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National Hockey League, NHL Draft, Prospects
2019 NHL Draft: Midseason mock
The NHL All-Star Game festivities have come and gone, and with that, we head into the second half of the season.
While some teams will be focused on their spots in the playoff race, others are looking towards June and the 2019 NHL Draft in Vancouver.
The hype for the draft really turns up at this time, and fans of teams destined for a lottery pick begin to open the simulators to see where their respective team will land.
Using Tankathon.com, I simulated the lottery 100 times to fairly determine who would have the chance to pick first in the draft.
Much to the chagrin of the Ottawa Senators, they won the lottery. Meaning that they have to watch the Colorado Avalanche take the first player off the board as a result of the Matt Duchene trade.
1) Colorado Avalanche (Via Ottawa)
Jack Hughes, Centre, USNTDP
Colorado currently needs a bit of help down the middle. Carl Soderberg is currently the second-line centre, while 2016 first-rounder Tyson Jost is in the minors.
Losing Matt Duchene ended up helping the Avs land Hughes, who will immediately form a one-two punch of top-notch centres with Nathan MacKinnon.
The American is an elite talent who will make an instant impact and help Colorado take the next step towards being a constant contender in the Western Conference.
2) Florida Panthers
Kaapo Kakko, Right Wing, TPS (Liiga)
Florida found themselves picking second overall in 2013. They selected an extremely talented Fin in Aleksander Barkov, who now anchors their offence.
With another top-three pick, they can’t miss with any of the prospects available, but Kakko is unquestionably the second-best player in this draft.
He does a little bit of everything. He stands at 6-foot-2 and does a fantastic job of putting together great skating, vision, passing, and shooting ability.
Luckily for the Panthers, they’re set at centre. With Barkov and Vince Trocheck already in the top six and Henrik Borgstrom knocking on the door, they can just get the best player on the board.
3) Chicago Blackhawks
Vasili Podkolzin, Right Wing, SKA-1946 St. Petersburg (MHL)
Last year, Chicago picked in the top 10 of the draft for the first time since selecting Patrick Kane first overall in 2007. They got a great piece for the future in defenceman Adam Boqvist.
The Blackhawks also have the luxury of selecting the best player on the board, and with Hughes and Kakko all but guaranteed to be the first two prospects taken, that leaves Podkolzin.
The Russian is an incredible talent who is very hard to take off the puck and makes defenders look silly on a regular basis. Just imagine Kane and Podkolzin playing together on the same line in the future.
4) Los Angeles Kings
Kirby Dach, Centre, Saskatoon Blades (WHL)
Los Angeles is another team that isn’t too used to picking in the lottery. They picked 11th in 2017, selecting centre Gabe Vilardi. This would be the highest the Kings have selected since they took Drew Doughty with the second overall pick in 2008.
They do have some decent depth down the middle with Anze Kopitar and Jeff Carter holding down the top six. However, they have Adrian Kempe at centre on their third line. He could be swung out to the wing if there was another option down the middle.
Dach is the second-best pivot available in this draft. He has incredible vision and passing ability, and while he doesn’t possess elite speed, Dach certainly isn’t a bad skater – draft pundits have said that he has an impressive stride for a player his size. He’s a seemingly perfect fit for the Kings, who will likely love the 6-foot-4 centre on the forecheck – where they love to grind and wear teams out.
5) Detroit Red Wings
Bowen Byram, Defence, Vancouver Canucks (WHL)
Detroit needs some help on the back end going forward. Nicklas Kronwall is 38 and Mike Green is their other first-pairing defender. Dennis Cholowski is a great young player, but he’s only one piece to the puzzle.
Byram has the upside to be a top pairing defenceman in the NHL and is someone fans should fall in love with. He’s an aggressive defender who doesn’t mind taking a risk to make a play. He’s starting to figure it out offensively and has always been a reliable rearguard in the CHL.
6) New Jersey Devils
Alex Turcotte, Centre, USNTDP
New Jersey has gone centre-heavy in past drafts, taking John Quenneville, Pavel Zacha, Michael McLeod, and Nico Hischier in consecutive first rounds from 2014 to 2017.
There isn’t another defender that they should reach for in this spot, so taking an impact player like Turcotte is a good move.
Turcotte hasn’t been able to play as much as he likely wanted to in his draft year due to an injury that kept him out until after the World Juniors. While he doesn’t have a lot of tape this year, he’s still an incredible two-way centre who teams will covet in the top 10.
Zacha and Quenneville have both played on the wing, and McLeod and Turcotte can form a solid pair of pivots behind Hischier in the future.
Turcotte will be heading to Wisconsin next year so the Devils will have some time to figure out the centre situation.
7) Philadelphia Flyers
Matthew Boldy, Left Wing, USNTDP
Philadelphia is a team that can do a number of things in this position. They’ve got Claude Giroux, Sean Couturier, and Nolan Patrick down the middle currently. They also have Jay O’Brien, Morgan Frost, and German Rubtsov waiting in the wings.
Boldy is a winger who possesses some bite and the ability to fill up the scoresheet with his ability to both set up and score goals. He’ll be able to link up with 2018 first-rounder – and USNTDP graduate – Joel Farabee down the road to give Philadelphia some more creativity up front.
That plan is still at least a year away, however, as Boldy will be heading to Boston College next season.
8) Arizona Coyotes
Dylan Cozens, Centre, Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL)
After moving Dylan Strome to the Blackhawks earlier in the year, Arizona could stand to add another centre prospect.
They got Barrett Hayton with the fifth overall pick last year, but Cozens is a supremely talented individual who can only help the Coyotes.
Centre is one of the most important positions on the ice and the 6-foot-3 pivot is a pass-first player who also has elite speed. It would be a big boost to the ‘Yotes if they can land Cozens in this position.
9) Edmonton Oilers
Trevor Zegras, Centre, USNTDP
Edmonton could add another defenceman in the first round this year. But unless they’re willing to reach a bit, they can add another forward in this spot to place alongside Connor McDavid.
Zegras has lined up in a few roles this season with the U.S. National Program. When Jack Hughes has been out of the lineup, he has assumed his spot down the middle. When the projected first overall pick plays, however, Zegras has slid over to his wing.
He has elite speed and equally impressive distribution skills. There isn’t an overwhelming amount of flash in Zegras’ game. He just goes out and gets the job done. That’s exactly what Edmonton needs at the moment.
10) St. Louis Blues
Peyton Krebs, Centre, Kootenay Ice (WHL)
The Blues have a very underrated base of defensive prospects. Vince Dunn and Jake Walman are both solid pieces that will help anchor a blue line that’ll still (presumably) feature Alex Pietrangelo and Colton Parayko.
They could use a shot in the arm up front, and Krebs would be able to give them that. Scouts have said that he has arguably the highest motor of anyone in this class. He has the drive to compete and hates losing – which he’s been a little too accustomed to playing on Kootenay.
He’s already the captain of the Ice at just 17 years old. He’ll likely be wearing a letter at some point in his NHL career. On top of the intangibles, he’s also an extremely skilled player who is elusive and has fantastic hands.
Put him alongside the likes of Tarasenko and O’Reilly and watch what he can do.
11) Anaheim Ducks
Raphael Lavoie, Centre/Right Wing, Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL)
Anaheim’s core is starting to age, and they need to start lining up replacements for the future. They’ve already got some great pieces in Sam Steel, Max Jones, Troy Terry, and Isac Lundestrom. Lavoie would be another top-notch addition.
The 6-foot-4 forward can play down the middle or on the wing and has the entire package. He does, however, have some issues with consistency, according to some scouts. Lavoie prefers to show off his impressive release if he has the chance, but he’s also able to set up teammates with great success.
12) New York Rangers
Ryan Suzuki, Centre, Barrie Colts (OHL)
Suzuki possesses similar qualities to his brother, Nick. He’s got great vision, hands, and passing ability. Some have even said he’s the faster of the two – which could help him a tad in terms of stock.
The Rangers don’t necessarily need a centre, as they have Lias Andersson, Filip Chytil, and Brett Howden already. But Suzuki is another top six talent who can help them in their rebuild. The former first overall pick in the OHL Priority Selection has only gotten started. There are bigger and better things on the way from him.
13) Vancouver Canucks
Alex Newhook, Centre, Victoria Grizzlies (BCHL)
Newhook’s draft projections have been all over the place. He has been ranked as a lottery pick by most draft pundits but was also ranked 16th among North American skaters by NHL central scouting.
Playing in junior A makes it a little more difficult to truly pinpoint where he’ll land. His skill is unquestionable, though. He’s is a supremely talented skater who was ranked in the top 10 to start the year. He’s a deft playmaker who can put defenders on a highlight reel if they’re not careful.
Vancouver needs to start adding forwards in the first round. They have Olli Juolevi, Quinn Hughes, and Jett Woo as prospects on the back end. Their last two forward picks in the first round – Elias Pettersson and Brock Boeser – are now full-time NHLers. Time to re-stock.
Newhook will have a few years to hone his game, as he’ll be heading to Boston College next year. Vancouver isn’t in dire need of him right away so he can make a smooth transition to the pro ranks whenever he decides he’s done in the NCAA.
14) Carolina Hurricanes
Pavel Dorofeyev, Left Wing, Stalnye Lisy Magnitogorsk (MHL)
Dorofeyev is a new name that was brought to my attention by Steve Kournianos. He had the young Russian going to the Hurricanes, and after looking at his tape, the pick makes a lot of sense.
He has posted well over a point per game in the Russian junior league. While the track record for MHL draft eligibles cracking the show isn’t great, he has played nearly 20 games with Magnitogorsk in the KHL this year. He just scored his first career KHL goal in a game against Traktor on Thursday.
Dorofeyev will likely make the jump to full-time KHL duty next season. For now, he’s getting to learn from former NHLer – and Magnitogorsk head coach – Viktor Kozlov.
When he makes the jump over to North America, he’ll form a solid pairing with fellow countryman Andrei Svechnikov.
15) Buffalo Sabres
Arthur Kaliyev, Left Wing, Hamilton Bulldogs (OHL)
Every team in the league would be happy to land a natural goal-scorer in the draft. Kaliyev is that guy. He’s gotten the chance to be a go-to scorer for Hamilton this season, and he’s run with it, scoring 35 goals in 48 games.
His passing abilities are really something he doesn’t get a lot of credit for – Kaliyev has more assists than goals this year.
Buffalo could get another first-rounder this year if St. Louis finishes outside of the top 10 in the lottery. Regardless, they’ll be looking to fill some holes in the squad.
Adding another guy who has a nose for the net will help their top six immensely going forward.
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No Charges for the 21 Arrested in Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s Office
By sparki December 20, 2019 December 20, 2019 Announcements, Featured News, Front, RT Newswire, RT Press Releases, RT Reportbacks
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, December 20th, 2019
Contact: Southern Oregon Rising Tide, sorisingtide@gmail.com, (541) 392-0643
No Charges for the 21 Arrested in Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s Office Demanding That She Oppose Jordan Cove LNG and the Pacific Connector Fracked Gas Pipeline
Arrestees Speak Out And Call on Gov. Brown to Take a Stand for our Communities and a Livable Future
[SALEM, OR] – No charges were filed for the 21 individuals arrested at peaceful sit-in in Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s office demanding she publicly oppose the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and fracked gas pipeline. On the day that would have been their court arraignment, the 21 people from across rural and urban Oregon spoke out about the reasons why they engaged in civil disobedience to urge the Governor to oppose the project.
On November 21st, following a rally of nearly 1,000 people on the front steps of the state capitol opposed to Jordan Cove LNG, 10 impacted southern Oregonians entered Governor Kate Brown’s office and began a sit in, declaring that they would not leave until she declared opposition to the project. They were joined by dozens more, and nearly 100 people remained in Governor Brown’s office for 9 hours during which they sang songs, shared stories, and called upon the Governor repeatedly to take action. Police arrested 21 people who refused to leave when given a notice of trespass.
“As a landowner on the proposed pipeline route I will continue to fight the pipeline as I have for the past 15 years,” said Sandy Lyon of Days Creek, OR in Douglas County. “Not only do I feel the use of eminent domain is so wrong for a private company’s gain from the destruction of private property and people’s dreams, but crossing through our rivers and streams will be so detrimental to endangered salmon, lamprey and all native fish and their habitats.”
“I have marched, rallied, signed petitions, written letters, met with her staff, and now even spent the night in jail to try to persuade Governor Brown to do the right thing and stop Jordan Cove LNG and the Pacific Connector Pipeline. I do this because it is the only way I can look my 10 year-old in the eye and tell him that I am doing everything I can to protect his future from climate disruption,” said Kelly Campbell of Portland. “I urge Governor Brown to join me in opposing this destructive project and protecting our children’s future.”
“The corporations and politicians think they can use shallow promises of economic prosperity to pit rural Oregonians against each other while selling out the future of our planet,” said Derek Pyle of Medford. “It’s time to invest in green jobs, not fossil fuels.”
“Jordan Cove LNG is an environmental disaster both locally and globally,” said Beth Malitz of Corvallis. “Governor Brown should use her power to speak for all of us to stop it.”
The proposed Jordan Cove LNG project and Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline would cut through 229 miles of forests, waterways, cultural resources and traditional territories of local Tribes, and private land in four counties of southern Oregon. Tens of thousands of individuals opposed to the project have made their voices heard in federal and state public hearings and comment periods during 2019.
Governor Kate Brown has refused to take a position on the pipeline despite the huge opposition from her constituents and the recent opposition to fracked gas projects from Governors Inslee and Cuomo of Washington and New York. With federal and state permit decisions regarding Jordan Cove LNG expected in early 2020, communities are calling on Governor Brown to immediately take action to oppose the project and put an end to it for good.
Southern Oregon Rising Tide is dedicated to promoting community-based solutions to the climate crisis and taking direct action to confront the root causes of climate change. We are based in the mountains and rivers of rural Southern Oregon, with most of our members living on stolen Takelma land.
Tagged Jordan Cove, Kate Brown, Liquified Natural Gas, No LNG, No Pipelines, Oregon, Sourthern Oregon Rising Tide, Stop Jordan Cove
Community Members Occupy Jordan Cove LNG Portland Office Lobby in Solidarity with Impacted Landowners
By sparki May 22, 2019 May 22, 2019 Announcements, Featured News, Front, RT Press Releases
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
Contact: Dineen O’Rourke, dineen@350pdx.org, 631.830.7478
[Portland, OR] On Wednesday, May 22nd, from 11AM-1PM Over seventy community members gathered inside the lobby of the Jordan Cove LNG Portland office (11 SW 5th Avenue) to demonstrate opposition to the the proposed fracked gas project in solidarity with impacted landowners in Southern Oregon.
The Jordan Cove LNG project is a proposed 229-mile pipeline and export terminal to transport fracked gas through Southern Oregon to markets in Asia. The pipeline threatens the private property rights of hundreds of landowners, tribal lands and cultural resources, and 400 rivers and streams. The highly volatile LNG export terminal is proposed in an earthquake and tsunami zone on the coast and places over 16,000 Coos Bay residents in an hazardous burn zone.
If built, the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal alone would become the largest source of climate pollution in the state of Oregon. The full annual climate emissions from this project would be equal to another 7.9 million passenger vehicles on the streets according to a report from Oil Change International.
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Inside the office lobby, video messages were screened from Southern Oregon landowners whose property would be subject to eminent domain for the proposed fracked gas pipeline. Community members also joyfully listened to anti-fossil fuel folk music, ate blueberry pie (symbolic of potentially impacted blueberry fields), and wrote comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Large banners in the lobby read, “Protect What You Love”, “No LNG”, and “No Pipelines Anywhere”.
For 15 years, rural landowners, Tribal representatives, youth, environmental advocates, and other residents have mobilized to stop Jordan Cove LNG, which was originally denied by FERC in 2016. Just a few weeks ago, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) denied a Clean Water Act permit that the project cannot move forward without. The company still has permit applications pending at the local, state, and federal levels.
“Jordan Cove has threatened us with eminent domain for over a decade,” said Francis Eatherington, landowner in Douglas County. “Though they recently moved the route off our property, it is now much closer to the house, and so we are still threatened with the effects of a gas explosion. And what will happen when a forest fire burns over the block valve that’s cited near us?”
“Jordan Cove and Pembina have been pressuring landowners to sell permanent access to our land for their dangerous export project,” said Stacey McLaughlin, a landowner impacted by the pipeline. “They have caused us years of stress about the fate of our home and livelihood. I want them to pull their permit applications and stop torturing us.”
At the rally, people called on Governor Kate Brown to deny all state permits for this unpopular and unnecessary project and expressed concerns about the impacts of recent Trump pro-pipeline executive orders.
“Jordan Cove LNG is not welcome in Southern Oregon and it’s not welcome here in Portland either.” said Audrey Caines with Portland Rising Tide. “We will continue to stand with communities in Southern Oregon to fight Jordan Cove LNG until this climate disaster is stopped for good.”
Portland Rising Tide, a local all volunteer grassroots group that takes direct action to confront the root causes of climate change, organized today’s rally. They were joined by community members with 350pdx, Sunrise Movement PDX, DSA Eco Socialists, and individuals representing their own demands to end this pipeline project.
Tagged climate change, climate crisis, direct action, fossil fuels, Jordan Cove, Jordan Cove LNG project, Liquified Natural Gas, Pembina Pipeline, people power, portland, Portland Rising Tide, Southern Oregon, Stop Jordan Cove
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John Ball Zoo Red Panda Wasabi Gives Birth… To Triplets! [VIDEO]
Mom Wasabi, Courtesy of John Ball Zoo
It's three times the cuteness!
John Ball Zoo has announced that Red Panda Wasabi has given birth to triplets. The three little cubs were born June 25, 2020.
These are Wasabi's first cubs; dad Wyatt fathered two other cubs previously.
Dad Wyatt, Courtesy of John Ball Zoo
John Ball Zoo says the birth is very exciting and significant for the zoo and the red panda species. Red pandas are endangered and it is believed there are less than 2,500 adult red pandas left in the wild.
Wasabi and Wyatt have been matched at John Ball Zoo as part of the Red Panda Species Survival Program (SSP).
The SSP is one of the Association of Zoos & Aquarium’s many conservation programs. The SSP’s primary role is to serve as a breeding program for selected endangered or threatened species. The goal is to maintain a healthy and genetically diverse population for these animals in order to increase their numbers.
John Ball Zoo shared the above video of Wasabi and her cubs in the maternity den soon after they were born.
Mom and babies are doing well, the zoo reports! They'll now spend the next few weeks in the den bonding. The zoo will also perform the cubs’ first neonatal exam, provide the first vaccinations, and determine the gender of the cubs.
John Ball Zoo says we can stay updated on the red panda family on Facebook and Instagram.
Wasabi's pregnancy announcement came earlier this month on on Facebook.
John Ball Zoo reopened to the public Monday, June 8. They've instituted new health and safety protocols and are operating at limited capacity. It's recommended that all guest reserve an online timed-entry ticket to secure their visit time. Tickets can also be secured over the phone.
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Source: John Ball Zoo Red Panda Wasabi Gives Birth… To Triplets! [VIDEO]
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In 2008 Rockland became a designated U.S. Coast Guard City.
The U. S. Coast Guard has a long and rich heritage of service in the Penobscot Bay area. Earlier in this century, several lighthouses and lifeboat stations served local mariners. The Coast Guard Station Pier, formerly known as the Coast Guard Moorings, is located on two parcels of land at the end of Tillson Avenue in downtown Rockland. Prior to World War II the Coast Guard used the pier facility to moor vessels that worked in the area.
The pier was acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II as a base for its coastal patrol boats and turned over to the Coast Guard in January 1944. After the war the Coast Guard established a Group Command in Rockland to oversee operations. The Coast Guard purchased the 106 year old “Bird Block” building, extensively renovated it, and it became the home of the station offices, unaccompanied personnel housing, galley and exchange in 1982. Coast Guard Moorings has been used by many Coast Guard Cutters over the years and now serves the Abbie Burgess, Thunder Bay, Tackle and Station small boats.
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St George’s Cathedral Brahms’ Requiem
Date: August 16, 2015Author: Rosalind Appleby 0 Comments
The St George’s Cathedral Consort gave an unsettling performance of Brahms’ German Requiem on Friday night; mostly I think it was intentional.
Brahms completed the Requiem in 1868 after the death of his mother. He constructed the text from the German bible rather than the Catholic mass and the minor tonality, fugal writing and densely chromatic harmonies give the work a luxurious Romantic bleakness. Conductor Joseph Nolan brought to this a restless intensity with quick tempos and only brief pauses between movements.
The choir has a prominent role in the Requiem, involved in every movement with brief appearances from a soprano (Sara Macliver singing with amber warmth) and baritone (a lyrical Andrew Foote). The Consort was augmented to 26 singers plus 17 trebles and produced an exciting, sometimes strident sound. The ensemble’s trademark dramatic contrast ranged from hushed mourning to a spitting accusatory “Death where is thy sting?” The sense of ensemble wasn’t always coherent but the trade-off was an impassioned resonant intensity.
Brahms’s piano duet arrangement was used to accompany the singers and while it lacks the lushness of Brahms’ orchestration the assiduous Mark Coughlan and Caroline Badnall played with thunderous volume at times. Nolan maintained the momentum even in the final movement so that the closing bars had a sense of resignation rather than peace.
The Rhapsody for alto and male choir delivered far more balm. Brahms’ favourite voice was the alto and Fiona Campbell demonstrated why with her rich depth and capacity for soaring radiance. With smooth leaps and controlled power she shaped an arresting opening and pleading middle section. As the tonality changed to major the male choir added their glowing harmonies for a comforting finale. Coughlan accompanied attentively from piano although he could have been more prominent to match Campbell’s volume.
This review copyright The West Australian 2015.
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Anti-Arctic drilling activists arrested at Seattle harbor
By KOMO Staff Published: Jun 9, 2015
SEATTLE – Five activists opposed to undersea oil drilling off the north shore of Alaska were arrested as they continued their ongoing series of protests Tuesday morning, blocking a Seattle terminal where a Royal Dutch Shell arctic oil rig is being fitted out.
The protesters set up blockades at two entrances to Terminal 5, where the Polar Pioneer is being prepared for its journey to northern Alaska to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean. The massive rig has been a lightning rod for numerous protests since it was towed into Seattle in May.
Protesters at the terminal entrances held signs Tuesday morning denouncing the oil drilling as a threat to the fragile arctic ecosystem. The said their goal is to disrupt work on the rig in order to delay its move out of Seattle.
“Shell only has until the end of June to make it up to the Arctic in time to drill this summer. We want to stop them from leaving,” said Blaine Doherty, who is sitting in the road chained to another Seattle resident. “We can’t afford to let Shell drill in the Arctic if we want this planet to remain habitable.”
Seattle police arrested five members of a group that calls itself the Seattle Raging Grannies, who had chained themselves together in rocking chairs. Other protesters chanted “Rock on Grannies.”
Police officers said they were arrested for blocking train tracks outside Terminal 5.
Protesters said there were a few close calls throughout the morning as truck drivers drove up to the blockades at what the activists described as unsafe speeds.
A spokesperson for the protest group told KOMO News that a similar scene has played out a half dozen times so far – one time she said the driver narrowly missed the protesters.
“There have been some Shell (workers) who have been aggressive and threatening and have driven up extremely fast towards us, which is just a reflected manifested show of … industry’s reckless threatening, violent behavior,” said Zarna Joshi.
Joshi said people are in urgent need of relief from fossil fuels right now and all the damage that is being done.
“The fossil fuel industry is an empire. It’s a racist, capitalist, colonialist empire that is destroying everything that is taking everything and we must stop them. And I have chained myself to this earth, because this earth is my planet, this earth is my home, I only have one,” said Joshi.
In the end, it does not appear that the protesters stopped any employees or goods from getting to or from the rig docked at Terminal 5. And BNSF said that it held up one train behind Chelan Café. A spokesman told KOMO 4 that the train did not have anything to do with the Polar Pioneer, but was loaded with product headed to several local businesses.
The city of Seattle has previously warned Shell and its host, Foss Maritime, that they lack the proper permits for berthing the Polar Pioneer along the Seattle waterfront.
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Posted on 28/06/2018 27/06/2018 by Lisa Smith
Beauty and Global Trade in Margaret Baker’s Book
This is the second part of a two-part post by a former student of mine, who also happens to be an author of popular history. Karen has written on fun things like fashion and Essex Girls in history. Her original, longer post is taken from a digital group project on Margaret Baker’s recipe book that was completed for my 2016-7 module, The Digital Recipe Book Project.
The unlovely looking ambergris. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
In my last post, I examined themes of alchemy and beauty in Margaret Baker’s early modern recipe book. Today I want to consider what her beauty recipes can tell us about England’s growing global connections in the late seventeenth century. At first glance, the list of ingredients in Baker’s recipes appear domestic. But those seemingly-simple household recipes had extensive connections to trade and empire. For those who could afford them, there were an increasing number of luxury ingredients available from around the world.
