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Charlotte Dujardin & Valegro No. 1 in World, 1st Ever Top Spot for Great Britain
8 years ago StraightArrow Comments Off on Charlotte Dujardin & Valegro No. 1 in World, 1st Ever Top Spot for Great Britain
Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro celebrating their Olympic individual gold medal performance in London that led to the pair becoming Great Britain's first top ranked dressage rider and horse in the world. © 2012 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com
By KENNETH J. BRADDICK
Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro who helped Great Britain rewrite dressage history by winning two Olympic gold medals, is ranked No. 1 in the world as of Saturday, the first time a rider and horse from her nation have been atop the International Equestrian Federation World Individual Dressage Rankings.
The 27-year-old rider and the 10-year-old KWPN gelding (Negro x Maifleur x Gerschwin) take over the top spot from the Netherlands’ Adelinde Cornelissen and Parzival in the rankings to the end of August, according to calculations by dressage-news.com. The official rankings will be posted early in September.
Charlotte and Valegro end almost seven years of domination of the top spot in the rankings by German and Dutch combinations–primarily Isabell Werth and Satchmo and Anky van Grunsven and Salinero, and, since 2009, Edward Gal and Totilas and Adelinde and Parzival.
Adelinde and the 15-year-old KWPN gelding (Jazz x Fidora x Ulft) that she took from an almost unrideable youngster to two World Cup titles to medals at the Olympics and European Championship will drop to second place after 13 months straight in the top spot.
All three top British partnerships, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Mistral Hojris, Carl Hester and Uthopia as well as Charlotte and Valegro have flirted with the top slot. But since the current format of the combination of rider and horse determining the world rankings was begun Jan. 1, 2006, no Briton has made it beyond No. 2 until the country ended a century-long Olympic dressage medal drought in London last month.
The world rankings calculate the top eight results at Grand Prix level in the previous 12 months, thus the leaderboard with Charlottee and Valegro at No. 1 covers the period from Sept. 1, 2011 to Aug. 31, 2012.
According to the dressage-news.com calculations, the rankings to the end of August are Charlotte and Valegro No. 1, Adelinde and Parzival second, Germany’s Helen Langehanenberg and Damon Hill third and Laura Bechtolsheimer and Mistral Hojris in fourth place.
Adelinde Cornelissen and Parzival at the Olympics. © 2012 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com
The British duo’s climb to the top began in March, 2011 with the first international CDI that led to their inaugural appearance in the rankings at the 188th spot, moving up to 63rd place a month later, 13th in July, getting to eighth in September, 2011 and second place in July this year.
The 18 months of the pair’s Grand Prix career saw them compete at 10 shows before the Olympics–from Hartpury, England, just minutes from their base at Carl Hester’s Gloucestershire training center, across the Atlantic to Florida’s winter circuit to Horses & Dreams meets Great Britain at Hagen, Germany in April where they set a new world record score of 88.022 per cent for the Grand Prix Special.
Results that counted toward the pair’s year-long tally were Olympia in London last December; Hagen, Germany in April and Hartpury, England in July, plus the sweep of first places in the Grand Prix, Grand Prix Special and Freestyle at the London Games Aug. 2-9.
Helen Langehanenberg and Damon Hill. © 2012 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com
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Isabell Werth, Kristina Sprehe, Steffen Peters Awarded 80% Brow Bands at Munich
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MUNICH, Germany, May 16, 2015--German Olympians Isabell Werth and Kristina Sprehe and Steffen Peters, the top American rider, on Saturday were awarded specially designed brow bands for membership in... Read More
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Saturday night at the movies? Maybe not just yet…
Richard Hall 21 September 2020
Why cinemas and other arts venues need their version of Eat Out to Help Out
Photo Richard Hall
I love cinema. From occasional visits as a teenager (which needed careful planning because I lived in a rural village served by just a couple of buses a day), to retirement, when I can make a spontaneous decision to see a film at any time, I have been in thrall to cinema.
But the last five months have been hard work. Home cinema and the combined charms of MUBI, Netflix, the BBC and BFI streaming services are no compensation for the little thrill of pleasure that ripples down the back of my neck when the theatre lights go down and the opening titles roll. I am so looking forward to experiencing it again but, and it’s a big but for me, I am not yet convinced by Government reassurances that cinemas are safe spaces. I’m still thinking very carefully about when I return.
My year revolves around three events. In October, I go to London for a week to the Film Festival. Four films a day is not unusual. In March, I’m at preview sessions organised by the Independent Cinema Office, once again around four films a day over a long weekend. From September to the following May, every Friday is film night at our local Film Society (which I chair); in between, I visit the two independent cinemas closest to me, the Broadway in Nottingham and the Showroom in Sheffield. I guess I average at least one film a week.
Cinema needs people like me. In fact, all the creative industries, especially theatres and concert halls as well as cinemas, do. But we have yet to understand just how significant the financial, cultural and psychological harm caused by the pandemic will be. There are worrying signs. We know the Royal Shakespeare Theatre is consulting on redundancies; provincial theatres like Plymouth and Skegness have already announced them; and in my home city Lincoln, the likely closure of the city’s Drill Hall, a multi-purpose arts centre valued and well used by the whole community, has already caused great sadness, even distress. While this is the result of funding cuts to grants from central Government and not directly Covid-19 related, the point is that lost revenues related to Covid-19 have the potential to make all such venues vulnerable to closure. If these resources are stripped from our lives, we all suffer.
Funding is everything. Where cinema is concerned (and I’ll concentrate on cinema because I’m familiar with it) economic viability depends mainly on two things, a steady stream of film releases and getting people through the doors. Their funding model uses a minimum guarantee per screening (a fixed sum which, in my experience working with distribution companies like Curzon and Altitude as the film booker for our film society, is around £100-£150) paid to the distributor, along with a percentage of the box office, probably about 35%. The rest of the box office, along with concessions sales, is used to pay the cinema’s running costs. The big multiplexes have something of an advantage over the independents as they can programme popular titles aimed at putting ‘bums on seats’ so they have less of a problem attracting customers. Independent cinemas on the other hand, whose programming frequently includes films that have a limited release (often those in a foreign language) attracting much smaller audiences, are in a much more vulnerable position.
Speaking on BBC’s Newsnight programme recently, Ben Roberts, CEO at the BFI said cinemas have lost around £5m per day since lockdown started. You can see why. Charles Gant, writing in September’s Sight and Sound (the BFI’s film magazine) reported that only 155 cinemas of the more than 900 across the nation had re-opened by mid-July. The average daily attendance and box office over that period were down substantially too. When the majority of theatres eventually feel it’s safe to re-open, the need for social distancing will affect how many people can get in (probably around 25-35% of the total capacity), with consequent knock-on effects on box office revenue. It would not be surprising if many, maybe most cinemas, made substantial losses during 2020.
The exhibition sector has tried to ready itself. The UK Cinema Association issued recommendations for a safe return, developed with the BFI, unions and the Health and Safety Executive among others, which cinemas are expected to follow. Responsibility for safety lies squarely with the cinemas and their staff. Risk assessments must be completed. To ensure maximum cleanliness and hygiene, staff will be encouraged to use PPE. There are new procedures to avoid queuing outside and inside theatres. To allow for frequent cleaning, showings may be reduced in number, start times staggered and one-way traffic flows introduced for entering and leaving. Protective screens are recommended at concessions and pick and mix snacks are banned (only popcorn will be available). Seating will be reduced and allocated via pre-booking to create safe spaces between individuals and groups. Customers are expected to wear masks when entering, moving through and leaving theatres, though it seems possible they will not be compulsory while watching a film (a relief to those buying a snack, no doubt).
Compared with the period before lockdown, when audience behaviour was very different, these operational changes could discourage many. An IPSOS Mori poll at the start of July revealed that 59% of people were very reluctant to return to cinemas. A lot of hopes were riding on Tenet, the recently released Christopher Nolan film and a likely bellwether to indicate if audiences have confidence in these precautions. And there are some encouraging signs. The latest box office figures from the BFI show attendance and revenue have shown improvement. But, as infection rates are picking up again and talk of a second lockdown emerges, people’s confidence to go and see films is likely to be affected, disappointing distributors hoping for positive news for the slate, including the new James Bond film due out in November, they have waiting. It looks a fair bet that many of these films may well not recover their costs. If that continues much longer, who knows what that will do for filmmakers, distributors, multiplex chains and the independent cinema sector.
Given the enormous amount the creative industries contribute to the economy (in 2019 DCMS reported that it was worth £111bn) you would think the Government might want to help. My entirely personal suspicion is they consider film, theatre, music, video gaming and the like, a bit ‘woke.’ They did belatedly announce some funding in the summer (£1.57bn in grants and loans) but it took a lot of lobbying and even then it was resisted. A certain advisor was quoted as saying, “The ballerinas can get to the back of the ****ing queue.”
A scheme like Eat Out to Help Out would help enormously. Though it cost £500m, 87,000 outlets got involved, and 64 million meals were sold, it was judged a success by the government. A rolling programme subsidising tickets for cinemas, theatres and concert halls would help encourage people like me back through the doors and give the creative sector a major confidence boost. Right now, it needs it.
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Air Pistol Pellet Dataset
Hamzah, N. (Creator) & Nic Daeid, N. (Supervisor), University of Dundee, 27 Feb 2019
Analysis of coupled axial and lateral deformation of roots in soil — figure data
Meijer, G. (Creator), Muir Wood, D. (Creator), Knappett, J. (Creator), Bengough, G. (Creator) & Liang, T. (Creator), University of Dundee, 2019
DOI: 10.15132/10000137, https://zenodo.org/record/1465758#.XRIHOOtKipo
Audience and Expert Perspectives on Second Screens (Transcripts of Co-Design Workshop and Expert Interviews)
Gorkovenko, K. (Creator) & Taylor, N. (Supervisor), University of Dundee, 5 Mar 2019
Centrifuge test data - Influence of initial stress distribution on liquefaction induced settlement of shallow foundations
Bertalot, D. (Creator) & Brennan, A. (Creator), University of Dundee, 2016
Changes in autofluorescence based organoid model of muscle invasive urinary bladder cancer
Palmer, S. (Creator), Litvinova, K. (Contributor), Dunaev, A. (Contributor), Fleming, S. (Contributor), McGloin, D. (Contributor) & Nabi, G. (Contributor), University of Dundee, 30 Jun 2016
DOI: 10.15132/10000108, https://www.osapublishing.org/boe/abstract.cfm?uri=boe-7-4-1193
Charting the Digital Lifespan Work Package 1 Data: Digital Experience at Life Transitions
Chemical composition of different light petroleum distillates (LPD)
Nic Daeid, N. (Creator) & Mat-Desa, W. N. S. (Creator), University of Dundee, 7 Feb 2019
Chemical composition of different medium petroleum distillates (MPD)
Chemical composition of different sources of diesel fuel
Chemical composition of different sources of petrol
Combined GWAS of metaformin glycaemic reponse in 1372 GoDARTS patients
Zhou, K. (Creator), Pearson, E. (Contributor) & Palmer, C. (Contributor), University of Dundee, 7 Oct 2016
DOI: 10.15132/10000119, https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ega/datasets/EGAD00001002277
Consent and Inclusion of care home residents: Additional research materials, analysis and results
Dee, M. (Creator) & Hanson, V. (Creator), University of Dundee, Sep 2019
DOI: 10.15132/10000150, https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/G066019/1 and one more link, https://ai.google/research/outreach/faculty-research-awards/recipients/?category=2011 (show fewer)
Coordination Controlled Electrodeposition and Patterning of Layers of Palladium/Copper Nanoparticles on Top of a Self-Assembled Monolayer (dataset)
She, Z. (Creator), Yao, Z. (Creator), Menard, H. (Creator), Tobish, S. (Creator), Lahaye, D. (Creator), Champness, N. R. (Creator) & Buck, M. (Creator), University of St Andrews, 2019
DOI: 10.17630/9d2592bc-bdac-49b2-bc7b-f456957304ab
Field data on the performance on bumblebee colonies (Bombus terrestris) in Scotland in 2014, exposed to imidacloprid and/or chlorpyrifos.
Connolly, C. (Creator), University of Dundee, 28 Apr 2016
Field data on the performance on bumblebee colonies (Bombus terrestris) in Scotland in 2015, exposed to imidacloprid, thiamethoxam or clothiandin
High resolution imaging reveals heterogeneity in chromatin states between cells that is not inherited through cell division.
Owen-Hughes, T. (Creator), Dickerson, D. (Creator), Gierlinski, M. (Contributor), Singh, V. (Contributor), Kitamura, E. (Contributor), Ball, G. (Contributor) & Tanaka, T. (Contributor), University of Dundee, 2016
DOI: 10.17867/10000102, http://idr-demo.openmicroscopy.org/webclient/?show=project-151
Macro Micro Studio: A Prototype Energy Autonomous Laboratory - supplementary information
Burford, N. (Creator), Jones, R. (Creator), Reynolds, S. (Creator), Rodley, D. (Creator), LLoyd, A. (Contributor), McGowan, C. (Contributor), McKean, C. (Contributor), McMahon, R. (Contributor), Tang, Z. (Contributor), Thomson, R. (Contributor), Wang , S. (Contributor), Chen, M. (Contributor), Crosley, D. (Contributor), Findlater, M. (Contributor), Golden, C. (Contributor), Nicoll, R. (Contributor), Potter, J. (Contributor), Watson, R. (Contributor), De La Cruz Welsh, G. (Contributor), Montejano, R. (Contributor), Tissot, J. (Contributor) & Nedukattil Sathyavan, T. (Contributor), University of Dundee, 2016
Measurements of Non-Linear Lensing in an Unpumped Semiconductor Disk Laser Gain Structures - dataset
Shaw, E. A. (Creator), Quarterman, A. (Contributor), Turnbull, A. P. (Contributor), Chen-Sverre, T. (Contributor), Head, C. R. (Contributor), Tropper, A. C. (Contributor) & Wilcox, K. (Contributor), University of Dundee, 7 Apr 2016
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Tag: Mobiquity
Mobiquity Study: 70 Percent of People Track their Health and Fitness Daily with Mobile Apps
A recent study by mobile engagement provider Mobiquity, Inc has found that while 70 percent of people use mobile apps on a daily basis to track calorie intake and monitor physical activities, only 40 percent share data and insights with their doctors.
Working with an independent research firm, Mobiquity’s “Get Mobile, Get Healthy: The Appification of Health & Fitness” study reveals the opportunity for healthcare professionals and organizations to leverage mobile to drive positive behavior change and healthier patient outcomes. According to the survey, 34 percent of mobile health and fitness app users said they would increase their use of apps if their doctors actively recommended it.
Here’s an infographic from Mobiquity with the findings: http://www.mobiquityinc.com/mHealth-infographic-2014. It’s also pasted to the right.
Mobile drives healthier lifestyles
According to Mobiquity’s research, 73 percent of people claim to be healthier by using a smartphone and apps to track their health and fitness. Fifty three percent discovered they were eating more calories than they realized. Sixty-three percent intend to continue, and even increase, their mobile health tracking in the next five years; 55 percent of today’s mobile health app users also plan to introduce wearable devices like pedometers, wristbands and smartwatches to their health monitoring in coming years.
Smartphone health tracking trumps social networking
For many, using a smartphone to track their health and fitness is more important to them than using their phone for social networking (69 percent), mobile shopping (68 percent), listening to music (60 percent) and making/receiving phone calls (30 percent).
But there’s room for improvement
What’s stopping people from using their health and fitness apps more? Doctor recommendations would be a big motivator, said 34 percent. Privacy was also a concern for 61 percent. But the chief reason people quit using these apps is simply because they forget – something that could and should be addressed by app developers to ensure health apps are less disposable.
“Our study shows there’s a huge opportunity for medical professionals, pharmaceutical companies and health organizations to use mobile to drive positive behavior change and, as a result, better patient outcomes,” said Scott Snyder, president and chief strategy officer at Mobiquity. “The gap will be closed by those who design mobile health solutions that are indispensable and laser-focused on users’ goals, and that carefully balance data collection with user control and privacy.”
Mobiquity commissioned independent research firm Research Now to survey 1,000 consumers who use, or plan to use, health and fitness mobile apps. The study was conducted between March 5-11, 2014.
Mobiquity’s study “Get Mobile, Get Healthy: the Appification of Health & Fitness” can be downloaded here: http://www.mobiquityinc.com/mHealth-report-2014.
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Biography Of Langston Hughes English Literature Essay
October 8, 2017 English Literature
James Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a minor kid, and his male parent relocated to Mexico. He was raised by his grandma until he was 13, when he moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to populate with his female parent and her hubby, before the household finally settled in Cleveland, Ohio. It was in Lincoln, Illinois, that Hughes began composing poesy. After graduation, he spent a twelvemonth in Mexico and a twelvemonth at Columbia University. During these old ages, he held unusual occupations as an helper cook, launderer, and a waiter’s assistant, and went to Africa and Europe working as a mariner. In November 1924, he moved to Washington, D.C. Hughes ‘s first volume of poesy, The Weary Blues, appeared in 1926. That same twelvemonth, Hughes went back to college, this clip as an grown-up pupil and an much-admired poet at the state ‘s first African American college, Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania. Spending any available weekend soaking up theatre and music in nearby New York City, Hughes fulfilled academic demands during the hebdomad. ( Academy of American Poets 1977-2012, hypertext transfer protocol: //www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83 )
A 2nd volume of poesy, Fine Clothes to the Jew, was published in 1927. The Harlem Renaissance was in full bloom, and Hughes became one of the famed immature endowments who flourished during this epoch. Some statement attended his famous person, nevertheless. Not all inkinesss savored his usage of linguistic communication, his version of blues and wind, or his intense and sensitive portraitures of workers. Hughes faced rough disapproval, including his appellation non as poet laureate but as the “ poet low-rate ” of Harlem. ( Academy of American Poets 1977-2012 )
Runing caput: Biography of Langston Hughes 3
As Hughes completed his old ages at Lincoln University in 1929, he besides completed his first novel, Not Without Laughter, published in 1930. He received fiscal aid from Charlotte Mason, the frequenter he shared with Zora Neale Hurston and Alain Locke, among others, Hughes besides accepted her counsel sing the contents and tone of the novel. He stated letdown with the completed novel, but the text remains in print, retaining cheering representations of the diverse populations within the black community. ( A+E Networks 2012, hypertext transfer protocol: //www.poemhunter.com/langston-hughes/ )
In 1930, nevertheless, Hughes separated from the control and the fiscal support of Mason. His unity meant more to him than any indulgences her wealth could supply, therefore, as with the interruption from his male parent, Hughes abandoned fiscal security in hunt of his ain ends. When Mason disapproved of him, Hurston and Locke, who remained loyal to her, dropped from Hughes ‘s list of connexions. ( Noteworthy Black American Men, Gale.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center, Gale hypertext transfer protocol: //www.biography.com/people/langston-hughes-9346313 ) .
As one of the laminitiss of the cultural motion known as the Harlem Renaissance, which he practically defined in his essay, “ The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain ” ( 1926 ) , he was advanced in his usage of wind beat and idiom to picture the life of urban inkinesss in his poesy, narratives, and dramas. Having provided the wordss for the musical Street Scene ( 1947 ) and the drama that inspired the opera Troubled Island ( 1949 ) , in the sixtiess he
returned to the phase with plants that drew on black Gospel music, such as Black Nativity ( 1961 ) .
A originative author for four decennaries, he abandoned the socialism of his young person, but ne’er gave up protesting the unfairnesss committed against his fellow African Americans. ( A+E Networks 2012 ) Among his most popular creative activities was Jesse B Semple, better known as “ Simple, ” a black Everyman featured in the syndicated column he began in 1942 for the Chicago Defender.
In his ulterior old ages, Hughes completed a two-volume autobiography and edited collected plants and in writing volumes. Because he frequently employed wit and seldom portrayed or permitted violent struggles, he was for some old ages disregarded as a theoretical account by black authors, but by the 1980s he was being reassessed and was freshly appreciated as a important voice of African-Americans.
Hughes ‘s work continued to look after his decease. He arranged The Panther and the Lash ( 1967 ) , a aggregation of verse forms, but it was non published until after his decease. Partnerships such as Black Magic ( with Milton Meltzer, 1967 ) and a alteration of the 1949 anthology, The Poetry of the Negro 1746-1970 ( edited by Hughes and Arna Bontemps, 1970 ) were published, acknowledging his parts and keening his decease. Following old ages have brought Good Morning Revolution, a aggregation of extremist poetry
and essays ( edited by Faith Berry, 1973 ) ; Collected Poems, a full and well-indexed consecutive aggregation of his poesy ( edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, 1994 ) ; The Return of Simple, a new aggregation of his Jesse B. Semple narratives ( edited by Akiba Sullivan Harper, 1994 ) ; Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender, a aggregation of his non-Simple newspaper columns ( edited by Christopher C. De Santis, 1995 ) ; and Langston Hughes Short Stories, retrieving antecedently unpublished short narratives and roll uping some now out of print ( edited by Akiba Sullivan Harper, 1996 ) .
Through his authorship and through his kindness as a “ dean ” of literature, Hughes cherished tonss of authors and left behind an digesting bequest of literature. More than 20 old ages after his decease, on the 89th day of remembrance of Hughes ‘s birth in 1991, among great jubilation by celebrated authors such as Maya Angelou and Amiri Baraka, his cremated remains were buried beneath the commemoratively designed “ I ‘ve Known Rivers ” tile floor in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. Visitors noted research centre may see this floor, wage respects to his remains, and retrieve the adult male. ( Harper, 2012, hypertext transfer protocol: //www.biography.com/people/langston-hughes-9346313 )
Langston Hughes died of troubles from prostatic malignant neoplastic disease in May 22, 1967, in New been given landmark position by the New York City Preservation Commission, and East 127th Street has been renamed “ Langston Hughes Place. ”
Hughes wrote eleven dramas and infinite plants of prose, including the well-known “ Simple ” books: Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Stakes a Claim, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple ‘s Uncle Sam. He edited the anthologies The Poetry of the Negro and The Book of Negro Folklore, wrote an acclaimed autobiography ( The Big Sea ) and co-wrote the drama Mule Bone with Zora Neale Hurston. ( Academy of American Poets 1977-2012 )
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Posted on Last updated: September 10, 2017 Categories Guides & Tips
By: Author Elijah Petty
Overwatch Hero Guide: How to Play (and Defeat) Doomfist
Doomfist came to Overwatch more than a month ago, but players are still learning how to use him. The new hero is extremely powerful, but re quires players to use new strategies, as well as a playstyle that is totally new to Overwatch. Every hero has an ideal range of combat: for example, Soldier: 76 is strongest in a mid-range firefight, and Widowmaker is designed to kill over long distances. Doomfist is the first hero designed for melee use.
So how can you master Doomfist? As with any other hero, there are two aspects to playing effectively: mechanics and strategy.
Doomfist’s primary fire has a small spread, but only four shots. These shots recharge in a matter of seconds, but never fast enough in the heat of battle. This attack doesn’t do much damage, and the slow recharge means that it’s not very effective.
Right-clicking charges Doomfist’s Rocket Punch, by far his most powerful attack. When fully charged, it deals 200 damage instantly, sending the target flying backward. If the victim hits a wall, that impact deals another 50 damage on top of the attack itself. That means that with this attack alone, in the right conditions, Doomfist can kill any support or DPS hero with a single blow.
Doomfist’s Rising Uppercut (mapped to the Shift key) strikes directly in front of the hero, launching Doomfist and anyone the attack hits into the air. It doesn’t deal much damage, but it is an important part of Doomfist’s strategy.
Pressing ‘E’ unleashes the Seismic Slam. Doomfist launches forward, smashing the ground and doing a small amount of damage to anyone in front of him. Like the Rising Uppercut, this attack isn’t impressive for its power, but it is strategically important.
Doomfist’s ultimate, Meteor Strike, sends Doomfist shooting into the sky to return as a meteor. It does a lot of damage on impact, but it’s also quite easy to dodge. When used alongside Zarya’s Graviton Surge, it can be devastating.
Finally, Doomfist has a passive ability: every time he hits an enemy hero with one of his abilities, he gains a small amount of shield, to keep him alive a little longer.
Doomfist’s most powerful ability is his Rocket Punch. It can instantly kill any hero with 250 HP or less, and it can deal massive damage to tank heroes as well. This ability is extremely useful in choke points and narrow corridors, as there aren’t as many opportunities for an enemy to dodge out of the way, and it is more likely that the enemy will be knocked into a wall for that extra 50 damage. If you’re pressing a point, attacking through narrow areas can give you a strategic edge. If you’re defending, narrow areas are the perfect place for an ambush.
If the Rocket Punch isn’t enough to finish off an opponent, the Rising Uppercut can be a smart next move. This attack deals a small amount of damage when it hits, but it also launches the enemy into the air with you, preventing them from escaping. Then, hit them with the primary fire or the Seismic Slam for a finishing blow.
The Rocket Punch only has a four-second cooldown, which means you can use it pretty frequently. Because the cooldown is so short, it’s often a good idea to use that as your first attack, once you’ve picked a target. If they survive, Doomfist’s weak primary fire may place you at a disadvantage, but you’ll only have to survive for four seconds before you have another chance to destroy your opponent with your most powerful attack.
Doomfist’s strength is hitting hard and fast. He’s not designed for long, drawn-out duels. Use his abilities as a combo to deal as much damage as you can, as quickly as you can, and then make your escape. Experiment with using abilities in different orders to suit different situations.
Rising Uppercut and Seismic Slam may not do a lot of damage, but they can also be used for mobility purposes. Rising Uppercut can let you reach higher areas on some maps, and Doomfist’s leap forward for the Seismic Slam can be used to jump away from enemies. Using these abilities defensively as well as offensively can save your life.
A word of warning: Doomfist is great for flanking and taking down enemies one-on-one before rejoining your team, but don’t overextend. Killing enemies with single blows feels great, but you have to be careful not to get overconfident. Doomfist has a huge hitbox, and when his abilities are on cooldown, he’s almost defenseless. When outnumbered, Doomfist will almost always lose. Think carefully before you charge into the enemy team; Doomfist is incredibly powerful, but he’s also very fragile.
Countering Doomfist
Doomfist is strong, but he’s not as strong as he might seem at first. Regardless of what hero you play, there are strategies you can use to defend yourself against Doomfist. Stay in the open, and avoid narrow areas of the map where you can’t avoid the Rocket Punch. Stay near teammates, so that Doomfist can’t pick you off. Don’t charge after Doomfist to attack; make him come for you, but avoid the first Rocket Punch. Once that ability is on cooldown, you have four seconds to use Doomfist as target practice.
There are also several specific heroes that do well as Doomfist counters. Pharah can stay in the air, firing at Doomfist while staying out of range of the Rocket Punch. Soldier:76 and McCree are both mid-range characters, which gives them an advantage. Roadhog can out-damage Doomfist, and he has enough health to withstand the Rocket Punch, as long as it’s a one-on-one duel. If Doomfist gets caught out in the open, Widowmaker can easily pick him off.
The strongest counter against Doomfist is definitely Sombra. With Doomfist’s heavy reliance on abilities, and his weak primary fire, Sombra can disable him more thoroughly than anyone else with her Hack ability. Once that’s done, she can easily finish him off with her primary fire.
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Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes is a mobile collectible RPG game developed by Capital Games and published by Electronic Arts.[1][2] The game received a soft launch in Australia during October 2015, and was formally released on November 24, 2015.[3][4][5]
1 Premise
2.1 Modes
2.2 Guilds
2.3 Raids
2.4 Ships
2.5 Mods
4 Controversy
4.1 AhnaldT101
4.2 Cheating
5 In other media
Premise[edit]
Heroes is set in a cantina in a distant corner of the Star Wars galaxy, where people of varying species compete in simulated holographic battles involving notable figures throughout Star Wars history for fame and fortune.[6]
Gameplay[edit]
The main area in the game; The Cantina
Galaxy of Heroes allows players to collect Star Wars characters from both the main canonical universe established after Lucasfilm was acquired by The Walt Disney Company and the Legends-canon Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series, create teams with them, and use them to fight in turn-based battles. There are multiple ways to collect characters: some are given to players immediately, whereas others are gained via game play or as in-game rewards in the form of shards that are earned by players to unlock and or promote their characters. Shards can either be earned from battles or bought from a shop. Maximizing one non-event character's rarity to seven stars unlocks a special shop in which excess shards from seven-star non-event heroes can be exchanged for gear. The shard amount needed for the character to be unlocked will also correspond to their starting star level, which can range from one to seven stars. Characters can be promoted to a max of seven stars with each additional star increasing their power. There are also training droids that can provide varying levels of experience points to level up characters. Gear, mods, and ability parts can all upgrade characters, although some gear can primarily be won only from battles for one particular side of the Force, to encourage players to play on both sides. The maximum level cap in Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes is 85, which was changed from the previous level cap of 80 (previously 70). The maximum gear level is gear 13; and up to Relic 8. Players level up their user level by gaining experience by completing daily quests or completing battles. The main currencies of the game are "credits" and "crystals". Credits can be used to train a hero, buy things from the store, obtain a hero when you have enough shards or promote a hero. Crystals can be used to buy packs from the store, buy credits, acquire character shards, and energy and arena refreshes. Crystals can be bought with money or can be given as rewards from arena and daily challenges.
Battles are divided up into rounds, with the character with the highest speed attribute going first. Each team consists of up to five different hologram avatars which battle until defeated or retreated. Battles are turn-based, again based on the speed attribute, where the combatants apply various buffs to their own team and damage to the opponent all the while trying to deal the most overall damage and have the last character alive.
Modes[edit]
There are various modes for players to engage in, including squad arena (player vs. player), dark and light side battles, cantina, galactic wars, raids, and various special events. All modes are played versus the computer controlled AI, including the squad arena battles in which the AI controls a player-created team.
Center Table:
Light Side Characters Campaign: Lead a squad of light side heroes to defeat dark side enemies in 3-wave battles.
Dark Side Characters Campaign: Lead a squad of dark side villains to defeat light side enemies in 3-wave battles.
Upper Center Table:
Shipments: Purchase randomly available character shards and gear with crystals and credits, which change every six hours.
Store: Purchase data cards to get characters and consumable resource items, or redeem a Bronzium data card with earned Ally Points.
Upper Left Table:
Neutral Cantina Campaign: Lead a squad of heroes and villains to defeat unlikely combinations of enemies in 3-wave battles.
Neutral Mod Battles Campaign: Engage in 5-wave battles against enemies enhanced by particular mods to earn low-grade mods and slicing parts.
Mod Challenges: Win mod battles to earn better mods of a particular stat.
Upper Right Tables:
Arena Battles: Battle against other player squads in 5-on-5 battles, while competing for daily prizes based on ranking.
Galactic War Campaign: Defeat a daily gauntlet of 12 player squads with squads from your entire collection of characters, while being aware of permadeath.
Lower Left Tables:
Daily Challenges: Complete daily challenges to obtain important resources and select gear.
Grand Arena: Players at maximum level are grouped into 8 and pitted against three opponents in a mini territory battle with rare gear and slicing parts at stake.
Lower Right Tables:
Special Event Battles: Participate in special battles reflecting Star Wars scenarios to earn rewards
Shard Shop Shipments: Purchase gear or shards for General Grievous with currency redeemed from excess 7-star character shards
Relic Workshop: Make top-gear characters even stronger by pooling together spare parts to upgrade their personal artifacts, called relics.
"Back Room" Areas: Far Left, Guilds
Guild Raids: Work together to defeat a powerful boss and earn rare gear and shards for a special character.
Territory Battles: Work together to drive enemy armies away from a large swath of territory.
Guild Shipments: Purchase items with guild tokens earned from guild victories, including character shards.
Guild Member Item Requests/Donations: Allows a guild member to donate or request gear items.
Statistics Management: Review the guild's current statistics, since its inception.
Guild Search: Search for other guilds.
Far Right, Ships
Fleet Arena: Pit your created fleet against other player's fleets and compete for daily rewards based on ranking.
Daily Ship Challenges: Complete daily challenges to earn ship resources.
Fleet Arena Store: Use currency earned from arena ranking to buy blueprints, shards and high-grade ability materials.
Neutral Fleet Battles: Use your fleet to defeat computer-controlled enemy fleets, composed of heroes, villains or both, in single-wave 3-on-3 battles.
Guilds[edit]
Guilds were introduced to the game in April 2016.[7] As with most games, guilds in Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes consist of players teaming together to achieve common goals. In this game, guilds consist of a maximum of 50 players that can go on raids, and participate in both Territory Wars and Territory Battles.
Raids[edit]
Raids were added to the game in April 2016 with the introduction of the Rancor. Guilds send in teams of five hologram avatars at a time to battle multiple powerful bosses across four different stages, with all bosses sharing a universal health bar that is split into fourths, one for each stage, which decreases as the damage the guild inflicts begins to accumulate. Once it empties completely, the raid is won and participating members will be given rewards.
There are three types of raids, each set in a different era and known for its unique difficulties. One lets the player fight a Rancor, another lets the player battle a Separatist AAT, while in another the player faces off against ancient Sith warriors, along with Darth Nihilus, Darth Sion and Darth Traya, all from the Knights of the Old Republic series.[8] The first raid introduced, the rancor, is considered easy by many players, and a single player can complete the raid. There are 7 different tiers of difficulty for this raid, including Heroic Rancor, also known as HPIT. This raid requires 7 star characters and is the only place to acquire Han Solo shards (except for the Galactic Bounty I event). The second raid added to the game is Tank Takedown, where a guild takes on General Grievous, A Separatist AAT, and Rocket and Battle Droids. Although this raid is harder than Rancor, it is still easy to higher level guilds, and some players are able to finish this raid on their own. This raid only has 2 tiers, including Heroic AAT, also known as HAAT. The newest raid, The Sith Triumvirate Raid (STR), is also the hardest, however with the recent addition of the Galactic Legend Supreme Leader Kylo Ren, this raid is now possible for a single player to beat like the others. Like Rancor, this raid has 7 Tiers, including Heroic. Heroic Sith Raid (HSTR) is in high demand by players, with many of them moving to guilds that can complete HSTR. This raid also lead to the nerf and rework of many factions most notably the Nightsisters. The heroic version of this raid gives out Darth Traya shards, mod salvage, which was introduced in Mods 2.0 and Gear 12+ gear, which are required to fill slots 4 and 5 of the gear level 12. The only other place to get G12+ gear is the weekly shipments store. On December 9, 2020 The Pit Challenge tier was added into the game and brought with it Relic 8. The pieces needed for relic 8 dropped exclusively in the new raid. This addition was very controversial as it required a minimum relic level 5 to participate.
Ships[edit]
Ship battles were added on November 22, 2016. This feature allows players to control various spaceships through their captains and pilots.[9] The vehicles are controlled and played similarly to the main game with the player's characters, with the addition of an unassailable capital ship, which offers leadership bonuses, special abilities, and additional attacks.
23 different ships were available at the launch of the new feature. Ships enhancement mirrors that of characters, each area available for improvement - rarity, level, skill level - requiring a different, special currency. These currencies are acquired through daily challenges and daily reward for fleet arena standing.
Mods[edit]
Mods (short for modifications) are an optional upgrade for characters within the game. Once the player's account reaches level 50, Mods become available to any of their characters that are level 50 or above. There are different categories of mods, each of which yields a different primary effect on the stats of the character that has equipped it. This effect allows players to increase statistical areas of their characters to yield better performance in battle.
In the late summer of 2018, EA released an update that significantly changed how mods worked, dubbed "Mods 2.0". The update grants players more freedom on what kinds of mods they would like to acquire by eliminating character faction requirements from the Mod Challenges, and provides suggestions for each character on which mod types should be used. In addition, mods graded as Mark V (the original, typical Mark limit) can be "sliced" to increase its color tier and open up extra secondary stats, and can be sliced once more to reach an extra-higher, exclusive Mark VI tier. Slicing requires parts acquired from an extra set of very difficult mod battles against characters of a certain faction, while all mod battles now use a separate pool of energy.[10]
Reception[edit]
Aggregate score
Metacritic (iOS) 70/100[11]
The game has received a mixed response from critics, currently holding a 70/100 rating on Metacritic based on 8 reviews.[11]
Controversy[edit]
AhnaldT101[edit]
In June 2020, a popular Galaxy of Heroes YouTuber, Christopher “AhnaldT101” Ponicki, had one of his accounts banned from the game for breaking the Capital Games Terms of Service. Ponicki then released a series of videos covering this topic and he pledged to no longer spend money on this game. [12] [13]
Cheating[edit]
Capital Games has received criticism for their inattention to cheating in player-versus-player battle modes.[13]
In other media[edit]
In 2019, one of the game's many characters, the Jedi Knight Guardian, made an appearance in the first issue of the Marvel comic book series Star Wars: Age of Republic - Obi-Wan Kenobi, which identifies her as Jedi Master Tosan.[14]
GameStop exclusively released a special action figure based on the mythic character Jedi Knight Revan[15] on February 10, 2020.
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^ Csaki, Daniel (November 16, 2015). "Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes – A Mobile Game Under the Radar". Press Examiner. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
^ Hodapp, Eli (October 13, 2015). "'Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes' Soft Launches in Australia". Touch Arcade. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
^ Osborn, Alex (November 24, 2015). "'Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes Out Now". IGN. Retrieved November 30, 2015.
^ Slater, Harry (November 25, 2015). "Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
^ EA Capital Games (November 24, 2015). Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes (iOS, Android). Level/area: Intro cutscene. Cantina Keeper: "Welcome! Allow me to introduce you to Galaxy of Heroes. This holotable game can be your path to fame and fortune."
^ https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/.../game-update-4-24-2016-part-1
^ Fahey, Mike. "Star Wars: Galaxy Of Heroes Gets Guilds, Raids And Huge PvPness". Retrieved January 18, 2017.
^ "Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes - Ships Trailer". Cosmic Book News. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
^ "Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes - Mods 2.0 Update Video". YouTube. EA Star Wars. August 30, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
^ a b "Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes for iPhone/iPad Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
^ "SWGoH: EA Capital Games bans AhnaldT101's account". Gaming Fans. June 9, 2020. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
^ a b "Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes content creator AhnaldT101's feud with EA Capital Games explained". Squad State. June 8, 2020. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
^ @Jody_Houser (January 3, 2019). ""100% yes. I love that game."" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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Caused By: Cryptobia branchialis — C. iubilans — C. salmositica — C. bullocki — C. borreli
4 Clinical Signs and Pathology
4.1 C. branchialis – Respiratory Ectoparasite
4.2 C. iubilans – Gastrointestinal Endoparasite
4.3 C. salmositica – Haematozoic Endoparasite
4.4 C. borreli – Haematozoic Endoparasite
4.5 C. bullocki - Haematozoic Endoparasite
6 Treatment and Control
Cryptobia species are bi-flagellated protozoan that infect a range of vertebrate and invertebrate hosts. A few species are known for causing disease as both endoparasites and ectoparasites of fish. C. branchialis is the only ectoparasite of the five pathogenic species listed above. They may be found on the body surface or gills of host fish while endoparasitic species may reside within the intestine or the blood. A couple of blood parasites have ectoparasitic life stages on the external body surface.
The parasites are oval or ribbon-like in shape with both flagellae attached to their anterior end. One flagellum is recurrent and ends freely at the posterior end of the cell. They also have a very prominent kinetoplast. Replication is by binary fission.[1]
Asia, North America and Eastern Europe and also in the Atlantic ocean in wild species.
C. bullocki is isolated in marine fish in the USA and Northern Gulf of Mexico.
C. iubilans is associated with the intestine and therefore transmitted faecally, while C. salmositica, C. bullocki and C. borreli are haematozoic species and therefore transmitted by bloodfeeding leeches. Some are also found in surface mucus. C. salmositica has been diagnosed where no leeches were found so transmission is poorly understood[2]. It has been suggested that parasites enter the recipient fish via surface lesions or the gills. Transmission via the water in shared tanks is efficient and is only slightly reduced when infected and non-infected fish are separated by wire screens.
Many species of both marine and freshwater fish are infected. Although salmonids are often of prime concern, resident fish, such as flatfish in Chesapeake Bay are also affected. Interestingly, these native fish survive the disease if kept in water maintained at 10-13⁰C after infection but die if water is 5⁰ or below.
C. bullocki causes disease and mortality in marine fish. C. salmositica has also been found on fish in sea water. The remaining pathogenic species are parasitic to freshwater fish.
Leech numbers increase in November and so prevalence and severity of parasitaemia are higher in haematozoic infections during late Autumn and Winter in the northern hemisphere.[3]
Clinical Signs and Pathology
C. branchialis – Respiratory Ectoparasite
Gills of fish infected with C. branchialis are abnormally red, their bodies are covered with copious mucus which often darkens shortly before death. Fish are anorexic and swim close to the water’s surface.[4] The parasite attaches to the gill epithelium using its recurrent flagellum. Death eventually occurs due to thrombus formation.
C. iubilans – Gastrointestinal Endoparasite
C. iubilans causes lethargy, anorexia, stunted growth, emaciation and mortality, which can take variable amounts of time, as short as one week, but usually less than 3 months. Multifocal granulomas form in the liver, spleen, kidney, stomach and intestine.
C. salmositica – Haematozoic Endoparasite
Exophthalmia, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly, oedema, ascites, anaemia and marked emaciation are signs of infection with the blood-borne C. salmositica. Anaemia is usually microcytic and hypochromic, caused by haemolytic action of parasitic secretions (haemolysin, subsequently identified as a metalloprotease) and antigen release after immune destruction (immune complex driven). Obvious lesions are present in haematopoietic tissues of infected fish. Immunosuppression is also marked. Anorexia can be an important contributor to immunosuppression.
Infected fish are also more sensitive to environmental hypoxia due to the anaemia and occlusion of blood vessels by parasites and consequently impaired perfusion. This can be an important exacerbating factor of mortality when oxygen supply is already restricted due to overcrowding, slow flow or algal blooms.[5]
Histopathological features include focal haemorrhages, vascular congestion and occlusion and oedematous changes in the renal glomeruli. Lesions can be present in the liver, gills and spleen also, and generalised inflammation progresses to mononuclear infiltration after 3 weeks. After this point, parasites are found extravascularly where they cause tissue necrosis.
C. borreli – Haematozoic Endoparasite
This parasite also causes anaemia. Diffuse degenerate changes are seen on pathological examination, with glomerulitis and tubulonephrosis and necrotic foci in the liver. Infection eventually destroys 40% of the renal tubules, causing renal and osmoregulatory failure. Mitochondrial deterioration is seen in late infection.
C. bullocki - Haematozoic Endoparasite
Anaemia, splenomegaly, lethargy and ascites in summer flounders is the typical presentation of C. bullocki infection. Mortality usually occurs within 11 weeks. Ascites and haemorrhaging in the ventral musculature often also occur around 5 weeks after infection. In acute infections, the parasite can be found extravascularly, often in adipose and haematopoietic tissues.
Necrotic foci form in the liver and diffuse splenic necrosis is also seen. Ulcers may be found in the abdomen and oedema and haemorrhage is common in the gastrointestinal tract. Focal lesions and congestion in the glomeruli may also feature.
Clinical signs and pathology as discussed individually above can be used for preliminary diagnosis.
Parasites are easily demonstrated in wet mounts from tissue samples during the acute phase of disease. Fresh samples from gills, mucus, viscera or blood/ascitic fluid depending on the species implicated, can be examined under cover slips using bright field or phase contrast microscopy for moving flagellates. Smears can also be fixed in ethanol and stained with Giemsa for confirmation under light microscopy.
Clotting techniques and haematocrit centrifuge techniques are useful for detecting low level parasitaemia of haematozoic species, e.g. in early or chronic disease stages.
Antibodies can be detected sensitively by either microscopic immunosubstrate enzyme technique (MIDET) or Immunofluorescent Antibody Testing (IFAT). ELISA is also available for C. borreli in carp and C. salmositica in salmonid fish.
Treatment and Control
Isometamidium chloride is effective against C. salmositica in Chinook salmon and can also be used prophylactically. It has also been used against other species.
A live vaccine is available which provides protection against C. salmositica for 2 years.
Selective breeding from resistant or asymptomatic breeds is also sensible.
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↑ Woo, P. T. K (1987) Cryptobia and cryptobiosis in fishes. Advances in Parasitology, 26:199-237
↑ Becker, C. D., Katz, M (1965) Distribution, ecology, and biology of the salmonid leech, Piscicola salmositica (Rhynchobdellae: Piscicolidae). J Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 22:1175-1195
↑ Bower, S. M., Margolis, L (1984) Detection of infection and susceptibility of different Pacific salmon stocks (Oncorhynchus spp.) to the haemoflagellate Cryptobia salmositica. J Parasitology, 70(2):273-278
↑ Kuperman, B. I., Matey, V. E., Barlow, S. B (2002) Flagellate Cryptobia branchialis (Bodonida: Kinetoplastida), ectoparasite of tilapia from the Salton Sea. Hydrobiologia, 473:93-102
↑ Woo, P. T. K., Wehnert, S. D (1986) Cryptobia salmositica: susceptibility of infected rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri, to environmental hypoxia. Journal of Parasitology, 72(3):392-396
Woo, P. T. K (2001) Cryptobiosis and its control in North American fishes. International Journal for Parasitology, 31(5/6):566-574.
Woo, P.T.K. (2006) Diplomonadida (Phylum Parabasalia) and Kinetoplastea (Phylum Euglenozoa). In: Fish Diseases and Disorders Volume 1: Protozoan and Metazoan Infections (ed. P.T.K. Woo), CABI, Walingford, UK, pp. 46-115.
Date reviewed: 24 August 2011
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Miercuri, 19 decembrie 2018, 12:45 English | Top News
Eugen Teodorovici
Romanian authorities sparked market outcry on Wednesday by announcing on Tuesday evening a series of massive changes to Romanian tax and other corporate rules, changes due to be applied, theoretically, in less than two weeks. The Bucharest Stock Exchange opened with strong losses today and pension funds, investors and other private sector bodies reacted harshly to measures which include a Greed Tax (yes, that is its name), changes to private pensions and state intervention on electricity and gas prices.
UPDATE 1 President Klaus Iohannis urged the government on Wednesday to drop plans for the new taxes, saying they were "throwing Romania into chaos". He said PSD was to blame of "greed"
UPDATE 2 Also on Wednesday, the American Chamber of Commerce in Romania (AmCham Romania) called for an urgent withdrawal of the emergency ordinance, calling its provisions as lacking responsibility and causing generalised chaos in the economy.
The Social Democratic Party (PSD) -led government, mired in other priorities such as stifling the fight against corruption, has been facing serious difficulties in putting up a state budget for 2019. In these circumstances, Finance minister Eugen Teodorovici on Tuesday evening showed up with a totally unexpected draft emergency ordinance which introduces a wave of changes to financial and tax regulations.
And that happened with less than two weeks to go before a new year comes around, with all that means for companies setting up their plans and dues for that year.
And the minister presented the moves in a nationalistic way, in line with the tone set by PSD leader Liviu Dragnea last weekend, when he attacked corporations and criticised the West for Romanian troubles. Minister Teodorovici even called a new tax on bank assets the "greed tax".
This tax is similar to one already existing in Hungary and would be applied to an index used in interbanking market, which is calculated by Reuters.
Among others, the draft emergency ordinance also:
sets a ceilling for natural gas prices for a 3-year period
allows people to withdraw their money from a key private pension fund
decides that companies in the telecom and energy sectors would be forced to pay taxes amounting to 3% of their revenue to market regulators.
decides that a development and investment fund managed by the government would amount to 10 billion euro
The draft ordinance claims the measures would have a RON 50.5 billion impact on the state budget.
On Wednesday, the Bucharest Exchange (BVB) opened in the red with its key index BET going as low as -7.67%, with other indices also reporting significant losses. The biggest loss was that of Transilvania Bank (-14.47%), with banking and energy companies reporting the biggest losses.
The Coalition for the Development of Romania (CDR), an association which unites many major investors in the country), blasted the ordinance, saying it breaches the minimal constitutional norms and was unacceptable.
An association of pension fund managers also issued a statement saying the proposals for the sector were throwing Romania into chaos.
And a key strategic consultant for the National Bank, Adrian Vasilescu, said the "greed tax" on bank assets was a "speech or conception error". Neither the National Bank, nor other banks made any statement on the issue by Wednesday afternoon.
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All functions of MoDOT are under the supervision of the Director. The Director's principal assistants are the Chief Engineer, Chief Financial Officer, Community Relations, Governmental Relations, Organizational Results, Chief Counsel’s Office and Audits and Investigations. The Asst. Chief Engineer and Director of [http://wwwi/intranet/mo/ Multimodal Operations] report to the Chief Engineer. General Services, Risk Management, [http://sharepoint/facilitation/CT/Pages/default.aspx Financial Services], Equal Opportunity, Employee Benefits, Information Systems, Human Resources, and the Audits and Investigations report to the Chief Financial Officer.
All functions of MoDOT are under the supervision of the Director. The Director's principal assistants are the Chief Engineer, Chief Financial Officer, Community Relations, Governmental Relations, Organizational Results, Chief Counsel’s Office and Audits and Investigations. The Asst. Chief Engineer and Director of [http://wwwi/intranet/mo/ Multimodal Operations] report to the Chief Engineer. General Services, Risk Management, [http://sharepoint/facilitation/CT/Pages/default.aspx Financial Services], Equal Opportunity, Employee Benefits, Information Systems and Human Resources report to the Chief Financial Officer.
The Audits and Investigations reports to both the Chief Financial Officer and the Highway and Transportation Commission.
The Audits and Investigations Division reports to both the Director and the Highway and Transportation Commission.
▼ 120 Interstate Maintenance Expectations
120.1 Pavements
120.2 Shoulders
120.3 Bridges
120.4 Traffic Control
120.5 Roadside Features
120.8 Welcome Centers
120.9 Uninterrupted Traffic Flow
EPG articles are not referenced as "sections" but as EPG XXX.X or "articles" to avoid confusion with MoDOT specs (which are contractually binding).
1 100.1 Construction Inspection Guidelines for MoDOT Organization and Committees
1.1 100.1.1 MoDOT Organization
1.2 100.1.2 MoDOT Committees
1.2.1 100.1.2.1 Contractor Claims Committee
1.2.2 100.1.2.2 The Associated General Contractors of Missouri - Missouri Department of Transportation Joint Cooperative Committee
1.2.3 100.1.2.3 Route Marking Committee
2 100.2 Division of Construction and Materials
2.1 100.2.1 Project Finances
2.2 100.2.2 Setting Right Of Way And Drain Marker Plates
2.3 100.2.3 Notice to Proceed
2.4 100.2.4 Division Operations
100.1 Construction Inspection Guidelines for MoDOT Organization and Committees
100.1.1 MoDOT Organization
MoDOT organization is shown on this MoDOT organization chart. MoDOT is responsible for all work on Missouri's state transportation systems.
The Commission is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. The Commission appoints the Director.
MoDOT is under the general control of the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission (MHTC.) The Commission is composed of six members, appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. Not more than three may be members of the same political party. Since there is a two-party system in Missouri, three of the commissioners are Democrats and three are Republicans. Their terms of office are six years.
Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission Policies
When proposing agenda items for the MHTC's consideration, follow the MHTC backup format.
Service on the Commission is indeed a very important service to the people of Missouri. Members must make definite decisions, establish detailed policies and approve or modify general guidelines recommended by the Director.
All functions of MoDOT are under the supervision of the Director. The Director's principal assistants are the Chief Engineer, Chief Financial Officer, Community Relations, Governmental Relations, Organizational Results, Chief Counsel’s Office and Audits and Investigations. The Asst. Chief Engineer and Director of Multimodal Operations report to the Chief Engineer. General Services, Risk Management, Financial Services, Equal Opportunity, Employee Benefits, Information Systems and Human Resources report to the Chief Financial Officer.
100.1.2 MoDOT Committees
100.1.2.1 Contractor Claims Committee
The purpose of the Contractor Claims Committee is to review contractor's construction claims and to assist the Chief Engineer in arriving at a solution. Members of the committee are: Director of Program Delivery, Chair; the Director of System Management and the Chief Financial Officer.
100.1.2.2 The Associated General Contractors of Missouri - Missouri Department of Transportation Joint Cooperative Committee
If a suggestion cannot be put into effect, an explanation is given as to why it cannot be done. Even where honest differences of opinion prevent implementation, discussions of this type are helpful in gaining mutual understanding of each other's problems and opinions. This procedure has brought about a very fine working relationship between the AGC of Missouri and the MoDOT.
100.1.2.3 Route Marking Committee
The Route Marking Committee is composed of the State Traffic Engineer, Secretary with the Director of Program Delivery, the Director of System Management, the Transportation Planning Director, the State Design Engineer, the State Construction & Materials Engineer and the State Maintenance Engineer having voting rights. Their purpose is to study and review recommended route markings on state and U.S. routes.
100.2 Division of Construction and Materials
Conflict Resolution Information
Flowchart depicting the conflict resolution process
Construction & Materials is part of Program Delivery. The division organization chart is available.
Contractors have the privilege of appealing field decisions. This does not mean that either the resident engineer or the district construction engineer should be bypassed. All field matters must normally be decided at the project level before an appeal to the district or to the Division of Construction & Materials is in order. When a contractor has indicated that a field decision will be appealed, a full report of the facts should be made to the district as soon as possible. The district will, in turn, send a copy of the report to the Division of Construction & Materials. They will then be prepared to discuss the matter with the contractor. A flowchart depicting the conflict resolution process is available.
As much authority as possible is delegated the engineer nearest the scene of action. This person is better acquainted with conditions and, therefore, better qualified to act.
Before letting any contracts, the design office sends proposals that have been prepared for bidding to the construction office for review. The liaison engineers review the proposals for errors or Special Provisions difficult to administer. If correction is needed, it is discussed with Design. If Design concurs, they send a letter or telegram modifying the proposals to those contractors who obtained them for bidding purposes. The corrections are made a part of the proposal and are included in the actual contract after the job has been awarded.
100.2.1 Project Finances
100.2.2 Setting Right Of Way And Drain Marker Plates
The one thing that determines if a project uses the old markers or the new Location Survey Markers is the date of the Approval of Preliminary Plans. Projects that have an Approval of Preliminary Plans dated before January 1, 2001, are only required to have the old steel channel and R/W placard set at the R/W break point. These can be set by design or construction personnel for any of these projects. Projects that have an Approval of Preliminary Plans dated after January 1, 2001, Location Survey Monuments are required to be set under PLS supervision. Most of these points will be set with a Witness Post but if a Witness Post is destroyed during construction, as long as the Location Survey Monument is undisturbed, the Witness Post can be replaced. If the Location Survey Monument is disturbed, it needs to be replaced by a PLS. If any plans fall within the guidelines set forth prior to January 1, 2001 the right of way or drain markers and plates required are to be purchased from the district stockroom and coded to the project as Function 220, and to the applicable Object Code.
100.2.3 Notice to Proceed
If the contractor elects to start work before the authorized date, the district should contact Construction & Materials to determine if all requirements have been met. If any requirements are not met by the authorized date, Construction & Materials will notify the district. The contractor should not be allowed to perform any contract work until receiving notice that the Commission has executed the contract. The count of working days should start on the authorized date or the date work actually starts, whichever is earlier.
100.2.4 Division Operations
The "Final Utility Report", Form C-13, should be sent by the District Final Plans and Reports Processor to the Financial Services Division. Financial Services sends this information to the Federal Highway Administration.
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Introduction à la programmation orientée objet (en Java)
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Ce cours introduit la programmation orientée objet (encapsulation, abstration, héritage, polymorphisme) en l'illustrant en langage Java. Il présuppose connues les bases de la programmation (variables, types, boucles, fonctions, ...). Il est conçu comme la suite du cours « Initiation à la programmation (en Java) ». Comme son prédécesseur, ce cours s'appuie sur de nombreux éléments pédagogiques : vidéos sous-titrées, quizz dans et hors vidéos, exercices, devoirs notés automatiquement, notes de cours.
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ce cours etait tres interressant!!! il m'a beaucoup aide a maitriser les bases de la programmation oriente objet en java
Nous terminons notre cours par une étude de cas détaillée qui met en lumière les différents concepts rencontrés.
