get your pension pot early.
The most common approach was by telephone – so be on your guard if you get a cold call. Contact by email and post were also high up the list.
Two in five people were contacted in the months before the reforms began (1 January to April 6 this year) – that’s double the number who said they were contacted in the whole of 2014.
How do I avoid the pension scammers?
A fifth of all over-55s had been contacted directly by someone offering an investment opportunity, but only half of non-retired over-55s felt confident in identifying a legitimate pension investment.
Here are some of the sales tactics that should set alarm bells ringing:
You’re approached out of the blue over the phone, via text or in person door-to-door
You’re asked to transfer money overseas
You’re promised you can access your pension before you’re 55
No copies of documentation have been provided
You’re encouraged to speed up transfer of your money to the new scheme
A salesmen uses phrases such as ‘one-off investment opportunities’, ‘free pension review’, ‘legal loopholes’, ‘cash bonus’, or ‘government endorsement’
We want the Government and regulators to do more to warn people about these types of tricks and do all they can to stamp out the sharks behind them.
Has someone ever tried to sell you a dodgy pension product? Do you feel confident that you’d know how to invest your pension pot and how to spot a pension scam?
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I have never bought anything as a result of a cold call or from a doorstep visit. I now make this very clear to callers. If there is a call that appears to come from a company I already use, I find out what it is about and say I will call back. When I do call, I look up the number online rather than using a number I have been given.
I am equally suspicious of email. I may have missed some good opportunities but have protected myself against scams.
wev says:
Adam, can you change what you’ve written to include advice on where to go if you’re approached by a scammer, especially if they have your personal information? Go to Action Fraud, Trading Standards, Companies Investigation Branch, the police, or something else?
Adam French says:
Hi wev
Our advice is:
– Before you sign anything, call The Pensions Advisory Service on 0300 123 1047 for information and guidance.
– If you have already accepted an offer, raise the alarm by calling Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040.
You can also find out more about pension scams on our advice page: http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/problem/pension-scams
dieseltaylor says:
“A fifth of all over-55s had been contacted directly by someone offering an investment opportunity,”
It does sound dramatic but I cannot see from the magazine or here; over what period are these figures true? In the last six months, in the last decade, or since they turned 55 which could be one week or 40 years.
Can we have a link to the survey on which these claims are based? I would not like to think that “facts ” are bandied about without the underlying figures being available. If people were more accustomed when reading the media to seeing the basis of claims it would lead to a much savvier nation and help defeat those that manipulate data in misleading ways.
The contact is since the individual asked turned 55 – But two in five (41%) of these were contacted in the months before the reforms began (between 1st January and 6th April 2015), which is double the number who said they were contacted in the whole of 2014 (20%).
The people in our survey were contacted out of the blue, and the company used certain phrases – like ‘access your pension pot early’ and ’Free pension review’. These are both things which The Pension Advisory Service is warning about as they are often signs of a dodgy product or company.
Adam – Can you supply a link to the research?
I see from the magazine article that it was an online survey of 2000 members of the UK public. They may also have been Which? Connect members as it was a Which? survey. I would hesitate to assume that these were all people aged over 55 as it may have been a sub-set of the 2000 approached.
The phrase ” We’ve found that a third of over-55’s in the UK have been contacted directly by someone looking to sell them a potentially dodgy pension product.” would seem to be untrue – you might say your survey suggests/ reveals a third of the surveyed have been contacted
I hope you understand that when you warn people to be careful that this state of mind should apply to anything you read or listen to , and claims checked against reality.
I used to be in the finance industry and I can tell you that some areas of the UK will be contacted far more frequently than others. I am therefore pretty sure that Which? Connect respondents will be more attractive to salesmen than the average retired household in the UK.
No doubt Which? ‘s own analysis of its members would also reveal a match to certain socio-economic areas more than others.
Hi dieseltaylor
The research isn’t hosted anywhere online so I am unable to provide you with a link.
I can confirm the survey was of 2000 members of the general public, all of whom were aged 55 or over.
The group was large enough to be representative of the UK population and was made up by people from a variety of socioeconomic and geographic backgrounds.
On reviewing the data we found no geographic or socioeconomic trends strong enough to warrant reporting on.
It is important to note that the advice we and many others give is to not deal with cold callers or other unsolicited contact about pension products, but instead you should be the one to make the first move.
There are already reported instances of cold callers scamming people – see the link at the bottom of this comment – which was the danger our survey results highlighted. But i agree that a careful state of mind should be applied to any and all financial commitments, especially when it involves your pension fund.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensions/article-3093970/We-lucky-ones-Pensions-plundered-cruel-scammers-pose-expert-advisers-linked-Government-website-bid-steal-life-savings.html
Thanks for the extra detail. Adam
Its funny but I assumed the scam was actually getting people to change policies or the obtaining of money but judging from the linked article in fact stealing people’s identities seems much easier and simpler.
On the question of pensions:
Overall I think the new government policy is ill thought out and the places to get advised very poor. Looking at what is happening in Australia where they are a decade ahead in releasing funds at 55 following the setting-up of a Superannuation Guarantee in 1992.
The observation seems to be that the knowledge you can access a lump sum later in life seems to have lead to increasing debt since 1992 also.
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Square-Enix has revealed that Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX will launch on the PlayStation 3 exclusively in 2014. The title will include:
Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix — previously on PS2 and exclusive to Japan
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Riot has another game in the works and if you believe hackers, who broke into the Twitter account of CEO, Marc Merrill, that game is League of Legends Supremacy. This is a standalone trading card game like Magic The Gathering, Heartstone, and Mojang’s Scrolls. Originally, League of Legends: Supremacy was trademarked in 2012.
Riot says they have lots of projects they work on at their offices but it doesn’t mean that the title will ever be released. They have said nothing further about Supremacy.
Beenox, the studio behind the The Amazing Spider-Man game, based on the last movie, is hard at work on the sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The game is planned to release on PC, PS3, PS4, X360, XBone, Wii U, and 3DS. Beenox is said to be adding Role Playing elements to the new title and it will release around the next film’s release date of May 2, 2014.
How successful is Pokemon X and Pokemon Y? The new Nintendo 3DS game is on its way to becoming the best selling Pokemon title of all time after a two day launch of more than 4 million sales worldwide. Satoru Iwata had this to say:
“The early response to Pokémon X and Pokémon Y not only reaffirms the ongoing passion of Pokémon fans, but also indicates that an entirely new generation of gamers is eager to experience the franchise for itself.”
Looks like a lot of folks ‘Gotta catch them all!’
Assassin’s Creed 4 may be headed to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 29. However, PC owners have to wait until November 19 to grab the newest AC title after the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 releases. Seriously Ubisoft, is there any reason to delay the PC version? Why do you continue to hate on the PC platform?
Were you one of the lucky ones that grabbed one of those Amazon or GameStop PlayStation 4 or Xbox One bundles with Watch Dogs? Sad news. Watch Dogs has been delayed until Spring 2014 so Ubisoft can further polish the game. Amazon still has your back. Orders will be fulfilled with just the console and no game in the exact same position your order was received. GameStop, on the other hand, will allow you to swap the game your bundle comes with, cancel the order, or wait to get Watch Dogs shipped until the Spring when it is released.
Who do you think has better customer service here? Bad form GameStop—-bad form.
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D23: The Official Disney Fan Club celebrated its 10th anniversary on Sunday, March 10, in pixie-dusted perfection! D23 Gold and Gold Family Members joined us on the Walt Disney Studio lot in historic production Stages 1 and 2 for an unforgettable night celebrating the club that was made for you and me.
In Stage 1, The Walt Disney Archives brought out some fan-favorite CAR-acter photo opportunities for guests. The vehicles on display included The Electric Mayhem’s Bus from The Muppets television series, Herbie the Love Bug, the car from The Absent-Minded Professor, and the front of Heimlich’s Chew Chew Train from Disney California Adventure. Additionally, guests had the chance to meet with a variety of Disney Legends and luminaries and snap a picture or two!
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Deal Boosts PPBI Assets to $20 Billion
Pacific Premier Bancorp (NASDAQ: PPBI), the holding company of Pacific Premier Bank, announced plans to purchase and Opus Bank (NASDAQ: OPB). Terms of the deal set the value at about $1.0 billion, or $26.82 per share. Pacific Premier expects the transaction to be 14% accretive to EPS in 2021 with a 1.8-year earn back period to tangible book value per share based.
Opus is headquartered in Irvine, California with $8.0 billion in total assets, $5.9 billion in gross loans and $6.5 billion in total deposits as of December 31, 2019.
Pacific Premier Bancorp Expands With Opus Buy
Opus has 46 banking offices located throughout California, Washington, Oregon, and Arizona.
The transaction will increase Pacific Premier’s total assets to roughly $20 billion on a pro forma basis as of December 31, 2019.
“We are excited to announce this transformative merger that we believe will create one of the premier commercial banks in the Western United States,” said Steven R. Gardner, Chairman, President and CEO of Pacific Premier. “The combination with Opus provides us with a meaningful presence in attractive major metropolitan markets with operational scale, a complementary set of banking products and services, and improved revenue and business diversification. As a result of this transaction, we believe we will be well-positioned to generate profitable growth in the future and to benefit the combined institution’s shareholders.”
Holders of Opus common stock will have the right to receive 0.90 shares of Pacific Premier common stock for each share of Opus common stock they own. Existing Pacific Premier shareholders will own approximately 63% of the outstanding shares of the combined company, and Opus shareholders are expected to own approximately 37%.
The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2020, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals and shareholder approval from Pacific Premier and Opus shareholders.
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1/5/12 – A group made up of several local churches is offering the public a free meal tonight (Th). Tom Dugolenski with the Beaver Dam Community Meal Coalition says the group started two years ago with the goal of providing food and fellowship where it’s needed most. The group started by offering the meal to families at Jefferson Elementary but the program expanded last year to also include a community-wide meal. The Coalition currently serves one meal a month to Jefferson Elementary families and one meal to the entire community. Dugolenski says they hope to one day host a community meal every week. He says there have been just under 100 people at each of their meals, and close to 80% are children. The Beaver Dam Community Meal Coalition’s free community meal will be held from 5:30 to 6:30pm tonight in the Beaver Dam High School cafeteria. On the menu: a Mexican hot dish, burritos, apples and dessert. The next community meal at the high school will be served on February 2.
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By: April 9, 2010 2:43 pm
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The mystery surrounding changes to the state’s Clean Energy Jobs Act is sowing distrust among lawmakers who fear new policy with no input.