Through her beauty recipes, Baker was buying into the expansion of the luxury market. With a growing foothold in India via the East India Company, traders imported silks and spices. In turn, they sold these commodities onto grocers and apothecaries from whom Baker was able to purchase ingredients to make her perfumes.
I was alerted to her participation with empire through her use of luxury ingredients in her culinary recipes, such as wines and quantities of sugar in order to make “sugar cakes” (f.88). In her perfume, she included civet (musky smelling substance from anal glands from civets) and ambergris (waxy substance secreted from the intestines of sperm whales).
Civet and ambergris were regularly used in perfume manufacture. In the seventeenth century, the aromas of musk and spice most effectively covered body odour. It would not be until the eighteenth century that alternative base notes would be used, allowing some perfumes to become increasingly more fragrant in conjunction with improvements in basic hygiene. Both ingredients continue to be used today, even with our vast range of scent choices.
We can see the use of civet in Baker’s recipe for perfumed gloves, as well (f.98). Spanish and Italian glovers settling in England in the sixteenth century had established the practice to sweeten the smell of leather, as the tanning process could leave an unpleasant scent. The most common fragrances were cinnamon or cloves, but the more expensive gloves were infused with musk, civet, ambergris and spirit of roses.
Seventeenth-century embroidered gloves. Credit: Metropolitan Museum.
The fact that Baker was perfuming her gloves is a significant social comment. By indicating in the first line of her recipe that damask rose water should used could signify to readers that her gloves were expensive, hinting at a level of wealth. Of course, it is equally plausible that her gloves were only made of linen. In that case, we can see an earlier connection to the Lady Croon’s pomatum that I discussed last week. In both cases their inclusion may point to Baker as a woman with social aspirations.
Baker’s instructions for perfuming gloves are similar to those found in seventeenth-century manuals, such as Sir Hugh Plat’s Delights For Ladies, which were considered part of a woman’s ‘secret knowledge’ (Rankin and Leong, 172). Plat provided instructions for perfuming up to eight pairs of kid-skin gloves at a time, proof that women knew how to redress the leather at home (Dugan, 150).
In a manuscript recipe book from 1685, Mary Doggett included instructions for perfuming gloves in the ‘spanish manner’. The gloves should be anointed until they ‘swim with amber [ambergris] and ‘drink up the ointment’–emphasizing the Spanish ingredients: ambergris, civit, and musk. Again echoing Baker’s recipe, Doggett suggested that the gloves should then be ‘Rowled up in fair paper very close so they do not lose their smell’ and next ‘layed 3 nights under the first bed quilt of the bed you lie on’ (Dugan,150).
Baker’s links with global trade rest with the transference of geographical, specialist, and domestic knowledge, as well as a household’s connections with foreign markets. The sourcing of ingredients resulted in the smells of luxury infusing the early modern kitchen (Dugan, 151).
It also gives us a social link to Baker via her gloves. Was she wealthy enough to afford expensive gloves that she would have wanted to keep scented? Or, was she simply buying into the early modern expansion of empire and perfuming cheaper gloves to give an impression of status? Whether the recipe was aspirational or reveling, Baker’s scented gloves were not just ornamental. The ingredients used in their perfuming highlight the ways in which recipes, global trade, and social status were tightly entwined.
CategoriesBeauty, Bodies, Early Modern, Global Exchange, Material History, Posts TagsKaren Bowman, Margaret Baker, perfumes, scents
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5 infectiously entertaining pandemic pics - RED - Relevant. Essential. Denver.
5 infectiously entertaining pandemic pics
Stream these contagious classics to build your psychological resilience to 2020.
By Mark Cox
Did you hear the news? People who watch horror and dystopian movies appear to be more psychologically resilient to the pandemic. With that in mind, RED reached out to horror-movie expert Eneri “Netty” Rodriguez, associate director of the Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy at Metropolitan State University of Denver, for her five contagious classics.
Netty Rodriguez: This fiendishly inventive found-footage film, filmed entirely on Zoom, centers on a group of British friends who decide to host an online séance during the early stages of the COVID-19 lockdown. It’s only 56 minutes long and so up to date that it features an actual elbow bump. But what makes “Host” so unbelievably terrifying is how it channels our shared firsthand experience of pandemic life. You’re left feeling that this could really happen to you.
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“The Crazies” (1973)
Netty Rodriguez: When a small Pennsylvania town is accidentally struck by a biological weapon that causes permanent insanity, its law-abiding residents are transformed into a murderous horde. Enter an army of faceless soldiers in hazmat suits and gas masks, ready for a grisly showdown. Director George Romero, godfather of the zombie genre, cleverly weaves his trademark social commentary into the blood and mayhem here. I rewatched it when we first went into lockdown, and it couldn’t be more on-brand for this ridiculous year.
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“Train to Busan” (2016)
Netty Rodriguez: This South Korean zombie flick is a refreshing take on a genre that’s too often full of tired tropes and predictable outcomes. A businessman and his daughter board the eponymous train to escape just as an undead epidemic starts ravaging the country – but guess who’s also slipped on board?
Combining elements of the zombie, action and outbreak genres, the movie is breathlessly entertaining and also delivers a warm, human story amid all the gore. Ironically, the planned release of a sequel this year has been delayed due to our real-life viral outbreak. Talk about life imitating art.
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Netty Rodriguez: A classic from the father of body horror, David Cronenberg. Following an experimental surgical procedure, a young woman discovers a taste for human blood and a weird growth under her arm from which a phallic red stinger emerges to pierce unwitting victims. Naturally, her infected victims also become bloodthirsty and highly contagious monsters. This is a brutal parasitic treat, not for the faint of heart.
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“Virus” (2019)
Netty Rodriguez: This contemporary medical thriller and fictional documentary is based on the actual Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, India, which happened two years ago. A suspenseful emotional rollercoaster, it shows how a group of brave people – including medical professionals, health officials and residents – banded together to overcome the deadly disease. In truth, it can feel a little too close to home in 2020. But it really captures the power of community and also acts as a kind of homage to the real-life workers during this outbreak. It’s certainly worth a watch.
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Manic Presents / Premier Concerts Update 06-13-2019
Manic Presents / Premier Concerts Guest Post:
The Manic Presents Redscroll Blog is back, and we’ve got some exciting announcements this week! Just announced at College Street Music Hall – Comedian and Saturday Night Live cast member Leslie Jones on (9/7) and Singer-songwriter and winner of America’s Got Talent season eleven Grace VanderWaal on (9/14)! At Wall Street Theater we have multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Kishi Bashi on (11/1)! Just announced at Space Ballroom – An Evening With Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop on (8/25), Philadelphia indie-rock outfit Slaughter Beach, Dog (Jake Ewald from Modern Baseball) on (9/20) with Cave People and Early Animator, comedian/actor/writer Brian Posehn on (10/12), and indie-pop project Yoke Lore on (10/29)! Be sure to grab your tickets!
This week’s show schedule begins TOMORROW Friday (6/14) with a SOLD OUT Death Cab for Cutie at College Street Music Hall with Jenny Lewis! On Saturday (6/15) instrumental artist William Tyler (of Silver Jews, Lambchop) invades Space Ballroom (Front Room) with Dan Greene (of Mountain Movers) and on Sunday (6/16), another SOLD OUT show as Providence’s recently united noise-rock band Daughters takes Space Ballroom with openers Bambara and Eye Flys! Monday (6/17) Cafe Nine will host Sketch tha cataclysm as part of our Manic Monday music series with support from Sotorios, AQMNI Kings and DJ Mo Niklz. Wednesday (6/19) is a jam-packed night, as College Street Music Hall welcomes The Milk Carton Kids with Twain, and the Space Ballroom presents Thank You Scientist with Bent Knee and Head With Wings! Get your weekly dose of live music at one of our awesome shows!
CONTEST TIME! Enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to Sebadoh at Space Ballroom on Thursday, June 20th as well as a CD copy of their 2013 record, “Defend Yourself.” Their latest album “Act Surprised” will be available for sale at the show so enter today!
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Keep an eye out for more announcements and we’ll see you back here next Thursday!
Friday (6/14)
Death Cab for Cutie w/ Jenny Lewis
SOLD OUT/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM
College Street Music Hall – New Haven
INFO: Thank You for Today is the sound of Death Cab for Cutie both expanding and refining; a band twenty years into its evolution, still uncovering new curves in its signatures, new sonic corners to explore. The Seattle band’s ninth studio album, recorded in Los Angeles with producer Rich Costey in late 2017 and early 2018, stands alongside classic Death Cab for Cutie albums including their 1998 debut Something About Airplanes and 2003’s masterful Transatlanticism as a definitive collection — ten tracks that are by turns beautiful and dynamic and darkly anthemic and bittersweet. “I realized early on in the process that I wanted to write a record that is very much who we are,” says singer and guitarist Ben Gibbard. “I wanted to go more inward, and create something more personal.” On songs such as the kinetic “Gold Rush,” “Northern Lights” and “You Moved Away,” Gibbard ruminates on the flux going on in his hometown, and weaves a thread throughout the album about how interconnected geography is with memory, and how hard it can be to hold onto places, and to people, too.
Saturday (6/15)
William Tyler (of Silver Jews, Lambchop) w/ Dan Greene (of Mountain Movers)
$15 /All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM
Space Ballroom (Front Room) – Hamden
INFO: Guitarist William Tyler was born and bred in Nashville and has played with Lambchop, Silver Jews, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Charlie Louvin, and Candi Staton. He currently resides in Los Angeles, most recently released Modern Country, his fourth full-length album, on Merge in 2016. This entirely instrumental recording features an ensemble backing group consisting of multi-instrumentalist Phil Cook (Hiss Golden Messenger, Blind Boys of Alabama), bassist Darin Gray (Tweedy, Jim O’Rourke), and percussionist Glenn Kotche (Wilco). Modern Country is a collection of songs about the vanishing America that still exists on back roads, in small towns, on AM radio stations. Tyler doesn’t offer optimism or pessimism but rather a calm and measured commentary in our age of anxiety.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: http://bit.ly/2XVpfWK
Sunday (6/16)
Daughters w/ Bambara, Eye Flys
Space Ballroom – Hamden
INFO: Daughters is vocalist Alexis Marshall, guitar player Nick Sadler, drummer Jon Syverson and bass player Sam Walker. Following the release of their 2010 self-titled album, the band took an indefinite hiatus, returning in 2013 for a pair of sold out hometown shows in Providence, and a subsequent smattering of live dates in the intervening years, including joining Dillinger Escape Plan for their final live outings in December of 2017. Daughters have been hailed for their visceral performances, both live and on record, with Pitchfork describing them as “manic” and “pummeling” and Punk News pointing to their “frantic energy” and “spastic urgency.”
Monday (6/17)
Sketch Tha Cataclysm w/ Sotorios, AQMNI Kings (UZOO), DJ Mo Niklz
FREE WITH RSVP ($5 at the door)/21 and over/Doors at 7:00PM
Cafe Nine – New Haven
INFO: Sketch tha cataclysm is the pen name of Waterbury, CT born MC/Producer/Poet Armando Acevedo II. Through 14 projects of artful indie hip-hop, he’s unleashed torrents of multi-syllabic introspection and emotional release over canvases of funk, rock, salsa, and more. Whether solo, backed by a dj, or a full band, the stage show is always a dynamic and full bodied experience seeking to connect and move audiences all around.
RSVP HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2MGCbyJ
Wednesday (6/19)
The Milk Carton Kids w/ Twain
$35 – $45/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM
INFO: Waltzing into disaster and its aftermath, The Milk Carton Kids’ “All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do” arrives from ANTI- Records on June 29.
The new project marks the first time that acoustic duo Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale have brought a band into the studio with them. “We wanted to do something new,” Pattengale says. “We had been going around the country yet another time to do the duo show, going to the places we’d been before. There arose some sort of need for change.”
Though they didn’t approach the new album conceptually, a theme of shattered realities began to emerge out of the songs that sparked to life. Recent events provided a bruising background for the record, yet the project is somehow bigger than any personal grief. Two-part harmonies ride acoustic guitars high above the haunting landscape created by the presence of the band, as if Americana went searching for a lost America.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2st3EY2
Thank You Scientist w/ Bent Knee, Head With Wings
$16.50 – $20/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM
INFO: We are a 7-headed monster. Our latest record “Stranger Heads Prevail” is available everywhere via Evil Ink Records!
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2HrzEo0
Sunday, August 25th
An Evening With Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop
$20 – $25/All Ages/Doors at 7PM
INFO: Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop aims to explore modern music and have some laughs along the way.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRIDAY 6/14 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2K8bPnc
Monday, September 9th
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE — Season: 40 — Pictured: Leslie Jones — (Photo by: Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC)
INFO: Leslie Jones has completed her 3rd season on Saturday Night Live – her work on the long standing sketch show has garnered her an Emmy Award nomination and inclusion on the Time 100 list. Leslie has covered the most recent summer and winter Olympics for NBC and was the host of The 2017 BET Awards. She is currently recording one of the lead roles in Angry Birds 2 for Sony Pictures.
Jones also starred in Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters, alongside Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon. Her other film credits include Chris Rock’s Top Five, Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck and the animated film Sing.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRIDAY 6/14 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2K93oIh
Friday, September, 14th
$26.50/All Ages/Doors at 7PM
INFO: Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, model, philanthropist, high school freshman—Grace VanderWaal contains incredible multitudes. Following the release of her best-selling EP, Perfectly Imperfect, and full-length album, Just The Beginning, the America’s Got Talent winner is back with new music for 2019. Described as a “mature songwriter” and “pop natural” by The New York Times, VanderWaal’s new song, “Stray,” debuts a moody, searching sound that’s a departure from her signature airy ukulele riffs while considering “the exhilarating fear and freedom of growing up” with all the introspection and vulnerability that have become hallmarks of her songwriting. Always evolving and keen on expanding her artistry, VanderWaal recently tackled the title role of Stargirl, a film adaptation of Jerry Spinelli’s best-selling young adult novel set to debut in 2020. Meanwhile, she’s currently attending school in her hometown and looking forward to prom. As VanderWaal puts it: “Being on stage and being at school, it’s just two different parts of my personality.”
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRIDAY 6/14 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2KanLF3
Friday, September 20th
Slaughter Beach, Dog w/ Cave People, Early Animator
$15/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM
INFO: Across the previous Slaughter Beach, Dog albums, Jake Ewald has crafted a specific sound. It’s one that incorporates pop music, indie-rock, folk, and just the faintest dash of punk in order to create something that’s accessible but still artistically rich. With Safe And Also No Fear, the band’s third album, Ewald has abandoned his usual practices in service of creating something that, try as one might, isn’t so easy to describe.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2Go04G7
Saturday, October 12th
$20 – $30All Ages/Doors at 7PM
INFO: Comedian/actor/writer Brian Posehn always has a full plate in front of him. He released his debut memoir, Forever Nerdy, in 2018. Brian is constantly touring as a stand-up comedian in the best comedy clubs and rock venues in the country. 2013 marked the release of his first hour long special, The Fartist, through Netflix. His latest specials “25×2” and “Criminally Posehn” can be seen on SeeSo. He has a popular podcast, Nerd Poker, on the Earwolf Network.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRIDAY 6/14 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2K2xKwi
Tuesday, October 29th
Yoke Lore
INFO: “A ‘yoke’ is something that holds things together. ‘Lore’ means a set of stories or a collection of ideas about an event, time, or culture,” explains Adrian Galvin, when asked about the meaning behind his musical moniker Yoke Lore. New York indie pop project Yoke Lore is the solo musical venture of Adrian Galvin, previously of Yellerkin and Walk the Moon. Yoke Lore layers the harmonies of Panda Bear, the soulful beats of M83, and the modern pop of Blackbird to tell “the stories of how we are bound.” Galvin’s songs combine echoing waves of banjo, vocals, and percussion to create arresting pop music with tactile candor and conviction. Galvin continues, “I want to tell stories about how memories, relationships, apprehensions, and big dreams hold us together. I think that exploring universal experiences both emotional and spiritual are best conveyed through the potency of personal stories. And music wields a power to render the very personal, epic.”
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRIDAY 6/14 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2MEy06I
Friday, November 1st
Kishi Bashi
$20 GA – $35 (Opera Boxes)All Ages/Doors at 7PM
Wall Street Theater – Norwalk
INFO: Imagine being forced from your home. Imagine being sent to a prison camp with no trial, and no promise of release. Imagine all this happened simply because of the language you speak, the shade of your skin, or the roots of your family tree. For over 120,000 Japanese-Americans this was a reality during World War II. It’s a reality that Kishi Bashi seeks to reckon with on his latest release Omoiyari.
Omoiyari is Kishi Bashi’s fourth album — following the acclaimed 151a (2012), Lighght (2014), and Sonderlust (2016), which have garnered serious acclaim from outlets including NPR Music, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian — and his most important yet. Many of the songs were initially inspired by history and oppression, and he deftly weaves tales of love, loss, and wanting to connect listeners to the past. Channeling the hard-learned lessons of history, Omoiyari is an uncompromising musical statement on the turbulent sociopolitical atmosphere of present-day America.
While the theme of Omoiyari is rooted in 1940s America, the album’s message is timeless. In exploring the emotional lives of the innocent Japanese-Americans who were unjustly incarcerated, Kishi Bashi hopes to nurture a sense of empathy, or omoiyari, in all who hear the album.
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Edward Luttwak, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the First Century AD to the Third (1976)
On 18 July 2018 By piotrekIn books, non-fiction, Piotrek
Author: Edward Luttwak
Title: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the First Century AD to the Third
I really enjoyed our last post and first excursion into non-fiction, and so now I follow with another one, this time less controversial and something every epic/military fantasy fan can safely read. My original idea for how to select non-fiction books for Re-enchantment was to find tomes that could be used to better enjoy genre fiction. I’m a great believer in context, in building up one’s general knowledge to see the broader picture. It’s crucial for every serious reader of historical novels, but with fantasy, so deeply connected to the medieval and ancient history of our planet, it’s just as useful. There were never any wizards nor dragons on this Earth, but we had knights, and legions, and empires that had to rely on primitive (when compared to our) technology – and if we read a bit about them, we can judge – and appreciate – the worldbuilding of genre masters so much more.
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire… by Edward Luttwak was a book I mentioned before, while criticizing a semi-historical novel I did not like, but Luttwak is not a starting point for people interested in Roman history. For that, go to /r/history, they have excellent sections for book and podcast recommendation. Books I’ve read are in Polish and 10-20 years behind latest research. Luttwak wrote a book on strategy of an ancient empire and whatever historians of antiquity might find in his arguments, it’s a great way to further your understanding of how difficult it was to defend a large state without modern communications and logistics. It definitely should be read by every genre author with worldbuilding ambitions.
In its 200 pages (the rest is notes), reach in maps and figures, book divides the military doctrine of the Roman Empire into three distinctive stages. The first one, under the rulers like Octavian and Nero, relied on mobile armies, a system of client states, and the fact that Empire had few enemies bold enough to risk its anger. During the second stage, at the height of its power, Rome led by leaders like Vespasian and Marcus Aurelius annexed most of its ineffective allies and defended its very long borders on perimeter, from behind such powerful fortifications as the famous Hadrian’s Wall. Finally, weakened by economic crises and civil wars, facing increasingly difficult threats on all fronts, Romans had to give up on trying to defend all the borders all the time and, in time, created a much larger network of fortifications in the strategic points way inside Empire’s borders, to delay and contain enemies that couldn’t be kept outside imperial lands. This so called defense-in-depth is a concept explicitly formulated centuries after Empire’s collapse and it’s debatable whether Roman decision-makers could establish and uphold – in a highly destabilized, declining Empire – such a mature and complex strategy. Sure, but it’s not the point here. It’s still a great book if you want to understand how the military was managed by great empires of old and what kinds of threats they could encounter.
The reasoning behind troops deployment, the way fortifications were used not just a picturesque background for battles, but as tools of policy, ways ancient Empires interacted with different types of neighbours… and how they could try to postpone their decline and collapse.
It’s a short book, I don’t think there’s a need to go into details, I do not intend (nor am I able) to offer a kind of review a professional historian could. I just want to advertise this as a great way to add a little strategic depth to your understanding of military fantasy 😉
And there is strategy in fantasy, starting with LotR, where, to mention just the easiest example, Gondor uses its fortifications and the allied Rohirrim to secure its borders, against greater and great odds and with decreasing efficiency. Every good war written into genre fiction has its wider considerations, even if not explicitly explained to the reader. Some great writers use geostrategic chess game as a backbone of their entire series, the long war between Bayaz and Khalul is my favourite part of The First Law universe!
I see, in many books, a tendency to simplify these issues. Often, it’s a reflection of how authors sees current politics, and a few stereotypes about history he or she caught along the way. With Luttwak you can look beyond that, to understand how the economic and geographical realities shaped history long before the formal establishment of political science. As George R.R. Martin showed us, when you add dragons to history, details change, but the general rules of strategy don’t.
Highly recommended, at least for fans of relevant subgenres.
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An excursion into non-fiction #1: Frans de Waal, The Bonobo and the Atheist (2013)
Brian McClellan, Wrath of Empire (2018)
3 thoughts on “Edward Luttwak, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the First Century AD to the Third (1976)”
Lashaan (Bookidote)
I really hope to check out The First Law someday soon, but this review definitely made me even more curious about that geostrategic chess game. Anything that has a strategy behind it will easily seduce me. I also love that you mention the pertinence of checking out historical non-fiction like these to see what inspires some great fantasy stories. That was easily THE sentence that made me want to do some historical research. Thanks for sharing this informative review, sir.
And thank you sir for your kind words 🙂
I like to combine fiction with compatible non-fiction, and Luttwak’s book serves great as something short, readable and useful. We might explore some further titles from this field, but this is my personal favourite. And pretty accessible, not a textbook, not too much scientific vocabulary, a minimal knowledge of Ancient history will be enough to guide you.
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Cardiothoracic Units
Winners SCTS–Ionescu Annual Fellowships Award 2020
The Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain & Ireland (SCTS) invited applications for the annual portfolio of Fellowships sponsored by Mr Marian Ionescu. The broad range of the Fellowships were offered to all SCTS members to benefit Consultants, all grades of Trainees, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and Medical Students.
Marian Ionescu is a retired cardiac surgeon from Leeds. He is a surgical innovator and pioneer who introduced various techniques in cardiac surgery as well as invented the pericardial valve. After a successful cardiac surgical career he focused on mountaineering and has scaled most peaks in the world. Mr Ionescu has supported the SCTS with his donations to the society for educational activities for many years. His contributions over the years have enabled the SCTS-Ionescu University, SCTS-Ionescu Fellowships, the Perspectives in Cardiothoracic Surgery and recently the Ionescu Foundation courses.
SCTS was honoured and privileged to announce this annual round of application with Mr Ionescu’s continued support to the wider cardiothoracic multidisciplinary community.The applications were advertised in the SCTS website as well as by flyers to all the members.
The deadline was the 15th January 2020.All application were scored to the SCTS Scoring Matrix by a panel of SCTS Officers and the scores were averaged to rank the candidates. The final awardees were finalised by unanimous decision by the SCTS officers and education leads.
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Software test professionals: Five tester personality types
Balancing a test team with diverse skill sets and personalities can help provide a strong team. In this tip, Catherine Powell describes five distinctive tester personality types: the questioner, the fixer, the submarine, the visual aide and the utility infielder. Read on to discover more about each type and how each uniquely contributes to a team.
"He doesn't think like I do."
"I would never have even thought of trying to do that."
"Wait, you what?! Awesome!"
We've all said these things about other people. We've even said these things about other testers. Why? Because we approach problems in different ways. We find different things interesting and useful. In short, we have different tester personalities.
A tester's personality is like a person's personality; it guides what someone is likely to do, what things that person enjoys, and the way that person approaches a problem, conundrum, finding, or task. Testing encompasses a huge variety of problems and approaches, all of which are valid. Your tester personality guides which choices you will make.
Building a test team is about balancing the tester personalities. A test team gets stronger by having a variety of personalities, and by matching the personalities on the team to the product under test. Bring in the right people for the jobs you have to do, and for the approaches that work on your system, and team productivity and happiness soar.
After working with, meeting, and testing with hundreds of testers over the years, I have identified five distinct tester personalities:
- The Questioner
- The Fixer
- The Submarine
- The Visual Aide
- The Utility Infielder
The Questioner is that tester who asks, "Why?" about almost everything. He is highly aware of just how many tests he could perform and how few he can actually accomplish in any given time period, and in consequence he spends a lot of time understanding the justification for performing any one test or set of tests. He wants to know why approach A rather than approach B, and why test C and not test D. He's not advocating for approach B or test D necessarily; he just wants to understand. He also reacts poorly to being asked to "just do something" or "just trust that it's right", and can be a challenge for a manager (some Questioners are aware of and even proud of this). The Questioner frequently points out unnecessary tests and tasks - when there's no good answer to, "why," then this tester will figure that out. Because he spends a lot of time ensuring that the tests he performs are high value, the Questioner often has a low bug find rate, but the bugs he finds are likely to be highly focused.