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This is the last series of episodes of this MOOC, introducing object-oriented programming (OOP) in Java. In this last series of episodes, we wanted to present to you an entire problem, a very general problem, a case study which will consist in representing different watches. There will be analog watches, digital watches, watches that will be both; watches will have accessories such as bracelets, bodies,... So a rather general frame which could serve for example as management software for a jeweler's or as sales software or even for printing catalogs. Through this, we will illustrate different concepts that were presented all along this course. The themes we have chosen to present to you in these summary episodes include first of all the notion of conception, the modelling of a problem from an OOP point of view : which classes have to inherit from which other ones, whether abstract classes are needed, how to make the calculation of watches' prices polymorphic, or how to make the output polymorphic. Output will be treated in a very specific way, with an override of the toString method inherited from Object, and an adaptation of the output for each class, to have a polymorphic output. We will also go over interfaces, with the different mechanisms, digital or analog watch mechanisms, and even double mechanisms, which will be both analog and digital, then we will end with a last episode presenting a problem we have not yet seen in this course, which is the notion of polymorphic copy, how to copy heterogeneous collections; how to copy watches which can contain different components, each behaving in different ways, on the point of view of either price or display. This is the menu for this final week. But let's start by presenting the problem in more detail. We want to model watches, let's say that watches are products, in the sense that a product is something that we can sell, that has a price. Watches will have basic mechanisms, typically hands, to display the time, and will be made of different accessories such as a body, a bracelet, the glass, the clasp. The products we will discuss later on will have a price, and the calculation of this price can vary. So this aspect is interesting for conception, as it varies depending on a base price that is fixed at the level of the product. All products can be displayed, and the output can vary, as each product must be displayed in its own way. Of course, what is behind these notions of "can vary" and "displayed in its own way", is the concept of polymorphism. Then, the mechanisms we have discussed just above, and the accessories that make up the watches, these mechanisms and accessories are also products. We have used the verb "to be" several times, which refers to inheritance relationships. We could for example buy accessories or mechanisms separately, so each of these could behave like a product, and have its own price, and its own way of calculating its price. Fundamentally, there are three sorts of mechanisms: mechanisms we will refer to as analog, to represent watches with hands, whereas digital watches will be represented by a digital mechanism, and we will have watches that are both analog and digital. For mechanisms that we call double mechanisms, we will suppose that they display only one time, so we will say that there is a time associated to a watch here, and that it will have two ways of being represented. This is a point of view chosen as an exercise we could of course have chosen a different point of view which would consist in associating a time to each of the representation mechanisms, either analog or digital, but it is not the point of view that we took here, in order to introduce an interesting problem on coding these classes. To sum up, regarding classes, that is, regarding the types of objects that we will have in our program, we will have watches, we will have products, we will have mechanisms and accessories, where accessories can be bodies, bracelets -- all of these will be classes -- regarding mechanisms, we can have analog mechanisms, digital mechanisms, or double mechanisms. That is the whole set of classes. Regarding inheritance relationships, we have seen that watches are products, so they will inherit from Produit (TN: means "products"), we have seen that analog, digital and double mechanisms are sorts of mechanisms, so these three classes will naturally inherit from the Mecanisme class We have also seen that mechanisms and accessories are also products. So all of this will lead to the following hierarchic model: Right at the top, we have the concept of a product, accessories, mechanisms and watches are products (TN: "montre" means "watch") however, a watch will have a mechanism and accessories, so it will encapsulate those classes. Among the accessories, we will find bodies, bracelets (TN: "boitier" means "body"), clasps, glasses (TN: "fermoir" and "vitre", resp.), all of these are accessories. Mechanisms can be analog or digital, these are both mechanisms. Finally, the double mechanism. Originally, it is a mechanism, but we have decided, according to the last remark, that it indicated only one time, which we will certainly represent at the level of the notion of mechanism, and that it behaves both as analog mechanism and digital mechanism, which will certainly require an interface, but we will see later on how to model this exactly. Let's see how all of this can be translated into code By the way, we suggest that while you watch these videos, you take breaks from time to time to write the code yourselves in your favorite development environment. First point, watches are products, this is represented with a Montre class, which is a, which inherits from Produit, and so of course we introduce a Produit class, of which Montre inherits. And for now, we simply have an empty main. Second point, watches have a mechanism, so they will encapsulate a mechanism, watches have a mechanism and are made of, they have, different accessories. So how do we translate different accessories? It is simply a collection of accessories, a dynamic array of accessories. And so this introduces two new classes. A Mecanisme (TN: "mechanism") class and an Accessoire (TN: "accessory") class. Next aspect: products have a price So we could simply encapsulate a price, naturally represented as a double, but we have a constraint saying that the price can vary, which shows that we will have to calculate the price. For example, later on, we will decide that the price of a watch is the price of its mechanism and the sum of the prices of its accessories, and so a price is no longer a datum but becomes a process, which we will represent with a method here. This method returns a price, naturally a double, then we want to say that the price can vary, so this means that we may have a polymorphic behavior Let's say that, by default, we will return the base price, the base value, and so what we called a price, earlier, will become a base value, to be the price of the product by default, but maybe later, in other subclasses of the Produit class, it will simply be used in different calculations for the price of other products, subclasses derived from the Produit class. Moreover, all products can be displayed, which means concretely that we will add a polymorphic toString method, that will be capable of giving us a character string corresponding to displaying a product. Products can be displayed but each in their own way which means that we will have a polymorphic output. We will leave this for the next episode, we will come back to it in that episode For now, we will simply write a header to remember that we want to override the toString method for products. Regarding mechanisms and accessories, we said that mechanisms and accessories are products. So here too, we have an inheritance relationship, where the Accessoire class inherits from the Produit class which was defined earlier, and the Mecanisme class also inherits from the Produit class. About mechanisms: there are three kinds of mechanisms so these three classes, of course, extend Mecanisme. We have MecanismeAnalogique (TN: means "analog mechanism") which is a Mecanisme, which inherits from Mecanisme, we have MecanismeDigital which inherits from Mecanisme, and MecanismeDouble which also inherits from Mecanisme. And final point, about double mechanisms, we will suppose that there exists only one time within the double mechanism, but that double mechanisms behave as analog mechanisms and as digital mechanisms, which is something we haven't translated here, and which will affect this inheritance relationship, but we will come back to that in an episode specifically dedicated to that aspect. There, this concludes this first episode on the presentation and object-oriented modelling of the problem. The next episode will focus on polymorphic display and on filling the Produit class.
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There’s still hope for a ‘Fantastic Four’ sequel
Producer is still keen for a second movie.
The sequel to the Fantastic Four reboot is likely to happen and could be out by 2017.
Writer and producer, Simon Kinberg, said he still has hope for the project and is currently trying to figure out what direction the movie will take.
“We’re figuring out what the movie would be,” he said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
“I’d like that to happen.”
He continued, explaining that he’s ‘really focused’ on making the sequel happen and would like to see the same cast return to their roles.
With renewed focus on the second movie, Kinberg said while he was ‘disappointed’ by the reboot’s icy box office reception, he hasn’t had a chance to do a ‘full deep dive’ into what went wrong.
“Do I think it was unfairly treated? I don’t know,” he said.
Meanwhile, earlier this month, former Marvel boss Stan Lee joked that the movie failed to live up to MCU’s success because he didn’t make his traditional cameo.
Speaking to Larry King, he laughed that the producers bucked tradition by not featuring him or getting ‘quality assurance’ by discussing the story with the Marvel guru.
If Kinberg gets his Fantastic Four sequel it’s likely to be released by 9 June 2017.
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Low carbon liquid fuel – centre stage at this month’s OFTEC conference
“We must focus on solutions that will address the unique issues associated with hard to treat rural properties,” says OFTEC’s CEO Paul Rose
On Tuesday 18th June, OFTEC will be unveiling the results of its independent research into how oil-heated homes can best transition to a low-to-zero carbon heating solution and reduce their overall emissions.
The unveiling will take place at OFTEC’s annual conference when industry leaders unite to discuss the progress made and the next steps towards securing a sustainable future for the off-grid sector.
OFTEC 2019 CONFERENCE
THE HILTON PUCKRUP, TEWKESBURY
To book a free place, please contact Andy Peirson at OFTEC at apeirson@oftec.org or 01473 618552
OFTEC CEO Paul Rose, who will update members and guests on the importance of taking action to support the decarbonisation of rural homes, will be joined by Jason Woods, founding partner of energy consultancy group, In Perpetuum Partners, who will share the findings of the six-month research project they have now completed for OFTEC.
This project, which has investigated the potential of liquid biofuels, has provided detailed analysis of the oil-heated housing stock, included modelling which compared the rival low carbon energy solutions for these homes.
Technical director at Kiwa UK Group, Mark Crowther, who has provided guidance to the Committee on Climate Change, will also share an insight into the role hydrogen could play in decarbonising the heat and transport sectors.
“This year’s conference comes at an important time as the issue of climate change continues to dominate the political and public agenda and the urgent need to find sustainable and realistic solutions grows stronger,” said OFTEC CEO Paul Rose.
“Since we met at last year’s conference, real and significant progress to develop an alternative fuel for the UK’s oil using homes has been made. This includes the completion of the in-depth research we commissioned at the end of last year and we look forward to more widely sharing the positive findings of this study next month, as well as outlining the next steps we need to take towards delivering our realistic, long term solution.
“As government ramps up its decarbonisation agenda, we will continue to engage directly with the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy to push biofuels as the most cost-effective and practical solution to decarbonise oil heated homes. It’s therefore now more important than ever for the liquid fuel heating sector to rally together around a common set of goals and demonstrate an ability and willingness to evolve.”
Following the conference, Laurance Coey, managing director at Harlequin Manufacturing, will be appointed as OFTEC’s new chairman as Niall Fay steps down following his two-year tenure.
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World of Leading Golf Deals Five New Aces
2.22pm 7th August 2015 - Travel
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World of Leading Golf (WLG), an international organisation representing the best golf resorts in Europe, has confirmed five more iconic venues as the association’s official ‘home’ in their individual country until at least 2017.
Hot on the heels of Stoke Park being unveiled as the English ‘home’, WLG has added five more luxury venues to its elite list: host to the 2018 Ryder Cup, Le Golf National Paris, France; Monte Rei Golf & Country Club, Portugal; Penati Golf Resort, Slovakia; Royal Park I Roveri, Italy; and Costa Navarino, Greece.
WLG is an international community of member golf clubs fully committed to upholding the very highest levels of quality and it is currently in the process of awarding national ‘home’ status to individual venues in each member country.
It has members in 16 European countries and is expanding exponentially, with clubs from every other continent currently in the application stage. And it is for this reason that the WLG board has taken the decision to appoint a ‘home’ base for each member country – and has so far confirmed six ‘home’ venues.
Claus Feldt, WLG’s general manager, explained: “In a burgeoning organisation such as WLG it is essential you have a place that represents the very best your country has to offer, somewhere you can not only regard as your ‘home’ base but also somewhere you’re happy to wave the flag for you. We are delighted to appoint five fabulous new venues and extremely proud to have them as our spiritual ‘homes’ in their countries.
“The ‘home’ venues serve as a communications base and organisational centre for the country, taking care of PR and marketing, arranging events and serving as meeting places for peers, partners and management of member clubs.
“When choosing a ‘home’ venue in each of our member countries it has to be a prestigious, first-rate venue – but that’s where we are fortunate at WLG because all of our members are, by their nature, prestigious, quality venues. We’re looking forward to confirming our ‘home’ venues in even more countries as the year progresses.”
Penati Golf Resorts owner and CEO, Jan Thomas, added: “We were thrilled when we became the first Slovak venue to be accepted into WLG, and, are so proud to have been appointed to sit among the elite as the association’s ‘home’ in our country.”
WLG focuses on marketing and communication platforms for certified premium clubs in order to promote awareness throughout Europe. Print and on-line publications – such as the new guide and regular newsletters – serve as reference guides for the demanding golfer, while ‘members only’ travel offers and other advantages help deepen the relationship between the designated golfers and WLG member clubs.
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Live blog: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Day 3
By Golfweek February 11, 2017 9:22 am
By Golfweek | February 11, 2017 9:22 am
The PGA Tour is in Pebble Beach, Calif., this week for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
We are tracking all of Saturday’s second- and third-round action from Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill and Monterey Peninsula’s Shore course below. Follow along.
How to follow the action:
TELEVISION: Golf Channel (Saturday-Sunday, 1-2:30 p.m.); CBS (Saturday, 3-6 p.m.; Sunday, 3-6:30 p.m.)
RADIO: PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM and PGATour.com (Saturday, 12-6 p.m.; Sunday, 1-7 p.m.)
PGA TOUR LIVE: Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
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May 3, 2017 April 30, 2017 Michael Thomas
Review- “Noli Timere” – Construction & Destruction
reviewed by Michael Thomas
Noli timere in Latin means “don’t be afraid.” They were the last words of poet Seamus Heaney, texted to his son. How does it apply to Construction & Destruction’s latest album? The band has always been hyper-literate in its lyrics (in this album you’ll hear “Hark!” and “Horror vacui!” as interjections), and these two words of Latin are both reassuring and ominous.
The duo of Colleen Collins and David Trenaman has always been one of experimentation and intensity, and this album has lots of tension. But the band also explores a somewhat softer side—and the silkier arrangements are just as impressive.
Of course, “silkier” in terms of this duo means something very different. Take a song like “Unfinished Horses,” one of the five songs on the album where Collins takes the vocal reins. Anyone who’s heard the band before knows that Collins’ vocals can change from soothing to shrieking at the drop of a hat, and at first her vocals in this slower-paced song are the former, with an added bit of wavering effect. But as she moves on, the guitars in the song get heavier, and her vocals match their intensity.
But the masterstroke of “soft into loud” on this album is another Collins song, “Lusus Naturae” (which means “freak of nature”). This nearly seven-minute song is two extremes fighting for control. At first, the instrumentation of the song is changing every five to 10 seconds or so, from barely anything to loud strums of guitar. As the listener you can sense the tide changing later though, as the loudness becomes more and more apparent, until the loudness wins and the last few minutes of the song are a huge roar of guitar intensity.
Trenaman’s songs are a mix of soft and intense as well, like “Running Glass” and the astonishing “One of These,” one of the gentlest and most beautiful songs this band has ever put out. Some simpler guitar mellows out the song as Trenaman sings “These aren’t the days for this…there’ll be other days.” Unhinged Trenaman is just as fun, like in the crazy “Rosebush,” with a guitar riff that could set the scene for a car chase in Mad Max.
Together, the duo are unstoppable. “Peace/Agency” is a killer song, from the repeating staccato guitar riff to the lyrics that speak to an impending monster. This is a song in which noli timere is most definitely the ominous phrase.
From blazing guitar riffs to spare organ arrangements, Construction & Destruction have always been masters of tension, and their newly found soft side leaves even more room for big things down the line.
Top Tracks: “Peace/Agency”; “One of These”; “Lusus Naturae”
Rating: Proud Hoot (Really Good)
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Previous Review – “Greener Pastures” – The Ferns
Next Review – “Think of Light” – Russell Louder
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Sebastian Mikael Performs '4 U' At NYC Rooftop Showcase
By 2dopeboyz, June 20, 2014 in General
Slip-N-Slide Records singer Sebastian Mikael felt his latest single "4 U" embodied the vibes of Miami (where he recorded the song), so he recruited Rick Ross to add some more 305 flavor.
Last Wednesday (June 11), the Swedish singer sought to bring some of that energy to the Big Apple, despite the grey conditions and no Rozay. Still, he got the crowd atop Capitol Records moving with the go-go influenced standout from Speechless. Check out his performance above.
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Army arrests 13 impersonators, deserters
By Odita Sunday
The Nigerian Army.<br />PHOTO: AFP
Operatives of the 81 Division Nigerian Army yesterday paraded 13 alleged impostors and criminals, who were arrested within Lagos and Ogun states. The suspects were said to have paraded themselves at different locations as military officers, extorted and assaulted civilians.
According to the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 81 Division, Maj.-Gen. Enobong Udo, the suspects were apprehended between February and April, adding that they were found with various military accoutrements.
Udo, who was represented by the division’s Chief Staff Officer (COS), Brig.-Gen. Hamisu Hassan, said among the suspects were four dismissed military personnel and civilians, who aided these impostors by making fake military ID cards and providing them with military accoutrements used to carry out their nefarious acts.
He identified the suspects as Emmanuel Anthony, Abdullahi Mubarak, Ibeh Gabriel Emeka, Olasunkanmi Olamide, Godwin Emmanuel, Private Ahmed Yahaya, Ale Ayokunle, Robert Danang, Corporal Abubakar, Private Ibrahim Isah, Monday Oga, Emeka Stephen and Bala Gabriel.
Admitting to the crime, Anthony, a resident of 24, Iyana Cele Ojo, said he ran away from Maiduguri for fear of the deadly Boko Haram insurgents. He said: “I ran away from Maiduguri in 2015.
I was given pass to go see my family. But I refused to go back after my two weeks pass expired. I was arrested and they locked me and took me back to Maiduguri. I ran away because I was afraid to fight Boko Haram in Maiduguri.
“I was impersonating as a Lieutenant so that no one would check me. So after I went back to my family in Akwa-Ibom, I kept wearing the uniform. I know where it is sold. I designed an ID to suite that rank then I showed the sellers my normal military ID.”
On what he has been doing since he deserted the army, the 28-year-old father of two said he escorts commercial vehicles or imported vehicles for N3,000. The Akwa-Ibom indigene, who said he acted out of fear for his life in Maiduguri, is said to be producing and selling fake military forms.
According to the army, the dismissed soldier, who was a Lance Corporal, has also in various occasions impersonated as a Lieutenant, Captain and any other rank that suite his criminal activities.
Accordingly, Emmanuel is said to have a flash drive that contains army ID and recruitment form to sell to prospective civilians, who crave to join the military. He said: “I wanted to give that form to someone who wanted to join military for N3,000.
Ibeh Emeka Gabriel is an alleged member of Emmanuel’s syndicate producing fake army identity cards. He told newsmen that he is a computer operator at Alaba International market Lagos, where he operates a normal business centre.
Parading the suspects, Hassan said: “It should be noted that these criminals are painting a bad image of the military and the Nigerian Army as they commit these criminal illegal acts giving the impression of being bona-fide personnel.
He urged members of the public to always reach out and call the numbers below when in doubt or see persons in uniform engaged in any form of illegality.”
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Body of soldier who died rescuing woman recovered in Kebbi flood
By Gbenga Salau
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The flooded Faloye Street, Lagos
Residents lament how Ambode’s road inflicts pain on them
The body of Warrant Officer, Marcell Nwanko, of the Nigerian Army, who died while trying to rescue a woman in a flood last Thursday in Kebbi, has been recovered. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the body of Nwanko, of 223 Light Tank Battalion, Nigerian Army Zuru, was recovered at Unashi village of Danko Wasagu Local Council.
Both the soldier and the woman died in the flood on August 30. Already, Governor Atiku Bagudu had visited the barrack to condole with the commandant and family of the victim. He described the deceased as a quintessential soldier who died in the service of humanity.
“Nwankwo sacrificed his life in the course of protecting someone’s life, if all Nigerians will emulate this soldier and protect one another, no nation will be better than us,” the governor said.
Meanwhile, the Kebbi Stage government yesterday confirmed the death of a soldier and nine others in two separate flood disasters across the state. A statement by Abubakar Dakingari, Chief Press Secretary to Bagudu, said the flood occurred in two local government areas last Thursday, adding that the body of five victims were recovered at Kanya and three in Mahuta.
Bagudu had earlier visited the communities to commiserate with the victims. At Kanya, the village head, Alhaji Isah Dan Hassan, told the governor that many houses, livestock and farmlands were destroyed. He urged government to construct emergency bridge and provide canoes for the immediate evacuation of residents to safer areas.
During the visit, Bagudu also made a stop over at Waje bridge, where a young man was reported to have jumped to his death. At Fakai, chairman of the local council, Musa Jarma, said 48 houses and a bridge linking the town to other parts of Kebbi were destroyed.In Lagos State, some residents are lamenting the plights caused by flood owning to a road construction in their area. When it was announced that Faloye Street in Ijanikin would be one of the 144 local government roads to be constructed by the Lagos State government in 2016, residents living on the street who heard the news were happy. Thereafter, the contractor moved to site and the road was completed in August, with the residents excited about the development, but the residents’ joy was cut short, when a month after, rain fell and the whole place was flooded, especially those whose houses were around the tail end of the newly constructed road.
Some residents foresaw what befell them, reason they protested against the contractor, Tae-dos International Comm. Ltd, from digging sand from that section of the road. They also complained that the contractor was doing a shoddy job, as the drainage was not well channeled to convey the wastewater from Ketu bus-stop, where the sand dug was transferred.
The residents stated that because the drainage was not properly done, the water flowing in from the beginning of Faloye Street and Ketu Bus-stop gets stagnated at Adaloko Road junction, with nowhere to empty its content. As a result, almost half of the newly constructed road is flooded, with many residents living on the streets and adjoining streets finding it pretty difficult getting into their apartments. To be able to access their houses, many constructed wooden pedestrian bridges.
The residents are pleading with both the Lagos State government and the Oto-Awori Local Council Development Area to intervene by ensuring the drainage on Faloye Street is well channeled to convey water to Adaloko Canal.
A landlord, Mr. Wasiu Akanni, said the local government had been repeatedly informed about the plight of residents, but they seem unperturbed or have no solution to the crisis. According to him, when the contractor was excavating the sand from that section of the road, some residents complained, but some leaders in the community, who felt the contractor knows better as a professional, shut them up.
Another resident, Mrs. Chinyere Okafor, said rather than bring joy to the residents; the newly constructed road is inflicting pains on them. “Days after rain, many pedestrians would not be able to use the flooded section of the road.” She said the implication of that to her as a trader is low patronage.A worker at Oto Awori Local Council Development Area told The Guardian that the complaint of the residents had been noted and the local government chairman was already working on finding a solution to the issue.
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Oyinlola seeks support for ADC candidate, Fatai Akinbade
By Tunji Omofoye, Osogbo
Fatai Akinbade
Former governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has admonished the people of Osun State not to mortgage their future through the choice of a wrong governor in the forthcoming election.
To this end, Oyinlola specifically implored the electorate to support Alhaji Fatai Akinbade of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
He gave the charge in Osogbo while speaking with a group of professionals over the gubernatorial ambition of Akinbade.
“People should not be deceived by the antics of some politicians in our midst.
For the future of generations after us not to be in a disarray, we must get it right at the coming election.
“As far as I am concerned, Fatai Akinbade is the best among those currently vying for the governorship seat that can navigate the state out of its present logjam. I challenge anybody that says otherwise to give me a better candidate.
This informs why we are rolling all the support for him on the platform of ADC.”
According to Oyinlola, none of those contending with the one-time secretary to Osun State has records of achievements in governance that could be compared to those of Akinbade.
“I know the ex-SSG well because we have worked together. I can say that among them all, Fatai has the experience.
He had served as a commissioner, state PDP chairman that produced me as governor in 2003 and later he became SSG.
He understands the workings of government by every definition. This is the type of man Osun needs now,” he said.
Oyinlola reiterated that for equity to prevail, the West Senatorial district should be allowed to produce the next governor, insisting that other zones have had their fair shares.
The former governor appealed to the people of the state to be peaceful before, during and after the election.
“Without peace, no meaningful result can be achieved.
Let’s all comport ourselves in a civil manner for the betterment of all.”
He said people should be watchful and should not be deceived by money in their move to elect the next governor.
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Our experience in Russia 2018 will help us at AFCON, says Ighalo
By Samuel Ifetoye, with agency report
[FILES] Nigerian players celebrate a goal during the African Cup of Nations qualification match between Nigeria and Libya in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State in southern Nigeria, on October 13, 2018. – Nigeria beat Libya 4-0 with Odion Ighalo grabbing a hat-trick for the Super Eagles to get their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign firmly back on track in Uyo, southern Nigeria. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)
Super Eagles striker, Odion Jude Ighalo has expressed optimism that Nigeria can make a meaningful impact at next year Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) scheduled to hold in June.
Ighalo’s six goals helped the Eagles qualified for the AFCON from Group E with a match in hand against Seychelles. The game, which is slated to hold on March 22nd next year, will serve as part of the preparation for the team for the finals in 2019.
However, the continent’s football governing body, the CAF is set to name a new host nation on January 9, 2019 after stripping the hosting right from Cameroon. But Ighalo says regardless of where the finals are held, that the Eagles would be ready to contest strongly for the title.
“Whether the championship is held in Egypt or South Africa, we will be ready. We have the advantage of having been together for sometime now, with the bulk of the team having played at the World Cup. Qualifying for the AFCON has also made us believe very much in our ability and of course, the Nigerian spirit is always there to propel us in difficult times.
“We are all aware of what Nigerians expect from us. We will prepare hard and strive to deliver,” Ighalo said as he savoured the occasion when the Nigeria Football Federation celebrated its sponsors and partners in Lagos on Thursday night.
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick, used the occasion to pinpoint Ighalo as the very definition of patience, perseverance and fortitude, whose experience is worthy of study by the average Nigerian youth seeking success but confronted with challenges.
“Ighalo has become the metaphor for success on the back of perseverance, continued improvement and patience. For several months he was looking to score for the national team but it did not happen. He never gave up, and the coaches kept their belief in him. Then, in only three days, he scored five goals to become the leading scorer in the 2019 AFCON qualification series. There is nothing drive and doggedness cannot achieve.”
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Ibrahimovic blow mars Man Utd’s Europa progress
Manchester United’s French striker Anthony Martial (L) celebrates with Manchester United’s English striker Marcus Rashford (C) and Manchester United’s English midfielder Michael Carrick (R) after their second goal during the UEFA Europa League quarter-final second leg football match between Manchester United and Anderlecht at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on April 20, 2017. Oli SCARFF / AFP
Manchester United reached the Europa League semi-finals for the first time after beating Anderlecht 2-1 on Thursday, but at the cost of a potentially serious injury to Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
The talismanic Swede, 35, had to go off after damaging his right knee late in the game at Old Trafford and may not play again this season, while United also lost centre-back Marcos Rojo.
United prevailed courtesy of an extra-time strike by Marcus Rashford, which secured a 3-2 aggregate success, after Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s opener was cancelled out by Sofiane Hanni.
The scrappy, sapping victory means Jose Mourinho’s side remain on course to claim the only major trophy missing from the club’s collection.
But the injuries to Ibrahimovic and Rojo could prove costly, particularly with United having re-energised their push for a top-four finish in the Premier League by brilliantly beating Chelsea.
Ibrahimovic’s injury occurred late in stoppage time, his right knee bending the wrong way as he landed following an aerial challenge in the Anderlecht box, leaving him grimacing on the deck.
The former Paris Saint-Germain striker, scorer of 28 goals this season, was able to hobble down the tunnel, aided by medical staff, but United’s fans will fear they have seen the last of him this season.
It cast a shadow over United’s evening, but Rashford’s superb 107th-minute strike ensured they took up a place in the last four.
Star of Sunday’s 2-0 win over Chelsea, he notched the decisive goal by gathering Marouane Fellaini’s knock-down, making space with a sharp Cruyff turn and firing in a low shot with his left foot.
United first went ahead in the 10th minute after a finely measured pass from Paul Pogba found Rashford wide on the left.
Rashford’s cross was blocked, but the ball came back to him and he squared it for Mkhitaryan, who drilled a low shot into the bottom-left corner.
United were on top and it took flying one-handed saves from visiting goalkeeper Ruben to repel a header from Pogba and a Jesse Lingard curler.
But United then lost Rojo — hurt as he tried in vain to halt Frank Acheampong, with Daley Blind taking his place — and Anderlecht levelled the tie in the 32nd minute.
Youri Tielemans’s deflected shot came back off the crossbar and after a moment’s confusion, Hanni put away the rebound.
United’s chances became more clear-cut in the second half.
Rashford rounded Ruben but knocked the ball too wide after an error by Dennis Appiah and Ruben thwarted Ibrahimovic from substitute Fellaini’s header.
A corner from Mkhitaryan fell for Pogba on the edge of the six-yard box, but he skied his volley into the Stretford End.
Freed by Michael Carrick, Ibrahimovic shanked wastefully wide.
Teed up by Ibrahimovic’s scooped pass, Rashford found the side-netting.
Fortunately for United, he would not be denied. Unfortunately for United, Ibrahimovic had long since departed by the time he struck the winner.
Elsewhere, Schalke over-turned a 2-0 first leg deficit to beat Ajax 3-0 in another tie which went to extra-time.
Leon Goretzka and Guido Burgstaller scored in the space of three second-half minutes to cancel out Ajax’s advantage before Daniel Caligiuri hit Schalke’s third after 101 minutes thanks to Sead Kolasinac’s fine cross.
Celta Vigo reached a European semi-final for the first time after a 1-1 draw at Genk gave them a 4-3 aggregate win over the Belgians.
Danish winger Pione Sisto put the Spaniards ahead on the night with a fierce drive in the 63rd minute after a barnstorming run from the halfway line.
Leandro Trossard levelled just four minutes later but it was not enough to dent the Spaniards’ charge to the last four.
In Istanbul, Besiktas beat Lyon 2-1 but after extra-time failed to separate the two sides locked at 3-3, the tie went to a penalty shoot-out.
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Jericho High School dominates Funke Treasure Table Tennis Championships
By Maria Diamond
Oyo state Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Mr. Yomi Oke (left), winner maiden F3TC, Miss Okanlawon Kadijat and the Initiator, Mrs. Funke Treasure Durodola.
Girls from Jericho High School, Eleyele, Ibadan dominated the four-day Funke Treasure Table Tennis Championship (F3TC), which ended at the Indoor Sports Hall of the Adamasingba Stadium, Ibadan at the weekend.
At the competition meant for the girl-child, Kadijat Okanlawon of Jericho High beat the opposition to win the N100, 000 cash prize, as well as the F3TC Cup, among other items.
Faith Oluwafemi also of Jericho High School won the N75, 000 second place cash prize, Ayisat Ojolowo of Ibadan Grammar School Molete got N50, 000 for coming third, while Kaosara Oyelami of Methodist Grammar School Bodija finished fourth to earn N25, 000.
Speaking at the event, the sponsor, Funke-Treasure Durodola, who is the assistant director of programmes at the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), revealed that F3TC was aimed at changing the lives of the ordinary girl-child into extraordinary women.
“I am an ordinary person with extraordinary ideas who want to make extraordinary life out of this young ones. This is a private initiative and self funded. Ibadan is my place of birth and this is my way of giving back to my society,” she said.
The event was not limited to table tennis as there were also empowerment sessions, where the girls were taught financial literacy, reproduction and health, and the detriment of drug abuse.
“This was a well orchestrated initiative for me to give a ray of hope to that girl-child who feels helpless and displaced in a society that subjects her to unrealistic cultural and religious standards with little or no idea what the future holds for her,” Durodola said.
Among the sports dignitaries at the competition was five-time Olympian, Bosede Kaffo, who is the head coach of F3TC.
The championship, which was in three categories featured girls from secondary schools who already knew how to play table tennis, the basic learners in primary schools, who were taught how to play and others trained to becomes coaches.
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Twitter: 1 million accounts suspended for ‘terrorism promotion’
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Twitter said Thursday it has suspended over one million accounts for “promotion of terrorism” since 2015, claiming its efforts have begun to make the platform “an undesirable place” to call for violence.
In its latest transparency report, Twitter said it suspended 274,460 accounts between July and December 2017 “for violations related to the promotion of terrorism.”
The figure is down 8.4 percent from the previous reporting period and is the second consecutive decline, a Twitter statement said.
“We continue to see the positive, significant impact of years of hard work making our site an undesirable place for those seeking to promote terrorism, resulting in this type of activity increasingly shifting away from Twitter,” said the statement from the messaging platform’s public policy team.
Twitter has faced pressure from governments around the world to crack down on jihadists and others calling for violent attacks, while at the same time maintaining an open platform for free speech.
In the latest six-month reporting period, Twitter said 93 percent of the suspended accounts were “flagged by internal, proprietary tools,” and that 74 percent were cut off before their first tweet.
It said government reports of violations related to the promotion of terrorism represent less than 0.2 percent of all suspensions in the period.
Twitter also used the report to express concerns about what it called “legal threats to freedom of expression” online in countries around the world.
“With the passage of new legislation and ongoing regulatory discussions taking place around the world about the future of public discourse online, we are seeing a potential chilling effect with regards to freedom of expression,” the report said.
It cited a Human Rights Watch report suggesting that “governments around the world (are) increasingly look to restrict online speech by forcing social media companies to act as their censors.”
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Hank Whittemore's Shakespeare Blog
The Shakespeare Authorship Question is Answered by the Author Himself in his Magnificent Monument of the Sonnets
“And By Their Verdict” – The Living Record – Chapter 41
Excerpts from The Monument for Sonnets 43-44-45-46
Waiting for the execution of Essex and attempting to save Southampton’s life, the Earl of Oxford returns to the theme of the first of the prison verses, Sonnet 27, when his royal son appeared to him as “a jewel hung in ghastly night.” In the daytime, he sees Southampton as “un-respected” (a convicted traitor in disgrace); at night, during sleep, he sees him in dreams as the true royal prince. The “Summer’s Day” of Southampton’s royal blood has turned to darkness, shadow, and night; reality itself has been turned inside out.
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Sonnet 43 – “In Dead Night” – 24 Feb 1601
When I most wink, then do mine eyes best see;
For all the day they view things un-respected,
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright, are bright in dark directed.
Then thou whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow’s form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so?
How would (I say) mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay?
All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
The Tower of London
The Execution of Essex – 25 Feb 1601
“The death of Essex left Sir Robert Cecil without a rival in the Court or cabinet, and he soon established himself as the all-powerful ruler of the realm.” – Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth, 1906, p. 675
“The fall of Essex may be said to date the end of the reign of Elizabeth in regard to her activities and glories. After that she was Queen only in name. She listened to her councilors, signed her papers, and tried to retrench in expenditure; but her policy was dependent on the decisions of Sir Robert Cecil.”- Charlotte Stopes, The Life of Henry, Third Earl of Southampton, 1922, p. 243
Sonnet 44 – “Heavy Tears” – 25 Feb 1601
Essex is executed by beheading at the Tower of London. Robert Cecil has gained all power to engineer the succession upon Elizabeth’s death; and Oxford will be forced to go through Cecil, his brother-in-law, to save Southampton’s life. In the eighth line he makes an unmistakable reference to the Tower as “the place” – a common euphemism for the monarch’s fortress-like prison. Alluding indirectly to the death of Essex’s mortal body (“the dull substance of my flesh”), Oxford refers to the first two of the four “elements” (earth, water, air, and fire) of life. He writes of having to attend “time’s leisure” (the Queen’s pleasure or royal will) that will likely lead to Southampton’s death, and he records his funereal “moan” over this impending loss. Oxford and Southampton share “heavy tears” and “woe” over the tragedy of this wrongful execution.
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then, despite of space, I would be brought
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay;
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth removed from thee,
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But ah, thought kills me, that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that so much of earth and water wrought,
I must attend time’s leisure with my moan;
Receiving naughts by elements so slow
But heavy tears, badges of either’s woe.
“You both shall be led from hence to the place from whence you came” – the Lord High Steward, speaking to Southampton and Essex at the end of the trial on 19 Feb 1601
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Sonnet 45 – “Thy Fair Health … Swift Messengers” – 26 Feb 1601
The Privy Council takes note of Southampton’s “long sickness, which he hath had before his trouble.” His health is poor and he’s being treated both for a quartain ague and a swelling in his legs and other parts of his body. Messengers on horseback bring word to Oxford from the Tower that Southampton’s health has been stabilized. Oxford rejoices, but then, sadly, sends them back to the Tower with more correspondence (perhaps some of these sonnets) for his imprisoned son. (His “fair” health = his “royal” health.)
The other two, slight air, and purging fire,
Are both with thee, wherever I abide:
The first my thought, the other my desire,
These, present absent, with swift motion slide;
For when these quicker Elements are gone
In tender Embassy of love to thee,
My life being made of four, with two alone
Sinks down to death, oppressed with melancholy,
Until life’s composition be re-cured
By those swift messengers returned from thee
Who even but now come back again assured
Of thy fair health, recounting it to me.
This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,
I send them back again and straight grow sad.
Sonnet 46 – “By Their Verdict” – 27 Feb 1601
Oxford continues his daily sonnets by again pledging his devotion to Southampton, addressing him as his royal son. In this verse, he recreates the entire experience on the “quest” (jury) at the trial, leading to the “verdict” of guilt by which Southampton continues to face execution.
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye, my heart thy picture’s sight would bar
My heart, mine eye the freedom of that right;
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie
(A closet never pierced with crystal eyes),
But the defendant doth that plea deny,
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To ‘cide this title is impanelled
A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,
And by their verdict is determined
The clear eyes’ moiety, and thy dear heart’s part:
As thus, mine eyes’ due is thy outward part,
And my heart’s right, their inward love of heart.
Execution on Tower Hill
So ends the second chapter:
CHAPTER ONE: THE CRIME: Sonnets 27-36 8 Feb – 17 Feb 1601
CHAPTER TWo: THE TRIAL: Sonnets 37-46 18 Feb – 27 Feb 1601
The sequence of 100 sonnets at the center of the monument is structured as a book of 10 chapters, each containing ten sonnets. Chapter Two – The Trial concludes, appropriately, with a trial whose jury members render “their verdict” as Oxford and the other peers on the tribunal had been forced to issue a guilty verdict against Essex and Southampton.
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Pleading for Mercy – “The Living Record” – Chapter 40 – Southampton Writes to the Privy Council to Save His Life
Twenty-seven-year-old Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton wrote several letters to the Privy Council from the Tower of London soon after his trial of Feb. 19, 1601, when he was condemned to death as a traitor.
Southampton in the Tower, reduced from Lord to Commoner as "Mr. Henry Wriothesley" or in legal terms "the late earl"...
According to the Monument theory, Sonnets 27-66 cover this crucial time when fifty-year-old Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, after being forced to act as his son’s “adverse party” on the tribunal of peers sitting in judgment, was now acting behind the scenes as Southampton’s “advocate” or legal counsel trying to save his life.
“Thy adverse party is thy Advocate,” Oxford tells him in Sonnet 35, and Southampton is following his advice by saying he had not intended any treason and by begging for Her Majesty’s mercy.
There’s a remarkable correspondence between the legal terminology in Southampton’s letters to the Council and the words that Oxford uses in his private sonnets to Southampton:
“I beseech your Lordships be pleased to receive the petition of a poor condemned man,” Southampton writes, “who doth, with a lowly and penitent heart, confess his faults and acknowledge his offences to her Majesty.”
“Let me confess that we two must be twain” – Sonnet 36
“All men make faults” – Sonnet 35
“Th’offender’s sorrow lends but weak relief
To him that bears the strong offence’s cross.” – Sonnet 34
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“What my fault hath been your Lordships know to the uttermost, wherein, howsoever I have offended in the letter of the law, your Lordships I think cannot but find, by the proceedings at my trial, that my heart was free from any premeditate treason against my sovereign, though my reason was corrupted by affection to my friend [Essex] (whom I thought honest) and I by that carried headlong to my ruin, without power to prevent it, who otherwise could never have been induced for any cause of mine own to have hazarded her Majesty’s displeasure but in a trifle: yet I can not despair of her favor, neither will it enter into my thought that she who hath been ever so renowned for her virtues, and especially for clemency, will not extend it to me, that do with so humble and grieved a spirit prostrate myself at her royal feet and crave her pardon.”
“To you it doth belong
Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime” – Sonnet 58
(Southampton has it in his power to agree to the bargain Oxford has made with Robert Cecil, requiring him to renounce any claim to the throne so he can gain a royal pardon)
“O let her never suffer to be spilled the blood of him that desires to live but to do her service, nor lose the glory she shall gain in the world by pardoning one whose heart is without spot, though his cursed destiny hath made his acts to be condemned, and whose life, if it please her to grant it, shall be eternally ready to be sacrificed to accomplish her least commandment.”
“When hours have drained his blood” – Sonnet 63
“My lords, there are divers amongst you to whom I owe particular obligation for your favors past, and to all I have ever performed that respect which was fit, which makes me bold in this manner to importune you, and let not my faults now make me seem more unworthy than I have been, but rather let the misery of my distressed estate move you to be a mean to her Majesty, to turn away her heavy indignation from me. O let not her anger continue towards an humble and sorrowful man, for that alone hath more power to dead my spirits than any iron hath to kill my flesh.”
“Kill me with spites” – Sonnet 40
“Ah, but thought kills me” – Sonnet 44
“My soul is heavy and troubled for my offences, and I shall soon grow to detest myself if her Majesty refuse to have compassion of me.
“But heavy tears, badges of either’s woe” – Sonnet 44
“The law hath hitherto had his proceedings, whereby her justice and my shame is sufficiently published; now is the time that mercy is to be showed. O pray her then, I beseech your lordships, in my behalf to stay her hand, and stop the rigorous course of the law, and remember, as I know she will never forget, that it is more honor to a prince to pardon one penitent offender than with severity to punish many.
“Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief” – Sonnet 34
“Loving offenders, thus I will excuse thee” – Sonnet 42
“To conclude, I do humbly entreat your Lordships to sound mercy in her ears, that thereby her heart, which I know is apt to receive any impression of good, may be moved to pity me, that I may live to lose my life (as I have been ever willing and forward to venture it) in her service, as your lordships herein shall effect a work of charity, which is pleasing to God; preserve an honest man (howsoever now his faults have made him seem otherwise) to his country; win honor to yourselves, by favoring the distressed; and save the blood of one who will live and die her Majesty’s faithful and loyal subject.”
“But weep to have that which it fears to lose” – Sonnet 64
“Thus, recommending my self and my suit to your Lordships’ honorable considerations; beseeching God to move you to deal effectually for me, and to inspire her Majesty’s royal heart with the spirit of mercy and compassion towards me, I end, remaining,
“Your Lordships’ most humbly, of late Southampton, but now of all men most unhappy,
H. Wriothesley
(Charlotte Stopes, The Life of Henry, Third Earl of Southampton, 1922, pp 225-226; Salisbury Papers, vol. XI, p. 72; “after Feb. 19, 1601”)
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“Lay On Me This Cross” – The Living Record – Chapter 39
Traditionally Sonnets 40, 41 & 42 have been viewed as the poet’s reaction to the youth’s betrayal of him by stealing his mistress. The point here, however, is that this perception represents only the surface, just one side of the “double image” created by Edward de Vere Earl of Oxford, who, in his real-life record running in parallel, is actually referring to Queen Elizabeth. The time is February 1601 and she (because of the now all-powerful Secretary Robert Cecil) has imprisoned their son, Henry Wriothesley Earl of Southampton, who has been convicted of high treason and sentenced to die.
At the high point of this sequence, near the end of Sonnet 42, he presents a vision of himself as Jesus bearing the Cross on Calvary — or perhaps as Simon of Cyrene being made to carry it for Him.
Both find each other, and I lose both twain,
And both for my sake lay on me this cross…
The traditional view inevitably leads to the question whether “Shakespeare” is really serious about this biblical image of himself and his suffering. Given the imagined context (his young male lover in bed with his mistress), it seems way over the top. Moreover the lines are followed by this couplet:
But here’s the joy, my friend and I are one;
Sweet flattery! Then she loves but me alone.
Sounds like a joke, eh? Katherine Duncan-Jones deserves credit for commenting candidly:
“The claim that the woman, in loving the youth, actually loves only the poet, is both logically and emotionally weak. First, the argument that love for one person is really love for another is inherently implausible; and secondly, the poet has made it quite clear in preceding lines of the sonnet that what he cares about is the young man’s defection, not the woman’s.”
Two of those preceding lines to Southampton, are:
That she hath thee is of my wailing chief,
As loss in love that touches me more nearly.
Within the real-life context that this is Southampton’s father writing of his son’s imprisonment and death sentence, the same words of suffering no longer appear “logically and emotionally weak,” but finally do make logical and emotional sense.
The actuality, I argue, is that this is Oxford’s record for posterity of how he chose to save Southampton’s life by (1) persuading him to give up any claim of succession and (2) sacrificing his own identity as the father of Southampton and as author of the immortal works printed under the “Shakespeare” pen name.
In Sonnet 44 he will refer to “heavy tears, badges of either’s woe” (yours and mine), more directly reflecting the context of Southampton’s imprisonment and the verdict of guilt.
In Sonnet 46 he will wrap up this “chapter” (37-46) with a stream of words reflecting the recent treason trial [at which Oxford served as highest-ranking earl on the tribunal and was forced to join the unanimous verdict of guilt for both Essex and Southampton: (“plead … defendant … plea deny … impanelled … quest [jury] … verdict”).
Traditionally these words create a sustained metaphor. Well, yes, but here again that’s just one half of the double image. The other half is a sustained personal and political reality.
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Just How Fucked Is Snapchat?
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Snap is fucked. Following an earnings call on Tuesday, a fifth of the company’s value disappeared in after-hours trading, Mark Zuckerberg is eating its lunch, Snap Spectacles are in the toilet. Yes, things are bad. But are they Vine-levels of bad? Or Twitter-bad? Trick question, Twitter’s very fucked!
It Sounds Like Snap Spectacles Turned Into a Massive Boondoggle
This is kind of a sad story. In November, Snap Inc blew everybody’s mind by releasing a…
It’s only been eight months since Snap went public and one of the few successes it has to show for itself is a dancing AR hot dog. At the time of its IPO, Wall Street was bullish on the company that primarily targets fickle young people through its messaging and photo-sharing services. Investors ignored the fact that its annual losses exceeded its revenue and bought into the idea that the kids’ preferred platform was going to be a juggernaut because just think how much longer those kids will be alive. They’ll all be snapping pics of their breakfast for decades to come, and more people will jump on, and Facebook-levels of growth will inevitably ensue.
That hasn’t worked out. And it probably never will. It takes time to grow this sort of business. And when Facebook is showing off unreal, 47 percent revenue increases year-over-year, investors’ expectations for social networks are rising higher than ever. Snap’s third quarter was expected to bring in $237 million of revenue, but it fell short by 12 percent. For its third-quarter earnings, the company reported a $443 million net loss. To put that in perspective, in the whole year of 2016, the company lost $514.6 million. Snap lost almost all of that in a fraction of the time.
One stand-out number from Snap’s disastrous earnings was the disclosure that it lost $39.9 million on its Spectacles camera sunglasses. Not only is that a lot of money to pay for storing unwanted devices and supplier order cancellation charges, but it helps cement the fact that Snap’s biggest initiative to diversify its business was a huge failure. Because social media is so competitive at the moment, other revenue streams are essential for Snap to convince investors that it has short-term potential. Hope for Spectacles should be considered as good as dead.
On the subject of competition, we’re primarily talking about Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook founder tried to buy Snapchat four years ago for $3 billion, but I can only assume Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has seen The Social Network and he knew that’s not what Zuck would do in his position. Since then, Zuckerberg has tacked just about every feature Snapchat has to offer onto Instagram. Instagram reported 500 million daily active users in September. Snapchat currently has 178 million daily active users and it added a paltry 4.5 million new ones this quarter.
On top of that, in its prepared remarks, Snap informed investors that it’s temporarily undercutting itself with its new automated ad auction service. Five times as many advertisers used the new system that awards ad placement to the highest bidder rather than going through a sales agent. Snapchat wants people to use this system, so its adoption was painted as a good thing, but Spiegel wrote that “our auction has a lower price-point than our reserved business because there is no fixed rate card.” That’s led to CPMs dropping “more than 60 percent year-over-year.” But the CEO is sure that’ll all work itself out as more advertisers compete for buys.
The biggest fix on the docket for Snap is a redesign of its seriously confusing app. Young users are great for attracting advertisers, but if you need growth you have to bring in the olds Those people don’t know what the fuck is going on when they open Snapchat. Twitter has had a similar problem and it’s made many changes to its design in order to make itself more user-friendly. How’s that working out? In the second quarter of 2017, Twitter added zero new users. Yet during the third quarter, Twitter added two million new users.
Snap did add a dancing hamburger to its app last week, but we won’t know what kind of boost that gives it until next quarter.
Another potential ray of sunshine just before this earnings announcement was the news that the Chinese tech giant Tencent quietly picked up a significant stake in Snap, brining its ownership to 12 percent. Among its many holdings, Tencent owns WeChat and the Chinese microblogging platform Weibo. It’s a big company with plenty of money to keep Snap going if it wanted to go all in and fend off Facebook. That has to come as a bittersweet comfort for Snap’s CEO. Back in 2014, at the height of his hubris, Spiegel turned down an investment deal with Tencent after he demanded a $4 billion valuation. The firm was reportedly “offended by the terms.” Now, one of the best sources of security at Snap is the potential that if all goes wrong, maybe Tencent will be interested in purchasing the company.
All in all, things are bleak around the house that dick pics built. It’s too easy for competitors to steal its ideas, it’s too hard to get into hardware, it’s arguably mishandling its advertising, and it doesn’t seem to have any big, new ideas. Yeah, Snap is really fucked.
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Yeah yeah, they’re fucked. But for some reason I still kind of want the stupid glasses. Can they sell the massive inventory at a super cut price please?
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MURDER-ROCK: DANCING DEATH [1984]
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Murder-Rock: Dancing Death (1984)
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Written by: Gianfranco Clerici, Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti, Vincenzo Mannino
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Candice Morman runs a dancing class New York. She pushes her students very hard, especially when she learns that three of them will be selected to appear in a high profile TV show. Then somebody begins to kill the girls, and when Lt. Borges begins his investigation he enters into a web of rivalry and malice where virtually everybody could be a suspect. Candice has also been having dreams where she’s pursued by a man wielding a hat pin just like the murderer, but then she sees the man’s face on a billboard and sets out to track him down. Could he be the killer instead?….
And so I’m also back with my Lucio Fulci series, and yes, there are plenty of films to come in the prolific career of this director who became very erratic in the final stage of his career where carelessness, tiny budgets and illness hampered the quality of his work, but who before that was very good indeed and diverse enough for the nickname ‘the godfather of gore” he acquired to seem rather crass and even insulting. None of the films to come I’ve seen before and I wasn’t sure what to expect from Murder-Rock, which was supposedly made when his output was becoming poorer, yet The Devil’s Honey, his ‘erotic thriller’ from two years later, turned out to be really good, a genuinely notable work. This one is basically an attempt to combine the giallo, including quite a few elements from Fulci’s The New York Ripper so that the film sometimes seems like an attempt to rework Fulci’s bloody, sleazy and nihilistic thriller into something that would get less vitriol and be more easily accessible, and the disco-flavoured likes of Fame and Flashdance. Possibly influenced also by Blood And Black Lace, it doesn’t play with the giallo format as much as Fulci’s others, but works better than you might expect, its poor reputation seeming to be largely down to Fulci holding back considerably on the violence, though I don’t see why that should automatically be a problem. The frequent dancing quickly becomes tiresome and the music from Keith Emerson [who provided such great backing for Dario Argento’s Inferno] is hardly great [and certainly not what I’d call rock] unless you really are a fan of this sort of music even at its lowest ebb, but it’s certainly one of Fulci’s best looking movies.
It came after Fulci’s bizarre sword and sorcery effort Conquest, and his entry into the dystopian future barbarian cycle Rome 2072: Fighter Centurions, the latter of which I haven’t seen yet. He’d caught hepatitis while filming Conquest, and was still ill from it when he began Murder-Rock. Though initiated by producer Augusto Caminito, Fulci had high hopes for it, and both planned for it to be the first part of a themed trilogy, Murder-Rock to be followed by two more music-themed gialli titled Killer Samba and Thrilling Blues. It had more filming in New York than any other Fulci film even if interior shooting was still done in Rome, and the obvious intent was to pass it off as an American film. Apart from the principle performers, the cast was largely made up of dancers who went un-credited, something which isn’t really fair seeing as some of them had substantial screen time and dialogue. Fulci had a reputation for flying into rages and this time his victim was Christian Borromeo [Willie Bowman] who dared to question his directing. However, according to Gerreta Gerrata [Margie], there was no bullying of the female cast members which Fulci was renowned for; he even laughed when she rolled her eyes while being asked to improvise a line and said, “I thought melodrama died in the 1880’s”, despite his hepatitus getting steadily worse and a heroin epidemic in Rome having taken the life of a close family member in what was a long list of personal tragedies. However, Murder-Rock was released to little interest in Italy and didn’t get shown in US cinemas until 1990 when it was given the strange title The Demon Is Loose. Fulci had to semi-retire for two and a half years, causing the trilogy project to be abandoned.
After some New York skyline shots we get a break dancing sequence that has nothing to do with what follows seeing as none of its characters are in it, and almost immediately we follow it up with another dance scene which is really pushing it for those who primarily want to see a giallo. The main setting is called the Arts For Living Centre, the exterior shots of its entrance being of a real place despite its odd name, though one for mental health treatment, not dancing. Anyway, we see Candice pushing her class to their limits, and some don’t like it, but Susan still has enough energy to have sex with her boyfriend Willie in the locker room while everyone else has left, and suddenly the film takes on a really strong sinister atmosphere as the camera slowing tracks around the place while the lighting flashes off and on in what was already a well used device, especially by Mario Bava, but one which makes us wonder if a killer will suddenly be revealed in a flash before then vanishing. The two go to shower separately because he has some clothes he needs to get, but when she gets in her shower she’s chloroformed and stabbed with a hairpin just under a breast by somebody wearing the typical giallo black gloves. The single stabbing is really slow and takes a long time, Fulci still dwelling on the sadism even though there’s not much blood. But it’s the camerawork and the lighting that really impress, even more so when we join Candice and Dick Gibson the academy director in Dick’s house, and we get a hallway view of Candice moving from one room to another in the distance while the rest of the frame is taken up by near darkness. Aided greatly by his cinematographer Giuseppe Pinri, it’s already clear that Fulci was trying fairly hard with this film, even though it only contains two of his archetypal close-ups of eyes!
Few seem to be that bothered about Susan’s death, Candice giving a big speech on how it’s best to get on with the show, but then another girl Susan winds up dead after another good sequence when she returns home to find Willie and we find out that the killer has been in her apartment for far longer than we realise. There’s much intrigue going on, and then Candice finds out that the man who’s been murdering her in her dreams is actually real, an actor named George Webb. She tracks him down to a run-down apartment into which a drunken Webb stumbles. He’s fallen on hard times, though it’s crazy that Candice should sleep with this guy within what seems like just a few hours of their second meeting considering that she’s been dreaming of him killing her. But then others behave oddly too including the cop on the case Lieutenant Borges, who constantly snacks on peanuts, is happy slapping suspects around several times in his office, and doesn’t actually seem to like anybody, though he does have a sense of humour. Cosimo Cinieri, who was in Fulci’s previous three films, has a great brooding presence and does a terrific stare. Ray Lovelock is his usual bland self, but Fulci favourite Al Cliver has a tiny role as a forensic analyst and, as usual, Fulci makes an appearance, here as a talent agent who speaks to Candice over the phone. One thing that really helps with this film is that, not only is everyone mouthing English, but the English dubbing is one of the best I’ve heard from a film of this period; you’d may not even be able to tell you’re hearing voice overs if you didn’t know, and the voices used are generally well chosen.
Things progress in conventional giallo fashion with red herrings, more and more information being revealed, and, hopefully, a final surprise. The latter works in terms of plot, and gives us a murderer for whom we’re asked to have some sympathy, though I do wonder if the cat is unintentionally let out of the bag a bit too early, because I guessed the killer ten minutes before it’s properly revealed. This was partly due to an odd edit which links two particular things together too much, and partly because the performance of one cast member becomes just a bit too much on the nose; some subtlety would have helped here. But the similarities with The New York Ripper really are quite extensive, right down to ending with a feeling of pity, even though that film had a personality – if a grimy, even unpleasant [I’m a great admirer of Fulci’s most controversial film without liking it very much] one – while this one doesn’t so much. Yet, even if gore hounds reading this will probably disagree, it’s rather refreshing to have Fulci be subtle about the killings; after the first one, all we see are one being half glimpsed through a patterned, dirty window, another having the camera cheekily pan away slowly – as if the director is winding us up, telling us that we’re not allowed to see what we expect to see – plus aftermaths. However, the method of murder does allow for plenty of naked breasts, which made me realise how less and less we see of those lovely things in horror and thriller movies today. And Fulci stages his kills and suspense moments well, employing lots of that blue lighting that he also did in Aenigma, with only the killing of a babysitter being watched her her charge [House By The Cemetery‘s Silvia Collatina, this film being full of Fulci alumni] disappointing; the scene should carry a real sense of terror, but it’s too quick to have much of an effect. But Fulci’s aesthetic merges quite well with what is clearly a try at the chic ‘80s advertisement look of many movies of the time, and even the repeated use of the flashing light works well as a recurring visual motif.
The dream aspect is never properly exploited even though it’s eventually explained, but the story is surprisingly airtight. While not providing us with any full-on action scenes like many gialli have, Fulci paces things at a slightly quicker pace than normal, though he can’t stop the dancing from bringing things temporarily to a halt in places even though he seems to film them with some interest. Emerson’s disco tracks do actually fit these scenes if not so much many of the others, and the frequent lyrics actually comment on aspects of the story, even providing a major clue as to who the murderer is at one point though it’s easy to miss and I’ve only just thought of it while checking the notes I made whilst watching [it makes me wonder if there are other clues and hints which I missed and would make a second viewing quite rewarding]. Sometimes his music is heard as source music even when there’s no reason for source music to be present, and overall there’s far too much of it, especially when much of it is so similar. I have no doubt, of course, that fans of this kind of sound will love the musical side of things, so this is probably more a matter of taste than anything else. In any case, while certainly not major Fulci, Murder-Rock has enough style, oddness and strong moments to make it a bit more interesting than we probably should expect, and is a film that’s unjustly neglected in the Fulci canon. It makes one wonder if, actually, Fulci might have fared quite well in the States making movies if he became more fluent in speaking English – even if Murder-Rock does end with a mistranslated line from The Asphalt Jungle!
Gianfranco Clerici
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Ray Lovelock
THE DEVIL’S HONEY [1986]
June 17, 2020 Dr Lenera Drama, HCF Reviews, World Cinema 0
AKA Il MIELE DEL DIAVOLO ITALY AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 96 mins/86 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Johnny and Jessica are in the midst of a passionate relationship largely defined by […]
A LIZARD IN A WOMAN’S SKIN [1971]
August 22, 2018 Dr Lenera Giallo, HCF Reviews, Mystery, World Cinema 0
AKA UNA LUCERTOLA CON LA PELLE DI DONNA, SCHIZOID, CAROLE Italy/France/Spain/UK RUNNING TIME: 103 mins/102 mins/95 mins/93 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Carol Hammond is the daughter of a wealthy politician […]
DOUBLE FACE [1969]: On Blu-ray June 24th
June 20, 2019 Dr Lenera Giallo, HCF Reviews, Mystery, World Cinema 0
AKA A DOPPIA FACCIA, DAS GESICHT IM DUNKELN, PUZZLE OF HORRORS, LIZ AND HELEN Italy/West Germany AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: JUNE 24TH, from ARROW VIDEO RUNNING TIME: 91 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic […]
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2LP - CULT, THE - SONIC TEMPLE 30th anniversary incl. bonus tracks
Anniversary Edition, Bonus Track(S), Reissue
2019 marks the 30th anniversary of The Cult's seminal album Sonic Temple, which was originally released in 1989 and include the singles Fire Woman, Edie (Ciao Baby), Sun King and Sweet Soul Sister. To celebrate this anniversary a deluxe box set and a 5-CD set will be released, including a version of Sonic Temple on double LP, which has been out of print for over 20 years. The sets both contain limited-release demos in addition to previously unreleased tracks.
The box set contains three pieces of vinyl and a cassette plus tour memorabilia and ephemera (replica of original laminate, backstage pass, original press releases, label copy and more). It's numbered and limited to 3000 pieces worldwide and contains 40 tracks, four of which were previously unreleased. LP1+2 contain the album as originally released. LP3 contains "Live At Wembley" recorded by the BBC, and the included cassette contains limited-release demos. Four of the live tracks are also previously unreleased.
The five-CD set contains 53 tracks (including six previously unreleased) with the original album on disc 1, alternate edits, mixes, extended versions and acoustic versions on disc 2, limited-release demos on discs 3 and 4 and "Live At Wembley" recorded by the BBC on disc 5. Six of the live tracks are previously unreleased. It is beautifully packaged in book form with rare photographs and interviews with the band by esteemed U.K. journalist James Brown.
The double LP is a re-vamped reissue of the original album. Now cut onto two pieces of black vinyl, the audio is improved and contains 16 tracks total, which comprise the original album plus six B-sides. It's been out of print for over 20 years.