“I don’t have a major problem if the changes are based on what was talked about during public hearings, but I’m not convinced that’s what’s going to happen,” said state Rep. Michael Huebsch, R-West Salem. “And that’s because we’ve been completely shut out of the process.”
The process is at a point where the Legislature expects an amendment to the bill, which proposes energy policy changes for utilities and development, but some lawmakers do not know what will be in the amendment. Bill co-sponsor state Rep. Jim Soletski, D-Green Bay, said the amendment likely will be introduced Monday.
The only amendment detail he would provide is that there no longer would be a requirement for electricity produced by nuclear plants to remain in Wisconsin. The bill still would allow for construction of the plants, Soletski said.
“The bill has less than it did before,” he said. “Maybe that’s why the opponents are upset. They’ll have less to pick at.”
The lack of detail has prompted Huebsch and state reps. Phil Montgomery, R-Green Bay, and Scott Gunderson, R-Waterford, to send a letter to Assembly leadership asking for 72 hours of public review, another public hearing on the bill and an independent cost-benefit analysis once the amendment is introduced.
Rebekah Sweeney, spokeswoman for Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan, D-Janesville, would not comment on whether leadership will grant that request.
The bill stems from recommendations in 2008 by the Governor’s Task Force on Global Warming and has drawn criticism from utility and construction industry groups over the bill’s potential effects on business.
Those effects could stem from such provisions in the original bill as new taxes on electricity production and automatic building code updates based on international, rather than state, building codes, said Brad Boycks, government affairs director for the Wisconsin Builders Association.
“We have not taken a position on another public hearing,” he said. “But we’d certainly want plenty of time to analyze what changes come.”
Soletski, who said he wants to hold executive session on the amendment later this week, said he does not expect another public hearing.
“We’ve had more than 30 hours of hearings on this bill,” he said, “and the amendment covers quite a few of the bases that people were concerned about, including the representatives who sent the letter.”
If the amendment is introduced Monday, Huebsch said, it might give lawmakers time to review the changes because both the Assembly and Senate are in session Tuesday.
“But I’ve heard, ‘It’ll be out Friday’ or ‘It’ll be out Monday’ before,” he said. “Right now, I’m taking a wait-and-see attitude.”
What lawmakers finally see, Soletski said, will be changes reflecting input from public hearings, lawmakers and people who contacted the sponsors’ offices. The amendment, he said, will not introduce new policy.
“I don’t think everyone’s going to be 100 percent happy with the final bill,” Soletski said. “And I’m fine with that. It means we’re doing something right.”
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The only ‘unknowns’ in this bill are to what extent this will harm the states economy and whether that will hurt the politicians chances for re-election. Everything in this bill, is already shown to hurt business.
Just because you put the word ‘jobs’ in the title, doesn’t make it a job creating bill.
Maybe the first thing they need to do is rename the bill for what it is; “Clean Energy Jobs-killing Act”
If any private industry put out this type of ‘false advertising’ they would be sued.
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A tornado drops in to disrupt a long-established practice.
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On April 2, 2017, several tornados swept through Louisiana (Figure 1). One of them, with wind speeds clocked at 110 mph, ripped through the neighborhood in Alexandria, where Wallace Eye Associates has stood for decades. There were no warnings in the news of upcoming weather events or other indications of impending trouble, so we had no way to prepare. Having successfully rebounded from the destruction that ensued, however, we are now much better equipped to face a similar event in the future—if we are ever again in the path of a natural disaster. This article describes some of what we have learned and offers some suggestions for those who may not have thought deeply about preparing for unexpected destruction.
Figure 1. Pictures taken with cell phones of the tornados that swept through Alexandria, Louisiana.
BAD NEWS, GOOD NEWS, BAD MOVES
The bad news was that the building struck by the tornado was the main site of our practice. It was where we did all preoperative testing, stored all of our paper charts, and saw all patients during clinic hours. The good news was that April 2 was a Sunday, so no patients or staff were at the facility to be exposed to any danger. Once the alarm was sounded and employees heard what happened, however, some of them showed up at the site to offer their help.
Although these were kind gestures on the part of our employees, we later learned that there are important reasons they should instead have stayed away. First, driving conditions were dangerous because of downed power lines. Second, the building was extremely hazardous because the electricity was still on and there was standing water everywhere. Third, water was still falling from the ceiling, and parts of the ceiling were still collapsing and falling down (Figure 2).
Figure 2. The destruction caused by the tornado to the roof (left), the parking lot (center), and the interior (right).
One’s initial instinct may be to show up and help, but nothing that could be saved is worth putting oneself at risk. What’s more, it turns out that insurance is less likely to cover items that are salvaged. So, while we appreciated these actions of our employees, we would encourage them and others to stay away after future destructive events such as this.
We should also point out that three additional things made our recovery and rehabilitation process less painful than it might have been:
No. 1: We had recently bought a building into which we were planning to expand. It was vacant and available to outfit quickly with examination lanes and diagnostic equipment.
No. 2: Our nearby ambulatory surgery center (ASC) was not hit. It escaped any damage.
No. 3: The only room in the main building to be spared the tornado’s impact was the chart room. Amazingly, not a single patient record was damaged or lost.
We have learned important lessons and made key changes as a result of the damage we experienced in the tornado this past year.
No. 1: Get to the right adjustor. The first thing to be done after a disaster strikes is to notify the insurance company. One’s aim should be to reach a person who can make big decisions as quickly as possible. (That’s not always easy.) To reach the appropriate adjuster for the so-called million-dollar club, which was the level of our claim, you may have to first go through two or three lower-level adjustors. We had changed insurance carriers not long before the tornado, and we were surprised and relieved to find that our new carrier was easy and accommodating to deal with. That may have been because our tornado was nationally reported in the media. It was clear that it was a legitimate natural disaster, so there was no reason for the insurance carrier to question our claim.
No. 2: Consider business interruption insurance coverage. One important factor was that our insurance policy included business interruption coverage. That meant that it was in the insurance company’s interest to do whatever it could to protect our profitability and get us back to work quickly. In our case, they were willing to help us open and equip a temporary facility. Our practice has a campus-like setup, with four buildings facing one corner. Only one of them was affected, but it was catastrophically affected, and it was our most important clinic building. Rather than rent a space to create a temporary clinic, we negotiated with the insurance company to outfit our recently purchased building into a temporary clinic. The silver lining of this arrangement was that we got to keep using the renovated facility, which maximized the value of the payout.
No. 3: Relationships matter. In that moment after the tragedy, the main goal must be to quickly get back up and running. With that said, if you can make good decisions during that early chaos, you can set yourself up better for the long run. We had the temporary clinic up and running in less than 3 weeks, and the demolished building (Figure 3) was rehabbed within 4 months. These are the times when the value of good relationships with equipment providers pays off; we had worked with one company and one particular individual at that company for decades, and he came to our aid quickly to get us up and running in the new building.
Figure 3. Rebuilding of Wallace Eye Associates’ main building.
Following are some other things to keep in mind if you find yourself in a similar disastrous situation:
Electronic health records (EHRs). We opened the new building in August, and in September we transitioned to an EHR system. It was not easy, but we know that this system will protect us and our patients’ records in the future. All of our records are now stored in the cloud, so the threat of losing paper charts in a natural disaster is eliminated.
Redundant scheduling and testing. We were doing all of our surgery scheduling in the building that was affected by the tornado. Now, because we have the luxury of two offices, if anything happens to one of our offices we can still do our diagnostic testing and surgery scheduling in the other building without interruption.
Vendors. Find out if loaner equipment can be made available if you ever need it. We had six lanes of equipment delivered in less than 3 weeks, and the insurance company was happy to pay for it in the name of preserving profitability because we had business interruption coverage.
“These are the times when the value of good relationships with equipment providers pays off; we had worked with one company and one particular individual at that company for decades, and he came to our aid quickly to get us up and running in the new building.”
Yes, our main building was destroyed by a tornado. But now, every single thing in that building is brand new, and in some cases upgraded from its previous state (Figure 4). We have also learned that there are kind and generous people everywhere. The contractors we worked with and our equipment vendors bent over backwards to help us out. It was heartening to see that side of so many people, brought to the fore in the wake of a disaster.
R. Bruce Wallace III, MD, FACS
Founder and Surgical Director, Wallace Eye Associates, Alexandria, Louisiana
Member, CRST Editorial Board
rbw123@aol.com
Financial disclosure: None
Bill Wallace, MBA
Administrator, Wallace Eye Associates, Alexandria, Louisiana
wswallace@wallaceeyesurgery.com
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The more than 100 members of Cub Pack 3, Boy Scout Troop 3 and Venture Crew 33 will present their 86th Annual Scout Gang Show on May 7 & 8 at the Derby United Methodist Church.
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Derby, CT – The more than 100 members of Cub Pack 3, Boy Scout Troop 3 and Venture Crew 33 will present their 86th Annual Scout Gang Show on May 7 & 8 at the Derby United Methodist Church. Part old time minstrel, vaudeville, and variety show, the longest running show of it’s kind has been performed by the scouts since 1922. Scout Gang Shows are performed throughout the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, however the Derby Scout Gang Show, a Lower Naugatuck Valley tradition, is the only one performed in the United States.
The show includes old time songs, skits and jokes. The stooges, who perform run-on skits in between the songs, are under the direction of Venture Crew 33 Committee Chairman Mr. Rodman Kneen, who has been involved with the show since 1932. Venture Crew 33 Scouts serving as stooges are Mac Thompson, Adarsh Salian, Nick Laskos, Michael Neuendorf and Mike Tracz.
Many of the songs being performed this year fall into the theme of “Happy Days are Here Again”, songs such as “I Want to be Happy”, “Happiness” and “Put on a Happy Face” will be performed by the scout soloists and chorus. There will also be a tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America with songs such as “Be A Good Scout”, “The Happy Wanderer” and “God Bless America”, written by Irving Berlin, who dedicated the royalties to the Boy and Girl Scouts.
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Many local community leaders have performed in the show in their youth including former mayors Marc Garofalo, Bill Menna and Gene Micci, Shelton Aldermanic President John Anglace and Center Stage co-owner Gary Scarpa. Stage and screen star Brian Dennehy and 1960s Green Bay Packer captain Bob Skoronski also performed in the show as scouts under pioneer scout leader and Derby Hall of Fame member Edmund D. Strang, who directed the show for a remarkable 70 years. Troop 3 Scoutmaster Randy Ritter is in his 16th year of directing the show. Ritter said “The show continues to be performed each year because it helps build self confidence for our scouts, it introduces old time songs to a new generation and provides financial support for our three scout groups”.