The Fixer would very much like to be the test team's resident code geek, and a good Fixer generally is. The Fixer emphasizes "understanding the guts of the system" as a laudable goal, and generally gravitates toward white-box test techniques. Often she is a developer -- or was a developer, or would like to be a developer -- and is known for writing code to assist in tests. Bugs are frequently reported with speculation about the underlying cause, and sometimes with suggested fixes, blurring the line between identifying behaviors and describing ways those behaviors could be changed. She can be highly effective at root cause analysis, once she truly understands the system; without that understanding, her analysis can be misleading. For this reason, the Fixer's value to a team tends to grow significantly over time.
The Submarine is often the quietest person on the test team. He'll disappear into his screen for days or even weeks at a time, and no one on the team is quite sure what he's doing. The answer: he's tracking down a subtle problem. The Submarine is the tester who tracks down the bugs that no one can reproduce, who identifies race conditions and is most likely to pinpoint multi-condition problems. He doesn't log very many bugs, but has the highest proportion of most severe defects of anyone on the team. The Submarine has deep knowledge of the system under test and also of the environment in which it lives; a systems administration background is common.
The Visual Aide is the one who draws on the board. Often. By choice she focuses on user interface tests, documentation and other elements she can see and interact with directly. Usually the Visual Aide is good at identifying consistency issues and UI problems. She's a fast tester, and likely has a relatively high bug find rate, although the bugs tend to not be very severe. If your product's look is very important, then the Visual Aide is an essential part of the team; she'll help get things polished. The Visual Aide is frequently a good writer or editor.
The Utility Infielder craves variety and is very rarely intimidated. He is often the first to "dive right in," whether it's a build or a technique or a problem. The Utility Infielder's found bugs run the gamut from typos in the UI to deadlocks deep in the database, mostly as a result of the myriad of approaches that he uses. He's rarely the best at any one thing, but is good at many different types of tests and has a very large tool kit. If you can only have one tester, you usually want a Utility Infielder.
So, what's your tester personality?
5 vital QA skills for software testers
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By: Robin Goldsmith
Built for Business, Built for Now –Intel
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5 Steps to Delivering a Better Customer Experience –Dell Technologies VMware
Software testers: Get a professional development plan – SearchSoftwareQuality
Agile exploratory software testing: Why IT ... – SearchITOperations
New skills for the QA tester: Scripting, security – SearchSoftwareQuality
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Australia-Oceania :: New Zealand
The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. That same year, the British began the first organized colonial settlement. A series of land wars between 1843 and 1872 ended with the defeat of the native peoples. The British colony of New Zealand became an independent dominion in 1907 and supported the UK militarily in both world wars. New Zealand's full participation in a number of defense alliances lapsed by the 1980s. In recent years, the government has sought to address longstanding Maori grievances.
Oceania, islands in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Australia
41 00 S, 174 00 E
Map references:
Total: 267,710 sq km
Country comparison to the world: 76
Water: NA
note: includes Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, Bounty Islands, Campbell Island, Chatham Islands, and Kermadec Islands
Area - comparative:
Land boundaries:
Coastline:
Maritime claims:
Territorial sea: 12 nm
Climate:
temperate with sharp regional contrasts
predominately mountainous with some large coastal plains
Elevation extremes:
Lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
Highest point: Aoraki-Mount Cook 3,754 m
natural gas, iron ore, sand, coal, timber, hydropower, gold, limestone
Land use:
Arable land: 1.76%
Permanent crops: 0.27%
Other: 97.98% (2011)
Irrigated land:
6,193 sq km (2007)
Total renewable water resources:
327 cu km (2011)
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
Total: 4.75 cu km/yr (23%/5%/72%)
Per capita: 1,200 cu m/yr (2010)
Natural hazards:
earthquakes are common, though usually not severe; volcanic activity
Volcanism: significant volcanism on North Island; Ruapehu (elev. 2,797 m), which last erupted in 2007, has a history of large eruptions in the past century; Taranaki has the potential to produce dangerous avalanches and lahars; other historically active volcanoes include Okataina, Raoul Island, Tongariro, and White Island
Environment - current issues:
deforestation; soil erosion; native flora and fauna hard-hit by invasive species
Environment - international agreements:
Party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
Signed, but not ratified: Antarctic Seals, Marine Life Conservation
Geography - note:
almost 90% of the population lives in cities; Wellington is the southernmost national capital in the world
Noun: New Zealander(s)
Adjective: New Zealand
Ethnic groups:
European 71.2%, Maori 14.1%, Asian 11.3%, Pacific peoples 7.6%, Middle Eastern, Latin American, African 1.1%, other 1.6%, not stated or unidentified 5.4%
note: based on the 2013 census of the usually resident population; percentages add up to more than 100% because respondents were able to identify more than one ethnic group (2013 est.)
English (de facto official) 89.8%, Maori (de jure official) 3.5%, Samoan 2%, Hindi 1.6%, French 1.2%, Northern Chinese 1.2%, Yue 1%, Other or not stated 20.5%, New Zealand Sign Language (de jure official)
note: shares sum to 120.8% due to multiple responses on census (2013 est.)
Religions:
Christian 44.3% (Catholic 11.6%, Anglican 10.8%, Presbyterian and Congregational 7.8%, Methodist, 2.4%, Pentecostal 1.8%, other 9.9%), Hindu 2.1%, Buddhist 1.4%, Maori Christian 1.3%, Islam 1.1%, other religion 1.4% (includes Judaism, Spiritualism and New Age religions, Baha'i, Asian religions other than Buddhism), no religion 38.5%, not stated or unidentified 8.2%, objected to answering 4.1%
note: based on the 2013 census of the usually resident population; percentages add up to more than 100% because people were able to identify more than one religion (2013 est.)
4,401,916 (July 2014 est.)
Country comparison to the world: 127
Age structure:
0-14 years: 20% (male 450,985/female 429,184)
15-24 years: 13.9% (male 313,711/female 298,427)
65 years and over: 14% (male 290,429/female 338,974) (2014 est.)
Population pyramid:
Dependency ratios:
Total dependency ratio: 52.5 %
Youth dependency ratio: 30.7 %
Elderly dependency ratio: 21.8 %
Total: 37.6 years
Population growth rate:
0.83% (2014 est.)
Birth rate:
13.4 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)
Death rate:
7.3 deaths/1,000 population (2014 est.)
Net migration rate:
2.23 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2014 est.)
Urbanization:
Urban population: 86.2% of total population (2011)
Major urban areas - population:
Auckland 1.452 million; WELLINGTON (capital) 410,000 (2011)
Sex ratio:
At birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
Mother's mean age at first birth:
note: median age at first birth (2009 est.)
Maternal mortality rate:
15 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)
Infant mortality rate:
Total: 4.59 deaths/1,000 live births
Male: 5.14 deaths/1,000 live births
Female: 4.01 deaths/1,000 live births (2014 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
Total population: 80.93 years
Male: 78.88 years
Female: 83.08 years (2014 est.)
Total fertility rate:
2.05 children born/woman (2014 est.)
Health expenditures:
10.1% of GDP (2011)
Physicians density:
2.74 physicians/1,000 population (2010)
Hospital bed density:
2.3 beds/1,000 population (2011)
Drinking water source:
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.1% (2009 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
2,500 (2009 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
fewer than 100 (2009 est.)
Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
Education expenditures:
7.4% of GDP (2012)
Definition: age 15 and over can read and write
Total population: 99%
Male: 99%
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
Total: 19 years
Male: 19 years
Female: 20 years (2011)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
Total: 17.7%
Female: 18.1% (2012)
Country name:
Conventional long form: none
Conventional short form: New Zealand
Abbreviation: NZ
Government type:
parliamentary democracy and a Commonwealth realm
Name: Wellington
Geographic coordinates: 41 18 S, 174 47 E
Daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in September; ends first Sunday in April
note: New Zealand has two time zones - New Zealand standard time (12 hours in advance of UTC), and Chatham Islands time (45 minutes in advance of New Zealand standard time)
Administrative divisions:
16 regions and 1 territory*; Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Canterbury, Chatham Islands*, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, Manawatu-Wanganui, Marlborough, Nelson, Northland, Otago, Southland, Taranaki, Tasman, Waikato, Wellington, West Coast
Dependent areas:
Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau
Independence:
26 September 1907 (from the UK)
National holiday:
Waitangi Day (Treaty of Waitangi established British sovereignty over New Zealand), 6 February (1840); ANZAC Day (commemorated as the anniversary of the landing of troops of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I at Gallipoli, Turkey), 25 April (1915)
Constitution:
Constitution Act 1986 (the principal formal charter) adopted and effective 1 January 1987; amended 1999, 2005 (2013)
Legal system:
common law system, based on English model, with special legislation and land courts for the Maori
International law organization participation:
accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; accepts ICCt jurisdiction
Suffrage:
18 years of age; universal
Executive branch:
Chief of state: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952); represented by Governor General Lt. Gen. Sir Jerry MATEPARAE (since 31 August 2011)
Head of government: Prime Minister John KEY (since 19 November 2008); Deputy Prime Minister Simon William ENGLISH (since 19 November 2008)
Cabinet: Executive Council appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister
Elections: the monarchy is hereditary; governor general appointed by the monarch; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or the leader of a majority coalition usually appointed prime minister by the governor general; deputy prime minister appointed by the governor general
Legislative branch:
unicameral House of Representatives - commonly called Parliament (usually 120 seats; 70 members elected by popular vote in single-member constituencies including 7 Maori constituencies, 50 proportional seats chosen from party lists; serve three-year terms)
Elections: last held on 26 November 2011 (next to be held not later than November 2014)
Election results: percent of vote by party - National Party 48%, Labor Party 27.1%, Green Party 10.6%, NZ First 6.8%, Maori 1.4%, ACT Party 1.1%, Mana 1%, United Future 0.6%, other 3.43%; seats by party - National Party 60, Labor Party 34, Green Party 13, NZ First 8, Maori 3, ACT Party 1, Mana 1, United Future 1
note: results of 2011 election saw the total number of seats decline to 121
Judicial branch:
Highest court(s): Supreme Court (consists of 5 justices including the chief justice )
note - the Supreme Court in 2004 replaced the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in London, as the final appeals court
Judge selection and term of office: justices appointed by the governor-general on the recommendation of the attorney-general; justices appointed for life
Subordinate courts: Court of Appeal; High Court; tribunals and authorities; district courts; specialized courts for issues related to employment, environment, Maori lands, and military
Political parties and leaders:
ACT New Zealand [Rodney HIDE]
Green Party [Russel NORMAN and Metiria TUREI]
Mana Party [Hone HARAWIRA]
Maori Party [Tariana TURIA and Dr. Pita SHARPLES]
New Zealand National Party [John KEY]
New Zealand First Party or NZ First [Winston PETERS]
New Zealand Labor Party [Phil GOFF]
Jim Anderton's Progressive Party [James (Jim) ANDERTON]
United Future New Zealand [Peter DUNNE]
Political pressure groups and leaders:
Women's Electoral Lobby or WEL
Other: apartheid groups; civil rights groups; farmers groups; Maori; nuclear weapons groups; women's rights groups
International organization participation:
ADB, ANZUS (US suspended security obligations to NZ on 11 August 1986), APEC, ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), Australia Group, BIS, C, CD, CP, EAS, EBRD, FAO, FATF, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NSG, OECD, OPCW, Pacific Alliance (observer), Paris Club (associate), PCA, PIF, Sparteca, SPC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMISS, UNMIT, UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
Chief of mission: Ambassador Michael Kenneth MOORE (since 5 August 2010)
Chancery: 37 Observatory Circle NW, Washington, DC 20008
Consulate(s) general: New York, Pago Pago (American Samoa), Santa Monica (CA)
Diplomatic representation from the US:
Chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d' Affaires Marie C. DAMOUR note - also accredited to Samoa
Embassy: 29 Fitzherbert Terrace, Thorndon, Wellington
Mailing address: P. O. Box 1190, Wellington; PSC 467, Box 1, APO AP 96531-1034
Consulate(s) general: Auckland
National symbol(s):
Southern Cross constellation (four, five-pointed stars); kiwi (bird), silver fern
Name: "God Defend New Zealand"
Lyrics/music: Thomas BRACKEN [English], Thomas Henry SMITH [Maori]/John Joseph WOODS
note: adopted 1940 as national song, adopted 1977 as co-national anthem; New Zealand has two national anthems with equal status; as a commonwealth realm, in addition to "God Defend New Zealand," "God Save the Queen" serves as a national anthem (see United Kingdom); "God Save the Queen" normally is played only when a member of the royal family or the governor-general is present; in all other cases, "God Defend New Zealand" is played
Government - note:
Economy - overview:
Over the past 20 years the government has transformed New Zealand from an agrarian economy dependent on concessionary British market access to a more industrialized, free market economy that can compete globally. This dynamic growth has boosted real incomes - but left behind some at the bottom of the ladder - and broadened and deepened the technological capabilities of the industrial sector. Per capita income rose for ten consecutive years until 2007 in purchasing power parity terms, but fell in 2008-09. Debt-driven consumer spending drove robust growth in the first half of the decade, helping fuel a large balance of payments deficit that posed a challenge for economic managers. Inflationary pressures caused the central bank to raise its key rate steadily from January 2004 until it was among the highest in the OECD in 2007-08; international capital inflows attracted to the high rates further strengthened the currency and housing market, however, aggravating the current account deficit. The economy fell into recession before the start of the global financial crisis and contracted for five consecutive quarters in 2008-09. In line with global peers, the central bank cut interest rates aggressively and the government developed fiscal stimulus measures. The economy pulled out of recession late in 2009, and achieved 2-3% per year growth in 2010-13. Nevertheless, key trade sectors remain vulnerable to weak external demand. The government plans to raise productivity growth and develop infrastructure, while reining in government spending.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$136 billion (2013 est.)
$132.7 billion (2012 est.)
note: data are in 2013 US dollars
GDP (official exchange rate):
GDP - real growth rate:
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$30,400 (2013 est.)
Gross national saving:
15.9% of GDP (2013 est.)
GDP - composition, by end use:
Household consumption: 58.1%
Government consumption: 19.9%
Investment in fixed capital: 20.2%
Investment in inventories: 0.5%
Exports of goods and services: 30%
Imports of goods and services: -28.7%
(2013 est.)
GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
Agriculture: 5%
Agriculture - products:
dairy products, lamb and mutton; wheat, barley, potatoes, pulses, fruits, vegetables; wool, beef; fish
food processing, wood and paper products, textiles, machinery, transportation equipment, banking, insurance, tourism, mining
Industrial production growth rate:
Labor force:
2.413 million (2013 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
Services: 74% (2006 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
Lowest 10%: NA%
Highest 10%: NA%
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
Revenues: $69.17 billion
Expenditures: $72.65 billion (2013 est.)
Taxes and other revenues:
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-):
-1.9% of GDP (2013 est.)
Public debt:
Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March
note: this is the fiscal year for tax purposes
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
Central bank discount rate:
2.5% (31 December 2009)
5% (31 December 2008)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
5.7% (31 December 2013 est.)
5.82% (31 December 2012 est.)
Stock of narrow money:
$30.03 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
Stock of broad money:
Stock of domestic credit:
$256.3 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$NA (31 December 2012 est.)
$71.66 billion (31 December 2011)
Current account balance:
-$8.358 billion (2013 est.)
Exports:
$37.84 billion (2013 est.)
Exports - commodities:
dairy products, meat, wood and wood products, fish, machinery
Exports - partners:
Australia 21.1%, China 15%, US 9.2%, Japan 7% (2012)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, vehicles, aircraft, petroleum, electronics, textiles, plastics
Imports - partners:
China 16.4%, Australia 15.2%, US 9.3%, Japan 6.5%, Singapore 4.8%, Germany 4.4% (2012)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
Debt - external:
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$84.2 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
New Zealand dollars (NZD) per US dollar -
1.247 (2013 est.)
1.2334 (2012 est.)
1.6002 (2009)
Electricity - production:
43.54 billion kWh (2011 est.)
Electricity - consumption:
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2012 est.)
Electricity - imports:
Electricity - installed generating capacity:
9.679 million kW (2010 est.)
Electricity - from fossil fuels:
31.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
0% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
Electricity - from other renewable sources:
14% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Crude oil - production:
48,190 bbl/day (2012 est.)
Crude oil - exports:
Crude oil - imports:
Crude oil - proved reserves:
81.4 million bbl (1 January 2013 est.)
Refined petroleum products - production:
109,700 bbl/day (2010 est.)
Refined petroleum products - consumption:
Refined petroleum products - exports:
2,471 bbl/day (2010 est.)
Refined petroleum products - imports:
Natural gas - production:
4.59 billion cu m (2012 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
4.537 billion cu m (2010 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2012 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
Natural gas - proved reserves:
29.42 billion cu m (1 January 2013 est.)
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
37.17 million Mt (2011 est.)
Telephones - main lines in use:
1.88 million (2012)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
4.922 million (2012)
Telephone system:
General assessment: excellent domestic and international systems
Domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular telephone subscribership exceeds 150 per 100 persons
International: country code - 64; the Southern Cross submarine cable system provides links to Australia, Fiji, and the US; satellite earth stations - 8 (1 Inmarsat - Pacific Ocean, 7 other) (2011)
Broadcast media:
state-owned Television New Zealand operates multiple TV networks and state-owned Radio New Zealand operates 3 radio networks and an external shortwave radio service to the South Pacific region; a small number of national commercial TV and radio stations and many regional commercial television and radio stations are available; cable and satellite TV systems are available (2008)
Internet country code:
Internet hosts:
Internet users:
3.4 million (2009)
Airports - with paved runways:
Over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 12
914 to 1,523 m: 23
Airports - with unpaved runways:
Under 914 m:
Pipelines:
condensate 331 km; gas 1,936 km; liquid petroleum gas 172 km; oil 288 km; refined products 198 km (2013)
Total: 4,128 km
Narrow gauge: 4,128 km 1.067-m gauge (506 km electrified) (2008)
Roadways:
Total: 94,160 km
Paved: 62,759 km (includes 199 km of expressways)
Unpaved: 32,143 km (2012)
Merchant marine:
By type: bulk carrier 3, cargo 3, chemical tanker 1, container 1, passenger/cargo 5, petroleum tanker 2
Foreign-owned: 7 (Germany 2, Hong Kong 1, South Africa 1, Switzerland 2, UK 1)
Registered in other countries: 5 (Antigua and Barbuda 2, Cook Islands 2, Samoa 1) (2010)
Major seaport(s): Auckland, Lyttelton, Manukau Harbor, Marsden Point, Tauranga, Wellington
Military branches:
New Zealand Defense Force (NZDF): New Zealand Army; Royal New Zealand Navy; Royal New Zealand Air Force (Te Hokowhitu o Kahurangi, RNZAF) (2013)
Military service age and obligation:
17 years of age for voluntary military service; soldiers cannot be deployed until the age of 18; no conscription; 3 years of secondary education required; must be a citizen of NZ, the UK, Australia, Canada, or the US, and resident of NZ for the previous 5 years (2013)
Manpower available for military service:
Males age 16-49: 1,019,798
Females age 16-49: 1,003,429 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
Males age 16-49: 843,526
Females age 16-49: 828,779 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
Male: 30,846
Female: 28,825 (2010 est.)
Military expenditures:
1.13% of GDP (2012)
Disputes - international:
asserts a territorial claim in Antarctica (Ross Dependency)
Illicit drugs:
significant consumer of amphetamines
Flag of New Zealand
Flag description:
blue with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant with four red five-pointed stars edged in white centered in the outer half of the flag; the stars represent the Southern Cross constellation
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A new in vivo method to study P-glycoprotein transport in tumors and the blood-brain barrier
N. Harry Hendrikse, Elisabeth G.E. De Vries*, Lizette Eriks-Fluks, Winette T.A. Van Der Graaf, Geke A.P. Hospers, Antoon T.M. Willemsen, Willem Vaalburg, Eric J.F. Franssen
Clinical pharmacology and pharmacy
Drug resistance is a major cause of chemotherapy failure in cancer treatment. One reason is the overexpression of the drug efflux pump P- glycoprotein (P-gp), involved in multidrug resistance (MDR). In vivo pharmacokinetic analysis of P-gp transport might identify the capacity of modulation by P-gp substrate modulators, such as cyclosporin A. Therefore, P- gp function was measured in vivo with positron emission tomography (PET) and [11C]verapamil as radiolabeled P-gp substrate. Studies were performed in rats bearing tumors bilaterally, a P-gp-negative small cell lung carcinoma (GLC4) and its P-gp-overexpressing subline (GLC4/P-gp). For validation, in vitro and biodistribution studies with [11C]daunorubicin and [11C]verapamil were performed. [11C]Daunorubicin and [11C]verapamil accumulation were higher in GLC4 than in GLC4/P-gp cells. These levels were increased after modulation with cyclosporin A in GLC4/P-gp. Biodistribution studies showed 159% and 185% higher levels of [11C]daunorubicin and [11C]verapamil, respectively, in GLC4 than in GLC4/P-gp tumors. After cyclosporin A, [11C]daunorubicin and [11C]verapamil content in the GLC4/P-gp tumor was raised to the level of GLC4 tumors. PET measurements demonstrated a lower [11C]verapamil content in GLC4/P-gp tumors compared with GLC4 tumors. Pretreatment with cyclosporin A increased [11C]verapamil levels in GLC4/P-gp tumors (184%) and in brains (1280%). This pharmacokinetic effect was clearly visualized with PET. These results show the feasibility of in vivo P-gp function measurement under basal conditions and after modulation in solid tumors and in the brain. Therefore, PET and radiolabeled P-gp substrates may be useful as a clinical tool to select patients who might benefit from the addition of a P-gp modulator to MDR drugs.
Hendrikse, N. H., De Vries, E. G. E., Eriks-Fluks, L., Van Der Graaf, W. T. A., Hospers, G. A. P., Willemsen, A. T. M., Vaalburg, W., & Franssen, E. J. F. (1999). A new in vivo method to study P-glycoprotein transport in tumors and the blood-brain barrier. Cancer Research, 59(10), 2411-2416.
Hendrikse, N. Harry ; De Vries, Elisabeth G.E. ; Eriks-Fluks, Lizette ; Van Der Graaf, Winette T.A. ; Hospers, Geke A.P. ; Willemsen, Antoon T.M. ; Vaalburg, Willem ; Franssen, Eric J.F. / A new in vivo method to study P-glycoprotein transport in tumors and the blood-brain barrier. In: Cancer Research. 1999 ; Vol. 59, No. 10. pp. 2411-2416.
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Nvidia’s GeForce Now Windows app can transform your cheap laptop into a gaming PC
Nvidia announced a beta for its GeForce Now game streaming service for the Mac last year, and now it’s finally coming to Windows PCs. Starting this week, beta users of the GeForce Now Mac client will be able to install and run the Windows app. This brings the beta service far beyond its roots as an exclusive to for Nvidia’s Android-based Shield devices, and more into the core Windows gaming PC audience.
I got a chance to play with an early beta of the GeForce Now service on a $400 Windows PC at CES today. My biggest concerns about game streaming services are latency and internet connections, but Nvidia had the service setup using a 50mbps connection on the Wynn hotel’s Wi-Fi. I didn’t notice a single issue, and it honestly felt like I was playing Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds directly on the cheap laptop in front of me. If I actually tried to play the game locally, it would be impossible as the game was barely rendering at all or at 2fps.
Nvidia is streaming these games from seven datacenters across the US, and some located in Europe. I was playing in a Las Vegas casino from a server located in Los Angeles, and Nvidia tells me it’s aiming to keep latency under 30ms for most customers. There’s obviously going to be some big exceptions here, especially if you don’t live near a datacenter or your internet connectivity isn’t reliable. We’ll need to test GeForce now for Windows across a number of different locations, as the service is separate from the one running on the company’s Shield.
The game streaming works by dedicating a GPU to each customer, so performance and frame rates should be pretty solid. Nvidia is also importing Steam game collections into the GeForce Now service for Windows, making it even more intriguing for PC gamers who are interested in playing their collection on the go on a laptop that wouldn’t normally handle such games. The service is still in beta for now, and Nvidia hasn’t announced pricing details or exact availability, but you can request access to the beta over at Nvidia’s web site.
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Year In Pictures: 2020
Krista Hall
Finding words to sum up 2020 has not been easy. The year was unusual and presented many challenges. January started off as any year would. The seminarians returned to Saint Meinrad for January interterm classes. By March, the students were sent back to their home dioceses and religious communities to finish the school semester online.