1. Sun King
2. Fire Woman
3. American Horse
4. Edie (Ciao Baby)
5. Sweet Soul Sister
6. Soul Asylum
8. Automatic Blues
1. Soldier Blue
2. Wake Up Time For Freedom
3. Medicine Train (From the Edie (Ciao Baby) Single)
4. The River (From the Sweet Soul Sister Single)
5. Bleeding Heart Graffitti (From the Edie (Ciao Baby) CD Ep)
6. Messin' Up the Blues (From the Fire Woman Single)
7. Fire Woman (Nyc Rock Mix) (From the Fire Woman CD Ep)
8. Edie (Ciao Baby) (Acoustic) (From the Heart of Soul CD Singl
Artist CULT, THE 4 Releasedatum2019-09-13 LagerstatusFinns i lager Leveranstid1-3 dagar Art nr25800 VarugruppVinyl Format2LP KatalognummerBBQ2151LP SkivbolagBeggars Banquet 40 GenreClassic Heavy Metal 929 SkickNy, ospelad
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Brexit: Record Number of Residence Registrations
Charlie Brexit EEA Expert Advisers UK Immigration Advise Immigration updates Latest Immigration News Living in the UK News & Events UK December 6, 2020 | Updated On December 8, 2020 | 0
As the end of the transition period draws near, it has been reported that the UK Government has written to 365,000 UK Nationals living in Europe with advice on the actions they need to take to prepare for the end of the UK transition period on 31 December.
The letters, sent to UK State Pensioners and benefit recipients, give advice on how to register for residency and healthcare, exchange driving licences and check new passport validity rules online. It is one of the largest-ever mail outs by the UK Government to UK nationals living in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
The UK Government has been running a public information campaign featuring online, radio and newspaper adverts across 30 countries informing UK Nationals of the actions they need to take. British Embassies across Europe have held numerous town hall meetings and online question and answer to urge UK nationals to secure their residency in the EU.
According to the notice published by the UK Home Office, more than 4 million applications were received under the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS). This means that more EU nationals have applied for the right to remain in the UK than what was expected.
A total of 4.26 million applications were received as of the end of October 2020 and 4.07 million applications were concluded.
EU nationals were granted settled or pre-settled status maintaining their rights to stay in the UK.
EU nationals were granted settled or pre-settled status. Those eligible for UK settled status are people who have lived in Britain for a continuous period of five years prior to 31 December 2020, when the Brexit transition period ends.
People eligible for pre-settled status are those that have lived in the UK prior to 31 December 2020, but not for a continuous period of five years
The record shows that out of the over 4 million concluded applications, 45,200 or 1% are invalid applications and 22,400 were refused.
Invalid applications are those which fail to meet the validity criteria specified in the Immigration Rules relating to the EUSS. Valid applications can also be refused if the eligibility or suitability criteria are not met. The criteria is considered on a case by case basis on grounds like continuous qualifying period of UK residence or the documents submitted to support your application.
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Potassium Rich Foods: Veggies, Fruits, Drinks and Prescribed Intake
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Nutrition
What are potassium rich foods?
Potassium rich foods are naturally occurring foods that include vegetables, fruits, and drinks, which contain a substantially high amount of this mineral.
Classified both an alkaline mineral and an electrolyte, this essential nutrient plays an important role in maintaining the electrolyte balance in the body. It also helps your heart, nerve cells, and muscle cells to function properly.
To fully understand why you should eat these foods, read about the power of its health benefits.
The daily requirement or the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of dietary potassium for adults is 4,700 milligrams. That is the goal of how much of this mineral an adult must take per day set by the National Academy of Sciences.
But, most men and women do not consume that much of it due to an insufficient dietary intake.
Potassium supplements do help but your preference should be to get your supply of this mineral and electrolyte from foods such as vegetables, fruits, and beverages.
Benefits on blood pressure
The importance of a diet rich in potassium lies in the fact that the foods incorporated are highly recommended dietary inclusions to delay the onset of high blood pressure and also lower elevated blood pressure. At the same time, however, low sodium intake is also necessary.
A potassium-rich diet also negates the effects of salt on blood pressure, reduces the risk of developing kidney stones, and helps to decrease bone loss due to age.
Another reason to recommend natural sources of potassium is that an overdose from natural sources is nearly impossible. You can, therefore, not each too much of this mineral and electrolyte from your diet.
However, people who have a kidney problem or are on dialysis should be careful how much of these foods they consume.
You should know that too much potassium in the body, called hyperkalemia, does have its bad effects.
List of potassium rich foods including vegetables, fruits and drinks and their proportionate content
Here is the list of foods that will give you a good amount of this mineral and which also shows their potassium content. These foods also provide other nutrients such as fiber, which adds to their value.
This list is also useful for those suffering from chronic kidney disease (CKD) and who need to lower their potassium. These are the same foods they should avoid.
Such people with CKD should not consume more than 2000 mg of potassium per day.
It is highly recommended that your supply should come from food sources; fruits and vegetables form the top recommendations.
This is because they favorably promote acid-base metabolism, which reduces the risk of kidney stone formation and loss of bone density.
Some of these foods contain more potassium than the banana, which is so famous for its content of this mineral.
The current daily value for potassium is 3.5 grams
All meats (red meat and chicken)
Certain meat and animal products can help meet your needs of potassium.
However, The American Institute for Cancer Research suggests that you eat no more than 18 ounces of red meat, such as pork, beef, and lamb per week to reduce the risk of cancer.
According to the American Heart Association, eating a diet high in red meat may lead to an elevated cholesterol level and heart disease.
Another precautionary measure is to eat chicken without skin to limit intake of saturated fat and calorie content.
Potassium content in meats
100 grams of chicken meat will give you 223 mg of potassium, which is 6% of daily value (DV).
100 grams of whole roasted, cured ham has 286 milligrams (8% DV).
A three-ounce serving of bacon gives you 598 milligrams
3 ounces cooked pork tenderloin contains 382 mg
Tenderloin, top loin, top round, ribs and shank cuts of beef contain 370 to 400 milligrams of potassium each serving.
A piece of lamb generally contains about 380 milligrams per serving.
A 3.5-ounce portion of baked flounder contains about 585 milligrams and the same amount of halibut contains about 470 milligrams.
Shrimp, lobster, crab, and mussels contain between about 260 and 280 milligrams of potassium per 3.5-ounce serving.
100 grams of cooked salmon contains 384 milligrams.
100 grams of Sardine, Atlantic, canned in oil contains 397 milligrams.
100 grams of soy milk contains 118 milligrams (mg) of potassium that is 3 % of its daily value.
100 grams of raw soybeans contain 1,797 mg of this electrolyte, which is 51% of its RDA.
Potassium rich vegetables
Vegetables rich in potassium content include broccoli, peas, lima beans, tomatoes, potatoes (especially their skins), sweet potatoes, and winter squash.
Potatoes. 100 grams of potatoes contain 421 mg of potassium, which is 12 percent of the daily value (DV). One small potato contains more than 700 milligrams. And one average-sized, whole, baked potato contains 926 milligrams with the skin or 610 milligrams without the skin.
Sweet potatoes. 100 grams of sweet potatoes contain 337 mg, which is 9 percent of the daily value.
Asparagus. 100 grams of Asparagus contains 202 mg of potassium, which is 5 percent of daily value.
Spinach. 100 grams of spinach contains 558 mg, which is 15 percent of its daily value.
Cabbage. 100 grams of cabbage contains 170 mg, which is 4 percent of daily value.
Green peas. 100 grams of green peas contain 244 mg, which is 6% of daily value.
Broccoli. 100 grams of broccoli contains 316 mg of potassium, which is 9% of DV.
Lima beans. 100 grams contain 570 mg of this mineral and its DV is 16%.
Tomatoes. 100 grams of red tomatoes contain 237mg, which is 6% of DV.
Sprouts. 100 grams of sprouts contain 70 mg, which is 2 percent of daily value
Potassium rich fruits
Fruits with good amounts of potassium include citrus fruits, cantaloupe, bananas, kiwi, prunes, and dried apricots.
Bananas. 100 grams of banana flesh contains 358 mg of potassium, which is 10% of DV. One banana weighing about 118 mg contains 422mg (12% DV).
Avocados. 100 grams of Avocado contains 485mg (14% DV). One avocado weighing 201g contains 975mg (28% DV)
Cantaloupe Melon. 100 grams contain 267mg (8% DV)
Pomegranate. 100 g contains 236mg (7% DV). One fruit (282g) contains 666mg (19% DV).
Guavas. Potassium in 100g – 417mg (12% DV). One fruit (55g) contains 229mg (7% DV).
Kiwi Fruit. 100 grams contain 316mg (9% DV). One fruit (86g) contains 272mg (8% DV).
Dried Apricots. 100 grams contain 1,162 mg, which is 33% of DV.
Potassium in milk
The potassium content in milk depends on which type of milk you drink. Generally, the higher the fat content, the lower is the amount of potassium.
8 ounces of whole milk offers slightly more than 320 milligrams of potassium.
The same amount of 2-percent milk contains more than 340 milligrams.
Skim or nonfat milk will give you more than 380 milligrams from an 8-ounce glass.
Plain low-fat yogurt contains 380 milligrams per 8-ounce or 11 percent of the daily value, and the same size serving of yogurt made with whole milk contains 420 milligrams or 12 percent of the daily value.
Drinks high in potassium
Since many fruits are high in potassium, fruit juices can be an excellent source of this essential mineral and electrolyte.
A one cup serving of canned prune juice contains 707 milligrams, making it one of the most riches beverages of potassium.
Orange juice provides 436 to 496 milligrams per cup. Fresh-squeezed orange juice contains the most.
Grapefruit juice provides between 378 and 405 milligrams per 1-cup serving.
Consuming vegetable juices can help with your potassium intake without too many of calories since these beverages tend to be lower in calories than fruit juices.
One cup of canned carrot juice contains 689 milligrams
Same-sized serving of tomato juice provides 556 milligrams.
Vegetable juice cocktail is also a rich choice with 467 milligrams per serving.
100 grams of coconut water contains 250 mg of potassium, which is 7% of the daily value.
Recommended dietary intake as per age
The Food and Nutrition Center of the Institute of Medicine recommends these dietary intakes for potassium, based on age:
0 to 6 months: 0.4 grams a day (g/day)
7 to 12 months: 0.7 g/day
1 to 3 years: 3 g/day
4 to 8 years: 3.8 g/day
9 to 13 years: 4.5 g/day
14 to 18 years: 4.7 g/day
Age 19 and older: 4.7 g/day
Breast feeding mothers need slightly higher amounts (5.1 g/day).
People who are being treated for hypokalemia need potassium supplements. They are especially recommended for people who take diuretics, which cause potassium depletion.
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Sick on You: The Disastrous Story of Britain’s Great Lost Punk Band (Andrew Matheson)
Sick on You: The Disastrous Story of Britain’s Great Lost Punk Band
By Andrew Matheson
Ebury Press 2015
As it says on the cover, Sick on You: The Disastrous Story of Britain’s Great Lost Punk Band is “the disastrous story of Britain’s great lost punk band.” Fronted by Andrew Matheson, and featuring Casino Steel, later of The Boys, the Hollywood Brats were British contemporaries, and in a way the mirror image of the New York Dolls. Although arguably as influential as the Dolls, they went commercially unnoticed.
The story starts in 1971 with an 18-year old Matheson packing his belongings and hard earned money from working in a coal mine to head off to London. It’s the end of Swinging London or as he describes it: “The Beatles are dead. Poor, pure, blond, bitchy Brian drowned. Jimi choked. Morrison reduced from a pretentious West Coast pseudo-poet, albeit with great hair and a svelte physique, to a bloated, bearded metaphor, soon to float, barely, in a Paris bathtub.” The quote sums up Matheson’s style and outlook– smart, snobbish and devilishly funny.
We follow him through his adventures working odd jobs, staying in shit holes and auditioning a plethora of hopeful, mostly hippy musicians, in search of perfect allies with whom he could form a rock ‘n’ roll band that will stir things up again.
After a catalogue of setbacks and disappointments, things kick into gear when he meets a Norwegian piano player called Stein Groven, soon to be renamed Casino Steel. Equally fed up with the musical fads of the day, they start recruiting like-minded angry young men. Soon enough, they have a band together and it’s time to play some gigs to hone their craft and create some buzz.
They either play for post-hippy prog rockers to utter indifference or for Teddy Boy 1950s revivalists and bikers. The reaction there is more violent and they get the shit kicked out of them on more than one occasion. But, here and there, hidden in a sea of hostility, a few punters start approaching them and digging their brand of wild and snotty rock ‘n’ roll.
Finally they get a gig at a premier London club, The Speakeasy, and, as Matheson puts it– they kill it. None other than Keith Moon shows up backstage and tells them they are the greatest band he’s ever seen.
The real game changer is the fact that they get a proper manager in Ken Mewis or in Matheson’s words, “The curtain is pulled back and, good Lord, a vision from rock ’n’ roll managerial heaven enters. This thing is 5 foot 10, maybe 11, grey pin-striped suit, sunglasses (in a club at 10 pm, mind you), white shoes, spiky blonde hairdo, fag drooping out op pouty lips, looking for all the world like James Dean’s sexually confused cousin.”
Overnight their lives are changed. No more starving in squats and rehearsing on half-burned gear, they get a real place (with a TV set!) and embark on a decadent binge of daily socializing in clubs, rubbing shoulders with celebrities and getting smashed at a Hustler party.
To not spoil it all for you, I won’t tell you the reason for their ultimate downfall. Except that the universe was conspiring against them and they were just a few years too early to the party. The story ends in 1975 with the end of the Hollywood Brats and Matheson and Casino meeting Malcolm McLaren, Mick Jones and the Pistols among others. In other words, it screams for a sequel! Just as the tidal wave of punk was in its formation, the snotty messiah Matheson leaves the stage with us, the readers, wanting more.
The incredible detail, gusto and certain bitterness combined with a healthy dose of self-assurance makes it clear that Matheson is still in great shape. According to a few recent interviews, we will hear a lot more from him. The book’s doing great and there’s a renewed interest in the Brats. Sometimes laying low for a few decades and building up frustration about lost dreams of one’s youth can produce an unexpected late resurgence of a great talent.
Andrew, sir, please give us more.
By Marko Petrovic
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Broken Promises – Chapter 37
On July 6, 2019 July 15, 2019 By HeidiIn Creative Writing
“What was I supposed to do?” Godiva hissed. “Allow it to live?”
“Have you learned nothing?” Satan snapped, his anger filling the room, hot and prickly.
As it danced across Gideon’s skin, it brought to his attention the rest of his aches and a whole new meaning to the word pain. What the hell happened to him while he was unconscious? Grimacing as just moving his fingers sent fresh waves of agony throughout his body, the quarrel between Godiva and Satan continued.
“All life is precious,” Satan finished angrily.
“And that is exactly why we are in this predicament. If Father had killed that bastard, Mother and Gideon wouldn’t have had to endure the horrors they did,” Godiva hissed.
If they were trying to keep quiet for his benefit, they were doing a lousy job of it. Stealing himself for what he knew would be far from easy, Gideon tried to open his eyes. When the light hit his eyeballs, pain lance through his brain and he could not suppress a groan.
“Gideon,” Godiva half cried half sighed in relief.
There was a rustle of clothing and footsteps. When Gideon opened his eyes and the blurriness cleared, Satan was leaning over him, worry etching his brow. Rage at the insolent child rushed through Gideon, pushing the pain into the background. With lightening speed, his hand shot up, encircling the little bastard’s neck.
“Give me one good reason why I should not end your existence,” Gideon growled rising enough to rest on his elbow, glaring at the male he held in his grip.
Gasping for air, his face quickly becoming purple as the demi-god struggled to pry the angel’s fingers from around his neck, Satan wheezed, “Because Malphas has Fallon and I may know where they are.” The hand around his neck only tightened.
“And why should I believe anything you say after what you did to us? What you allowed him to do to us?”
“Because he is telling the truth,” Godiva answered coming into view. Wringing her hands, she looked from her brother who was slowly losing consciousness to the enraged angel who lay glaring at her. Barely keeping herself from stepping away in a strong bid of self-preservation, she swallowed hard and whispered, “Gideon. Please.”
It was a few tense moments where Gideon tighten his grip even further before he shoved a half consciousness Satan away from him. His strength draining away at an alarming rate, Gideon collapsed onto the bed.
“Why do I feel like I was hit by a meteor?” he grimaced.
“Father was able to remove the necklace from around Mother’s neck. It was less than…smooth,” Godiva answered from where she knelt next to her brother.
Smooth. That was an understatement. It felt as if every muscle, every bone, had been beaten within an inch of its life. Even his organs felt abused. Rubbing his face with his hands, wincing when even that hurt, he tried to sit up. The room spun sharply, and his stomach heaved. Swallowing hard, he fell back to the bed. “There wasn’t this much pain the last time we escaped him,” Gideon groaned.
“Lie still,” Godiva admonished moving to sit beside him. “We think he modified the necklace, adding more spell and curses to it. If what we witnessed with you was the same as with Mother, it took Father almost a full day to remove it from her, and it wasn’t pleasant.”
No, no it wasn’t, Gideon thought hissing when another sharp pain lanced through his body. And apparently it wasn’t done with him.
“You said Malphas had Fallon. Before I passed out, we didn’t even know where Fallon was.”
“Mother’s mortal husband did,” Satan wheezed. Gideon looked at the male who had managed to sit up, still rubbing his swollen neck. Eyes narrowed, he really wanted to finish strangling the little bastard, but Gideon knew if Malphas really had his brother he was too weak to go looking for him on his own. He would need both of the children’s help to find him. At least Satan had the decency to cringe under Gideon’s anger.
“Explain,” he snapped.
“Their son, Chris, had always seemed older than what he was,” Godiva answered, bringing Gideon’s eyes to her. “I should have seen it earlier, but I had always thought Fallon was trapped outside this universe.”
A vague memory of a cave and Malphas throwing Fallon out of this realm floated to the forefront of his mind. “I remember Malphas saying Fallon was a conundrum. I still don’t know what he meant by that, though.” The more he thought about it, the more he knew there was something…off with what had happened. At the time he was so focused on the necklace and what it meant to him and Sapphira, an elephant could have walked through the cave and he would not have noticed.
“I’m not sure either, but somehow Fallon was able to break in and take the form of Mother’s son without losing his memories.”
“Then why didn’t he reveal himself to us earlier?” Gideon frowned. There was something in Godiva’s expression, her posture. It was so slight that Gideon thought he must have imagined it.
“I think partial because of his age as Mother’s mortal son, and partial because the rules of the Trials stopped him. While he may have known who he was, he needed to be careful so Malphas would not suspect him. As per the rules of the Trial, you, Mother and Father needed to remember who you were on your own. Until then, the best Fallon could do was protect Mother until you and Father were revealed.”
The word ‘memories’ sparked a memory of his own. Frowning, he tried to bring it forward. When it finally did, his eyes widened, turning towards Satan.
“Two thousand years ago, we did remember,” he said, his voice almost a whisper. “It was why Malphas killed Sapphira. He knew the rebirth would once again bind our memories.” His eyes darting around the room and more memories assailed him, Gideon continued. “After he pulled us into the Trail, he placed Sapphira and I into Kara and Tanis’s roles, giving us their memoires while keeping Damien locked away in a cave deep underground. We were powerless to stop him, but Fallon. Fallon had retained his powers. Malphas could not control him so he locked Fallon outside of the Trial where he could not interfere.” He looked at Godiva, his eyes wide with recognition of what she was trying to tell him. Things he thought strange then started to make sense. A slight shake of her head told him to keep this new knowledge to himself a little longer.
Suddenly sitting up, swinging his legs over the side of the bed, pain exploded within him while the room spun out of control. Putting the heal of his hands to his forehead, his elbows on his knees for support, Gideon groaned as he rode out the vertigo and pain. There was no time to lay around and recuperate. He had to find his brother before Malphas dug his claws into him, or they were all lost. Taking a deep breath and willing his stomach to settle, he sat straight, looking from Godiva to Satan. “Somehow Malphas still held power over us, so Sapphira and I were helpless to fight him. Damien was weak from being dragged in with us, and the rules still held him, binding his powers. How did Fallon escape the restraints of the rules?”
“We’ve been talking about that,” Satan answered hoarsely, pushing himself to his feet. Clearing his throat, he continued, “These Trials were built so we would be taught a valuable lesson. That life is precious and our decisions, or whims, as powerful beings could affect those lives within our control. That we must be careful in those decisions. In every universe we have built, Godiva and I have known who we were. That way our choices in how this Trial played out would be based from what we had learned in the Trials before. In this Trial you were never supposed to be here, and Malphas did not belong. When he escaped and entered this Trail the rules, unknown to us, were altered. When the four of you were pulled in they were altered even more. Once he placed you and Mother in the roles of Kara and Tanis, your memories were bound. Father he kept locked away so he could not interfere. Fallon he did not count on. If I remember correctly, you never mentioned a fourth to him, so he was not ready for Fallon to appear, and sending him back to our plain, locking him out of the Trial, must have weakened him. So he had to wait until he regained enough power to once again manifest here in his true form. Until then,” he looked at Godiva, his expression filled with remorse, “he used us to control you.”
“How do you mean?” Gideon asked, his eyes narrowing.
Adverting his eyes, Satan answered, his voice quiet. “There has always been a voice whispering in my ear, trying to turn me from the path Godiva and I chose for this Trial.” He looked into Gideon’s eyes. “We were tired. We.” Godiva loudly cleared her throat. Closing his eyes, Satan took a deep breath and let it out before once again looking at Gideon, whose expression was not comforting. “Godiva,” he amended, “wanted to do things right this time. Show you that we had learned so we could rejoin you and finally live in peace. I,” he glanced at Godiva, “however, still coveted what was not mine.”
“Sapphira,” Gideon filled in, his voice flat with anger.
Satan nodded. “We were a millennium into the Trial when the voice began to whisper in my ear that he could give me what I wanted if only I would let him in.”
Gideon stood; his expression thunderous. Wisely, Satan took a step back, so he was out of the angel’s reach.
“I never dreamed that one entity could escape their own realm let alone enter another, and the trial Malphas was created in was so long ago I did not remember him. You have to believe me, if I had known who that voice belonged to I would have never allowed him in,” Satan quickly said, his hands up in the air to either ward off the blows he knew were simmering just under the angel’s surface or show supplication. Whichever kept him in one piece would work for him. “As it was, by the time I did he had too much power and I became a prisoner in my own mind. I had to stand by and watch while he did those horrible things to Sapphira, unable to stop him. Right after he plunged the dagger into her heart two thousand years ago, he released me. I awoke with my hand still wrapped around its hilt, covered in her blood. You cannot imagine the horror I felt….”
“I was there,” Gideon snarled suddenly in his face. “Remember? I was holding her in my arms while you sat there frozen like a small child just realizing that there were consequences he could not live with for his selfish needs. So yes, I can imagine the horror of watching the reason I exist die in my arms. The only thing that saved you from sharing her fate was that I died with her.”
Anger flared in Satan, making him bold. “Don’t talk to me about horror. That was not the first time I had to bury her.” Gideon stepped back, this news shocking him enough his anger drained away. “You may remember the end of the last cycle because you finally remembered who you really were. What you don’t know is you have been here far longer than you realize. That you have died over and over, each time Malphas making sure it was my hand that ended her life. Making sure that every time I stayed alive long enough to bury you both before he forced me to take my own life. I know there is no love lost between us, but it about destroyed me to know I was responsible for your deaths not once, but hundreds upon thousands of times.” He turned and walked away a few paces, cursing the tears that coursed down his cheeks. A sign of weakness that he could no longer hold back.
“Two thousand years ago, Malphas was finally strong enough to supersede the rules and keep Satan alive indefinitely. While he waited for your return, he put the rest of the chess pieces into place.”
“Damien as Aden,” Gideon filled in. He turned his accusing eyes to Godiva. “You were the only one who kept their memories intact. Did you know Malphas had possessed Satan?”
“No,” Godiva answered shaking her head. She turned her sorrow filled eyes to her brother’s back. “Malphas was very careful to keep his presence hidden from me.” She turned back to Gideon, who, by his expression, she knew did not believe her. After all they had done in the past, she could not blame his hesitancy to do so. Pushing that problem aside for another day, she drew the conversation back to what was important. “Brynn went to see if his theory was right about Chris being Fallon to find his farmhouse in flames and Chris missing. That could only mean he was right, and Chris is really Fallon.”
“And now Malphas has him,” Gideon finished. Putting one hand on his hip, the other rubbing his face in exhaustion, Gideon turned towards the window, his thoughts in turmoil. If Malphas had been able to capture Fallon, then he must be more powerful than they first realized. Closing his eyes, he reached out, searching. When a familiar male presence washed over him, a tension he did not realize was there loosened in his body. The pain lessened and he could think past the weariness.
Where is Sapphira? Gideon asked, allowing that weariness to fill his thoughts.
Sleeping, he answered with a weary sigh of his own. The memories of what Malphas had done to her were too much. She….
He did not have to finish his thought. Gideon knew too well what Sapphira had felt, even without their connection. The same horrors were trying to incapacitate him as he stood there. Unfortunately, there was no time to come to terms with them. Pushing them into the background where he could deal with them later, he focused on the blue sky outside the window.
Malphas has…our fourth, he announced. There was a sharp intake of air within his head.
I cannot leave Sapphira alone, and I don’t want that bastard to find her until she has had time to recover. How are you doing?
I’ll survive, he answered ruefully. What are you thinking?
I want you to take Godiva and Satan and find him, he ordered.
You know it’s a trap, Gideon said.
Does it make a difference? he smirked.
Gideon had to smile, although it was not a pleasant smile. More anticipatory evil smile. Of course not. Just wanted to make sure we were on the same page.
Always, my brother. Then he was gone.
Gideon turned towards the two demi-gods patiently waiting for him. “Take me to the farm. If I know anything about Malphas, he will want us to find him, so he’ll have left some clues behind.”
“He did,” Brynn said from the bedroom doorway.
As one, they turned to see the mortal dressed in a black battle suit made from material that could withstand the coldness of space without hindering his ability to fight. Over his suit and black boots that reach just under his knees was a dark leather duster that hid numerous weapons from his time as Colin’s assassin, and while he had been on the run with Sapphira that he had been hiding in woods behind the farmhouse. Before them stood not a farmer, but a battle harden warrior whose eyes showed nothing of what he was feeling inside and every bit as deadly as the angel who regarded him with wary eyes.
“We are not going against the mortals you are used to. Malphas is a demon whose power may rival my own,” Gideon cautioned.
“I may be mortal, but I am not naïve when it comes to those with ‘power’. I have a few tricks of my own he will not see coming,” Brynn smirked. “Besides, in this world your Sapphira is also my wife. I will not allow one more power hungry bastard use her as his pawn.”
“Malphas is not after power,” Godiva corrected.
Brynn’s eyes narrowed on the Goddess. “To hell he’s not,” he growled. Taking a step into the room, he narrowed his eyes further. “At the moment, you are not one of my favorite people, Selene. I suggest you stay out of my way. And you,” he snarled, pointing his finger at Satan when he opened his mouth to defend his sister, “I will deal with later.”
With a huff, Satan snapped his mouth shut.
“I like you,” Gideon chuckled walking towards the mortal until he stood next to him. “You can stay. Now, what is this evidence you mentioned?”
“This.” Brynn held up an intricately designed medallion that looked as if it were made of gold.
Frowning, Gideon took it from Brynn. The moment his fingers touched the metal, pain scorched down his arm into his body, sending him to his knees. The bedroom fell away until Gideon knelt in an underground cave. On the wall furthest from him, a figure was gagged and chained hand and foot. Their eyes caught, Gideon’s widening in horror as the figure narrowed his, slightly shaking his head. Then he moved his glare to something the left of Gideon. Knowing what he would find, Gideon slowly turned his head until he saw a figure sitting on a throne made up of what looked like the skulls and bones of humans and demons. The figure was one Gideon recognize instantly.
“So nice of you to join us,” Malphas greeted with a smile.
The cold fingers of dread brought on by centuries of abuse from this creature tried to pull Gideon under, but he fought them off. This bastard had taken enough of his existence, he would not allow him to take anymore. He tried to rise to his feet only to have the pain once again drive him back to his hands and knees. When he tried to let go of the medallion he found he could not. The trap had been set and he had blindly walked right into it. If he lived through this, he would never hear the end of it.
Praying that Malphas did not know who he had chained to the wall, that he thought it only Sapphira’s son he wished to use as bait, he hissed, “Release the child.” Hanging his head, Gideon tightly closed his eyes as the laughter that filled his nightmares filled the room.
“You dare to make demands of me?” Malphas sneered. “You, who with all your power, all your strength could not defeat me?” A clawed hand clamped painfully around Gideon’s neck forcing him up until he was on his knees, the hand that did not hold the medallion clutching the wrist of the hand around his neck. Chains rattled in the silence. Opening his eyes, Gideon found himself staring into crimson ones full of rage. Teeth razor sharp moved closer so Malphas could whisper angrily in Gideon’s ear, “Even now you cannot hope to escape me. I own you and that bitch you stole from me! I will have back what is mine or her son will pay for your disobedience with his life, once I am done playing with him, of course,” Malphas sneered.
Gideon froze. He couldn’t help it. The atrocities that the demon had heaped on him in this Trial were still fresh in his mind. They were something he would not wish on his worst enemy, let alone the brother he would give his life for. Anger pushed back the fear.
“Over my dead body,” Gideon wheezed glaring at the demon.
Moving so his eyes were inches from Gideon’s, their noses almost touching, Malphas hissed, “With pleasure.”
Copyright © 2019 Heidi Barnes
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I’ll say it for the millionth time..,.daaaaamn! What a great chapter! Nicely done Heidi!
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With the surge in online orders, Chipotle opened its first digital restaurant
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A customer wearing a gas mask enters the Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. restaurant in San Francisco, California. .
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Chipotle Mexican Grill will open its first digital-only restaurant on Saturday.
Unlike traditional Chipotle locations, it will not include restaurants or order lines. Customers must order in advance on Chipotle̵
7;s app, website or third-party delivery platform.
The new restaurant is designed to serve the urban area, where real estate is expensive and it is impossible to provide a full-size restaurant, but the first location will be opened outside the gates of Westland.
The design will also be able to accommodate a large number of catering orders, which will have their own entrance and lobby for guests to pick up their goods.
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the transition of customers to online ordering, prompting Chipotle to try to optimize the experience as much as possible. The company reported that digital sales more than tripled in the third quarter, and CEO Brian Niccol said that this year’s total digital orders may exceed $2.5 billion, more than double the same period last year.
The crisis and its impact on the catering industry prompted other companies to reconsider their designs. Burger King and Shake Shack restaurants plan to increase the through lanes reserved for delivery drivers or online orders. Starbucks now plans to build more mobile pickup cafes this year and 2021 than previously thought.
Chipotle’s market value reached 34.8 billion U.S. dollars and has risen 67% so far this year.
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September Independent Bookshop of the Month
by Sophie O'Neill September 3, 2018
Our September Independent Bookshop of the Month is Five Leaves in Nottingham! Five Leaves Bookshop stock is orientated towards independent presses, but they have a good representation of other popular publishing houses too. The sections of their shop include young adult/teenage, spirituality, general and translated fiction, poetry, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, travel writing, politics. Something for everyone! We spoke to Ross who was happy to tell us a bit more about the shop.
How did Five Leaves begin?
Five Leaves started as a publisher in 1995 - we have published at the last count 285 titles over the years, books and pamphlets. The bookshop itself started on 9 November 2013 with a much wider brief. Our main areas or interest are politics and poetry, feminism and LGBT... but we have lots of smaller areas of interest, such as autism, cityscape, landscape... Often our sections represent the interests of members of staff. We still publish, though not as many books as in the past, as the bookshop has grown.
Do you have any exciting plans for the future?
In June Five Leaves won the Independent Bookshop of the Year Award at the British Book Awards and a few days ago the shop had a complete refit - which we completed in three days, the three days after our local Lowdham Book Festival's biggest day which we always organise, and Feminist Book Fortnight, which we initiated. FBF involved 50 bookshops, a library and a couple of art galleries. Our plans for the future involve working out what to do with FBF next!
Our own Bread and Roses Festival is in November - when we concentrate on the radical side of the shop, including organising the Nottingham Radical Bookfair. We're currently working out our programme for the autumn. Last year we organised 88 events over the year (or 92, depending on which team member you ask) and this year will be about the same.
If you weren’t running a bookshop, what would you be doing?
Well, the three members of the team whose reading is mentioned all used to work in other bookshops, and in publishing, so we're pretty addicted. If we could run anything in addition to our shop it would be to take over the building next door and run a garden centre. We've already got a shop garden.
If you could meet any author or poet, dead or alive, who would you choose and why?
If we could meet one author... a reading by Seamus Heaney would be nice. One of us exchanged letters with him - he was a lovely man - but none of us met him.
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Inside AI (Jan 13th, 2021)
Fed looking into AI in banking / First driverless Indycar race / AI locates illegal roads in Amazon
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The Federal Reserve is asking for industry comments about the use of AI/ML in banking, as it considers ramping up its oversight of the technologies. The Fed and other stakeholders need to understand the "benefits and risks" of AI as it's incorporated more into financial services, said Fed Gov. Lael Brainard during yesterday's AI Academic Symposium; she specifically mentioned AI's racial biases as a contributor to digital redlining.
Brainard said understanding risks and benefits is crucial to "ensure that society benefits from the application of AI to financial services."
The plan is to move forward with a formal request for public feedback about AI adoption in financial services, where banks and other institutions are using it for customer applications, fraud prevention, and operational risk management.
ML fraud detection tools, in particular, can comb through structured and unstructured data to find suspicious activity faster and more accurately than traditional methods, Brainard said.
She acknowledged challenges, including the capacity for AI models to lack transparency and have baked-in racial biases. This occurs when historical data with biases are used to train models, leading to bigger "racial gaps in access to credit” and “digital redlining," she said.
Brainard said it's the "collective responsibility" of the financial industry to build guardrails and protections to prevent these biases and "ensure that AI is designed to promote equitable outcomes."
Related: Fast Company reported on how AI is quietly causing more institutional racism via high-tech redlining.
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Dallara's race car for self-driving challenge.
The first driverless Indycar race is coming to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in October. The Indy Autonomous Challenge will pit 30 teams against each other in identical racing cars, as they seek a top prize of $1M.
Each team is in charge of creating the autonomous software to drive the car for 20 laps. The target is to reach the finish line in 25 minutes or less.
At this week's CES, race car builder Dallara revealed the car chassis, which will house each team's self-driving technology.
Paul Mitchell, co-organizer of the challenge, called the Dallara-built race car "the most advanced, fastest autonomous vehicle ever developed." Each car is valued at ~$1M, he said, thanks to advanced computers, optical cameras, radar, and LiDAR.
A similar autonomous race, Roborace, set a speed record for driverless cars of 175.49 mph back in 2019.
This week's CES 2021 has had its share of impressive robots and robotic systems. Inside AI takes a look at a few:
UBTECH's Walker
The humanoid robot, which has appeared at previous events, is headlining UBTECH's virtual booth.
Quotable: "CES 2021 is different, just like all events have been during this pandemic, but we've found the transition to promote UBTECH's intelligent humanoid robots and AI, to be seamless," — John Rhee, senior vice president and general manager, UBTECH North America.
Moflin AI pet robot
This plush self-learning bot, from Vanguard Industries, won the Best of Innovation Award in robotics at CES.
Quotable: "According to the company, each Moflin will develop an individual personality over time, depending on the environment and 'how their owners treat them', with possible emotions including anxious, calm, happy, excited, and more – just like a real pet." — TechRadar
LG's UV robot
This disinfecting bot, which combines robotics, AI, and autonomous technologies, was fast-tracked during the pandemic. LG expects to start shipping it to customers in April.
Quotable: "We are talking to long-term care companies about how this can help them keep residents safer and keep their employees safer. Anywhere you can really imagine you have people and that you have virus it's applicable." — Michael Kosla, vice president of LG Business Solutions USA.
Samsung's Bot Care (left) and Bot Handy
Bot Care, a robotic assistant and companion, uses AI to recognize and respond to people's behavior. Bot Handy also uses AI, but to recognize and pick up items around the house.
"Like the Bot Care, the body of the machine has a white finish with a black display on the front that can show eyes that blink and make the robot seem more lifelike." — CNET
TECHREPUBLIC
An AI algorithm can automatically locate formerly-hidden roads in Brazil's Amazon, some of which are linked to illegal logging and other deforestation. The algorithm comes from the Brazil-based non-profit Imazon, which says it could help preserve the rainforest's ecosystems.
Previously, geographers mapping the Amazon basin used officials maps, which only showed government-built roads. A 2016 analysis using satellite images showed that the actual road length, including illegal roads, was 13x higher.
Many of the roads lead to areas tied to logging, mining, agriculture, and land speculation. Some are permitted, while some are illegal.
Imazon used hand-mapped roads to train the AI algorithm, which is nearly 70% accurate. The plan is to share it with similar organizations in neighboring countries to map other parts of the Amazon.
Policymakers could underestimate the harm being done to the Amazon if they fail to consider unofficial roads, according to Imazon's Carlos Souza.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration unveiled an action plan for how it could regulate AI/ML in medical software. The five-point plan, which supports improved machine learning algorithms, is expected to evolve over time, said Bakul Patel, director of the Digital Health Center of Excellence in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
Five steps the FDA plans to take:
Further develop its regulatory framework for AI-based software as a medical device, or SaMD. This includes draft guidance on a so-called "change control plan," which regulates software's learning over time.
Support good machine learning practices to analyze and improve machine learning algorithms.
Foster a patient-centered approach that includes transparency of AI devices/software.
Develop ways to evaluate and improve machine learning algorithms.
Support pilots for real-world monitoring of AI software.
MED TECH DIVE
DATA PRIVACY NEWS: Executives from Amazon, Google, and Twitter called for the enactment of a U.S. federal privacy law during remarks at the virtual CES 2021 conference. They said that new privacy laws have changed the way they do business, particularly giving users greater control over their data and explaining how emerging technologies are using their data.
The three privacy heads judged it probable that the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden would push for a federal privacy law.
The Obama administration introduced a Privacy Bill of Rights in 2012, but Congress failed to take action on it.
Failure to enact a national privacy law would result in the "balkanization of the internet," warned Twitter Chief Privacy Officer Damien Kieran.
Related: New York state lawmakers introduced more than a dozen consumer privacy bills last week.
A version of this story first appeared in privacyXFN, our newsletter covering in-depth cybersecurity news and analysis.
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Charlotte Hayes-Clemens is an editor and writer based in Vancouver. She has dabbled in both the fiction and non-fiction world, having worked at HarperCollins Publishers and more recently as a writing coach for new and self-published authors. Proper semi-colon usage is her hill to die on.
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A validation of the ICECAP-O in a population of post-hospitalized older people in the Netherlands
Peter Makai1,
Marc A Koopmanschap2,
Werner BF Brouwer2 &
Anna AP Nieboer2
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes volume 11, Article number: 57 (2013) Cite this article
Various healthcare and social services may impact not only health, but wellbeing as well. Such effects may be more fully captured by capability-wellbeing instruments than with Health-related Quality of Life (HrQol) instruments. The aim of this study is to validate the ICEpop (Investigating Choice Experiments for the Preferences of Older People) CAPability measure for Older people (ICECAP-O) capability wellbeing instrument in a population of post-hospitalized older people admitted to a hospital 3 months earlier.
296 post-hospitalized older people in the Netherlands were interviewed 3 months after admission between September 2010 and January 2011. We investigated the convergent validity of the ICECAP-O and overall wellbeing measures (Cantril’s ladder and Social Production Function: Instrument for Level of Well-being (SPF-IL)), as well as with various health measures (EQ5D, Katz-15 Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) scale, Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and the Medical Outcomes Study Short form (SF-20) social functioning dimension). Additionally, we assessed discriminant validity by comparing several relevant subgroups in our sample (based on age, depression, IADL dependency, living situation, etc.). We also investigated the relationship between overall wellbeing and the ICECAP-O, controlling for HrQol and background characteristics.
This study suggests that the ICECAP-O has good convergent validity with wellbeing measures as well as health measures and discriminates between various groups of post-hospitalized older people. Wellbeing measured by both Cantril’s ladder and SPF-IL is associated with the ICECAP-O in a multivariate analysis controlling for HRQoL as well.
The ICECAP-O seems to be a valid instrument of capability-wellbeing in older, post-hospitalized people, showing good convergent validity with health and wellbeing instruments, and is able to discriminate between elderly with various health profiles. The ICECAP-O measure seems to capture both health and wellbeing. Therefore it is a promising instrument for assessing the outcomes of health and social services aimed at older people.
Economic evaluation of healthcare services aims to inform policy makers by comparing the costs and benefits of alternative health care interventions. In such an evaluation, it is crucial that besides all costs, all benefits of healthcare services are captured. Capturing such benefits can be challenging, since healthcare services such as elderly care, long-term mental health, and public health may impact individuals health and health related quality of life, as well as their wellbeing more generally [1–4].
Health can be defined as a multidimensional construct of physical, psychological and social dimensions [5]. These health dimensions can be inter-related, for example decreased mobility may lead to a decrease in social contacts and depression [6, 7], subsequently impacting social and psychological dimensions of health [7]. Health related quality of life (HrQol) tries to capture how health impacts individuals’ Quality of Life (Qol) [8]. In economic evaluations, benefits are frequently assessed by changes in health-related quality of life combined with the duration an individual spends in various health states. Duration and HrQol are then subsequently combined in Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs), and thus arguably capture the effect of healthcare services on physical, psychological and social dimensions of health. Aspects of broader wellbeing, such as maintaining independence, dignity, and comfort [1], however, arguably are not captured by the concept of HrQol in its entirety. This can cause problems in capturing the full benefits of interventions, in particular in the evaluation of social care interventions, as well as integrated health and social care services [9]. For example, specific social care interventions like day care and meals on wheels may improve wellbeing, but not health, or at least not only health [9]. As a consequence, such services cannot be evaluated in the same manner as other healthcare services such as medicines [9] where using HrQol seems more appropriate in many cases. Otherwise, the benefits of these provisions may be undervalued [10].
Therefore, broadening the evaluative space of economic evaluations by a wider measurement of benefits has been suggested in evaluation of elderly care [1, 11], using dimensions of wellbeing such as independence, attachment, or the ability to pursue valued activities [10] in addition to health dimensions. In that context, a proposed alternative to measuring HrQol is to measure capabilities. Capabilities may be seen as a conceptualization of wellbeing [1], defined as the capacity to perform certain actions and achieve certain states (irrespective of actually doing so). Capability wellbeing assesses what individuals can do instead of focusing on functioning, i.e. what individuals actually do [1]. Capability-wellbeing captures a variety of health and non-health dimensions, which may be difficult to separate [12].
In order to measure capability wellbeing, two instruments have been developed to date, the ICECAP-O [10, 13] (ICEpop (Investigating Choice Experiments for the Preferences of Older People)) CAPability measure for Older people above 65 and the ICECAP-A [1] for the general population. Both instruments are intended as outcome measures for economic evaluations of both health and social services, where beyond health, wellbeing aspects have to be considered as well [1, 9, 10]. In order to be useful for economic evaluations, instruments should be sufficiently validated in terms of their convergent and discriminant validity. While the ICECAP-A has been validated in the UK only [14], the ICECAP-O has been validated in a number of settings: in the British general elderly population [10], in an Australian population of post-hospitalized elderly receiving residential care [15], in a Canadian population of elderly visiting a fall-prevention clinic [16] and a proxy version has been validated in Dutch nursing home settings [17].
However, to date, the ICECAP-O has not been validated in a population of post-hospitalized older-people in the Netherlands. Post-hospitalized elderly are increasingly recognized as a population in which health improvements can be achieved [18] through geriatric interventions. In the Netherlands, in the context of the National Care for the Elderly Program significant efforts are made to improve health and quality of life outcomes in frail elderly, for instance through the Prevention and Reactivation Care Programme among older patients who are admitted to a hospital [19]. For elderly populations, hospitalization increases the risk of functional decline, defined customarily as a decrease in (instrumental) activities of daily living ((I)ADL) [20]. Although elderly may be hospitalized due to function decline resulting from illness, such functional decline is also frequent after admission: 35% of 70 year olds and 65% of 90 year olds experience such a decline. Functional decline is therefore influenced by hospital care as well [20], through increased complications [21] or through less aggressive treatment regimens than customary in younger populations [18]. In a group of post-hospitalized older people, a wide range of differences in health, capabilities and well-being problems may be expected due to (differences in) age, physical function, and other characteristics of the elderly such as multi-morbidity and support from their direct environment. As a result, this population is likely to receive various forms of publicly funded healthcare, as well as being the recipients of other social services. Furthermore, there is little research on how the ICECAP-O is related to other conceptualizations of wellbeing and the relationships between the ICECAP-O and measures of health (physical, psychological and social) remain underexplored. Exploring such issues is preferably done in a group in which a variety of health and well-being problems may be expected such as post-hospitalized elderly. Therefore, the aim of this study is to validate the convergent and discriminant validity of the ICECAP-O in a Dutch community-dwelling population discharged from a hospital in the prior three months. We further study the discriminant validity of the ICECAP-O by performing sub-group analyses, highlighting the differences in ICECAP-O scores between groups of elderly.
Design, participants and setting
This validation study was based on a pilot study of the Transition-experiment Geriatric Network Rotterdam Prevention and Reactivation of Care program. The aim of the pilot was to select outcome measures and triage instruments for the actual trial [19]. In order to be able to select appropriate instruments, several instruments measuring similar constructs were included in the pilot. As some instruments such as the ICECAP-O were not widely validated, their validity was further examined on the basis of the pilot. This helped to reduce the number of instruments measuring the same concepts in the actual trial. This pilot study was conducted among all older people admitted to the Vlietland hospital between June and October 2010. The sample included 500 older people (>65 years of age) who were interviewed using face to face questionnaires. Three months after hospital admission, a total of 296 discharged patients (59% response rate) completed questionnaires using face to face administration and were included in the analysis. Reasons for dropout were: death (n=49), lost interest to participate (n=52), too ill (n=35), terminally ill (n=5), objection by partner/family (n=14), mentally not able (n=8), private reasons (e.g. death of spouse; n=4), questions not applicable (n=8), no contact/unable to reach respondent (n=12), and reason unknown (n=22). The study protocol was approved by the medical ethics committee of the Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, under protocol number MEC2011-041. Informed consent was obtained from all participants. The study protocol is extensively described in Asmus-Szepesi [19].
To investigate the convergent and discriminant validity of the ICECAP-O, we used a wide variety of outcome measures. To measure different conceptualizations and operationalizations of wellbeing we used three wellbeing measures. First, capability wellbeing was measured using the ICECAP-O capability measure for older people. The ICECAP instruments can be seen as measuring capability wellbeing [1] achieved by the capacity to perform certain actions and achieve certain states [9]. The ICECAP-O measures five capability dimensions – attachment, security, role, enjoyment, and control – with one question per dimension. Each dimension can be scored on four levels, thus distinguishing 1024 possible ‘capability states’. The ICECAP-O was developed using rigorous qualitative and quantitative approaches [9, 10, 13, 22]. In order to obtain tariffs for the ICECAP-O, the attributes were valued using best-worst scaling, a special type of discrete choice analysis [9]. The ICECAP-O tariffs have values between 0 (no capability) and 1 (full capability). Second, wellbeing was measured using the Cantril’s ladder life satisfaction scale, a one-dimensional index ranging from zero (completely dissatisfied) to 10 (completely satisfied) [23]. Third, we also used a multi-dimensional measure of wellbeing, the Social Production Function: Instrument for Level of Well-being (SPF-IL), to assess wellbeing. The SPF-IL measures affection, behavioral confirmation, status, comfort and stimulation on a 4 point scale, ranging from 1 (never) to 4 (always) [24], providing an overall index of wellbeing, with higher scores indicating higher levels of wellbeing.
To measure HRQol we used the EQ-5D [25]. The EQ5D measures HrQol in terms of five dimensions (mobility, self-care, daily activities, pain and discomfort, anxiety and depression) with three levels each (1=no problems, 2=moderate problems, and 3=extreme problems) describing 243 health states. The EQ-5D health states can be converted into a utility score by applying the scoring values (tariff) for the Dutch population [25]. The EQ5D utility scores range from 1 (perfect health) through 0 (death) and has negative values accounting for health states worse than dead [25]. The EQ5D is one of the most widely used measures of HrQol, and is extensively used in economic evaluations [25]. To assess physical functioning, we used the combined ADL (Activities of Daily Living)-IADL (Instrumental Activities of Daily Living) scale (Katz-15) consisting of yes or no responses on IADL items such as bathing, dressing and abilities such as using the telephone and managing money [26]. The IADL scores range from 0–15 with higher scores indicating higher dependency. Three cutoff-scores are commonly used, 7 (severely IADL dependent), 4 (moderately IADL dependent) and 1 (mildly dependent) [27]. In this current study we used the cutoff score for mildly dependent.
To assess depressive symptoms, we used the Geriatric Depression Scale-15 (GDS-15). The GDS-15 consists of 15 items, measuring psychological function and mood swings. The instrument has been widely validated in older people [28]. The cutoff score of 10 is a reliable cut-off score for major depression, while a score below five is considered to indicate the absence of clinically significant depressive symptoms. Scores between 5 and 10 indicate mild depression [29, 30]. In this current study we used the cutoff score of five.
To assess social functioning, we used the social activity limitation item from the SF-20 [31]. This item measures the frequency with which respondents experienced social activity limitations due to health. The item runs from 1 (none of the time) to 6 (all of the time), and converts to a 0–100 scale. In this current study we have used a cutoff score at the middle of the scale, i.e. 50, to distinguish elderly who have frequent limitations (limitations a good bit of the time or more frequently) from those with less frequent limitations.
Finally, we investigated the presence of multi-morbidity. Multi-morbidity was defined as having two or more chronic disease conditions, as is common in the literature [32, 33]. We included the following chronic illnesses in our multi-morbidity count: diabetes, stroke (cerebral haemorrhage, cerebral infarction or TIA), heart failure, cancer (malignant condition), asthma or chronic bronchitis or lung emphysema or COPD, incontinence, degenerative arthrosis of hip or knee, osteoporosis, prostate symptoms caused by benign prostate enlargement, dementia, hearing problems, problems with vision.
For convergent validity, we expect the ICECAP-O capability wellbeing measure to correlate more strongly with Cantril’s ladder and the SPF-IL wellbeing measures, than with the EQ5D HrQol measure and with the IADL, GDS and the SF-20’s social activity limitation health measures, because the ICECAP-O is intended as measure of well-being that transcends measuring HrQol [13]. For discriminant validity, we expect to find higher ICECAP-O scores in older people living with others as compared to living alone due to higher affection [10, 34]. We also expect to find higher scores in IADL independent as compared to IADL dependent older people, and for non-depressed as compared to depressed older people as well as in older people with no social activity limitations vs. those with such limitations. This was based on earlier work showing strong relationships between the ICECAP-O role, enjoyment and control dimensions and physical problems, and between the ICECAP-O dimensions attachment and enjoyment and mental health measures, and between a number of social measures and the ICECAP-O dimensions role and enjoyment [10]. Furthermore, we will explore differences on the ICECAP-O in older people living at home compared to those in a nursing home, in the young-old (<75 years old) compared to the old-old (≥75 years old) and in multi-morbid older people versus those without multi-morbidity (the latter expected to score higher on the ICECAP-O). In order to gain further insight into how the ICECAP-O and health are related to older and more accepted wellbeing measures, we will explore if the ICECAP-O is related to other measures of wellbeing in a multivariate model controlling for health.
All analyses were performed in STATA 11. Item level analysis of non-response was carried out. For all analyses, available cases were used.
We calculated descriptive statistics. In establishing convergent validity we used correlation analyses. Correlations above 0.5 are referred to as strong, between 0.3 and 0.5 as moderate, and below 0.3 as weak. Differences in strength of correlation between ICECAP-O and EQ5D, and between ICECAP-O and the wellbeing measures were assessed with Steiger’s Z [35]. For discriminant validity we used t-tests for two group comparisons and one-way ANOVA for comparisons between multiple groups. To further explore discriminant validity of the ICECAP-O, we also performed stepwise regression analyses with a p-value of 0.2. To analyze to what degree the ICECAP-O is related to the Cantril’s ladder and SPF-IL wellbeing measures, we have performed stepwise multivariate regressions including all variables with a p-value below 0.2. Regression assumptions were checked. In the subgroup analysis, categorical groups were compared using chi-squared tests.
296 clients completed face to face questionnaires three months after admission, and were included in the analysis. For these included clients, demographic characteristics had no missing values, while for other variables missing values ranged from 2 (0,7%) in case of Cantril’s ladder to 12 (4%) in case of the ICECAP-O tariffs. Response on the ICECAP-O dimensions was quite good, ranging from 97% on the role dimension to 99% on the control dimension, demonstrating good feasibility. All analyses below were conducted on a net sample using complete case analysis (n=275).
Table 1 shows the demographic characteristics of post-hospitalized elderly, as well as their health status, HRQol, and wellbeing. Figure 1 below details the response to the individual ICECAP-O dimensions.
Table 1 Sample characteristics
Response on the ICECAP-O.
Convergent and discriminant validity
Correlation analysis shows, that the ICECAP-O overall tariffs were significantly and strongly correlated with Cantril’s ladder, while the ICECAP-O dimensions were generally moderately correlated with Cantril’s ladder. The SPF-IL total scores were generally moderately correlated with the ICECAP-O dimensions and strongly correlated with the ICECAP-O tariffs. The overall EQ5D utility score was also moderately correlated with the ICECAP-O tariffs. The EQ5D dimensions were mostly weakly correlated with the ICECAP-O tariffs, with the exception of Self-Care and Control, Usual activities and Role, and Usual activities and Control for which moderate correlations were found. Correlations between other health measures and the ICECAP-O tariffs were generally moderate, with the correlation between GDS and Attachment being weak. GDS and IADL were both strongly correlated with the ICECAP-O tariffs. The social activity limitations dimension was moderately correlated with Role, Enjoyment, Control and the ICECAP-O tariffs. Using Steiger’s Z, we found that the difference in strength of the correlation between the ICECAP-O and the wellbeing measures on the one hand and between the ICECAP-O and the EQ5D on the other hand was not statistically significant (Table 2).
Table 2 Correlations between capability, wellbeing and health dimensions
Results regarding discriminant validity of the ICECAP-O are shown in Table 3. In the bivariate analysis the ICECAP-O significantly discriminated between young-old and old-old, between multi-morbid and single-morbid respondents, depressed and non-depressed respondents, between IADL dependent and non dependent respondents as well as between respondents with frequent social activity limitations and those without. Furthermore, the ICECAP-O discriminated between people with higher and lower EQ5D scores. This is similar to the other wellbeing instruments as shown in Table 4, although only the ICECAP-O discriminated the young-old and the old-old. In the multivariate stepwise regression, the ICECAP-O discriminated groups based on IADL dependency, depressive symptoms, social activity limitations and EQ5D scores (operationalized as dummies).
Table 3 Discriminant validity of the ICECAP-O in select groups
Table 4 Comparison of the discriminant validity of the wellbeing instruments
Differences in demographic characteristics between the population with the highest ICECAP-O scores (highest third, n=111) and the lowest ICECAP-O scores (lowest third, n=94) were also investigated (analysis not shown here). Significant differences were found for age (older people having lower ICECAP-O scores), place of residence (living in a nursing home being associated with lower scores) and multi-morbidity (which is associated with lower scores). As for the other measures, a low ICECAP-O score is significantly associated with lower Cantril’s ladder scores, SPF-IL scores and EQ5D scores. As for GDS and IADL, depressed respondents and those with functional limitations were more likely to be in the group with low ICECAP-O scores.
Relationship between the ICECAP-O and measures of overall wellbeing
In a multivariate analysis of other measures of wellbeing, capability wellbeing as measured by the ICECAP-O tariffs was significantly and positively associated with wellbeing as measured by Cantril’s ladder and the SPF-IL. HrQol as measured by the EQ5D utility scores was not independently associated with SPF-IL or Cantril’s ladder after ICECAP-O tariffs were included in the regression analyses. Being depressed was independently associated with lower Cantril’s ladder as well as SPF-IL scores. Marital status and living arrangement were significantly related to Cantril’s ladder but not to SPF-IL. Multimorbidity was associated with lower SPF-IL scores, but not significantly associated with Cantril’s ladder scores (Table 5).
Table 5 Stepwise regression between Cantril’s ladder, ICECAP-O and health variables*
Summary of main results
As hypothesized, the capability wellbeing instrument ICECAP-O tariffs were significantly correlated with other measures of wellbeing (Cantril’s ladder, the SPF-IL) as well as with all health measures (EQ5D dimensions and utilities, IADL, GDS, SF-20 Social Activity limitation). Contrary to expectations based on the type of instrument, the strength of the correlation between the ICECAP-O and the wellbeing measures was fairly similar as that with health measures. The individual ICECAP-O dimensions were also correlated with the overall scores of the different health and wellbeing measures. Overall, we found significant correlations between the ICECAP-O dimensions and the individual EQ5D dimensions, with the exception of Attachment, which was not significantly correlated with the Pain/Discomfort and Anxiety/Depression dimensions of the EQ5D and Security, which was not significantly correlated with the EQ5D dimensions Mobility and Self-care. As hypothesized, the ICECAP-O discriminated between the following measures in the bivariate and multivariate analyses: depressed and non-depressed elderly, IADL dependent and non IADL dependent elderly and between those with social activity limitations and without social activity limitations. In the exploratory analysis the ICECAP-O discriminated between multi-morbid and other elderly and between elderly with high and low EQ5D scores. Regarding measures of wellbeing, the ICECAP-O is significantly related to both Cantril’s ladder and the SPF-IL, even when correcting for health variables.