Tickets to the May 7 & 8, 7:30PM show are available for $7 from Pack 3, Troop 3 and Crew 33 scouts, or by calling 732-0343. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. Proceeds from the show benefit the scouts attending summer camp at Housatonic Council’s Edmund D. Strang Scout Reservation, Cub Scout Day Camp and the scout’s trip to the 2010 National Scout Jamboree.
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NCHS - U.S. and State Trends on Teen Births
This dataset assembles all final birth data for females aged 15–19, 15–17, and 18–19 for the United States and each of the 50 states.
Data are based on 100% of birth certificates filed in all 50 states. All the teen birth rates in this dashboard reflect the latest revisions to Census populations (i.e., the intercensal populations) and thus provide a consistent series of accurate rates for the past 25 years. The denominators of the teen birth rates for 1991–1999 have been revised to incorporate the results of the 2000 Census. The denominators of the teen birth rates for 2001–2009 have revised to incorporate the results of the 2010 Census.
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NCHS - Teen Birth Rates for Age Group 15-19 in the United States by County
This data set contains estimated teen birth rates for age group 15–19 (expressed per 1,000 females aged 15–19) by county and year.
Estimated teen birth rate: Model-based estimates of teen birth rates for age group 15–19 (expressed per 1,000 females aged 15–19) for a specific county and year. Estimated county teen birth rates were obtained using the methods described elsewhere (1,2,3,4). These annual county-level teen birth estimates “borrow strength” across counties and years to generate accurate estimates where data are sparse due to small population size (1,2,3,4). The inferential method uses information—including the estimated teen birth rates from neighboring counties across years and the associated explanatory variables—to provide a stable estimate of the county teen birth rate.
Median teen birth rate: The middle value of the estimated teen birth rates for the age group 15–19 for counties in a state.
Bayesian credible intervals: A range of values within which there is a 95% probability that the actual teen birth rate will fall, based on the observed teen births data and the model.
Data on the number of live births for women aged 15–19 years were extracted from the National Center for Health Statistics’ (NCHS) National Vital Statistics System birth data files for 2003–2015 (5).
Population estimates were extracted from the files containing intercensal and postcensal bridged-race population estimates provided by NCHS. For each year, the July population estimates were used, with the exception of the year of the decennial census, 2010, for which the April estimates were used.
Hierarchical Bayesian space–time models were used to generate hierarchical Bayesian estimates of county teen birth rates for each year during 2003–2015 (1,2,3,4).
The Bayesian analogue of the frequentist confidence interval is defined as the Bayesian credible interval. A 100*(1-α)% Bayesian credible interval for an unknown parameter vector θ and observed data vector y is a subset C of parameter space Ф such that
1-α≤P({C│y})=∫p{θ │y}dθ,
where integration is performed over the set and is replaced by summation for discrete components of θ. The probability that θ lies in C given the observed data y is at least (1- α) (6).
County borders in Alaska changed, and new counties were formed and others were merged, during 2003–2015. These changes were reflected in the population files but not in the natality files. For this reason, two counties in Alaska were collapsed so that the birth and population counts were comparable. Additionally, Kalawao County, a remote island county in Hawaii, recorded no births, and census estimates indicated a denominator of 0 (i.e., no females between the ages of 15 and 19 years residing in the county from 2003 through 2015). For this reason, Kalawao County was removed from the analysis. Also , Bedford City, Virginia, was added to Bedford County in 2015 and no longer appears in the mortality file in 2015. For consistency, Bedford City was merged with Bedford County, Virginia, for the entire 2003–2015 period. Final analysis was conducted on 3,137 counties for each year from 2003 through 2015. County boundaries are consistent with the vintage 2005–2007 bridged-race population file geographies (7).
National Center for Health Statistics. Vital statistics data available online, Natality all-county files. Hyattsville, MD. Published annually.
For details about file release and access policy, see NCHS data release and access policy for micro-data and compressed vital statistics files, available from: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/dvs_data_release.htm.
For natality public-use files, see vital statistics data available online, available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htm.
National Center for Health Statistics. U.S. Census populations with bridged race categories. Estimated population data available. Postcensal and intercensal files. Hyattsville, MD
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Just over a quarter century ago, when I was a young scribbler traipsing around the metro desk of the Baltimore Sun, I had an early opportunity to learn a lesson about money, about ethics, about capitalism and, in particular, about the American entertainment industry. And Dorothy Simon, she raised no fools. I only needed to learn it once.
I learned about something called “packaging.”
And now, finally, my apostasy from newspapering having delivered me from Baltimore realities to film-set make-believe, I am suprised and delighted that many of the fellow scribblers with whom I share a labor union have at last acquired the same hard, ugly lesson:
Packaging is a lie. It is theft. It is fraud. In the hands of the right U.S. Attorney, it might even be prima facie evidence of decades of racketeering. It’s that fucking ugly.
For those of you not in the film and television world, there is no shame in tuning out right now because at its core, the argument over packaging now ongoing between film and television writers and their agents is effectively an argument over an embarrassment of riches. The American entertainment industry is seemingly recession-proof and television writing, specifically, is such a growth industry nowadays that even good and great novelists must be ordered back to their prose manuscripts by book editors for whom the term “showrunner” has become an affront. A lot of people are making good money writing television drama. And so, this fresh argument is about who is making more of that money, and above all, where the greatest benefits accrue. If you have no skin in the game, I think it reasonable, even prudent, to deliver a no-fucks-to-give exhale and proceed elsewhere.
If, on the other hand, you are my brother or sister in the Writers Guild of America — East or West, it matters not when we stand in solitarity — or conversely, if you are a grasping, fuckfailing greedhead with the Association of Talent Agents, then you might wanna hang around for this:
Here is the story of how as a novice to this industry, I was grifted by my agents and how I learned everything I ever needed to know about packaging. And here is why I am a solid yes-vote on anything my union puts before me that attacks the incredible ethical affront of this paradigm. Packaging is a racket. It’s corrupt. It is without any basis in either integrity or honor. This little narrative will make that clear. And because I still have a reportorial soul and a journalistic God resides in the details, I will name a name wherever I can.
To begin, I wrote a book. It was a non-fiction account of a year I spent with a shift of homicide detectives in Baltimore, a city ripe with violence and miscalculation. Published in 1991, “Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets” was repped by my literary agent at the time, an independent attorney who I found because his other clients included some other ink-stained newspaper reporters. Late in 1987, the Baltimore Police Department agreed to let me into its homicide unit for a year beginning that January, so I needed to quickly acquire an agent to sell the project to a publishing house and secure an advance on which to live while I took a leave-of-absence from my newspaper. This agent — and damn, I wish I could name the goniff, but I later signed a cash settlement that said I wouldn’t — was the first name that came to me. I did not shop around; I was in a hurry. My bad.
Three years later, with the book ready to publish, this shyster suggested to me that he was entirely capable of going to Hollywood with it for a sale of the dramatic rights. And knowing less than a bag of taters about Hollywood, I was ready to agree until my book editor, the worthy John Sterling, then helming the Houghton Mifflin publishing house, told me in no uncertain terms that this was a mistake.
It was customary, John explained, for even the best literary agents to pair with a colleague at one of the bigger entertainment agencies and split the commission. My literary agent would give up half of his 15 percent to the other agency, but he would gain the expertise of an organization with the connections to move the property around and find the right eyeballs in the film and television industry. So I called my agent back and insisted.
With some initial reluctance, he eventually chose to go with Creative Artists Agency — one of the Big Four, as they call the largest entertainment entities repping talent, and an agent in CAA’s literary division by the name of Matt Snyder. After making the deal with CAA, my literary agent called me back and said it was customary for me to give up a larger percentage commission as I now had two agents working on my behalf. How much more? He suggested that he should keep his 15 percent and I should pay CAA an additional 10 percent. So a quarter of the profits from the sale of book would now be siphoned to agency commissions.
I called back John Sterling and asked: Is this right?
John nearly dropped the phone. No, that is not how it works. Again, he explained that my literary agent was supposed to split the existing 15 percent commission on the book with CAA. The literary agent was supposed to keep 7.5 percent and give the other half to CAA, which in no way was entitled to any cash above and beyond that split.
I called my agent back. No, you split the existing 15 points, I told him. He threw a few chunks of pouty guilt at me, but I shrugged him off. This first attempt at a grift should have warned me, but hey, I was young.
Advance the story a couple months later:
CAA has sent the book to about a dozen A-list film directors, where it lays in their offices like a stale bagel, unloved and unsold. No one can figure out how to transform a year in the professional lives of a half dozen Baltimore death investigators into a feature film. Matt Snyder is bereft of a next idea. He does have one small-option offer from a small indy company. I get on the phone with a producer there and ask for his credits and it’s pretty clear, even to me, that it’s short money for a project that probably goes nowhere.
I call Snyder back.
Hey, I wonder aloud, how about Barry Levinson? He’s from Baltimore. He makes movies. Maybe he’ll like it. Did I mention he’s from Baltimore? Have you seen Diner? Tin Men? I sure do love me some Diner.
This is the sum of my contribution to the initial sale of Homicide to Levinson and NBC, but let’s at least note that it’s the only salient action that would matter, because when CAA sent the book to Levinson, it turned out he was in negotiations with NBC to deliver a television series. Gail Mutrux in his office read the book and put it in front of her boss; Homicide: Life on the Street was born.
So, great.
Then the contract comes back from Baltimore Pictures and while it’s all found money for a police reporter and rewrite man who’s working for union scale at The Sun, I check with some other authors who have sold stuff to Hollywood and they all acknowledge it’s on the low-end of where such offers usually reside. Fine for the option money, a little light on the contingent pilot, pick-up and episodic payments and, of course, farce on the definition of net profits. So I call Matt Snyder back and say so: This seems a little light and it’s a first offer. Let’s go back to Levinson with a counter.
And Matt Snyder of CAA acts as if his client, me, has just thrown a dead, rancid dog on the table. This is my first book sale to Hollywood and Barry Levinson is an A-lister; I should be grateful for this offer and worried that if I nickel-and-dime, Levinson may develop something else for his first television series. Reluctantly, as if he is being asked to traverse a vale of danger and uncertainty, Snyder eventually agrees to go back and see if he can’t get, maybe, a bump in the per-episode royalty, maybe $250 an hour. He’ll fight for me. He’ll see what gives. And sure enough, the per-episode fee goes up by 10 percent after Snyder, relentless carnivore that he is, returns to his client with pride and some pocket change.
And now, here’s where the real fun starts:
We push forward a decade to 2002 when I have sold my own dramatic television series to HBO. The Wire pilot turned out well enough that the project is set to get a first-season order from HBO and my television agent, Jeff Jacobs of CAA, suggests to me that this thing might really have legs.