The Archabbey Church was closed to the public and all events on campus were canceled or moved to an online format. The Hill became quiet.
We began to adapt. The monks started livestreaming Mass and Vespers. Br. Simon Herrmann, OSB, did Lectio Divina live on Twitter. The School leaders developed a plan for the seminarians to return to campus in the fall.
In August, Br. Simon Herrmann, OSB, and Callixte Senani were ordained deacons. A couple weeks later, Fr. Lorenzo Penalosa, OSB, was ordained a priest. Seminarians returned to the Hill for a modified fall semester.
There was a lot of anxiety around the uncertainties of this year, but there was still a lot of joy and hope for the future. As we move into 2021, we continue to lean on God and trust in His plan.
A special thanks to our student photographers, Dcn. Corey Bruns and Dcn. Omar Galvan, for helping document seminary life.
To view the whole gallery of Year in Pictures photos, visit: https://saint-meinrad.smugmug.com/Photography/Year-in-Pictures-2020/
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Transit activist Brian Willis files to run for Hillsborough County Commission
Published on April 6, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry
Tampa-based attorney Brian Willis has made it official — he’s now running for the Democratic nomination for Hillsborough County commissioner in the countywide District 6 seat being vacated by a term limited Kevin Beckner in 2016.
“I have always been dedicated to making Hillsborough a better place to live, ” Willis said in a statement early Monday afternoon. “Turning talk into action on transportation will be a key part of my campaign, but transportation is just one piece of the puzzle. I want new ideas and action on vital issues like supporting the first responders that keep our community safe, and keeping Hillsborough special by protecting our diverse neighborhoods, rural lands, and beautiful waterways.”
The 31-year-old Willis has been a community-minded activist for years now, but he’s been most prominent in arguing for transit options like light-rail in Hillsborough County. Along with a few other friends, Willis was one of the co-founders of Connect Tampa Bay, which arguably was the fuse that ignited Hillsborough County officials (led by Mark Sharpe) to begin the public conversation about transit options, years after the Moving Hillsborough Forward transit tax went down to a major defeat in 2010.
“It’s going to be fun,” Willis told Florida Politics in a brief interview Monday afternoon.
Willis is the first official candidate to enter the District 6 race, but there will be plenty more to follow.
Pat Kemp, who narrowly lost the countywide District 7 race to Al Higginbotham last fall, has already said that she’s running for the Democratic nomination for the District 6 race, but has yet to file. National Democratic committeeman Alan Clendenin has also said that he is seriously considering running in District 6.
Among the names being floated on the Republican side include former County Commissioners Jim Norman and Ronda Storms. Norman is reportedly all but officially in the race.
“It’s a huge county and that’s why you get in early,” says Willis, who works as an attorney at the downtown Tampa law firm of Shumaker Loop & Kendrick, where he represents clients in real estate and business issues. He says like most people, he’s a working stiff, which means he’ll be meeting and greeting folks over the next year after working hours in the evening and on weekends. “It’s going to be putting miles in the car, shaking hands and being everywhere I possibly can,” he says.
The Carrollwood native has begun his campaign in grand style, with a new website, and this freshly produced two-and-a-half-minute video. Watch below:
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Afghan Story
by Lt Col Anil Bhat July 11, 2014
written by Lt Col Anil Bhat July 11, 2014
Hiranmay Karlekar’s book covers a wide spectrum related to the war in Afghanistan, the stakes the whole world-and not just the United Stateshas in it, and its possible outcome. It shows that it is not merely a war for the future of Afghanistan, but a conflict between the regressive worldview of the Taliban and al Qaeda and modernity. The book examines the consequences of an American exit from Afghanistan under circumstances indicating a defeat; the ability of the Karzai government or its successor to hold its own thereafter; and the regional and global geostrategic consequences, including those on Pakistan, of a Taliban-al Qaeda takeover of Afghanistan. It also explores the possibility of the United States arriving at a peace settlement with the Taliban as well as that of the Americans winning the Afghan war.
In the book’s first chapter, The Spectacular Episodes Syndrome, Karlekar begins by explaining how spells of such a syndrome-in this case the undoubtedly meticulous operation by US special forces resulting in killing a very wellhidden bin Laden, even if after ten years of hot pursuit-can last for a few hours to a few years, till unpleasant realities shatter them and the desperate response syndrome takes over. He concludes this chapter by stating that whereas defeating the Taliban and Al Qaeda militarily will require a vast array of military, technological and financial resources to cover an effective intelligence grid, sustained drone strikes, clandestine special operations ala the raid on bin Laden’s lair, the outcome will depend upon how the two mentioned terrorist outfits react- because an essential element of their philosophy is revenge – and how the US is able to talk to the Taliban to try to detach as much of it as possible from Al Qaeda.
In the second chapter, A War for the World, the author very relevantly cautions against the approach of complacency that with bin Laden eliminated, Al Qaeda is in shreds or that reach of Taliban and Al Qaeda is confined only to Pakistan and Afghanistan. It should not be forgotten that the religions targeted for the 9/11 attack were Christians and Jews-Zionists as they were referred to- and that significantly in the 26 November 2008 Mumbai attack, Hindus got added to them as this attack was launched by a combo of not only of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and Lashkar e Taiyyaba (LeT), but also Al Qaeda represented by Ilyas Kashmiri, as brought out by Saleem Shehzad, in his book Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11, released shortly after bin Laden’s killing. Within days after release of this book, Shehzad was brutally killed because an article he wrote exposed Al Qaeda’s penetration into Pakistan Navy, a major factor behind the attack on Pakistan’s premier naval shore establishment PNS Mehran. Both Al Qaeda and LeT have spread their tentacles in many nations. While that may not mean that they will launch attacks on all, but it suits them very well to use some countries to maintain sleeper cells or safe houses for wanted terrorists to ‘lie low’ or for medical support. And both, along with the Taliban are great threats to communities/ countries which uphold modernity and its values.
The third chapter, Wooing the Good Taliban, very importantly brings out the great hazards of believing in Pakistan’s devious theories about dialogue or deals with so called good Taliban-a very creation of Pak army/ISI- and of the US trusting Pakistan to deliver on any of its promises, which were in any case broken continuously in the ten years of pursuing bin Laden, but with cautionary deception. Once the Americans leave, there will be total freedom for terrorists of all hues to strike from Kabul to Kashmir.
The fourth chapter aptly titled Poor Progress and its Causes dwells on what should and should not have been done including particularly underestimating the enemy’s tenacity and linkages and alienating Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The fifth, sixth and seventh chapters-Patron of Choice, The Shadow of Jihadis and As the Dice Rolls cover various events, factors and analyses, which leave little doubt about the fate of Afghanistan in case of a complete exit by the US.
The tally of fatal casualties of coalition troops so far, of which the US suffered the most, is perhaps strong enough a reason for an exit, but to claim that the pullout is owing to a coalition victory and vanquished Taliban and Al Qaeda ,would be an absolute delusion. Further, most of these casualties have been caused by deceit of Pak army/ISI. What is it with the US, that even after all that has happenedthe soldiers it has lost owing to Pak army’s duplicity and Operation Geronimo/ Neptune Spear succeeding mainly because Pak army/ISI were kept out of the loop- that it still does not declare Pakistan as a state that supports terrorism?
Citing an excerpt from an article in Walsh School of Foreign Service’s Foreign Policy, stating that declaring Pakistan as a sponsor of terrorism would amount to punishing the elected government, it suggests targeting personal financial resources, coordinated visa restrictions and Interpol actions. The book ends with a very sound recommendation that the US “must clearly indicate that it means business” for Pak army/ISI to get the message. But will that happen? Not if the US makes deals with any Taliban and the latest ‘drone deal’ with Pakistan, which skips anti-India terrorists’ training camps, whilst anti-Afghan and anti-US attacks continue to be planned/ launched.
Lt Col Anil Bhat
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Man Utd set Paul Pogba transfer price as PSG boss Mauricio Pochettino eyes deal
Man Utd: Pogba hones skills amid exit talk
Manchester United will demand a fee of £75million for Paul Pogba in the summer transfer window, reports say. Juventus and Real Madrid are frontrunners in the race to sign the 27-year-old and, now, Paris Saint-Germain have joined the race as well. Mauricio Pochettino is keen to sign the 2018 World Cup winner, whose time at the club appears to be winding down.
United extended Pogba’s deal earlier in the season to avoid losing the France international for free.
But it seems only a matter of time before the 27-year-old departs Old Trafford, especially given the words of Mino Raiola.
Raiola confirmed in December this was likely to be Pogba’s last season with United, saying: “There’s no point beating about the bush. It’s better to speak out clearly, look forward and avoid wasting time to find culprits.
“Paul is unhappy at Manchester United, he can’t manage to express himself like he wants to and like people expect him to.
“He needs to change team, he needs a change of scenery.
“He has a contract that will expire in a year and a half, in the summer of 2022, but the best solution for all parties is a transfer in the next window.
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“Otherwise the Old Trafford club, which I have a great relationship with, knows well that they would risk losing him on a free transfer, given that at the moment it’s not the player’s intention to extend the contract.”
And The Mirror claim United will demand a fee of £75m for their prized asset.
That’s £14m less than the £89m they paid to re-sign the midfielder back in 2016, shortly after Jose Mourinho’s appointment as manager.
Pochettino thinks Pogba is the perfect player to build his PSG team around, believing the World Cup winner can shine in the same side as Neymar and Kylian Mbappe.
And the former Tottenham boss is confident he can beat Real Madrid and Juventus to the France international’s signature, especially given the Ligue 1 giants’ vast resources.
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The report adds Real have, for two years now, failed to meet United’s valuation of £100m or more for Pogba.
But the Red Devils are now willing to drop their asking price to avoid losing their prized asset for nothing.
Meanwhile, Bruno Fernandes has opened up on Pogba and insisted his United team-mate has been acting well behind the scenes.
“The relationship I have with Paul is good,” he said.
“He speaks Italian and I speak Italian, from the beginning I knew him from Italy and he knows me. It was easy to work with him.
“Straight away when I arrived, he was injured. I saw him recovering and training on the pitch away from us.
“He was calling me sometimes when I was training and he said: ‘I’m seeing the games, I’m seeing your movement, don’t worry. When I’m fit, I will show you that I can find you. I see you move, you move to the right and to the left, in behind. When I come back, I will show you how I can find you a lot.’
“It shows you the confidence he gives to you, like when he comes back, he’s trying to help you become better and you help him to become better.”
Pogba has scored just one goal in the Premier League this term.
And he’ll be looking to add to his tally when the Red Devils lock horns with Burnley on Tuesday night (8.15pm).
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Coronavirus Turns Urban Life’s Roar to Whisper on World’s Seismographs
April 8, 2020 NADIA CAMPARI
Seismometers may possibly be developed to detect earthquakes, but their mechanical ears listen to so significantly more: hurricanes thundering hundreds of miles away and meteoroids exploding in the skies on the other side of the earth. Even the daily hum of humanity — persons shifting about on cars, trains and planes — has a seismically detectable heartbeat.
But coronavirus has upended our lives. Hoping to curtail the pandemic’s spread, nations have shut their borders, towns have been shut down and billions of folks have been instructed to continue to be dwelling. Currently, in metropolitan areas massive and compact, the thumping pulse of civilization is now barely detectable on quite a few seismograms.
“It did make the scale of the shutdowns a little bit additional authentic to me,” explained Celeste Labedz, a graduate student in geophysics at the California Institute of Technological know-how.
In particular person, you can see only your neighborhood’s commitment to remaining house. With seismometers, Ms. Labedz mentioned, you can see the collective willingness of thousands and thousands of the world’s urban dwellers to hunker down. As a end result, the planet’s purely natural quavering is getting recorded with amazing clarity.
This seismological experiment commenced with Thomas Lecocq, a seismologist at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels. He needed to see what transpired to his city’s anthropogenic hiss soon after its lockdown commenced in mid-March. His discovering, that it experienced declined precipitously, was shared on Twitter and via news companies, prompting seismologists somewhere else to glance at their have city’s absence of shakes. Several applied Dr. Lecocq’s bespoke coding to eke out the human sound in their seismic info.
It speedily grew to become apparent that the roar of urban existence experienced turned into a whisper all about the planet, in spots as much-flung as California and Croatia. “It’s crazy,” Dr. Lecocq claimed.
London is no longer buzzing. Paula Koelemeijer, a seismologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, stated the seismometer in her suburban house was clocking a 20 to 25 % reduction in ordinary weekly noise, when compared with the 7 days just before Britain started its lockdown. Yet another seismometer nearer the town center registered a 30 p.c fall. In both places, the cacophonous rhythm of the morning rush has nearly evaporated.
Noise ranges on some seismic stations in Los Angeles have dropped to underneath 50 percent of what they commonly are, Ms. Labedz stated. Weekdays in some cases have a quieter seismic signal than pre-pandemic weekends.
Claudio Satriano, a seismologist at the Paris Institute of Earth Physics, detected a 38 per cent drop in the regular daytime noise in his metropolis. The oscillation of commuting staff has pale, and thundering nightlife on the weekends has fizzled.
Stephen Hernandez, a seismologist at the Geophysical Institute in Quito, Ecuador, mentioned that a seismic station in the northern component of the metropolis experienced earlier recorded noise declines all through occasions of upheaval, such as through perilous social unrest in October 2019. That station is now registering a staggering 60 p.c decline in sound, with any peaks all through the city’s lockdown hardly surpassing the bare minimum sound levels noticed throughout usual occasions.
The bustle of faculty learners the earth in excess of has absent. David Cornwell, a geophysicist at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, has been observing the seismometer in a colleague’s workplace. Compared with peak sounds for the duration of a typical working day, the sounds concentrations on the university’s King’s University campus have dropped by 60 p.c considering that its college students ended up despatched house.
The pitter-patter of little ones has also been quieted. A seismic station in a Nepalese school that Dr. Lecocq has observed ordinarily reverberates with the pandemonium of youngsters functioning to and from their put of discovering. Now, he stated, “those noise stages have entirely vanished.”
The attribute cultural fingerprints of some cities are notable by their absence on seismograms. For illustration, the vibrations generated in Barcelona by massive crowds leaping up and down at Camp Nou — the stadium property to the F.C. Barcelona soccer group — have disappeared. “No extra ‘Messiquakes’ for a while,” claimed Jordi Díaz, a seismologist at the Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera in that city, referring to very little temblors established off by lovers celebrating the ambitions of the soccer star Lionel Messi.
Seismograms also have proven how some cities quieted down even prior to obligatory lockdowns took outcome. New Zealand’s countrywide purchase was set in area just in advance of midnight on March 25, but men and women were being recommended that a lockdown was imminent two times beforehand. Seismographs in Auckland, a city of 1.6 million people today, clearly show a obvious decrease in sound just before the first day that the mandate took result, stated Geoff Kilgour, a volcanologist at GNS Science, a geoscientific exploration firm.
On March 22, a 5.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Croatia, the most critical the funds metropolis of Zagreb has knowledgeable in 140 years. Aftershocks have been shaking the city at any time because, and individuals would normally be capable to feel only the far more potent ones. But temblors usually imperceptible to human beings are now staying documented by hundreds of inhabitants, reported Rémy Bossu, the secretary general of the European-Mediterranean Seismological Middle. This uptick in personal seismic sensitivity could be defined by the actuality that the city’s people are being cooped up at dwelling.
Scientists, far too, are now equipped to far better hear the planet’s normal tectonic soundtrack. With the quantity of humanity reduced, “we can detect smaller earthquakes, just like how it is easier to listen to a phone ring in a library than at a rock live performance,” Ms. Labedz said.
Mr. Hernandez has also been equipped to hear a lot more rumblings from the active volcano that Quito straddles, a little something attributed to the reduction of metropolis sounds. And on Dr. Koelemeijer’s domestic seismometer, earthquakes of middling magnitudes emanating from distant continents, no more time buried by the rumble of rush hour site visitors, are now displaying up in the working day.
A cleaner and much more frequent detection of Earth’s seismic exercise grants seismologists a significantly less filtered appear into the planet’s interior. Although many seismometers are purposefully situated significantly from metropolitan areas, plenty of city parts — especially those in seismically hyperactive sections of the world — are peppered with seismometers. In this time of human quiescence, the creaking of some probably dangerous faults may be detected far better than at any time.
Academic positive aspects apart, quite a few researchers are heartened to see that the lockdowns’ seismic signatures are seen in dozens of populous towns across the world. Noise amounts in lots of of them present no sign of expanding, and in some sites, like London, they have dropped around time. That “indicates much more and additional people today are taking it severely and hence executing their ideal to flatten the curve,” Dr. Koelemeijer reported.
But footsteps are far quieter than traffic, so seismometers will not always betray men and women who are evading the lockdown steps. “Whenever I appear out onto the balcony these times, I still see way too several people today going for walks close to,” Dr. Satriano claimed.
Really do not be tempted by sunnier times in advance. “Stay household, remain safe,” he added.
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Building an Institutional Framework (WS)
Dörte Peters (seecon international gmbh)
The term “institutional framework” refers to a set of formal organisational structures, rules and informal norms for service provision. Such a framework is the precondition for the successful implementation of other sanitation and water management intervention tools and therefore needs to be considered in particular. In the field of water and sanitation management, an institutional framework involves outlining the responsibilities of services institutions for various aspects of the sector (IEES 2006). Institutional structures vary from country to country, but whatever the specific structure is like, it is essential to have mechanisms for dialogue and co-ordination. A balance has to be met between providing a fully integrated approach where specific issues may get lost due to lack of expertise or interest, and a sectoral approach where different policies are followed without any co-ordination (GWP 2008).
Precondition for successful implementation of other SSWM tools
Gender aspects can be considered in this “new” framework
Existing capacity can be used as a basis
Participation of civil society leads to better self-confidence of the locals
Expertise of private sector can be used
Clear institutional “home” for planning and management for better co-ordination
Transparency of organisations leads to efficient allocation of functions
Local authorities have limited influence towards higher governmental powers and could be restricted on their actions
Investment costs in long-term capacity building and education of qualified staff
Friction between partners and stakeholders over priorities and means, lack of clarity about roles and responsibilities often result in high transaction costs
Process can not be accomplished on a tight schedule, needs time
Advantages can not be seen directly as the process takes time
Why Ensuring an Institutional Framework?
An institutional framework is the precondition for the successful implementation of many other sanitation and water management interventions. An institutional framework for sanitation and water management consists of a range of different organisations that are in place (or need to be in place) to develop and manage water resources and the delivery of water and sanitation services at different levels of society (GWP 2008). Implementing an institutional framework is an important process for preparing the ground for sustainable sanitation and water management.
A lack of a sound institutional framework is the root cause of many failures in service delivery — and a major cause of failed water and sanitation provision. Such institutional weakness often results from the lack of a clear institutional “home” for planning and management, together with limited capacity within institutions to coordinate and manage initiatives. The all-too-common outcome is declining services leading to poor cost recovery and ultimately failed investments that do not meet either current or future demand (e.g. water pricing) (SCOTT et al. 2003).
A lack of a sound institutional framework is the root cause of many failures in service delivery — and a major cause of failed water and sanitation provision. Source: WSP (2002)
The capacity to provide services effectively and efficiently is critical for the long-term sustainability of service provision, not only in the field of sustainable sanitation and water management, but in general. Most of the constraints to accelerated delivery of service are due to capacity problems at provincial and municipality levels. Appropriate management models are required to ensure that sanitation service delivery is sustained beyond the implementation of infrastructure projects (WRC 2003).
Appropriate management models are required to ensure that water and sanitation service delivery is sustained beyond the implementation of infrastructure projects. Source: WSP (2002)
(Adapted from GWP 2008)
A sound institutional framework for sustainable sanitation and water management on the local level needs a lot of organisations and actors to be in place, such as:
Service providers range from government departments and municipalities, public corporations, and private sector companies to community-based organisations, and farmers' groups.
Regulatory and enforcement bodies have a crucial role in establishing and ensuring the effective application of tools for sustainable sanitation and water management.
The private sector plays an important role in financing sustainable sanitation and water management. Commercial banks and other financial institutions can finance both public and private sector service providers.
Local authorities can play an important role in overseeing the implementation of activities in sanitation and water management, both within their boundaries and within the local and regional watersheds. They act as regulators and as service providers and have a role in raising finance.
Civil Society Institutions (CSIs), Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) can play an important role in developing and communicating sanitation and water management policies. Also, they can advocate on behalf of nature and environmental protection, develop and test new models and tools for sanitation and water management, increase awareness of the need for sustainable sanitation and water management and mobilise local communities to get involved.
The most important thing about the actors of an institutional framework is that they need to be co-operative, and have clear definitions of roles and responsibilities. Therefore the organisations and actors need to work transparently and in dialogue with each other. It is possible and sometimes very helpful to build partnerships on the basis of basic policies accepted by all parties.
How to Ensure an Institutional Framework
An institutional framework must be stable, transparent and based on the rule of law, respecting fundamental human needs and ecosystems conservation, and promoting local empowerment and appropriate cost recovery approaches (DWAF 2003). For the new to-be-developed (local) institutional framework, it is advisable to build on and strengthen the existing structure rather than starting from the scratch (IEES 2006). Therefore, promotion of substantial institutional reform may be appropriate in many cases and could include providing support to a variety of initiatives in the SSWM sector, such as:
Bundling/unbundling of functions, organisational restructuring: The distribution and disposition of functions, activities, processes, roles and responsibilities within an organisation needs to be faced for efficient sanitation and water management (DFID 1998). Also, roles and responsibilities between different spheres of government, community organisations, and the private sector need to be clearly defined, established, recognised and the necessary support needs to be provided. Avoid fragmented and/or overlapping mandates between different organisations and stakeholders (IEES 2006). Wherever possible and practical, the roles of regulation and operation should be clearly separated and preferably fulfilled by separate institutions (DWAF 2003). See also bundling and unbundling of functions.
Strengthening enforcement bodies: As laws, rules, structures and responsibilities as well as partnership agreements need to be achieved, there must be a sound body monitoring and enforcing them. See also strengthening enforcement bodies.
Decentralisation will bring government closer to rural communities and is a positive factor for better services and the use of local capacity. However, a phased transition is needed to address several issues (IEES 2006). See also decentralisation.
Improving cost recovery is crucial to generate the resources for maintaining and improving services, to meet both existing and future demand (DFID 1998).
Building Public Private Partnerships (PPPs): The government may benefit from the expertise of the private sector in PPPs for SSWM, such as:preparing guidelines, technical assistance, planning, design and contract supervision, construction by large and small contractors, preparation of communications materials, training and capacity building, materials supplies, financing, monitoring (DFID 1998). See also public private partnerships.
Privatising parts of the water and/or sanitation sector: Introducing private sector incentives and management skills may help to overcome service provision problems and the private sector can act as catalyst for change. See also privatisation.
Nationalising parts of the water and/or sanitation sector: If there are problems with private service providers, it might help to transfer some responsibilities to the (local) government to make the sector work more efficient and less expensive. See also nationalisation.
Enhancing participation and involvement of civil society at all levels in consultations, planning, decision-making and operation of sanitation and water management, in research and in other related activities (DWAF 2003). Building an institutional framework is a process that will take its time. Most of the advantages are taking place in the long-term, so in the short-term the process might seem to cost money and efforts for no effect. Motivate the public in forcing the targets, for example through the media. See also awareness raising tools (see PPT).
Human resources development (HRD) and management development that supports improved capability in all these aspects will be needed (DFID 1998). See also developing human resources.
The applicability of different organisational arrangements (e.g. public-private-partnership) varies from case to case.
The composition of institutions in any given country will depend on the nation’s experience and needs. Institutional structures vary from country to country.
An institutional framework for sustainable sanitation and water management can include organisations of all levels (local, regional, national, international), the political and legal complexity increases with each of the levels.
Decentralisation might be a problem in some nations, when there are no local structures welcome from the (central) government’s side. When there is no decentralisation possible, an institutional framework on the local level is not applicable.
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Building an Institutional Framework (PPT)
Strategic Framework for Water Services
The DWAF offers information about the institutional structure for service provision, which is very helpful for getting an overview of the topic. Chapter summary available online.
DWAF (2003): Strategic Framework for Water Services. Republic of South Africa: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) URL [Accessed: 11.04.2019]
GWP Toolbox. Integrated Water Resources Management
The IWRM ToolBox is a free and open database with a library of case studies and references that can be used by anyone who is interested in implementing better approaches for the management of water or learning more about improving water management on a local, national, regional or global level.
GWP (2008): GWP Toolbox. Integrated Water Resources Management. URL [Accessed: 16.05.2010]
Challenges in Developing an Institutional Framework
This paper on institutional frameworks is very helpful for getting more information about the topic. It is offering both detailed information and links to further reading material in each of its sections.
IEES (2006): Challenges in Developing an Institutional Framework. Wolhusen: International Ecological Engineering Society (IEES) URL [Accessed: 11.04.2019]
Sanitation and the Poor
This document is on sanitation and the challenges of improving it. It includes some case studies and ideas about building an institutional framework for its cause.