This study has a number of limitations worth mentioning. First, our sample of elderly was not representative, but consisted of post-hospitalized elderly, who were previously admitted to a single hospital, living in one region of the Netherlands. Elderly in our sample are frailer than the general community-dwelling elderly population, reporting lower levels of mobility on the EQ5D [36–38] than customary for the age group. Such reduced mobility suggests that our population is characterized by functional decline, consistent with frailty. In addition, patients in our sample were characterized by a broad range of diseases and multiple chronic conditions, with heart failure and osteoporosis being the most common diagnoses. Such a relative high number of elderly with multi-morbidity is also consistent with frailty. Associations between capabilities, health and well-being may be weaker in a general sample of frail elderly due to less variation in measurements. However, we have no indication that the selection of respondents drives the results regarding validity. Future research in other community-dwelling elderly populations also in other countries than the UK is necessary to further test this and validate the instrument. Second, we used a stepwise regression to identify explanatory variables of the ICECAP-O scores, which has limitations. In order to avoid rejecting possible significant variables, we used a relatively high p-value (0.2) for excluding variables. Additionally, we performed a regression analysis with all possible independent variables, which confirmed the results from the stepwise regression. It is worth noting moreover that, given the modest sample size, some subgroups were relatively small. This may lead to lack of power in establishing significant relationships.
Comparability with other findings
Compared to previous studies [10, 15–17, 34], the values for the individual dimensions and overall scores of the ICECAP-O in this current study are similar to those obtained in the general elderly population and substantially higher than those obtained in a Dutch nursing home [17]. The current scores are comparable to the British and Australian reference values [10, 15, 34], with the exception of the attachment dimension, where the British and Australian studies [10, 15, 34] report a higher percentage of older people at full capability (57% British and Australian studies vs. 36% current study) and the security dimension, where this current study has a far higher percentage of older people at full capability (53% current study vs. 18% British study vs. 37% Australian study). The differences in the attachment dimension cannot be explained by differences in the fraction of married elderly, which is quite similar across the studies. However, the elderly in the current study are a worse-off group (i.e. in terms of mobility) than the general elderly population in the UK, which may partly explain the lower scores on the attachment dimension. Differences on the security dimension may be explained by cultural differences in answering this question. Indeed, this is the second study in the Netherlands in which relatively high scores were found for the security dimension [17]. Hence, Dutch elderly either have fewer concerns about the future than UK elderly or are less likely to share their concerns about the future. It also seems important to further investigate whether the translation of the description of the security dimension may lead to the observed differences. The average overall scores found here i.e. 0.84 were comparable to those obtained in the British and Canadian population (0.82), the Australian population (0.81) and substantially higher than for older people in a nursing home (0.63). Comparison of the overall scores suggest that on average the ICECAP-O scores of the Dutch community-living elderly are comparable to the general population in Australia and the UK, and are substantially better than elderly living in nursing homes in the Netherlands.
Furthermore, the correlations between the ICECAP-O, Cantril’s Ladder and EQ5D show broadly similar results as reported in previous studies, with a number of exceptions. Unlike the British validation study [10] but in line with the Australian study [15], we found a statistically significant though moderate correlation between ICECAP-O attachment dimension and the EQ5D dimensions mobility, self-care and usual activities. In addition, unlike the British study we found a significant correlation between the ICECAP-O’s security dimension and the EQ5D dimensions usual activities and pain. It must be noted that these are quite weak correlations, and significance may or may not be reached due to minor differences in sampling variation. Such minor differences in sample variation may be related to differences in the respective samples; here we approached previously hospitalized elderly, while the British study was performed in a sample from the general elderly population. Our correlation results were also comparable to a Dutch study using proxy respondents in nursing homes [17]. There, however, the correlation between the ICECAP-tariffs and the EQ5D was somewhat stronger then found here, which may be due to differences between self-report and proxy responses. In this study the ICECAP-O is unrelated to Sex and Education level, which is consistent with previous findings.
Relationship between health and wellbeing and the ICECAP-O
Comparing the performance of the ICECAP-O to that of other health and wellbeing instruments, some aspects deserve mentioning. Given the strong correlations between the ICECAP-O measure of capability wellbeing and the other two wellbeing measures, as well as between the ICECAP-O measure and the EQ5D HrQol measure, ICECAP-O scores are related to both health and other wellbeing scores. The ICECAP-O scores are moreover related to individual health dimensions in terms of physical functioning, psychological functioning and social functioning. The tests of discriminant validity confirm this relationship between health measures and the ICECAP-O scores. Even though the ICECAP-O does not have an explicit physical dimension [39], it seems that it is capable of capturing the effect of decreased physical function on capability wellbeing to a large degree, primarily through the control and role dimensions. With respect to the wellbeing instruments, the strong correlation between the ICECAP-O and Cantril’s ladder as well as the SPF-IL suggests that the ICECAP-O is related to these wellbeing measures as well, which is also confirmed in multivariate analyses. Table 4 does suggest that GDS has an influence on SPF-IL and Cantril’s ladder beyond what is captured by the ICECAP-O. This may be related to the concept of capability wellbeing or to the ICECAP-O instrument’s insensitivity for depression.
Implications for policy and future research
The ICECAP-O is a measure of wellbeing, and therefore has the potential to broaden the evaluative space of economic evaluations in health care by focusing on more than health alone. As such, it can potentially compare the benefits across a large number of sectors which (primarily) aim to improve wellbeing, such as (parts of) social care [2], institutionalized elderly care [40], public health [3], and mental health [4]. This is a particularly useful property in case of populations such as frail elderly characterized by decreasing independence and multi-morbidity, potentially across different health dimensions. The ICECAP-O measures (one conceptualization of) wellbeing. In doing so, its outcomes are, expectedly, related to health outcomes. The ICECAP-O moreover discriminates between various better off and worse-off groups. In this current study, in a post-hospitalized group significant insights were gained in terms of the relationship between capability wellbeing, life satisfaction, SPF_IL and various health measures. On the basis of our findings, we advocate the further use of the ICECAP-O measure in the context of economic evaluations, especially in those circumstances where broader well-being effects are expected and in combination with other measures. It can also be used in large scale surveys aimed at identifying depraved populations in order to identify groups which may benefit from interventions, as has been done previously [34]. Nonetheless, a number of issues need to be explored further.
Further research is required to confirm the current favorable findings and to further explore the feasibility, validity and usefulness of the ICECAP-O instrument, also in the context of economic evaluations. In that context, larger studies would be helpful, allowing more subgroup analyses, as well as studies in different contexts (e.g. specific disease areas, living environments or cultural settings). Further research is especially encouraged in more homogeneous population characterized by a single disease. Furthermore, since the performance of the ICECAP-O has not been widely explored in longitudinal studies, the sensitivity to changes of the ICECAP-O is currently unclear. Whether the ICECAP-O comprehensively captures health and wellbeing changes, including depression, also deserves further attention. Additionally, further research is necessary to establish a causal relationship between health and wellbeing as measured by the ICECAP-O, and to explore ways in which the capabilities of older people can be improved.
The ICECAP-O is an outcome measure which may be particularly useful in the context of (economic) evaluations of health care services such as long-term elderly care, where broader effects are expected than those captured with conventional HRQoL measures. In the current study, the ICECAP-O showed good convergent validity with validated measures of health and well-being as well as good discriminant validity in a heterogeneous population of post-hospitalized elderly. As such, the ICECAP-O seems to be a promising instrument. Additional research is required to not only confirm these findings in other settings and samples, but also to study the sensitivity to change of the instrument as well as its comprehensiveness in all relevant wellbeing effects.
QALY:
ICECAP-O:
ICEpop (Investigating choice experiments for the preferences of older people)
SPF-IL:
Social production function- Instrument for level of well-being
IADL:
Instrumental activities of daily living
GDS:
Geriatric depression scale.
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This study is funded with a grant (grant number: 311030201) from the Netherlands organisation for health research and development (ZonMw) as part of the National Care for the Elderly Program, which aims to improve the quality of care for elderly by means of developing integrated health care that is adjusted to the individual needs of the elderly.
Department of Geriatrics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre Nijmegen, Renier Postlaan 4, Nijmegen, 6525GC, The Netherlands
Peter Makai
Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam Burgemeester, Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, 3062, PA, The Netherlands
Marc A Koopmanschap, Werner BF Brouwer & Anna AP Nieboer
Marc A Koopmanschap
Werner BF Brouwer
Anna AP Nieboer
Correspondence to Peter Makai.
All authors made substantial contribution to the design, analysis, interpretation of data, have been involved in drafting and revising the manuscript and have approved the final version.
Makai, P., Koopmanschap, M.A., Brouwer, W.B. et al. A validation of the ICECAP-O in a population of post-hospitalized older people in the Netherlands. Health Qual Life Outcomes 11, 57 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-11-57
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مدیریت سرمایه انسانی
سیاست های انتخابی مهاجرت، انباشت سرمایه انسانی و مدت زمان مهاجرت در افق بی نهایت
Selective immigration policies, human capital accumulation and migration duration in infinite horizon
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ترجمه تخصصی - سرعت فوری هر کلمه 110 تومان 6 روز بعد از پرداخت 900,130 تومان
Journal : Research in Economics, Volume 63, Issue 2, June 2009, Pages 114–126
- مدت زمان مهاجرت - سرمایه انسانی - سیاست های انتخابی - به دست آوردن مغز - فرار مغزها
An increasing literature fosters selective immigration policies as a tool to increase human capital in both source and destination countries. These policies are supposed to prompt incentives to education, and–if selection is sufficiently severe–to increase the human capital stock in source countries. Nonetheless, when compared to open migration, selective policies make returns to education uncertain, and they may harm incentives to invest in human capital. As a consequence, they may reduce the human capital stock even though selection is “severe”. Moreover, when repeated migration is possible, they backfire on migration duration. We obtain our results in an infinite-horizon model that, unlike the current literature, places no restriction on the number of possible migration spells and allows for the possibility of a forced emigration.
Unlike flows of capital or goods, inflows of immigrants can generate frictions with natives and xenophobia, particularly when combined with high unemployment. National governments are, therefore, highly concerned about immigration control. The eastward enlargement of the European Union is going to add approximately 50 million people to the existing labor force. Large and persistent wage differentials support the incentives for extensive mass migration from low-wage, densely populated countries, to the developed world (Lundborg and Segerstrom, 2002). After these events, the governments of destination countries are urged to raise entry barriers. As reported by OECD, 1999 and OECD, 2001 and by Boeri and Brucker (2005), in recent years many countries have modified their entry regulations to reinforce border controls and restrict the entry, residence and work requirements. These barriers are increasingly taking the form of selective immigration policies based on human capital requirements, and they are renewing the concerns for a brain drain.1 However, the recent “new brain drain economics” (Mountford, 1997 and Stark and Wang, 2002) argues that selective immigration policies may benefit the source countries if selection is sufficiently severe, because they incentivate human capital accumulation and they restrain its outflow at the same time. A common assumption of these contributions is that only permanent emigration is considered. A well-developed literature proves that this assumption is too restrictive (see, for example, Dustmann (2003)). Moreover, most models of temporary emigration suffer from other simplifying assumptions: the return decision is permanent,2 and emigration is always voluntary. From a theoretical perspective, it is not evident why migration should be limited to a single spell. There exists, indeed, clear evidence that even at the end of the 19th century repeated migration spells of 3–4 years were not uncommon (Baines, 1991).3 As for the importance of constrained migration, OECD (2001) emphasizes the role of regional conflicts in increasing population outflows. Emigration waves from Europe in the 1840s were associated with famine and revolutions. Bonifazi and Strozza (2002) describe the huge population relocation that occurred after World War II. We refer to Chiswick and Hatton (2003) for further details on the effects of wars in Africa, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and the disintegration of Yugoslavia. In spite of its importance, forced emigration is not present in current models of migration duration. Authors such as Kossoudji (1992) and Faini (1996) stress that entry restrictions alter the optimal length of immigration spells, even though they do not develop a formal model.4 Since selective immigration policies are nothing but human-capital based entry restrictions, they tie up the decisions about human capital accumulation and migration duration. In our model we are able to account for the joint determination of these variables. Moreover, we try to overcome the other drawbacks of the literature by placing no restriction on the number of migration spells and by allowing for the possibility of constrained emigration. To meet these requisites, we develop an infinite horizon model including a shock that may force individuals to migrate. Our findings show that selective immigration policies may hinder the individual incentives to human capital accumulation (“brain loss”). The intuition behind our results is that these policies make returns to human capital uncertain with respect to open migration. As a consequence, the claim that selective policies help to build human capital can easily be reversed. Similar concerns are present in Schiff (2005), who lists several reasons to explain why the beneficial effects of the brain gain is overestimated, and presents some empirical evidence for the prevalence of the brain drain. Finally, our results question the consistency of restrictive immigration policies with the objective of reducing the immigrants’ stock: entry closure biases the incentives towards longer migration spells and they increase the share of permanent migrants.5 Our paper is organised as follows. The following subsection reviews some main findings in the literature. The model is developed in Sections 2 and 3. In Section 4 we discuss our results, and a sensitivity analysis is used to illustrate our findings in Section 5. Section 6 contains a comparison of our results to those present in the literature. Conclusions are reported in Section 7. The proofs are gathered in the Appendix. 1.1. Related literature The “new brain drain economics” emphasizes the possible benefits of a brain drain. In an overlapping generations framework there are several mechanisms able to generate a beneficial brain drain, and they rely basically on the existence of externalities on human capital: Vidal (1998) points to enhanced intergenerational transmission of skills and education; Mountford (1997) and Beine et al. (2001) stress the possibility of intergenerational spillovers between skilled workers. The possibility of migration increases the expected returns to human capital, and thus the incentive to education. Stark et al. (1997) distinguish between education and ability: productivity depends on the latter. With asymmetric information about the worker’s ability, the incentive to invest in education and migrating is even stronger for low-ability individuals; however, after their ability (i.e. productivity) is observed, they will find it convenient to return. Stark and Wang (2002) use a static model to state some conditions under which a restrictive immigration policy in the destination country increases the welfare of the sending country: the idea is that entry rationing in developed countries can keep most human capital from flying abroad. Schiff (2005) questions the approach of the “new brain drain” literature, and argues that the benefits of a brain gain are overestimated. He gives a simple example of his idea: since in a steady state all variables must be constant, this has to hold for the number of educated individuals as well. Thus, after emigration, no net brain gain can exist. The results in Schiff (2005) rely on three assumptions: (1) human capital exists in a fixed amount, and individuals choose only whether or not to be educated; (2) entry abroad is based on quotas; (3) emigration is permanent. When education is treated as a continuous variable, it may well be that the number of educated individuals is constant, but the level of their education is higher. Moreover, selective immigration policies are increasingly based on human capital requirements, rather than on quotas. In such a case, it is not true that the probability of entry decreases as the number of skilled workers increases. Finally, overlooking the possibility of return migration may in its turn overestimate the real extent of the brain drain. The literature on return migration adopts mainly life-cycle models. An early contribution to the study of migration duration is in Djajic and Milbourne (1988). They develop a two-period model to study the effect of wage differentials in determining migration flows and their final effect on the equilibrium wages, but they claim that more research is needed to understand why “some migrants make several trips, some stay longer than others, and some never return”. Hill (1987) stresses, interestingly, the importance of “the repetitive character of contemporary labor migration”; in spite of that, his assumption of an identical duration for each migration spell can be deceptive. Temporary migration is studied in several contributions (see, for example, Dustmann, 1997 and Dustmann, 2003).
The study of migration duration is receiving increasing attention, as well as the effect of the chances of migrating on human capital accumulation. In our work, we have attempted to connect these streams of literature. Our findings question the effectiveness of human-capital based selective policies. First, we reproduce in a more general and rigorous framework the result that border closure backfires on the optimal migration duration. Second, we stress the impact of crises on the decision to accumulate human capital and to stay abroad longer. Third, we conclude that selective policies are a double-edged weapon: they can both foster and harm the equilibrium level of human capital. With respect to open immigration, they make returns to human capital uncertain, and they can have ambiguous effects on education, by causing a “brain loss”, rather than a brain gain. This result suggests that selective immigration policies should not be used unconditionally, and that the logic behind the “brain gain with a brain drain” is not always correct. The policy implications of this finding are quite important. When the sign of View the MathML source∂h∗∂Ψ is different for different individuals, selective policies can increase human capital dispersion within a country. When the sign of View the MathML source∂h∗∂Ψ is different for different source countries, selective policies can increase cross-country human capital dispersion. This can have worrisome effects on the possibility of convergence in the long run. Finally, it is worth recalling that economic policies can affect pp: plans aimed to reduce macroeconomic risk in developing countries reinforce the incentives to return. Though it may be difficult to modify these characteristics of an economy, there are no theoretical reasons why international, coordinated development policies should be less effective or more costly than enforcing strict border closure.
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نقش مهم گروه مدیریت سرمایه انسانی در بازارهای سرمایه: مدارک و اسناد برای سرمایه اولیه
ارزش ها و بازده های سرمایه انسانی: حدود ضمنی درآمد و داده های بازده دارایی ها
اثرات جانبی تکرار در مدل رشد درونزا با سرمایه فیزیکی، سرمایه انسانی، تحقیق و توسعه
اثرات ترکیب سرمایه انسانی در همگرایی فن آوری
تحقیق و توسعه مطلوب یارانه ها در یک مدل با سرمایه فیزیکی، سرمایه انسانی و تغییرات
رفتار سازمانی و منابع انسانی
آموزش تکراری
ارتباط با تأمین کنندگان
ارزش های کار
ارزیابی تامین کننده
استخدام و جذب نیرو
امنیت اجتماعی
امنیت کاری
انتخاب مشتری
انضباط در سازمان
بازار تامین کننده
برنامه زمانی شغل
بوروکراسی یا دیوان سالاری
بیمه سلامتی
پاداش
تئوری آشوب
تحرک کارگر یا کارکنان
تعادل کار/ زندگی
تعهد سازمانی
توانمندسازی کارکنان
توسعه تامین کننده
جستجوی شغلی
حل تعارض
خود اثربخشی
خود اشتغالی
دستمزد واقعی
رضایت شغلی
رفتار اجتماعی
رفتار مشتری
رهبری تحول گرا
سازمان یادگیرنده
سایر مقالات منابع انسانی
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سرمایه انسانی
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مدیریت شغل یا مدیریت مسیر شغلی
مشتری - تامین کننده
هم افزایی
یادگیری الکترونیکی
یادگیری سازمانی
یکپارچه سازی تامین کننده
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Postseason College Football Awards 2019-2020 January 20, 2020
Posted by intellectualgridiron in Sports.
Tags: Alamo, Auburn, B1G, Baylor, Bayou Bengals, Big Ten, Big XII, Bobby Petrino, Bowl, Cardinals, Clemson, Dabo Swinney, Ed Orgeron, Fiesta Bowl, Gator Bowl, Georgia, Hoosiers, Hurricanes, Indiana, Iowa, Jeremy Pruitt, Jim Harbaugh, Kyle Whittingham, Longhorns, Louisville, LSU, Mario Cristobal, Miami, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi State, Music City, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Outback, Pac-12, Peach Bowl, Ryan Day, Scott Satterfield, SEC, SMU, Sonny Dykes, Temple, Tennessee, Texas, Tigers, Tom Herman, Trevor Lawrence, Utah, Utes, Volunteers, Wisconsin
Wish I were him: Ed Orgeron, LSU
Glad I’m not him: Jim Harbaugh, Michigan
Lucky guy: Dabo Swinney, Clemson (Fiesta Bowl) (hon. mention: Mario Cristobal, Oregon)
Poor guy: Ryan Day, Ohio State
Desperately seeking a wake-up call: Sonny Dykes, SMU
Desperately seeking a P.R. man: Scott Satterfield, Louisville
Desperately seeking sunglasses and a fake beard: Kyle Whittingham, Utah
Desperately seeking … anything: Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee
Thought you’d kick butt, you did: Notre Dame (defeated Iowa State 33-9)
Thought you’d kick butt, you didn’t: Auburn (lost to No. 18 Minnesota 31-24)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you did: Temple (lost to North Carolina 55-13)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you didn’t: Baylor (lost to No. 5 Georgia 26-14)
Thought you wouldn’t kick butt, you did: Texas (defeated No. 11 Utah 38-10)
Dang, they’re good: LSU
Dang, they’re bad: Miami, FL
Can’t Stand Prosperity: Wisconsin
Did the season start? Utah
Can the season end? Miami, FL
Can the season never end? LSU
Play this again: No. 3 Clemson 29, No. 2 Ohio State 23 (Fiesta)
Play this again, too: No. 6 Oregon 28, No. 8 Wisconsin 27 (Rose)
Never play this again: No. 1 LSU 63, No. 4 Oklahoma 28 (Peach)
What? No. 3 Clemson, No. 2 Ohio State 23 (Fiesta)
Huh? Louisiana Tech 14, Miami (FL) 0 (Independence)
Are you kidding me?? Texas 38, No. 11 Utah 10 (Alamo)
Oh – my – God: No. 18 Minnesota 31, No. 12 Auburn 24 (Outback)
Random Bowl Game Thoughts:
Fiesta Bowl:
What a game. Too bad one of the teams had to lose. Having said that, two thoughts come to mind. One, if Ohio State and Clemson played each other 10 times, the series would likely by evenly split, 5-5. Second, Ohio State should blame themselves. They left lots of “money on the table”, so to speak, by not capitalizing on deep red zone advances in the first half. Second, they gave up on what helped get them ahead initially, which was a fast-paced hurry up offense.
Outback Bowl:
On paper, Auburn should have crushed Minnesota. Not to detract anything from the Gophers, for they are a good team in any case. But Minnesota’s win over a superiorly-athletic team in Auburn is huge. What’s one sign of a well-coached team? That the team shows gradual improvement as the season progresses. That the Gophers have done, in spades. To offer further perspective, bowl games are funny like that. In many cases, it is impossible to determine who will win and lose if there is a motivation mismatch (a team that really wants to be there versus a better team that is not that thrilled about being there). Such a situation gives the underdog a golden opportunity for a huge upset, and we witnessed a sterling example of this in Tampa.
Peach Bowl:
In case the reader missed it, LSU gave Oklahoma an old-fashioned butt whipping (seriously, how else to describe it?), 63-28. Throughout the regular season, the Sooners looked like they are a legit playoff contender. Why the lopsided result against them? The frank answer is that it’s a systemic problem with the Big XII, a conference built on speed, not power, and the former, not the latter, wins games in that conference. The problem comes when they have to face stronger athletes over all against half the SEC, against Ohio State, or Clemson. Then, this glaring weakness gets exposed.
Music City Bowl:
Louisville’s win over Mississippi State is nothing at which to sneeze, for a number of reasons. The most basic reason is that an ACC team triumphed over an SEC team, the latter usually having stronger athletes. For another, this was something of a revenge game for the Cardinals, since they lost the Gator Bowl to the Bulldogs just two years earlier. Indeed, they are probably a stronger team even then under then-head coach Bobby Petrino. Third, speaking of Petrino, one of his historic drawbacks is that his teams disintegrate after he leaves them (see: Louisville starting in 2007, or Arkansas starting in 2012). Something about his coaching style combined with the caliber of player he usually recruited required him to be present to keep a tight lid on Pandora’s Box. Once he would leave, Pandora’s Box would open, and chaos would ensue. Not so this time. Scott Satterfield has done the Yeoman’s work in keeping the team together, to say nothing of turning around the team’s performance. From going 1-11 the previous season, the Cardinals capped off the year with a bowl win to finish 8-5 for the year. While more improvement remains necessary, this has been quite the turnaround indeed.
Alamo Bowl:
Texas, under head coach Tom Herman, has become something of an enigma. Their 38-10 over formidable No. 11 Utah was impressive, even if it were a glorified home game (the Alamodome in San Antonio is only an hour-and-15-minute drive from the UT campus up I-35 in Austin). After all, Utah was a Pac-12 championship win away for qualifying for the playoffs. As it turned out prior to kickoff, the Utes we still respectfully ranked, whereas the Horns were unranked. Moreover, Texas performance was all over the proverbial map. They played like a legitimate top-10 team against eventual playoff teams LSU and Oklahoma, but then had to struggle to beat Kansas and even coughed it up on the road to under-performing TCU. Yes, injuries took a huge toll for the Longhorns this year, especially and runningback and worse yet, on defense. Perhaps the time off leading up to the Alamo Bowl allowed for Texas to heal up, regroup, and regain focus so as to get dialed in for [again] what amounted to an extended home game, and thus live up their true potential against a reasonably formidable opponent.
Gator Bowl:
Tennessee defeated Indiana 23-22. So why would Jeremy Pruitt be “desperately seeking anything”? Because their play was as erratic as it was inconsistent throughout the game. Pruitt [thought he] had to suddenly switch quarterbacks in the middle game, for goodness sake. Probably with good reason, for the initial starter kept missing the mark. In the first three quarters, the Volunteers could only muster three field goals. Only with the Tennessee defense stepping up in the 4th quarter with some key sacks, with their offense starting to complete some key passes, to say nothing of a decent running attack were the Volunteers able to finally score and thus come back.
The problem with Tennessee was not a lack of focus. Both teams seemed equally glad/motivated to be there. Rather, the problem was lousy coaching. On paper, Tennessee should have shellacked IU. Their talent supremacy over Indiana is greater in ratio than that of Auburn over Minnesota. But in football, talent is only part of the equation when it comes to winning games. The other part of said equation is coaching. The coach has to know what to do with that talent, and Jeremy Pruitt seems to be at a loss. The Volunteers were thus very lucky to walk away with a “W” in Jacksonville.
The Championship Game:
LSU knocked off undefeated and defending national title holder Clemson 42-25. It was a convincing victory over a strong team. The Bayou Bengals have now earned their fourth national championship in football, and college football fans can breathe a sigh of relief at the champion is somebody not named Clemson or Alabama. Not so fast, however: Clemson is not likely to go away anytime soon. The Tigers return a ton of starters for next year, including QB Trevor Lawrence, who, as talented as he clearly is, has even further growth to demonstrate. Still, what a great night for the LSU team and faithful. The fact that it was in the Superdome was the proverbial icing on the proverbial cake.
College Football Awards, Week 14 (2019) December 1, 2019
Tags: ACC, Akron, Alabama, Auburn, B1G, Baylor, Big XII, Bill Mallory, Cardinals, Charlie Strong, Cincinnati, Clemson, Florida Atlantic, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Gus Malzahn, Hoosiers, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa State, Jeff Brohm, Jim Harbaugh, Kansas, Kansas State, Kentucky, Kirk Ferentz, Kyle Whittingham, Lane Kiffin, Louisville, Mario Cristobal, Maryland, Memphis, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nick Saban, Ohio State, Oregon, Pac-12, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, Ryan Day, Scott Frost, Scott Satterfield, SEC, South Florida, TCU, Tom Arth, UAB, Utah, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wildcats, Wisconsin
Wish I were him: Ryan Day, Ohio State
Glad I’m not him: Nick Saban, Alabama (hon. mention: Jim Harbaugh, Michigan)
Lucky guy: Kirk Ferentz, Iowa
Poor guy: Scott Frost, Nebraska
Desperately seeking a wake-up call: Scott Satterfield, Louisville
Desperately seeking a P.R. man: Lane Kiffin, Florida Atlantic
Desperately seeking sunglasses and a fake beard: Charlie Strong, South Florida
Desperately seeking … anything: Tom Arth, Akron
Thought you’d kick butt, you did: Georgia (defeated Georgia Tech 52-7)
Thought you’d kick butt, you didn’t: Penn State (defeated Rutgers 27-6)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you did: Kansas (lost to No. 9 Baylor 61-6)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you didn’t: Maryland (lost to Michigan State 19-16)
Thought you wouldn’t kick butt, you did: Kentucky (defeated Louisville 45-13)
Dang, they’re good: Utah
Dang, they’re bad: Akron
Can’t Stand Prosperity: Alabama
Did the season start? TCU
Can the season end? Georgia Tech
Can the season never end? Ohio State
Play this again: No. 15 Auburn 48, No. 5 Alabama 45
Never play this again: No. 9 Baylor 61, Kansas 6
What? Virginia 39, No. 24 Virginia Tech 30
Huh? Kansas State 27, No. 23 Iowa State 17
Are you kidding me?? No. 12 Wisconsin 38, No. 8 Minnesota 17
Oh – my – God: No. 15 Auburn 48, No. 5 Alabama 45
(rankings are current AP (post-week 14, pre-week 15)
Ticket to die for: No. 4 Georgia vs No. 1 LSU (SEC Championship)
Nest-best game of the week: No. 2 Ohio State vs No. 10 Wisconsin (B1G Championship)
Best non-Power Five matchup: No. 21 Cincinnati @ No. 16 Memphis (AAC Champ game/rematch)
Upset alert: No. 13 Oregon vs No. 5 Utah (Pac-12 Championship)
Must win: B1G Championship game to ensure OSU goes to playoffs
Offensive explosion: No. 8 Baylor vs No. 6 Oklahoma (Big XII Championship)
Defensive struggle: inconclusive
Great game no one is talking about: UAB @ Florida Atlantic
Intriguing coaching matchup: Kyle Whittingham of Utah vs Mario Cristobal of Oregon
Who’s bringing the body bags? Virginia @ No. 3 Clemson (ACC Championship)
Week 14 Thoughts:
Michigan vs Ohio State
This was supposed to be Harbaugh’s year in beating Ohio State, right? Turns out, not so much. Not while Ohio State is still chock-full of Urban Meyer’s players. That is part of the Buckeyes’ success this year. The other part is taking those talent players and making them more relaxed and less uptight than when Meyer himself was coaching them (enter Ryan Day). Can he himself bring in the same caliber of players? If not, then this high-flying success obviously has a limited shelf life.
As for Michigan, they are still a very good team. A 9-3 record is commensurate with most of the better years of this proud program. Also, those three losses came to Wisconsin, Penn State, and Ohio State, all of which are running at peak strength. Moreover, an academic powerhouse in a cold-weather setting like Michigan is at a systemic disadvantage from recruiting the same caliber of athletes as consistently as football-first Ohio State. Simple as that. Michigan, Harbaugh is likely as well as you are going to do. Make the most of it, and enjoy your 9-10 win seasons.
Auburn vs Alabama
Rivalry weekend did not disappoint across the boards (for the most part), starting at the top. Yesterday’s Iron Bowl was the highest-scoring affair in the history of this bitterest of rivalries. For Auburn, this ought to quell any doubts about Gus Malzahn’s tenure. For Alabama fans, this obviously raises questions. Can they still sustain a championship drive after so many playoff appearances and wins? Has Nick Saban peaked, only now for us to witness a slow, steady decline? Is it a good idea for Saban to retire now, while he’s still on top (barely)? The sooner these questions are addressed, the better.
Kentucky vs Louisville
The Wildcats’ lopsided win over the Cardinals show that even a low-level SEC team usually beats a middling ACC team. The real shock of this game was how Louisville’s defense quit, and against their biggest rival, no less. This shows that, while Coach Scott Satterfield is ahead of schedule in implementing his sound team culture (seven wins is a huge turnaround from last year’s debacle, after all), there are still some remnants of the Bobby Petrino fallout/poison that still need to be exorcised.
Purdue vs Indiana
On paper, the Hoosiers were the favored team. Based on their performance this year, they should have won. And win they did, but not without an intense fight. This was a very competitive, very dramatic, thus very engaging matchup for the Old Oaken Bucket. For Purdue, the big mistake came in overtime, where the better team typically wins. Purdue answered IU’s score with a TD of their own. They tied it up with an extra point. That as a mistake. With current momentum on their side, they should have gone for two. Giving the better team more chances to score points turns out to be suicide, and that played out exactly in the Hoosiers’ favor. Let us hope that Coach Jeff Brohm learned this lesson, among other lessons of less hype, more humility, and more concentration on fundamentals and finishing a game.
All that said, Indiana celebrates its first eight-win season since the early 1990s and the days of Coach Bill Mallory. Way to go, Hoosiers.
College Football Awards, Week 11 (2019) November 11, 2019
Tags: Alabama, Alabama State, Arkansas, Auburn, Baylor, Bi1G, Big Ten, Bill Mallory, Central Florida, Chad Morris, Cincinnati, Commodores, Copper Bowl, Ed Orgeron, Florida, Florida State, Floyd of Rosedale, Gators, Georgia, Hoosiers, Houston, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa State, James Franklin, Kansas, Kansas State, Kentucky, Les Miles, Lincoln Riley, Louisville, LSU, Luke Fickell, Maryland, Matt Campbell, Memphis, Michigan State, Mike Gundy, Minnesota, New Mexico State, Nick Saban, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, Rutgers, Scott Satterfield, TCU, Temple, Texas, Tulane, Tulsa, UCF, UCLA, UMass, Utah, Vanderbilt, Washington, Western Kentucky, Wisconsin
Wish I were him: Ed Orgeron, LSU (hon. mention: P.J. Fleck, Minnesota)
Glad I’m not him: Nick Saban, Alabama
Lucky guy: Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma
Poor guy: Matt Campbell, Iowa State
Desperately seeking a P.R. man: Luke Fickell, Cincinnati
Desperately seeking sunglasses and a fake beard: James Franklin, Penn State
Desperately seeking … anything: Chad Morris, Arkansas
Thought you’d kick butt, you did: Ohio State (defeated Maryland 73-14)
Thought you’d kick butt, you didn’t: Michigan State (lost to Illinois 37-34)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you did: Vanderbilt (lost to No. 10 Florida 50-0)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you didn’t: Oregon State (lost to Washington 19-7)
Thought you wouldn’t kick butt, you did: Western Kentucky (defeated Arkansas 45-19)
Dang, they’re bad: UMass
Can’t Stand Prosperity: Penn State
Can the season end? Northwestern
Play this again: No. 17 Minnesota 31, No. 4 Penn State 26
Never play this again: No. 1 Ohio State, Maryland 14
What? Tulsa 34, UCF 31
Huh? Texas 27, No. 16 Kansas State 24
Are you kidding me?? No. 2 LSU 46, No. 3 Alabama 41
Oh – my – God: No. 17 Minnesota 31, No. 4 Penn State 26
Ticket to die for: No. 5 Georgia @ No. 13 Auburn
Next-best game of the week: No. 24 Indiana @ No. 11 Penn State
Best non-Power Five vs. Power Five matchup: none
Best non-Power Five matchup: Tulane @ Temple
Upset alert: UCLA @ No. 8 Utah
Must win: No. 8 Oklahoma @ No. 10 Baylor
Offensive explosion: No. 18 Memphis @ Houston
Defensive struggle: Kentucky @ Vanderbilt
Great game no one is talking about: Texas @ Iowa State
Intriguing coaching matchup: Les Miles of Kansas vs Mike Gundy of Oklahoma State
Who’s bringing the body bags? No. 2 Ohio State @ Rutgers
Why are they playing? Alabama State @ Florida State
Plenty of good seats remaining: UMass @ Northwestern
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? UIW @ New Mexico State
Alabama vs LSU
What more can be said about this dramatic and incredibly consequential game? On paper, was it LSU’s victory really an upset? They were ranked No. 2 in the polls ahead of Alabama at No. 3, after all. So what made the Tigers’ win an upset? Call it a mental block. Call it a [proverbial] monkey on LSU’s back. They had, after all, lost to the Crimson Tide eight straight times, often with national championship aspirations on the line. This time, they finally won, and now, the Tigers control their own destiny to Atlanta and to the Playoffs as well.
Minnesota vs Penn State
The Golden Gophers have earned their biggest win in more than a decade. They currently lead the Western Division of the Big Ten. While they control their own destiny to the conference championship, they have a challenging road ahead if they want to make it to Indianapolis. Their next game is at No. 18 Iowa, a border rivalry where they play for one of the most prominent trophies in college football, the Floyd of Rosedale. After a respite against a down Northwestern, they close out the regular season at home against Wisconsin. The Badgers alone are a tough out, and they usually are the perennial Western representative in the B1G championship. Factor in the border rivalry and the fact that both teams play for the Paul Bunyan Axe (have you seen the size of that thing?), and one is apt to anticipate a high-stakes, high-drame showdown in Minneapolis come Nov. 30. But first, the Gophers have to win their other remaining games, starting with Iowa, which is never easy these days, Floyd or no Floyd.
Florida vs Vanderbilt
This blowout only merits mention because the Commodores attempted a “sad field goal” and failed. The definition of a “sad field goal” is if your team is down by more than two touchdowns in the fourth quarter and yet you go for a field goal anyhow. That sounds sad just saying it, does it not? Well, Vandy attempted the saddest of field goals as they were down 49-0 to Florida in The Swamp late in the 4th quarter. Instead of going for it with nothing to lose, they attempted a sad field goal, which went wide left. Like a train wreck, you can’t not watch.
Looking ahead: Indiana at Penn State
When was the last time that Indiana was ranked in football? Give up? It was 1994. Bill Mallory was the head coach at that time. He built a decent program, too, winning the 1991 Copper Bowl. But his labors went unnoticed because IU was more basketball-obsessed than it is today, which saying something. Frankly, I don’t hold out much hope for the Hoosiers, but if they put up a fight against wounded Penn State, it should be an entertaining game.
College Football Awards, Week 10 (2019) November 4, 2019
Tags: Alabama, Appalachian State, Arkansas, Auburn, Ball State, Boise State, Brian Kelly, Bryan Harsin, Clemson, college, Dan Mullen, FIghting Irish, Florida, football, Georgia, Georgia Southern, Georgia Tech, Hokies, Huskies, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa State, James Franklin, Justin Fuente, Kansas State, Kirby Smart, liberty, Liberty Bowl, LSU, Maryland, Memphis, Minnesota, Mustangs, NCAA, Nebraska, New Mexico, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Oregon, P.J. Fleck, Pac-12, Pat Fitzgerald, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Rutgers, SMU, Sonny Dykes, South Alabama, South Carolina, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas State, Tigers, Tom Allen, UMass, Utah, Utes, UTSA, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, Washington, Western Michigan, Wisconsin, Wofford, Wyoming
Wish I were him: Kirby Smart, Georgia
Glad I’m not him: Dan Mullen, Florida
Lucky guy: Brian Kelly, Notre Dame
Poor guy: Justin Fuente, Virginia Tech
Desperately seeking a wake-up call: Bryan Harsin, Boise State
Desperately seeking a P.R. man: Tom Allen, Indiana
Desperately seeking sunglasses and a fake beard: Sonny Dykes, SMU
Desperately seeking … anything: Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern
Thought you’d kick butt, you did: Clemson (defeated Wofford 59-14)
Thought you’d kick butt, you didn’t: Auburn (defeated Ole Miss 20-14)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you did: UTSA (lost to Texas A&M 45-14)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you didn’t: Georgia Tech (lost to Pittsburgh 20-10)
Thought you wouldn’t kick butt, you did: Liberty (defeated UMass 63-21)
Dang, they’re good: Georgia
Dang, they’re bad: Arkansas
Can’t Stand Prosperity: SMU
Can the season end? Rutgers
Can the season never end? Oregon
Play this again: No. 8 Georgia 24, No. 6 Florida 17
Never play this again: No. 4 Clemson 59, Wofford 14
What? Georgia Southern 24, No. 20 Appalachian State 21
Huh? Purdue 31, Nebraska 27
Are you kidding me?? No. 8 Georgia 24, No. 6 Florida 17
Oh – my – God: No. 24 Memphis 54, No. 15 SMU 48
Ticket to die for: No. 1 LSU @ No. 2 Alabama
Next-best game of the week: No. 5 Penn State @ No. 13 Minnesota
Best non-Power Five vs. Power Five matchup: Appalachian State @ South Carolina
Best non-Power Five matchup: Wyoming @ No. 21 Boise State
Upset alert: Iowa State @ No. 9 Oklahoma (hon. mention: Virginia Tech @ No. 22 Wake Forest)
Must win: No. 20 Kansas State @ Texas
Offensive explosion: Kansas State @ Texas
Defensive struggle: No. 18 Iowa @ No. 16 Wisconsin
Great game no one is talking about: Ball State @ Western Michigan
Intriguing coaching matchup: James Franklin of Penn State vs P.J. Fleck of Minnesota
Who’s bringing the body bags? Maryland @ No. 3 Ohio State
Why are they playing? New Mexico State @ Ole Miss
Plenty of good seats remaining: South Alabama @ Texas State (dishonorable mention: Purdue @ Northwestern)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Vanderbilt @ No. 6 Florida
Again, am I the only one who has noticed that waaaaay too many teams have bye-weeks for upcoming week 10?
Notre Dame vs Virginia Tech
Earlier in the awards list, I listed Justin Fuente as the “Poor Guy” of the week. Really, though, I should have created a special, one-off category for him this week called “Stupid Guy” instead. His Virginia Tech team snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the last few minutes of the game by persistently playing a “prevent” defense (specifically, rushing only three and dropping back the remaining eight) that allowed for Notre Dame to pick the Hokies’ secondary apart in the final minutes, play by play. Not once did Virginia Tech mount anything resembling a pass rush, and the Irish made them pay dearly for not doing so. All it would have taken would be to rush a couple of extra men, as one or two sacks in the process would have ruined Notre Dame’s day. But no. Once again, we are reminded that the only thing the prevent defense prevents is the implementer of said defense from winning the game. Period.
Georgia vs Florida
Can anybody recall, within recent memory, a Georgia-Florida game with as much drama, excitement, and close play as this week’s matchup? Neither can I.
SMU vs Memphis
Another undefeated bites the dust. May your undefeated season rest in peace, SMU. Still, what a game, and what a moment. ESPN’s College Gameday crew visited Memphis for the first time, and the fans came out in droves to celebrate the arrival and to show their support for their Memphis Tigers. The latter point is especially worth noting. U-Memphis has historically been known as a basketball school. Yet an ESPN-televised game at night, in front of a sellout crowd in the Liberty Bowl stadium, with ranked Memphis taking on then-undefeated SMU shows that UM’s football prowess is on the rise, and that is always a wonderful thing, notwithstanding the unfortunate side-effect of SMU’s undefeated season going by the boards.
Utah vs Washington
Utah needed to bring their A-game to Seattle, since the Huskies can be unpredictable at times. Eventually, the Utes did just that. Combine their win at Washington with USC’s crushing loss at home to No. 7 Oregon, and Utah controls their own destiny regarding clinching a Pac-12 South berth for the conference championship game.
College Football Awards, Week 8 (2019) October 21, 2019
Tags: Akron, Alabama, Arizona State, Arkansas, Auburn, Badgers, Ball State, Baylor, Boise State, Brian Kelly, Buckeyes, BYU, Cal, California, CHip Kelly, college, football, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Herm Edwards, Illinois, James Franklin, Jim Harbaugh, Kansas, Kansas State, Les Miles, liberty, LSU, Maryland, Matt Rhule, Miami, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Navy, NCAA, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Paul Chryst, Penn State, Rutgers, South Carolina, Texas, Toledo, Tom Arth, Tom Herman, Tulane, UCLA, Utah, Vanderbilt, Washington, Washington State, Wisconsin
Wish I were him: James Franklin, Penn State
Lucky guy: Tom Herman, Texas
Poor guy: Les Miles, Kansas
Desperately seeking a wake-up call: Tom Herman, Texas
Desperately seeking a P.R. man: Matt Rhule, Baylor
Desperately seeking sunglasses and a fake beard: Paul Chryst, Wisconsin
Thought you’d kick butt, you did: Ohio State (defeated Northwestern 52-3)
Thought you’d kick butt, you didn’t: Texas (defeated Kansas 50-48)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you did: Arkansas (lost to Auburn 51-10)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you didn’t: Illinois (defeated Wisconsin 24-23)
Thought you wouldn’t kick butt, you did: Ball State (defeated Toledo 52-14)
Dang, they’re good: Ohio State
Dang, they’re bad: Rutgers
Did the season start? Washington
Can the season end? Arkansas
Can the season never end? Oklahoma
Play this again: No. 10 Penn State 28, No. 16 Michigan 20
Play this again, too: No. 15 Texas 50, Kansas 48
Never play this again: No. 4 Ohio State 52, Northwestern 3
What? Ball State 52, Toledo 14
Huh? Georgia Tech 28, Miami (Fla.) 21, OT
Double-Huh? Vanderbilt 21, No. 22 Missouri 14
Are you kidding me?? BYU 28, No. 14 Boise State 25
Oh – my – God: Illinois 24, No. 6 Wisconsin 23
(rankings are current AP (post-week 8, pre-week 9)
Ticket to die for: No. 13 Wisconsin @ No. 3 Ohio State
Next-best game of the week: No. 9 Auburn @ No. 2 LSU
Best non-Power Five vs. Power Five matchup: Liberty @ Rutgers
Best non-Power Five matchup: Tulane @ Navy
Upset alert: Kansas State @ No. 5 Oklahoma
Must win: No. 11 Auburn @ No. 2 LSU
Offensive explosion: No. 15 Texas @ TCU (hon. mention: WSU @ No. 11 Oregon)
Defensive struggle: (inconclusive)
Great game no one is talking about: Cal @ No. 12 Utah
Intriguing coaching matchup: Jim Harbaugh of Michigan vs Brian Kelly of Notre Dame
(honorable mention: Herm Edwards of Arizona State vs Chip Kelly of UCLA)
Who’s bringing the body bags? Arkansas @ No. 1 Alabama
Why are they playing? Liberty @ Rutgers
Plenty of good seats remaining: Akron @ Northern Illinois
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Maryland @ No. 17 Minnesota
Week 8 Thoughts:
Two more undefeated teams bite the dust. First No. 6 Wisconsin in the noon time slot, who went down to defeat at lowly Illinois on a last-second field goal. Then, late at night, the second undefeated team lost today when No. 14 Boise State lost on the road to BYU. The latter, however, is not nearly as massive as the former.
The shame of such an upset is that it takes some of the [proverbial] starch and the all-too-real excitement out of next week’s upcoming matchup between the Badgers and the Buckeyes. But it will still be a great game.
Texas vs. Kansas
Texas had to score 50 points to beat Kansas. Yes, Kansas. Granted, Les Miles has the Jayhawks continually improving. Still, this does not bode well for the Longhorns. Clearly, injuries have depleted their defense, especially their secondary. Any team with a good quarterback can thus score points on them. The question becomes, can the Horns still stop the run? Assuming they can, then they stand a chance yet against TCU next week.
Tags: Akron, Alabama, Arizona State, Arkansas, Bowling Green, Brian Kelly, Bronco Mendenhall, Buckeyes, Buffalo, Clay Helton, Clemson, college, Duke, Ed Orgeron, Florida, football, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Herm Edwards, Hurricanes, Jalen Hurts, Jim Harbaugh, Kentucky, Kirby Smart, Kyle Whittingham, Lincoln Riley, Longhorns, Louisiana Tech, Louisville, LSU, Maryland, Memphis, Miami, Minnesota, Missouri, NCAA, Nebraska, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Oregon State, P.J. Fleck, Penn State, playoffs, Purdue, Red River Shootout, Rutgers, Scott Frost, SMU, Sooners, South Carolina, Temple, Texas, Toledo, Tulane, UConn, UMass, USC, Utah, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Wake Forest, Washington State
Wish I were him: Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma (hon. mention: Ed Orgeron, LSU)
Glad I’m not him: Kirby Smart, Georgia
Poor guy: Clay Helton, USC
Desperately seeking a wake-up call: Jim Harbaugh, Michigan
Desperately seeking a P.R. man: P.J. Fleck, Minnesota
Desperately seeking sunglasses and a fake beard: Bronco Mendenhall, Virginia
Desperately seeking … anything: Scott Frost, Nebraska
Thought you’d kick butt, you did: Utah (defeated Oregon State 52-7)
Thought you’d kick butt, you didn’t: Georgia (lost to South Carolina 20-17 in 2OT)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you did: UConn (lost to Tulane 45-7)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you didn’t: Arkansas (lost to Kentucky 24-20)
Thought you wouldn’t kick butt, you did: Purdue (defeated Maryland 40-14)
Dang, they’re good: Alabama
Can’t Stand Prosperity: Virginia
Did the season start? Washington State
Can the season never end? Oklahoma (honorable mention: LSU)
Play this again: No. 6 Oklahoma 34, No. 11 Texas 27
Play this again, too: No. 5 LSU 42, No. 7 Florida 28.
Never play this again: Louisiana Tech 69, UMass 21
What? Bowling Green 20, Toledo 7
Huh? Temple 30, No. 23 Memphis 28
Double-Huh? Miami 17, No. 20 Virginia 9
Are you kidding me?? Louisville 62, No. 19 Wake Forest 59
Oh – my – God: South Carolina 20, No. 3 Georgia 17, 2OT
Best game of the week: No. 16 Michigan @ No. 7 Penn State
Best non-Power Five matchup: Temple @ No. 19 SMU
Upset alert: No. 5 Oklahoma @ West Virginia
Must win: No. 17 Arizona State @ No. 13 Utah
Offensive explosion: No. 25 Washington @ No.12 Oregon
Defensive struggle: Michigan @ Penn State
Great game no one is talking about: Duke @ Virginia
Intriguing coaching matchup: Kyle Whittingham of Utah vs. Herm Edwards of ASU
Who’s bringing the body bags? No. 3 Ohio State @ Northwestern
Why are they playing? Minnesota @ Rutgers
Plenty of good seats remaining: Buffalo @ Akron
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Missouri @ Vanderbilt
Oklahoma vs Texas
Rivalries are a funny thing. On paper, the Sooners should have defeated the Longhorns by at least two touchdowns, given the disparity in ranking (No. 6 vs. No. 11). Yet the Horns’ defense stepped up in a huge way, was able, at least some of the time to, to contain Jalen Hurts and the OU offense.
Louisville @ Wake Forest
Great win/upset for Louisville. Yet the score concluded at 61 to 52. Ever heard of defense, guys?
Florida @ LSU
The other game of the week (outside of the Red River Shootout in Dallas) was resurgent Florida @ LSU. This game as well lived up to its hype, with big plays on both sides, and in the end, the Bayou Bengals triumphed over the Gators, 42-28. In light of the massive development in Athens, Ga. (see below), expect LSU to move up a notch in the rankings.
Possible playoff scenario
Georgia lost in shocking fashion to rival South Carolina, at home, in double-overtime, 20-17. In light of this huge development, here is a new, possible playoff scenario, should other current shadows remain unchanged: Ohio State, Oklahoma, LSU/Alabama, and Clemson. The latter two are plausible placeholders for the perennial southern/southeastern representatives that have come to dominate the playoffs as of late. But with the Buckeyes and the Sooners both in the picture, that would bring in a larger national audience, what with representation both from the Plains and, more importantly, the Midwest. As a not-so-distant aside, Ohio State and Oklahoma alone would be a game we would all love to see, playoffs or no playoffs.
College Football Awards, Week 6 (2019) October 7, 2019
Tags: Akron, Arizona, Auburn, B1G, Big Ten, Boise State, Boston College, Bowling Green, Buckeyes, Cincinnati, Craig James, Dan Mullen, Florida, football, Golden Hurricane, Hawaii, Hawkeyes, Houston, Iowa, Iowa State, Jeff Brohm, Jim Harbaugh, Kent State, Kirk Ferentz, Louisville, LSU, Matt Campbell, Michigan, Michigan State, Mustangs, NCAA, Nebraska, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Purdue, Rhode Island, Scott Frost, Scott Satterfield, SMU, Spartans, Stanford, Steve Addazio, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech, Tulane, Tulsa, UCF, UCLA, UConn, UNLV, Utah, Utah State, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Washington, Wisconsin, Wolverines
Wish I were him: Dan Mullen, Florida
Glad I’m not him: Guz Malzahn, Auburn
Lucky guy: Scott Satterfield, Louisville
Poor guy: Steve Addazio, Boston College
Desperately seeking a P.R. man: Matt Campbell, Iowa State
Desperately seeking sunglasses and a fake beard: Kirk Ferentz, Iowa
Desperately seeking … anything: Jeff Brohm, Purdue
Thought you’d kick butt, you did: Notre Dame (defeated Bowling Green 52-0)
Thought you’d kick butt, you didn’t: Nebraska (defeated Northwestern 13-10)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you did: Utah State (lost to No. 5 LSU 42-6)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you didn’t: Tulsa (lost to SMU 43-37)
Thought you wouldn’t kick butt, you did: Iowa State (defeated TCU 49-24)
Dang, they’re bad: Bowling Green
Can’t Stand Prosperity: Auburn
Can the season end? UCLA
Can the season never end? SMU
Play this again: No. 10 Florida 24, No. 7 Auburn 13
Never play this again: No. 9 Notre Dame 52, Bowling Green 0
What? No. 19 Michigan 10, No. 14 Iowa 3
Huh? Texas Tech 45, No. 21 Oklahoma State 35
Double-Huh? Cincinnati 27, No. 18 UCF 24
Are you kidding me?? Stanford 23, No. 15 Washington 13
Oh – my – God: No. 10 Florida 24, No. 7 Auburn 13
Ticket to die for: No. 6 Oklahoma vs. No. 11 Texas in the Red River Shootout
(Possible second choice): No. 10 Florida @ No. 5 LSU
Best non-Power Five vs. Power Five matchup: UNLV @ Vanderbilt
Best non-Power Five matchup: Cincinnati @ Houston (also: Hawaii @ No. 16 Boise State)
Upset alert: No. 25 Michigan State @ No. 8 Wisconsin (also: Florida @ LSU)
Must win: No. 15 Washington @ Arizona
Offensive explosion: (inconclusive)
Defensive struggle: No. 10 Florida @ No. 5 LSU
Great game no one is talking about: Louisville @ No. 22 Wake Forest (also: Penn State @ Iowa)
Intriguing coaching matchup: P.J. Fleck of Minnesota vs Scott Frost of Nebraska
Who’s bringing the body bags? No. 17 Utah @ Oregon State
Why are they playing? Rhode Island @ Virginia Tech
Plenty of good seats remaining: Kent State @ Akron
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? UConn @ Tulane
Michigan vs. Iowa
Iowa came into the Big House ranked No. 14 to home team Michigan’s No. 19 ranking. The game was a close one from start to finish, and in the end, Michigan triumphed in a defensive struggle, 10-3. Under normal circumstances, when a team, ranked or otherwise, defeats a higher-ranked team, that is a good day, that is a good day for the lower-ranked team.
So why do I get the feeling that this win will not slake the bloodthirst of Jim Harbaugh’s critics? I can think of two reasons. The most obvious is that Michigan scored only 10 lousy points. At home. Granted, it was against Iowa, which is always a deceptively tough out, but in the end, scoring only 10 points borders on disturbing.
Keep in mind that Wisconsin is, theoretically, an even stronger defense, yet the Wolverines scored two touchdowns on them in a losing effort on the road. Should such an abysmal offensive performance persist later in the season, how does one think that Michigan is to fare against, say, Penn State, Michigan State, Notre Dame, or even [shudder] archrival Ohio State?
The reason this win does not assuage concerns about Michigan’s direction was Iowa’s performance. That the Hawkeyes’ offense kept sputtering when it reached the Wolverines’ 40 yard line is what saved the latter’s bacon. To be sure, that is also a tribute to the Wolverines’ tough D. Still, can one count on such defensive shut-downs against even more formidable opponents? Most likely, not.
Bottom line: Harbaugh needs to re-shuffle the proverbial deck for his offense, and do so right now.
SMU vs Tulsa
The Golden Hurricane played the Mustangs tough for the entire game, but a last-minute touchdown put SMU ahead of Tulsa for good. The Mustangs are now undefeated at 6-0 for the first time since 1982 (back when Craig James was still playing for them). Let that sink in for a moment.
Ohio State vs Michigan State
Speaking of stronger defenses than that of Iowa, Michigan State gave a maximum effort against Ohio State. Even then, the Buckeyes still won, 34-10. The Spartans’ aforementioned max effort from their own strong D was all that kept the game from becoming a blowout.
Can anyone in the conference take Ohio State? It certainly does not seem so at this rate. All that said, Oct. 26 could give us a preview of coming Big Ten Championship attractions when the Buckeyes play Wisconsin at home. Once again, the Buckeyes are playing like a solid national championship contender.
Florida vs Auburn
Either Auburn is not quite as good as we thought they were (at No. 7), or Florida is better than we thought they were (at No. 10). Whatever the case may be, if the Gators keep up these strong performances, it shall shape up to be a memorable matchup against Georgia in Jacksonville later this month.
College Football Awards, Week 4 (2019) September 23, 2019
Tags: Akron, Appalachian State, Arizona, Arkansas, Auburn, Baylor, Bobby Petrino, Bowling Green, Camp Randall Stadium, Charlotte, Cowboys, Dana Holgorsen, Delaware, Florida, Florida State, Gary Patterson, Georgia, Iowa, Iowa State, Jeremy Pruitt, Jim Harbaugh, Kansas, Kansas State, Kent State, Kirby Smart, Les Miles, Longhorns, Louisiana-Monroe, Louisville, Mack Brown, Maryland, Memphis, Miami (OH), Michigan, Middle Tennessee, Navy, Nebraska, North Carolina, Northern Illinois, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Penn State, Pitt, Pittsburgh, San Jose State, Sanford Stadium, Scott Satterfield, SJSU, SMU, Stanford, TCU, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, Tulane, UCLA, UMass, USC, Utah, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Washington State, Willie Fritz, Willie Taggart
Glad I’m not him: Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee
Lucky guy: Willie Taggert, Florida State
Poor guy: Scott Satterfield, Louisville
Desperately seeking a wake-up call: Mack Brown, North Carolina
Desperately seeking a P.R. man: Willie Fritz, Tulane
Desperately seeking sunglasses and a fake beard: Jim Harbaugh, Michigan
Desperately seeking … anything: Dana Holgorsen, Houston
Thought you’d kick butt, you did: Ohio State (defeated Miami, Ohio 76-5)
Thought you’d kick butt, you didn’t: Georgia (defeated Notre Dame 23-17)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you did: Charlotte (lost to Clemson 52-10)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you didn’t: SMU (defeated TCU 41-38)
Thought you wouldn’t kick butt, you did: Kent State (defeated Bowling Green 62-20)
Can’t Stand Prosperity: TCU
Did the season start? Stanford
Can the season end? Tennessee
Can the season never end? Iowa State
Play this again: No. 3 Georgia 23, No. 7 Notre Dame 17
Play this again, too: No. 12 Texas 36, Oklahoma State 30
Never play this again: No. 6 Ohio State 76, Miami, Ohio 5
That will leave a mark: Iowa State 72, Louisiana-Monroe 20
What? Appalachian State 34, North Carolina 31
Huh? San Jose State 31, Arkansas 24
Double Huh? USC 30, No. 10 Utah 23
Are you kidding me?? SMU 41, No. 25 TCU 38
Oh – my – God: No. 13 Wisconsin 35, No. 11 Michigan 14
Possible best game of the week: No. 18 Virginia @ No. 10 Notre Dame
(Possible second choice): Nebraska @ No. 6 Ohio State
Best non-Power Five vs. Power Five matchup: Northern Illinois @ Vanderbilt
Best non-Power Five matchup: Navy @ Memphis
Upset alert: Maryland @ No. 13 Penn State
Must win: UCLA @ Arizona
Offensive explosion: Washington State @ No. 19 Utah
Great game no one is talking about: Kansas State @ Oklahoma State (also: Iowa State @ Baylor)
Intriguing coaching matchup: Les Miles of Kansas vs. Gary Patterson of TCU
Who’s bringing the body bags? Towson @ No. 9 Florida
Why are they playing? Delaware @ Pitt
Plenty of good seats remaining: Akron @ UMass
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Middle Tennessee @ No. 18 Iowa
Week 4 has been arguably the best week for college football thus far in the 2019 season. Friday started off the weekend with a bang with an engaging matchup between USC and Utah. The following first time slot of Saturday (noon EDT) was great, at least on paper. Michigan faced Wisconsin in Camp Randall Stadium, and left the game exposed for having severe weaknesses on offense that must be addressed or Jim Harbaugh’s future with his alma mater may be in doubt.