“We want to package you,” he offers.
“Package me?”
“Yeah, we’ll take a package on this project and you get your ten-percent commission back. Like with Homicide?
Hanh? “Jake, what the fuck are you talking about.”
“Homicide was packaged and we’ll do the same thing with The Wire.”
“Jake, slow down, what the hell does ‘packaged’ mean?”
And for the first time, Jacobs explains it to me: In order that my agents — the folks who held an absolute fiduciary responsibility to negotiate in good faith on my behalf and on behalf of my book — could be players in the creation of the TV project from that book, in order that they could own a chunk of the project itself and profit by millions of dollars from the work I had asked them to sell, they were willing to return my 7.5 percent commission and the commissions of any other talent they represented, packaging all of us together in a happy bundle for the network. Yes, incredibly, to avoid the most overt and untenable conflict-of-interest, they were willing to heroically give back to me a few thousand dollars in exchange for millions of dollars in points on a piece of NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Street which ran for seven years.
“Jake, no one told me. No one said anything to me. Ever.”
There was a quiet on the phone. Until I asked a second question: “What other talent did you package with me?”
“Barry Levinson.”
At which point, there was no more quiet.
“Jake, do you mean to say that you represented me, a pissant police reporter from Baltimore in a head-on negotiation with one of Hollywood’s A-list directors and you also represented the director? You represented both sides in the sale of my book and when the low-ball offer came to me, Matt fucking Snyder acted like it was the only offer I might ever get? Is that what you motherfuckers did?”
“I thought you knew.”
“I did not know.”
“Didn’t Matt inform you?”
He did not. Not in any of our conversations.
“Did your book agent tell you?”
Then I asked another question: “Jake, do you have any written consent from me on file in which I authorize you to rep both sides of the sale of my book? I will answer that for you: You do not. I never authorized this. Not to CAA. Not to my book agent. I never gave informed consent. I couldn’t. Because I was never informed.”
Had CAA, in fact, returned the 7.5 percent of my commission?
They had — to my book agent, who pocketed it. Quietly. I immediately wrote a letter to that grasping bastard: Dear thief, you will remit all of that 7.5 percent to me by week’s end or I will write up what happened here and have it posted on every Newspaper Guild bulletin board in every newsroom on the Mid-Atlantic seaboard and you will be known for what you are. Further, I might also contact a U.S. Attorney about a failure of fiduciary responsibility so fundamental that it effectively constitutes the sharing of a bribe in exchange for an agreement to reduce the sale price of my book. Suffice to say, a check to me for the full 7.5 percent arrived within days.
Then I turned to CAA, a Big Four agency that was once fully content to screw me over when I was a stumblefuck newspaper reporter who to their thinking could only provide them with a book or two for sale. Years later, I was now a client about to become a showrunner on a premiere cable network. I had a little more leverage.
“Jake, I’m firing you and I’m taking The Wire and everything else with me.”
“Look,” he pleaded, “I know you’re mad. I don’t blame you. But personally, I didn’t do any of this. I’ve been straight up with you. I wasn’t your agent then. I wasn’t involved in packaging your book.”
No, I explained, but your agency was. And the profits from that are fungible. You’ve been good, Jake. You’ve been fair. But on a lie of omission, CAA — your agency — made millions and millions of dollars and did so by undercutting my negotiation with Levinson and failing to inform me of an absolute conflict of interest. I gotta go.
“What can we do to make this right?”
I thought about that because unlike the fucksquib in CAA’s literary department who should die of venereal boils, I actually liked my TV agent. He had, in fact, been forthright and fair in all of my subsequent years in television. So I explained that the agency had made millions off the conflict of interest and that for a reasonable “taste of their taste” of Homicide, whatever that was, I would remain as his client.
He ran that back up the ladder and came back a few days later: “We can’t do that. If we agree to give you a percentage of our packaging fees, it would set a bad precedent for all of our other packages.”
“Motherfucker, you’re talking about bad precedents? CAA repped both sides of a negotiation without informing me so that your taste of the profits would dwarf mine, your client. How much money did CAA actually make on Homicide?”
Jake wasn’t allowed to say. Transparency was not an option. Instead, he suggested another path:
“What about a one-time lump sum payment that isn’t officially tied to our package?”
Eventually, frustrated but willing to compromise to keep Jake as my agent, I agreed to allow CAA to write a check for the same “penalty” that I had exacted from my literary agent. Another 7.5 percent of my original commission came back and yes, Jeff Jacobs has remained my agent to this moment. Oh, I also asked Jake to make his CAA colleague get on the phone. I had some things to say.
I said them, and incredibly, the fiduciary pratfall and ethical void known as Matt Snyder stayed on the other end of that call insisting — after admitting he had no record whatsoever of me being informed of the conflict-of-interest between myself and the buyer of my book, or any claimed recollection of having informed me of such in all of our conversations — that he had done nothing improper, that my literary agent should have explained it all to me.
“Matt — absent any evidence of informed consent by me — that you and CAA proceeded to negotiate with Barry Levinson, whom you also represented, is a prima facie conflict-of-interest and a breach of fiduciary duty. If you were a realtor secretly representing both sides of a house sale, your license would be torn up. If you were a lawyer, you’d be disbarred.”
There was only a small pause before he explained himself:
Yes you are. Yes you fucking are.
So much of television and film is packaged by the Big Four agencies — CAA, ICM, WME and UTA — that it is now said to be the lion’s share of their income, so much in fact that they are running to Wall Street for equity investment in their producerial role. Fuck repping actors or directors or writers to earn a living. What rube would settle for 10 percent of anything when you can play for 100 percent of your larger stake in a film or a movie?
But of course, the astounding conflict-of-interest that underlies the corruption of packaging doesn’t simply end with the fact that agents no longer have any incentive to properly service the smaller and less advantaged client when they are repping both sides of a negotiation. Never mind the relentless obscenity of telling a seller that you can also rep the buyer and claim to still fight for top dollar.
The greater offense is that packaging has now artificially reduced the salaries of all screenwriters over decades, so much so that entry-level salaries for staffwriters and story editors in television, for example, are exactly where they were a decade ago save for the cost-of-living increases that the writer’s union achieved on its own. For junior producers, it’s even worse: The salaries for co-executive producers are about 16 percent less than where they were two contracts ago.
The agencies themselves like to claim that this is because shows now order fewer episodes and shorter broadcast seasons than in the past and that this structural change has more to do with the stagnation than packaging. But of course, that also begs a question: Where the fuck have the agents been to argue on behalf of their clients for a different pay structure, one that acknowledges the changing reality of fewer episodes and more work in the production of each episode?
I’ll tell you where they’ve been. They’ve been in another room, counting cash. Again, the problem with packaging is not merely that clients are poorly repped in negotiations with other clients. No, it’s bigger than that. The problem is that the agency incentive to package shows and provide larger payments to themselves has obliterated any serious thought about aggressively negotiating on behalf of any writer, or actor, or director, large or small.
Why bother to fight for 10 percent of a few dollars more for this story editor or that co-executive producer of some actor or director when to NOT do so means less freight on the operating budgets of the projects that you yourself hope to profit from? Why serve your clients as representatives with a fiduciary responsibility and get the last possible dollar for them, when you stand to profit by splitting the proceeds of a production not with labor, but with management — the studios who are cutting you in on the back end? Why put your client’s interest in direct opposition to your own?
No reason at all.
Perhaps the ugliest tell in the current negotiations between the WGA and the agencies is the incredible, self-oblivious claim by the ATA that writers are naive to think that any of the vast packaging fees, if denied to talent agencies by studios, would ever find their way into the pockets of the writers themselves. No, they insist, the studios will just pocket that money and writers themselves will be no better off.
You grifting, soulless fuckbonnets. You are so divorced from your fundamental ethos that you have actually just made this argument: You as agents are capable of achieving millions in benefits FOR YOURSELVES; you can leverage these profits FOR YOURSELVES if you are permitted to do so. However, you are claiming in the next lying, mendacious breath that you couldn’t possible achieve any such outcome if you had to do it merely on behalf of YOUR CLIENTS.
In the face of that incredible self-own, I can only respond with a singular question that I would ask of any rank parasite: If you can only leverage profit for yourself, but not for me, what the fuck do I need you for? Why are you on this ride at all? At the point that he can only achieve benefit for himself and not for his client, what the fuck good is an agent?
Years ago, when I first learned about packaging, I asked Jeff Jacobs that same question. He had no good reply then. He has none now. He is still my agent because his agency wrote me a check for some of the damage done in secret and because he promised in no uncertain terms that I would never be packaged again. Nor would my projects be packaged; even though as a showrunner, I could now benefit from lopsided negotiations with others, I won’t do that to fellow writers, actors and directors. This has been the case for nearly two decades now; at the end of every business year, I write a check for 10 percent to CAA and with this client at least, Jake has no incentive to do anything but chase the last dollar for both of us. That’s what an honest agent does. That is ALL an honest agent does.
Has it helped the writers on my shows to never be packaged? Not as much as it ought. Why not? Because, quite obviously, the entire universe of screenwriters has had salaries and work-quotes depressed for decades by agents who have failed to do their fundamental duty and negotiate for better. I know this because I see the comparable quotes that come into HBO business affairs and how closely they hew to WGA minimums; as a showrunner, it’s not possible to demand that a network spend more of its money to hire writers above their quotes and the quotes of colleagues. Packaging has, over decades, crippled and circumvented the market for entertainment writers. And every negotiation by every writer with every studio or production entity begins with that fundamental reality. Only the end of packaging will restore a market in which writers are paid competitively for writing. And only an agent whose priority is having his client paid competitively is a means to achieving that result.
That this corruption has been allowed to go on this long is testament to the greed of the agencies themselves, to the inertia of the talent unions to this point, and to the anecdotal claims of some independent moviemakers that certain film projects only get made because of packaging by talent agencies. But hey, I’m calling bullshit on that, too. For one thing, this simply constitutes a failure to imagine a world that never had a chance to come to be, a world in which agents work aggressively for a film project not because they have a larger cut of the product, but because the 10 percent commissions on every sold project is the only true currency on which they can rely. And secondly, it’s fair to suggest that as many movies failed to get made because the packaging limited the negotiation only to writers, directors and actors at a given agency. That’s right: Why get the best talent for the best possible iteration of a story when it doesn’t maximize profit for the agency involved? The tail is wagging the fuck out of the entire dog, often to the great detriment of the work itself.