SCOTT, R. COTTON, A. GOVINDAN, B. (2003): Sanitation and the Poor. Leicestershire/London/Delft: Resource Centre for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health (WELL) URL [Accessed: 11.04.2019]
Sanitation Research Strategy
The Sanitation Research Strategy includes a part about institutional and management aspects of sanitation service delivery, helping to identify short-term and long-term objectives.
WRC (2003): Sanitation Research Strategy. Water Research Commission (WRC) URL [Accessed: 11.04.2019]
Guidance Manual on Water Supply and Sanitation Programmes
This manual has been prepared as a tool to help improve DFID's (Department for International Developments, United Kingdom) support for water supply and sanitation projects and programmes in developing countries. Its particular focus is on how DFID assistance can best meet the needs of the urban and rural poor for water supply and sanitation services.
DFID (1998): Guidance Manual on Water Supply and Sanitation Programmes. London: Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) for the Department for International Development (DFID) URL [Accessed: 09.05.2018]
A lack of a sound institutional framework is the root cause of many failures in service delivery — and a major cause of failed water and sanitation provision
WSP (2002): A lack of a sound institutional framework is the root cause of many failures in service delivery — and a major cause of failed water and sanitation provision. URL
B1. Creating an organisational framework
The Toolbox by the Global Water Partnership offers a lot of information on institutional roles in the water sector. It offers two main informational sectors in this topic, one sector for creating an organisational framework and one for building institutional capacity.
GWP (2003): B1. Creating an organisational framework. In: Sharing knowledge for equitable, efficient and sustainable water resources management. Global Water Partnership (GWP), pp.35-57 URL [Accessed: 15.04.2019]
Strategic Framework for Water Services. Water is life, sanitation is dignity
This document includes a list of the key principles in forming an institutional framework, as well as some graphs to show the roles and responsibilities for such a framework. It is good for getting an overview on the approach.
KASRILS, R. (2003): Strategic Framework for Water Services. Water is life, sanitation is dignity. Republic of South Africa: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry URL [Accessed: 28.07.2010]
Guidelines on Municipal Wastewater Management
UNEP ; WHO ; UN-HABITAT ; WSSCC (2004): Guidelines on Municipal Wastewater Management. The Hague: United Nations Environment Programme Global Programme of Action (UNEP/GPA), Coordination Office URL [Accessed: 11.04.2019]
Groundwater Governance. Synthesis of Thematic Papers/Case Studies. Preparing the ground for Regional Consultations and Global Diagnostic Report
This document synthesizes the 12 thematic papers and case studies prepared by the Groundwater Governance project in an effort to review the global situation of groundwater governance and develop of a Global Groundwater Diagnostic. This diagnostic presents current knowledge and experience concerning key economic, policy, institutional, environmental and technical aspects of groundwater management, and addresses emerging issues and innovative approaches.
FAO GEF IAH IHP World Bank (2012): Groundwater Governance. Synthesis of Thematic Papers/Case Studies. Preparing the ground for Regional Consultations and Global Diagnostic Report. FAO URL [Accessed: 28.03.2013]
Groundwater policy and governance
This paper starts by pointing to the large, remaining gaps in our understanding of how water is an integral part of society and its relationship to the planet’s environment. It recognizes that, at their root, all modes of tapping, distributing, and managing water supplies are the result of organized human effort, usually achieved through institutions. The authors address the role of governance of subsurface water, which according to many practitioners and observers remains largely uncharted, incompletely assessed, and notably uncertain and complex
FAO GEF IAH IHP World Bank (2012): Groundwater policy and governance. FAO URL [Accessed: 28.03.2013]
Legal and institutional frameworks
Whereas day to day management of groundwater resources takes place within the national sphere, and often at local level, domestic regulatory systems cannot be seen in isolation from international legal frameworks when transboundary aquifers are concerned. In that case international law determines states¿ rights and obligations to which domestic law has to be made compatible. The legal framework for groundwater management should provide answers to key questions such as, who can access groundwater, where, for which purposes and under which conditions? How are aquifers protected against depletion and pollution? According to which criteria are the finite resources of non-recharging aquifers to be allocated and protected? Which kind of monitoring and planning tools have to be used? How will private and public interest be balanced and how get stakeholders involved in decision making and management processes? These are some of the questions this report tries to respond.
FAO GEF IAH IHP World Bank (2012): Legal and institutional frameworks. FAO URL [Accessed: 02.04.2013]
Tapping the Market - Opportunities for Domestic Investments in Water for the Poor
To improve access to safe water, particularly by the poor, developing country governments and the international development community are looking to the domestic private sector to play an expanded role. This report examines piped water schemes in rural areas of Bangladesh, Benin, and Cambodia and concludes that in the three study countries, un-served people could increasingly rely on service provision through the domestic private sector as the potential market the domestic private sector could be serving is very large.
THE WORLD BANK ; WSP ; IFC (2013): Tapping the Market - Opportunities for Domestic Investments in Water for the Poor. (= Conference Edition ). Washington: The World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program (wsp), International Finance Corporation (IFC) URL [Accessed: 05.09.2013]
Tapping the Market - Opportunities for Domestic Investments in Sanitation for the Poor
To improve access to sanitation, particularly by the poor, developing country governments and the international development community are looking to the domestic private sector to play an expanded role. This report examines private sector provision of on-site sanitation services in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Peru, and Tanzania and concludes that in the study countries, un-served people could increasingly rely on service provision through the domestic private sector as the potential market the domestic private sector could be serving is very large.
THE WORLD BANK ; WSP ; IFC (2013): Tapping the Market - Opportunities for Domestic Investments in Sanitation for the Poor. (= Conference Edition ). Washington: The World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program (wsp), International Finance Corporation (IFC) URL [Accessed: 05.09.2013]
Der Nexus Wasser-Energie-Nahrung
Vernetzte Versorgungsrisiken mit sektor- und grenzüberschreitenden Wechselwirkungen stellen für die Politik eine große Herausforderung dar. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist, die politische Dimension solcher Probleme zu erfassen und Bearbeitungsoptionen zu diskutieren. Denn häufig ist nicht die Verfügbarkeit einer Ressource oder der Mangel an Lösungsansätzen das zentrale Problem. Stattdessen fehlt es oft am politischen Willen, ein integriertes und langfristig nachhaltiges Management von Ressourcen und Risiken zielstrebig umzusetzen.
BEISHEIM, M (2013): Der Nexus Wasser-Energie-Nahrung. Wie mit vernetzten Versorgungsrisiken umgehen?. Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) URL [Accessed: 07.10.2013]
From Adopt-a-Project to Permanent Services
The dominant paradigm in rural water provision in Bolivia has focused on the provision of infrastructure, whether by government agencies or international cooperation groups. However, the investment in infrastructure has led neither to universal access for all Bolivians nor to consistently high levels of services for those who do have access to a water system. This paper will describe the transition of one international non-profit organisation, Water For People, from supporting dispersed water projects throughout the country towards targeted support of water services at the municipal level, aiming to support permanent universal services.
FOGELBERG, K. (2013): From Adopt-a-Project to Permanent Services. The evolution of Water For People’s Approach to Rural Water Supply in Bolivia. In: Water Alternatives: Volume 6 , 367-383. URL [Accessed: 11.04.2019]
Important Weblinks
Department of Water Affairs of the Republic of South Africa
http://www.dwaf.gov.za/ [Accessed: 28.07.2010]
The official website of the Department of Water Affairs of the Republic of South Africa presents a lot of water related projects and a library of documents.
GWP IWRM ToolBox
http://www.gwptoolbox.org/ [Accessed: 06.05.2010]
The website of GWP contains the toolbox as a web-based learning tool itself and additionally all publications by GWP. Topics of IWRM, Good Water Governance and many more IWRM related issues are discussed in a very comprehensive way. A very extensive collection of high-quality papers are available in English, French, Spanish and Russian. The site also contains a very extensive collection of case studies
http://www.wrcplc.co.uk/ [Accessed: 28.07.2010]
The Water Research Commission website gives a lot of information about water and wastewater treatment.
National Sanitation Policy White Paper: Draft
https://www.gov.za/documents/national-sanitation-policy-white-paper-draft [Accessed: 10.04.2019]
The National Sanitation Draft White Paper includes a chapter about institutional and organisational framework for sanitation. On this site, you can find detailed information on how to build such a framework, including stakeholders and responsibilities, financial and economic approaches etc. Only available online.
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TV Licence warning: Scam email could defraud Britons out of thousands – take action | Personal Finance | Finance
TV licence payments can be made either on a yearly, monthly or quarterly basis dependent on a person’s circumstances. As such, many may look to set up the payment with a Direct Debit, which often helps to easily manage the TV Licence bill. Recent changes have meant a free TV licence is available to fewer people across the country than before.
A scam of this kind is usually referred to as a ‘phishing’ scam, where fraudsters redirect Britons to a realistic-looking website.
When filling in personal records, the website can harvest this information, meaning bank account details and other sensitive particulars can end up in the wrong hands.
This information could be particularly damaging to those who fall victim.
In a worst-case scenario, an unsuspecting person could see their entire bank account cleared out by criminals.
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Several Britons discussed the issue online, warning others to keep vigilant about the matter.
One wrote: “Ignore the email purporting to be TV Licence expiry date. This is a scam! If you pay online it will automatically renew.
“Delete immediately. I have just done so. Nasty, evil people out there!”
And another said: “I almost fell for the TV license scam! I was so close to setting up another payment via standing order.”
However, there are some important warning signs which may help Britons to spot a scam of this kind.
In one version of the latest TV Licence scam, two spelling mistakes are contained within the email.
The word “easily” has been spelt as “easly” and “Licence” as “lience” which is a major clue the message is not from a legitimate source.
However, another version urges customers to take action stating: “If you will not Update your Information, the service provided by TV Licensing may be interrupted.”
The sentence has three grammatical errors, which could serve as a warning sign for those who receive such correspondence.
In the past, Britons have been urged to take action against any scams they see online.
Those who believe they have seen, or even fallen victim, to such scams are encouraged to report this to Action Fraud – the national fraud and cyber reporting centre.
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TJ Perkins details teenage abuse
Posted by John Powell | Jun 19, 2020
TJ Perkins has come forward claiming that as a teenager in the wrestling business several older women abused their power in their dealings with him.
He Tweeted:
I’ve always felt that double standard is wrong. On the flipside, I shared 2 stories last night with a loved one of myself at 15 being taken advantage of/pressured by older girls in wrestling who were 20-22 at the time. Hard to share cuz men are expected to be proud of such things
— 🇺🇸 TJ Perkins 🇵🇭 (@MegaTJP) June 19, 2020
Impact’s Kylie Rae responded:
I’ve heard of this as well.. Whether publicized or not, definitely happens on both sides. Very, very sad.
— KYLIE RAE (@IamKylieRae) June 19, 2020
Perkins expressed how difficult it was for him to come forward and the reasons why.
What makes it tough in the other direction is guys are both expected to be proud of such things, and also shamed for the sexist nature of being proud of such things. But it felt uncomfortable, nervous, empty, etc as anyone would feel in that situation. Difficult to express.
Perkins began training when he 13 to be a professional wrestler and made his in-ring debut at 14 often skipping school to attend training or indie cards.
Last year, Perkins left the WWE and has been wrestling for Impact and NJPW. While in the WWE he won the Cruiserweight Classic and was the first ever WWE Cruiserweight Champon.
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Vigor Industrial Facilities – Shipyard workers picket smoking ban
By Jonathan Last updated Dec 3, 2017
Vigor Industrial employs approximately 1,700 workers in facilities in Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Bremerton and Port Angeles.?
Several hundred shipyard workers at six Vigor Industrial facilities in Oregon and Washington conducted unfair labor practice (ULP) strikes Sept. 25 during their lunch break and at the afternoon shift change.
The Metal Trades Council of Portland & Vicinity and the Puget Sound Metal Trades Council filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after Vigor Industrial implemented a tobacco free policy Sept. 1 at all of its locations without bargaining in good faith. The job action involves workers at Cascade General, Vigor Marine and Vigor Fab at Portland’s Swan Island ship repair yard.
Vigor Industrial employs approximately 1,700 workers in facilities in Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Bremerton and Port Angeles. They are members of various craft unions, and work under a master labor agreement negotiated and administered by the Metal Trades Department, AFL-CIO. [The Carpenters Union represents some employees under a separate agreement.]
The Portland Metal Trades Council bargains local terms and conditions in Oregon (at Swan Island). The respective Metal Trades Councils in Washington bargain local terms and conditions for workers in those cities.
“Implementing a tobacco-free policy is absolutely a mandatory subject of bargaining, and Vigor knows it,” said Brian Opland, business manager of Seattle-based Boilermakers Local 104. Local 104 represents all welders, ship fitters, riggers and helpers in Oregon and Washington, as well as several other job classifications.
Speaking at a lunchtime picket at Swan Island, Opland explained to nearly 100 workers that tobacco use has never been an issue in the past. In 2013 Vigor was concerned about trash and litter (cigarette butts, etc.), so the u nion and company agreed on a process for corrective action. Last year the company spent nearly $20,000 to build a covered designated smoking area for its employees at Swan Island.
Opland said the company has expanded tremendously over the last several years, and with that growth it has begun operating “more and more like a dictatorship.”
Last year, Vigor Shipyard in Seattle implemented its last, best and final offer after the sides couldn’t come to terms on a deal, and workers decided not to strike. It takes a two-thirds majority vote to strike.
The Portland Metal Trades Council contract at Cascade General expires in Nov. 30 of this year. The master agreement with the national Metal Trades Department expires June 1, 2017.
Opland said the NLRB is currently investigating the charges and has not yet set a timeline as to when it may issue a ULP complaint. Meantime, future job actions and additionaly ULP charges are being discussed.
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By Jody ChudleyPosted June 27, 2019
The BEST Way to Play Gold’s Breakout
After years of bumping up against $1,350 per ounce, the price of gold has finally succeeded in breaking out.
Now is the time to buy.
And not just gold, mind you…
An even better way to play this is through junior gold mining stocks.
The junior gold mining sector offers incredible leverage to the breakout gold. When gold goes up — these junior gold stocks go up exponentially more.
Adding fuel to the rally, the junior gold mining sector is one that is long overdue for a ripping bull run.
For the past decade, the share prices of junior gold mining stocks have massively underperformed the overall market.
Check out the chart below.
While the S&P 500 has marched relentlessly higher over the past ten years (almost tripling), the VanEck Junior Gold Mining ETF has lost two-thirds of its value!
This sector’s underperformance has been nothing short of brutal.
If there is a more out of favor group of companies than the junior gold miners, I’m not aware of it.
More importantly, it is very hard to see exactly why the junior gold mining sector has performed so abysmally over the last decade.
While the junior gold mining sector has dropped by two-thirds over the past decade, the price of gold has actually gone UP by 25%!
If that surprises you, don’t worry because you aren’t alone. I couldn’t believe it either.
You’re probably asking yourself right now, “Shouldn’t these stocks actually have gone up?”
Given the leverage that the junior gold miners have to the price of the metal, you would have thought that the group would have increased by more than the 25% increase that gold has experienced over the past decade.
Instead, the junior gold miners have been taken out to the woodshed again and again.
It doesn’t add up. And that is why I think these sector is about to go on a tear.
Don’t Buy One When You Can Own Them All!
While I think now is the time to have exposure to junior gold miners, I must admit that I’m not particularly fond of their business models.
Many of them operate in parts of the world that don’t exactly give you that warm fuzzy feeling.
They also don’t usually have diversified operations, so one operational snafu can be a big problem.
At an individual company level, investing in these stocks can definitely be risky.
Fortunately, there is an obvious solution to mitigate that company specific risk — don’t own one junior gold miner… Instead own them all!
I don’t think that we need to get selective here. This entire sector is like a coiled spring ready to rip.
With gold breaking out, I think we finally have the catalyst to make that happen.
The VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) provides exposure to a diversified portfolio of junior gold mining companies.
Currently, GDXJ holds 69 different junior miners with none of them representing more than 5% of its $4.1 billion portfolio.1
The average market capitalization of the companies in the portfolio is $2.2 billion, so they are small, but still financially solid operators.
As a group, they trade at a valuation of just over 1 times book value — which suggests there is little downside risk in owning this group of companies.
I believe that with flat gold prices, this group of stocks already represented great value.
But with gold breaking out, we now have the catalyst that could finally let this coiled spring release.
Here’s to looking through the windshield,
Jody Chudley
Financial Analyst, The Daily Edge
EdgeFeedback@StPaulResearch.com
1 VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF
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Neat And Nifty Things: Binge List!
random by Marissa & Johnna January 10, 2021 January 5, 2021
As the days continue to be dark so early and there isn’t much in the world to go and “do” out there, we’ve been binging a lot of shows, just like the rest of the universe. We even broke down and got HBO Max since we clearly didn’t already have enough. Here’s what we’ve been binging lately…
Collateral (Netflix) is a four-part British police procedural starring Carey Mulligan (whom I love!) as a detective trying to solve what appears to be a random murder of a pizza delivery driver… until you start seeing how everyone is connected and nothing is by chance. This has lots of familiar British actor faces popping up, and we were into it – especially since it’s four eps and done!
Somebody Feed Phil (Netflix) is just pure joy in every episode. 🙂 Phil Rosenthal travels to destinations both near and far and samples the food – in a year where we can’t travel, Phil’s wit and warmth makes this a complete winner of a series to watch. We’ve been adding sooo many destinations to our wish list from Phil!
McMillions (HBO Max) is just a bananapants this-really-happened-y’all documentary about the McDonald’s Monopoly game being rigged and investigated by the FBI. This has the weirdest cast of “characters”, and every episode leaves us going “whaaaaa?!” We love documentaries, and this is definitely a good one to mix in with all our typical murder and despondency, such as…
The Vow (HBO Max), which is definitely a downer, but again, utterly fascinating. This unpacks the NXIVM “cult” created by Keith Raniere (who was just sent to prison for a loooooong time this past fall), from several members who were high-level members before finally getting out. This is a long series (9 episodes) but we were definitely invested despite knowing how it ends…
Britain’s Best Home Cook (Hulu) helped filled the spot that GBBO had (since we’ve now seen all series of it!), and features Mary Berry (love her!) and British cooks making more than just desserts, so I was into it! Lovely and British and made us hungry!
We also watched the documentary Class Action Park on HBO (my only word for it is BANANAPANTS), I Hate Suzie on HBO Max (it’s Billie Piper so we’re here for it, though it was very, very odd), I’m introducing Wes to Doctor Who, which he’s never seen (we’re only up to the Tenth Doctor, so no spoilers!), and of course, when all else fails, we turn on RuPaul’s Drag Race, because who can be sad when that’s playing?
Happy watching, friends!
New Year, New Reviews!
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If the taxpayer is filing the return after the original due date but needs to make a payment, this payment should be submitted on Form 41ES - Estimated Tax Payment/Extension of Time Payment Idaho Business Income Tax and mailed it to the address on the form. To access the Form 41ES, from the main menu of the Idaho Partnership return select Form 41EXT (Extension) and enter the amount of the payment to be made.
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07.31.2016 Featured Story
Health Column: A more precise way to remove cataracts
By Rachel Young
COURTESY PHOTOOphthalmologist Dr. Lawrence Buono, chief of ophthalmology at Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport.
Cataract removal surgery recently became more cutting-edge at Eastern Long Island Hospital, where ophthalmologist Dr. Lawrence Buono has been performing what hospital officials are calling a “breakthrough” technique since February.
Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery, or FLACS, uses a computer-guided laser to capture real-time images of a patient’s eye just before surgery is conducted. ELIH is currently the only East End hospital making use of the technology, which Dr. Buono said improves surgical precision.
“It’s the same laser that we use for LASIK,” said Dr. Buono, chief of ophthalmology at ELIH and an attending physician and partner with North Shore Eye Care, which has nine locations on Long Island. “It’s been adopted on a whole new platform for cataract surgery.”
According to the National Eye Institute, more than half of Americans will be diagnosed with a cataract — a clouding of the eye’s lens that affects vision — or will have surgery to correct the problem by the time they turn 80.
“Pretty much everybody gets cataracts,” Dr. Buono said. “Some people get a significant cataract as early as their 60s and some people don’t until they’re in their 80s or 90s.”
According to the NEI, cataracts occur when protein in the eye’s lens clumps together. Dr. Buono said symptoms of the condition, which can worsen over time, include decreased vision and contrast, difficulty driving and experiencing a glare, or halo effect.
“These are usually the first kind of symptoms people describe,” he said.
Read on to learn more about FLACS from Dr. Buono. You can also contact North Shore Eye Care’s call center at 631-265-8780 or visit NSEYE.com.
Q: Why was it important to you to bring laser-assisted cataract removal surgery to ELIH?
A: We certainly have an older population here who needs cataract surgery. I’ve been serving this population now for about 10 years and it’s just always been important to me to keep up with the latest thing. So when this technology became available and I got some experience with it, I wanted to offer it to this group.
Q: Since February, how many times have you performed the procedure?
A: About 50. Yesterday I did seven [surgeries]. It’s certainly kind of getting more and more popular each time I do it.
Q: Are there any risks associated with it?
A: Well, not every single person is a candidate [for laser eye surgery]. If someone had significant corneal scarring, or some type of pathology that would make it inadvisable to use the laser, or small pupils — there’s a whole list of things I look for.
Q: Is the procedure faster than traditional cataract surgery?
A: No, it’s actually not. It adds a couple minutes because we have to do the imaging. When I was first doing it, it was adding 10 to 15 minutes. Now we’ve all gotten so skilled at it, including my staff, that it probably adds three minutes.
Q: What is the recovery period like?
A: It’s no different than regular cataract surgery. Cataract surgery today really enjoys minimal recovery. Most of my patients, because of the anesthetic technique I use, do not get a needle injection. That means they don’t need to wear a patch after surgery and can see immediately afterward. They can go back to their normal activities the following day, including driving.
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Stand-Up Strategy
Riku Vassinen. Strategy Director During The Day, Fast Asleep at Night.
By Riku Vassinen Advertising, Marketing Strategy, Planning, Strategy
What Deadpool Teaches You About Branding?
I finally saw Deadpool last week and it is definitely a contender for the best movie of this year. Where I actively avoid mainstream movie theatres (especially in Singapore, where the selection is even narrower. Luckily we have Projector), it was like a breath of fresh air to watch something totally politically incorrect on big screen. And I am not the only one enjoying it, Deadpool is becoming the third biggest superhero movie of all-time.
1.Don´t listen to focus groups
There is a lie, damn lie and then your target audience analyzing your ads in focus groups. Deadpool is the kind of movie that would not ever get a green light in focus group. There is senseless violence, infantile humor and jabs and insults to everything that is sacred. The hero is flawed and does not even want to be hero. Not surprisingly, despite the strong hype movie was not exactly going anywhere:
We developed the script six years ago, wrote this fantastic script, it leaked online, Deadpool fans went nuts for it, so the studio granted us a small amount of money to make test footage. This test footage that we shot then sat on the shelf for four years, as it does, they didn’t do anything with it, then just a little under two years ago it leaked, accidentally, onto the internet.
Ryan Reynolds (in Jimmy Fallon)
Deadpool would not have happened if there had not been groundswell to get the film released. Ryan Reynolds continues:
“Here’s the thing, the fans freaked out and overwhelmed Fox, and Fox basically had to greenlight the movie. The problem is the footage was owned by Fox so it was kind of illegal … I know that one of us did it.”
If you truly believe in your product, sometimes you have to bend the rules (or even ignore them) a little bit.
2.Embrace the constraints
Fox tried to do pretty much everything to not get the movie released, e.g. cutting the budget on the last minute:
“We had to carve something like $7-8 million out of the budget in a 48-hour window. And we, as a group, just put our heads together, got creative, and said ‘How do we cut what is essentially nine pages out of a 110 page script?’”
–Rhett Reese (writer)
But when there is a will, there is a way. Deadpool is not about the special effects. It is about the attitude. If you have the attitude, that can shine through but if you are only about who is having the biggest explosions, that kind of cut would be fatal.
3.Ride the trend…but in opposite direction
People start to get bored of superhero movies. They still are going to see them, because essentially you don´t have a choice, as they are everywhere. Everyone knows the formula and every superhero comes from the same mold. When someone breaks the pattern, it will definitely get noticed. That is why it is important to know your competition, so you can do exactly the opposite than them.
4.Be top-of-mind
The marketing campaign for Deadpool is a perfect example of a great integrated campaign. Top-of-mind is ensured with heavy use of traditional channels.
In digital you are really starting to have fun. Like with Deadpool emojis or a Tinder profile:
5.Keep it real
Traditionally having a R-rated film is a deathblow to a film. Deadpool has gone against all the conventional Hollywood wisdom, mainly because the makers had a strong belief to the film.