That said, two key games in the following time slot (Louisville at Florida State and Auburn at Texas A&M) lived up to their billing. Louisville is clearly headed in the right direction as a program, but much improvement remains. Perhaps it is unreasonable for Scott Satterfield to turn things around so quickly, given the mess that Bobby Petrino left in his wake. Meanwhile, the Aggies fought the good fight at home, but came up short against a gradually but steadily ascendant Auburn. Both were good game, regardless.
The evening time slot proved that the best was yet to come that day. Oklahoma State came calling at Texas, for one. The Longhorns had failed to beat the Cowboys the previous five seasons, so the urgency was clearly there to get that proverbial monkey off the Horns’ collective back.
Then, a half-hour later, the “ticket to die for” lived up to its billing as Notre Dame put up a strong fight against Georgia in Sanford Stadium. The game was a close defensive struggle for three and a half quarters before the Bulldogs finally asserted themselves in accordance with their full potential. In other words, in the latter half of the fourth quarter, the cream finally rose to the top.
With so much great football having been played on Sept. 21 from noon through 11 PM Eastern, such will be a very tough act for Week 5 to follow. Case in point: no game for Week 5 offers a “ticket to die for”, which is more the pity.
Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Boise State, Boston College, Brian Kelly, BYU, Chad Morris, Chris Petersen, Eastern Michigan, Florida State, Frank Solich, Fresno State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Jeff Brohm, Jeremy Pruitt, Kansas, Kansas State, Kent State, Kentucky, Louisville, Lovie Smith, Maryland, Miami (OH), Miami (Ohio), Michigan, Michigan State, Middle Tennessee, Mike Leach, Mississippi State, Nebraska, New Mexico, Northern Illinois, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Ohio U, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Paul Chryst, Purdue, Rutgers, San Jose State, Songbook, South Florida, Southern Miss, Tennessee, Texas, Texas Tech, UAB, UCF, Urban Meyer, Utah, Utah State, UTEP, Washington, Washington State, West Virginia, Wisconsin
(Note: All rankings are current AP [week 12] unless otherwise noted.)
Wish I were him: Brian Kelly, Notre Dame
Glad I’m not him: Chad Morris, Arkansas
Lucky guy: Paul Chryst, Wisconsin
Poor guy: Jeff Brohm, Purdue
Desperately seeking a wake-up call: Urban Meyer, Ohio State
Desperately seeking a P.R. man: Frank Solich, Ohio U
Desperately seeking sunglasses and a fake beard: Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee
Desperately seeking … anything: Lovie Smith, Illinois
Thought you’d kick butt, you did: Mississippi State (defeated Arkansas 52-6)
Thought you’d kick butt, you didn’t: Ohio State (defeated Maryland 52-51 in OT)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you did: New Mexico (lost to No. 25 Boise State 45-14)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you didn’t: Middle Tennessee (lost to No. 17 Kentucky 34-23)
Thought you wouldn’t kick butt, you did: Ohio U (defeated Buffalo 52-17)
Can’t Stand Prosperity: West Virginia
Did the season start? Michigan State
Can the season never end? Notre Dame
Play this again: Oklahoma State 45, No. 9 West Virginia 41
Play this again, too: Wisconsin 47, Purdue 44, 3 OT
Never play this again: Iowa 63, Illinois 0
What? Miami (Ohio) 13, Northern Illinois 7
Huh? Kansas State 21, Texas Tech 6
Double Huh? Nebraska 9, Michigan State 6
Are you kidding me?? Florida State 22, No. 20 Boston College 21
Oh – my – God: Oklahoma State 45, No. 9 West Virginia 41
Rankings are current AP (week 12)
Ticket to die for: No. 4 Michigan @ No. 10 Ohio State
Best non-Power Five vs. Power Five matchup: BYU @ No. 19 Utah
Best non-Power Five matchup: No. 11 UCF @ South Florida
Honorable mention for above: UAB @ Middle Tennessee
Upset alert: Auburn @ No. 1 Alabama also: Georgia Tech @ No. 5 Georgia
Must win: Purdue @ Indiana
Offensive explosion: No. 6 Oklahoma @ No. 9 West Virginia
Defensive struggle: Eastern Michigan @ Kent State
Great game no one is talking about: No. 23 Utah State @ No. 25 Boise State
Intriguing coaching matchup: Chris Petersen of Washington vs Mike Leach of Washington State
Who’s bringing the body bags? No. 17 Kentucky @ Louisville Also: San Jose State @ Fresno State
Why are they playing? No. 15 Texas @ Kansas
Plenty of good seats remaining: Southern Miss @ UTEP
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Rutgers @ Michigan State
Tags: Alabama, Arizona State, Auburn, Baylor, Bobby Petrino, Boise State, Brett Brennan, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Clemson, Colorado, Dana Holgorsen, East Carolina, Florida, Fresno State, Georgia, Georgia State, Hurricanes, Iowa, James Franklin, Kansas, Kansas State, Kliff Kingsbury, Louisiana, Louisville, Matt Wells, Miami, Michigan, Michigan State, Missouri, Navy, Nebraska, Nick Saban, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Penn State, Pitt, Pittsburgh, Purdue, San Jose State, South Carolina, South Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Texas Tech, Tom Herman, Tulane, UCF, Urban Meyer, USF, Utah, Utah State, Virginia, Washington State, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Wish I were him: Nick Saban, Alabama
Glad I’m not him: James Franklin, Penn State
Lucky guy: Dana Holgorsen, West Virginia
Poor guy: Tom Herman, Texas
Desperately seeking a P.R. man: Matt Wells, Utah State
Desperately seeking sunglasses and a fake beard: Bobby Petrino, Louisville
Desperately seeking … anything: Brett Brennan, San Jose State
Thought you’d kick butt, you did: Clemson (defeated Louisville 77-16)
Thought you’d kick butt, you didn’t: Ohio State (defeated Nebraska 36-31)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you did: Louisville (lost to Clemson 77-16)
Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you didn’t: Charlotte (to Tennessee 14-3)
Thought you wouldn’t kick butt, you did: Michigan (defeated No. 14 Penn State 42-7)
Dang, they’re good: Clemson
Dang, they’re bad: San Jose State
Can’t Stand Prosperity: Florida
Did the season start? Miami
Can the season end? Louisville
Can the season never end? Michigan
Play this again: No. 13 West Virginia 42, No. 17 Texas 41
Play this again, too: Purdue 38, No. 16 Iowa 36
Never play this again: No. 2 Clemson 77, Louisville 16
What? Baylor 35, Oklahoma State 31
Huh? Pitt 23, No. 25 Virginia 13
Double Huh? Purdue 38, No. 16 Iowa 36
Are you kidding me?? Arizona State 38, No. 15 Utah 20
Oh – my – God: Missouri 38, No. 11 Florida 17
Best game of the week: (lots of decent games, but nothing spectacular)
One good game to see: Auburn @ No. 6 Georgia
Best non-Power Five matchup: USF @ Cincinnati also: Fresno State @ Boise State
Upset alert: Michigan State @ No. 10 Ohio State
Must win: South Carolina @ No. 11 Florida
Offensive explosion: Texas @ Texas Tech
Defensive struggle: Kansas @ Kansas State
Great game no one is talking about: No. 8 Washington State @ Colorado
Also: Wisconsin @ Penn State
Intriguing coaching matchup: Tom Herman of Texas vs. Kliff Kingsbury of Texas Tech
Who’s bringing the body bags? Utah State @ San Jose State
Why are they playing? Navy @ No. 12 UCF
Plenty of good seats remaining: East Carolina @ Tulane
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Georgia State @ Louisiana
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Consciousness is a Time-Wave
Posted by Sandy MacDonald in Embodiment, Freedom, Subjectivity, Transcendence
actuality, aspiration, been-and-gone, context, Fichte, freedom, knowledge, not-yet, phenomenology, sensibility
Consciousness can’t be adequately described by even a complete catalogue of its objects. Objects have only a passing and tentative almost-presence unless they are made to matter by a rich personal context of ideality. Consciousness is formed of anticipatory intentions of agency and the reasons for agency within a personal life-drama. There is an emotionally committed questioning, a desperately caring gaze from an ever-learning knowledge-poise of orientation with its bearing onward, defining a point and arc of creative agency improvising the personal drama which is an individual embodied life.
We individually create a supposition of not-yet and been-and-gone defining a newness and incompleteness as the primordial context in which we exist as dramatic free agents, leaping future-ward in our drama, aware that everything in our envelopment of entropic actuality is falling away continuously. The supposed content of not-yet and been-and-gone is changing constantly. Knowledge and expectation are forms of supposition that constitute a drifting context-content slipping into proximity and then into an increasingly remote separation, a sense of things slipping by and falling away in the ephemerality of objects. Such is the context of personal agency as it leaps into anticipated openings of not-yet. That everything actual is slipping away is essential to the drama of individual human existence, to the willful creative leap open-ward which answers it as a moment-by-moment affirmation of a power of living to open reality and make it unexpectedly more than it was. Ideality moves to make actual a specific not-yet, to realize a new non-actuality, and that is the creativity for which freedom is possible.
The medium (non-actual past and future) in which time-waves exist is not independent of the knowing, curious, questioning, dramatically desperate agents who propagate ourselves in ceaseless ephemerality. Consciousness thinks itself as a time-wave, a formation of ephemerality through which freedom is possible in the genius of ideality as not-a-thing but a self-propelling continuity of creative expression across time. It is a fountain of future possibilities from which is enacted, having learned and conceived aspirations in been-and-gone, an original arc of developmental continuity that is the personal drama of life-creation.
Embedded links:
Fragment 124, February 19, 2018, The World that Doesn’t Matter (word count: 750)
Fragment 118, November 8, 2017, A Point of Dispute with Post-Modernist Theory (word count: 1,656)
Two Quick Notes on Culture
Posted by Sandy MacDonald in Culture, Freedom, Leadership, Subjectivity
change, context, culture, freedom, History, language, play, Romanticism, rules, time
Posting 129, Word Count: 430.
Language is a Playground
Speaking a particular language can be a kind of hive mind, but language is independent of patriarchal structures, and is always evolving from bottom up. New words, meanings, and expressions bubble up all the time without any input or influence from authorities. Teenage girls in the San Fernando Valley have fun playing around with language (I was like, “What-ever!”) and the English language embraces and incorporates the novelties. Philosophers are another example of people who frequently introduce new expressions. Any living language is changing constantly, just like living culture generally, if not artificially hampered and frozen by self-appointed authoritarian enforcement. Language has been adored by various philosophical theorists as a definitive model of a rigidly structured universe, governed by imperious rules, but in fact it is an open and inclusive play of expectation and surprise, imitation and originality, a barely-supervised playground. Novelty and surprise are essential to language, and the source of novelty is individual people exercising their creativity in play with others. New words, meanings, and expressions can and do bubble up because the orientation (thinking, sensibility) of every individual goes far beyond language, as geography goes beyond the streetcar tracks.
There has been a conservative meme equating history and culture, demanding that cultures be preserved as precious artifacts and sacred relics so that history or the ancestors are appropriately honoured, the lessons of history appreciated. However, learning from history is not the same as preserving culture. History as an idea is everything that happened in the past, but most of what happened does not deserve to be honoured, although the more history that can be generally known accurately, the better. Uncritically honouring the ancestors, the forefathers, a selectively edited look backward, is another conservative meme, but only a thoroughly romanticized, redacted, and glamorized interpretation of history would find the acts of the ancestors mostly worthy of honour. Communications of history must represent complex context, normally in books which report on large swaths of detailed records and memories, recognizing patterns of relevance and influence formed by individual lives, actions, and events. (the hermeneutical zoom) Historians are human and always work with incomplete and often biased records, and personally interpret those records through the lens of their own and their community’s biases. So, history, even as reported in a scholarly way, must be approached critically. Publicly installed monuments as a sort of historical record always separate some simple icon from its actual historical context, and so are always romanticized history, decontextualized. Living culture is changing constantly and needs to change.
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PPP 2 LOANS —A...
PPP 2 LOANS —A Second Opportunity for Eligible Businesses to Obtain Forgivable Loans
This advisory summarizes the terms, eligibility and application requirements of the new Payment Protection Program loan (PPP 2 Loans) under the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act, which President Trump signed into law in December 2020.
On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act (Pub. L. 116-260) (Economic Aid Act). Critically, the Economic Aid Act creates a new Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan (PPP 2 Loans)1 available to certain eligible entities that received PPP loans pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) that was signed into law on March 27, 2020 (such earlier loan, a PPP 1 Loan). PPP 2 Loans are available through participating lenders until March 31, unless appropriated funds are depleted sooner.
The Small Business Administration (SBA) and US Treasury issued interim rules implementing the PPP 2 Loan program on January 6 (Interim Rules).2 Set forth below is a high- level summary of the PPP 2 Loan program as implemented by the Interim Rules.3
Terms — Terms for the PPP 2 Loans are generally the same as the terms applicable to PPP 1 Loans. Those terms include the following: (1) 100 percent SBA guarantee; (2) no collateral is required; (3) no personal guarantees are required; (4) one percent interest rate; (5) five year maturity; and (6) lenders may make such loans under delegated authority from the SBA and rely on borrower's certifications regarding eligibility.
Operations — a PPP 2 applicant must (1) have been in business on February 15, 2020, (2) have had a PPP 1 Loan where the full amount of such loan was utilized or will be utilized prior to disbursement of the PPP 2 Loan,4 and (3) have used the proceeds of its PPP 1 Loan only for eligible expenses under the existing PPP program rules.
Employees — Maximum of 300. PPP borrowers that were eligible for PPP 1 Loans based on a "per location" analysis (single business entities operating with NAICS Code 72 — Accommodations and Food Services) may employ no more than 300 employees per physical location for purposes of a PPP 2 Loan.
Gross Receipts5 — To qualify, a PPP borrower must show at least a 25 percent reduction in gross receipts in Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4 of 2020, as compared to the same quarter in 2019.6 The Interim Rules also provide that a PPP borrower that was in operation for all four quarters of 2019 is deemed to satisfy this revenue reduction requirement if it experienced a reduction in annual receipts of 25 percent or greater in 2020 compared to 2019, and the borrower submits annual tax forms substantiating such revenue decline. Forgiveness amounts received pursuant to PPP 1 Loans are excluded from a borrower's gross receipts calculation.
Business Lines — Ineligible entities continue to be those set forth at 13 CFR § 120.110 with the exception of non-profits and religious institutions. Businesses engaged in political activities and lobbying and publicly traded companies are also excluded from participation.7
Affiliation Rules — Affiliation rules that applied to PPP 1 Loans generally apply to PPP 2 Loans. PPP 1 affiliation rules related to businesses with an NAICS code beginning with 72 (Accommodations and Food Services) are adjusted to the 300 employee maximum.8
Maximum PPP 2 Loan Amount — Calculation is based on 2.5x of monthly payroll expenses in the year prior to the PPP loan origination, calendar year 2020, or calendar year 2019 (or 3.5x of monthly payroll expenses for PPP borrowers with an NAICS Code of 72 — Accommodations and Food Services).9 Maximum PPP 2 Loan amount: $2 million.10
Eligible Expenses — Includes those applicable to PPP 1 Loans (payroll costs, mortgage payments, rental payments, utility payments) plus the following:
(1) covered operations expenditures — includes payments for business software or cloud computing;
(2) covered supplier costs — includes goods that were essential to the business at the time the expenditure was made and such expenditures were made pursuant to a contract;
(3) covered worker protection expenditures — includes expenses required to comply with governmental requirements (including sneeze guards, ventilation systems, and the expansion of outdoor space) and personal protective equipment costs (these costs can be incurred any time after March 2020); and
(4) covered property damage costs — includes costs related to looting or vandalism in 2020 that were not covered by insurance or other compensation.11
Number of Loans — Only one PPP 2 Loan may be obtained by a borrower.
Period — No less than eight weeks after origination and no more than 24 weeks after origination.
Economic Necessity Certification — Borrower must make the same certification made in connection with a PPP 1 Loan (current economic conditions make the loan request necessary).
Forgiveness — All "eligible expenses" (defined above) incurred during the covered period are eligible for forgiveness; however, the 60 percent/40 percent ratio for payroll costs, as compared to other eligible expenses that applied to PPP 1 Loan forgiveness calculations, applies to PPP 2 Loan forgiveness calculations.
Application Requirements — Each PPP 2 lender must use either the SBA's application form or create a form that is substantially similar. Pursuant to the Interim Rules, PPP 2 applicants must also provide documentation to support the 25 percent revenue reduction requirement. This documentation may consist of relevant tax forms, quarterly financial statements or bank statements. PPP lenders are required to perform a "good faith review, in reasonable time" of a PPP 2 Loan applicant's calculations and supporting documentation.
PPP 1 Borrowers with Loans Under Review by SBA — Where the SBA has information that a PPP 1 borrower may not have been eligible for such loan, the lender will receive a notice from the SBA when it submits the PPP 2 Loan application, and no SBA loan number will be provided until an eligibility determination has been made. The Interim Rule states that the SBA will "resolve issues related to unresolved borrowers expeditiously."
As of the date of this client alert, it cannot be determined when PPP lenders will receive PPP 2 applications or when the SBA will begin to accept such applications for processing. Moreover, it cannot be determined whether all lenders that participated in PPP 1 Loans will participate in the PPP 2 Loan program. It is likely, however, that PPP lenders participating in the PPP 2 program will need to adjust internal resources to account for the demand the program will generate given the program's limited duration and funding. This potential shift in the use of lenders' internal resources may result in a delay in processing forgiveness applications for PPP 1 loans.
1 Approximately $284B is appropriated for PPP loans (both PPP1 and PPP2 Loans). Note that PPP 1 Loans are again available according to the terms set forth in the CARES Act (i.e., up to 500 employees; maximum loan amount up to $10M).
2 See Business Loan Program Temporary Changes; Paycheck Protection Program Second Draw Loans, published on January 6, 2021, at https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/PPP-IFR-Second-Draw-Loans.pdf.
3 This summary assumes that the PPP borrower is a business (and not a sole proprietor or independent contractor) and eligible for a PPP 2 loan in an amount greater than $150,000.
4 SBA rules require that PPP proceeds be disbursed within 10 calendar days of approval.
5 The Interim Rules generally define "gross receipts" to include all revenue in whatever form received or accrued (in accordance with the entity's accounting method) from whatever source, including from the sales of products or services, interest, dividends, rents, royalties, fees or commissions, reduced by returns and allowances. Generally, receipts are considered "total income" plus "cost of goods sold."
6 Different rules apply for businesses that were not operational in the relevant periods in 2019.
7 The Interim Rules provide that businesses that have permanently closed are not eligible for a PPP 2 Loan. Businesses that are "temporarily closed" or that have "temporarily suspended" operations are, however, eligible for such loans.
8 See Affiliation Rules Applicable to U.S. Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program, April 3, 2020, available at the following link: https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Affiliation%20rules%20overview%20%28for%20public%29.pdf
9 Specific rules apply to calculations for seasonal businesses.
10 Businesses that are part of a single corporate group may not receive more than $4M in PPP 2 Loans in the aggregate.
11 PPP borrowers that have not had their PPP 1 Loan forgiven may include the newly eligible expenses in the calculation of their use of PPP funds for permitted purposes.
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Emerging Artists Support Programme
2019 KCCUK Open Call
Korean Cultural Centre UK
Calling artists and curators!
The Open Call is part of KCCUK's Visual Arts programme providing support for emerging artists by offering them an exhibition platform from where they can further establish their careers.
Exhibition Details
Exhibition Dates: 1 month from the beginning of June 2019 (exact exhibition dates will be confirmed in due course)
Location: Korean Cultural Centre UK, Grand Buildings, 1-3 Strand, WC2N 5BW
1) All proposals should be for a group exhibition consisting of either:
- 2 or more artists with a curator
- a collective group of 2 or more artists.
2) At least 50% of the proposed artists must have Korean Nationality.
3) All artists included in the proposal must have previously participated in at least one public exhibition.
Online applications to jaemin.cha@kccuk.org.uk with the following:
a) 500-word overview of the exhibition, themes and content
b) Gallery Space Plan
c) Biography of all participating artists and curators
d) List of exhibiting works
Note to Applicants
— Please submit the application as one file in PDF format with all the images and any video links (max. 5MB)
— Please note, for any video works the jurors will only watch 5 minutes of the footage.
— Please do not send original works.
— Please note that due to a high volume of applications we receive, we cannot provide individual feedback.
— We welcome international applications.
KCCUK will provide
— Exhibition Space at the KCCUK for the duration of the exhibition
— Curatorial Support
— Opening Reception
— Online press materials and PR support
— Up to £5,000 towards exhibition production, equipment and installation
External jurors consisting of curators and visual arts professionals will review the applications before voting on the winner. The winner will be announced in April 2019. At the conclusion of the vote, the winning proposal will be announced on the KCCUK website: www.kccuk.org.uk
Details of the jury panel will be kept anonymous until the announcement of the winner of the Open Call.
Selections are based on the curatorial merit of the exhibition proposal and the level of the applicant’s ability to communicate the proposal to the audience.
Application Deadline: 20 March 2019, 18:00 (GMT)
Note: Please follow the link below to download the application pack for full details.
2019 KCCUK Open Call Application Pack
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Ontogeny of Hamster Haemoglobins Determined by Isoelectric Focusing in Polyacrylamide Gel
THALIA BOUSSIOS, J. F. BERTLES
Journal of Cell Science 1974 16: 677-686;
THALIA BOUSSIOS
J. F. BERTLES
Haemoglobin ontogeny in an inbred strain of the golden hamster was determined from 12 days in gestation to adulthood. Haemoglobins, separated by isoelectric focusing in polyacrylamide gel in a linear pH gradient (7.0 to 8.0), were quantified by optical density scanning (420 nm) of the unstained gels. Three species (adult haemoglobins) increase in proportion, one (15 % at 12 days gestation) becomes dominant (85 % in adults), and two (nearly absent at 12 days gestation) increase and exist as minor species in adults. Two species (foetal haemoglobins) decrease rapidly, one (37 % at 12 days gestation) to trace levels, the other (24 % at 12 days gestation) to a persistent 3 % in adults.
Isoelectric-focused haemoglobins were eluted individually and re-identified by isoelectric focusing, disk-gel electrophoresis, and vertical gel electrophoresis. Gel exclusion studies ruled out the possibility that any one haemoglobin species is a polymer of another.
Haemoglobin proportions determined by the technique used here, isoelectric focusing, are very reproducible, both from sample to sample and from hamster to hamster of any specific age. The presence of a foetal haemoglobin fraction persisting at significant levels into adulthood suggests that this small laboratory animal is a suitable model for studies on foetal haemoglobin synthesis.
Author to whom correspondence relating to this paper should be addressed.
Received May 6, 1974.
Copyright © 1974 The Company of Biologists Ltd.
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Special Groups > Accommodations
Originally an early 1900's manor home, Bellarmine's main retreat house accommodates 66 guests in private rooms, which includes 12 rooms with attached bathrooms. Each room invites a prayerful stillness with simple amenities. Towels and linens are provided for overnight retreatants.
The retreat house offers two chapel spaces. Our Sacred Heart Chapel features classical architectural elements similar to the late Gregorian period. Its Stations of the Cross are one-of-a-kind oil portraits painted by Russian-born artist Alexander Zlatoff-Mirsky. The small chapel was a gift from John C. and Lenore Fogarty. Its modern composition accommodates an intimate congregation of 14 people.
In addition, various lounges provide "homey" spaces for individual prayer and reflection.
A 2,500 square foot Conference Room provides an ideal facility for our Special Groups' retreats. It includes a modest kitchenette and five breakout rooms, such as the Mother Teresa breakout room. It is equipped with up-to-date audio/visual technology and wireless internet.
Also, Bellarmine can accommodate four retreatants in the Cottage. The Cottage includes a cozy kitchenette, fireplace lounge, two bathrooms, and an intimate prayer room.
The grounds feature tranquil gardens, rolling meadows, a walking path, and outdoor Stations of the Cross. A fire pit is available for fellowship on retreat, weather permitting.
If you are interested in hosting your own group retreat in Bellarmine’s sacred spaces, please visit our Special Groups page.
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A lacemaker’s home in Milton Keynes. The reminiscences of Dame Joan Evans
On 23rd August 2018
In Lacemakers in the Museum, Lacemakers in the Past
‘the civilisation of an age may be recorded in the history of trivial things’
The lace case in the court of the Pitt Rivers Mueum
The lace pillow on display in the court of the Pitt Rivers Museum was donated by Dame Joan Evans (1893-1977). The provenance is not certain, beyond the fact it came from Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire. Evans had strong connections to this village, as it still was before 1967, and in particular the lacemaking Hancock family.
Portrait of Dame Joan Evans, painted by Peter Greenham for St Hugh’s College, Oxford. See ArtUK.
Joan Evans was an expert on medieval decorative arts, especially jewellery. She became the first woman President of the Society of Antiquaries in 1959. She was the only daughter of the third marriage (to Maria Lathbury) of the archaeologist and antiquary John Evans (1823-1908), and was thus the half-sister to Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941), keeper of the Ashmolean Museum and excavator of the Minoan palace of Knossos (deeply loyal to both, she would write their biographies). She grew up in the house attached to her father’s paper mill, Nash Mills near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. As her parents were often travelling in pursuit of their shared archaeological interests, Evans was effectively brought up by her nanny Caroline Hancock (b. 1864), who arrived when she was eleven months old and would stay with her for the next sixty-seven years, until Hancock’s death in 1961. Evans’ autobiography Prelude and Fugue, started in 1933 but only published in 1964, was dedicated to ‘Nannie’. (For more on the Evans dynasty of archaeologists see the Ashmolean’s John Evans Centenary Project.)
Caroline Hancock’s mother, also Caroline Hancock (1824-1919 née Major), was a lacemaker. (For some genealogical information on the Hancock family, see Nick Hubbard’s website, which also reproduces this chapter together with photos of some of the places mentioned.) Every year from the age of two Evans would spend part of the summer visiting her nanny’s family in Milton Keynes. The chapter dedicated to these annual holidays is worth reproducing in full, because it is by far the most detailed description we have discovered of the domestic arrangements of a lacemaking household in the English Midlands. There are a few points we would highlight along the way: the reference to the kitchen spices reminds us of the spiced cakes consumed at Catterns and Tanders: the engraved bobbins gifted by suitors in her early years (if the bobbins donated to Evans to the Pitt Rivers Museum come from this source, then those suitors may have included a ‘Mark’, a ‘Hiram’, a ‘Thomas’ and a ‘David’); the geraniums around the windows are a regular feature in descriptions of lacemakers’ instinctive desire for beauty; the charity offered to beggars is a regular injunction lacemakers’ songs. Evans’ assertion, after the destruction of the Hancocks’ home by fire, that archaeology requires imaginative reconstruction, is a reference to her half-brother’s controversial rebuilding of the Palace of Knossos.
Nash Mills was not my only home, nor my father’s wife the only woman I called Mother. When I was about two it became evident that both Nannie and I would sometimes need a holiday. My mother, however, was not willing to undertake any responsibility for me while Nannie was away; and so it was decided that I should accompany her on a visit to her family at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire. Any decision my mother made was apt to become a binding precedent, and for the rest of my childhood the visit of a month or more was repeated at least once a year.
It is long since I went to Milton Keynes, but my memories of that corner of the earth are still vivid. We went by train to Bletchley, and there we were met by Mrs Claridge, the wife of a small farmer in Milton, with a dog-cart and an old horse that stumbled. Being packed in with some difficulty, off we went, through Bletchley and Fenny Stratford; to Simpson, which had its footpaths raised above the roads and protected by white railings because of floods; through the lanes, till we turned into a high road, and went along by Miss Pinfold’s spinneys to the village. It was – and is – a rather featureless but pleasant bit of England. The villages, with unromantic dissyllabic names – Simpson, Broughton, Woughton, Woolston, Willen – seemed each to be just over a mile from the next. Each clustered round a cross-road and an inn; each had its parsonage and church, its two or three farmhouses, its individual life, centring round the annual feast, when servants were hired and the women were paid for their staple industry of lace making.
Nannie had been born at Woolston, but soon afterwards her parents[1] had moved to an old cottage at Milton. It lay at the end of a path at right angles to the road, on the edge of a great pasture called Barn Close. The barn belonged to the cottage, and was called Babylon; the cottage had no name. You went through a neat green gate, past a small triangular box-edged flower-bed, gay with Shakespearean flowers, along a brick path shaded by damson-trees to the door. It sounds, and seems, an appreciable distance; I suppose it may have been twenty feet. The door was always open, unless it were pouring with rain; inside was the kitchen, with a floor of chequered red and blue tiles, that seemed a natural transition from the bricks outside. One of the joys of Milton was that there was no hard-and-fast line between indoors and outdoors. At Nash Mills we were removed by four long flights of stairs from the garden, and by an unbreakable law I could never go out of doors, even in summer, without changing my shoes. At Milton there was no such rule, and in summer the brick path seemed part of the house and the kitchen part of the garden.
Just inside the door was a wooden table, where the food was prepared, that was scrubbed till it seemed made of no known wood. Above it was an old sweet-smelling corner cupboard, where Mother kept her spices. What cottage nowadays would have the spices Mother kept? Mace and cinnamon, cloves and caraway, nutmegs and black peppers, in a japanned box with radiating compartments; tins of ginger and mustard, dried herbs like fennel and lime (but mint, thyme, and marjoram were used fresh from the garden); sweet and bitter almonds in their skins, tins of currants, sticky blue paper packets of raisins, and vanilla pods in a long glass tube, which were simmered in the custard, dried and used again and again. On the top shelf was the sugar, in tall loaves wrapped in grey paper, that had to be cut with tong-like scissors and broken into lumps with a pestle in the mortar when it was wanted for use. Mother told me once that when she first married sugar cost a shilling a pound, and she had to use honey for sweetening.
Beneath the spice-cupboard was always kept a pail of cool spring water drawn from the well in the garden. Along the other wall stood a noble seventeenth-century chest of carved oak, where linen was stored; and opposite was the open hearth where the cooking was done. Alongside it was the bread oven, in my day only rarely used. It had its own ritual. First you took a faggot of small twigs and burned it in the oven; then you raked out the ashes and cleaned the oven with a wet mop; and then you put the loaves in on a peel, and the cakes in their round tins and the biscuits and ‘little men’ on a tin plate and then the door firmly shut. The ‘little men’ were made from the oddments of pastry. With arms and legs and currant eyes (and, if they were big enough, coat-buttons); they were for the delight of children. All the work involved in shaping them and sticking them with currants makes me realize how rich Mother contrived to be in the most precious commodity of all: time to spend on those she loved.
On the other side of the hearth a passage as long as the chimney was deep led into the living-room. The old windows had been replaced by larger modern ones, and though geraniums (the old-fashioned kind with purply-black spots on the leaves) and calceolarias blossomed on the sill, the room was full of light.
Somehow I was never bored at Milton, though in truth there was not very much to do. Books were few and for the most part pious; fiction was represented by The Story of the Robins, Christy’s Old Organ, Jessica’s First Prayer, and the first two volumes of an old three-volume edition of Richardson’s Pamela. But the garden was solitary enough and wild enough for there to be always something to discover in it: the bloom on a growing apple, that is like powder over the delicate pores of the skin; the early dewberries that grew in one part of the hedge, and the nightshade that climbed over another; the strange ancient smell of hot box; and the fuchsia buds that one could pop with one’s fingers. Musk in those days still smelt sweet, and columbines (which we called straw bonnets) still grew strong and stocky. One may learn to observe as well in lazy hours alone in a garden as among the apparatus of a scientific laboratory.
The end of the garden was called Calais, presumably because it was at the farther side of a wide path. In my day it was derelict; but Mother told me that until lately it had been under corn, and that the grain from it, ground at the mill at Woolston, had provided the flour for her bread.
Nannie’s father had been a carpenter and builder. Years before, when she was a baby, he had fallen from a scaffold and as a consequence of his injuries he had lost his sight. When I knew him as an old man, he sat much in a great chair of his own making by the fire in the living-room; a heavy, massive man, a little slow but very kind. He and I used to go for solemn walks together up and down the bricks, or sometimes he would let me lead him a little farther afield. His eldest daughter, Amy, was blind too, also as the result of an accident; when she was five she had fallen from a swing on to a stone floor, and the optic nerve had gradually perished as a result of the blow. But in her case blindness seemed hardly a disability; she was up and down the house, cooking, cleaning, washing; in and about the garden, digging and picking fruit; in the henhouse, feeding the hens and collecting the eggs; in the barn, to find a tool or whatnot; at the well, to draw water. When she sat down she was just as busy, knitting, crocheting, sewing, making rugs of rag. She had a vigorous character, and might have been a dominating woman but for the love she bore her mother, and her immense generosity of heart to all the world.
Mother was small and neat and nimble. She came of rather better family than her husband; the Majors had been farmers on their own land, and her mother had lived in a house with a French window opening on to the lawn. But the agricultural depression of the forties had hit the Northamptonshire farmers hard, and nothing of this prosperity remained but Mother’s tradition of gentility. She always wore a black lace cap with heavy side-pieces and a kind of crest in front; since her day I have only seen it in the Velay. Over it, if she were working in the garden, she would put on a heavily corded sun-bonnet of lilac print. She wore plain bodices, with a little frill of lace of her own making at the neck, and long full skirts; a print apron in the mornings, and a black silk one and a little three-cornered shawl in the afternoon. She smelt of lavender and fresh air. Her hands were the fine hands of a lace maker; it seemed as if it were by magic that she wove the delicate patterns on the lace pillow, appearing hardly to look at its crabbed pricked parchment pattern and its forest of fine pins. Her bobbins dated from her girlhood; their bone flanks were adorned with the names of the admirers who had given them to her, and some had love-mottoes. Their shanks were wound with bright brass wire in patterns, and the heavier ones for the gimp were dyed red and green. From each bobbin hung a circle of wire weighted with curious red and white glass beads, pressed into half-angular shapes. She excelled in making the fine net ground that had characterized Buckinghamshire lace in the eighteenth century. She had a tolerant contempt for the later Maltese patterns, though she admitted that they gave a better living to the lace maker; yet even so the profit was small, and the cost of the fine linen thread heavy.
Mother was a woman of tremendous courage. When her husband was blinded she had had to support the family, to dig and delve and cut wood and do the work of the husbandman as well as the housewife. She had even taken to butchering in a small way to make a little money. With her own fine hands she would kill a pig and cut it up, sell some, home-cure the hams, and make pork-pies and brawn and faggots and black puddings with the rest. When I knew her the family were in rather smoother waters, but the old habits of thrift still held. It was an exquisite thrift, with nothing sordid about it: based on the old feeling that the work of a woman’s hands in her own home had no value but the negative one of saving money. So every dress was turned and darned, and every scrap of stuff kept for patchwork or rag-rugs; and in cookery every morsel was made the most of. Our chief meal was naturally our midday dinner: a batter pudding baked or boiled, with gravy, and then the morsel of meat that had been stewed for the gravy and some vegetables from the garden. Mother was a great hand at making wines – cowslip, ginger, elderberry, damson, and the like – and I as the visitor would drink some out of a fine cut wine-glass, while the rest drank water. For tea, when I was there, there was often a cake; and for supper, bread and cheese or for a treat a pork-pie. English regional cooking is quickly being forgotten, and few now eat home-made pork-pies in the midland fashion: a dish that any gourmet could enjoy. I still have the recipe for it that Mother gave to Nannie, ending ‘but I need not tell you how to make short crust’. After supper Nannie and I would go to bed in the little bedroom at the top of the steep stairs, and sleep through the summer night on our vast feather bed till morning would come, and we would hear Mother calling to the chickens and Amy moving below, until she came to wake us with a smiling face and soft kisses to the adventure of another day.
Mother had the anima naturaliter christiana. Poor though she was, any beggar that came to her door was given a glass of water, a slice of bread or cake if she had it, and a penny. Every night we read a chapter of the Bible, verse and verse about, thus going gradually through it from beginning to end, genealogies and all. Every Sunday the whole family would go to church, Mother in her bonnet, holding her prayer-book, a clean handkerchief, and a sprig of southernwood. The worst crime was to be late; the only time we were ever hustled was to be ready before the Church bell changed its note and it was time to start.
Church, in itself, I never found particularly interesting. The church was a good plain fourteenth-century building, at that time defaced by having texts painted on tin scrolls fixed above its arches. The orchestra, that had used to play in Nannie’s father’s time, had given place to a squeaky harmonium and the service was decent and dull. It was the hats of the congregation that afforded my chief amusement. The congregation itself I knew well enough, but in the sunbonnets or plain sailor hats of every day. On Sunday everyone appeared in a home-made confection of the utmost interest. The bonnet, or hat, or ‘shape’, was bought in Newport Pagnell on a market day, and trimmed at home, generally out of an ancestral provision of trimmings. The result might be comic but was never banal: and if one had been in Milton long enough one came to know the pièces de résistance among the trimmings, and to recognize permutations and combinations that might have escaped the notice of a casual visitor. The old ladies ran to violets and jet, the middle-aged to wings and feathers, the younger to artificial flowers of great brilliance and improbability, and the children to garlands of buttercups and daisies and terrific ribbon bows; but an unpredictable element always remained.
Evening Church was a treat, chiefly because it meant sitting up late. The twilight lent charm to the building; the lamps of ruby glass, which I thought very beautiful, were lit, and the congregation, from being a congeries of more or less familiar individuals, passed into more solemn and less personal being. The very psalms were unfamiliar; and the walk home, holding Amy’s hand, delightful. Then came a late supper, of such digestible delicacies as pork-pie and pickled onions: and so sleepily to bed.
Mother’s religion was no matter of formal church-going: it entered into everything she did. I never remember her speaking ill of anyone, or doing an unkindness; yet she was never weak nor sentimental. She even had the courage, as an old woman, to face death; she would expend much exquisite darning on an old sheet and say it would do for her shroud, and never made a plan for more than a few days ahead without qualifying it by an ‘if I live’. From her, as at my father’s knee, I learned the wholesome beauties of common sense. Mother had endless tolerance for true eccentricity arising out of character; but for ill-considered foolishness she had one damning comment: ‘I call that a silly caper’.
With all her piety she was a good talker, full of country lore and old saws, some of which I have since found in Thomas Tusser’s Points of Husbandry [first published in 1557]. She could interpret every sign of weather: the sun ‘drawing water’ — that is, casting long visible beams to the earth — the too-golden sunset and the increased range of hearing that meant rain to come; the hour of the change of the moon: ‘the nearer to midnight, the fouler the weather’, and its aspect in the sky, ‘holding water’ with horns upturned, or ‘well up’ with them pointing earthwards. If the slugs were about, she noticed it and prophesied rain; and when the rain came she would foretell if it would last long or not by the cows in Barn Close; if they went into the shelter of the elm trees it would soon be over, and if they stayed out in the field it would last a long time. Each spring we studied the trees to see whether oak or ash budded first, for:
If oak is out before the ash,
Then you’ll only get a dash;
But if ash is out before the oak,
Then you’ll surely get a soak.
Each summer the crop of apples, plums, and gooseberries was judged with as much connoisseurship as the wine-grower expends upon his vintage.
The window of the living-room looked out upon the path that led over the stile across Barn Close; here Mother would work in the afternoons and see every creature that passed by, and guess what took them there. In those days there was only a tiny shop in the village, and the tradesmen from Fenny Stratford regularly called: not merely baker and butcher and grocer, but draper and haberdasher and tailor too. Each was treated in some sense as a visitor, a little conversation was made, a little news exchanged, a little refreshment perhaps offered; and then a polite farewell, and Mother’s pleasant voice saying, ‘Thank you for calling’. Sometimes a strange drummer would come, and hope by briskness and flattery to make us buy something we did not need; but Mother could make short work of him.
‘The Broad and Narrow Way’, colour lithograph c 1883. Images on this theme circulated widely on the continent. For the details of the ‘people in bustles and top hats’ see the British Museum website.
Amy and Nannie and I did much together. Amy was clever in letting me share in household tasks and in making me feel that I was really helping her; and when it came to choosing the colour of her cotton and threading her needle when she sewed I really was of use. I loved dusting the ornaments in the living-room: the china spaniels with lustred green spots, the pair of pottery birds’-nests full of eggs, which the green serpent was creeping up to steal; the brass candlesticks and the pink glass vases full of dyed grass. That was the moment for studying the pictures: the framed sampler by Rebecca Jackins, and the wonderful coloured print of The Broad and Narrow Way, with people in bustles and top hats painfully toiling towards salvation or cheerfully descending to a Hell too garish to be grim. On hot summer afternoons, when a blessed torpor descended on the house, Amy used to read the New Testament, tracing the raised capitals of her text with work-worn fingers, and letting the beauty of its language be music to her ear. When it was cooler, she and Nannie and I would sally forth for a walk through the fields. The country was not exciting; it undulated in wide shallow valleys, so that one was hardly conscious of the valley, but only of the elm-crowned ridge beyond that limited the horizon. The fields were large, in those days as much arable as pasture: the land poor, the arable full of weeds that I found more interesting than the corn, and the pasture seeming as rich in thistles as in grass. The trees were nearly all in the hedgerows, and mostly elms, with a few ash and oak. The hedges themselves were the most varied part of the landscape, mostly of hawthorn, but studded and draped with holly and elder, wild rose and bramble, ivy and traveller’s joy. The very economy of the landscape drove one to enjoy its details; I can remember learning there more of trees and plants – ash-keys and crab-apple blossom, the caterpillar-like attachments of ivy and the innumerable varieties of wild-rose and blackberry – than I ever did in less barren country. Amy, who had seen none of these things since she was five, seemed none the less to know them all: whereabouts in the hedge blackberries or crab-apples would be found, where wild violets might be hidden in the ditch beneath: and her quick fingers would tell as we passed through the cornfields whether they were sown with corn, or oats, or true barley, or the kind called ‘Hairy Jack’. She could not see the colour change as the straws dipped before the breeze, but she could enjoy the fairy music of the waving oats and the heavier murmur of the bowing corn. Our walks lay all round Milton, and each had its peculiar enticement: a raised causeway of planks over meadows flooded in the winter, a bridge over a slow stream with banks fragrant with meadowsweet and thyme, spinneys where white violets might be found at Easter, a lane with a wide water-filled ditch, with little bridges over it to the cottage gates, a hill-top with a view over to the pinewoods of Bow Brickhill. There were, too, friends whom we might go to visit: Uncle John, who lived at Woolston, who once gave Nannie a Georgian mahogany work-table that we carried all the way home through the fields and over the stiles; an old lace-making friend of Mother’s at Willen, who gave us flowers; and Mrs Holmes, the kind farmer’s wife, who would take us into her dairy and show me how to skim the cream. Apart from these recognized friends, and a few more who lived nearer at hand – Mrs Oakley at the Swan who had beautiful grey corkscrew curls, and Miss Bayliss, who was very kind to Amy – we did not see much of the rest of the village. Mother was a good neighbour, but fastidious in admitting people to intimacy; and indeed the village, that to Squire or parson might have seemed a homogeneous society, had as complicated a scheme of social gradations and as delicate a sense of social nuances as Victorian Mayfair. The parson was a great gentleman – a Wykeham-Twistleton-Fiennes – above these difficulties in virtue of his birth and his generous Christianity; but even so we had a feeling that he felt more at home with Mother than with some people.
I have failed, I know, to recapture the particular aroma of Milton, though sometimes some chance scent or phrase or sound can still transport me there. I cannot give anyone else knowledge of its peace and charity, its old-fashioned mirth and thrift, its limitations and its great heartedness, for they belong to a past chapter of the life of England, that is nearer to the England of the Canterbury Tales than to the England of today. Nor in Milton now can I find even the outward semblance of what was home. For 1909 was a very hot, dry summer, and one day (when we were not there) a long-smouldering beam in the great old chimney burst into flame and fired the thatch. Mother had broken her thigh, and was helpless and bedridden; Amy did what she could, but it was pitifully little. Mother was safely carried out, and some of the furniture from the kitchen and living-room was rescued; but all else disappeared in smoke and fire. The cottage has never been rebuilt. Years later I revisited it. Mother’s flower garden had been overwhelmed in the ruins; the bricks were overgrown; the garden had become a potato field. Only by digging a little in a rubbish heap did I come on a fragment of the familiar chequer of the kitchen floor. How shall an excavator without other knowledge know the fine character and beauty of a civilization thus discovered? I have lived to find a home and a life I have known in ruins; and by virtue of this experience I have lost my faith in any kind of archaeology that does not attempt imaginative reconstruction.
[For the location of the Hancock cottage see Nick Hubbard’s website.]
Caroline HancockDame Joan EvansMilton KeynesPitt Rivers Museum
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Dixie Chicks’ ‘Gaslighter’ Is an Ex-Lover’s Revenge [Listen]
The Dixie Chicks draw back the bow and fire with "Gaslighter," their scorned lover's lament and the first new song from the trio since 2006.
Natalie Maines and company begin a new era by taking aim at a cheating lover — perhaps her ex-husband, although the actor is never specifically mentioned — and they hit the bullseye. There are details aplenty in each verse of the structurally idiosyncratic new song (go ahead and google "Natalie Maines' boat"), but it's the lead singer's trauma and resentment that will scale to their audience.
This isn't a "look on the bright side," winking kind of done-me-wrong song. The Dixie Chicks' "Gaslighter" could be interpreted as a play on words, as it's both a reference to how the protagonist was fooled and what she does for revenge: Pours on the gas and lights it.
Producer Jack Antonoff lays down a simple, playful track that spotlights the group's harmonies at each chorus and Maines' pain in the verse. You're tempted to dance to "Gaslighter," if not for the ball-busting message the 45-year-old delivers with zero sense of sarcasm. That kind of mixes what this group has done across their career. Perhaps their new Gaslighter studio album (available May 1) is going to be an amalgam of emotions and sounds?
Surely it's too soon to tell, but the upcoming project promises to be revealing and very personal, perhaps to a fault. Emotion leads during "Gaslighter," as lyrically it's not the Dixie Chicks' best effort, but when a feeling is so palpable, every word doesn't need to fight for its life on the page.
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Dixie Chicks' "Gaslighter" Lyrics:
Gaslighter, denier / Doing anything to get your ass farther / Gaslighter, big-timer / Repeating all the mistakes of your father.
We moved to California and we followed your dreams / I believed in the promises you made to me / Swore that night, till death do us part / But you lie, lie, lie, lie, lie / Hollywood welcomed you with open doors / No matter what they gave you, you still wanted more / Acting all above it when our friends divorced / What a lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.
You're such a ...
Gaslighter, you broke me / Your sorry but where's my apology / Gaslighter, you liar.
Thought I wouldn't see it if you put it in my face / Give you all my money, you'll gladly walk away / You think it's justifiable, I think it's pretty cruel / And you know you lie best when you're lying to you / Because boy I know exactly what you did on my boat / And boy that's exactly why you ain't coming home / Save your tired stories for your new someone else / Because they're lies, lies, lies, lies, lies.
Just had to start a fire, had to start a fire / Couldn't take yourself on a road a little higher / Had to burn it up, had to tear it down / Tried to say I'm crazy, babe we know I'm not crazy that's you / Gaslighting, you're a lie-lie-lie-liar / Oh honey, gaslighting, you made your bed and then your bed caught fire.
Gaslighter, I'm your mirror / Standing right here until you can see how / You broke me, yeah I'm broken / You're still sorry and there's still no apology.
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Dominique Morisseau’s SKELETON CREW starring Jason Dirden, Wendell B. Franklin, Lynda Gravatt, Nikiya Mathis and Adesola Osakalumi, transfers this spring Off Broadway to Atlantic’s Linda Gross Theater, May 13-June 19
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Jason Dirden and Nikiya Mathis in Atlantic Theater Company’s Skeleton Crew. Photo by Ahron R. Foster
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Jason Dirden, Lynda Gravatt and Nikiya Mathis in Atlantic Theater Company’s Skeleton Crew. Photo by Ahron R. Foster
2015 Steinberg Award winner Dominique Morisseau attends the 2015 Steinberg Playwright Awards on November 16, 2015 in New York City. Photo by Lia Chang
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Photo by Lia Chang
Tony and Obie Award winning actor and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson most recently staged the world premieres of Dominique Morriseau’s Paradise Blue and his own play Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine, and Encores! Cabin in the Sky. Off Broadway he has directed the Obie and Lortel Award winning production of The Piano Lesson and The Happiest Song Plays Last, My Children My Africa, Seven Guitars and The First Breeze of Summer. His Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominated screenplay adaptation of his autobiographical play Lackawanna Blues was awarded The Humanitas Prize, The National Board of Review Award and the NAACP Image Award.
Jason Dirden and Wendell B. Franklin in Atlantic Theater Company’s Skeleton Crew. Photo by Ahron R. Foster
Jason Dirden appeared in A Raisin in the Sun and Fences on Broadway and received Obie and Theatre World awards for his performance in the Obie and Lortel Award winning production of The Piano Lesson Off Broadway. Wendell B. Franklin’s New York credits include Speak Truth to Power, The Desire and Brothers from the Bottom. He was featured in The Lark and Sundance Theatre Lab workshops of Skeleton Crew. Lynda Gravatt has appeared on Broadway in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, King Hedley II and 45 Seconds from Broadway and recently Off Broadway in The Hummingbird’s Tour. Nikiya Mathis originated roles in the Off Broadway productions of Milk Like Sugar, Fidelis, Seed and co-starred in the Lortel Award winning production of The Brother Sister Plays trilogy. Adesola Osakalumi starred in the original Broadway cast, national and international tours of Fela!, appeared on Broadway in Equus and Off Broadway in Eyewitness Blues and Jam on the Groove.
Skeleton Crew features scenic design by Michael Carnahan, costume design by Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Rui Rita, original music and sound design by Rob Kaplowitz, original songs by Jimmy “J. Keys” Keys, choreography by Adesola Osakalumi and casting by Caparelliotis Casting.
Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater is located at 336 West 20 Street (between 8 and 9 Avenues).
Lynda Gravatt and Wendell B. Franklin in Atlantic Theater Company’s Skeleton Crew. Photo by Ahron R. Foster
Critics’ Pick, Time Out New York
“A VERY FINE NEW PLAY!
WARM-BLOODED, ASTUTE, and BEAUTIFULLY ACTED!
CLIFFORD ODETS’S dramas come to mind and so does the great
Pittsburgh cycle of AUGUST WILSON!
Squarely in the tradition of ARTHUR MILLER!
A DEEPLY MORAL and DEEPLY AMERICAN PLAY,
directed with a slow hand and quick pulse by Ruben Santiago-Hudson!”
Wendell B. Franklin, Lynda Gravatt, Jason Dirden and Nikiya Mathis in Atlantic Theater Company’s Skeleton Crew. Photo by Ahron R. Foster
“ A PERFORMANCE SO POWERFUL THAT THE CHARACTER SEEMS TO RISE UP OUT OF THE PLAY!”
– Bergen Record
“MORISSEAU HAS HEART!
Her rough-edged dialogue has a touch of street poet.
Gravatt is FIERCE AND FINE!”
– Variety
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vivid characters, keen-eared dialogue, and inside insights into this working class world.
MORISSEAU’S FINAL CHAPTER IS BUILT TO LAST!”
– NY Daily News
Adesola Osakalumi in Atlantic Theater Company’s Skeleton Crew. Photo by Ahron R. Foster
Like LORRAINE HANSBERRY and AUGUST WILSON,
Morisseau creates characters WHO SING WITH THE
VERNACULAR OF THEIR COMMUNITY! Rarely has
dialogue ever felt so much like eavesdropping on an actual conversation!”
– Theatermania
“UNQUESTIONABLY A STRONG, FORMIDABLE WORK!
All four leads are IMPECCABLE!
THEATERGOERS WON’T WANT TO MISS!”
– Huffington Post
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Why MoveOn Should Introduce Me to My Neighbors
Recently, my dad proposed in his back-page column in the May/June Utne Reader, titled “An Open Letter to MoveOn,” that the nation’s premier progressive organization should go beyond issue-driven campaigns and “lead a community organizing movement across America.” (Yes, in case you’re wondering, my dad founded Utne Reader, and I worked there as a writer and editor for eight years.)
I couldn’t agree more. I especially like his suggestion that MoveOn stage a series of large revival-style cultural events designed to introduce members to each other:
MoveOn could kick off the movement by hosting stadium-sized events, harking back to 19th-century chautauquas and tent shows. Attendees would sit together according to particular affinities: parents of young children, schoolteachers, health care workers, clergy, small-business owners, elders. Like-minded participants could share their ideas about particular issues, like clean, green energy and single-payer health care. Or, if seating were assigned based on zip code and postal route, people would meet their neighbors in a positively charged environment.
All this would be interspersed with musical entertainment, stand-up polemic, and perhaps a Jumbotron visit from Obama himself. Consider it an extended-family/neighborhood reunion in which participants would meet some long-lost relatives for the very first time.
After the event, attendees would all receive lists of the 20 other participants who live closest to them. House parties would follow. Instead of discussing issues, we would simply get to know each other by telling each other our stories of “self, us, and now.”
(Telling stories of “self, us, and now” is a technique used in the Camp MoveOn organizer trainings, one of which my dad attended last year, and which inspired his column.)
I’d be thrilled to attend a rally of 5, 10 or 20 thousand MoveOn members in my area, knowing that I’d hear great bands and speakers and have a chance to meet and converse with other progressives in my neighborhood.
People often accuse MoveOn of mere “clicktivism,” of sapping the activist energies of grassroots progressives by calling on people to sign petition after petition on narrow issue campaigns. People either feel they can just click and be done with it, or they get tired of the incessant calls to action and tune out, the argument goes.
That argument is unfair. MoveOn has done more in the past decade than any other organization to build the American progressive movement, to give it a sense of identity and an outlet to flex its political muscle. The group has pioneered new models of online advocacy and fundraising, developing many of the tools and strategies that are now de rigeur in both issue and electoral campaigns across the political spectrum. Most importantly, MoveOn has experimented with new ways to move people from online to offline. Every person who signs a MoveOn petition is invited to take further action — write or call Congress, donate to the campaign, attend a rally, vigil or organizing meeting. MoveOn was largely responsible for mobilizing people to turn out on what became the largest global day of protest in history, the simultaneous anti-war rallies in hundreds of cities across the US and around the globe on the eve of the Iraq War in 2003. And if it weren’t for MoveOn paving the way, and providing critical early support, the presidential campaigns of both Howard Dean and Barack Obama might never have been possible.
Yet some criticism is justified. MoveOn’s sheer scale (5 million members) and obsession with numbers can make individual activists feel insignificant and campaigns feel impersonal.
As the de facto connective tissue of much of the progressive movement, MoveOn has an opportunity to go beyond issue campaigns and strengthen the movement by introducing its members to each other. Not under the rubric of any particular campaign or action. Simply connecting people to each other at the local level so they can start conversations and build community would be a powerful step toward revitalizing and re-engaging progressives, many of whom tuned out after pouring their hearts out to put Obama in the White House.
Introducing MoveOn members (like myself) to each other and inviting us to share stories of “self, us, and now,” and to start conversations about our hopes and dreams for our families, neighborhoods, country and planet could be the best way to inoculate the body politic against the cynicism and hatred emanating from the Tea Party, Congress, and the media. It would surely lead to more committed local activism, would surface new issues and ideas, and could rekindle the sense of hope and possibility that drove so many of us to pound the pavement and open our wallets for Obama in 2008. As my dad says: “This could be the start of an earthshaking nationwide movement.”
So how about it, MoveOn? Please introduce me to my neighbors.
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The City as Community-Building Platform
[Cross-posted from the Zanby blog. -LU]
I recently helped facilitate Open Gov West, a two-day conference on “Gov 2.0” organized by my friend Sarah Schacht, executive director of Knowledge As Power. Over 200 open government advocates and practitioners came to Seattle City Hall from across the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada, plus a few from farther afield.
Day 1 was a traditional conference, with programmed panels, a keynote speaker, and “work sessions” where attendees came up with recommendations for action in the areas of open government policy; data and document standards; funding; and working with non-traditional partners. Day 2 was an unconference, where anyone could offer a session on any topic.
At a discussion session on Day 2 titled “The Architecture of Gov’t 2.0,” Vancouver-based facilitator and web strategist Gordon Ross posed a provocative question: “What would the city website of your dreams do?”
The City Website of My Dreams
I’ve been pondering that question for a long time. Here’s what I wish I had said in that session:
The city website of my dreams would not only let me find relevant information, process transactions, lodge complaints, and communicate with elected officials. It would help me connect with my neighbors.
When I move into a new neighborhood, I wish I could go to the city’s website and join a group for my block (or a collection of several blocks) — complete with discussions, event calendar, photos, videos, and listings of relevant city services, businesses, nonprofits, neighborhood associations, and so forth. That way I could plug in and get to know my neighborhood (and my neighbors) quicker than ever. I could browse archived discussions to see what issues have been on my neighbors’ minds, peruse photos and videos from recent block parties and festivals, and check the calendar for upcoming events. And if I moved to a new neighborhood, I could just quit the online group for my old neighborhood and join my new one, taking my profile, friends, and history with me.
Such a platform would give me and my neighbors a powerful tool to self-organize — everything from potlucks to crime-watch patrols, yard sales, childcare swaps, street cleanups and community meetings about city policies of interest to the neighborhood. We could organize car-, bike-, and tool-sharing coops. It would give us a quick way to share alerts about burglaries or fires.