All in all, I’m delighted that the WGA has finally caught up to this malignant thievery and if indeed, the membership of my union is overwhelmingly convinced of the need to carry this fight forward, then I am certainly a good vote for such. I’ve been a good vote for such since anyone bothered to explain this horror show to me, however belatedly.
I’m for implementing a new code of conduct that requires any agency to abandon packaging before it can be permitted to negotiate with signatories to the WGA contract. And if that means I’ll have to depart from CAA and Jeff Jacobs, then that’s what it means. Bless you, Jake, but right is right and wrong is wrong.
Hell, I’m for more than that. Personally, I’m for filing a civil suit against the ATA and the Big Four for an overt and organized breach of fiduciary duty in which they have effectively pretended to represent clients while taking bribes from studios to keep those clients’ salaries and benefits lowered across the board. Looking not merely at civil law, but at the federal statutes against extortion and bribery, a curious and ambitious U.S. Attorney might enjoy a deeper dive into the realm of racketeering, because for the life of me, I can’t see a difference between packaging and any prosecutable case of bid-rigging or bribery I ever covered as a reporter in federal or state courts.
For that matter, I’m for riding around Bel Air and Westwood and Santa Monica in a rental car, running up in the driveways of these grifting motherfuckers and slashing tires. I’ve got that much contempt for this level of organized theft and for the tone-deaf defense of it by the ATA. But that’s me as an ex-reporter and a showrunner and a generally pissed-off writer talking. That guy is all in. As a WGAE council member, I’ll eschew the vandalism and listen to the members and support the will of the union as a whole. I just hope, after all these years of being robbed, that my colleagues are as united and as angry as they ought to be.
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Hi Mr. Simon,
I’m the Brazilian reporter who interviewed you a few months ago. I’ve just watched City of God for the second time (the first one was almost 20 years ago), and now I have a follow up question: were you inspired by Fernando Meirelles’ movie? The way the kids kill Lil’ Ze is very similar to the way Omar dies in The Wire. There are many parallels between season 4 and City of God. Please let me know if I’m wrong.
I know the work, but I have yet to watch City of God, which is no credit to me. It sounds like I need to see it and an embarrassment that I haven’t to this point.
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@amirpars_ says:
For some reason, you blocked me on Twitter for sending you two posts;
1. Commenting on your tweet praising Chomsky, by pointing out that he was a vociferous supporter of Castro, Chavez and Pol Pot.
2. Asking if you’d read Jason L. Riley’s “Please don’t help us”, as a counter argument against Michelle Alexander’s dreadful “The New Jim Crow”.
Can you please tell me which of these was offending to the extent that it deserved blocking?
Or is it more that you think of any person disagreeing with you as evil, regardless of where the facts lie?
My twitter feed is not, for me, a public opinion page. I curate it, leaving the voices I find interesting and coherent whether they reflect my opinions or not. Your rank and simplistic dismissal of Alexander’s work — which I know to be precisely true from two decades of reporting on the criminal justice system and the drug war in one city — assured me that I wasn’t going to miss anything going forward. If you think you seriously contended with the world that Alexander presented by offering up Riley’s treatise, then the loss of your voice in my feed is of little moment. Sorry.
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I’m Simon David.
This is weird.
I’m a documentary filmmaker and I’ve been mistaken for you before. I like your cinema and feel strangely connected to you…Hope we get a chance to chat over our names and view of cinema.
All the best and stay safe,
Simon David
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I work for a Catalan NGO. We are interested in getting in touch with you for one of our international campaigns in defense of Human Rights, particularly Freedom of Speech in Spain. Could you come back to us so we can send you the Manifesto we’re planning to make public in one month and a half? Thanks a lot, and best regards,
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Megan McCartney says:
To the webmistress,
Is there any way to purchase a signed copy of the Wire DVD set by David? My boyfriend is the biggest fan and watches this series at least once a year. I wanted to get him the best Christmas present and I know he would love this.
If not possible, thanks for your time!
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Nancy Hardin says:
I remember my shock when, after I first came to LA from the New York publishing world decades ago to work as a literary agent at a small agency, I was excoriated for giving material to the clients I felt were best suited for it rather than first running it by the agency’s tv packaging clients. Attempting to make a creative fit was the last priority on the list and I soon learned that this was the practice everywhere, not just at the agency where I briefly worked. So I’m cheering from the sidelines for a change to finally be made.
Leni Bitter says:
Hi Nancy, are you still in LA? Would love to hear how things are going, especially now in the last couple of months…
Have a great week and take care.
Jean-Marc says:
So glad this hit Deadline—what a read. Thanks for sharing this with such transparency, David.
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Neal says:
As someone who’s been working in film for over 30 years as a music editor, I was clueless about packaging, but it got me to thinking. We all know how the business has changed since 2008, with all the mid budget films gone, and along with that, film workers’ steadily rising rates of pay (or pay altogether), only to be replaced by union scale or whatever the studios deem fit to pay above scale, a take it or leave it attitude I haven’t experienced since my long ago non-union days.
So my question is, what do you think is responsible for this change? I, along with my co-workers, have attributed it to the market crash of 2008-09 and the new business model the studios have since followed: This almost all eggs in the mega budget super hero pic, with the few remaining going to lower budgeted films. The mid budget films that used to hold up the studios’ bottom line, and kept everyone working, gone. Which means if you can’t get a gig on one of the very few big budget films, good luck earning a living off low budget films or tv. And if you’re also paying alimony & child support? Oy!
Your article made me suspect something else working to lower film workers’ rates since. After all, there have been market fluctuations over time that have not affected the business of film in any but the most incremental ways. Since 2008, so many film workers have lost homes, experienced divorce, and worse, their lives irrevocably changed forever.
So I’m wondering if you think the packaging fees have affected the business in this way, or is it simply the market crash, or is it something more?
Hi Neal,
since you are strongly immersed in the industry – and I am a new writer around the block – I was wondering if there are any new developments in the last 12 months worth noting?
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hello david i’m a Chinese guy and I want to say I really like your work, the Deuce, the Wire, they’re fantastic.
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ON Scripture: Stephanie Crowder on Mark 1:9-11: The Pleasure Principle
The Rev. Dr. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder
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Mark 1:9-11: The Pleasure Principle
By: Rev. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, Ph.D.
I must admit the title of this article refers me to an unusual source. Yes, as I write a biblical commentary, I cannot help but recall a song that is not rooted in the Bible. It is a pop song - not a hymn, spiritual or sacred anthem - that pricks my attention. I am not a Janet Jackson aficionado, but her song, "The Pleasure Principle" from 1987 has a few lines that are still appealing almost 25 years later: "I'm not here to feed your insecurities. I wanted you to love me...It's the pleasure principle."
In this song, Jackson declares that what she thought was going to be long-term happiness ends up as "part-time bliss." Both parties are to blame in the relationship's demise. One party needed security and self-assurance; the other sought affection and love. Each person attempted to use the other for the sake of personal fulfillment; this is the pleasure principle. It is a principle in Mark's account of the baptism of Jesus, as well as the fabric of our 21st century society.
The way in which we manipulate our brothers and sisters for personal gain is not limited to intimate relationships. This sense of control for private benefit is not confined to sexual matters. Through other types and degrees of activity and speech, we try to please and consequently ascertain pleasure. People engage in extensive efforts to make someone happy while, at the same time, seeking that euphoria in return. Our world is filled with examples of the measures we take to get the applause so the hearer or recipient feels good. Yet, the real underlying motive is for the speaker to feel good about what she or he says. One gives a soundbite, and the audience explodes with approval. The audience affirms the message thus inciting the messenger to produce more of the same. The giver feeds this verbal hunger while at the same time needing to satiate her/his own desire. It is sick, circuitous cycle of pleasing to be pleased that pervades our political world.
The language of "food stamp president" appeals to a certain conservative base, while ignoring the dire reality of the nation's poor, is one example of this pleasure principle. Constant references to "getting them a job" while gaining thunderous applause do nothing but spur racial separation and suspicion. Such notations disregard the fact that no one takes pride in insecure government handouts, and no one group has a monopoly on getting welfare checks. Nonetheless, such words purposely resurrect the nostalgia of the 80's "war on drugs" rhetoric and "welfare queen" imagery. This syrupy oratory crosses both sides of the aisle. Whether one listens to the Republican debates or the President's State of the Union Address, these cues, although given to rally the troops and demonize the other, "speak" to much of the political pandering and pleasing. Dare I interject another pop culture reference? The late Whitney Houston's "Things You Say" posits ideas of the seduction of speech and talk. The song declares a love for words and "a lot of the things you say." We want what we say to be pleasing to everybody.
Yet, this pleasure principle is not limited to talk. Public activity demonstrates it as well. A "simple" decision by executives at the Susan G. Komen Foundation proved to be quite complex. An associate trying to take a personal stand against abortions decided that withholding funds from Planned Parenthood was the right thing to do. Although Komen denied such, many believe the action was political and rooted in an attempt to please anti-abortion activists.
Within days of its initial decision, Komen issued a statement declaring it would preserve Planned Parenthood's eligibility for future funding. This time Komen had to please a much larger and perhaps more powerful constituency. This latter group rallied to say women's health care need not be political fodder.
The Affordable Care Act provides health care benefits for the poor, coverage to college students through a certain age and grants to help transition individuals from nursing homes to community programs. For many, it represents a much-needed health care overhaul; it is good legislation. For others, it was always problematic due to the contraception constraints it places on certain Catholic institutions; it was (and for some, still is) not-so-good legislation. While trying to please those whose income makes little to no room for health insurance, the President displeased Americans who averred that he had crossed the religious freedom line. Like Komen, within days of trying to implement this controversial contraception policy, the President had to do an "about face" to quiet the roar of religious leaders.
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The Conundrum
In the Gospel of Mark, the author states that Jesus goes to John the Baptist to be baptized (1:9-11). Jesus, the Son of God, does not baptize John, but in an act of social reversal, John baptizes the one "who is more powerful" than he is. As Jesus comes out of the water, God tells Jesus, "You are my Son, the Beloved, with you I am well-pleased."
God expresses pleasure with Jesus. This is quite ironic. According to Mark, Jesus has done nothing at this point. Jesus has not healed a sick person. He has not baptized a sinner in need of repentance. He has not even spoken to anyone. Yet, God is pleased with Jesus.
We must take stock of the efforts we take to please each other. The state of political affairs should challenge us to rethink what we say for applause and how we feed off such. The conditions in our society ought to propel us to reflect on what we do for a pat on the back or nod of approval. While we say this and do that so others may clap and shout in agreement, the biblical text makes it clear that without doing anything, God was pleased with Jesus. The onus of fulfillment or pleasure did not rest with Jesus, but it was in God's hands. It was God's ultimate doing and power.