So that´s all. If you have not seen Deadpool, go see it now.
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Bud Werner Memorial Library brings Mountainfilm for Students home to Steamboat's kids! That's right, a Mountainfilm On Tour lineup designed for kids 12 and under (although we're pretty sure everyone will love these films).
Kids, films and mountains are a pretty good combination. As important as films and the ideas they generate, however, is the reminder that people on both sides of the camera—adventurer and those who document such deeds—are folks our children may grow up to be. Steamboat Springs is uniquely positioned to provide access to these roles because of its terrain, community and resources. Mountainfilm for Students, therefore, in its mix of elements, is designed to inspire and educate the younger crowd.
How to access the festival
Register to watch at the link above. We'll email you a streaming link and password to watch the Mountainfilm for Students lineup at your leisure during our week-long screening window.
A Cycle Effect Story | 5 mins
Director Jeff Woods
What does a bike feel like to you? Rita Gutierrez poses this question as she shares lessons learned on and off a bicycle through her participation in The Cycle Effect: an organization with a mission to empower young women through mountain biking to create brighter futures andbuild stronger communities.
Maestro | 2 mins
Directors Victor Caire, Lucas Navarro, Gabriel Grapperon, Florian Babikian, Théophile Dufresne
Under the light of the full moon, an incredible orchestra of animals comes alive with the guidance of their conductor — a squirrel. They disappear into the forest as quickly as they crescendoed, leaving us to wonder what’s happening in the woods late at night?
Bear Whisperer | 5 mins
Director Robert Gourley
Originally hired by the police department to exterminate bears that had overpopulated Mammoth Lakes, California, Steve Searles instead decided to teach the bears to co-exist with the town’s residents. “Nobody has ever been killed by a black bear,” he explains. “I know each bear individually in Mammoth from the time they’re born until the time they die.”
El Monociclo en Cuba | 7 mins
Director Nathan Ward
Kian Ward sees the world with two eyes and one wheel as he explores Cuba on his unicycle. Pedaling through the cobblestone streets, Kian shares what he’s learning and how he’s adventuring as a part of his year of “world-schooling.”
The Magic of Chess | 5 mins
Director Jenny Schweitzer Bell
Every year, the next generation of chess masters meet at the National Elementary Chess Championship. In the ensuing games, kids learn not only the elements of the game but speak of bravery, belief in oneself and the importance of opening moves. They may not always win, but in this short film, the magic of the game is seen through youthful eyes brimming with possibility.
Golden | 8 mins
Director Charles Post
Once Caitlin Davis discovered the mountainous West, she knew she’d found home.After a childhood spent dreaming of working with animals and their environments, the raptor biologist now spends her days in Idaho’s sagebrush country studying how human impact affects golden eagles.
Return to Earth: Time Wisely Spent | 5 mins
Directors Colin Jones, Darren McCullough, Darcy Wittenburg
In Whistler, B.C., the next generation of mountain biking phenoms discover plenty of jumps, rowdy trails and camaraderie in this exciting short segment.
Run time: 41 min.
Incorporate Mountainfilm into Your Classroom
Teachers! Want to share the festival and go deeper with these films in your classroom? Materials tailored for Bear Whisperer and The Magic of Chess are available for free for educators. The lessons are compliant with College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards. You may use them at your discretion as a complete lesson, a discussion guide or to discover additional resources. Email Youth Services Librarian Jamie Collins at jcollins@steamboatlibrary.org to request classroom resources.
About Mountainfilm and Mountainfilm on Tour
Founded in 1979, Mountainfilm is one of America’s longest-running film festivals. The annual festival is held every Memorial Day weekend in Telluride. Mountainfilm is a dynamic organization and festival of films, people, art, stories, and ideas that celebrate indomitable spirit, educates and inspires audiences, and motivates individuals and communities to advance solutions for a livable world. Mountainfilm on Tour in Steamboat Springs will feature a collection of culturally rich, adventure-packed and enlightening documentary short films that align with Mountainfilm’s mission to use the power of film, art and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world.
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Book Review: Unmarriageable, by Soniah Kamal
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Title: Unmarriageable
Author: Soniah Kamal
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a girl can go from pauper to princess or princess to pauper in the mere seconds it takes for her to accept a proposal.”
This is the belief that Alys Binat, second of five daughters and a literature teacher, faces in her students, girls who will likely marry instead of finishing school. That’s just how things are in Pakistan in the early 2000s, but Alys hopes to influence some of her students, nonetheless. Then her family is invited to the society wedding of the year, and her mother sees it as the perfect opportunity to showcase her five daughters.
The eldest, sweet Jena, catches the eye of “Bungles” Bingla, a wealthy entrepreneur, and Mrs. Binat is convinced a proposal is imminent. Alys and her best friend, Sherry, who is determined to marry so she can escape her home life, watch in amusement—and horror—as Aly’s mom and other three sisters—uber-religious Mari, flighty Lady, and artistic Qitty—make a less than stellar impression on Bungles’ sisters and very rich Valentine Darsee, his best friend. Alys hears Darsee’s scathing remarks about her and writes him off as a jerk.
But fate—and Jena and Bungles’ romance—keep throwing Alys and Darsee back into proximity, and Alys discovers the haughty man might not be quite as horrible as she thought. When Lady’s antics destroy the Binat family’s chances of ever holding their heads up in public, no one can save them. Except, maybe, Mr. Darsee.
Fact: I love Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen had a phenomenal insight into people and portrayed them very well. Fact: I know basically nothing about Pakistani culture.
Unmarriageable is a close re-telling of Pride and Prejudice, but it’s still its own story. The characters’ names made me laugh—Bungles—but there’s enough of the original in them to make them feel like old friends. I found Mr. Binat much more ineffectual than Mr. Bennet, but everyone else I enjoyed. Even Lady, annoyingly oblivious as she was. Alys was much more of a feminist than Elizabeth Bennet, but I love how her mind worked, and how quick she was to grasp her own mistakes. I highly recommend this!
Soniah Kamal was born in Pakistan, but grew up in England and Saudi Arabia and now lives in the U.S. She is an award-winning author and a creative-writing teacher. Unmarriageable is her newest novel.
(Galley provided by Random House Publishing Group in exchange for an honest review.)
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Peg Glover says:
Great Review. I read this book also. I loved it.
tamaramorning says:
Thanks! I love it, too.
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I love this book! And your review is amazing!
Thank you! I loved the book as well.
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BI This Week
Redefining the Data Integration Problem Set
Phasic Systems touts a combination of software, services, and even naysaying as an effective solution for effective enterprisewide governance.
The data integration (DI) space is never dull. Just when you think you have everything figured out, someone -- an upstart or established vendor, perhaps -- comes along and reinvents the wheel, or -- more precisely -- redefines the problem set.
The lesson: no one in the DI market is sitting still. This is as true of stalwarts such as SyncSort Inc. as it is of up-and-comers such as WhereScape Inc. (Both companies kicked off ambitious new DI initiatives over the last 18 months.)
It's likewise true of DI start-up Phasic Systems Inc., which debuted last year, using TDWI's World Conference in San Diego as its launch pad.
Like most of its established competitors, Phasic claims that it's targeting a DI problem set that's either ignored or ill-served by existing tools, most of which focus on the trees and lose the proverbial forest in the process.
That forest, argues Phasic founder and CEO Geoff Malfsky, Ph.D., is the ever-elusive goal of effective data governance across an enterprise.
The trees that populate this forest -- to continue our analogy -- consist not only of the disciplines that make up the practice of data governance but of the organizational entities (business units, fiefdoms, etc.) that often act as barriers to effective governance.
It's one thing for an IBM Corp., an Informatica Corp., a SAS Institute Inc., or even a Composite Software Inc. to say that enterprise-scale data governance is elusive and problematic -- and then to tout a "solution" that aims to make it practicable.
It's quite another thing for an unknown technology vendor like Phasic to do so, but Malafsky says that Phasic isn't just a technology company. It's a services and technology company. For this reason, he maintains, its products -- which included DataStar Discovery (a data discovery and analysis tool), DataStar Unifier (its data governance component), and DataStar Adapter (its nuts-and-bolts connectivity piece) -- didn't incubate in a vacuum; it was developed and honed in practice, in the trenches.
"We're born out of about 10 years of a prior company doing consulting in the entire life cycle of data. That starts with policy and strategy analysis [and goes] all the way into doing very formal enterprise architecture and modeling business processes all the way down to reverse-engineering very large data warehouses," he explains.
The first part of Malafsky's and Phasic's pitch involves shortening the data warehouse time-to-value. "Companies are spending a lot of money, and a lot of time, and involving a lot of personnel, and they're really not getting much return on this investment [in their data warehouses]," Malafsky says.
The same goes for accelerating projects once the data warehouse is in place.
"It doesn't do any good to spend 12 months creating a set of requirements when your business has changed four times in that period. The cycle time for data engineering has to get cut from 12 or 18 months down to 40 days. Something like that is heresy to traditional data modelers," he notes.
Malafsky says Phasic's approach mixes technology and services.
Take DataStar Discovery. It's part technology solution, part room-full-of-stakeholders-hashing-things-out. The idea, says Malafsky, is to collect information from subject-matter experts, data modelers, analysts, and stakeholders. It's likewise to give folks a chance to air grievances, express doubts, or -- at least -- to feel they've been heard.
"We specifically want to get [together] into the same room management types, business types, and technical types. We specifically want naysayers. Naysayers can be your biggest asset," he asserts. "Invariably, if you produce something useful -- quickly -- those naysayers can become your strongest advocates. They can become the primary change advocates in your organization."
Discovery takes all of this raw material and uses it to generate its data model. Malafsky claims it uses "semantic similarity analysis" algorithms to enrich the model with business context. From there, Phasic's DataStar Unifier handles integration and semantic mapping. "We can integrate data from relational databases, XML files, mainframe extracts -- all with complete semantic mapping. We can quickly make those semantic associations and bring all of that together," he says. "We do not use a relational data structure. We do not use a dimensional data structure; we use an object-oriented data value store. The keys are all based on a semantic vocabulary. The semantic vocabulary is defined by the business people in the discovery module and uses business terminology."
This last is Phasic's trump card, according to Malafsky. Call it insulation -- if not complete inoculation -- against change. "Just with this, we've eliminated about 12 months off the standard cycle because any concept of any kind can be immediately represented, is traceable, and can be changed at any moment.
The vocabulary exists outside of the data structure itself," he argues. "Say you're the Governance Board. Say you change the requirements or change vocabulary. All you have to do is click a button and remap it [the change] to the data, and before the meeting is over, your data is reflecting your new requirements."
Phasic proposes an almost absurdly ambitious project. It'd be ambitious enough for IBM's InfoSphere team, and it has the whole of IBM Global Services (IGS) backing it up. Why does Malafsky think corporate customers are going to be receptive to Phasic's pitch -- particularly in Global 2000 environments, where big brand names have always had CYA cachet? After all, nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, Informatica, or Oracle Corp. -- at least not when it comes to data integration.
Except, Malafsky maintains, they should have. He says the customers Phasic hears from are sounding a lot like Peter Finch's character in the film classic Network: mad as hell, frustrated with the status quo, and determined not to take it anymore.
"Companies have reached a boiling point of frustration," he maintains. "It used to be that we ran into the brick wall -- the old, old brick wall -- of 'I'm going to hire everyone who's in the right hand side of the Gartner Magic Quadrant. We're hearing resoundingly that those products are useless for what [companies] need to do, so they're a lot more receptive. They're willing to listen."
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Ubuntu, Windows, And Chrome Hacked At China’s Top Hackathon
From popular OSes such as Windows 10 and Ubuntu to widely-used browsers such as Chrome and Safari, the hackers partaking in the Tianfu Cup 2020 successfully hacked several popular software programs.
For those who don’t know, the Tianfu Cup is considered the biggest hacking contest in China. The third rendition of the event took place in Chengdu, China, with 15 participating teams. The prize pool for the contest winners amounted to about $1.21 million.
The winning side, 360 Enterprise Security and Government and (ESG) Vulnerability Research Institute (Qihoo 360), won the competition for the second consecutive year. It took home a total of $744,500 — around two-thirds of the total prize pool — for its exploits.
Also, runner-up Ant-financial Light-year Security Lab and second runner-up Pang bagged $258,000 and $99,500 respectively.
Credit: Tianfu Cup
Talking of the programs successfully breached during the hackathon, the organizers revealed, “Many mature and hard targets have been pwned on this year’s contest.” Out of the targeted programs, the following were confirmed as hacked:
Adobe PDF Reader
ASUS Router AX86U
Docker-CE
iOS 14 via iPhone 11 Pro
QEMU (emulator & virtualizer)
TP-Link WDR-7660
Ubuntu 20/CentOS 8
Moreover, the teams faced three rounds of 5 minutes each for breaching a specific software with an original hack. The monetary sum for a successful attempt varied based on the software and the type of vulnerability exploited.
Additionally, as per policy, the contest organizer has reported the detected vulnerabilities to the respective software providers. The patches fixing these security risks should roll out in the coming days.
The post Ubuntu, Windows, And Chrome Hacked At China’s Top Hackathon appeared first on Fossbytes.
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CANCUN–For people who follow the developments in the security and research communities, it’s easy to get discouraged by the current state of affairs, given the rash of serious hacks on certificate authorities, military networks and companies such as RSA and VeriSign. But, if you think things are bad there, you may not want to look at what’s happening in the ICS and SCADA communities. It’s getting ugly early.
Examples of the woeful state of security in these control systems are not difficult to come by these days. Researchers have been speaking publicly about some of them for a couple of years now, and a group recently discussed a huge set of vulnerabilities it found during an extended project looking at PLCs (programmable logic controllers). That talk at the S4 conference showed just how vulnerable such systems are to a wide variety of attacks.
“It’s a blood bath mostly,” said Reid Wightman, a consultant at Digital Bond, said during that conference last month. “Many of these devices lack basic security features.”
During talks on SCADA security problems at the Kaspersky-Threatpost Security Analyst Summit here Friday, several other researchers talked about the serious issues inherent in these ICS installations, and the picture they painted is one of systemic problems and a culture of naivete about security in general. Terry McCorkle, an industry researcher, discussed a research project he did with Billy Rios in which they went looking for bugs in ICS systems, hoping to find 100 bugs in 100 days. That turned out to be a serious underestimation of the problem.
“It turns out they’re stuck in the Nineties. The SDL doesn’t exist in ICS,” McCorkle said. “There are a lot of ActiveX and file format bugs and we didn’t even bother looking at problems with services. Ultimately what we found is the state of ICS security is kind of laughable.”
Terry McCorkle, photo via Nikita Shvetsov
McCorkle and Rios, who reported all of their findings to the affected vendors and through the ICS-CERT, found that the basic security model underlying the ICS systems that run critical services such as power, water and others, is completely inadequate. Many of the systems that are now exposed to the Internet were not designed with that connectivity in mind, and some of them now have mobile interfaces that can be run on smartphones, leading to an entirely new set of issues.
“People are gonna get owned, it’s going to hurt,” McCorkle said. “These HMIs are listening, they’re out there and they give access to these systems that are supposed to be segregated.”
Tiffany Rad, a computer science professor at the Universiry of Southern Maine and an intellectual property attorney, said during her talk here on vulnerabilities in the ICS systems at correctional facilities that there is a serious, overarching set of problems that needs to be addressed.
“Security through obscurity no longer works with SCADA,” she said. “The belief that PLCs are not vulnerable because they’re not connected to the Internet is not true.”
Rad, her father, John Strauchs, who is an engineer, and penetration tester Teague Newman, a penetration tester, spoke about research they’d done that found a broad set of vulnerabilities that likely can’t be fixed through patching and other technical means.
“It would cost hundreds of billions of dollars to fix these problems physically,” said Strauchs, who has done engineering design for more than a hundred jails and prisons. “The only solution is [user] training.”
David “moose” Wolpoff at Randori explains how hackers pick their targets, and how understanding “hacker logic” can help prioritize defenses.
Millions of Unpatched IoT, OT Devices Threaten Critical Infrastructure
Industrial, factory and medical gear remain largely unpatched when it comes to the URGENT/11 and CDPwn groups of vulnerabilities.
D-Link Routers at Risk for Remote Takeover from Zero-Day Flaws
Critical vulnerabilities discovered by Digital Defense can allow attackers to gain root access and take over devices running same firmware.
Anonymous on February 3, 2012
Good luck everybody be ready for BOHICA.
It's not just the bespoke old tech, or new PLCs etc, it is also a massive risk when these systems are connected to ethernet corporate administration networks that are not rated to support these systems.
So you could have old SCADA systems that work well, are not secure and are on the same switch/hub that gets rebooted by the cleaner when she unplugs it to plug in her hoover. There are so many things that are just wrong, but our messages don't get through because the penalties for the board and the senior mangement reporting into the board are not severe enough to take us "geeks" who know, who are in mangement, who know what to do to fix these problems, seriously enough.
Corporate governance is just not strong enough yet to mitigate the true source of these problems, senior mangement aquesence.
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Tailored Entertainment
340% increase in organic traffic for professional live music agency
Tailored Entertainment, the UK’s foremost live music agency representing wedding bands, function bands and bands perfect for corporate entertainment. With such a distinctive business, Tailored Entertainment came to us to see if we could help to improve its brand visibility and, more importantly, increase bookings and revenue.
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When Tailored Entertainment first approached us, the agency was running a Google AdWords campaign in-house and outsourcing its SEO to a different agency. An initial meeting was set up to understand the business in more detail, how the team goes about getting new enquiries and to understand the return on investment they need to get from any campaign.
It was decided that that the most effective way forward would be an integrated SEO and AdWords approach, starting with AdWords straight away to improve the return Tailored Entertainment was getting, increasing enquiries and maximising the spend. Once this was up and running and the contract for the other agency had expired, we also took over the SEO to ensure that a co-ordinated approach was adopted.
The first job was to cut out a lot of the wasted spend on the AdWords account as it was matching with lots of irrelevant search traffic – by doing this in the first month, there was already a more relevant audience going to the website and Tailored Entertainment’s ads were matching with more appropriate searches. With tracking set up to understand where the enquiries were coming from, it also meant that the budget saved could be reassigned to areas that were starting to show a good level of conversions.
Our Specialists also created new landing pages for specific search terms, so the campaigns would get better AdWords Quality Scores, reducing the cost per click and increasing the position to ads were shown in. They then developed an effective brand book for the business, setting out how Tailored Entertainment wanted to be portrayed in all of its content and ensuring there was a consistent voice and brand message.
Following on from this, a comprehensive content plan was created with Tailored Entertainment’s in-house team, tasks were allocated accordingly and a User Experience report was produced to ensure that when potential customers had the best experience possible when they landed on the website. A number of important changes were made from this audit and a number of landing pages were created, so customers landed on relevant pages and therefore were less likely to bounce.
Finally, the on-page optimisation issues were resolved with Tailored Entertainment’s in-house web developer so that they were no longer a hindrance to ranking increases and traffic volumes.
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Within the first three months, the AdWords click through rate increased by 300%, with this improving to 470% as of today. Conversions had dramatically increased over the same period by 657% and the amount of high-volume search terms ranking on the first page of Google has increase exponentially over the year. The business is getting over 340% in additional organic traffic each month now.
To ensure that the campaigns continue to improve and for Tailored Entertainment to get the results it is looking for, regular meetings have been set up to ensure our team know how the campaigns are affecting business on the ground for the agency and to effectively plan for the future.
Since Tillison Consulting has taken over the running of our digital marketing campaigns, there has been a huge increase in the amount of traffic and enquiries the site is getting. We used to have up to 100 enquiries a week and this has more than doubled now. We are also showing in Google searches above most of our main competitors that have been in business years longer than we have.Overall, working with the staff at Tillison has been great and it feels as though they are now part of our Marketing team.
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Hotel Rubens has been nominated for the Travel & Hospitality Awards 2021
Nov 10, 2020 | Press Release
Hotel Rubens has been nominated
by the Travel & Hospitality Awards for 2021
United Kingdom, 10/11/2020: The Travel & Hospitality Awards is proud to announce that Hotel Rubens has been nominated for the European travel awards programme.
Nominations remain open for further entrants for the European Travel Awards for the accommodation, tour and activities categories for 2021. For interested companies who would like to be put forward please submit a nomination.
Recipients of Travel & Hospitality awards were scrupulously selected based on the aggregation of reviews from multiple third-party sources. Selected by a panel of experts who analyze submission material, review customer feedback and compare each entrant on their given specialty, each winner is awarded for the details that make them distinct.
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Mangiardivino is a Travel & Hospitality Award Winner for 2021
Dec 10, 2020 | Press Release
Mangiardivino is a Travel & Hospitality Awards Winner for 2021
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United Kingdom, 10/12/2020: The Travel & Hospitality Awards is proud to announce that Mangiardivino has been awarded in its 2021 European Travel Awards programme.
While this year has been the toughest the travel industry has ever faced, we endeavour to recognise those who deserve praise and to promote the hard work of tenacious travel businesses. Recipients of Travel & Hospitality awards in 2021 were scrupulously selected based on the aggregation of reviews from multiple third-party sources. Selected by a panel of experts who analyse submission material, review customer feedback and compare the facilities of each entrant. Our winners are those who can demonstrate their uniqueness, quality of services and facilities and exceptional levels of customer care across a number of categories.
In this extraordinary year of the awards over 4,000 nominations were received for this years programme, and the standard of entries was incredibly high. The judging panel had great difficulty in narrowing down the entries but the winners reflect the very best in travel and hospitality standards. The team at Travel & Hospitality Awards, said: “We were overwhelmed by the quality of entries this year. We hope this guide will be a useful tool for discerning travellers planning their next luxury getaway. Congratulations once again to all our winners.”
The full list of winners will be included in the annual awards publication that will be available for digital download in November. To receive this publication, you are encouraged to join the mailing list to be notified upon its release.
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Cooking class: Learn traditional dishes of Tuscan and Italian traditions, thanks to the wide selection of menu we can involve while having fun, beginners to intermediate chefs
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THEAUSSIEWORD
A New Dees President and A ‘Sleeping Giant’
by Brian Peel
Our brand new club President Glen Bartlett addressed a room full of supporters prior to last weekend’s game at the MCG. He’s well spoken, clear on his vision and is thinking and speaking in the same headspace I would if I were standing up there as President… there’s plenty of work to be done but with the positivity and outlook that Glen is portraying, we will be there in no time.
This post from the Melbourne Football Club website… NEW MELBOURNE president Glen Bartlett says the club has a soft culture and it needs to get a bit of mongrel into its approach on and off the field. He said the Demons needed to win respect for the way they did business and do so with integrity but be ruthless.”We need to build culture where in the future nothing other than winning is acceptable,” Bartlett said.
Bartlett, who played four games with West Coast in 1987, joined the board in July and became president on Friday. The AFL approved his appointment to the role. He became a Demons supporter three years ago after arriving in Melbourne from Perth to advance his career as a lawyer and used his first address as president to outline his philosophies. Bartlett declared he will apply a football-first philosophy to the club, saying the administration must gradually fall into the background.
He also pledged to make the club an attractive home and destination for players saying that Melbourne had to work harder to look after senior players so they were set up for life after football.
“If ever a club is a sleeping giant in this area, it is the Melbourne Football Club,” Bartlett said. “We have so many resources, so many connections in business to actually develop our players. We have to make development and opportunity a core of our business.”
Melbourne has lost key players to other clubs in recent seasons with the decision to axe James McDonald at the end of 2010 under coach Dean Bailey starting a trend. The out-of-contract Jack Watts is refusing to commit to the club beyond 2013 until he is confident of the club’s direction while free agent Colin Sylvia remains in no rush to extend his contract. Bartlett said the appointment of a new coach was a crucial decision for the club. “We have to get this right,” Bartlett said.
The club recently interviewed experienced coaches Mark Williams and Rodney Eade for the job and still retain hope of talking Sydney Swans premiership coach Paul Roos back into coaching. Caretaker coach Neil Craig is also considered a potential candidate but is yet to engage formally in the process.
He used the forum to express his confidence in CEO Peter Jackson and state on the record that he first met Jackson less than two months ago. He said they hit it off straight away and debunked any notion they had been friends and had known each other for a long time. He thanked Neil Craig for his efforts since taking over as coach mid-season and said that he had confidence in the coaching selection panel to make the right appointment. He also said more appointments in the football department would flow from that crucial decision.
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Rep. Hern voted “No” on The Families First Coronavirus Response Act
by The Black Wall Street Times March 14, 2020
by The Black Wall Street Times Published: March 14, 2020 Last Updated on March 16, 2020
(OK-1) (R) Rep. Kevin Hern, left; (OK-1) Congressional Rep. candidate Kojo Asamoa-Caesar, right
Published 03/14/2020 | Reading Time 2 min 7 sec
By BWSTimes Staff,
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelming passed The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (HR 6201) near midnight yesterday, receiving large bipartisan support 360-40.