And it would give the city a powerful way of targeting communications to specific blocks. Need to clear the street because of a snow emergency, tree-trimming, or a broken water main? Just send a message to that block’s listserve and word will spread fast. Add an SMS gateway to send text messages to residents’ mobile phones and word will spread even faster. Connect it all to a CRM database and an Open 311 system and you’ve got a powerful tool set for citizens to engage with the city not just as individuals, but as groups, as neighborhoods, as communities.
That’s the grand vision the old community organizer in me has for what a city website could do for citizen engagement.
Pieces of this vision already exist, mostly organized ad hoc on private platforms like Facebook, Google Groups, Ning, and all manner of blogs and email lists. There are a few organized, larger-scale examples. E-Democracy.org hosts email discussion lists for 25+ communities across the US, UK and New Zealand. Frankfurt Gestalten (“Create Frankfurt”), is a Drupal-based project inspired by the great pothole apps FixMyStreet (UK) and SeeClickFix (US), but with a greater emphasis on groups organizing around neighborhood initiatives proposed by users. The Dutch foundation Web in de Wijk (“Web in the Neighborhoods”) provides a toolkit for residents to create their own neighborhood websites. The explosion of hyperlocal news blogs — like WestSeattleBlog and MyBallard in Seattle — has proven that there’s a hunger for online spaces that support offline neighborhood-level community-building.
Of all the sites I’ve seen, Neighbors for Neighbors comes closest to the vision I describe above. This Boston-based nonprofit has built Ning networks for all 18 neighborhoods across the city, stitched together as a citywide network under an umbrella WordPress blog. City staff, neighborhood activists, landlords, business owners, police, and residents of all stripes are active on the site, using it to organize everything from potlucks to pickup soccer games to public meetings about saving neighborhood libraries.
But I have yet to see such a network of self-organizing hyper-local community groups fully integrated with a city’s website.
Zanby’s Groups-of-Groups Approach
I’d love to build a system like this on the Zanby platform. Our unique groups-of-groups architecture enables the clustering of local groups into “group families” around any criteria — like geography, of course, but also other affinities that might unite certain block groups to others in different parts of the city, like proximity to schools, libraries, parks, transit lines, waterfronts, commercial zones, etc. Those groups could easily network and collaborate with other groups across the city with shared interests by joining group families organized around those interests. This architecture allows groups to network with other groups.
Imagine, for example, that a block in Boston lies within earshot of a freeway, borders a river, has a transit stop on it and is home to many Spanish speakers. In addition to belonging to one of those 18 geographic neighborhood group families, my block could join families for, say, all the blocks across the city that lie along the same light-rail line, or along Boston Harbor and the Charles River, or along highways, or with similar demographics. Those groups might share certain interests and concerns with each other that don’t map to the geographic neighborhood lines.
Meanwhile, a group a few blocks away might not be so concerned about freeway noise or transit safety. But it has a community garden and a retirement home on it. That group might join group families organized around elderly issues and community gardens. The host of a Highway Neighbors group family could create events, discussions, documents, etc. that are easily shared with all of the groups in the family.
The key concept here is that group families allow groups to network and collaborate with other groups.
It’s also fairly easy to integrate third-party tools and data into a Zanby community, using APIs, RSS feeds and embeddable objects. So each block group and neighborhood group family could serve as a social media dashboard displaying discussions, events, documents, etc. generated by Zanby, side-by-side with feeds of info from city databases, video streams of public meetings, live chats with residents and city officials, etc.
The Other ‘L’ Word: Liability
Legal experts have raised concerns about liability when the government hosts open forums for civic dialogue. Government lawyers get nervous about being sued for censorship if, for example, an employee deletes a profane or racist comment on a city blog or message board. And if they don’t moderate such comments, they could be sued for facilitating hate speech. Similar liability concerns were common a decade ago in the private sector, mainly in the media industry, as newspaper and magazine publishers struggled with whether to add blogs, reader comments, and forums on their websites. Those issues have largely been sorted out.
Fortunately, while the public sector may be a few years behind in sorting out these issues, it appears to be catching up fast. In the past year, 24 federal agencies, and many city and state governments, have used IdeaScale and similar apps to create open forums for sourcing ideas from the public. The website of the New York State Senate, a model of open government, now hosts blogs for every senator, including public comments, and allows the public to post comments on bills. The White House also recently published new guidelines for federal employees on how to use social media to engage the public.
Helping Communities Help Themselves
Just like social media is reshaping whole industries by slashing the transaction costs of engagement, it holds tremendous potential to reshape government — or more importantly, the relationship between citizens and government. There was much talk at the Open Gov West conference about how governments at all levels can use social media and online communities to engage citizens in dialogue, to leverage their knowledge, skills, passions, and willingness to volunteer their time and energy to solve public problems and improve their communities.
But as Doug Schuler, of the Public Sphere Project, argued, “We shouldn’t be talking about how government can leverage citizens. We should be talking about how citizens can leverage the government.” After all, the government is there to serve the people, not the other way around, right?
Yes, and to that end the government should be a vehicle for helping people help themselves — not just as individuals, but as communities, providing the social space for civic spirit to grow. I believe that putting tools in the hands of citizens to self-organize and build community — through the government website — is one powerful way to do that. Vibrant civic life requires infrastructure. I hope that one day it’s considered as normal, and vital, for city governments to provide such community infrastructure online as it is to build and maintain parks and town squares offline.
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The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has released new guidelines for treating inoperable lung cancer patients with stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).
Based on evidence from numerous studies and clinical trials, the guidelines mainly focus on various high-risk situations where SBRT can be used to attempt to cure a patient.
The report, “Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: An ASTRO Evidence-Based Guideline” — published in the journal Practical Radiation Oncology — has received endorsements from the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, the European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists.
“With longer life expectancies and more sophisticated diagnostic tools, we have seen a rise in the incidence of early-stage lung cancer, including among patients who are not able to undergo surgery or choose not to do so. SBRT provides an option for these patients, who otherwise may not have received curative, definitive treatment,” Dr. Gregory M.M. Videtic, a radiation oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic and co-chair of the task force that wrote the report, said in a press release. “Increasing access to this potentially life-saving treatment is essential to improve outcomes for the growing population of early-stage NSCLC patients.”
In contrast to traditional radiotherapy — which exposes a large part of the body to radiation — SBRT uses advanced computing to focus radiation on the tumor only. This allows much higher doses of radiation, but since healthy tissues are spared, toxic effects are minimal.
The guideline focused on SBRT in early-stage patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in cases where the tumor cannot be surgically removed. For instance, it details the use of the method in patients who require salvage therapy after earlier surgery or radiotherapy. But the recommendation also covers tumors that are difficult to treat because they have grown into the chest wall, or grow close to sensitive structures, such as the windpipe.
The same is true for particularly risky cases in which the tumor grows in a central location in the lung.
Although ASTRO’s focus was on inoperable patients, the team also looked at patients who can be operated on. The use of SBRT in such patients is controversial, and researchers reviewed earlier studies to determine when the method is appropriate to use in this patient group.
“NSCLC is a complex disease, with a great deal of heterogeneity among patients,” said Dr. Megan E. Daly, also co-chair of the task force and a radiation oncologist at the University of California Davis. “This guideline reinforces SBRT as the standard of care for medically inoperable patients, but it also examines the safety and efficacy of SBRT in less traditional clinical scenarios, such as patients with larger tumors or recurrent patients with early-stage disease.”
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The Christian figure of Satan is viewed as a horned, red, demonic human figure with a pointy tail and sometimes hooves. To Christians, sinners are sent to his domain—hell—after death. He began as the Zoroastrian Devil figure of Angra Mainyu or Ahriman, which opposed the Zoroastrian creator god and tempted humans. Satan is later portrayed in Jewish Kabbalism, which presents him as a demon who lives in a demonic realm.
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Fifty people are expected to attend the unprecedented “black mass” ceremony at Koven Restaurant in the ByWard Market. Organizers said the ceremony is the first-of-its-kind event in Canada. Followers of Satanism argue they will be practicing their faith much like other religious groups do on weekends. Marc said his religious group has every right to practice their faith and is in no way a threat to Catholicism or any other religion.
Marc added the rituals do not promote hate or cause harm. This is for us, by us, end of story. The owner of the space, who said he has faced many threats for hosting the event, believed the controversy has very little to do with religion and more to do with promoting democracy and free speech. Back in his home country of Iran, he said, a heavy metal band was subjected to 74 lashes and 14 years in prison because of the music they play, which is considered blasphemous in Iran.
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Suggestions that a piece of cloth stained with the blood of Pope John Paul II might have been stolen to coincide with “Satanic New Year” made the headlines this week. But is there really such a thing, asks Kathryn Westcott. The cloth has been recovered and it is now thought the theft has nothing to do with Satanism. But the idea that devil-worshipers might mark New Year’s Eve on the night of 1 February remains.
Italian religious studies teacher Giovanni Panunzio had been quoted earlier in the week as saying that the date of the theft coincided with a date in the Satanic calendar when “blood and crosses are symbolic objects to desecrate. A so-called Satanic calendar containing dozens of dates does exist. Its origins, however, are unclear. Versions of it can be found largely on websites belonging to Christian groups or TV stations.
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Bioscience Incubator Space Thriving in LA, According to LA Business Journal
Lawren | April 17, 2018
Rep. Judy Chu and Pasadena Bio’s Robert “Bud” Bishop at biotech incubator. (Image credit LABJ)
This article was originally published by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation
A Los Angeles biotech startup hoping to launch the next big drug or medical device might have gone broke trying to open a research laboratory as recently as the turn of the century.
Not so these days – fledgling firms in the region now can rent lab space at a growing number of life science incubators, which can cut costs and help draw millions of dollars in support for promising drugs and medical devices.
The region’s incubators were showcased April 5 at a UCLA conference in support of startup companies, and deemed vital by bioscience proponents to the industry’s growing presence in Los Angeles County.
“Believe it or not, fifteen years ago, we didn’t have any life science incubators,” said Ahmed Enany, chief executive of the Southern California Biomedical Council, a Los Angeles-based trade group that hosted the conference at UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute. “Now we have nine.”
The conference drew more than 100 early stage biomedical entrepreneurs seeking incubator space, investor funding and guidance on how to build a successful company.
The function of such incubators is simple: to provide affordable research and development space within a laboratory equipped with benches, equipment and needed hookups for gas, waste and other features.
Such shared research and development facilities, available for lease at between $20 and $30 a square foot, can also connect entrepreneurs to a wealth of scientific support from nearby research institutions, from UCLA to Caltech to Cal Poly Pomona.
Nurturing system
The bulk of the 100 or so biotech firms headquartered in Los Angeles County are in the early stage, Enany said, with about half residing at incubators.
Recent breakthroughs – and deals – include: a stem-cell gene therapy developed inside Alexandria Innovation Center in Pasadena that led to last year’s $91 million acquisition of Calimmune Inc. by CSL Behring; molecular imaging for cancer immunotherapies developed at Momentum Biosciences in Culver City, which precipitated a $47 million investment rounds for ImaginAb Inc. of Inglewood; and several biomedical advances from pharmaceuticals to diagnostics to medical devices hatched at the Pasadena Bio Collaborative Incubator, which have drawn millions of dollars in support for dozens of bioscience firms.
The Pasadena incubator, the region’s first to open, now hosts 22 biotech, diagnostic and medical device companies within 12,000 square feet of refurbished space.
It has graduated 17 successful companies since 2004, including Auritec Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Neumedicines Inc., of Pasadena, PLC Diagnostics Inc. of Thousand Oaks, iNDX Lifecare Inc. of Los Gatos and ChromoLogic of Monrovia.
“We don’t vet people for their science,” said Robert “Bud” Bishop, chief executive for Pasadena Bio, told the conference. “They can rent month-to-month. We can set up a company in as little as two days.”
Expanding operations
Other incubators in Los Angeles and eastern Ventura counties include Alexandria; Momentum; Magnify, located at UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI); CTTi at Cal Poly Pomona; Lab Launch in Monrovia; LA BioMed in Torrance; BATTS Labs in Northridge and Ventura BioCenter in Thousand Oaks.
The combined incubator spaces host more than 55 companies in 70,000 square feet of mixed office and wet lab space.
The 21 life and physical science companies at UCLA’s Magnify incubator have raised $115 million in funding since 2014. Companies that have come through the incubator’s doors have developed everything from drugs to lessen scars and promote wound healing to 3-D printed batteries.
“We’re not just a UCLA incubator – we’re an L.A. incubator,” said Brian Benson, director of entrepreneurship and commercialization at the nanotech institute. “CNSI’s almost 200,000 square feet building acts as a lightning rod for innovation.”
New incubator labs worth a combined $110 million are expected to open within the coming year at LA BioMed and Cal State Los Angeles, along with Hatch BioScience Labs in El Sereno.
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Yesterday, Canadian Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act, which proposes a national privacy standard for Canada akin to Europe's GDPR.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/privacy-bill-bains-fines-1.5804779
The law is complex and will undergo many changes, but its two most salient features are:
I. The right to refuse to have your data collected and used; and
II. The right to have your data deleted if you change your mind.
With still penalties for companies that don't comply.
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The latter is self-explanatory, but the former is really interesting. Since the early days of packaged software, the tech industry has operated on the basis of a fictional consent: "By being stupid enough to be my customer (open this box, click this link, etc), you agree. That I'm allowed to come over to your house, punch your grandmother, make long distance calls, wear your underwear, and eat all the food in your fridge.
"You agreed!"
Once a company decides it can declare that its customers have given consent to non-negotiated, unconscionable contracts, the product-design equilibrium shifts dramatically.
Features that benefit shareholders (but harm customers) get greenlit, with a note to get legal to add more text to the sprawling novella of garbage legalese that no one reads before the new version is released.
Think of the original Ipod, a stevejobsian curve-cornered slab of plastic and chrome, stripped of ornamentation in favor of one button, two ports, and a wheel - whose packaging included the world's shittiest zine: its unreadable terms and conditions.
https://memex.craphound.com/2017/03/03/terms-and-conditions-the-bloviating-cruft-of-the-itunes-eula-combined-with-extraordinary-comic-book-mashups/
What the GDPR did, and what the new Canadian rule proposes, is that the fiction of consent must be replaced with true consent. If you want to get permission to do one million things with my data, then you have to ask me one million plain-language, separate questions.
There can't be an "Accept All" button. The default has to be "no" and this can only be changed to "Yes" if I manually toggle it. You can't deny me access if I don't change to a "Yes," so your product needs a million contingencies for how it interacts with me.
If you think about this for half a second, you'll realize that its purpose isn't to allow companies to continue producing the kinds of products you can only field if you can maintain the sham of consent. It is to prohibit those products by raising the bar on consent.
It's the state saying, "You tell us that all the shady stuff is undertaken with consent. OK, let's see if anyone actually consents to this. If not, you gotta cut it out."
The idea is to shift the product-design equilibrium: "If we do this terrible thing, we're going to have to add 15 more consent questions to the onboarding process. We predict that 25% of potential users will bail if we do this.
"What's more, we predict that 85% of the customers who do finish onboarding will say no to five or more of these questions, which means an extra year of development time to ensure compliance with their preferences."
That's the real purpose of these explicit consent rules: the annihilate the fiction of consent and expose the underlying reality - no one has ever agreed to these terms and no rational person ever would.
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Gonzales, Jones Lay Out Divergent Priorities In District 23 Congressional Race
By Ari Snider
Early voting is underway, and Big Bend voters will help decide one of the most competitive races in the state — the bid to replace retiring Republican Congressman Will Hurd in Texas’ 23rd Congressional District.
Republican candidate Tony Gonzales hopes to keep the seat in the GOP column, while Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones — who narrowly lost in 2018 — is taking another shot at flipping the district.
The 23rd district has a history of close races. In 2018, incumbent Will Hurd bested Jones by about half a percentage point, or less than 1,000 votes.
This year, with the moderate Hurd retiring, Jones is up against Gonzales, a more staunchly-conservative candidate who emerged from the GOP primary with the endorsement of President Trump. For her part, Jones has pulled back on one of her more progressive policy proposals from 2018 — creating a single-payer healthcare system — and this year says she supports a public option, which would allow people to opt-in to a government-run healthcare program.
The race has national consequences for the balance of power in Washington. Democrats currently control the House, and flipping the district would help them maintain or even expand their majority. For Republicans — currently the underdogs to regain control of the House — keeping the district in their column is crucial to holding the line in what is expected to be a favorable election cycle for Congressional Democrats.
Despite offering very different policy visions, the two candidates have some biographical similarities. Both have served in the Armed Forces, and neither have held elected office before. Jones served as an Air Force intelligence officer and was deployed to Iraq, while Gonzales served as a cryptologist in the Navy and was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
In their interviews with Marfa Public Radio, the candidates were asked about the following issues:
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Border and immigration issues
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Kurdish play ‘Bêrû’ banned for the second time
The Şanlıurfa Bar Association has announced that the governorship has banned the Kurdish play Bêrû (Faceless).
The Bar Association said that Bêrû, which was expected to be staged in the Tahir Elçi Conference Hall on 14 November, was banned indefinitely by the decision of the Şanlıurfa Governorship in the city centre and other districts on 13 November.
The Bar association made a statement on social media stating that the play has been banned “in the Şanlıurfa province borders, including the city centre and other districts, by the 13.11.2020 dated decision of the Şanlıurfa Governorship. We submit this to the public attention with our respect”.
The play was banned under decree no. 22699. The governorship has not yet made a statement to the public regarding the decision.
‘Hostility towards the Kurdish language’
Bêrû has been banned once before. In Gaziosmanpaşa it was banned on the grounds of “disturbing the peace” just hours before the play was due to be staged as part of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s support programme for private theatres.
Turkis Interior Minister İsmail Çataklı had claimed that the play, whose director was Dario Fo, was Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) propaganda. Many people criticised the ban, calling it “Hostility towards the Kurdish language”.
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Op-Ed: Women Can’t Play Trans Women Roles But Trans Women Are Women But [FATAL SYSTEM ERROR! SHUTTING DOWN!]
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Halle Berry recently apologized for considering playing the part of a transgender man. Under literally any other circumstances, a progressive feminist like myself would applaud the bravery of a woman taking over a man’s job. However, we’re talking about a transgender man, so it’s different.
Under previous gender paradigms, it might be considered a sign of progress for a woman to take over a space that would otherwise belong to a man. However, science has now shown that trans individuals can make up whatever they want whenever they want at all times, and if you question it, you’re a bigot. Obviously, I’m not a bigot, so I don’t question it.
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I’m all for toppling the patriarchy, unless that patriarchy is made up of transgender men. Then it’s good. It’s normal. It’s okay. I’m okay with it. Totally fine.
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But this is no isolated incident. Sadly, it is indicative of a larger problem, of cisgendered actors feeling entitled to play transgender roles. As we know, actors should only ever play roles that 100% accurately reflect who they are in real life. Therefore, if a female actor wants to play a transgender woman, that would be inherently problematic, because the woman actor is not a transgender woman.
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What would a Wine win look like?
Andrew Arinaitwe
Bobi Wine, musician, singer and politician, and strong opponent of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. (Photo: Damien Grenon)
Bobi Wine, the singer, actor and politician previously known as Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, has long struggled to be considered a legitimate opposition figure by the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM). With countless and continuing legal run-ins clouding his political message, what is less spoken about is what a potential win for his presidency might offer.
Days before votes were cast in Uganda’s presidential elections on 14 January, an announcer in a truck mounted with huge speakers made the last announcements for Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP) in Rugaba in Kampala, reminding residents to vote with the exhortation: “Go with your own pen.”
Wine released a new song for his campaign, Tulonde, which loosely translates as “Let’s vote”, in which he says he’s here to end the 35-year rule of President Yoweri Museveni, and that he’ll liberate military-governed Uganda.
On Tuesday he claimed his house was raided by the military. Other opposition figures reported incidents of violence by security forces. Social media platforms and messaging applications were shut down by the country’s communications regulator.
Next to the blaring truck a short, aggressive man is thumping his fist on his chest. He is Mukasa Aloysius, the NUP’s candidate representative for Rubaga district.
“We want a government that does not spill blood. We want an independent judiciary, a police that serves the people, as you can see many of our members are incarcerated,” he says. “I have an ambulance that takes the sick without asking for fuel, […] it doesn’t ask what political affiliation you belong to or ask your tribe.”
The party leader’s new song suggests voting will help to usher in “Uganda empya”, translated from Luganda as a “new Uganda”.
In early November, Wine rubbed his eyes, stinging because of tear gas, as he presented his manifesto to a relatively thin and controlled crowd at the Kakyeka stadium in Mbarara district. With a firm voice he said: “The greatness of any nation does not lie in a beauty of a manifesto or how many beautiful policies that have been written — the greatness of any nation is in the commitment of the leaders to say what they mean and to mean what they say.
“The greatness of a nation lies in leaders who focus on the next generation and not the next general election,” he added, as police across the field continued to fire tear gas canisters.
He handed the microphone to a translator, who converted his English message to Runyankole, a language common in the south-western region from which President Museveni originates.
We want a government that does not spill blood. We want an independent judiciary, a police that serves the people, as you can see many of our members are incarcerated
Wine had a long list of promises: to restore the constitutional term and age limits, and make it treasonous for anyone to tamper with them; have a leaner, servant-based administrative government; close the income gap between the rich and poor; ensure the opposition of the future is not an enemy of the new government; promote gender equality; restore confidence in the diaspora; recreate farmers’ co-operative unions; start a trust fund for school dropouts; ensure foreign and local investors are treated equally; allocate 15% of the annual budget to the health sector; establish a maternal health facility in every subcounty; institute a reasonable tax era; create a policy for the informal sector; end rampant land-grabbing; create five-million jobs for the youth and improve civil service provisions for healthcare workers, teachers and security personnel.
He closed his speech by singing, “I am the president of the future and the future is today.”
Human rights activist Sarah Bireete, executive director of the Centre for Constitutional Governance in Kampala, believes the election winner should be able to strengthen a democracy that promotes dignity and works for everyone.
“What any president needs is [a] winning team. The question should be, if Bobi Wine wins, is he capable of forming a winning team, and my answer is yes,” she said.
Arguably, Museveni came to power in 1986 with a “winning team”. But Bireete argued Museveni forced experienced professionals to withdraw. “That winning team for Museveni has since abandoned him because he had over the years compromised their principles and bent the rules to entrench himself in power.”
According to Bireete, a winning team should comprise experienced professionals in key government positions. “A winning team should work in an environment that respects the rules of engagement and rule of law together with strong institutions that can check the excesses of leaders.”
Wine is a man of many surprises, but he shocked both his supporters and the ruling regime when he endorsed a ruling NRM party candidate, Dr Charles Ayume, to represent the people of Koboko in parliament. Although Wine will likely pick his own team to govern the country should he become president, he has shown a willingness to work with those on the opposite side to create a smooth transition.
“We are not fighting against the NRM. We don’t have any personal differences with the NRM, our differences [are] with the dictator who has misruled this country,” Wine said on national television, arguing that he wanted intelligent legislators in parliament, who represent unity as a virtue that will encourage a more unified body.
Ayume’s Koboko constituency is located in northeastern Uganda at the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan. It has been an NRM stronghold for years, but Ayume dramatically toppled incumbent party competitor Evelyn Anite, who has gone to lengths to help keep Museveni in power.
Anite supported the idea of Museveni as a sole candidate. She also spearheaded the removal of presidential term and age limits, saying: “We have the majje [the military].” That bold declaration may have led to her downfall as she became so close to Museveni that she got tangled in the messy, internecine politics of Kampala and lost her constituency at home.
Speaking of his win, Ayume told the Mail & Guardian that flamboyance was not the ticket to win the hearts of the Koboko people. “Making noise does not make one the best cook,” he said.
After beating the “strong woman of the region” in the polls, Ayume applauded the community, noting that they vote out those who fail to deliver. “The community are the best auditors,” he said.
Asked if he welcomed the NUP’s endorsement, Ayume said he thought Wine was trying to become a smart politician by tapping into the Koboko “frequency”. “When people admire your wife, it does not put her in any position to divorce you, it should actually make you proud as a man,” Ayume said.
However, he thought Museveni’s sixth-term win was imminent.
Ayume is not the only NRM candidate Wine has attempted to lure. He also tried with the speaker of parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, telling voters in Kamuli district: “Tell my auntie that Bobi Wine said that you are a good resource, but when he becomes president he will give you a much better position in his government.”
Amid much smooth talking on both sides of the political divide, there is significant optimism that new policies are possible and that “Uganda empya” is on the horizon, according to Ndebesa Mwambutsya, a history lecturer at Makerere University.
But he sounded a note of caution: If a new Uganda was to materialise it needed to put an end to divisive “political disagreements”.
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It’s Official! Alex Brightman Will Lead School of Rock on B’way
June 11th, 2015 | By Broadway.com Staff
After successfully schooling the workshop of School of Rock—The Musical in rock appreciation, Alex Brightman (no relation!) will lead the production on Broadway. He is appearing in the role of Dewey in the tryout of the show, which is currently playing to invited audiences at New York's Gramercy Theatre. School of Rock will begin previews on November 9 and officially open on December 6 at the Great White Way's Winter Garden Theatre.
“I’ve come to consider the casting of an actor named ‘Brightman’ in a starring role something of a good luck charm for a long, healthy run on Broadway,” said Lloyd Webber in a statement. “Alex, lucky for us, also happens to be a remarkable Dewey Finn. The wonderful thing about seeing him play this role is that you get the sense that he’s having every bit as much fun performing as we are watching, and the result is positively infectious.”
Brightman's Broadway credits include Big Fish, Matilda, Wicked and Glory Days. This will be the first time that he has originated the lead role in a big Great White Way musical. Lloyd Webber has a long history of star-making—his more recent discoveries include Sierra Boggess and Ramin Karimloo (who both appeared in Phantom before leading his first production of Love Never Dies), along with Jessie J and Samantha Barks.
No word yet on additional casting. Joining Brightman in the workshop are Leslie Kritzer as Patty (Ned's mean girlfriend), Sara Chase as Rosalie (the headmistress) and Andrew Durand as Ned (Dewey's bestie). The students include Taylor Caldwell as Shonelle, Evie Dolan as Katie, Aaron Fig as James, Carly Gendell as Marcy, Shayan Hooshmand as Mason, Bobbi Mackenzie as Tomika, Dante Melucci as Freddy, Brandon Niederauer as Zack, Luca Padovan as Billy, Jared Parker as Lawrence, Isabella Russo as Summer, Malachi Samedy as Leonard, Mikayla White as Madison and Corinne Wilson as Sophia. Rounding out the company are the adult ensemble: Natalie Charlie Ellis, Alan H. Green, Michael Hartney, John Hemphill, Merritt David Janes, Jaygee Macapugay, Abby Mueller, Tally Sessions, Mariand Torres and Jeremy Woodard.
Directed by Les Miz's Laurence Connor, the tuner features music from the movie, as well as new music written by Lloyd Webber and lyricist Glenn Slater, with a book by Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellowes. The film was penned by Mike White, directed by Richard Linklater and starred Jack Black as wannabe rock star Dewey Finn, who poses as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. When he discovers his students’ musical talents, he enlists his fifth-graders to form a rock group and conquer the Battle of the Bands.
The production will feature choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter, scenic and costume design by Anna Louizos, lighting design by Natasha Katz, sound design by Mick Potter and music supervision by Ethan Popp.
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Scientist-driven Solutions for miRNA Biomarker Discovery microrna assay
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These results suggest that an increase in catecholamine production occurs in inflamed joints of CIA. The catecholamines are, at least in part, from Th1 and Th2 cells, and they may be related to joint inflammatory alleviation in CIA progression.”
“To evaluate clinical outcomes and effects of non-surgical periodontal therapy on serum, gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) interleukin-1beta
(IL-1 beta) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) levels in chronic periodontitis patients with/without rheumatoid arthritis (RA), fifteen RA patients with chronic periodontitis (RA-P) and 15 systemically healthy non-RA chronic periodontitis patients (H-P) were recruited. LXH254 cell line Clinical periodontal recordings, GCF, and blood samples were obtained at baseline, 1, 3, and 6 months after periodontal treatment. GCF, serum IL-1 beta, TNF-alpha levels were analyzed by ELISA. Disease activity score 28 (DAS28) was used to assess RA selleck products clinical morbidity. Study groups were compared by Mann-Whitney U test. Wilcoxon test was used to compare the data at baseline, 1, 3, and 6 months after periodontal therapy
within the same group. DAS28 decreased significantly after periodontal therapy in RA-P group (p < 0.01). Serum TNF-alpha concentrations of H-P group were significantly higher than those of RA-P group (p < 0.01), whereas IL-1 beta levels were similar. No significant change was observed in serum levels of these cytokines after periodontal therapy. GCF IL-1 beta amounts decreased significantly in both groups following treatment (p < 0.01). At 6-months, H-P GCF IL-1 beta concentrations
were significantly lower than baseline. DAS28 and GCF IL-1 beta correlated with clinical periodontal indices (p < 0.01). Significant decreases in DAS28 and GCF IL-1 beta amounts after periodontal treatment suggest that periodontal therapy synergizes with systemic RA therapy to improve Aldehyde_oxidase RA status.”
“The aim of this study was to compare the performance characteristics of two answer modalities for BASDAI and BASFI in patients with AS and to show validity and reliability of NRS in Turkish version. BASDAI and BASFI were simultaneously employed with a 10-cm VAS and an 11-point NRS. Internal consistency was assessed by using Cronbach’s alpha coefficients. Testing was performed on baseline and next day under standardized conditions. Construct validity was determined by association of these measures with ASDAS, DFI, global disease activity, pain scores, ASQOL, HAQ, and SF-36. We also tested the ability of NRS version of BASDAI and BASFI to detect changes. A total 114 patients with AS according to the modified New York criteria were included. There was a good agreement between the total scores of each instrument on day 0 (ICC values were 0.894-0.934).
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MCPS trustees urged to side with safety on decision to open schools
By Dennis Bragg (KPAX)April 29, 2020
April 29, 2020 By Missoula Current
(KPAX) Parents and teachers are urging Missoula County Public Schools trustees to put safety first they consider whether to re-open physical classes, or continue with distance learning.
Trustees took online public comments during a remote school board meeting Tuesday evening as administrators try to adjust to the continued challenges of the coronavirus.
Superintendent Rob Watson is already recommending the district continue with distance learning. He said the state’s guidelines present too many obstacles to re-open.
And the teachers and parents told the board the same thing.
“I feel like we should also revisit policies regarding people’s temperatures and escalated temperatures and sending people home because of temperature variation being a part of COVID-19 and people being otherwise potentially silent carriers,” said Missoula mother Sara Bendt.
The board will reconvene at 12 p.m. on Friday, May 1, and announce its final decision. Public comment will be shared with the Board of Trustees before any decisions are made.
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Snowpack levels holding across Montana as warmer weather draws near
By Laura LundquistApril 8, 2020
April 8, 2020 By Missoula Current
The winter months have been a rollercoaster of high and low snow amounts, but luckily, the snows of January and February are still hanging on in Montana’s mountains.
Statewide, Montana’s snowpack amount is about normal for this time of year, and that bodes well for spring and summer runoff, according to the Natural Resources and Conservation Service April 1 report.
But March’s low precipitation could throw a wrench in the works.
“The news is as good as we get closer to runoff season this year, aside from one small lower elevation range west of Flathead Lake, most mountain ranges in Montana have a snowpack that is near to above normal for this date, even though March snow totals were below normal in some regions,” said Lucas Zukiewicz, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service water supply specialist for Montana.
Forecasters consider the April 1 snowpack as a good indicator of streamflow conditions in the summer ahead, although April still needs to provide its share of moisture. For that reason, the May 1 report is best. But, barring uncharacteristic heat or drought, Montana is looking good for summer, although the mountains surrounding most river basins aren’t quite as flush with snow as they were one month ago due to a dry March.
March temperatures were themselves a rollercoaster ride. The month came in like a lamb, with warm temperatures that set new records on March 6 for highest average daily temperature in many mountain ranges. But in the second week, Arctic air punched south out of Canada, setting new records for lowest daily average temperatures in mountains around the north-central part of the state.
The rest of the month saw average temperatures for March, but overall, mountain temperatures remained below average, helping to retain the snowpack. But little snow was added over the month.
Almost all the basins west of the Continental Divide, plus the upper Missouri River basin between Helena and Great Falls, have slipped from having snowpack more than 110% of normal at the end of February to having about average snowpack. Only the Bitterroot basin has held on with 112% of normal.
Employees and supporters of the Five Valleys Land Trust hike the Missoula mountains in this file photo. The April snowpack report suggested that snowpack levels were holding on across the state. (Missoula Current file photo)
Runoff from that snowpack may be critical, because some western valley locations are drying up. Monthly precipitation totals weren’t great in the mountains west of the Divide, but they were dismal in some of the valleys. Some sites, such as the Missoula and Kalispell airports, reported receiving less than 30% of the normal precipitation for the month.
Snow is hanging on a little better in some areas east of the Divide, thanks to that mid-month shot of cold temperatures and a few storms. The basin that saw the largest increase in snowpack statewide is the St. Mary-Milk along the Canadian border, which jumped from 125% at the beginning of March to 138% by the end.
The Madison and Gallatin basins also saw small increases, thanks to a few storms in mid-March that brought above average snow to the west side of the Greater Yellowstone region.
Yet, even in the east, precipitation in some areas was well below normal for March. The Tongue, Powder and Smith-Judith-Musselshell basins received only 45% to 55% of their normal precipitation. Add that to the abnormally dry November and December and the result is some rivers may still run low, despite the decent snowpack.
Overall, DNRC forecasters are predicting most streams should see at least average flows through July 31. And the state is better off than last winter, when the spring runoff started in mid-March, causing water reserves to drop too early.
Fortunately, the long-range forecast for April shows a good likelihood for below normal temperatures and about average precipitation.
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Dave Doyle: Sometimes, wins and losses don’t matter in the big picture
I guess since I’m up last, I’m supposed to come up with some sort of viewpoint that differs with the rest, but I’m not going to force a “Ben Askren’s UFC stint was a disaster” hot take for it’s own sake.
I mean, if you want to make that case, sure. Losing via five-second knockout and then getting beaten on the ground by a 41-year-old when you pride yourself on your wrestling probably wasn’t what the former Bellator and ONE welterweight champion had in mind when he finally got his UFC opportunity.
But here’s the thing: Askren has always made better decisions for his long-term future than most fighters, and that counts for something. When his Bellator contract came up, ONE Championship offered him far more money, to take far less damage, and any other promotion was offering at the time. Too many fighters end their career with too much damage and not enough in their bank accounts. Askren won’t have to worry about that.
He was already retired when the UFC opportunity knocked. He got to go on something closer to his own terms than most fighters experienced. From the get-go, he did his part to create excitement for his fights like few competitors on the roster have done in their entire careers. And when things didn’t go his way, he didn’t make excuses for what happened and just straight-up owned it. All of that matters when considering one’s legacy.
And let’s not forget the highlight on his UFC resume: The win over Robbie Lawler. Yes, the stoppage will long be debated. Askren has no control over what the referee does. What Askren did do, was keep his wits after being slammed on his head by Lawler and with Lawler unleashing his strikes with the efficiency that gave him the nickname “Ruthless.” Askren survived and turned things back in his favor. That’s the MMA equivalent of being attacked by a hungry shark and living to tell about it.
Ben Askren is an MMA original. He left a bigger mark on the UFC in a year than most fighters ever do. If you’re judging his stint in the UFC by won-loss record, you’re missing the point.
Photos: Ben Askren through the years
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UFC 257 'Embedded,' No. 2: Sara McMann's in-flight workout
UFC· January 19, 2021 10:22 pm · By: MMA Junkie Staff
The fighters continue to make their way from Las Vegas to Abu Dhabi and do what they can to pass the time.
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Escape to the Movies: Transformers 2
I’m really rather proud of this one, though I wish there were more synonyms for the word “douchebag”…
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/embed/797
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/797-Transformers-Revenge
One thing I’d like to get into here that I DIDN’T get to “bring up” in the review for purposes of time. (SPOILER WARNING, I guess) The “2nd act obstacle” for Shia Labeouf is being stalked around college by a “hawt” sexually-aggressive classmate who turns out to be a Decepticon who can transform into a human chick. Yeah.
Two questions about that:
1.) Isn’t the whole point of the “robots in disguise” thing that these things are mechanical beings and have to “dress up” as whatever car, appliances or vehicle best matches their relative dimensions? In other words, if they can hide as people… why don’t they ALL just do that!? Wouldn’t that make slipping unknown amongst the natives a million times easier?
2.) Megatron, as evidenced by this film, really SUCKS at resource-management. He has a soldier who can look exactly like a human, who could be sneaking into military installations or ANYWHERE else, but instead it’s job is to collect The Kid? Something that it’s already been demonstrated that ANY of the grunts can easily do? Later on, in the middle of a big firefight, he summons up Devastator, a behemoth made of seven(?) combined construction-vehicles who stands about 300 to 350 feet tall. HIS job? Dig a hole.
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19 thoughts on “Escape to the Movies: Transformers 2”
I agree that the Decepticon chick raised too many annoying questions. Apparently, in the novelization of the film, it's explained that the Decepticon chick got her appearance from an animatronic, life-like version of Alice in Wonderland from a theme park. Crappy explanation I know.
In the toy line and comic books, there were some Transformers who were able to take on fleshy forms. They were called the Pretenders. Clearly, Alice was a Decepticon Pretender, but the existence of Pretenders was never explained in the film. In fact, my biggest criticism of the film would definitely be the inclusion of Alice. I wish they had cut her out of the movie completely, and just had the normal Decepticons kidnap Sam without his having to deal with Alice first.
Seraphmaclay says:
Yay, Double Bob Day! Though thanks for tearing this apart, if any movie deserved it, it would have to be this one.
FistfulOAwesome says:
You have literally gone over everything I've been arguing on other sites. I completely agree with you on every one of your points (since I've been arguing them where ever I post). I'm not even going to bother writing posts on this movie from now on. I'm simply going to link to this video since it covers everything I want to say. Outstanding!
Once more, BRAVO!!
Ghostmayhem says:
Holy flying shit, I actually got the reference at the beginning…
Also, both your reviews (the brief text one and this stroke of genius) were side-splitting.
I can't really explain why, but the amount of hate you have for both Bay and half-assed rehashes of classic kids shows (for good reason, mind you) is just absolutely hilarious.
Keep up the great work, Bob 😉
Oh, and good luck in the Screwattack contest. I'm fairly confident you'll beat Psychotaku (funny though he is).
Great review as always but you need to slow it down (did you have a time limit?) It's amazing how some douchebags are insulting you for this review, yet they don't have any proper rebuttals for your complaints. Have you seen Spoony's review? You should see some of the comments that he's had too!
Game Overthinker FTW!
tyra menendez says:
the concept of “anything can be made into a good (insert media here)” was the entire concept of alan moore's early career. swamp thing was originally a b movie horror monster, in comic form, then morphed into some kind of super hero (just like the two movies). when alan moore got a hold of it, he turned it into gothic supernatural plant-god story, which is pretty much the same rout the tv series took. watchmen? a realistic take on old charleston properties that he couldn't get the rights to, so made into “original” derivatives.
and for anyone who disbelieves, still, go to your local books store, go to the graphic novel section and find will eisner's “best of the spirit”. in those pages you will see stories with the character of “ebony”. that is a “sambo” character. he was small, black, monkey-faced, spoke “jive” (a precursor to ebonics), wore a zoot suit that was too big for him, and was generally the ignorant comic relief character. this was from the 1940's and common. see if you can find some of the old looney tunes episodes that featured similar characters. most of them have been removed from the public, for the reason that they are a racist charicature.
slopeslider says:
I think most people confuse racist with stereotypical. Racist:
BURN THEM NAGGURS THEY DONT DESURV TAH BREEF OUWR AIR!
Stereotype: White men love little boys, Black men are uneducated gangstas, Asians are skinny with narrow eyes, British have f'd Up teeth, etc.
-Kenpai
mstieler says:
I'd equated Alice/hot chick/Pretender/whatever to be similar to what Ravage dumped into the base, though possibly a bit more advanced.
mr menendez says:
holding with those stereotypes, is itself racist.
racism doesn't mean you want to kill everyone that's a different color than you. racism means you don't see them as being equal to you, for whatever reasons. those reasons are usually stereotypes.
I guess LaBeouf's comments about preferring to eat glass over playing the Wii, the “amateur” gamer's console, really rubbed you the wrong way, huh, Bob?
What did it for me was that he'd screw his own mom if it wasn't so wrong. Yeesh.
To Menedez:
You can have stereotypes without being racist, but you cant be racist without stereotypes.
Example: Not everyone who see's a hispanic and thinks they probably live in a house with 10 others thinks That Hispanics are a lower race or White's are better, astereotypical thought is a different Than a racist who see's a hispanic and thinks “Those Illegal Alien Wetbacks over there need to go back to Mexico or wherever and stop stealing our taxes and Robbing Us AHMERIKINS of our Jobs and money!
Both used stereotypes but the latter was racist.
“Anonymous”-
LaBeouf strikes me as a teriffically screwed-up-but-zen-about-it guy offscreen, and his ascent to nebbishy-leading-everyman status seems like a huge misuse of him. Spielberg seems to have drafted him to be the new Richard Dreyfuss, when he'd be better suited as another Dennis Hopper.
Great review, Bob — it's always encouraging to see that someone seems to genuinely enraged by Bay's “respectful” and “innovative” treatment of what SHOULD otherwise, by all rights, be a fantastic idea for a movie. The movie didn't make a single damn lick of sense, and judging by the people I've talked to it doesn't seem to matter if the moviegoer knows everything about Transformers or nothing about Transformers: Everyone seems to be equals, in that everyone was deeply confused by what this movie chose to do.
I should add that Devastator can barely even move around, let alone “devastate” (Unless you're a trailer park or some ancient bricks). He is unable to put a scratch on even the smallest and (Self-proclaimed, no less) stupidest of Autobots.
Is it true that the Twins have more screen time and dialog than all of the other Autobots (Including Optimus) combined (Surely they have more than Optimus, at least)? It sure felt that way.
Bay's treatment of the property is summed up nicely by the shot (Which is REPEATED later on… with some differences) of a dead Optimus Prime being harshly dropped from a flying helicopter dozens of feet up straight onto the ground. Then the helicopter flies into the sunset, and there's probably a joke about balls or something being humped five minutes later.
shinrigaku says:
First time commenting on this blog, but I feel a little straightening is in order.
Racist vs. Stereotypes (definitions not supplied by a dictionary, just my own words)
1)Racist: To act in a different manner because of the race or perceived race of someone
2)Stereotype: A preconcieved notion on a group of people including but not limited to appearance, personality, habits, etc.
In response to slopeslider, it is quite possible to be racist with or without stereotypes. It's just very common to express racist tendencies with stereotypes. I could theoretically say “I don't like Asians because they look shifty” and it would be racist (judging on percieved racial identity) without necessarily using stereotypes. Personally, I think that race is a poor concept in the first place, considering that anthropologists still argue what defines race as a concept.
Outside of that, I was pretty disappointed with the movie. Plot holes, crude and humor often wedged into the movie with a crowbar, and one of the most jerky and unnecessary stories that I've ever seen; my annoyance with the movie is summed up in two parts.
1)Maybe I'm getting old, but I just couldn't follow the fights. I just couldn't tell one Transformer from another in a heated battle. Too many moving parts, flying metal, and jerky camera work. It may have been accurate as to what a giant metal robot battle would be like, but it led to a major disconnect with the scenes for me
2)Linkin Park is ok. The song “New Divide” is not my favorite song, but it's decent enough. It, however, does not at all need to be the main theme in EVERY SCENE!! It honestly takes any feeling derived from the song and tosses it away when it's played at every “bad-ass” or “valorous” moment. Anyways, that's my two cents. Thanks for posting; it's a welcome form of entertainment during my stay in Japan.
Switch “Plot holes, crude and humor” to “Plot holes, crude humor wedged into…” Man, I need to proofread before posting -_-
Crap…. I am now one of those guys that people register JUST so they can reply to…
Your right Shinrigaku, good example.
Nice name btw
GamerFromJump says:
Wouldn't it make more sense for the wrecking balls to be, I dunno, a weapon option? It worked for Animated Bulkhead. Sacrificing sensible design for the sake of a crude joke is just retarded.
EVERYTHING< and I mean EVERYTHING you said is 150% true!!! I'm a huge TF fan and this movie was like an INSULT to me! OH and btw I see you put the picture mostly of the Generation 1 series, so I want to ask if you watched any other series? If you haven't I strongly sugest Beast Wars and Animated. Beast Wars is a continuation of Generation 1 series and Animated is a series on it's own but it has a hell of a lot references to a lot of the old series(mostly G1) that an old school fan like you will like, a lot 🙂
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Samsung Galaxy S8 – Launch Date and Price for South Africa
Jan Vermeulen29 March 2017
The Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ will launch in South Africa on 5 May 2017, said the head of mobile at Samsung Electronics South Africa, Craige Fleischer.
Fleischer said the recommended retail price of the Samsung Galaxy S8 in South Africa will be R15,499, while the Galaxy S8+ will go for R17,499.
The main reason prices are higher than what the Galaxy S7 sold for last year is the improvement in hardware specifications, said Fleischer.
Since there is no “flat” Galaxy S8, the 5.8-inch S8 is closer to the S7 Edge than the “regular” S7. The Galaxy S8 has roughly the same launch price the Galaxy S7 Edge had in 2016.
Another factor is the rand-US dollar exchange rate. Even at the current prices, Samsung is taking a chance on the rand, he said.
All local mobile operators are set to carry the devices and will receive the models based on Samsung’s Exynos chip.
Deciding not to include South Africa in the launch wave is a departure from the norm, and Fleischer said it was a conscious decision on his part.
While they would love to allow South Africans to be among the first in the world to buy the Samsung Galaxy S8, Fleischer said they had to balance consumer demands with business realities.
Data from the March/April launches of previous years suggests that sales are slow over the Easter period through to Worker’s Day on 1 May.
This causes a problem for distributors and retailers who have to hold onto stock for people who have reserved devices, but only collect them after the public holidays.
Stores can’t get more stock because their line of credit and insurance is maxed out, and they can’t sell the stock they have because it is reserved for clients.
Delaying the local launch until 5 May also lets Samsung ensure that stock is distributed throughout South Africa with all its dealer partners.
Pre-registrations and pre-order bonuses
Pre-registrations and pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S8 range will open from 30 March through operator and retail partners, as well as Samsung’s website.
Clients who pre-order will receive a “starter kit”, said Fleischer.
Vodacom subscribers will receive a wireless charger, a screen guard, and a clear back cover.
Customers on MTN will get a battery pack, a screen guard, and clear back cover.
Pre-orders through the smaller operators will get Samsung’s new convertible wireless charger.
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Undergraduates Arrive for Winter Term
January 19, 2021 8 Photos
Move-in for winter term took place on a slushy, snowy Saturday and chilly Sunday, with undergraduate students arriving during pre-assigned timeslots throughout the weekend. Their first stop was Leverone Field House, for COVID-19 testing and to pick up their dorm keys and colored wrist bands indicating which day they had arrived. Then, they stopped at dining stations in their residence halls for grab-and-go meals and made their way to their rooms, toting suitcases, duffel bags, and cardboard boxes. In the process, they connected with friends and classmates. (Photos by Eli Burakian '00)
There's Snow Place Like Dartmouth
December 17, 2020 10 Photos
At long last, snow comes to Dartmouth. Overnight, the campus was transformed into a winter wonderland, thanks to Winter Storm Gail. The first major snowstorm of the season blanketed the campus and the region. While most stayed warm and snug indoors, a few intrepid students and staff ventured out to take full advantage of fresh powder.
Photos by Robert Gill
Dartmouth Photographers Present 25 of Their Best Shots From 2020
This year began like any other year on the Dartmouth campus, where students gathered to study, compete, perform, play. And then, of course, many things changed as the pandemic took hold.
Dartmouth News takes a look back on an academic year that included a snowy winter carnival and a presidential campaign, and by June an introduction to COVID-related changes: physical distancing, mandatory maskwearing, and online and remote teaching and learning, among many other things.
While we may not know exactly what lies ahead, we can appreciate the beauty of the Upper Valley and the success and resilience of the Dartmouth community during a unique year through the lenses of College Photographer Eli Burakian '00, Multimedia Manager Robert Gill, and photo intern Keoni Ocalvey '20, Thayer '21, who talk about some of the details and inspiration behind their favorite photos, in calendar order, from this past year.
Dartmouth's Mosel Runs 100 miles, Raises Flag to Honor Veterans
November 11, 2020 12 Photos
To promote a new Employee Resource Network for the veteran community at Dartmouth, Jason Mosel, a Marine veteran and a network engineer for Information, Technology and Consulting, ran 100 miles around campus to honor the Marine Corps birthday and Veterans Day.
Mosel started running at 8 a.m. Tuesday, following a 5-mile loop around campus. Throughout the day Tuesday, Mosel ran with the Marine Corps flag, and on Wednesday he carried the American flag. Mosel ran through the night, paused to raise the American flag on the Green at dawn today, and completed his 100-mile run at noon.
Sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, Employee Resource Networks was established to advance recruitment efforts and increase retention of diverse employees at Dartmouth.
Their Names Will Not Be Forgotten: Dartmouth's War Memorials
November 6, 2020 12 Photos
The markers to Dartmouth's veterans stand in silent tribute to their sacrifice. From the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and other conflicts, they are remembered with plaques, statues, and spaces for reflection. This history is recorded in the book The Hill Winds Know Their Name: A Guide to Dartmouth's War Memorials, by Charles Wood. Visit a map of each memorial (PDF).
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More Montana Kids Eating Summer Meals
Montana Summer Food Service Program sees most successful year yet in 2018
Thursday, December 6, 2018/Categories: Former Governors/Tags:
Governor Steve Bullock and the Office of Public Instruction today announced the Montana Summer Food Service Program saw its most successful year yet in 2018, with the total number of meals served to kids increasing by over 150,000 since Montana No Kid Hungry began tracking the impact of summer meal efforts in 2014. The Summer Food Service Program is a federal child nutrition program operated by the Office of Public Instruction.
“My wife, Lisa, and I have made it a priority to ensure that Montana kids are getting the nutrition they need while in school and during the summer months,” said Governor Bullock. “More meals being served during summer break means that more kids are ready for school where they can thrive academically and physically, and ultimately, be better set up for success all throughout their lives.”
“Continuous learning throughout the summer ensures that Montana students enter the fall school semester prepared to succeed,” said Superintendent Arntzen. “Learning cannot occur if a child is hungry. I am proud that the OPI and partner organizations across Montana are preparing more students for success during the summer months.”
Recently released data from the Montana Office of Public Instruction shows that a total of 700,730 nutritious meals were served to kids across Montana this past summer season. That is a record number of meals served from June through August, beating the 2017 total by nearly 70,000 meals and increasing by 11%.
The program is also supported through private grant funding from Montana No Kid Hungry, in a public-private partnership with Governor and First Lady Bullock, the Department of Public Health and Human Services, and Share Our Strength (a national non-profit). Grant funds offered by Montana No Kid Hungry are awarded to schools and community organizations across the state to support innovative solutions to reach more kids and teens. Funding for summer meal grants is made possible through support from private donors, including the Walmart Foundation, Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation, BNSF Railway, and Round It Up Montana (a partnership between the MT Restaurant and Retail Associations, Prostart, and No Kid Hungry).
In addition to supporting fixed meal sites, Montana No Kid Hungry grant funds have gone towards funding a total of seven mobile summer meal sites across the state, three of which were launched this past summer. This innovative service model makes summer meals more fun and brings the food to kids, which helps to address any challenges with transportation. The seven Montana communities operating a summer food truck or trailer are Browning, Helena, Billings, Great Falls, Kalispell, Missoula and Sidney.
This year’s rankings of top summer meal sponsors based on additional meals served compared to 2017 and increase in participation are listed in the tables below.
Top 5 sponsors by additional meals served compared to 2017
TOTAL ADDITIONAL MEALS
% INCREASE
Missoula Food Bank
Lame Deer Public Schools
Gallatin Valley Food Bank
Fort Peck Tribes
Top 5 sponsors by increase in participation
MT Tech – University of MT
Boulder Elementary
Bridger K-12 Schools
Anyone interested in starting a new Summer Food Service Program, launching a Summer Food Truck, improving an existing program, or for questions about upcoming grant opportunities, can contact the OPI’s School Nutrition Director Christine Emerson at cemerson@mt.gov or 406-444-2502, or the Montana No Kid Hungry Summer Meal and Nutrition Coordinator Danielle Anderson at DAnderson3@mt.gov or 406-765-3430.
Stories from Montana Food Service Program Sites
Child Nutrition Programs Coordinator for Gallatin Valley Food Bank in Bozeman, Lyra Leigh-Nedbor, contributes the success of their Summer Meals program to a fantastic team of staff, volunteers, and partner organizations. “Bozeman is a dynamic and interesting community for summer meals,” Leigh-Nedbor shared. “The longevity of our program is in part due to the growing interest of organizations and businesses to support kid-friendly opportunities.” Gallatin Valley Food Bank served a total of 27,416 meals in summer 2018 after receiving a grant from Montana No Kid Hungry, which put the organization at 4th place in the statewide ranking for most additional meals served compared to 2017.
“We know how valuable summer meals are to families and kiddos,” Leigh-Nedbor said. “We have heard that it relieves some of the stress parents feel leaving their children at home while they are at work, knowing that their kids can walk to a lunch site.” The value of summer meal programs exists in large and small communities, both urban and rural. Out of the top five organizations that saw the greatest increase in participation this summer, four are located in communities with a population of less than 3,000 people.
This year was Food Service Director Ethelene Stump’s first time managing the summer meal program in Lame Deer, a community that saw program participation increase by a whopping 135% this past summer. Stump attracted kids to the program by serving more homemade dishes that are well liked, such as bread baked from scratch. Simple changes like adding a second serving line help kids get their food faster. Larger scale innovations also helped increase participation. “Because it is so rural here, [the school board] made it possible for the buses to transport kids from their homes to the school for each meal we served,” Stump said. Lame Deer Public Schools served both Breakfast and Lunch to local kids throughout the summer months. Stump shared that, “A lot of grandparents are raising their grandchildren in Lame Deer, and the program helps relieve the financial burden put on grandparents.”
Both Billings and Fort Peck hosted a Prevention Resource Center AmeriCorps VISTA serving on a Montana No Kid Hungry project during summer 2018. These VISTAs helped to build capacity at a local level to expand participation at summer meal sites. The Missoula Food Bank was one of the sponsors awarded a large grant through Montana No Kid Hungry to launch a summer food truck. Boulder Elementary School District received a small grant from Montana No Kid Hungry.
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COVID-19: Boris Johnson could take coronavirus vaccine live on TV
The prime minister wants to "encourage take-up of vaccines across the country", following approval of the Pfizer jab.
Aubrey Allegretti
Political reporter @breeallegretti
Thursday 3 December 2020 12:16, UK
Image: Boris Johnson's press secretary was asked about taking the jab on TV
Boris Johnson could take the coronavirus vaccine live on TV, his press secretary has suggested.
Allegra Stratton, the former journalist who will lead the new Downing Street briefings, left open the possibility as a way to convince people to get the jab.
A plan is being drawn up on how to distribute the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine now it has been given the green light by the UK's medicines regulator, with the first doses administered next week.
It comes as a YouGov poll of more than 5,300 people found one in five have reservations over its safety.
Twenty-seven percent said they were very confident in its safety, and 43% fairly confident; while 11% said they were not very confident and 9% were not very confident at all.
Ten percent said they didn't know.
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Mr Johnson was urged at Prime Minister's Questions by Sir Keir Starmer to "do everything possible to counter dangerous, frankly life-threatening disinformation about vaccines".
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The Labour leader said public confidence in them was "a real cause for concern, because it is going to be crucial to the success of getting this rolled out across the country and getting our economy back up and running".
In a display of unity, Mr Johnson said he was "right to encourage take-up of vaccines across the country" and promised to soon reveal a plan on "online harms" designed to tackle "disinformation".
Later, Ms Stratton did not rule out the possibility of him getting the vaccine on TV.
She told reporters: "We all know the character of the prime minister, I don't think it would be something that he would rule out.
Image: Ms Stratton said the PM wouldn't want to take a jab before someone else more in need
"But what we also know is that he wouldn't want to take a jab that should be for somebody who is extremely vulnerable, clinically vulnerable, and who should be getting it before him."
A list has been drawn up by the government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation of who will get priority for the vaccine when mass roll-out begins.
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Motorola demos Moto 360 Android Wear smartwatch
By Eric Mack
Motorola demos Moto 360 Androi...
A small notification card cover the lower part of the clock screen
The steel and leather Moto 360 band
A calendar reminder
An incoming call
Swiping through notifications and Google Now cards
A physical side button wakes up the screen
Although it was barely mentioned in the opening keynote of Google I/O on Wednesday, Motorola's Moto 360 is very much real, as the lines to try it on after the keynote demonstrated. The only catch is that we're all going to have to wait a little longer to actually have the opportunity to purchase the unique round face smartwatch that runs Android Wear.
While Google announced during the keynote that the Samsung Gear Live and LG G Watch Android Wear smartwatches would begin taking preorders right away, the word was that the more intriguing Moto 360 would not be available until later on in the northern summer.
Perhaps sensing the disappointment among early adopters and Android and Moto fans, Motorola released a video demo of the Moto 360 from Google I/O this morning. You can watch the whole thing below, which features marketing staffer Cathay Bi showing off a Moto 360 with a leather band and a stainless steel case for the main body itself. It looks very elegant, but like the other smartwatches worn by Googlers during the keynote, it also looks pretty big and bulky on her wrist.
The custom watch screen backgrounds designed for the Moto 360 actually seem quite a bit more stylish than those shown off at Google I/O on stage. A small notification card covers the lower section of the clock screen; you can then swipe it up to interact with that notification and leave the clock screen.
Voice command also gets a quick demo, and works in much the same way as touchless control on the Moto X by simply saying "Ok, Google." There's also a physical button on the side of the watch's body that's used to wake it up, or you can tap the face.
Watch the whole thing below and stay posted for more news on the Moto 360 here at Gizmag. I anticipate a big unveil that will include the Moto X+1, successor to the Moto X, as well sometime in the next 6 weeks.
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Eric Mack has been covering technology and the world since the late 1990s. As well as being a New Atlas regular, he currently contributes to CNET, NPR and other outlets.
Daishi June 26, 2014 03:25 PM
It does look big on her wrist but she is little. I was sad that I couldn't pre-order one yesterday but hopefully it won't look as huge on a regular sized human.