The real pleasure principle is not a cycle of doing and getting and doing and getting to feed hubris and ego but where we are silent and still. It is a reversal where those of power dare to serve those who are marginalized and decentered. It is a reversal where the rich risk walking in the shoes of the poor; that is if the poor have shoes. The reversal, the conundrum, of the pleasure principle is that we should question whether anything we say or do is really pleasing to ourselves, pleasing to others, and ultimately pleasing to God. It is not what we do, but what God says that truly matters.
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Israel Johnson (Schooled), Shelby Simmons (Andi Mack) and Scarlett Estevez (Daddy’s Home) have joined the cast of Disney Channel’s Bunk’d for the live-action comedy’s fourth season.
Camp Kikiwaka will see Johnson as Noah, a junior camp counselor and former child actor who is upbeat, enthusiastic and sometimes over-dramatic. Simmons will portray Ava, a junior counselor from Queens who is tough as nails but fiercely loyal to her friends, while Estevez will play Gwen, an eccentric and somewhat naïve new camper who has lived off the grid her whole life.
Returning cast members include Miranda May (Lou), Will Buie, Jr. (Finn), Raphael Alejandro (Matteo) and Mallory James Mahoney (Destiny).
The show has now started production for the upcoming season. Bunk’d is executive produced by Emmy-nominated producer Phil Baker (Andi Mack, Good Luck Charlie) and Erin Dunlap (Andi Mack, Jessie). Created by Pamela Eells O’Connell, Bunk’d began as a spinoff to Disney Channel’s hit series Jessie, which ran from 2011-2015.
Bunk’d is from It’s a Laugh Productions.
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Professor, American Cultural and Intellectual History, Trinity College, 2004-present
Director, American Studies program, Trinity College
Former Professor, History, City University of New York
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Favorite musician is Bruce Springsteen
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Whatever Lola Wants is an excellent French-produced, Moroccan-directed English-language film, starring the very underrated Laura Ramsey (most would know her from The Ruins or Middle Men) and a whole slew of great Arabic actors. This 8-million dollar film is like an epic indie film. One can tell that it’s an independent film, but it’s extremely ambitious and if it wasn’t for its group of unknown actors, it would seem like a very good blockbuster film starring someone like Amy Adams. Whatever Lola Wants is basically a good sports movie – A Brooklyn dancer is tired of her life and job in NYC and moves to Cairo, Egypt where she trains under the wing of a former famous Egyptian belly dancer. And the other story is about how different cultures handle each other – both are great interesting stories. The direction by Nabil Ayouch is really good and the Arabic actors (once she gets to Egypt) are excellent. Laura Ramsey is not a great actress, but she has tons of potential. This is one of those films where she would do better if she was improvising. The way she delivers her lines is almost like she was told that she has to stick to the script, but behind her eyes, she is a good actress, especially when she is dancing or emoting with her eyes. The best way I can describe her is that she is sort of like a combination of Jenna Elfman, Renee Zellweger, and Isla Fisher – in looks and acting style. And she is extremely hot and attractive with a great face and perfect shapely body. And she has an unbelievable amount of energy that makes her really likable. As a person from Brooklyn, I was pleased that they actually filmed in cool parts of Brooklyn (Dumbo and Williamsburgh) that we don’t often see when movies take place in NYC, all the apartments were furnished really nice, and the street scenes of Cairo make one want to visit Cairo.
Whatever Lola Wants is a totally touching and feel-good film. If this was a Hollywood blockbuster, it probably would get criticism for being a typical dramedy romantic film. But this film is not that. It’s a European film in the English language. And it’s more unique because of the Arabic flavor and showing the traditions and pop culture of Egypt. I don’t even know if it ever played in the USA, but it does feel like one of those nice light-hearted indie films that get a good word of mouth (a la Kissing Jessica Stein, Chasing Amy, Brothers McMullen, or Big Fat Greek Wedding).
There is so much eye and ear candy in this film as well: hot Laura Ramsey, hot Lebanese milf Carmen Lebbos (a la Monica Bellucci or Sophia Loren), sexy belly dancing, awesome music, flattering cinematography of New York City, Brooklyn, and Egypt, and so on.
The Taiwanese Region-Free blu-ray is excellent quality. Don’t get discouraged that it’s only 1080i – the 2:35.1 video quality is just beautiful. Great popping colors, crisp, good blacks, totally problem-free. The audio is excellent as well, just make sure to listen to the right audio which is the English: LPCM 5.1 track (which it automatically starts at). Do NOT listen to the DTS-HD 5.1 track which is totally messed up – it sounds like listening to something in an echo-filled tunnel. The LPCM 5.1 track rocks – clear audio and the music just wants you to get up and dance. This is a really excellent blu-ray. There are no extras. There are also Chinese and English subtitles. Please note that there are some scenes of just Arabic spoken, which is when you will have to manually turn on the English subtitles to see what they are saying. When watching this blu-ray, watch the NYC scenes without the English subs and then turn on the English subs when Laura Ramsey moves to Egypt.
The blu-ray also comes with a slip-cover.
Overall, this movie is an underrated gem and a total steal for 7 bucks on Taiwanese blu-ray. Whatever Lola Wants comes highly recommended!
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A stew in Hell’s Kitchen.
Mixed opinions on the Marvel/Netflix series The Defenders, the first major crossover event joining together their previous series Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist. Spoilers follow.
– Your mileage may vary, but I adored the multichromatic production design, which saw the individual heroes’ and villain’s scenes playing out in shades of red, yellow, blue, green, and white. I particularly enjoyed the way that this design would herald the ways that characters began to cross paths–a noticeably red door in a Jessica Jones scene through which Matt Murdock will first enter, for example.
– Speaking of Murdock and Jones, it was a breath of fresh air to see Matt behave like a committed attorney again, instead of a vigilante who is so beat up and exhausted that he can’t make it to court; and to watch Jessica do genuine detective work between pulls of whiskey. These get more or less dropped as the major crisis takes hold–with slight nods to their talents throughout–but for a few episodes, it’s important to see them as people with jobs, not just as superheroes.
– I found I enjoyed the completed mythology of The Hand as a group of five people so personally terrified of death that they created a world-spanning shadow organization solely to keep themselves from ever experiencing mortality. The plans and tools that they used to achieve this aim were less impressive, but otherwise made sense for their motivations.
– There were such tiny flickers of intelligence and awareness in Danny Rand that I thought maybe, for a second, he might be salvageable. But by series’ end, he remains Dumb as Hell, especially the moment in which he deduces that his magical gift is what opens the locked door, and then proceeds to fight Elektra right next to said door with said magical gift fully activated. There is only so much mileage you can get out of a guy who can’t stop proclaiming that he’s the Immortal Iron Fist, and by the time Colleen Wing is complaining to Claire Temple about how Danny is still a lost little boy you get the impression that everybody’s just throwing up their hands on what to do with the property they committed to adapting.
– The fights seemed better, at least. The face-off between Danny and Luke was enjoyably one-sided, the fight between Danny and Matt particularly dynamic. But nobody’s going to walk away from The Defenders believing that Iron Fist is the MCU’s foremost martial artist. I suspect that Agent May, for one, would wipe the floor with him, chi or no chi.
– I enjoyed Scott Glenn as Stick but I’m okay with having the character finally meet his end. He’d long since stopped being trustworthy, and being killed by his former student, right before making a typically brutal and pragmatic decision to execute Danny felt like a fitting die-by-the-sword ending.
– It’s not as bad as replacing Cottonmouth with Diamondback, but Elektra taking over as leader of the Hand from Alexandra fails to deliver on its promise only because it’s given such little time in the arc as a whole. And I’m not sure the series earns Alexandra’s death in the way that it plays out.
– I’m really confused about some teasers I saw: Were we or were we not expecting a brief appearance by The Punisher in this series?
– There are a handful of times that Murakami’s Japanese subtitles didn’t kick in, and I couldn’t tell at first if it was a production glitch or a dramatic effect. That said, I genuinely enjoyed that all five of The Hand understood each other and spoke freely in their chosen languages without missing a beat. It made me rather wish that they’d committed to it further, and shown us a sequence in which the five of them were all speaking something besides English. I would watch a two-hour movie or some other media that gave us the history of these five, who were in many ways a more interesting family than the one The Defenders resisted forming.
– It’s a bold decision to end the series with one of the most iconic panels of Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli’s Born Again, but I’m not sure it’s as easily translated between the two stories. Matt awakening in Sister Maggie’s convent after having his life pulled apart, his sanity wrecked, and being nearly murdered by his greatest enemy is a moment of great catharsis in Born Again. I’m not sure that finally reaching the goodness in Elektra’s soul and having a building fall on them is quite the same thing.
– I ended up so frustrated with the way Karen and Foggy continued to treat Matt’s heroism as an addiction he couldn’t kick, even in the face of a crisis that required somebody with his abilities. Trish, Colleen, Claire, and Misty all had concerns about their friends, but few of them judged them as harshly. And it’s hard for me to gauge that their time spent together in protective custody helped anybody else gain a better understanding of the world they’re on the periphery of.
– It was great to see Claire go toe-to-toe with Budokai. I was sad that we didn’t get to see the claws she grabbed from Colleen’s dojo at the end of Iron Fist.
– Overall: I enjoyed it. It didn’t disappoint me quite like Iron Fist or the second season of Daredevil, and for as much as we get of her, Sigourney Weaver makes as interesting a single-minded villain as either Wilson Fisk or Kilgrave. There are some enjoyable moments and some annoying ones, which I’ve come to expect from any Marvel Netflix show. My hope is that now that they’ve built to this series and removed The Hand as an overarching enemy, they each have room to explore their own stories further again. I want to see Luke Cage going back up against Mariah and Shades, and Jessica Jones getting in too deep with a case she’s not ready for. and Daredevil fighting garden variety, old-school mob crime more than I want the next team-up series.
– And I can still live the rest of my life happily if I never again hear the words “I’m the immortal Iron Fist.”
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New words – 18 January 2021
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half-tourist noun [C]
UK /ˈhɑːf.tʊə.rɪst/ US /ˈhæf.tʊr.ɪst/
someone who travels to a different city or country and spends part of the time working remotely while they are there
Ed Francis … is among a new breed of remote workers, or “half-tourists”. After giving up his office in Soho during lockdown, he spent July and August living and working in Palma, Mallorca, with his girlfriend, and is now considering a permanent move. “It took me a while to settle into doing things differently,” he said. “I had to free myself from the nine-to-five mindset.”