Rep. Kevin Hern, of Oklahoma’s first congressional district, voted against the bill.
“I will not vote for any bill, emergency or not, that contains regulations that would hamstring businesses and workers, especially in this climate where they recover from the economic burden of this virus,” the representative stated in his most recent press release.
Hern did make clear that he supports certain provisions of the bill, including a standalone bill that funds coronavirus response efforts, vaccine development, increased testing capabilities, and resources for local and state health officials.
Hern’s Democratic opponent for the upcoming U.S. Okla. District I congressional race, Kojo Asamoa-Caesar condemned Hern’s vote, responding, “I applaud the efforts of both Democrats and Republicans in the House in passing this desperately-needed assistance for American families.”
Asamoa-Caesar added, “I am appalled that the current representative for Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District, Rep. Kevin Hern, voted ‘No’ on this essential legislation.”
Tulsa County currently has two COVID-19 cases confirmed.
Asamoa-Caesar said, I would have been a strong “Yes” on the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, because I am running for Congress to improve the lives of Oklahomans and build an America where life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is within reach for all—every single day, and especially in a crisis.” Amid the global outbreak, Hern blamed House Democrats, stating, “I was optimistic Democrats would embrace this same bipartisan tone on future coronavirus legislation. I am truly disappointed by tonight’s policy options. Before tonight’s vote, I wrote a letter to Speaker Pelosi urging her to keep the House in session until we can come to the table with legislation written in the best interests of the American people. To those asking, yes, that means I think we need to work through the weekend and into next week if needed.”
Nevertheless, a Capitol Hill staffer tested postive earlier in the week for COVID-19, and President Donald J. Trump encouraged Americans to practice social- distancing amid the growing pandemic and national emergency.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stated, “We cannot fight coronavirus effectively unless everyone in our country who needs to be tested knows they can get their test free of charge. We cannot slow the coronavirus outbreak when workers are stuck with the terrible choice between staying home to avoid spreading illness and the paycheck their family can’t afford to lose.” HR 6201 responds to the coronavirus outbreak, providing paid sick leave and free coronavirus testing. Moreover, it expands food assistance and unemployment benefits and requires employers to provide additional protections for health care workers.
Furthermore, HR 6201 modifies USDA food assistance and nutrition programs, allowing certain waivers to requirements for the school meal programs, suspends the work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program), and allows states to request waivers to provide certain emergency SNAP benefits.
Lastly, the bill requires the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue a temporary emergency standard that requires certain employers to develop and implement a comprehensive infectious disease exposure control plan to protect health care workers.
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It’s a baker’s dozen this month so we can include our birthday party. We’re going to be four years old!
HiHo Brewing Company // 1 pm // Join us to celebrate our fourth birthday. We’ll have cake, party hats and a very special devil strip photo booth. HiHo will have beer and delicious snacks. The first 30 people to RSVP get a beer on us. Sign up here.
March 8 and 9
Denied Admission: A Staged Reading
The Center in Akron // 7:30 pm – 9 pm // Denied Admission is a modern play based around the fearful experiences of those who crossed the southern U.S. border seeking asylum. Gum-Dip Theatre will host two staged readings in March, followed by a 30-minute talkback in acknowledgement of the sensitive nature of the material. All are welcome and feedback is much appreciated. Ticket sales will fund mounting the full-length play in July. $5.
Meet Your Neighborhood Kenmore
Kenmore Komics & Games // 11 am – 1 pm // Join The Devil Strip as we get to know one of Akron’s neighborhoods! Join us in our exploration of Kenmore’s local retail opportunities and support of local shop owners. Starting at Kenmore Komics, we’ll continue down Kenmore Boulevard and visit six different shops including Magic City Sports Cards, The Guitar Department and The Dragon’s Mantle. You’ll be hungry after all that shopping, so we recommend picking up a pizza from Pierre’s afterward. This event is free, but pizza is not.
March 11 and 12
All-City Musical Auditions
Akron Civic Theatre // 6 pm – 10 pm // Students grades 9-12 are invited to the Civic for auditions for the 2019 All-City Musical “Aida.” The cast will perform on the Akron Civic Theatre stage on June 21 and 22. Auditions are March 11 beginning at 6:30 pm and March 12 beginning at 6 pm. By appointment only. Contact allcitymusicalakron@gmail.com for more information.
Greystone Hall // 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm // Art of Recovery is an opportunity for individuals living with mental illness to show and be recognized for their creative work. This exhibition benefits the enhancement of the Expressive Arts program at Community Support Services. Tickets available on Eventbrite. $60-$125.
RubberDucks National Anthem and Mascot Auditions
Canal Park // 10 am – 2 pm // Want to sing the national anthem at an Akron RubberDucks game this summer? Reserve a spot between 10 am and 12 pm by emailing Kyle Hixenbaugh at khixenbaugh@akronrubberducks.com or calling (330) 253-5151. Arrive 15 minutes before your time slot and be ready to sing outside over Canal Park’s public address system.
If you want to try out to be one of the RubberDucks’ four official mascots — Orbit the space cat, Homer the inflatable pigeon, Rubberta the duck or Webster the duck — stop by Canal Park between 1 pm and 2 pm. Prior mascot experience strongly preferred. Potential mascots do not need to reserve a time slot.
March aMUSEment: Herstory
University of Akron // 6 pm – 6:30 pm // Celebrate Women’s History Month with an exploration of the National Museum of Psychology. This insider tour will focus on women in psychology, the significance of their contributions, and their historical exclusion in the field. Tickets $5-$20, but free for UA students, staff and faculty with valid ID.
True Crime Tour
Simon Perkins Stone Mansion // 1 pm – 3:30 pm // Join the Summit County Historical Society for a trolley tour of true crimes right here in Akron. Learn about the investigations and chilling discoveries in solving these cases, from bank robberies to abduction and murder. $20-$25.
Artist Panel: 419 Square Miles of Summit Country
Summit Artspace Akron // 7 pm – 8 pm // Join Summit Artspace for a panel discussion with the artists of “419 Square Miles of Summit County,” led by juror and veteran photographer Gary Harwood. “419 Square Miles of Summit County” is a photography exhibition that highlighs “life throughout Summit County using portraits, landscapes, interior spaces, nature and street photography” by local and regional photographers. The exhibition reflects on the history of life in Summit County and aims to create an “avenue for conversation and mutual appreciation through a visual narrative,” organizers say.
LEVEL – A Conversation Raising Awareness
Akron Urban League // 11:30 am – 2:30 pm // Join Akron Urban League as it brings light to a conversation about racial bias with LEVEL – A Conversation Raising Awareness, Lowering Bias and Creating Equity. After the luncheon, a series of diversity and inclusion workshops will take place throughout the year in an effort to address equality issues of the greater Akron area. $50.
African-American Genealogy with Deborah Abbott
Main Library // 10:30 am – 1 pm // Cleveland native Deborah A. Abbott, Ph.D., a professional genealogist specializing in African-American history, will present two lectures. First, Dr. Abbott will highlight underutilized sources for African-American genealogy research, including military and court records, manuscripts, and newspapers, and offer tips and strategies for using these sources. The second lecture will explore the difficulties of finding and identifying slave ancestors. Free.
Intro to Archery
Firestone Metro Park/Coventry Oaks Area // 12:30 pm – 4 m // Learn one of the oldest arts still practiced today! Learn international-style archery and test your marksmanship at an indoor range. Families with children 9 years and older are invited. Participants 16 and older only after 2 pm. All equipment and instruction provided. Advanced registration required, beginning online March 15. $15 per family until 2 pm, $10 per person after.
The Rules of the Playground: An Evening of Works by Carolyn Gage
Weathervane Playhouse // 7:30 pm // Queen Bee Productions presents a compilation of six of Carolyn Gage’s most thought-provoking plays exploring cultural norms, expectations and gender roles. Carolyn Gage is an award-winning lesbian feminist playwright, performer, director, and activist. Tickets are available at www.weathervaneplayhouse.com. $15-$22. The Rules of the Playground is rated PG-13 due to references to sex, violence, mild drug use and language.
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Oxford COVID vaccine trials begin in India, Sputnik-V on cards
Six volunteers selected at Pune for phase-2 trials, as India and Russia in talks over Sputnik-V availability
12:41 PM, 26 August, 2020 Updated 1:34 PM, 26 August, 2020
A software,‘Co-WIN’, has been developed by the Health Ministry for real time information on vaccine stocks, their storage temperature and individualised tracking of beneficiaries for COVID-19 vaccine. Representational image: iStock
The Phase-2 trials of the Oxford University vaccine for Coronavirus begin in India on Wednesday. The first doses will be given to six volunteers at Pune’s Bharati Vidyapeeth medical college and hospital. The vaccine, developed in collaboration with AstraZeneca, is believed to be the most promising. It is in phase-3 trials in some countries.
Indian rules require a vaccine to be tested within the country. Pune’s Serum Institute of India, which has an agreement with AstraZeneca to produce and market the vaccine, has initiated human trials. Both phase-2 and phase-3 trials would take place in India. Phase-1, during which the vaccine’s safety is assessed, is not mandatory to be repeated in India.
The phase-2 trials will take place at two more locations, at the KEM Hospital in Mumbai and PGI, Chandigarh. More hospitals would be involved in phase-3 trials, during which the vaccine’s efficacy to protect the volunteers from the disease in reallife situations, is assessed. In phase-3, the vaccine is tried on thousands of volunteers. Since these tests are only being repeated in India, a total of 1,600 volunteers are likely to be administered the vaccine during the phase-2 and phase-3 trials.
Meanwhile India has said talks are on over the possibility of bringing the Russian vaccine, Sputnik-V.
“India and Russia are in communication. Some initial information has been shared,” said Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan.
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Russia has said that India is one of the countries where the vaccine could be manufactured. It is not yet clear if these talks have progressed.
Sputnik-V is the first to be authorized for general use, but experts have expressed doubts because of the speed with which it was developed, without going through phase-3 human trials.
In another releated development, a top US expert on infectious diseases, Anthony Fauci, has spoken against granting emergency use authorisations to the Corona vaccines.
His comments came amid reports that President Trump was ready to granting emergency use authorization to at least one leading vaccine candidate ahead of the November 3 presidential election. The availability of a vaccine could boost Trump’s prospects as he is seeking a re-election.
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Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the US drug regulator, has rejected Trump’s charge that a “deep state” within the agency was deliberately slowing down the development of vaccines.
Trump had recently claimed that this “deep state” with the FDA was working to sabotage his re-election bid.
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Tag: Crimson Peak
Gallery Additions: ‘Crimson Peak’ Extras
Our gallery has been updated with screen captures from Tom’s scenes in the extra features of the ‘Crimson Peak’ blu-ray release, which include behind the scenes footage, deleted scenes and more.
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Film Productions > Crimson Peak > Screen Captures: I Remember Crimson Peak
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Film Productions > Crimson Peak > Screen Captures: Beware of Crimson Peak
Film Productions > Crimson Peak > Screen Captures: Deleted Scenes
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Crimson Peak Screen Captures
Screen Captures + Digital Release of ‘Crimson Peak’
Our gallery has been updated with screen captures from Tom’s scenes in ‘Crimson Peak’. As of today, the film is available on Digital HD, and you can buy/rent it on websites such as Amazon and iTunes.
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‘Crimson Peak’ Blu-Ray Release
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced that it will release on Blu-ray Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Crimson Peak’ (2015), which stars Tom, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Charlie Hunnam, and Burn Gorman. The release will be available for purchase on February 9, 2016.
Synopsis: When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place ?lled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak.
Feature Commentary with co-writer and Director Guillermo Del Toro
The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak – Crimson Peak offers a stylized turn of the century with carefully crafted visuals that provide the perfect backdrop for Del Toro’s brand of psychological horror. Follow the phases of production to discover a booming America and a dark and removed England portrayed with a multi-layered sophistication unlike any seen in recent cinema.
Beware Of Crimson Peak – Tom Hiddleston (Sir Thomas Sharpe) offers a walking tour of the many secret spaces in Allerdale Hall.
I Remember Crimson Peak – A series of interviews with director Guillermo del Toro and his standout cast, Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain.
(Video) ‘Crimson Peak’ at Charlie Rose
Tom and his ‘Crimson Peak’ co-stars Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska talked to Charlie Rose last week during their promotional tour for the film. Watch the video below.
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Tom and his ‘Crimson Peak’ co-star Jessica Chastain talked to The Huffington Post last week as part of their promotional tour for the film. Watch their interview below.
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Share this Story: Our Lady Peace and Matt Good hit the road together; remember Gord Downie
Our Lady Peace and Matt Good hit the road together; remember Gord Downie
Mar 06, 2018 • March 6, 2018 • 4 minute read
Raine Maida (left) of Our Lady Peace, and Matthew Good (right) are pictured in Toronto on Monday, Jan. 22 , 2018. (Jack Boland/POSTMEDIA NETWORK)
You’d think ‘90s Can-rock acts Our Lady Peace and Matthew Good— now on a cross-Canada trek — may have toured together previously.
But OLP frontman Raine Maida says they didn’t actually share a stage until “four or five years ago.”
Our Lady Peace and Matt Good hit the road together; remember Gord Downie Back to video
“We played together at a festival in Alberta and we kind of starting talking about like, ‘Why haven’t we done this?’” said Good at Maida’s side.
“It was just such a great night and the crowd was fantastic. And ultimately, it just came down to it taking some years to put together when we both had new music coming out at the same time.” (OLP just released Somethingness on Feb. 23 and Good released Something Like a Storm last fall).
We caught up with the two musicians in Toronto recently before they hit the road.
This seems like a no-brainer in terms of your respective fans enjoying both of your sets?
Raine: Yes. I tell Matt all the time, like at these meet and greets or these VIP things, people are like, ‘Yeah, OLP and Matt Good are my favourite artists.’ And once you hear that enough times you’re like, ‘Okay I get it. We’re going to do it.’
Matt: Over the years, you get that cross-collateralization. Like, ‘I saw you guys and I saw Our Lady Peace,’ and that kind of thing. So eventually it made sense for us to do something together. The one thing that both me and Raine have been focusing on is that we wanted to have new music coming out so that it wasn’t something that was perceived as we’re just doing a ‘90s (thing). We didn’t want that.
Any reason that in Toronto, you’re playing two different venues — Massey Hall and Rebel?
Raine: I think in this city now I like the idea of playing different venues, rather than doing two or three nights at Massey. For us, we’ve played everywhere so to have that opportunity to do that on the same tour is interesting.
Matt: I think when a band is at a certain level where they can get in and they can sell out Massey Hall — that first time or the first few times — it’s a really, really big deal. But I think that we’ve probably played there both enough to be like, ‘It’s cool. This is the Carnegie Hall of Canada.’ But at the same time, I think it would be a good, parallel experience where people are standing.
You’ve both toured Canada extensively but is this the biggest cross-country trek you’ve ever done?
Raine: This is the biggest for us in 10 years for sure.
Matt: I wouldn’t say (so). The Beautiful Midnight tour last year was seven and a half weeks, that was way longer than this. But you also have to remember we’re playing much larger places ‘cause the both of us are on the bill.
Who is opening for who?
Matt: They’re going to close ‘cause I’m lazy. It just means I get finished first.
Raine: But you don’t. ‘Cause we’re both going to do our sets and then doing something collaborative at the end.
The new OLP album has the Gord Downie tribute song, Ballad of a Poet. How did that come about?
Raine: The song really came about with his illness when we were on tour last summer, it just so happened we were in a radio station in Edmonton. I remembered, just on the spot, this incredible moment when I was living in Toronto, I was just a kid and I went to the Toronto Music Awards. Anyway, it was crappy. It terrible — until The Hip came out. And I kind of heard their name. I didn’t know any of their music. So this song, Ballad of a Poet, is just a recollection of that night. Seeing this guy who really made that distinction between entertainer and artist. Gord was the consummate artist and just transcended everything in that room that night like, ‘That is what I want to do.’
Did you know Gord well?
Raine: We played with The Hip a bunch of times. I asked Gord to do a bunch of things for me with (the charity) War Child and he was always really gracious and just a lovely guy. And the guys in the band are amazing so we’ve had that relationship forever.
Matt: We’re managed by the same management. I’ve hung out with Gord a bunch. I always remember Gord as being funny more than anything. Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree with Raine in that he was a spectacular person to watch and he exuded the real deal. I was in town here and (my and The Hip’s manager) Bernie Breen called me from the hospital (when Gord died). It was odd. It wasn’t a good day.
But the music still remains doesn’t it?
Raine: The Hip aren’t going away, like they’ve been a fabric of this country for 20 plus years. And it’s like this warm blanket. It’s always around. There’s something so unique about The Hip because of Canada and the fact that they’re so Canadian and remained Canadian.
Matt: The one band that this country stood still for (when their last show was televised last August) was a whole prime example of it.
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Select remaining dates for the OUR LADY PEACE/ MATTHEW GOOD tour:
March 8 – The Arena at TD Place – Ottawa
March 9 – FirstOntario Concert Hall – Hamilton
March 10 – Budweiser Gardens – London
March 13 – Tribute Communities Centre – Oshawa
March 15 – Massey Hall – Toronto
March 16 – Rebel – Toronto
March 17 – Casino Rama – Orillia
March 20 & 21 – Burton Cummings Theatre – Winnipeg
March 23 – Grey Eagle Event Centre – Calgary
March 26 & 27 – Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium – Edmonton
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There will be times when making things fit will seem impossible. Our experience shows that it never is. Several determined people focusing on a word and the phrases around it will always find a solution after a few weeks, or even earlier. After all, it's just words.
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September 5, 2020 By yotan 1 Comment
Athens City School Calendar is the public school of Athens which is in Alabama. As a report of 2018, Athens City Schools have a strength of 4120 students which 238 staff members who currently work there for the full time. This school was established in the year 1909 which is K-12 public school serving in the Athens district and nearby too.
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Athens City Schools helps in a change in the progress of children’s and helps in preparing students for the future. This School includes 1 high school, 1 intermediate school, 1 non-traditional school (K-12) Athens Renaissance School, Athens High School, 1 middle school and 4 elementary schools.
The best what I like about this school is the ratio maintain in between the staff and the students which helps in mutual understanding among the students and the staff. From the past many years, their made many changes in the management side by which in the year 2013 Dr. Trey Holladay was appointed as the superintendent.
Also from the past many years, this Athens City School has faced a lot more difficulties and challenges which reflect the atmosphere of trust among the students, staff, and the management team. There are a lot more activities which are performed and provide opportunities to participate in the events which are performed throughout the year for the students which help in the development in student health. Each and every year the school provides scholarships for those students who have financial problems and also good in studies too, which helps in accelerating change in process and development in the individual’s life.
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Athens City school provides enrichment classes which help in setting up needs in the students for an educational experience. The best part what I like about this School is that parents are notified each and every or activity performed by their children in a report. A report is generated every month and directly send it to the parents which helps in knowing about what their child status is.
Apart from that, we do care for you all so that you can get all the updates which are a chance from the management side for you all. Today through this block I would like to tell you about the Holiday Calendar which tells about when will be school will be closed or open throughout the year. Here is PDF and Doc format which states that the format. It is provided to you are free of cost. You can download it from anywhere which helps in making your work easier and decrease in work pressure. This Calendar is dedicated to all the students and the staff members who are the part of this school.
If you feel you need any help or support from our side. Then you can contact us through a mail or comment us which section is provided below to you all which helps in making your work easier. Moreover, I would like to wish you the very best for the future. It promise you all that if you go through it then it will guide you. This will help you in making proper planning for the future. Below I am with the schedule for the year which is provided from the management side.
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First Day of School 8 Aug 2020
Thanksgiving Break 27 Nov 2020 29 Nov 2020
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Neural circuitry of impaired emotion regulation in substance use disorders
Claire E. Wilcox, Jessica M. Pommy, Bryon Adinoff
Impaired emotion regulation contributes to the development and severity of substance use disorders (substance disorders). This review summarizes the literature on alterations in emotion regulation neural circuitry in substance disorders, particularly in relation to disorders of negative affect (without substance disorder), and it presents promising areas of future research.Emotionregulationparadigms during functional magnetic resonance imaging are conceptualized into four dimensions: affect intensity and reactivity, affective modulation, cognitive modulation, and behavioral control. The neural circuitry associated with impaired emotion regulation is compared in individualswith andwithout substance disorders,with a focus on amygdala, insula, and prefrontal cortex activation and their functional and structural connectivity. Hypoactivation of the rostral anterior cingulate cortex/ventromedial prefrontal cortex (rACC/vmPFC) is themost consistent finding across studies, dimensions, and clinical populations (individuals with and without substance disorders). The same pattern is evident for regions in the cognitive control network (anterior cingulate and dorsal and ventrolateral prefrontal cortices) during cognitive modulation and behavioral control. These congruent findings are possibly related to attenuated functional and/or structural connectivity between the amygdala and insula and between the rACC/vmPFC and cognitive control network. Although increased amygdala and insula activation is associated with impaired emotion regulation in individuals without substance disorders, it is not consistently observed in substance disorders. Emotion regulation disturbances in substance disorders may therefore stem from impairments in prefrontal functioning, rather than excessive reactivity to emotional stimuli. Treatments for emotion regulation in individuals without substance disorders that normalize prefrontal functioning may offer greater efficacy for substance disorders than treatments that dampen reactivity.
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Wilcox, C. E., Pommy, J. M., & Adinoff, B. (2016). Neural circuitry of impaired emotion regulation in substance use disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 173(4), 344-361. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15060710
Neural circuitry of impaired emotion regulation in substance use disorders. / Wilcox, Claire E.; Pommy, Jessica M.; Adinoff, Bryon.
In: American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 173, No. 4, 01.04.2016, p. 344-361.
Wilcox, CE, Pommy, JM & Adinoff, B 2016, 'Neural circuitry of impaired emotion regulation in substance use disorders', American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 173, no. 4, pp. 344-361. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15060710
Wilcox CE, Pommy JM, Adinoff B. Neural circuitry of impaired emotion regulation in substance use disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2016 Apr 1;173(4):344-361. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15060710
Wilcox, Claire E. ; Pommy, Jessica M. ; Adinoff, Bryon. / Neural circuitry of impaired emotion regulation in substance use disorders. In: American Journal of Psychiatry. 2016 ; Vol. 173, No. 4. pp. 344-361.
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Janet C. Gornick, Markus Jantti
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This volume presents cross-nationally comparative evidence on income inequality trends, women’s employment and its effect on inequality, the distribution of wealth, and the interaction of politics with inequality across several mainly high-income countries.
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This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citizens: economic inequality. While income and wealth inequality across all populations is the primary focus, the contributions to this book pay special attention to the middle class, a segment often not addressed in inequality literature.Written by leading scholars in the field of economic inequality, all 17 chapters draw on microdata from the databases of LIS, an esteemed cross-national data center based in Luxembourg. Using LIS data to structure a comparative approach, the contributors paint a complex portrait of inequality across affluent countries at the beginning of the 21st century. The volume also trail-blazes new research into inequality in countries newly entering the LIS databases, including Japan, Iceland, India, and South Africa.
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4th June 2018 / Food / Gordon Stott / Purefoy Arms
Multi award-winning chef, Gordon Stott has opened his first solo pub at The Purefoy Arms in Preston Candover with plans to make it one of the U. K’s top dining destinations.
The 27-year-old winner of the 2017 Craft Guild of Chef’s ‘Pub Chef of the Year’, also known as the ‘chef’s Oscars’, recently left The Sun Inn, outside Basingstoke, where he was the landlord and head chef since taking on the role in 2010, aged 20.
During this time, revenue increased by 320% and the pub received 2 AA Rosettes and a Michelin Bib Gourmand. Awards included Gastro Pub of the Year 2016 at the Food Awards England. Gordon also received the prestigious Acorn Award which recognises the ‘top 30 under 30’ in British hospitality.
Dating back to the 1860s, The Purefoy Arms’ charming redbrick building has recently undergone a major six-figure refurbishment. The pub’s new look is designed to complement Gordon’s vision of a relaxed setting to enjoy creative cooking, the finest local produce and seasonal ingredients.
The regularly changing menu features dishes like Whole Roasted Stuffed Quail Served with Carrot Puree, Hispi Cabbage and Bubble and Squeak, and Faggot and Rack of Lamb served with Pea and Bacon Succotash, Celeriac, Crushed Potatoes and a Red Wine Jus.
A 6-course tasting menu caters for all dietary requirements including vegan, and homemade Purefoy Arms’ jam, chutney, vinegar, truffles and shortbread are available to buy.
The opening has been warmly received by residents who have been left without a village pub since it closed in November last year. Overwhelmed with the response from the community, Gordon says, “Everyone has welcomed us with open arms and the pub already promises to be the hub of village life.