Ryan Gibbons June 26, 2014 03:34 PM
I want it now... If it has at the least 3 days battery life I can deal with the bulk. If not it needs a little exercise and a diet.
ivan4 June 26, 2014 10:02 PM
The big question, is it shock proof, i.e. can you wear it while working with tools like hammers, percussion drills and such like, or is iy mainly for show?
Gadgety June 27, 2014 09:22 AM
The Moto360 form factor and screen obviously sets it apart. I love it for its from factor and its edge to edge, practically bezel-less screen, but the Moto360 still has a couple of challenges:
The screen is not anti reflective - so it won't be readable outdoors.
It's not 100% established whether it will turn on the screen with an arm movement, or whether it needs two handed operation. The official video shows two handed. Not a good idea at the wheel of a car, or at the controls of an aircraft, or even in a meeting. There's another demo video from Google I/O which shows an arm movement to turn on the screen. But why wouldn't that be in the official video.
steveraxx June 27, 2014 02:06 PM
Most recent piece an Altiplano. Though on occasion there is a need to swing a hammer, and other such activity. There is no need to have the G & B or the Patek, or the Altiplano on whilst doing so.
Dr. Michael W. Ecker June 28, 2014 01:09 PM
Minor point: I have the Moto X - a great phone with Republic Wireless service - and I believe the words for touchlessss control are "OK Google Now" (i.e., with the "now" part).
Sudesh Katugampola June 28, 2014 06:35 PM
I really like it. But I want to know what the battery life is
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Small, William (1796–1891)
The prevailing influenza has removed a very old resident of the Ryde district, Mr. William Small, at the age of 96 years. At the time of his death he was, we believe, the oldest Australian in the colonies. He was born in a farmhouse at Ryde on December 14, 1796, a few years after the arrival of the first fleet, his father having reached the colony with the first batch of convicts as a gaol warder. In his youth he was taught bootmaking and worked for Mr. Pope, of Ryde. He afterwards entered the police force, and after 10 years' service, during which time he rose to the rank of inspector, he again changed his occupation and sought to earn his livelihood as a tiller of the soil. He settled at Ryde on a 30 acre estate granted to his father by the Government and passed the remainder of his days fruitgrowing. He had a wonderfully retentive memory and could remember distinctly events which occurred almost a century ago. Speaking of the old convict days he more than once was known to say that the excessive brutality of the officers towards the convicts was the cause of the greater number of the crimes committed in the early days of the colony. The law allowed of 999 lashes being administered in the presence of a medical man, and frequently each lash was administered with a minute interval Mr. Small leaves many sons and grandsons, almost all of whom are gathered around Williamsdale, his pretty little him at Ryde, and in 1888 he had living no less than 28 lineal descendants. Mr. Small's sister Rebecca (Mrs. Oakes) was, it is claimed, the first white person born in Australia, having been born on September 22, 1789.
Freeman's Journal (Sydney), 21 November 1891, p 19 (view original)
profile, Evening News (Sydney), 25 June 1889, p 6
interview, Sydney Mail, 25 April 1891, p 934
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Through enforcement actions and the Ryan Haight Act, many of the domestic illegal Internet pharmacies identified through DEA-led investigations have been shut down.
What has emerged, however, is the proliferation of establishments involved with pain management outside the scope of acceptable medical practices. Currently, these “rogue pain clinics” are now a major source of controlled substance pharmaceuticals for drug seekers. Although pain clinics are operating throughout the United States, DEA has identified three major hubs where these illegal schemes are flourishing: the Houston, TX, area; the Los Angeles, CA, area; and, most significantly, the tri-county area of South Florida (Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties). The vast majority of patients that visit these clinics come from out of state. The opiate-based pharmaceutical controlled substances most frequently illegally dispensed at the clinics in the Texas and California regions is a combination of hydrocodone and alprazolam (Xanax®). In the South Florida region, oxycodone products are most frequently dispensed. DEA, in coordination with other Federal, State, and local agencies, will investigate these rogue clinics through expanded Tactical Diversion Squads and will shut down, via administrative actions, those DEA registrants in violation of safe prescribing practices.
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Michael Innes was not an idle man. He was the pseudonym of J.I.M. Stewart, an Oxford professor and author who wrote in three distinct genres: critical biographies, literary novels and popular crime novels. Under both the Innes and Stewart names he published a total of 86 books, 50 of which were the crime novels by Michael Innes. He was a man who liked to keep busy.
Penguin Books published the Innes novels over many decades and in various covers. In the 1970s, the new design studio Pentagram produced a series of photographic covers. The personnel of Pentagram included Colin Forbes and Alan Fletcher legendary names in British design who had a long connection with Penguin. In 2003 the studio was commissioned to create a new grid format for Penguin Classics which, slightly adjusted, is the one you see in every bookshop today.
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Photographic still life book covers became a thing in the 1960s and 70s, especially on crime and spy novels such as those by Len Deighton.
But despite first appearances these Michael Innes covers are not still life photographs but individual objects photographed separately and composited afterwards. Crammed together in different scales, they are presented as a series of clues or items of court evidence. Along with the headings, they have a peculiar frontal effect.
The photographs are matched by the Futura type, a geometric typeface known for its machine-like perfection and clarity; it’s a sort of analogy for the photographs, presenting the same message of factuality. And the large, extra bold letters have enough weight to balance the mass of the objects in the photos.
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The best scene of Columbus is serene, yet dripping with emotion. It’s deeply passionate, a small slice of life that speaks volumes even though it’s as quiet as can be. I won’t give too much away here, but what sparks it is a question from one character to another about a building they’re standing in front of. It has to do with meaning, with personal connection, with finding something amidst the complicated assembling of inanimate objects. It has to do with your engagement with the world around you, and the value within that process is something that Kogonada certainly understands and connects to. That’s one of the more profound ideas that the film expresses, and it’s done so in a visually lyrical manner. Kogonada makes his human characters living, breathing elements of the architecture in the background, utilizing symmetry from both visual and character-based standpoints as Jin and Casey (Cho and Richardson, the latter of which is particularly incredible) wander through their environment.
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What’s this about cosmic rays and global warming?
Posted on September 12, 2011 | 112 Comments
This old argument is getting another airing among the internet climate change contrarian/denier ghetto. Briefly it claims that humans have nothing to do with current climate change – it’s all caused by the sun! Specifically the influence of cosmic rays originating from the sun on formation of clouds in the atmosphere.
Of course things are never that simple – but that doesn’t stop those wishing to justify a preconceived position. And the sudden new evidence which is being touted arises from a recent paper from CERN Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation published in Nature. The denier ghetto has come out with headlines like New CERN “CLOUD” Study Makes the Al Gore Climate Change Forecasts Obsolete! Or locally the NZ climate change denier blog Climate Conversation asserts CLOUD proves cosmic ray link!
The reasearch findings in no way justifies these headlines. And even veteran denier Richard Treadgold at Climate Conversations has backed away to some extent from his headline. Nevertheless it ahs him demanding that New Zealand review its Emmisions Trading Scheme and he thinks that “warmists” are responding by “rushing to the exits”!
Yeah, right!
What are the research findings?
Potholer54 has produced a nice video summary of the facts around this research Are cosmic rays causing global warming? It’s well worth watching
Another brief video, starring Jasper Kirkby the lead scientists in this work, also provides more information on this work Kirkby on Cosmic Rays
As Kirkby points out the work is only the first step in this research and says nothing about the influence of cosmic rays on cloud formation. This initial work really only reports the influence of chemicals and cosmic rays on nucleation of chemical particles which may eventually lead to some cloud formation.
As for headlines like CERN: ‘Climate models will need to be substantially revised’ Kirkby points out we are a long way from that – at least ten years before the influence on models can even be considered.
It’s certainly interesting research, but only one step in considering climatic effects. We still have a long way to go to understand how clouds and other aerosols influence climate change.
And it is the nature of research that we should be ready for all sorts of tangential leads produced. For example, perhaps this research may in the end say more about the influence of human activities on climate through the emission of all sorts of chemicals not yet considered and their role in cosmic ray induced particulate formation in the atmosphere.
Thanks to Richard Christie and Cedric Katesby for videos.
See also: For a more detailed discussion of Kirkby’s research watch this video of one of his lectures (65 min): Jasper Kirkby: The CLOUD experiment at CERN.
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112 responses to “What’s this about cosmic rays and global warming?”
Mick | September 12, 2011 at 11:54 am |
Well it is certainly interesting research, and will hopefully lead to a better understanding of our climate system.
Cedric Katesby | September 12, 2011 at 12:45 pm |
The denier ghetto has come out with headlines like New CERN “CLOUD” Study Makes the Al Gore Climate Change Forecasts Obsolete!
Yeah because Al Gore controls NASA and the AGU and all the rest of ’em like some real life Dr Evil. The diabolical all-powerful mastermind behind the global scientific conspiracy. A puppet-master so brilliant that he created the global climate change hoax even before he was, y’know, born.
Now that’s clever.
That’s a neat trick.
Anybody that can pull a stunt like that DESERVES to grab your precious bodily fluids and yer tax dollars.
Climate denialism: Making 9/11 troofers look good by comparison.
The American Denial of Global Warming
Mick | September 12, 2011 at 1:06 pm |
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/multimedia/45950
Interview with Jasper Kirkby
Richard Christie | September 12, 2011 at 2:28 pm |
It never ceases to amaze me in regard to the subject of climate change, that some seem prepared to carry on grasping at what ever new straw they can find, or are feed, in order to deny the science, even when it has been demonstrated, over and over again, that they have been deceived in the past. Some people just can’t tell or care when they are being taken for a sucker.
“Deny the science”
This is some new information that has changed the parameters of climate science. This is how science works. New theories come along, they get tested and the existing theories either get adjusted or tossed out.
All I hear from you lot is this quasi-religious BS about “deniers”
No interest whatsoever in science. Truly tragic.
that’s a bit of a touchy reply Mick. Perhaps the shoe fits.
If I recall correctly the first thing you did when the topic came up was to provide a link to a denier website, full of rhetoric about warmists.
Don’t make us laugh with your faux indignation.
Ken | September 12, 2011 at 6:54 pm |
Mick’s comment “This is some new information that has changed the parameters of climate science really shows the idiocy of the denier approach.
The researchers themselves say that no such conclusions can be drawn and that it will be 10 years before there is even a possibility of contributing to our actual understanding of cloud formation and being able to model this.
I think commenters who behave that way are clearly not skeptics, the are deniers and will grab at anything.
They are desperate.
“I think commenters who behave that way are clearly not skeptics, the are deniers and will grab at anything. ”
Have you read any of Svensmark’s theories Ken? Would you classify him as a “denier”?
Or do you just prefer abusing people to actually understanding science?
So far, you have called me a “denier” and a “racist”, and I am getting a bit sick of it.
Mick, my conclusion relates to your claim “This is some new information that has changed the parameters of climate science”
Of course you will now avoid that and attempt diversion. Another characteristic of deniers.
Cedric Katesby | September 12, 2011 at 8:00 pm |
This is some new information that has changed the parameters of climate science.
No. The science behind climate change is as solid as ever. The climate denier blogs ran with hysterical headlines and the faithful nodded their collective heads dumbly and went along.
They don’t fact check. They don’t know how.
Take yourself for example. Did you go straight to primary sources of information the instant the shocking and amazing headlines broke?
The thought didn’t occur to you.
It’s not something you are used to doing. It’s a novelty for you. It is with all climate deniers. Looking back, can you think of a single climate denier talking point that you picked up from the internet over the years that can be supported only by primary sources? Not ten or five or two talking points, just one?
It doesn’t happen. It’s all spin. Every single time.
It’s all about middlemen putting themselves between the scientific communities that do the actual work and a gullible public that doesn’t think very hard about exactly where it’s getting it’s information from. Middlemen that tell climate deniers what they already are predisposed to believe and what slogans to mindlessly shout out. The work that science has demanded all along and continues to demand is sidelined.
You fell for the CERN talking point because you failed to look at primary sources.
I didn’t.
You fell for the NASA/aliens story because you failed to look at primary sources.
The veracity of those two talking points are not some faulty exception; they are the standard that all the climate denier blogs subscribe too. They are all equally worthless.
No, that won’t do. Science is not a religion-not even a little bit. Science is not a “belief” system. There are no high priests, no churches, no dogma, no revelation and no heretics or Inquisition. NASA (for example) is not a cult. Nice try though as slipping in a little pejorative language. Very dishonest.
Deniers exist. They are not the same as skeptics.
There really and truly are people who deny the science on a multitude of subjects. It’s not just restricted to climate deniers.
Denialism is a real word to denote a real psychological frame of mind. Deniers do exist. That’s just a fact.
You can be in denial about the death of a loved one. Or be in denial about a substance abuse problem. Or be in denial about the test results from the biopsy that show you have cancer.
Science denialism is the same thing.
Denialism is choosing to deny reality as a way to avoid an uncomfortable truth. “[it] is the refusal to accept an empirically verifiable reality. It is an essentially irrational action that withholds validation of a historical experience or event”.
In science, denialism has been defined as the rejection of basic concepts that are undisputed and well-supported parts of the scientific consensus on a topic in favor of ideas that are both radical and controversial. It has been proposed that the various forms of denialism have the common feature of the rejection of overwhelming evidence and the generation of a controversy through attempts to deny that a consensus exist. The terms Holocaust denialism and AIDS denialism have been used, and the term climate change denialists has been applied to those who refuse to accept that climate change is occurring. Several motivations for denial have been proposed, including religious beliefs and self-interest, or as a psychological defense mechanism against disturbing ideas.
Go ahead and take your favourite climate denier talking point. Choose the best and the easiest to support. Now ditch the opinion pieces of the middlemen that fed you the talking point in the first place and go direct to primary sources of information.
The talking point will fail. Each and every time. Without middlemen, it wilts like a hothouse flower taken out of it’s carefully controlled atmospheric environment.
In contrast, the reality-based community have NASA and every single scientific community on the planet in our back pocket.
There truly is nothing new under the sun.
Have you read any of Peter Duesberg’s theories Ken? Would you classify him as a “denier”?
Have you read any of Andrew Wakefields’ theories Ken? Would you classify him as a “denier”?
Have you read any of William Dembski’s theories Ken? Would you classify him as a “denier”?
Have you read any of Bill Kaysing’s theories Ken? Would you classify him as a “denier”?
Have you read any of David Irving’s theories Ken? Would you classify him as a “denier”?
Have you read any of Rupert Sheldrake’s theories Ken? Would you classify him as a “denier”?
Yep. Standard fare for a science denier. Creationists do the same thing for the same reason.
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Mick | September 13, 2011 at 9:16 am |
I said that the cosmic ray theory changes the parameters of climate science, much in the same way that putting a new set of tyres on a car changes the driving parameters of that car.
For my efforts, I get bombarded by all this garbage about “denialism, creationism” and other such BS
You guys sound like the crazies thumping their Bibles at me in the street.
Clearly, I have touched a raw nerve. I have dared even suggest that The Science is Not Settled.
Forgive me, Lord Trenberth, for I have sinned. Let me offer an editor of Remote Sensing journal as a sacrifice before ye feet.
Ken | September 13, 2011 at 9:20 am |
Mick – be specific. Describe a single parameter that has changed as a result if these very preliminary finding?
Just one!
No, I thought not. That’s why you get called a denier making such unwarranted statements.
I prefer to accept the researchers conclusion that there us nothing that can be used at this stage and such results are at least 10 years away.
A single parameter?
Cosmic rays affect cloud formation. Clouds play an important role in climate.
If cosmic rays change, then climate may change.
Is that clear enough?
Ken | September 13, 2011 at 10:10 am |
I repeat, what parameter, Mick?
This research hasn’t produced a single parameter on clouds. It’s only involved the chemicals involved in nucleating particles (which at this stage are smaller than required to nucleate clouds).
There is already information on cosmic rays and the temporal changes. We are still researching clouds and other aerosols to get a better handle on their influence.
I repeat – what parameter had come out if this research at this stage, in this paper, which can be input into any climate model?
Come on, stop your diversion.
Cloud formation may be linked to cosmic rays
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110824/full/news.2011.504.html
It sounds like a conspiracy theory: ‘cosmic rays’ from deep space might be creating clouds in Earth’s atmosphere and changing the climate. Yet an experiment at CERN, Europe’s high-energy physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, is finding tentative evidence for just that.
The findings, published today in Nature1, are preliminary, but they are stoking a long-running argument over the role of radiation from distant stars in altering the climate.
For a century, scientists have known that charged particles from space constantly bombard Earth. Known as cosmic rays, the particles are mostly protons blasted out of supernovae. As the protons crash through the planet’s atmosphere, they can ionize volatile compounds, causing them to condense into airborne droplets, or aerosols. Clouds might then build up around the droplets.
The number of cosmic rays that reach Earth depends on the Sun. When the Sun is emitting lots of radiation, its magnetic field shields the planet from cosmic rays. During periods of low solar activity, more cosmic rays reach Earth.
Scientists agree on these basic facts, but there is far less agreement on whether cosmic rays can have a large role in cloud formation and climate change. Since the late 1990s, some have suggested that when high solar activity lowers levels of cosmic rays, that in turn reduces cloud cover and warms the planet. Others say that there is no statistical evidence for such an effect.
Polarizing lens
“People are far too polarized, and in my opinion there are huge, important areas where our understanding is poor at the moment,” says Jasper Kirkby, a physicist at CERN. In particular, he says, little controlled research has been done on exactly what effect cosmic rays can have on atmospheric chemistry.
To find out, Kirkby and his team are bringing the atmosphere down to Earth in an experiment called Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets (CLOUD). The team fills a custom-built chamber with ultrapure air and chemicals believed to seed clouds: water vapour, sulphur dioxide, ozone and ammonia. They then bombard the chamber with protons from the same accelerator that feeds the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle smasher. As the synthetic cosmic rays stream in, the group carefully samples the artificial atmosphere to see what effect the rays are having.
Early results seem to indicate that cosmic rays do cause a change. The high-energy protons seemed to enhance the production of nanometre-sized particles from the gaseous atmosphere by more than a factor of ten. But, Kirkby adds, those particles are far too small to serve as seeds for clouds. “At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it’s a very important first step,” he says.
Scientists on both sides of the debate (That’s deniers too, Ken) welcome the findings, although they draw differing conclusions. “Of course there are many things to explore, but I think the cosmic-ray/cloud-seeding hypothesis is converging with reality,” says Henrik Svensmark, a physicist at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen, who claims a link between climate change and cosmic rays.
Others disagree. The CLOUD experiment is “not firming up the connection”, counters Mike Lockwood, a space and environmental physicist at the University of Reading, UK, who is sceptical. Lockwood says that the small particles may not grow fast enough or large enough to be important in comparison with other cloud-forming processes in the atmosphere.
“I think it’s an incredibly worthwhile and overdue experiment,” says Piers Forster, a climatologist at the University of Leeds, UK, who studied the link between cosmic rays and climate for the latest scientific assessment by the International Panel on Climate Change. But for now at least, he says that the experiment “probably raises more questions than it answers”.
Kirkby hopes that the experiment will eventually answer the cosmic-ray question. In the coming years, he says, his group is planning experiments with larger particles in the chamber, and they hope eventually to generate artificial clouds for study. “There is a series of measurements that we will have to do that will take at least five years,” he says. “But at the end of it, we want to settle it one way or the other.”
Mick, your extensive quoting only confirms my point: Eg. “But, Kirkby adds, those particles are far too small to serve as seeds for clouds. “At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it’s a very important first step,” he says.”
Now thus is a long way from your assertion: “This is some new information that has changed the parameters of climate science.”
Ten years down the track there might be information reliable enough to include in climate models. On the other hand the relevant data may have more to do with other chemicals emitted by human activity as I suggest.
The “parameters of climate science” have not moved one bit with the publication of this paper, despite it’s interesting findings.
Why? It is some new information about climate science. What else does it change?
Maybe my use of the term “parameter” is not precise enough for you?
Which version do you think I was meaning?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter
Mick | September 13, 2011 at 12:09 pm |
Must be almost Cedric’s shift…
Ken | September 13, 2011 at 12:10 pm |
Mick – “What else does it change? ”
I am starting to lose the will to live.
Ken, these guys are called “scientists”. They have done an “experiment” in a highly precise lab that shows that there may be potentially a link between cosmic rays and climate change. They hope to undertake further research.
I don’t know if there is much more I can add really. I certainly didn’t say it “disproves” “global warming” (whatever that is) or anything like that. I don’t even remember providing a link to a “denier” site that was “full of rhetoric about warmists”.
Richard Christie | September 13, 2011 at 12:26 pm |
I wouldn’t have thought parameter is even the correct term to use in this sentence This is some new information that has changed the parameters of climate science .
In mathematics and engineering a parameter is a defined term or quantity related to equation variables but not subject to them.
In mathematical and climate modeling I expect it’s the same. Is this the meaning Mike attaches to the word? Or something more general?
I was being more general. I wasn’t meaning the precise mathematical sense. as in a parameter to a function
Come on Mick – perhaps you meant to say the results don’t changed anything about climate science.
No I didn’t say that at all, and neither does Kirkby.
Svensmark, of course, thinks nothing of the kind. His theory is that cosmic rays are a major driver of climate.
Fact is, Ken, climate science is a very young discipline. To suggest that nothing will change our understanding, or even that entire paradigms will change, seems wrong in the extreme.
Sure Mick. You don’t need to teach me to suck eggs.
But the fact remains that these published results don’t change a thing about current understanding in climate science – let alone produce a paradigm change. Your failure to support your initial claim underlines that.
After all – we have known about the influence of ionizing radiation for ages. My physics teacher at high school in the late 50s built a Wilson Cloud Chamber and we saw this effect in practice.
The Nature paper hasn’t itself added to that. Except to indicate that our understanding of what gases are responsible for initial particulate formation need revising. That’s why I suggest we may in future use this sort of data to improve estimates of other human produced chemicals on climate and clouds.
You are desperate to imply those taking a rational approach to this work here are in any way suggesting “nothing will change our understanding” if climate science. I think those people support the current investment in climate research.
It is people like you who have tried to imply that investment is wasted and that scientists cannot be trusted.
That’s why I suggest we may in future use this sort of data to improve estimates of other human produced chemicals on climate and clouds.
What about non-human influences such as cosmic rays? Oh I forgot, you can’t tax those, so it’s difficult to get funding from the gubmint
That’s more like it, Mick. Back to your denier stance. After all you can’t trust these scientists, can you?
Ken, is it possible for you to construct a sentence without the word “denier” in it?
My point is, how the hell can we understand the human influence on climate if we don’t understand the natural influence on climate. My point on funding, though cynical, is valid in my view.
Mick – “My point is, how the hell can we understand the human influence on climate if we don’t understand the natural influence on climate. “
True – and who the hell is trying to do that? You are crazy to even imply someone is.
You should spend some time reading the IPCC reports. The current conclusion is based on this understanding. The problem is that we cannot explain the temperature increases over the last 50 years unless man-made inputs are included.
So – you think that the CERN work should not have been funded? Is this view a result of being shown that the data doesn’t fit your denial necessity?
“My denial”
There you go again Ken
The point of the CERN work and Svensmark’s hypothesis is that it might actually disprove the IPCC assertions about CO2
Well then, let’s pin you down Mike.
Do you accept that current increase in global temperature over past 40 or 50 years is very likely due to human influence?
Do you have a reference for that? Primary sources, not IPCC summary for policymakers.
Maybe you could also dig out the reference that explains the warming in the earlier part of the 20th Century, and the one that explains why there has been no warming for the last 10 years or so, that explains why ocean heat content is static or declining, and why sea level rise is either static or actually decreasing.
If you can find me that, I might be able to answer your question.
Here’s a question for you guys. When Ban Ki Moon tells us that Kiribati and Tuvalu are being inundated by “sea level rise caused by climate change”, do you agree that he is an “anti-science” denialist?
After all, there is no evidence for this, and Darwin’s theory is that coral atolls rise with sea levels anyway.
This man, the head of the UN, is a science denier. Agree or disagree?
Looks like classic denial to me.
So you agree Ken, Ban Ki Moon is a “science denier”?
Wow, we are making progress
So what did you mean? What definition were you using? Or were you using your own private English language?
Oh I forgot, you can’t tax those, so it’s difficult to get funding from the gubmint…
Behold the global scientific conspiracy. All powerful and all encompassing…and yet mysteriously undetectable. You know it’s there. “They” can’t fool you. You know the fix is in. Yet you just can’t demonstrate it using evidence. Those durned scientists have covered their tracks perfectly all these decades!
Another common conspiratorial attack on consensus science (without data) is that science is just some old-boys club (not saying it’s entirely free of it but…) and we use peer-review to silence dissent. This is a frequent refrain of HIV/AIDS denialists like Dean Esmay or Global Warming denialists like Richard Lindzen trying to explain why mainstream scientists won’t publish their BS. The fact is that good science speaks for itself, and peer-reviewers are willing to publish things that challenge accepted facts if the data are good. If you’re just a denialist cherry-picking data and nitpicking the work of others, you’re out of luck. Distribution of scientific funding (another source of conspiracy from denialists) is similarly based on novelty and is not about repeating some kind of party line. Yes, it’s based on study-sections and peer-review of grants, but the idea that the only studies that get funded are ones that affirm existing science is nuts, if anything it’s the opposite.
Lately, there’s been a lot of criticism of the excess focus on novelty in distribution of funding and in what gets accepted into journals. I encourage all scientists and those interested in science to watch this video of John Ioannidis giving grand rounds at NIH on how science gets funded, published, and sadly, often proven wrong. I put it up at google video. He is the author of “Why most published research findings are false” published in PLoS last year. It’s proof that science is perfectly willing to be critical of itself, more than happy to publish exceptional things that often turn out wrong, but ultimately, highly self-correcting.
(From “Denialism Blog”)
Great Teachers: Translation, Replication and Credibility of Research Findings
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1075176624492631545#
No Mick, I am not being diverted. You will have to front up to the question Richard asked. (Boiy do you skate around to avoid facts).
Have a look at my post Climate change is complex.
Yes this refers to the IPPC report (AR4 WGI Chapter 9: Understanding and Attributing Climate Change). This is not the summary fro policy makers – its the review and is well referenced.
But then again you can’t trust scientists, can you?
Richard’s question has nothing to do with this post. I have no reason to answer it any more than I have any reason to ask you what your favorite colour is.
It’s not a question of trusting scientists. It’s the IPCC I have a problem with
Ken, you might also like to read Judith Curry’s series on overconfidence in IPCC attribution on Climate etc.
Then again, maybe not….
“It’s the IPCC I have a problem with”
Mick, might I generalise that a bit (only a little bit)
It is scientists and their findings you have a problem with. Especially when their data supports findings you wish to deny.
That’s why I classify you, not as a sceptic or contrarian, but a denier.
Clear and simple.
Ken, which scientists findings am I denying?
Now please.
By the way, Ken, you are really pissing me off with this continued abuse
Really pissing me off
You will have to front up to the question Richard asked. (Boiy do you skate around to avoid facts).
Wriggle and squirm, Mick. Wriggle and squirm.
What abuse?
No, no, no. If you want to project emotion and be taken seriously then the only what is to embrace allcaps.
See? Much better.
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So very wonderful.
“The Golden Rule” blogger buys into the global warming conspiracy and…the 9/11 conspiracy.
Troofers: They walk amongst us.
Go ahead! Lift up that rock and take a peek. You know you want to.
http://tgrule.wordpress.com/911-2/
Go ahead! Lift up that rock and take a peek.
I know it’s getting a bit off-topic track a bit but the whole crazies/troofers/tea-party/birthers/climate science denial etc in the USA thing is all interrelated.
here is an interesting insight from an ex insider
http://www.truthout.com/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779
AL GORE IS FAT
You’re right Cedric! It feels so good in bold and caps.
What a revelation, thanks dude!
I read that article when it first came out. Creepy. Homeschooled religious nutjobs running the most powerful country on Earth.
The way you adopt one conspiracy theory is the way you adopt them all. The thinking is often exactly the same.
The fact is that other than a few anecdotes tossed about the [Climate] Denialosphere there is no attempt to actually document the conspiracy. Why not? There are any number of ways that evidence could be provided. Grant guidelines and terms of reference could be offered and their bias revealed. Statistics could be generated on what research is funded to demonstrate bias, and so on.
Looking for clues
It is fascinating that the Deniers invest almost no energy into documenting the alleged conspiracies. Most conspiracists obsess on gathering evidence. They watch videos over and over, study floor plans and forensic reports, plot trajectories and lines of sight, read and compare testimonies of witnesses endlessly, post youtube videos explaining byzantine timelines and event sequences. Their obsession with documenting evidence is almost pathological. Indeed there is a process to validating a conspiracy.
Yet the Deniers toss out a few anecdotes and move on. Why?
The most obvious reason would be that it can’t be done. Any critical examination of the evidence naturally causes the whole premise to fall apart. As I will discuss below the whole idea is absurd. In fact it is probable that the authors of the theories know them to be nonsense so they are not going to waste their time looking for evidence that they know does not exist.
More importantly, from their perspective it isn’t necessary, not for it’s intended purpose. What is a conspiracy theory for and who is the audience? If your purpose is to stop or destroy the conspiracy then you must expose it to the public and the appropriate authorities. If your intended audience does not require convincing and the purpose is merely to sow confusion then evidence and facts are unnecessary.
The audience for the Denier conspiracy theories do not require evidence. As has been demonstrated over and over the Deniers accept the most outrageous nonsense as fact on the basis of hearsay. The popular media will publish almost any Denier nonsense under the rubric of “balance”, so evidence is wasted on them. Merely invoking the theory accomplishes the intended purpose, so why bother with evidence?
Denier Conspiracy Theories: More Paranoid Than Thou
There doesn’t have to be a conspiracy for any of this to happen.
Then you can no doubt explain the nuts and bolts of the global scientific conspiracy…without the need for a conspiracy.
No one will censor you or send the black helicopters after you. Honest!
Give us a rational, mundane rundown on “they” do it.
Put some distance between yourself and the crazies.
Global Warming 1 of 7 Conspiracy Theory Jesse Ventura
Any of what to happen Mike?
The stuff wot you are talking about. Remember?
Or are you a goldfish?
No spell it out, what can happen without a conspiracy.
second thoughts, not.
Tell us Mike.
He wriggles. He squirms.
Come on Mick. Don’t be shy.
How are “they” doing it?
Nobody’s going to censor you here. Far from it. Give us the details as you see ’em. Enlighten us. Reveal all!
…he runs away.
Or maybe, it’s all part of the conspiracy?
Imagine Mick hidden away in some secret bunker somewhere. He risks his life every minute he is on the internet.
“They” are after him.
He knows what’s going on. Oh yes. He is determined to expose the global scientific hoax.
Yet “they” have a secret weapon. A mind-control device that activates any time a whistleblower tries to spill the beans on what is really “happening”.
The fiends!
He sits down to type…and yet he can’t…the precious details are all there in his head…but he can’t physically type out the words.
Curses!!
Perhaps there’s even secret fake memory implant that activates? One that seduces him into thinking that he didn’t want to reveal what he knows anyway?
“Yeah” thinks mind-controlled Mick. “I won’t tell ‘em. They don’t deserve it. They’d only think my explanation was poorly thought out cheesy paranoia with no supporting evidence whatsoever. They’d call me a kook!”
At yet, it wasn’t his rationalization at all. It was the fake memory implant.
And so, the details are never revealed on the Internet for all to see.
And so, the global scientific conspiracy remains all powerful and yet completely unseen.
Spooky stuff.
Al Gore & Global Warming Conspiracy EXPOSED
This was the “conspiracy” I was referring to.
Anyway, more interesting things on the stove – the euro is about to collapse
” the euro is about to collapse”
Could be the influence of cosmic rays!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/jefferies-describes-endgame-europe-finished
Off topic, but since you seem interested
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:42 PM
To: xxxx@aps.org
Cc: Robert H. Austin; ‘William Happer’; ‘Larry Gould’; ‘S. Fred Singer’; Roger Cohen
Subject: I resign from APS
Dear Ms. Kirby
Thank you for your letter inquiring about my membership. I did not renew it because I can not live with the statement below:
Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth’s climate. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide as well as methane, nitrous oxide and other gases. They are emitted from fossil fuel combustion and a range of industrial and agricultural processes.
The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring.
If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.
In the APS it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible? The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this ‘warming’ period.
Ivar Giaever
Cedric Katesby | September 15, 2011 at 11:54 am |
So what did you mean, Mick. What’s happening? How does it happen?
This is the conspiracy I was referring to. The one that Richard implied.
It’s all interrelated – it’s a conspiracy!
Clearly, mind control central (Rick Perry’s Bat Cave) have taken over the minds of the homeschoolers and fundamentalists.
The told them 9/11 is a hoax
They told them AGW is a hoax.
They told them the Moon landings were a hoax.
(PS Michelle Bachmann and James Delingpole are also in on the secret. Shhh, pass it on…..)
Here’s your favorite conspiracy theorist guys:
Al Gore: 24 Hours Of Bullshit (Prison Planet)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/al-gore-24-hours-of-bullshit.html
No, that’s not what he implied.
English comprehension fail. How sad.
(And how very squirmy)
Conspiracy theories are interrelated because they all spring from the same line of thinking. It’s very easy to compare any of the major conspiracies and notice strong similarities.
Scratch a climate denier and it’s very easy to find a troofer.
Scratch a creationist and it’s very easy to find a climate denier.
Scratch a Birther and it’s very easy to find a creationist and a climate denier.
The mentality is the same. They all have the same low standards of evidence. They are all suckers for the same reasons.
American fundies often get the way they are because they are homeschooled. There’s a very strong overlap in the States. Educational incest. They are not exactly the best and the brightest.
If your education is stunted enough to accept creationism then you are primed and ready to accept climate denialism and any other paranoid conspiracy nonsense that comes along.
Evangelist mom on global warming, evolution, creationism
Try scratching me and see if you find a troofer/creationist/birther/whatever.
No chance!
State your position on climate change in the most logical and reasonable manner that you can.
Can you do it without sounding like a conspiracy theorist?
Sure, I don’t believe the current state of climate science represents a fair and accurate view of the science because it has been skewed by government funding and activist lobby groups
You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to believe this. The UEA emails demonstrate this quite clearly, as have more recent events.
Attach “climate change”, or a nod to AGW in your research proposal, you get funded, otherwise you don’t.
It is corruption and collusion rather than conspiracy.
That sounds like a clear conspiracy theory to me, Mick.
No wonder you can’t get your head around the science!
It is not a conspiracy
Corruption Ken
There is plenty of that around. Look around you.
Would you like me to cut and paste some climategate emails for you and your reader(s) pleasure?
Your evidence for this is what?
Oh I forgot, you don’t need evidence, just a feeling
That’s a conspiracy. Follow through with that line of reasoning. It leads you straight down the global conspiracy rabbit hole just like the creationists and the troofers.
Test it for yourself. Can you do anything more than toss out a few anecdotes and move on?
This is your rather vague claim:
That’s a conspiracy. There’s no other way to describe it.
“The government” and “activists” have skewed the science.
(Somehow)
“They” won’t fund you if you don’t do what they want.
How does “The government” actually do this? What government? All of them?
How is it possible to skew the science without leaving any evidence?
There is plenty of evidence. Just ask all the sceptic scientists who struggle to get funding or their papers pal reviewed.
it is hardly a secret.
Claim CA321.1:
“The conclusions of scientists are motivated by scientists’ pay; they cannot be considered objective.
1. Scientists get rewarded for overthrowing currently accepted ideas (if they can do so with evidence) and for proposing new theories that lead to new research. Any bias from material gain would be against the accepted theory of evolution.
2. Many research scientists could make more money in industry. They do science because they enjoy it.
3. The complaint applies equally to anti-evolutionists.”
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. 1985. Life–How Did It Get Here? Brooklyn, NY, p. 182.
1. The pressures that science imposes do not weaken the validity of evolution — quite the contrary. Scientists are rewarded more for finding new things, not for supporting established principles. Thus, they tend to look more for novelties and for results that would overturn common beliefs. If a scientist found evidence that falsified evolution, he or she would be guaranteed world prestige and fame.
2. Creationists are under far more pressure than scientists. Since their entire world view is threatened by finding disconfirming evidence, they are very highly motivated not to admit it. Many creationists have taken oaths saying that no evidence could change their dogma (AIG n.d.). At least one admits that he became a scientist not to find the truth, but to destroy Darwinism (Wells n.d.). The commitment to established dogma is pretty well monopolized by creationists.”
Which governments are in on it? Name them.
Which governements are in on it?
Just ask all the sceptic scientists who struggle to get funding or their papers pal reviewed.
What funding proposals were rejected? Name them.
What papers didn’t get published or reviewed? Name them.
How does the conspiracy work?
Yes I do know that I am wasting time trying to argue with you.
You asked me for my opinion and I gave it.
Your opinion is totally unsupported. It’s pure handwaving.
None of my questions are unfair. They are very basic questions.
Should be a doddle for you to answer.
Which government is skewing the the funding? Name it.
The Australian government?
Or did you mean the US government?
Or both? Oh, goody! Did you mean both? Are they both working together? Please say that they are.
What about the Chinese?
Is it the Chinese and the Australian and the US governments?
What about the German government? Is it in on it too?
The Chinese, Australian, US and German governments all trying to “corrupt the science”?
Are there more?
Maybe, just maybe,….(gasp)… it’s all the governments on the planet? Just how big is the conspiracy?
That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence- Christopher Hitchins
You could try the Spencer and Braswell paper for a start. it eventually got published but the editor resigned and apologised to Trenberth, yet the paper was not retracted.
Dessler issued a rebuttal in rather speedy time, yet this has been shown to be full of holes (it doesn’t even use official IPCC temp records)
Another example would be Lindzen and Choi that took years to get published.
Of course, there are the famous emails in which Phil Jones said he would “redefine what the peer-reviewed literature” is.
Then there is the NIWA case where an NZ group has shown that NIWA did not follow there own peer-reviewed best practice, and over-inflated the temperature record for the 20th C
CSIRO had a similar audit I think, with similar results.
Then there is the Steig et al paper on Antarctica which was also shown to have been pal-reviewed. The critique by Jeff Id et al eventually got published but not after a fight.
All very tiresome
You guys have been cutting and pasting emails (for Christ sake – emails) for almost 2 years now (while covering your eyes so you can’t read official reports of investigations into that affair).
It hasn’t effected the climate one bit but it does help in identifying deniers and conspiracy theorists.
You are naive to think that argument does you any favors, Mick.
You could try the Spencer and Braswell paper(..)Another example would be Lindzen and Choi..(…)Of course, there are the famous emails in which Phil Jones said he would “redefine what the peer-reviewed literature” is.Then there is the NIWA case where an NZ group has shown that NIWA did not follow there own peer-reviewed best practice, and over-inflated the temperature record for the 20th C. CSIRO had a similar audit I think, with similar results. Then there is the Steig et al paper on Antarctica…
All you are offering are anecdotes.
You have not shown that any of this is related to any government or agency doing anything wrong.
Papers can be rejected. Happens all the time. No government involvement needed.
People say stuff in emails. Happens all the time. No government involvement needed.
Scientists even make mistakes and find out about it later. Happens all the time. No government involvement needed.
Even by taking all your anecdotes on faith alone, anecdotes are not evidence of corruption or collusion or conspiracy.
Your claim does not stand. You are no different from any other denier or conspiracy theorist out there.
Here is your claim again:
Attach “climate change”, or a nod to AGW in your research proposal, you get funded, otherwise you don’t. It is corruption and collusion…
Which governments are in on it? Why is this such a spooky question for you? Reveal all.
Well, as Ken knows, NIWA are being taken to court over the NZ temperature record. Hopefully that might clear things up a bit one way or the other.
Which governments are in on it? Well, I guess all the signatories of the Kyoto Protocol, for a start.
It’s hardly rocket science. Governments want to tax people. Fund research that justifies taxes. Produce the goods, get more funding.
Just one big gravy train.
Thankfully, when the US and EU economies collapse, this will all come to an end, and we can look forward to rooting around for grubs and rats to put in the dinner pot.
With any luck, we might find some entrails of climate scientist to spice it up a bit.
Why should it? If you don’t get the results you need then you can just put it down to “the conspiracy”. Clearly, “they” have gotten (somehow) to the NZ court system.
All of them? Wow.
Any evidence?
(No? Ah, never mind)
So…how do they do it? What are the nuts and bolts of the operation?
When did they start doing it?
Mick – this is the sort if thing which gives you away;
“Then there is the NIWA case where an NZ group has shown that NIWA did not follow there own peer-reviewed best practice, and over-inflated the temperature record for the 20th C.”
We have followed this saga here in depth. I also have an interesting collection of email correspondence with this denier group (I could provide a link tomorrow I you are interested). They were caught out luring about the extent their paper was reviewed, they refuse to credit the “science team” they claim to have (strange that) and they refuse to make their data or workings available.
The group has consistently lied and slandered our NZ scientists (mind you that would appeal to you). The ACT party and their backers in the NZ right wing think tank are complicit.
If you had followed this at all objectively you would not want to be associated with the claim you make. But then of course you are on record as refusing to accept anything a scientist produced but are happy to accept what these politicians offer you – purely because they are conservative.
Mick , are you willing to read through my email correspondence with this group.? Let me know. I can post a link to the file tomorrow (not at my PC till then).
Come on – give yourself a chance to experience some lies and anger from your political idols!
Probably Agenda 21 was the starting point. Like I say, I am not a conspiracy theorist, but there was a definite timeline for this “movement”…
I guess you could draw parallels with Lysenkoism and Eugenics. Of course, both ended badly by killing millions of people. I don’t expect the AGW issue will be any different,.
Of course, for the death-loving Green movement, this is just wonderful news
Thanks Ken, I’d be delighted to read the emails from the NZ group.
“Hopefully that might clear things up a bit one way or the other”
Come off it, Mick. Surely you are capable of including Judges and Lawyers in your conspiracy when the deniers are laughed out if court!
Surely if you don’t accept honest scientists you are not going to accept court decisions!
Bloody hilarious: “Like I say, I am not a conspiracy theorist, but there was a definite timeline for this “movement”…”
And they are going to kill millions of people!
You have been reading the clown Wishart, haven’t you?
Mick, you are an hilarious parody of a conspiracy theorist.
So there is a “movement” and it’s got something to do with something called Agenda 21…but you are not a conspiracy theorist?
So….um…..a definite timeline? Wonderful. At last some concrete details.
When and where did it start?
http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/
@ Mick Like I say, I am not a conspiracy theorist, but there was a definite timeline for this “movement”…
Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment.
Very spooky.
So that’s the start of the timeline, right? 14 June 1992?
Actually, I haven’t given this much time. It’s just an approx thing so I can’t really say.
I prefer to deal with the here and now with regard to the literature
Of course, guys, I am fully aware of this little “game” you like to play. You like to back someone into a corner over some “conspiracy” stuff and then “expose” them as a kook.
Personally, I am not interested. I haven’t read too much on the historical aspects of the green movement.
However, I do know enough to recognise BS and fraud when I see it. Thankfully, the rest of the public is also onto this.
You can bleat all you like that “it won’t change the science”. I don’t care.
Odd.
Like I say, I am not a conspiracy theorist, but there was a definite timeline for this “movement”…
Doesn’t quite gel with… It’s just an approx thing so I can’t really say.
Either there is a definite time line or there is not.
Make up your mind.
You know there’s a definite time line because you’ve seen the dates, right?
Otherwise, how could you possibly know one way or the other?
You like to back someone into a corner over some “conspiracy” stuff and then “expose” them as a kook.
Even the most simple questions lead inevitably to kooky conspiracy theories.
So far, we have dozens of governments involved. There a definite timeline involved (or maybe now there is not?). Agenda 21 figures into it somehow. There ‘s some sort of a “movement” but no details are forthcoming.
Not much in the way of detail.
Yet you are convinced that “Sure, I don’t believe the current state of climate science represents a fair and accurate view of the science because it has been skewed by government funding and activist lobby groups
If there is wrong doing by the governements of the world to skew the science, then how?
When? 1992, 2002? Or do we have to go back? 1982, 1972? Was there ever a time when the science wasn’t magically skewed by “the governement”? If so, then it should be easy to compare the research proposals from then as opposed to now. Same goes for suspicious “behind closed doors” government funding or some other kind of hanky-panky from “the movement”.
At one point, “the movement” did not exist, right? Just how long has the movement been getting away with their crimes? 15 years? 25 years? 50 years? 100 years?
You asked me for my opinion and I gave it.(…) All very tiresome(…)Of course, guys, I am fully aware of this little “game” you like to play. You like to back someone into a corner over some “conspiracy” stuff and then “expose” them as a kook. Personally, I am not interested.(…)You can bleat all you like that “it won’t change the science”. I don’t care.
There was a time when science wasn’t primarily funded by government. I think it was maybe funded by benefactors or individuals.
I guess the state funding started of “big science” around the time of the Manhatten Project. I am not an historian of science, but it would be interesting to look into this.
Susan, What’s Big Science?
Mainly climate science, these days
Big Science is a term used by scientists and historians of science to describe a series of changes in science which occurred in industrial nations during and after World War II, as scientific progress increasingly came to rely on large-scale projects usually funded by national governments or groups of governments.[1] Individual or small group efforts, or Small Science, is still relevant today as theoretical results by individual authors may have a significant impact, but very often the empirical verification requires experiments using constructions, such as the Large Hadron Collider costing between $5 and $10 billion
While science and technology have always been important to and driven by warfare, the increase in military funding of science following the second World War was on a scale wholly unprecedented. World War II has often been called “the physicists’ war” for the role that those scientists played in the development of new weapons and tools, notably the proximity fuze, radar, and the atomic bomb. The bulk of these last two activities took place in a new form of research facility: the government-sponsored laboratory, employing thousands of technicians and scientists, managed by universities (in this case, the University of California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
In the shadow of the first atomic weapons, the importance of a strong scientific research establishment was apparent to any country wishing to play a major role in international politics. After the success of the Manhattan Project, governments became the chief patron of science, and the character of the scientific establishment underwent several key changes. This was especially marked in the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, but also to a lesser extent in many other countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Science
Actually, this article mentions the Manhatten Project, which vindicates my previous statement as I hadn’t actually read the Wiki page at the time.
It doesn’t seem to mention climate science Janet.
No it doesn’t. And who finances climate science? Big Oil, Big Coal?
How much has been spent on climate science? $100 billion is the estimate I heard. Who pays for this? The tooth fairy?
“Big Science” usually implies one or more of these specific characteristics:
Big budgets: No longer required to rely on philanthropy or industry, scientists were able to use budgets on an unprecedented scale for basic research.
Big staffs: Similarly, the number of practitioners of science on any one project grew as well, creating difficulty, and often controversy, in the assignment of credit for scientific discoveries (the Nobel Prize system, for example, allows awarding only three individuals in any one topic per year, based on a 19th-century model of the scientific enterprise).
Big machines: Ernest Lawrence’s cyclotron at his Radiation Laboratory in particular ushered in an era of massive machines (requiring massive staffs and budgets) as the tools of basic scientific research. The use of many machines, such as the many sequencers used during the Human Genome Project, might also fall under this definition..
Enormous superconducting synchrotron particle accelerators with circumferences of many kilometers are the exemplars of Big Science. Shown above is the Fermilab Tevatron.
Big laboratories: Because of the increase in cost to do basic science (with the increase of large machines), centralization of scientific research in large laboratories (such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory or CERN) has become a cost-effective strategy, though questions over facility access have become prevalent.
Where are the big machines Janet?
or the big Laboratories full of zombie staff, all loyal to the cause?
I guess they spend the money on all those overseas wankfests. Gotta spend $100 billion somehow eh?
Are you somehow suggesting that “climate science is underfunded?
Do you think I am a cretin like you Richard?
You brainless fucktard
Any other brainless comments tonight?
Read your “emails” Ken. Yawn. I have had more fun watching a tap dripping.
Where, exactly, is the scandal? And pleeeeeze don’t try to compare your “scandal” with climate gate. This little NZ group is not getting millions in govt funding and influencing billions of $$ in govt policy is it?
The questions a bit difficult for you John Wakelin ?
http://www.johnwakelin.net/biography.html
BIG science, massive tax payer rorts by armies of scientists all in on the deal? All fraudulently altering data, all sworn to silence.
Where are they Janet?, I mean John, or is it Mike/
I remember (vaguely) John. Was really upset last time and even closed his Facebook page. Still comments on Treadgold’s blog – a standard example if the denier ghetto.
Why do these people always hide behind an alias?
1 They know they sound stupid under any reasoned analysis and most people view their viewpoint as being fringe and/or mostly held by nutjobs.
2 It protects their professional, social standing from being contaminated by their viewpoints.
3 Internet anonymity allows them to be boldly irresponsible .
Now, now! Take a deep breath and try not to sound like an angry, frustrated kook.
Remember, you are the sucker that believes that dozens of governments are doing something to “the science”. That there’s a movement with a timeline and that the UN is somehow involved or whatever.
You think? Oh.
What happened to the…definite timeline for this “movement”…?
Doesn’t sound so very definite at the moment.
What’s your point, oh-slow-witted one? This is the same argument used by deniers of all stripes.
It’s just idle slander. You have no evidence. Yet evidence would be easy to get if it was true.
The creationists use this hackneyed arguement. The anti-vaxxers use it. The HIV deniers use it. Even the moon-landing deniers use it. And…you use it. You use it all the time.
We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle [Paperback] Bill Kaysing (Author)
Sure, I don’t believe the current state of climate science represents a fair and accurate view of the science because it has been skewed by government funding and activist lobby groups(…) It is corruption and collusion….
Sounds oddly familiar somehow. Now who else talks like this? Oh yes, now I remember…
Deniers argue that because scientists receive grant money, fame, and prestige as a result of their research, it is in their best interest to maintain the status quo. This type of thinking is convenient for deniers as it allows them to choose which authorities to believe and which ones to dismiss as part of a grand conspiracy. In addition to being selective, their logic is also internally inconsistent. For example, they dismiss studies that support the HIV hypothesis as being biased by “drug money,” while they accept uncritically the testimony of HIV deniers who have a heavy financial stake in their alternative treatment modalities.
John Wakelin?
They know they sound stupid under any reasoned analysis and most people view their viewpoint as being fringe and/or mostly held by nutjobs.(…)Internet anonymity allows them to be boldly irresponsible .
So his friends and family might not know about his antics or his beliefs?
Ah, I understand him better now. Disturbing. Let’s hope he doesn’t behave like this in real life. That would be unfortunate for them.
So you don’t think there is a “green/environmental” movement? You think that all these “honest scientists” spontaneously started agreeing with each other about greenhouse gas emissions? You don’t think that when Dr Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, described the organisation he created as “anti-intellectual, anti-science, and ultimately anti-human”, that he had lost his marbles?
Just asking a question
So you don’t think…
John Wakelin, whatever I think or don’t think doesn’t help you.
(shrug)
This is all about you spilling the beans on the conspiracy. I wouldn’t dream of interfering.
This is all about you.
Remember your claim. Tell us how it works.
So how?
This can’t be that difficult a question for you. The advantage is all yours. You know about the governments involved. You know about the definite timeline of “the movement”. You know about Agenda 21. You know that the science is being skewed.
You clearly have the facts at your fingertips.
All you have to do is explain how “they” do it in a reasonable and logical manner that doesn’t make you sound like a delusional kook.
Break it down for us into simple, non-paranoid mundane steps.
You think that all these “honest scientists” spontaneously started agreeing with each other about greenhouse gas emissions?
Does this figure in with your “definite timeline”?
Good. Give us the details.
Compare the time when climate scientists definitely weren’t corrupted by dozens of governments and the as-yet-undefined “movement” to the present era of corruption. What’s happening now that didn’t happen sometime back then thats clear evidence of corruption and hanky-panky goings on.
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Pizza Hut Denies It Is Launching Vegan Cheese In The US
A statement from the pizza giant saying it would launch vegan cheese was published by a news outlet - but the chain has now said that is untrue
by Liam Gilliver 28th April 2019 Updated 28th September 2020
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Fast-food giant Pizza Hut has denied it will roll out vegan cheese in all its US stores.
According to a report, Pizza Hut said: “We have been testing the marketing when it comes to vegan cheese for quite some time, and we’re just about ready to make the leap!
“We plan to have vegan cheese available at all of our U.S. locations by the end of summer, most likely in August.”
‘No plans’
But now Pizza Hut has issued a statement saying: “While we’re proud of our dedicated vegan menu in the U.K., the report is inaccurate and we have no plans at this time to carry vegan cheese at our U.S. locations.”
Although US fans will not be enjoying vegan cheese yet, the product has been introduced elsewhere.
Pizza Hut UK welcomed the addition of vegan cheese to its menu as a permanent fixture back in 2017, after witnessing a ‘phenomenal demand’ following the product’s initial trial.
More recently, the eatery also launched a vegan jackfruit pizza in all its UK restaurants, after sales exceed 10,000 during its trial in January – selling over nine thousand plant-based pizzas in the first two weeks.
*This story was updated on April 30 to reflect Pizza Hut’s statement.
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PLA2 Signaling
PLA(2) signaling is involved in calpain-mediated degradation of synaptic dihydropyrimidinase
interesting situation in which a change in the pr
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interesting situation in which a change in the properties of KARs takes place during development is in CA3 interneurons, where the firing rate is controlled by the KAR-mediated tonic inhibition of IAHP during the first postnatal week (Segerstråle et al., 2010). One more example of how KARs may control network activity during development is provided by the reduced glutamatergic input to CA3 pyramidal cells following tonic KAR activation and the simultaneous facilitation of glutamate release onto CA3 interneurons (Lauri et al., 2005). This action permits network bursting in the developing hippocampus. All in all, these data imply a role for KARs in driving network activity during maturation, when synchronous neuronal oscillations are important for the development of synaptic circuits (e.g., Zhang and Poo, 2001). KARs also seem to Selleck RGFP966 contribute to check details the development of neuronal connectivity by guiding the morphological development of the neuronal synaptic network (i.e., the tracks and the formation of early synaptic contacts). In GluK2-deficient animals, the functional maturation of MF-CA3 synaptic contacts that normally occurs between postnatal day 6 (P6) and P9 is delayed (Lanore et al., 2012). In the early contact and rearrangement stages, growth cone motility is essential for the axon to explore its environment and find its appropriate synaptic targets (Goda and Davis,
2003). In the developing hippocampus,
KARs bidirectionally regulate the motility of filopodia in a developmentally regulated and concentration-dependent manner, increasing filopodia motility upon activation ADP ribosylation factor with low concentrations of KA and decreasing it in the presence of high concentrations of KA (Tashiro et al., 2003). These data support a two-step model of synaptogenesis, whereby low concentrations of glutamate early in development enhance motility by activating KARs to promote the localization of synaptic targets. Having established the nascent synapse, the increase in glutamate concentrations as a consequence of the reduction in extracellular volume may then reduce filopodia motility, prompting stabilization of the contact (Tashiro et al., 2003). This model is also consistent with the observation that filopodia motility is related to the free extracellular space in which it is found, displaying lower motility as the free extracellular space diminishes (Tashiro et al., 2003). In this regard, KARs may represent sensors for the axonal filopodia to probe their immediate environment and, hence, it may be essential for guidance and the formation of synaptic contacts. Together, these data demonstrate a critical role for KARs in the development of synaptic connectivity and in the maturation of neuronal networks. In particular, how altering KAR activity during development highlights the key role fulfilled by these receptors when synaptic networks are established.
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Historically, two frameworks have been used to explain this
response. One line of research describes target selection in motor decision terms, as the integration of evidence toward, and eventual commitment to a shift of gaze (Gold and Shadlen, 2007; Kable and Glimcher, 2009). An alternative interpretation describes it as stimulus selection—the act of focusing on a sensory cue that may drive attentional modulations of the sensory response ( Bisley and Goldberg, 2010; Gottlieb and Balan, 2010). While earlier studies have attempted to dissect the visual versus the motor components of target selection, more recent studies have emphasized the decision—free choice—aspect of the saccadic response. However, the decision framework has remained largely separate from an attentional interpretation RG7420 nmr and it is unclear buy Bleomycin to what extent the two frameworks are compatible or distinct ( Maunsell and Treue, 2006). In this
perspective, I propose a broader approach that integrates elements of both explanations and considers the cognitive aspects of eye movement control. Consistent with the decision framework, I propose that the neural response to target selection can be viewed as an internal decision that seeks to maximize a utility function (i.e., increase a benefit and minimize a cost). However, consistent with an attention interpretation I emphasize that, as a system controlling a sensory organ—the eye—this decision must be optimized for sampling information. Therefore, the distinction between visual and motor selection, which may seem trivial in sensorimotor terms, becomes highly significant in a decision perspective.
To understand oculomotor decisions we must tackle the complex and little understood question of how the brain ascribes value to sources of information, and how this may differ from value determined by primary reward. The question of active information selection is rarely nearly studied as a distinct topic (and even more rarely in individual cells), but it arises repeatedly in learning and memory research. Recent evidence from computational and behavioral studies makes it clear that processes of information selection tap into some of our highest cognitive functions, involving, among others, intrinsic curiosity and the ability for advance planning and forming internal models of complex tasks (e.g., Gershman and Niv, 2010; Johnson et al., 2012). My goal in this perspective is to consider these processes and their relevance to vision and eye movement control. I begin with a brief overview of target selection responses in monkey frontal and parietal cortex and their relation with attention and eye movement control.