[theguardian.com, 25 September 2020]
schoolcation noun [C]
/ˌskuːl.ˈkeɪ.ʃᵊn/
a family holiday during which the children receive online schooling
As the school year for most U.S. children begins remotely, the schoolcation has evolved from a social media hashtag into a full-blown phenomenon embraced by major vacation brands such as Four Seasons, Playa Hotels & Resorts and more. Interested? As someone who has recently returned from a schoolcation in Sun Valley, Idaho, here are a few tips to help parents plan.
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revenge travel noun [U]
/rɪˈvendʒ.ˈtræv.ᵊl/
the activity of travelling and going on holiday more than usual as a reaction to not having been able or allowed to do so for a period of time
Revenge travel is this sinister buzzword that has been doing the rounds in the last few months to describe the angsty and bottled-up demand for travel that many of us are currently feeling. But is revenge as sweet as we’d like? The jury is still out on that.
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chat bench noun [C]
/ˈtʃæt.bentʃ/
a long seat in a public place where strangers are encouraged to sit and talk to each other
In a bid to fight loneliness, Avon & Somerset Police set up a scheme in May to create “chat benches”. Marked with a sign that reads: “Happy to chat bench. Sit here if you don’t mind someone stopping to say hello,” the seats break down invisible social barriers. Chat benches have since popped up across the globe.
[redonline.co.uk, January 2020]
joy strategist noun [C]
UK /dʒɔɪ.ˈstræt.ə.dʒɪst/ US /dʒɔɪ.ˈstræt̬.ə.dʒɪst/
someone whose job is to help people to be happier
Deeply driven by a sense of social responsibility, Harry, 50, works as a “joy strategist,” helping everyday people and artists like Jay-Z and Lauryn Hill connect their emotional dots. “I have a lot of friends that are healers, therapists, and life coaches, and I realized, that’s not what I want to do — I want to create a strategy around people finding joy and having joy be their North Star,” says Harry.
[Vogue, 23 October 2020]
social recession noun [C]
UK /ˌsəʊ.ʃᵊl.rɪˈseʃ.ᵊn/ US /ˌsoʊ.ʃᵊl.rɪˈseʃ.ᵊn/
a period when there is very little contact between all the people in a society
Typically, in moments of stress, we reach out to people. We spend time with people we love. And now we’re being asked not to do that, at least in physical terms. So I worry that we may incur what I think of as a social recession, with profound consequences for our health, for our productivity in the workplace, for how our kids do in school.
[mckinsey.com, 9 June 2020]
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vaccine stamp noun [C]
/ˈvæk.siːn.stæmp/
a mark made in a passport to show that the holder has been vaccinated against the covid-19 virus
The new “vaccine stamps” would allow tourists to avoid being held up at borders if the international travel industry starts to pick up in the middle of next year as the pandemic subsides. The stamps are being considered by ministers at the Department for Transport (DfT) as a significant way to boost the aviation industry by giving a degree of certainty to travellers planning overseas holidays next summer.
[telegraph.co.uk, 29 November 2020]
Blursday noun [C]
UK /ˈblɜːz.deɪ/ US /ˈblɝːz.deɪ/
a humorous way of referring to any day of the week in the time of the covid-19 pandemic, from the fact that it is sometimes difficult to know which day it is
Blursday is a term that’s being tossed around on social media right now to describe the merging of minutes, hours and days since COVID-19 shut so much of the world down … Days, at least for the last couple months, have been flowing into each other with no line delineating one from the other. … Blursday posts might be funny on Facebook, but Blursday is a dangerous space for many people.
[lunarecovery.com, May 2020]
V-Day noun [S]
/ˈviː.deɪ/
the day when the vaccination programme against the covid-19 virus was launched in the UK
A 90-year-old woman has become the first person to receive an approved Covid-19 vaccine in the western world—the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine approved last week for emergency use in the U.K.—as the nation’s National Health Service (NHS) embarks on “V-Day,” a term ministers are using to describe the biggest immunization campaign in the organization’s history.
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Public Sector Digital Marketing
Trumps Tweets are not the Standard for Government or Public Sector Digital Communications
By Joanne Sweeney 29th August 2018 Digital Marketing, Digital Transformation, Diploma in Digital Communications for Public Sector, Education, Joanne Sweeney-Burke, Press Release, Public Relations, Public Sector Digital Marketing Leave a comment
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Accredited online diploma launched to summit digital skills gap and plummeting trust in public sector
The Trump Tweet is a feature of the daily news cycle but it’s not the standard government or public sector digital communications according to the author of a new diploma which aims to bridge the digital skills gap for in-house communications professionals.
Joanne Sweeney-Burke of Digital Training Institute says public sector bodies are trying to catch up with the private sector in its sophistication and use of digital communications tactics and tools. The under-investment in people throughout the recession has left in-house public sector marketing professionals playing catch-up.
“The Europe-wide digital skills gap is 22% and this presents many challenges in terms of efficiencies, maintaining public confidence and the delivery of public services. There are countless examples of major government or public body furores where a breakdown in communications was blamed.
“Trust in public sector bodies, according to the OECD is in decline at 43%. Trust is important for the success of a wide range of public policies that depend on behavioural responses from citizens. Digital communications can support governments and all forms of public sector agencies in their quest for public trust,” says Joanne.
New skills required for Digital Age
The reliance on external providers for digital communications exacerbates the skills and knowledge gap says Joanne, who hosted Ireland’s first public sector digital marketing summit in June with 130 delegates attending, and plans afoot to host it in Brussels next February before it returns to Dublin in June 2019.
“Scaling digital knowledge internally will empower staff who are faced with a suite of new demands from a communications perspective. Government and public sector employees must be able to respond to, and even anticipate breaking news online, counteract fake news, track public sentiment on issues of public importance, analyse owned and big data as well as deliver on trust marketing.
“The communications landscape has changed and the public sector need to catch up because citizens are more demanding and expect customer care via social media and the delivery of a range of public services on their smartphone.
“There are a suite of new digital skills that public sector marketers must rely on, on a daily basis including community management, social listening, data analyses and visual storytelling to name a few.
Unique programme for public sector communicators
The first wave of public sector marketing professionals begin the new accredited Diploma in Digital Communications for Public Sector next week (September 3rd).
The 12-month accredited online diploma empowers communications professionals to lead out on digital transformation in their employing organisations. The modules are designed to have an immediate impact in the participating public sector or government agency.
Joanne says public interest messaging and citizen engagement is more challenging in the Digital Age.
“Share of voice online around any major political, public affairs or public information campaign is dominated by members of the public who can really shape policy and media narrative because of their ability to share and engage in online conversations.”
Don’t fight transformation
Joanne says the business of communications has been disrupted like every other sector.
“The world we now live in, is changing faster than we can say digital transformation. Legislation cannot keep up with the pace of the fourth industrial revolution, nor can industry, academia or politics. Every single sector you can think of is being disrupted.
“This lighting speed of technological change is also impacting skills and knowledge and has created a massive vacuum. You have no choice but to embrace it and find digital transformation champions in your organisation.”
So what can be done to tame the tide of change, if you want to ride the digital waves? According to Joanne it’s possible to leap-frog where you need to be in one year.
“I believe we must up skill, transition and embrace change with both hands, until the digital skills gap is a thing of the past. I designed this programme over an 18-month period with a number of key deliverables top of mind.
“Firstly, I wanted it to be relevant to the daily work of public sector marketing professionals. It was also important to provide strategic approaches and frameworks. I just didn’t want to provide the tactical training like how to run a Facebook Ads campaign. While all of that is included, the transformation piece requires the development of their critical thinking.”
The online Diploma is accredited in 22 countries and learners can join at any time to begin their 12-month digital transformation knowledge and skills journey. Find out more at https://publicsectormarketingpros.com/diploma/.
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Describing her experience attending a boarding school as a young girl on the Island, anthropologist Judith Okely notes:
The Isle of Wight, though imagined isolate, has been integral to the reproduction of a specific British cultural hegemony. At the inter-flux of maritime trading, war strategies, yachting, and differentiated holiday escapes, it elaborates royal connections and class divisions. Two prisons once incarcerated the most dangerous and the criminally insane, while idyllic locations record Queen Victoria, Tennyson, Keats and Dickens.
— Judith Okely, The Isle of Wight as a Site for English-British Identity, 2012
As memories of the great Empire fade further into history, the Isle of Wight has been relieved of most of its historical duties. Yet, traces of an older kind of Britishness still linger, having taken on a nostalgic quality. A native of Hong Kong, a former British colony, I have lived in the UK for over a decade. The question of my own cultural identity led me to investigate the Island, a microcosm of an old Britain, one which is strange yet familiar to me in a cultural, historical and personal context. Through exploring the myths surrounding Britishness, I hope to find a sense of place in my adopted country as a response to my own displacement.
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Top moments of Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin’s career…so far (VIDEO)
History was made today as the Detroit Red Wings announced that forward Dylan Larkin has officially succeeded the retired Henrik Zetterberg as the 37th captain in team history. As he enters his 6th NHL season, Larkin has enjoyed several personal successes on the ice for a team that hasn’t enoyed too many in recent years. … Read more
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Proposed new NHL divisional format would revive Red Wings rivalries
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Red Wings’ Todd Bertuzzi gets into scuffle with Predators’ Shane O’Brien (VIDEO)
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Red Wings forward Pavel Datsyuk decks Nashville’s Shea Weber (VIDEO)
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Ex-Detroit Red Wings GM Ken Holland’s worst trades – No. 2
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Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman’s next best coaching option is still available
It wasn’t exactly music to the ears of Detroit Red Wings fans everywhere when they heard the news that highly coveted free-agent coaching candidate Gerard Gallant interviewed with the New Jersey Devils to become their next bench boss. Embed from Getty Images Gallant and the Red Wings have a history, particularly involving now-GM Steve Yzerman. … Read more
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On This Date: Red Wings defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom plays final NHL game (VIDEO)
Former Detroit Red Wings defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom carved out a Hall of Fame career in the Motor City, during which he became known as arguably the greatest defenseman in NHL history. Embed from Getty Images But as it must for all of the greats, his career had to come to an end sometime. And unfortunately … Read more
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Red Wings’ Todd Bertuzzi knocks sense into Shea Weber (VIDEO)
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The Detroit Red Wings met up with the Nashville Predators in the first round of the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs, a series that would unfortunately not end up going Detroit’s way. The tone was set at the end of Game 1 when Nashville defenseman Shea Weber pounded Henrik Zetterberg‘s head into the glass WWE-style. Forward … Read more
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Nashville Predators forward Nick Bonino delivers harsh message to citizens still frequenting public areas
As the spread of COVID-19 continues, the National Hockey League decided to follow the NBA’s course of action and immediately suspend their regular season. While recommendations have been made for people to avoid areas where large gatherings can happen, apparently several folks in Nashville haven’t gotten the memo. Downtown Nashville is undefeated. pic.twitter.com/BFIOzukFct — Janna … Read more
Categories Detroit Red Wings Tags COVID-19, Nashville Predators, National Hockey League, NBA, Nick Bonino
Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne is outscoring Red Wings forward Justin Abdelkader
Well, this isn’t a stat that will bring joy into the lives of Detroit sports fans. Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne scored a goal last night against the Chicago Blackhawks, firing the puck into Chicago’s empty net to become the first goaltender since Arizona’s Mike Smith (against Detroit, no less) accomplished the feat in 2013. … Read more
Categories Detroit Red Wings Tags Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Justin Abdelkader, Nashville Predators
A prime coaching candidate for the Detroit Red Wings just became available
For Detroit Red Wings fans looking for their team to make a change at the head coaching position, a prime candidate just became available. Embed from Getty Images The Nashville Predators just announced that they’ve relieved head coach Peter Laviolette of his duties, along with assistant coach Kevin McCarthy. The Predators are viewed as Stanley … Read more
Categories Detroit Red Wings Tags Detroit Red Wings, Jeff Blashill, Nashville Predators, Peter Laviolette, Steve Yzerman
Dylan Larkin drops the gloves against the Predators
November 4, 2019 by Michael Whitaker
The Nashville Predators exploded in the second period of tonight’s game against the Detroit Red Wings, scoring four quick goals in the early goings of the middle frame and chasing goaltender Jimmy Howard from the net. That’s when Red Wings forward Dylan Larkin had seen enough. He dropped the gloves against Nashville’s Ryan Ellis who … Read more
Categories Detroit Red Wings Tags Detroit Red Wings, Dylan Larkin, Nashville Predators
Andreas Athanasiou finally scores his first goal of season
It may have taken him 13 games, but Detroit Red Wings forward Andreas Athanasiou finally has his first goal of the year! 🚨 Andreas Athanasiou1-0 #LGRW pic.twitter.com/XJFvUbu6Yg — Here's Your Replay ⬇️ (@HeresYourReplay) November 5, 2019 He took a pass from Filip Hronek at the bottom of the left face-off circle and sniped a shot … Read more
Categories Detroit Red Wings Tags Andreas Athanasiou, Detroit Red Wings, Nashville Predators
5 Bold Predictions for the 2019-2020 Detroit Red Wings
October 4, 2019 by Samantha Gerlach
Embed from Getty Images Hockey season has begun, and the Detroit Red Wings play their first regular season game for 2019-2020 on October 5th, opening on the road against the Nashville Predators at Bridgestone Arena. Their new general manager, Steve Yzerman is focused on developing his young team with an eye on returning to playoff competition once again. … Read more
Categories Detroit Red Wings Tags Adam Erne, Andreas Athanasiou, Anthony Mantha, Detroit Red Wings, Dylan Larkin, Moritz Seider, Nashville Predators, NHL Prospects Tournament, Niklas Kronwall, Steve Yzerman, Tampa Bay Lightning, Taro Hirose, Valterri Flippula
Former Detroit Red Wings forward passes away at age 48
July 9, 2019 by Michael Whitaker
Some sad news to report today – former Detroit Red Wings forward Greg Johnson has passed away at the age of 48. Greg Johnson, who was captain of the Predators from 2002-06, died Monday. He was 48 https://t.co/8cZjjcojVz — NHL.com (@NHLdotcom) July 9, 2019 He was selected by Nashville in the 1998 NHL Expansion Draft … Read more
Categories Detroit Red Wings Tags Detroit Red Wings, Greg Johnson, Nashville Predators
MUST SEE: Dylan Larkin scores overtime winner, again!
Talk about a player who is clutch in overtime! Detroit Red Wings forward Dylan Larkin capped Detroit’s comeback against the Nashville Predators on Friday night at Little Caesars Arena by potting the game winning goal in overtime, his fourth OT winner of the season! Andreas Athanasiou, Thomas Vanek and Tyler Bertuzzi also scored for Detroit … Read more
Categories Detroit Red Wings Tags Dylan Larkin, Nashville Predators
RHP Erasmo Ramirez signs with Detroit Tigers
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The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb
September 28, 2020 in ★★★, European films, Feature films, Pixillation films, Stop motion films, United Kingdom | Tags: 1993, Bolexbrothers, chimera, Dave Borthwick, laboratory, pixillation, stop motion, Tom Thumb | Leave a comment
Director: Dave Borthwick
Rating: ★★★
1993 was a great year for stop-motion animation: it saw the screening of the groundbreaking feature film ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas‘, as well as the Wallace & Gromit short ‘The Wrong Trousers‘, which also covered new grounds.
Much less well known is the stop-motion feature film ‘The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb’, also released that year. Made by Dave Borthwick at the British Bolexbrothers studio the film is a much rougher affair than the smooth stop-motion efforts of Disney and Aardman. In fact, it stands firmly in a tradition of gritty and disturbing stop-motion films that via Jan Švankmajer harks all the way back to Władysław Starewicz.
To begin with the film takes place in a dark and disturbing world, where large insects crawl and violence roams. In this gloomy world a poor couple gives birth to a child the size of a small fetus, whom they call Tom Thumb (in one of ca. three lines of dialogue in the entire film).
But Tom soon is kidnapped and taken to a sinister laboratory populated by several chimeral creatures tortured by insane experiments. A two-legged lizard-like creature helps Tom escape. Outside Tom meets a human tribe his own size, who unfortunately kill his chimeral companion. Jack, the leader of the tribe and a master of weapons, takes Tom back to the laboratory, where they eventually apparently destroy the laboratory’s power…
Much of what’s happening in this film is rather incomprehensible, and the plot could do with some cleaning. For example, it remains utterly unclear why Tom is kidnapped, and what the origin of the little people is. Throughout Tom remains a silent and innocent character, not unlike Pinocchio or Dumbo, and he hardly acts.
In the end the film is more interesting because of its disturbing images and for its unique artwork than for its story. The creators made especially well use of pixillation (the animation of people), giving all actors a grotesque appearance and ditto movement.
The best scenes remain the ones inside the laboratory, where Tom sees some pathetic creatures. Especially the one in which one of the creatures asks Tom to shut down the power that sustains them, is a moving piece of animation.
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb’ may never get the classic status of a ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ or a ‘The Wrong Trousers’, it still is a film that shows the limitless power of animation in the hands of creators with a lot of imagination.
Watch ‘The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb’ yourself and tell me what you think:
‘The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb’ is available on DVD
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Tactical Urbanism in Cheverly and Suitland, Maryland
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Ayinde, Andrea
Feehley, Rob
Marini, Alex
Perison, Emily
Reed, Tyra
Spector, Laura
Thomas, Parker
Clarke, Ella
Peaks, Kelly
Ritzer, Dylan
Sadiq, Thomas
Thomas, Kate
Winstel, Matt
Williams, Morgan
Foreman, Christopher
https://doi.org/10.13016/ycvz-jdho
What is Tactical Urbanism? Arts and urban consultant, Cara Courage, describes tactical urbanism as making small but impactful changes to the cultural and physical fabric of a city or town to improve the “urban lived experience.” These improvements can involve elements of art, nature, or community, among others. The elements are planned and introduced as part of strategic rejuvenation efforts. Unlike major gentrification construction projects, tactical urbanism elements can be introduced quickly and at a low cost. Additionally, tactical urbanism seeks to build on the preexisting characteristics of a community without stripping away what makes it unique. The Town of Cheverly: The town of Cheverly, Maryland features a mix of residential, industrial, and some commercial areas. After research, site visits, and communication with stakeholders, it was determined that the town could benefit from improved pedestrian accessibility and community-engaging spaces. Cheverly’s industrial parks are critical to its economy, providing jobs and income for town’s residents. For this reason, it is a priority to preserve the industrial areas while making them more accessible for workers and pedestrians. Specifically, access to public transportation can be improved with elements such as additional sidewalks, pedestrian bridges, bike lanes, and bike racks. Cheverly’s residential areas lack buffers from nearby industrial activities. Trees and fences should be added throughout the town to mitigate the negative impacts of industrial uses. The residential areas could also benefit from improved community recreation and gathering spaces. Local parks lack features that attract regular community use such as picnic tables, gardens, or other functional elements. It will be a priority to improve Cheverly’s residential areas to make best use of their existing spaces and foster greater community interaction. Finally, Cheverly’s commercial areas are dated and relatively inactive. The restaurants along Maryland Avenue don’t attract as much business as in the past and the once popular Friendly Inn is now largely unused. In an effort to revive these spaces, small projects such as creating patio space, safe pedestrian walkways, and improved parking locations can have a great impact. It is important to the town that the local businesses can thrive. Therefore, any tactical urbanism projects will aim to bring more foot traffic to the existing commercial areas and create spaces that community members will feel comfortable using. Creative Suitland and Sustainability: Creative Suitland began in February 2020 as an “arts-based community development strategy” that aims to support local arts through “job creation, artist opportunity, audience development, creative placemaking, and arts education.” Suitland, Maryland is an unincorporated community within Prince George’s County with approximately 25,000 residents. At its colorful facility, filled with locally sourced artwork, Creative Suitland’s weekly classes for all ages aim to create space for residents to build relationships through affordable arts entertainment. The facility includes a large auditorium, studios for dance classes, and rooms for meetings and art classes. Creative Suitland has the advantage of a unique community location. Across the street from the U.S. Census Bureau and near four public schools (William Beanes and Suitland Elementary Schools, Drew-Freeman Middle School, and Suitland High School), Creative Suitland is highly accessible, provided that the infrastructure exists to attract and manage artists. Volunteers have done an exceptional job of fostering an environment that emphasizes community needs and preferences. Further improvements can solidify Creative Suitland as a community asset. Exterior work that complements the building’s interior improvements can help Creative Suitland make bold placemaking statement. In conjunction with the Creative Suitland team, this report’s recommendations seek to enhance the beauty, accessibility, and sustainability of Creative Suitland’s building exterior and outdoor space. We suggest the flowing elements to bridge the arts, community development, and environmental sustainability: • sustainable lighting • green infrastructure • outdoor stage • outdoor furniture • green roof • grants and funding opportunities • pedestrian bridge.
Final project for PLCY688T: Team-Based Policy Lab (Spring 2020). University of Maryland, College Park.
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