Biotinylated 3D6, mE8, or control IgG were peripherally injected
Biotinylated 3D6, mE8, or control IgG were peripherally injected into aged PDAPP mice to histologically determine the amount of antibody crossing the blood-brain barrier and binding to deposited Aβ. The amount of target engagement was first evaluated in aged PDAPP mice receiving a single injection of the antibodies (40 mg/kg) and MEK inhibitor subsequently sacrificed 3 days later (Figure 6A, top). Animals injected with 3D6 had plaque labeling that was limited to a narrow area along the hippocampal
fissure, whereas mice injected with mE8 displayed robust plaque labeling throughout the hippocampus and cortical regions. We next performed a subchronic study wherein aged PDAPP mice received four antibody injections over 21 days and the animals were evaluated 3 days after the last dose (day 24) (Figure 6A, bottom). Similar to the acute study, the mE8 antibody robustly engaged deposited plaque, whereas 3D6 engagement was limited to the hippocampal fissure. To distinguish whether repeat administration of the anti-Aβ at high doses would result in greater target selleck screening library engagement, brain sections from a subgroup of animals from both studies (acute and subchronic, n = 3 to 4 per group) were evaluated. As shown in the figure insets, the repeat dosing of high concentrations of antibodies resulted in an increase in target engagement for
3D6 along the hippocampal fissure (p = 0.0111) and a nonsignificant increase in hippocampal target engagement for mE8. To better quantify the target engagement in hippocampus and cortex, a separate acute study was performed in aged PDAPP mice (Figure 6B). In both hippocampus and cortex, the Aβp3-x antibody mE8 engaged significantly more target than 3D6 (p = 0.0005, p = 0.0408, respectively). Target engagement for 3D6 was again limited to the hippocampal fissure area. A nontransgenic rat pharmacokinetic study was performed to investigate crotamiton whether 3D6 and mE8 access the CNS to a similar degree (Figure 6C). Although the majority of the CSF IgG concentrations overlapped
for the two antibodies, the mE8 did have slightly higher levels that reached significance (p = 0.034). The difference in CSF levels was driven by higher plasma exposures, as evidenced by no difference in the CSF:plasma ratio. Next, we investigated whether soluble Aβ1-40 could inhibit antibody binding to deposited plaque in a histological experiment (Figure 6D). Aβ antibodies were preincubated with increasing concentrations of soluble Aβ1-40 prior to performing histology on brain sections from an aged PDAPP mouse. Preincubation of mE8 with soluble Aβ1-40 had no effect on plaque binding, whereas the soluble Aβ1-40 in a concentration-dependent manner dramatically inhibited 3D6′s ability to bind deposited Aβ.
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e., a computer cursor or robotic device), and sensory feedback (Figure 6A). First, a neural interface monitors the activity of many neurons simultaneously. This interface is often an intracortical microelectrode array inserted directly into MI that records single- and multiunit spiking activity. However, others have successfully implemented BMIs by recording the activity of neurons in parietal cortex using microelectrodes (Carmena et al., 2003, Mulliken et al., 2008a and Musallam et al., 2004) or neural activity from multiple brain regions using electrocortography (Leuthardt et al., 2009 and Moran,
2010) and electroencephalography (Wolpaw and McFarland, 2004). The activity recorded by the neural interface is presumed to encode task- or goal-specific information that can be translated into behavior Bleomycin by a neural decoder. The physical manifestation
of the neural decoder’s output is realized through the motion of an end-effector, which is most often the movement of a visual cursor Nutlin-3 clinical trial or robotic arm in two or three dimensions. Finally, sensory feedback provides for a closed-loop system allowing users to observe movements of the end-effector and correct errors when necessary. A critical procedure in the development of any BMI is the creation of the neural decoder (Figure 6B). In its simplest form, the decoder is created by finding a linear relationship between neural activity and some feature of the simultaneously recorded behavior (i.e., position, velocity or torque) that allows subjects
to control the movement of an end-effector by modulating their neural activity. In preclinical studies using intact nonhuman primates, decoders have typically been Dichloromethane dehalogenase constructed using neural activity measured while the subject performed overt arm movements (e.g., Carmena et al., 2003, Serruya et al., 2002 and Taylor et al., 2002). Unfortunately, the majority of individuals who would benefit from a BMI are unable to produce overt movements requiring different procedures to train the neural decoder. The visually evoked motoric responses observed during mental rehearsal/action observation represent an alternative methodology for training decoders. In fact, multiple groups have recently demonstrated the ability of both monkeys (Suminski et al., 2010, Velliste et al., 2008 and Wahnoun et al., 2006) and human subjects (Hochberg et al., 2006 and Truccolo et al., 2008) to successfully use BMIs with neural decoders that were trained using the neural responses evoked during mental rehearsal/action observation or motor imagery. Wahnoun and colleagues (Wahnoun et al., 2006) were the first to address the problem of establishing a neural decoder in the absence overt arm movements. They trained nonhuman primates to passively observe computer generated 3D cursor movements in order to derive an initial estimate of the tuning parameters for each neuron used in BMI control.
, 2009), suggest that our optical approach to measure receptor in
, 2009), suggest that our optical approach to measure receptor incorporation into synapses can be used to analyze endogenous synaptic plasticity mechanisms. A number of in vitro and theoretical studies have examined the role of compartmentalized
plasticity in neuronal function (Govindarajan et al., 2006, Larkum and Nevian, 2008, Poirazi and Mel, 2001 and Polsky et al., 2004). Clustered plasticity could bind functionally relevant inputs onto dendrites and enhance storage capacity of individual neurons by locally recruiting nonlinear voltage-gated conductances (Poirazi and Mel, 2001). Furthermore, clustered plasticity can increase the probability of local spike initiation by enhancing excitability of dendrites (Frick et al., 2004), which in turn strengthens the coupling between a dendritic branch and the soma (Losonczy et al., 2008). Such branch strength potentiation permits temporally precise and robust somatic output, which Tariquidar is generally
believed to be important for information processing by single neurons (Koch and Segev, 2000). Clustered synaptic Selleck CHIR99021 plasticity could complement plasticity of dendritic excitability as mechanisms of experience-driven information storage (Makara et al., 2009). What cellular mechanisms could underlie such clustered synaptic plasticity? Based on simple simulations (see Figure S6), we found that our data with SEP-GluR1 (and GluR1/2) are consistent with a model in which the cluster of synaptic potentiation ADP ribosylation factor spans on average approximately four synapses, corresponding to ∼8 μm of dendrite. Notably, such a spatial scale is similar to the biochemical compartmentalization of dendritic plasticity machinery in vitro (Harvey et al., 2008, Makino and Malinow, 2009, Patterson et al., 2010, Schiller et al., 2000 and Wei et al., 2001) as well as in vivo (Jia et al., 2010), suggesting that the local spread of intracellular signaling factors is important for the coordinated potentiation among nearby synapses. In this respect the GluR1AA mutant, which should be insensitive to heterosynaptic biochemical signals (e.g., Ras-driven protein
kinase activation) and, thus, the effect of the heterosynaptic threshold reduction, showed no clustered spine enrichment. Our data cannot fully rule out the possibility that groups of presynaptic fibers with similar activity patterns, thereby driving similar levels of plasticity, make synapses on nearby regions of dendrites. However, a recent study in the auditory cortex argues against simple sensory activity providing such clustered inputs (Chen et al., 2011). Furthermore, a model in which the clustering is solely due to afferent coactivity is difficult to reconcile with the results observed with GluR1AA. Our data suggest that natural stimuli engage postsynaptic mechanisms leading to locally clustered enhancement of synapses.
The even larger increases in spine density in the present study m
The even larger increases in spine density in the present study may reflect even greater increases in synaptic input. Similarly, basal dendrites support the formation of recurrent excitatory circuits among granule cells in traditional models of epilepsy ( Austin and Buckmaster, 2004; Pierce et al., 2005; Sutula and Dudek, 2007; Cameron et al., 2011). The present finding that >50% of spines along granule cell basal dendrites were apposed to granule cell presynaptic terminals suggests that PTEN KO cells also support recurrent circuits. While it is tempting to speculate that these
changes mediate epileptogenesis in this model, however, future Selleck Palbociclib studies will be required to fully address this issue. The impact of PTEN deletion on granule cell function is likely widespread, and could impact many aspects of cell function not BMN 673 mw examined here. It remains uncertain whether excess mTOR activation among immature granule cells,
and subsequent abnormal integration of these cells, accounts for the development of temporal lobe epilepsy. The present findings, however, demonstrate that such a mechanism is capable of causing the disease. This observation, combined with previous demonstrations that the mTOR pathway is activated during epileptogenesis, that mTOR blockers can inhibit epileptogenesis, and the almost ubiquitous presence of abnormal granule cells in both animals and humans with temporal lobe epilepsy, indicates that this is a plausible disease mechanism. All procedures were approved by the CCHMC Animal Board (IACUC) and followed NIH guidelines. Gli1-CreERT2-expressing mice
( Ahn and Joyner, 2004; 2005) were used to drive cre-recombinase expression in neural progenitor cells. These animals were crossed to Ptentm1Hwu/J mice (Jackson Laboratory), which possess loxP sites (“floxed”) on either side of exon 5 of the PTEN gene, and CAG-CAT-EGFP (GFP reporter) mice ( Nakamura et al., 2006). Treatment of triple transgenic mice with tamoxifen, to activate cre recombinase, leads to PTEN deletion and GFP expression among Gli1 expressing neural progenitors and all subsequent progeny. Mice were maintained on a C57BL/6 background. The following genotypes only were used for study: (1) Gli1-CreERT2 negative, PTENwt/wt, GFP+/− or GFP−/− [wt control, n = 4] All mice were injected with tamoxifen (2 mg dissolved in 0.2 ml corn oil) subcutaneously at 2 weeks of age. At this age, the only Gli1-expressing neural progenitor cells still active in the CNS are subgranular zone progenitors, which produce dentate granule cells, and subventricular zone progenitors, which produce olfactory neurons ( Bayer, 1980a, 1980b; Ming and Song, 2005). At approximately 6 weeks, mice were implanted with cortical surface electrodes or hippocampal depth electrodes connected to wireless EEG transmitters placed under the skin of the back (TA11ETAF10, Data Sciences International, St. Paul, MN).
, 2010 and Stevenson et al , 2011) Given that the positive sympt
, 2010 and Stevenson et al., 2011). Given that the positive symptoms of schizophrenia may be the result of a disruption in predictive coding mechanisms (Fletcher and Frith, 2009), our data may serve to unite olfactory findings in schizophrenic patients with general models of the mechanisms underlying this disease. Thirteen subjects (six women; age range, 19 to 23 years) participated in the fMRI study. All provided written informed consent to participate in procedures approved by the Northwestern University Institutional Review Board. Participants were screened for abnormal sense of smell or taste, history of neurological or psychiatric find more disease, history of
nasal disorders, allergic rhinitis or sinusitis, or MRI counterindications. One subject was excluded from analyses as a result of technical problems with the olfactometer. Odorants were delivered by an MRI-compatible, eight-channel computer-controlled air-dilution olfactometer (airflow set at 10 L/min), which permits rapid delivery of single-component odorants and binary (two-odorant) mixtures in the absence of tactile, thermal, or auditory cues, custom-built in our lab and modified
from prior designs (Johnson and Sobel, 2007). Odorant stimuli consisted of methyl-3-nonenoate (A) and 1-hexanol (B), as well as a control odorant, cinnamaldehyde Obeticholic Acid molecular weight oxyclozanide (C) (see Experimental Procedures), either presented
individually or as binary combinations (i.e., A+B, A+C, B+C) to subjects through a nasal mask (Respironics, Murrysville, PA) that was comfortably affixed around the nose. Odorants were selected that were relatively familiar and easily discriminable from each other. All mixtures were of equal proportional concentration such that the same amount of the single compound was delivered in mixtures as when it was delivered alone, air-diluted at 40% saturation (i.e., 4 l/min of neat-concentration odorant and 6 l/min of air). Sniffs were recorded online during scanning via the nasal mask, by means of a pneumatotachograph (spirometer) that relayed respiratory-induced changes in mask pressure to an amplifier (AD Instruments, Milford, MA). Just prior to placing subjects into the scanner, we administered odorants A and B through the olfactometer and asked subjects to verbally rate the intensity of each odor on a scale from 1 to 10. The olfactometer flow settings were then adjusted until intensity ratings were matched. This also allowed subjects to become familiar with the two odors, which would be the designated target smells during the imaging experiment. Each scanning session consisted of 6 blocks of 32 trials (11 min per block). Before each block, the subject was informed of the identity of the target odor and was given a sample of the target.
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We also implemented a model-free Q-learning algorithm as further alternative strategy, which was clearly outperformed by the correlation model. We show that human subjects are adept at learning correlations between two dynamic variables, a process also represented neurally. Subjects were highly effective at exploiting this key metric of the statistical relationship between the
two individual resources to guide choice in a task requiring minimization of outcome fluctuations. This finding is in contrast to an often-proposed model in behavioral finance, which suggests disregarding environmental structure and using fixed weights according to the 1/N rule (Benartzi and Thaler, 2001). Our subjects performed better than this simple Venetoclax mouse heuristic and learned a more optimal strategy through repeated observations.
At a neural level, fMRI signals STI571 in right midinsula were coupled to the current correlation coefficient, whereas activity in rostral anterior cingulate encoded a correlation prediction error, a signal used to update an estimate of the correlation strength based on new evidence in every trial. Although learning individual outcomes is a central part of decision making, the availabilities of different rewards are rarely independent of each other in a natural environment. Our results provide evidence that subjects also learn the relationship between multiple outcomes by tracking their correlation, and this information can be used to decrease overall sampling risk. Commonly observed risk aversion in animals (Kacelnik and Bateson, 1996) and humans (Tversky and Kahneman, 1981) is rational in an evolutionary context, as a small but constant supply of food that always exceeds
the critical minimum for survival is far more beneficial Astemizole to viability than periods of alternating deficiency and extreme excess. In some other instances, risk-seeking behavior may occur, such as in gamblers, and may promote exploration and learning. Note, however, that also in that case a representation of the correlation in the environmental structure is beneficial, as this information can be used both for risk minimization or maximization. To generalize our results to more natural situations, we have to ascertain that the findings reflect a specific mechanism of correlation learning instead of incidental task variables. Plausible possibilities include shortcuts such as learning the position on the response slider by a model-free gradient descent mechanism or using a model-based strategy, but without representing individual outcome variances and normalized correlation coefficients and instead directly learning a representation of the portfolio weights. Our behavioral and neural data render all these explanations very unlikely. The best-fitting learning rate for outcome variance is similar to the learning rate for correlation and significantly above the one for value for each individual subject.
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A compelling description of auditory development in children suggests that perceptual skills mature at different rates and over a prolonged period, long after cochlear processing is adult-like. If quantitative behavioral measures can be obtained from nonhuman animals during development, we can then use these phenotypes to establish the relationship between neural processing and normal perceptual maturation. Additionally, we can ask whether perceptual skills that remain immature are relatively more vulnerable to experience
manipulations, including vocal learning and hearing loss. If specific postnatal experiences can be tied to distinct alterations to a behavioral phenotype, Metformin concentration there
emerges a second set of opportunities to relate neural processing to perception. Progress toward linking early experience to neural plasticity will require that selleck chemicals llc measures of neural plasticity in developing animals take advantage of accompanying measures of perceptual development. Challenges in this pursuit include finding measures of perception that are consistent between juveniles and adults, disambiguating the effects of cochlear and CNS development on skill acquisition, considering cognitive and attentional changes over development, and identifying specific neural mechanisms that underlie specific percepts. The opportunities described here are potential starting points to capitalize
on aspects of auditory processing and model systems for which there is already good evidence that changes in neural processing parallel perceptual development. We thank George Pollak, Beverly Wright, David Schneider, Emma Sarro, Carolina Abdala, Huanping Dai, Virginia Wohl, and the anonymous referees for their helpful comments. This work was supported by grants PD184352 (CI-1040) from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (DC009237 and DC011284, D.H.S.; DC009810, S.M.N.W) and the National Science Foundation (IOS-0920081, S.M.N.W.) “
“Efforts to explain individual differences in human memory using brain anatomy have centered on the hippocampus (defined here as the subiculum, dentate gyrus, and cornu ammonis regions, including fields CA1–CA4). This structure has known functional importance for the encoding, storage, and, many argue, retrieval of recollection memory (RM), a form of memory involving a detailed reexperiencing of individual episodes that is characterized by retrieval of an item and its context (Moscovitch et al., 2005 and Eichenbaum et al., 2007). Indeed, among dementia and amnesic patients, smaller hippocampi predict worse memory (Van Petten, 2004), just as hippocampal volume and memory decline together with age in older adults (Raz, 2000).
9–17 6%) of infants in HRV group (N = 10) and 6% (95% CI: 2 2–12
9–17.6%) of infants in HRV group (N = 10) and 6% (95% CI: 2.2–12.6%) of infants in the placebo group (N = 6). None of the six rotavirus gastroenteritis stool samples from the placebo recipients GPCR Compound Library high throughput contained
the HRV G1P[8] vaccine strain whereas in the HRV group, G1P[8] vaccine strain was isolated from one gastroenteritis stool sample. Thus, only one possible case of “vaccine associated” gastroenteritis was observed. Tests to inhibitors detect pathogens other than rotavirus in the gastroenteritis stool samples were not performed. Therefore, all cause gastroenteritis with G1P[8] vaccine strain shedding was classified as rotavirus gastroenteritis. SAEs were reported in 11 infants (five in HRV and six in placebo groups), with bronchiolitis and gastroenteritis being the most common SAEs. No fatal SAEs, vaccine-related SAEs or intussusception find more were reported in this study. It is important to study the safety of horizontal transmission of the human live-attenuated rotavirus vaccine virus from the vaccinated infants to the infants who received placebo because of the possibility
of conferring indirect protection or the theoretical concern of the ability of these live viruses to mutate and revert to their virulent form. Possible transmission of the HRV vaccine strain to placebo recipients have been observed in earlier clinical trials in infants (5–17 weeks of age at Dose 1) when vaccinated following a 0, 1–2 month schedule. In these studies, HRV vaccine strain was isolated from a total of five placebo recipients and possible transmission may have occurred in the unvaccinated infants [6] and [15]. In the present study, twins living in the same house were chosen because these conditions were conducive to analyze the true transmission STK38 rate between the pairs of twins. A total of 15 cases (18.8%) of transmission were observed in the twins that received placebo based on the detection of HRV vaccine strain antigen from at least one of their stool samples
collected. Of these, there were chances that five of the cases were not “true transmission” because in these transmission cases the vaccine virus was isolated from the placebo recipient either before or at the same time as the antigen excreted in the stool samples of the corresponding twin receiving the HRV vaccine (Table 1). The potential explanation for the detection of vaccine virus in the placebo recipients before or at the same time as the vaccine recipients are—firstly, the possible mishandling or contamination of the stool samples, secondly, ELISA test used was not sufficiently sensitive to detect low concentrations of the viral antigen and thirdly, there could have been a short shedding period after vaccine administration (e.g. 1-day, shedding between stool sample collected).
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Food policy under Trump and legalized street vending
Evan Kleiman's taste of life, culture and the human species.
Publié le samedi 04 février 2017 à 20:00 par webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW, Evan Kleiman)
Tags : Helena Bottemiller Evich, executive order, Politico, President Trump, ag policy, food policy, Sonny Perdue, food stamps, SNAP, soda tax, White House garden, Sarah Portnoy, taco stand, tacos, hot dogs, street vendor, street vending, Food, Health and Culture in Latino LA
We take a look at the food and ag policies under review on Trump's desk, get a history lesson on street vending in LA and find out where to stock up on sausages for Super Bowl Sunday. Jonathan Gold tells us where to get a juicy vegan burger, and we try a zhajiang mian recipe from Little Fatty, then Virgilio Martinez shares his diversidad de maíz at Central.
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Geek Food!
Scott and Kim Johnson tackling the food that YOU wanna eat.
Cooking The Books
Where food and fiction meet...
“The parallels between food and writing are so obvious and clear. It’s hard to talk about them because they’re inherent.” ~ Steven Brust .... Cooking the Books is an ongoing interview project that explores the meeting points between genre fiction and food. From Joe Haldeman to Elizabeth Bear, Zen Cho to Joe Monti of Saga Press, we've interviewed nearly 50 authors, editors, and agents over the past 4 years. Cooking the Books hosts written word essays AND podcasts at franwilde.net.
Country Cooks with Bill West
Pull up a chair in the country kitchen as we talk country music and country cookin'. Savor the conversation with musicians, chefs, foodies, and country fans as we talk about country food, country music, and the interesting people who create both. Host Bill West is the Program Director of NASHFM969 in Charleston, SC and is also the founder and resident foodie at the popular food site http://BarbecueTricks.com
Savor digs into how people live and how they eat – and why. Hosts Anney Reese and Lauren Vogelbaum interview the culinary creators and consumers of the world, exploring the science, history, and culture of food and drink, all with a key question in mind: Why do we like what we like, and how can we find more of those things?
The Clever Cookstr's Quick and Dirty Tips from the World's Best Cooks
Quick and Dirty Tips from the World's Best Cooks
The Clever Cookstr serves up the most timely, relevant tips from the world’s best kitchens. You’ll get a delightful mix of cooking tips from emerging and established chefs and cookbook authors, as well as exclusive insights from bakers, sommeliers, farmers, grocers, and more. Every week, Clever Cookstr provides useful information for aspiring and long-time food lovers— and for anyone who wants to get delicious homemade food on the table. If you’ve been looking for a fun, fast-paced, authoritative source of information on what’s hot in the world of food and cooking, this is it. Clever Cookstr is passionate about helping people learn to cook more, believing that time spent sharing good food is one of the most vital and enjoyable parts of life.
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Breaking: Man City Win 2018/19 EPL Trophy
Food for Living: #EndSARS in Nigeria
By Henry Ukazu
Dear Destiny Friends,
It is with heavy pain and burden in my heart I write this article. I didn’t plan to write about the #EndSARS movement currently trending in Nigeria and internationally, but I couldn’t help crying when I saw videos on social media on how the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) were killing, molesting, and extorting helpless Nigerians in the name of elimination crime.
It is pertinent to give a brief introduction about the origin of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The Special Anti-Robbery Squad was a Nigerian Police Force unit created in late 1992 to deal with crimes associated with robbery, motor-vehicle theft, kidnapping, cattle rustling, and firearms. It was part of the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCIID), which was headed by Deputy Inspector General of Police Anthony Ogbizi.
According to sources familiar with the major reason SARS was formed was when Col. Rindam of the Nigerian Army was killed by police officers at a checkpoint in Lagos in September 1992. When the information reached the army, soldiers were dispatched into the streets of Lagos in search of any police officer. The Nigerian police withdrew from checkpoints, security areas, and other points of interest for criminals. Some police officers were said to have resigned while others fled for their lives. Due to the absence of Police men for two weeks, the crime rate increased, and SARS was formed with only 15 officers operating in the shadows without knowledge of the army while monitoring police radio chatters.
However, SARS has not lived up to expectations according to Nigerians. Instead of protecting and fighting crimes, they have resorted to going after peace-loving Nigerians who they perceive as fraudsters when they see the citizen with expensive phone, car or living a flashy lifestyle, they immediately believe he or she is a fraudster.
This menace has continued for years and the citizens were crying helplessly for help to the government of the day and to those who cared to listen, but it’s unfortunate to note that their cries fell on deaf ears.
As you may know, when people are pushed to the wall, they are bound to react. You cannot beat a child and expect him or her not to cry. That’s the state of the Nigerian youths.
Let’s be clear on this, Nigerians are clamoring for the reform of the Nigerian Police Force. The #endsars movement is a call to end police oppression and brutality in Nigeria. Looking at the internet, you’ll see Nigerians have shared both painful and heartbreaking stories and video evidence of how members of SARS engaged in kidnapping, murder, theft, rape, torture, unlawful arrest high-handedness, humiliation, unlawful detention, extrajudicial killings, and extortion
On Saturday 3 October 2020, a video started trending on social media showing a SARS police officer shot a young Nigerian in front of Wetland Hotel, Ughelli, Delta State. It was alleged that the police officers took away the young man’s vehicle – a Lexus SUV. The trending video caused a public outcry on social media, especially on Twitter, with the #ENDSARS hashtag attending.
According to Martin Luther King Jnr. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Nigerians felt enough is enough and started to react against the system.
This made the Nigerian youths to request five-point agenda from the Federal Government of Nigeria on October 11, 2020. The demands which were signed by ‘A Nigerian Youth’ ask for the immediate release of all arrested during the protests as well as justice and compensation for all who died through police brutality in Nigeria. They also demanded that an independent body be set up within 10 days to investigate and prosecute all reports of police misconduct. The protestors also asked for psychological evaluation and retraining of SARS operatives before they are deployed to any other police unit. Lastly, they asked for adequate remuneration for Nigerian police.
The Inspector-General of Police M.A Adamu said that a new unit, the Special Weapons, and Tactics (SWAT) would replace the SARS, but Nigerians reacted negatively saying no, it’s just a change of name, the culprits are still there.
It’s sad to note Nigerians were more scared of SARS who was supposed to protect them from criminals.
In December 2017, Segun Awosanya took up an online advocacy campaign to demand the end of SARS brutality in the country. The campaign started as a social media campaign originally started from a hashtag created by a Twitter @Letter_to_jack (tagged #EndSARS) to demand Nigeria’s government to scrap and end the deployment of SARS. The public responded well to the hashtag with people all over Nigeria posting their experiences with SARS. The campaign was reported on by international media. By mid-December, the campaign took to streets with protests occurring in Abuja, and today, the movement has grown beyond the founders.
Nigerians globally have taken advantage of the #endsars to demand good governance and accountability. Many Nigerian youths who are tired of the system, they see no plan or hope from the government. Many of them have no jobs and are tired of poor governance. They, therefore, resort to using the #endsars movement to request for a total overhaul of the system and reconstruct Nigeria especially as it relates to hiking in petrol, hike in Power Holding Corporation of Nigeran, provision of infrastructural facilities, reform in Independence National Electoral Commission, education, healthcare, security, tax, immigration. In fact, all we are asking is accountability.
As a journalist in Washington Post, Karen Attiah put it “ A country that allows state security agents to kill and abuse people with impunity is not a mature democracy.
It’s interesting to note that, Nigerians have never been united like this before. Their unity, love, purpose, and energy is so endearing. They have no clear leader. According to Professor P.L.O Lumubake, Director of Kenya School of Law “The day Nigerian wakes up, Africa will never remain the same again”. Truly, Nigerians have woken up from their slumber to possess their possession.
It’s sad to note that despite the peaceful protest by Nigerians, the police force has been seen to shoot the protesters and, in some States killed some citizens. Despite losing lives, Nigerian youths still forge ahead with the slogan, we move! They have truly shown their leaders, they are accountable to them, they are literally saying enough is enough, we say no to corruption and bad leadership, they have shown our leaders that they can no longer be neglected, treated as a second class citizens, and as such, they have forced the government of the day to dialogue with them. There have been cases of sponsored thugs who tried to disrupt the peaceful protest, but protesters were able to unite and fight back. They sent a strong message “we know our rights and can’t’ be taken for granted”.
In conclusion, I call all lovers of peace, good governance, and youths to join the #endsars movement because “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Henry Ukazu writes from New York. He works with the New York City Department of Correction as the Legal Coordinator. He’s the author of the acclaimed book Design Your Destiny – Actualizing Your Birthright To Success and President of gloemi.com. He can be reached via info@gloemi.com
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Akwa Ibom PDP Chairman, Udo Ekpenyong, Dies
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State, Udo Ekpenyong, is dead.
Mr Ekpenyong died on Monday in Uyo, an official of the Akwa Ibom government who did not want his name mentioned, told PREMIUM TIMES, Tuesday morning.
The official said the chairman died of COVID-19.
Late Mr Ekpenyong, before his election as the state PDP chairman last year was the commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the state. He was known to be a strong ally of Governor Udom Emmanuel.
Akwa Ibom State lost two other prominent figures recently, a former Chief of Air Staff, Nsikak Edouk who died of renal failure, and a former military governor of the state, Idongesit Nkanga who died of COVID-19.
Lagos Police Hail Igboelerin Youths for Resisting Robbery Attack
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has commended youths of Igboelerin community for their bravery in resisting an arms robbery attack and recovering dangerous weapons in the bargain.
According to a statement signed by the command’s PPRO, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the criminals invaded the community at about 11:30pm on Sunday, but were dislodged by the daring youths.
“On 17th January 2021, at about 11.30pm, the youths of Igboelerin community in Lagos State resisted a robbery attack on the community when they dislodged some suspected armed robbers that wanted to rob the community.
“The suspected armed robbers came on 2 unregistered bikes with the intention of attacking their targets before they were repelled by the youths who have been involved in the community policing strategies of the command. One unregistered operational bike and one locally made pistol with a life cartridge were recovered from them.
“The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, while commending the youths of the area, has ordered for the manhunt and arrest of the fleeing armed robbers. He encouraged Lagosians to embrace the idea of community-based policing which has paid off in many areas of the state,” the statement read.
Policeman Prostrates, Begs After Threatening Panel Member in Ogun
There was disquiet at the Ogun State Judicial Panel of Investigation Against Police Brutality when a policeman, Sergeant Adeleke Olalekan, allegedly threatened members of the panel.
The panel, which sat at the Magistrate Court 1, Isabo, Abeokuta, on Monday, was cross-examining the Officer in-Charge of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, CSP Gbenga Megbope.
Olalekan had accompanied his boss, Megbope, who was a respondent in a case of brutality against some people in the state.
Olalekan was, however, allegedly caught pointing at the panel members in a manner suggestive of threats.
The Chairman of the panel, Justice Solomon Olugbemi, called him out and booked him for punishment as stipulated under the commission of inquiry law.
While reading out the law against the policeman’s action, the chairman said, “Any act of disrespect, insult or threat to the commissioners or any panel members while sitting in commission or any act of disrespect, insult or threat to a commissioner or panel members at any other time or place on account of his proceedings in his capacity as a commissioner or panel member shall be deemed to be an act of contempt within the meaning of this law under Section 16 of the same law.”
Olugbemi noted that the sergeant ought to be recommended for trial at a magistrate’s court.
But Olalekan, while being questioned, prostrated and pleaded for forgiveness.
The panel pardoned him, while the chairman warned against disrespect for the panel.
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The MoJo vs. WikiLeaks Smackdown Continues
In addition to its video of an American helicopter gunning down two Reuters journalists in Iraq, WikiLeaks has made its name by taking on rich and powerful targets like Swiss banks and Scientology. And then there’s its not-so-rich or powerful targets, like us. Two weeks ago, Mother Jones got on the whistleblower website’s bad side by running David Kushner’s profile of its elusive founder, Julian Assange. Since then, Assange has accused us of “gutter journalism,” “craven sucking up to the Pentagon” and just yesterday, being an agent of “right-wing reality distortion.”
The latest salvo was fired when I caught up with Assange in Berkeley, where he was speaking on a panel at an investigative journalism conference at Cal. Beforehand, I approached the lanky, spectrally pale hacker-turned-journalist and apologized for suggesting that he’d sneakily given his comment on our site a statistically impossible 50,000+ “likes.” More importantly, I urged him to correct any factual errors he thought we’d made. And with that, Assange launched into an invective-packed browbeating that wrapped up with him snarling, “I don’t have the time to rip that piece of shit to shreds. Do your own fucking research.”
So, in the name of research, during Q&A time I asked Assange about WikiLeaks’ evolving identity. As recently as 2008, WikiLeaks said it would act as a “completely neutral” conduit for leaked materials and would crowdsource the analysis. But it’s taken its old wiki-style site offline indefinitely and published the Iraq video in an emphatic (if somewhat meager) package titled Collateral Murder. I asked Assange if WikiLeaks’ future scoops would follow this new, more top-down approach. The suggestion that WikiLeaks has ever changed its approach, Assange replied, was misinformation from the “right-wing reality distortion field.” I told the room that I worked for Mother Jones, which got a laugh. Assange shot back, “There’s been a lot of changes there in recent years.”
With-us-or-against-us attitude aside, Assange did have many admirable things to say. What journalist doesn’t get a thrill hearing about a media organization that’s not only designed to be “unsueable” but makes good use of progressive media laws in countries like Sweden to come after the people who come after it? Describing how WikiLeaks successfully repelled the “bastard” lawyers from the Swiss bank that tried to shut it down, Assange stated, “We crushed them like a bug.” Summing up WikiLeaks’ mission, he proclaimed, “The method is transparency; the goal is justice.” Put that on a bumper sticker.
And yet, for all his certainty and bravado, Assange could be slippery. When he was asked how WikiLeaks vets its leaks, he said the process had evolved over time, which seemed to contradict his response to my earlier attempt at right-wing distortion. He explained that the site only publishes materials of significant public interest that are being officially or legally withheld from the public. That covers much of its leaks, but what about Wesley Snipes’ tax returns or fraternity manuals? Or the case of Michaela Wrong, a journalist whose book about corruption in Kenya was posted on WikiLeaks without her permission? The ultimate rule on whether to withhold a leak, he said, “If there’s any doubt whether somethng is in or out [of WikiLeaks], it’s in.” Assange has crticized Kushner’s article for describing this very attitude.
Asked by the Washington Post‘s Dana Priest to describe government efforts to come after WikiLeaks, Assange mentioned the “ambush” of a colleague in a parking garage by British intelligence or a private security firm. He might have left it at that if moderator Lowell Bergman had not interjected, “Ambush?” Assange then explained that the episode involved his colleague being approached by a middle-aged man in a “good suit” who began asking questions about WikiLeaks. He also repeated his claim that State Department agents recently tailed him on a flight from Iceland, one of a couple of allegations of official skullduggery he’s walked back a bit since he first made them. “It could be coincidence,” he said, “But there’s a 1 in 400 chance of that.” He said he has State Department records to back up his hunch—so why hasn’t he released them?
Following the panel, Assange was, predictably and deservedly, mobbed. Besides, who wouldn’t want to meet that rare journalist who could crush you like a bug?
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Boston Newsroom
BOSTON ARE PLEASED TO LAUNCH PRIME COMPUTER AS A NEW PARTNER
ST. ALBANS, HERTFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, August 26th, 2020 10:00 BST – Boston Limited will include Prime Computer in its product portfolio and distribute the Swiss manufacturer's innovative IT hardware solutions in the UK and Ireland.
With all Prime Computer products, their fanless design in servers makes them suitable for use in a wide range of operating environments across a variety of sectors including hospitality, medical practices, and hospitals. All products are completely silent with no other mechanical parts generating noise, making it ideal for any environment. As many businesses currently rely on digital services, Prime Computer products are designed to provide continuous operation and reliability for all business needs.
"Prime Computer is determined to further expand its presence in the UK and Ireland, enhancing the status of the Prime Computer brand as the leading Swiss manufacturer of energy-saving, passively cooled mini-PCs and servers, including our brand new PrimeMini IoT," says Bianca Brinker, who represents Prime Computer AG worldwide as Chief Sales Officer.
"With Boston Limited as a strong distribution partner, we are confident that we will achieve this goal. Boston is one of the leading distributors and manufacturers of innovative high-performance server and storage solutions, which are manufactured according to individual needs for their partners and attach great importance to partner support and training. Boston focuses on a solution-oriented product portfolio and offers a comprehensive range of storage, servers and solutions that complement our brand well. This forward-looking approach makes Boston a real value-added distributor and partner for Prime Computer and aligns with our values of providing sustainable solutions for the IT market" says Bianca Brinker.
Manoj Nayee, Managing Director of Boston Limited, adds: "Boston is proud to partner with Prime Computer to offer intelligent, sustainable solutions for all types of businesses. As digital communications continue to grow in volume and method, many of our customers are finding it increasingly difficult to identify workload-capable solutions that also have "Green" credentials; it is a pleasure to work with a company that are as passionate about sustainability as we are and tick all the boxes when it comes to efficiency, quality, durability and reliability."
About Boston
Boston Limited has been providing cutting-edge technology since 1992 using Supermicro® building blocks. Our high performance, mission-critical server and storage solutions can be tailored for each specific client, helping you to create your ideal solution. From the initial specification, solution design and even full custom branding – we can help you solve your toughest business challenges simply and effectively. Boston's high performance, mission-critical server and storage solutions can be tailored for each specific client. We help you create your ideal solution - customising the specification, design and even full custom branding - helping you solve your toughest business challenges simply and effectively. Since its founding in London, UK, Boston has expanded operations globally. Following on from the successful launch of Boston IT Solutions India in 2009, Boston launched Boston Server & Storage Solutions GmbH in Germany a year later, with offices also opening on the West and East coast, USA in 2012.
About Prime Computer
Prime Computer AG is a young, fast-growing Swiss company founded with the aim of producing IT hardware under economic, social and ecological aspects, focusing on energy efficiency and durability. With its sustainable IT solutions, Prime Computer strives to bring about a rethink with regard to the unnecessary waste of resources such as energy and raw materials. With precisely matched components, constant further development of the products and the care and analysis of stakeholders, the St. Gallen-based company has succeeded in creating intelligently designed, durable, energy-saving & environmentally friendly Mini-PCs and servers that are also fanless, highly reliable and low total cost of ownership.
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Travel & Music Videos
Creating cinematic films and videos are our forte as a production company but we also love behind the scenes photos, still photography, street portraiture, glamor shoots, mixed media and everything in-between. Throughout our filmmaking and video production journey, we often find ourselves taking great still images that are almost as great as the videos themselves. Be it jaw dropping travel photography or dramatic behind the scenes set photography, these photos make us pause from the hustle and bustle of videography and take a moment to appreciate how lucky we are to do what we do as a production company.
Additionally, we often found that what was happening behind the camera was sometimes far more dramatic than what was happening in front of it. Without an official outlet to publish these images, we thus decided to upload as many of them as possible online for posterity and ‘why not’ purposes. So without further ado, here are some of our past photos for your viewing and ogling pleasure.
Travel Portraits
Thanks to filming around the world, we’ve visited more than 110 countries and have managed to snap some incredible travel photos along the way.
Sometimes, the process of production behind the scenes is far more dramatic that what’s happening in front of the camera, so here are our best set photos.
Faces Of Laikipia
We were commissioned by the Kenyan state of Laikipia to photograph the spaces and faces of the area as part of a human interest project.
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Gilded Shadows
by Stephanie J Cress
Guardian of Deceit
by William H. Coles
A Red Dress
by G.L. Taylor
Space Taxis
by Adam Frosh, Harriet Frosh
Punny Jokes To Tell Your Peeps! (Book 4)
by Lisa Ayotte
Don't Expect Me To Cry
by Janet Bentley
The Three Witches and The Three-Headed Dagger
by Henry Regnault
Have a Peak at This
by Said Hasyim
Leadership Interview Questions You’ll Most Likely Be Asked
by Vibrant Publishers
by Amy Q. Barker
Cyberblade
by William Z Stone
The Reluctant Messenger Returns
by Candice M. Sanderson
Don't Believe The Hype Of The Negative Media
by Coach Michael Taylor
by Kris Fuller and Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino
The Big Adventures of a Little Tree
by Nadja Springer
The Prince of Earth
by Mike Robinson
Tiny Tim and The Ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge *Children's Edition*
by Norman Whaler
The Unwinding Cable Car
by Andrew J Brandt
The Rain May Pass
by Alan Shayne
Elevator Quest
by Emmanuel M Arriaga
Contact Author - Emmanuel M Arriaga
Emmanuel M Arriaga grew up in the inner city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From a young age, he was obsessed with fantasy and science fiction. Breaking the shackles of a low-income life, Emmanuel developed an interest in science, technology and engineering. He went on to graduate from Pennsylvania State University with a Master’s in Information Science. Spending his early years in the financial industry, he eventually landed a job with Google in Silicon Valley and moved to the West Coast with his wife Cynthia and Assassin bunny Ezio.
Throughout that time, Emmanuel has sought to share his vivid imagination with the world, learning the art of story crafting which led to his first published novel, Foundra: The Rift War in 2015. From there, Emmanuel has gone on to complete new novels, with many more in the works. His latest novel being Elevator Quest, which released in February 2018. With a love for travel, gadgets and volunteering, Emmanuel is enjoying life and helping others.
Reviewed by Divine Zape for Readers' Favorite
Elevator Quest by Emmanuel M Arriaga is an interesting fantasy tale for young adult readers and fans of adventure. The elevator cable snaps and everyone in it is frightened, thinking they will end up dead. But something unusual happens: Tasha and the others who survive the accident find themselves in an alternate, strange world. The group composed of office workers finds themselves catapulted into an adventure no one asked for, discovering new weapons and facing vicious and dangerous creatures. Do they have what it takes to survive these challenges and ultimately return to their own world? Or, could it be that they are actually dead and on the path to another form of life? That is for the reader to find out.
I loved this book right from its very opening. Readers are introduced to characters who are going through their normal day until something suddenly goes wrong with the elevator. The humor is injected into the narrative right off the bat and I couldn’t help smiling and laughing at characters like Tasha and Arnold. Right in the heart of danger, instead of thinking about survival, Tasha shouts: “Oh Lord, I’m going to die a virgin.” The chapters are short and well-crafted with endings that literally compel the reader to turn to the next page. Emmanuel M Arriaga is good with dialogues and the writing features a compelling blend of well-crafted prose and intelligently written dialogues. The setting is the work of a great imagination. Elevator Quest is well-plotted and beautifully written, a fast-paced, pulsating story that is as suspenseful as it is entertaining.
Patricia Bell
Elevator Quest by Emmanuel M Arriaga is a fast-paced adventure that begins with an elevator full of an eclectic group of executives and office workers, all minding their own business. Suddenly, they hear a crackle of electricity and see the elevator lights flickering. Terror pervades them as the cable snaps and they are launched into the depths below. Each of them is sure they are about to die. Chaos ensues as the elevator crashes to the bottom of the shaft. As the elevator lands, although they are quite shaken up, the passengers are all very much alive. The group ventures out, only to find themselves in a strange land with weapons that give them mystical powers. Together they struggle to stay alive as they battle monsters of all kinds. Unsure of what has happened or why they are there, the team fights for their lives to find a way out.
Emmanuel M Arriaga takes his audience on quite a ride as we, along with the passengers of the elevator, try to figure out exactly what is going on in this supernatural realm filled with terrifying goblins, creepy monks and other frightening monsters. And the ending is the real shocker! Something I never expected. If you are looking for an action-packed, surprise around every corner, full of guts and gore kind of story, Elevator Quest is just the book for you. The ending leads me to believe this might be the first in a series. I would love to read more of this exciting adventure. Great job by Emmanuel M Arriaga in keeping my attention from start to finish.
Anne-Marie Reynolds
Elevator Quest by Emmanuel M. Arriaga is a fantastical adventure story. It was a normal day in the office. Nothing out of the ordinary, just twelve people who happened to be in the elevator at the same time. Twelve people who all thought their lives were over when the cable snapped. But they were wrong. They all survived, but when they left the elevator they weren’t where they expected to be. Instead, they found themselves in a fantastical world, a world full of challenges and monsters, things they never even knew existed outside of the covers of a book. Fighting for survival, the team starts to wonder if they really were killed and this is what awaits them on the other side, or are they in some weird alternate reality?
Elevator Quest by Emmanuel M. Arriaga is an incredibly imaginative book, an adventure-filled story that defies all belief. You could imagine this story as a computer game, a game of survival using everything and anything you happen to find around you, and I think it will appeal to people who like that sort of game. This is a unique tale, full of twists and turns that keep you guessing right to the very end. Nothing was as it seemed, and the action was just non-stop, with a huge amount of suspense built into the story. There wasn’t much in the way of character development but, to be fair, that’s not what this story is about. You didn’t need to know who they were; it was purely about surviving a fantastical, mythical world of strange creatures and magic. The story dived headfirst into the action and didn’t come up for breath until the very last word. I thoroughly enjoyed it; it kept me reading and that’s the whole point of a good book.
K.J. Simmill
It was a normal day, with people doing their everyday things. Twelve everyday people, with nothing in common other than their need to use the elevator in that particular building at that particular time, are about to find a connection beyond the courteous 'hello'. None of them had imagined that fate had a different destination in store for them than that which they had planned. Fear had gripped them as the elevator began its unexpected, rapid descent, and yet somehow they survived, only when the doors opened they weren't in any place known to the building they were in. What's more, it seemed they weren't alone. Join Tasha, Jiro and the crew in a game of deadly survival as they are pitted against horrors they had never thought could be real in Emmanuel M Arriaga's Elevator Quest.
Elevator Quest makes me think of a number of survival games available on today's market. Plunged into perilous and confusing situations, the heroes use everything at their disposal to survive. It will hold a certain appeal to game lovers, and perhaps even fans of the fighting fantasy game books as it has aspects which remind me of both. Written in parts made up from bite sized chapters, the adventure's progression is easy to follow. The characters mostly learn to cooperate and come together, despite their differences. Some surprise revelations will keep the reader guessing what is afoot, and you'll find yourself turning page after page of magical weaponry, as well as dangerous traps and difficult challenges they must overcome if they have any hope of escape. Emmanuel M Arriaga writes in a straight-forward manner, telling the reader only what they need to know to advance the plot.
Caitlin Lyle Farley
Emmanuel M Arriaga’s Elevator Quest is a delightfully escapist fantasy adventure. Arnold arrives at work just like any other day. He steps into the elevator and, minutes later, it stops, the lights flicker, and everyone inside is sent plummeting down. Shaken, but still alive, the various employees find themselves in an unknown place as the elevator opens out into an earthen passageway. One that’s starting to fill with water. Arnold leads the distressed group to a chamber where they’re confronted by a creature that doesn’t exist. With the door locked behind them, the group has no choice but to move forwards, deeper into the den of strange creatures and with nothing but their bare hands to defend themselves with.
Right from the beginning, Elevator Quest sweeps the reader into a fun and exciting adventure. The fantasy world these people enter has a distinct game-like structure that reminded me a little of Sword Art Online. Emmanuel M Arriaga keeps the adrenaline levels high for most of the book, which forces his characters to evolve and adjust on the run. Elevator Quest has a large cast of characters that includes a good balance of diverse backgrounds and ethnicities, as well as a fair mix of male and female characters. This instantly makes Elevator Quest more relatable and realistic overall, although I admit that I had trouble keeping track of those characters who had less dialogue and direct involvement. Although the plot lacks depth for the most part, the ending introduces an intriguing explanation for the strange events. Elevator Quest is a captivating, action-packed thrill ride.
Sunshine_woman2000
This book kept my attention the action was continuous I am waiting for the next book will there B a series!
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Amazon Will Elevate Dave Clark to CEO Worldwide Consumer
By 2021 Amazon Air's fleet will include more than 80 aircraft and the new Air Hub (rendering shown above) will be operational near Cincinnati.
Amazon will have a new CEO of its Worldwide Consumer business early next year.
According to an SEC filing, Dave Clark — now the company’s senior vice president for Worldwide Operations — will take over for Jeff Wilke, who will retire in the first quarter of 2021. Wilke was seen as a potential successor to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Clark, meanwhile, will take over that job as Amazon continues to press forward with its food and consumables agenda, and as reports emerge from major urban areas nationwide about Amazon securing real estate for its free-standing food retailing concept.
Clark joined Amazon in 1999 and assumed his current job in January 2013, Amazon said. Wilke also joined the company in 1999.
In a memo to employees posted by Amazon, Bezos praised Wilke.
“Since Jeff joined the company, I have been lucky enough to have him as my tutor. I've learned so much from him, and I'm not the only one. He's been an incredible teacher to all of us,” Bezos said. “That form of leadership is so leveraged. When you see us taking care of customers, you can thank Jeff for it. And there's this important point: in tough moments and good ones, he's been just plain fun to work with. Never underestimate the importance of that. It makes a difference.”
Wilke, in his own message, said the pandemic “pulled me back to my roots in operations,” but he gave no details about what will come next for him. “I don't have a new job, and am as happy with and proud of Amazon as ever. I treasure the deep relationships we forged as we grew this company,” he said.
As for Clark, Wilke also gave him praise.
“He posses a unique mix of raw intellect, systems thinking, sharp wit, and tons of leadership courage,” Wilke said. “He's the big thinking energy behind the scale of Amazon Robotics, our Prime Air fleet, and AMZL deliveries. In the last two years, we moved Prime, marketing, and the stores organizations to Dave, giving him a chance to broaden his leadership beyond operations. Dave is now ready to lead WW Consumer, and I’ll be proud to turn it over to him early next year.”
Like all retailers during the pandemic, Amazon has had to do some improvising, including the delay of its annual Prime Day online marketing event. Even so, Clark will take on his new role as the company continues to expand, especially in the logistics engine that helps power its consumer efforts. Amazon, for instance, is investing in the speed of its supply chain by leasing an additional 12 Boeing 767-300 aircraft ahead of next year’s opening of the Amazon Air Hub near Cincinnati. Amazon also has recently debuted new delivery trucks.
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DoorDash Ventures Into On-Demand Grocery Delivery
By Bridget Goldschmidt - 08/24/2020
DoorDash's new on-demand grocery delivery offering allows more than 10,000 grocery items to be delivered from participating grocery stores across the country in less than an hour.
Aiming to expand the products and services it offers to local businesses amid the pandemic, San Francisco-based DoorDash is teaming with with grocery stores across United States to introduce on-demand grocery delivery via the DoorDash app for the first time.
Now customers in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego and the Central Coast can order from Smart & Final, while items from Meijer and Fresh Thyme are available to shoppers in Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Detroit and Indianapolis. In the near future, DoorDash plans to add selection across the country with such grocers as Hy-Vee and Gristedes/D’Agostino, with the aim of providing more than 75 million Americans access to a grocery store through DoorDash.
“DoorDash provides another convenient way for customers to get the value, selection and quality that Smart & Final offers, especially at a time when some are looking to limit trips outside their homes,” noted Navin Cotton, director of digital commerce at Commerce, California-based Smart & Final. “DoorDash’s on-demand grocery service is a nice addition to our online shopping options, and with delivery in under an hour, we know Smart & Final customers are going to appreciate it.”
The launch follows several years of the DoorDash Drive offering, the company’s white-label fulfillment service that powers direct delivery for grocery chains like Walmart, Hy-Vee, ShopRite and Coborn’s, in addition to many regional and local grocery stores throughout the country.
“This latest announcement by DoorDash is another tool that allows our customers timely access to the fresh offerings that we provide at Hy-Vee,” said Tom Crocker, SVP, e-commerce at the West Des Moines, Iowa-based grocer. “In today’s ever-changing environment, customers want quality products delivered in an efficient manner straight to their homes. This new service helps us grow our grocery business while meeting the needs of our shoppers who are on the go.”
The grocery stores on DoorDash are available on an on-demand basis, which means, according to the company, no scheduling required, no queues and no waiting. More than 10,000 grocery items, including dairy and eggs, local produce, and fresh meat and fish, can be delivered from participating grocery stores in under an hour. The grocery partners have been added onto DashPass, DoorDash’s subscription service offering members unlimited free delivery fees and lower service fees.
Additionally, for those seeking a quick, convenient meal from a nearby grocer, DoorDash enables them to order ready-to-heat or ready-to-eat offerings from such food retailers as Wegmans, Hy-Vee, Gelson’s, Kowalski’s, Big Y World Class Markets, Food City, Village Supermarkets, Save Mart, Lucky, Lucky California and Coborn’s.
“We promise to ‘make great meals easy,’ and it doesn’t get any easier than this,” observed Erica Tickle, e-commerce director at Rochester, New York-based Wegmans. “What’s unique about Wegmans Meals 2GO is the variety of delicious menu options. Since teaming up with DoorDash last year, we listened and learned, and fine-tuned a menu that has something for everyone at home or at work. We’re excited to expand our partnership with DoorDash by bringing our restaurant-quality meals to the DoorDash Marketplace.”
To have groceries delivered in less than an hour, consumers should look for a banner at the top of the DoorDash app to find out which grocery stores offer delivery near them. Contactless delivery ensures a safe and seamless experience for every customer. Further, during the week of Aug. 24, the company will offer new and existing DashPass members $15 off their next order from all grocery and convenience stores. The company also urged customers to check the DoorDash platform often for updates on added grocery stores and items available.
DoorDash has also recently revealed new or expanded partnerships with drug store chains CVS and Walgreens, and convenience operators like Casey’s, 7-Eleven, Circle K and Wawa.
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The Chanson d'Antioche: An Old French Account of the First Crusade / eds. Susan Edgington, Carol Sweetenham
In the Middle Ages a series of Old French knightly-spoken poems known as chansons de geste, devoted to the subject of crusades, took shape in the north of France.
To Follow in their Footsteps: the Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages / Nicholas Paul
The main charateristic of Crusade studies in the post-Runciman era has been expansion and diversification (much like the crusading ‘movement’ itself). One of many new ways into the topic is to focus on how crusades and crusading were received, understood and interpreted by different social groupings.
Popular Muslim Reactions to the Franks in the Levant, 1097–1291 / Alex Mallett
Contemporary interest in the period of the Crusades has intensified in the last decade or so, partly because of the inflammatory invocations of holy war and jihad made immediately after the traumatic events of 9/11.
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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Are Reportedly Already Unwelcome at Their Billionaire’s Bunker Country Club
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have only been landowners in Miami’s exclusive “Billionaire’s Bunker” enclave since December, but it seems the couple is already having some issues with their new neighbors.
While the outgoing presidential advisers became the proud owners of one of only 29 residences located on Indian Creek Island, as Page Six reported at the time, just having a home there doesn’t automatically guarantee that über-rich residents will be admitted to the compound’s even more exclusive country club. A source explained to the outlet on Wednesday, “You have to be nominated and make a formal application. But it only takes one member to object against any new member, and many members are objecting, particularly after the events at the Capitol on January 6.” They added, “The Indian Creek Country Club members are very picky and the word is that Javanka need not apply,” going on the suggest that “Jared and Ivanka can lunch with their fellow ‘patriots’ at Mar-a-Lago.”
The 300-member Indian Creek Country Club, established around 1930, boasts an 18-hole golf course and restaurant, with initiation fees upwards of $150,000, per Page Six. It’s also been embroiled in controversies of its own due to its former practice of only allowing a handful of Jewish people and people of color as members.
But just because Jared and Ivanka’s country-club future isn’t looking bright doesn’t mean their social calendar won’t be full. A second source told the outlet that the couple has already been made to feel very welcome among the Billionaire’s Bunker set, who, Page Six notes, are largely Republican, and the two have already received a number of invitations to dinner. Thankfully, Jared’s brother Josh and his supermodel wife, Karlie Kloss, also just reportedly purchased a $23.5 million mansion nearby, and both homes are conveniently located roughly 60 miles from Mar-a-Lago where Donald and Melania Trump are likely to spend most of their post-presidential life, even though they may not be legally permitted to live there.
And if all else fails, Ivanka still seems to have her dreams of becoming president one day, anyway.
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Review of Felicity Nussbaum, Rival Queens: Actresses, performance, and eighteenth-century British theatre
Sarah McCleave
Musicology & Composition
Theatre Notebook
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McCleave, Sarah. / Review of Felicity Nussbaum, Rival Queens: Actresses, performance, and eighteenth-century British theatre. In: Theatre Notebook. 2010 ; Vol. 64, No. 2. pp. 89-90.
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The Geographic Prospects of Human Habitat and the Attributes of a Novel Urbanity
Roberto Pasini
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This chapter describes the expansion of the human settlements at the scale of mega regions and the consequent dissolution of the city/country division. The text also analyzes the concurrent expansion of an idea of city over larger territories, specular to the retreat of the relevance of urban space in such expanded contexts. The text discusses the emergence of a novel form of diffuse urbanity, articulating the synthetic considerations in the previous chapter. The spatial production overflowing the physical perimeter of the urban walls and, beyond those walls, trespassing the limits of a space commensurable with that of the urban paradigm, generates a distinct environment. The idea of a set of novel attributes defining the new form of citizenship is outlined, opening a vast field of future research work. The potential for the formation of a novel semantic and mythology, to endow the expanded territories with a new sense, is debated through the compared analysis of a set of spatial paradigms, such as the world city, city world, cosmopolis, and postmetropolis. Among these, particular attention is reserved to the model of the ‘opposite but accessible shores’ and its world-making ability. The bearing platform adopted for the compared analysis is constituted by a free reading of Rowe’s ‘middle landscape’ construct, and its evolutions, such as the ‘emergent architectural territories’ that have been rising in East Asia, interpreted as a humongous experiment for the implantation of a fabricated mythology for a novel citizenship.
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Pasini, R. (2019). The Geographic Prospects of Human Habitat and the Attributes of a Novel Urbanity. En Urban Book Series (pp. 51-76). (Urban Book Series). Springer International Publishing AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77887-7_3
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AU - Pasini, Roberto
N2 - This chapter describes the expansion of the human settlements at the scale of mega regions and the consequent dissolution of the city/country division. The text also analyzes the concurrent expansion of an idea of city over larger territories, specular to the retreat of the relevance of urban space in such expanded contexts. The text discusses the emergence of a novel form of diffuse urbanity, articulating the synthetic considerations in the previous chapter. The spatial production overflowing the physical perimeter of the urban walls and, beyond those walls, trespassing the limits of a space commensurable with that of the urban paradigm, generates a distinct environment. The idea of a set of novel attributes defining the new form of citizenship is outlined, opening a vast field of future research work. The potential for the formation of a novel semantic and mythology, to endow the expanded territories with a new sense, is debated through the compared analysis of a set of spatial paradigms, such as the world city, city world, cosmopolis, and postmetropolis. Among these, particular attention is reserved to the model of the ‘opposite but accessible shores’ and its world-making ability. The bearing platform adopted for the compared analysis is constituted by a free reading of Rowe’s ‘middle landscape’ construct, and its evolutions, such as the ‘emergent architectural territories’ that have been rising in East Asia, interpreted as a humongous experiment for the implantation of a fabricated mythology for a novel citizenship.
AB - This chapter describes the expansion of the human settlements at the scale of mega regions and the consequent dissolution of the city/country division. The text also analyzes the concurrent expansion of an idea of city over larger territories, specular to the retreat of the relevance of urban space in such expanded contexts. The text discusses the emergence of a novel form of diffuse urbanity, articulating the synthetic considerations in the previous chapter. The spatial production overflowing the physical perimeter of the urban walls and, beyond those walls, trespassing the limits of a space commensurable with that of the urban paradigm, generates a distinct environment. The idea of a set of novel attributes defining the new form of citizenship is outlined, opening a vast field of future research work. The potential for the formation of a novel semantic and mythology, to endow the expanded territories with a new sense, is debated through the compared analysis of a set of spatial paradigms, such as the world city, city world, cosmopolis, and postmetropolis. Among these, particular attention is reserved to the model of the ‘opposite but accessible shores’ and its world-making ability. The bearing platform adopted for the compared analysis is constituted by a free reading of Rowe’s ‘middle landscape’ construct, and its evolutions, such as the ‘emergent architectural territories’ that have been rising in East Asia, interpreted as a humongous experiment for the implantation of a fabricated mythology for a novel citizenship.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-77887-7_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-77887-7_3
T3 - Urban Book Series
BT - Urban Book Series
PB - Springer International Publishing AG
Pasini R. The Geographic Prospects of Human Habitat and the Attributes of a Novel Urbanity. En Urban Book Series. Springer International Publishing AG. 2019. p. 51-76. (Urban Book Series). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77887-7_3
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