“Opening my first place has been years in the planning and every inch of the pub has my stamp on it. We’ll be working with lots of local suppliers and celebrating the best ingredients our region has to offer. Taking everything we achieved at The Sun Inn, I want to make The Purefoy Arms a great British pub with hopefully a few more awards to add to the collection.”
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HomeNEWSBanks Shoes stays in the family
Banks Shoes stays in the family
by: The Register team
Wellington footwear group Banks Group, which operated as Shoe Connection, SNKR, Banks Shoes and Plimmer Shoes before going into receivership in May, has been sold by its receivers to a group of investors led by the son of its former director.
Fairfax has reported PwC receiver John Fisk as confirming the sale was made to investors led by Jeremy Bank, the son of former director John Bank. It included five stores, plus an online store. Eight of Banks Group’ 13 stores have been closed.
The company’s former 170 staff were collectively owed $339,000 when the company went into receivership and will be paid out as preferential creditors under the sale. All preferential creditors, including BNZ, which is owned $1.557m, are expected to be paid out.
The report says Banks Group experienced cashflow pressures and sufferent trading losses following a period of significant expansion: “The expansion was intended to counter the challenging retail environment over the last few years, however, [it] was ultimately unsuccessful.”
After being founded in 1938, Banks Group expanded into Christchurch in 2002 and entered Auckland in 2013. Prior to going into receivership, it also had stores in Hamilton and Palmerston North, plus an ecommerce arm.
It opened a new Shoe Connection outlet at Auckland’s NorthWest Shopping Centre and relocated its Sylvia Park store to a bigger site as recently as 2016.
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Book Review: Imperfect by Lee Kofman
By the time she was eleven and living in the Soviet Union, Lee Kofman had undergone several major operations on both a defective heart and injuries sustained in a bus accident. Her body harbours a constellation of disfiguring scars that have shaped her sense of self and her view of the world. But it wasn’t until she moved to Israel and later to Australia that she came to think these markings weren’t badges of honour to flaunt but were, in fact, imperfections that needed to be hidden away.
In a captivating mix of memoir and cultural critique, Kofman casts a questioning eye on the myths surrounding our conception of physical perfection and what it’s like to live in a body that deviates from the norm. She reveals the subtle ways we are all influenced by the bodies we inhabit, whether our differences are pronounced or noticeable only to ourselves. She talks to people of all shapes, sizes and configurations and takes a hard look at the way media and culture tell us how bodies should and shouldn’t be.
Illuminating, confronting and deeply personal, Imperfect challenges us all to consider how we exist in the world and how our bodies shape the people we become.
This is an absolutely fascinating read. Part memoir, part cultural analysis, part social critique. Lee Kofman, through the gaze of her own experience of living with visible scars, gives us a thorough analysis of living life as an ‘imperfect’ person in a Western society. Assumptions, myths, and truths – all is laid bare in this book. Lee also explores her concepts holistically by examining the experiences of many different types of ‘imperfect’ people: those who are scarred, those who suffer a disability or health condition that has altered their appearance, those with body sizes that differ from the average, and even those who choose to differentiate themselves deliberately via extreme body modification. Extensively researched, utilising both secondary sources and her own field research, Imperfect is an immersive and fascinating read that I had trouble putting down…just one more chapter!
‘The body keeps getting wounded, as it always does, and while we tend to its wounds in increasingly clever ways, we seem reluctant to acknowledge the ravaged aftermath of our medical triumphs. To make mutilations the defining features of characters in modern myths is to reduce their humanity and reassure ourselves. For if these people are either tragics or monsters, the gods of disfigurements, then what has happened to them cannot happen to us. The distancing conjures up safety, and renders mutilations even stranger, even more frightening, even more titillating.’
While memoirs are not my preferred reading, I did really enjoy the memoir aspect of this book. Maybe it was Lee’s style of writing, maybe it was what she chose to write about, maybe it was a combination of both of these things, but this book distinctly lacks the ‘misery memoir’ undertone that typifies many that I have come across. Hers is an unfortunate story of a congenital heart defect followed by a terrible traffic accident, all in childhood. It was particularly interesting reading about the Soviet health system. Oh my goodness, it must have been so distressing as a parent to know that your child would need hospitalisation and specialist care whilst living under Soviet rule. Lee talks about how an American Jewish family sent her parents jeans to sell on the black market so that they had money to bribe hospital staff in order to ensure the right doctor operated on her and also that she had basic sanitary care whilst in recovery. Reading things like this is humbling, you really are reminded of what we take for granted here in Australia, of how lucky we are with our health care system. The scars that Lee got from her heart surgery, and later the traffic accident, were extensive and shaped her life from that point on. Interestingly, she points out that Eastern views of scars differ greatly to Western views, and it wasn’t until she moved out of the Soviet Union that she really felt the full impact of being ‘imperfect’.
‘In studies of the experiences of imperfect people, shame appears and reappears as one of the most persistent feelings; it is one of the main reasons why many of us go to great lengths and inconveniences to conceal ourselves. The ghastly ghost of shame hovers more so over women – the shame about not fulfilling our own expectations of beauty, but also about disappointing others, another typically female concern. Women have always been expected to be custodians of everyone else’s feelings but their own. We can even feel responsible for how other people respond to our bodies.’
Lee kind of opened up a whole world of different for me with this book, especially once she dove into the world of extreme body modifiers. I had no idea that all of those things were even possible, and I’m still a little unsure on why people want to turn themselves into pixies or animals or any number of fantastically strange beings. But analysing why wasn’t really the point of Lee’s work, more that they exist and happily breach those perfection barriers that others so desperately want to mould to. I guess it’s a lot to do with choice too. To be scarred or changed bodily involuntarily offers a different life experience to those who have scarred or changed themselves willingly. Whilst reading the final chapters of this book, a fellow Year 12 classmate of my daughter had a horrific incident at a party: he was set alight whilst jumping over a fire at the same time that another boy was throwing fuel onto it. He has extensive burns now and will obviously be scarred for life. Reading this book has widened my appreciation of what this actually means. A scar is not just a scar. It is a part of its bearer, something their identity might become shaped around. My heart breaks for this young man whose final year of high school has just taken a dramatic and life altering turn for the worse.
‘I tried to write the story of my life as one of a fiercely independent woman, which I think in many ways it is, and yet I also love being dependent. Does this make me yet again a not—good—enough—feminist? I hope not. I think not. I think there is power, and wisdom, and grace too, in accepting help.’
I really can’t recommend this terrific book highly enough. In fact, the day after reading it, I told several people at work about it and have lent my copy to a co-worker who is keen to read it during the upcoming school holidays. It would make a great choice for a book club as well, there is so much to discuss and ponder over. Compulsive reading!
☕☕☕☕
Thanks is extended to Affirm Press for providing me with a copy of Imperfect for review.
Dr Lee Kofman is a Russian-born, Israeli-Australian novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist and former academic based in Melbourne. She is the author of three fiction books (published in Israel in Hebrew) and the memoir The Dangerous Bride (Melbourne University Press 2014). Lee is also the co-editor of Rebellious Daughters (Ventura Press, 2016), an anthology of personal essays by prominent Australian authors. Her short works have been widely published in Australia, USA, Canada, Israel, the UK and Scotland. Lee holds a PhD in social sciences and MA in creative writing, and is a mentor and teacher of writing. She is also a regular public speaker and panel moderator.
Published by Affirm Press
Released 8th January 2019
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7 thoughts on “Book Review: Imperfect by Lee Kofman”
Karen J Schoff
Hi Theresa, I’ve never considered that our society’s obsession with perfection is a specifically “western” thing, so it’s interesting that the eastern view can be quite different. I wonder if scars are more associated with bravery and honour in other traditions, after all, ritual scarring often had a place in indigenous culture. Interesting review, thanks.
Lee does talk about scarification in African cultures and gives some slightly horrifying examples of extreme scarring that is actually revered within these cultures.
Interestingly, she also talks about the Soviet experience and how scarring wasn’t something you hid because bodies weren’t about beauty, they were about purpose and how much they can work. Scars indicated the durability of a body. Really interesting stuff.
That sounds like something we could learn. Imagine if we could all be valued for our contribution rather than our appearance. When you think about it, a scar is evidence of the body’s ability to heal and a sign of human resilience.
What you’ve just said about scars is reminiscent of the opening quote in the novel I am currently reading! It’s called The Wonder of Lost Causes. I’ll pop the quote here for you once I get home later today. 🙂
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The 31 Days of Halloween (2016): 10/22-10/28
31 Days of Halloween, 8989 Redstone, cinema, Dead 7, Evil Souls, film reviews, films, Halloween traditions, horror, horror films, horror movies, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, Movies, October, The Funhouse Massacre, The Interior, The Pack, Within
As we near the end of this glorious month, I now present you with the eight films screened during the 4th Week of October: this features some of the most extreme highs and lows of the year, so enjoy the roller-coaster. After this, we only have the 30th and 31st before we can close out this year’s festivities. Fire up your Dragula and feast those blood-shot windows to the soul on the list below.
Another well-made but thoroughly pedestrian and obvious haunted house film, this one is saved a bit by an absolutely batshit, brutal finale that comes out of left field. A newlywed couple and the husband’s sassy teen daughter move into a house with a bad reputation and run into lots of scary bumps in the night. If the house doesn’t get them, maybe it’ll be the pervy next-doot-neighbor, who also happens to be the neighborhood locksmith: gotta love a creep with a strategy! Well-made and acted but absolutely everything up until the last 20 minutes or so feels about as old as Stonehenge.
8989 Redstone
The hot-headed, casually racist host of a home renovation show and his obnoxious daughter have a new project, deep in the decaying heart of Detroit’s worst neighborhood. Turns out the house may be a bigger threat than the area, however, as weird things begin to happen and various workers suffer injuries ranging from bad to worse. When Rebecca begins to see visions of the house’s original owner and architect, her dad has to determine whether this is a recurrence of a previous mental breakdown or something much darker and more insidious. Despite a cheap look, an occasionally silly script and some strictly amateur acting, this actually had ideas and imagination to spare (the central concept seems to exist in the same wheelhouse as The Dark Tower and House of Leaves, which is pretty fuckin’ rad, if ya ask me) and the chaotic finale hits Fulciesque levels of insanity that were only hinted at earlier. Yeah, the ultimate resolution is a bit muddled (if I’m reading it right) but it’s a bumpy ride with some undeniably cool moments.
Evil Souls
Incredibly sleazy, often unpleasant and throughly gonzo throwback to old-school Italian horror maestros like Fulci and Soavi, Maurizio and Roberto del Piccolo’s Evil Souls definitely won’t be for everyone but it sure as hell got me nostalgic for those old grindhouse days. An insane madman named Valentine (the all-the-way-in Peter Gosgrove, doing frighteningly good work) kidnaps two women and holds them captive in his dungeon. He’s an eloquent sociopath who dresses like a turn-of-the-century gentleman and thinks he’s the Marquis de Sade. He also has some kind of a larger plan, one that involves his drug-addicted, insane prostitute sister (he’s also her pimp) and his childhood best friend, who’s now the local priest. Did I mention that his plan also seems to involve the kidnapped women’s sons and, possibly, something occult? Because it does. Or seems to.
To be honest, it’s a little hard to tell: like the best Italian horror films, this exists on pure nightmare logic, right up to the thoroughly head-scratching finale. Like the best, old-school Italian horror films, Evil Souls works splendidly despite (or even because of) its handicaps and shortcomings: it’s a film that commits to a central tone and runs with it fearlessly. Even when the film doesn’t work (which is often) or becomes almost unbearable nasty (there’s quite a bit of graphic torture and realistic practical effects), it still manages to show a rare level of restraint that keeps it from pitching wholesale into trash cinema: it just toes the art-house line, if barely. Individual results may vary but for someone who grew up on a steady diet of Italian VHS fare, this one felt right at home.
The Funhouse Massacre
Arthouse, slow-burn horror will always be my personal favorite but, sometimes, you really just need a good, old-fashioned blood-n-guts slasher: with that in mind, Andy Palmer’s The Funhouse Massacre was just the film that I needed this October. This endlessly inventive, genuinely cool, outrageously gory little jewel is an obvious love-letter to horror, in all its era, and that’s something that’s always gonna hit me hard. The plot is simple: a collection of nefarious serial killers are sprung from the local maximum security nut-hatch (think Arkham Asylum but with mild-mannered Robert Englund as warden) and take up residence in the local haunted house attraction, an attraction which happens to feature individual exhibits based on the killers’ exploits. The real killers move into the attractions, people really start dying in the middle of a crowded carnival and the whole thing builds to a truly insane Grand Guignol finale on the terror-stricken midway.
I dearly loved everything about this film, even when it veered hard into the cheese (the obvious Harley Quinn substitute was pretty silly, in a cosplay kinda way). The references to other horror characters and franchises could be really clever (the cannibal chef was named Ramsey, ala Blood Feast and Rocco the Clown was an obvious Leatherface stand-in) and the high-energy, good-humored and gory proceedings reminded me of nothing less than Waxwork, one of my all-time favorites from any era. The Funhouse Massacre is an ideal group or party, fill of quotable lines and plenty of genuine laugh-out-loud moments. Easily one of my favorites of the year and sure to be a seasonal rotation, in the future.
The cast list on this one should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect: Backstreet Boys Nick Carter, Howie Dorough and AJ McClean; NSYNC’s Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick; 98 Degrees founder Jeff Timmons; O-Town members Erik Michael Estrada, Jacob Underwood and Trevor Penick; TV host Carrie Keagan; Jon Secada; Everclear’s Art Alexakis. Behind the scenes, we get SyFy in the producer’s chair and Nick Carter with a screenplay credit. Plotwise, it’s a “comedic” zombie-Western take on The Magnificent Seven, featuring the boy band members in all the pivotal roles, both good guys and bad.
As someone who avoids purposefully campy and stupid films like the plague, I can only give my personal, unbiased opinion: Dead 7 was, without a doubt, the absolute nadir of a year that has seen plenty of stinky cheese. I stretch to think of another film that was so effortlessly tedious and obnoxious, so cheap-jack, manic and utterly tone-deaf: at least B.C. Butcher was under an hour…this monstrosity felt at least twice that, if not more. I’m obviously not the intended audience for something like this but, even in this case, I really did try to find something worthwhile, anything. At the end, the best that I could say is that it finally does end, eventually: that’s really the best I got, I’m afraid.
Despite all of the tedious haunted house and possession clones, there were still plenty of absolute treasures in the 2016 horror roster and the Australian killer dog film The Pack was one of the very best…maybe Top 5, even, if I were forced to draw up a list today. Expertly plotted, beautifully shot and full of endearing, empathetic performances, everything about this sleeper is top-notch and virtually flawless. With a supremely simple set-up (a pack of uncannily intelligent wild dogs terrorize an Australian family on their isolated sheep ranch) and perfect balance between pulse-pounding action setpieces and genuine horror, this is as lean and mean as it gets. Like the best films, the less said the better: just take my advice and seek this one out ASAP.
Easily one of the most inventive, odd films I screened this month, writer-director Trevor Juras’ full-length debut, The Interior, is pretty impossible to classify. Think of it as an odd, sardonic mash-up of Into the Wild, Dead Man and The Blair Witch Project but that’s probably as far in a box as I can put this one: a cooly blase office drone (Patrick McFadden doing magnificent work) receives some sort of bad medical diagnosis (we’re never really told what) and decides to retreat into the woods, alone, to find some sort of peace within himself.
He doesn’t quite find that but what he does find is certainly open to interpretation: one of the best things about Juras’ confident debut is that there’s no hand-holding, whatsoever. He establishes a consistent mood (helped immensely by the gorgeous forest location and some of the creepiest night scenes ever), gets us to like his main character and then lets the rest develop organically. The Interior is a slow, methodical film but it’s never boring or tedious: as with the best filmmakers, you trust that the destination will be worth the journey and, depending on your level of patience and frustratability, Trevor Juras absolutely does not let down. Eerie, smart and full of surprising humor, The Interior is definitely one of the year’s better films.
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
I was fully prepared for Oz Perkins’ second film, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, to vault right to the top of my Best of the Year list: after all, his still unreleased debut, The Blackcoat’s Daughter (nee February), received almost universal praise on the festival circuit, with the filmmaker being credited as the next-big-thing in atmospheric, slow-burn horror. Since that’s my favorite flavor, I was ready and willing to dive in with both hands.Spoiler alert: it’s not making the list.
While I Am…looks gorgeous, sort of like a Merchant/Ivory take on the Waniverse, and features more creeping dread and leisurely pacing than a funeral procession, it’s also completely empty inside, so devoid of genuine meaning and impact as to be the equivalent of cinematic cotton candy. Ruth Wilson’s constant, tedious voiceover is a huge part of the reason the film didn’t work for me (I don’t mind a good voiceover but this was just lazy writing, the equivalent of a white noise machine for sleep problems) but the biggest issue is that the film is just so damn dull. There are plenty of good ideas, here, and no shortage of striking, beautiful imagery: Perkins’ grasp of filmmaking mechanics seem pretty solid, no two ways about it. The revelation is also strong, if simultaneously open-ended, leaving the film on a satisfyingly hazy note.
On the downside, I spent almost the entirety of the film looking at my watch, which is never a good sign. Keep in mind that I’m also the target audience for this type of film: they were preaching to the choir and I still rejected the sermon…that says quite a bit, as far as I’m concerned. I don’t mind style over substance: that can produce some truly unforgettable results, in the right hands. In this case, however, the most that I can say is the film looked great and featured a refreshingly different point-of-view and focus. Next time, I’m hoping that Perkins manages to match those awesome visuals and mood to something with real substance. Call this a near miss but a miss, nonetheless.
Coming up: the final two days of the 31 Days of Halloween, including the main event! Stay tuned!
The 31 Days of Halloween (2016): 10/15-10/21 (Part Two)
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With the end of the Halloween season rapidly approaching, we need to wrap-up this year’s 31 Days of Halloween, post haste! In that spirit, here’s Part Two of Week Three. Week Four and the two days of Week Five will follow shortly. Until then, however, feast your peepers on the goodness below!
Slow-burn horror done right, Joseph Sims-Dennett’s Observance is easily one of the best horror films I’ve seen in 2016. Parker, a grief-stricken private investigator (the exceptional Lindsay Farris), takes a case that involves him spying on an unnamed woman, Subject 1, and reporting the dull minutae back to an unknown client. As the “easy money” of watching a stranger for a few days gradually morphs into a week of unrelenting tedium, Parker’s sanity slowly starts to show the tiniest spiderweb of cracks possible. Is there more to the assignment than meets the eye? Who is the mysterious woman and why, exactly, is he supposed to watch her? Who is his mysterious employer? Why does Parker keep having nightmares about the incident that cost him his young son? The answers may not always surprise but the execution and performances are flawless, leading to one of the most fully realized chillers of the year.
With more zombie films than grains of sand on a beach, it’s a little difficult to truly stand out from the pack: while Viral might not be the most imaginative or “definitive” zombie flick out there, it more than holds its own in a ridiculously crowded field. Sisters Emma and Stacey (Sofia Black-D’Elia and Analeigh Tipton, respectively) are polar opposites, personality-wise, but are forced to become a cohesive unit when one of those ever-present zombie epidemics threatens to wipe out their little town (and the world at large, presumeably). Although there’s nothing here that hasn’t been seen before, the emotional beats all come across as overwhelmingly authentic and the consistently strong performances help sell the film as much more than another anonymous zombie flick. This may not win any awards for creativity but it takes a pretty standard story and executes it extremely well: that counts for something, in my book.
When I was a wee lad, I grew up in an extremely small, conservative, Texas border town, the kind of place where the school librarian routinely cut the “naughty” pictures out of National Geographic magazines before placing them on the shelf. One year, at a particularly ill-advised and ill-attended school Halloween party, a supremely misguided teacher ended up screening Spookies (on VHS, of course): suffice to say that I have never been the same since that fateful day.
Genuinely weird, disjointed and nonsensical (possibly due to it actually being two separate, unfinished films cut together to make one Frankenstein’s monster), Spookies is the kind of film that flourished in the ’80s but is all but nonexistent in these more enlightened times. Full of some of the strangest creatures ever committed to celluloid (the farting mud-monsters are instantly unforgettable, as is the cat-man/whatever), Spookies is similar to Phantasm in that it runs on complete dream/nightmare logic: not a damn thing makes sense (probably a natural result from cutting two unrelated films together) but the whole thing is so casually cool that true horror-heads won’t care. The stuff of my childhood and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Calling this the “Iranian Babadook” might seen a bit dismissive but trust me: that’s high praise, indeed. As someone who was genuinely impressed by that Australian neo-classic’s ability to weld a weighty tale of mother/son responsibility to a crowd-pleasing boogieman parable, I’ve eagerly awaited a parallel and writer-director Babak Anvari’s atmospheric chiller may just be that film. Set in Tehran, during the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-’88, the film concerns young mother, Shideh (the outstanding Narges Rashidi), as she cares for her young daughter, Dorsa, in their bombed-out apartment building. Shideh’s husband is off fighting in the war, leaving her to care for Dorsa amid constant Iraqi bombing and air raid sirens. When an unexploded missile crashes through the roof of the apartment above theirs, however, it seems to bring more with it than the omnipresent stench of death: it might bring ancient evil…the Djinn.
Another in a growing list of Repulsion-style “Are they/aren’t they bonkers” films, Under the Shadow is propelled into the winning column by virtue of its rock-solid performances, utterly oppressive atmosphere and concise, razor-sharp observations on post-Cultural War-era Iran. While there’s nothing here that hasn’t been seen/done before (at this point, this kind of post-modern “ghost story” is becoming almost as old hat as traditional zombie films, let’s face it), the execution is particularly skilled and the overt focus on female characters is refreshing, to say the very least. For those who continue to decry horror films as “empty, pointless garbage,” I handily point them in this direction and let the results speak for themselves.
The Blackout Experiments
Purportedly a documentary (although I now have my doubts), The Blackout Experiments follows the participants of a particularly heinous extreme horror simulation called Blackout, a simulation which involves signed waivers, humiliation, forced nudity and, at one point, waterboarding. We meet the various folks who’ve decided to subject themselves to this self-inflicted torment, most of whom seem rather conflicted or, in some cases, a little crazy. Some of the individuals go through the torturous process multiple times, all in the name of finding themselves, pushing themselves, testing their limits, et al…but never, of course, because they’ve become obsessed by the whole process. What begins as an intriguing premise quickly boils down to a bunch of damaged people paying total strangers to abuse and debase them: even at 80 minutes, the film (which, to be honest, is just okay) wears tissue-paper-thin. By the end, we get no real revelations save one: the world is full of people, some of them very strange, indeed.
Looking back on schlock-rock icon Rob Zombie’s filmography, there are really only two of his directorial efforts that I can actually stand: The Devil’s Rejects (still one of the leanest, meanest and nastiest pieces of work out there) and The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (easily one of my favorite animated films). Other than that, I’ve had pretty much a “leave it” reaction to the rest of his films: even his debut, House of 1000 Corpses, completely fell apart after I re-watched it, years later, and that one used to be a personal favorite. Suffice to say that I like the idea of Rob Zombie and his “twisted” world just fine. The reality? Not so much.
Zombie’s newest movie, 31, manages to fall just about in the middle of my personal scale: much better than either his hackneyed Halloween films or his ill-advised Fulci homage, The Lords of Salem, but nowhere near the feral genius of Devil’s Rejects. Plotwise, this is just Rob Zombie remaking The Running Man, for better or worse. The set-up is suitably silly (a group of carnies is kidnapped by a bunch of rich assholes who dress up like turn-of-the-century British dandies and are forced to fight a bunch of maniacal clowns to the death in an abandoned warehouse), the action is constant and fairly well-staged and the heroes (for the first time) aren’t seriously detestable cannon fodder. Sure, the whole thing is overwhelmingly dumb and your forehead will be tender from all the slapping. That being said, the whole thing is almost worth it, alone, for Richard Brake’s magnificent performance as philosophical sociopath Doom-Head: he gets all the film’s best lines and monologues, as befits all the best sociopaths in Zombie’s canon.
Lake Nowhere
I’m a little hesitant to call Lake Nowhere one of the best horror films of 2016 but not for any quality issues: it’s easily one of my favorite films of the year, hands down. No, I’m a bit hesitant simply for the fact that the film, proper, only runs about 44 minutes. Sure, there are another six minutes or so of rather amazing fake trailers and beer commercials (the one for the giallo looks sweet but the eco-horror-themed Harvest Man looks fucking essential) that kick it off but that still brings us well below an hour, which isn’t close to full length territory. With another 30 minutes of footage (more commercials and trailers, even), this thing would be an automatic shoe-in for cult classic status: easily the most authentic-looking and feeling faux ’80s slasher I’ve yet to see, Lake Nowhere is an instant dose of warming nostalgia for all VHS horror fans.
The practical effects are pretty astounding, considering the budget, and the script is incredibly smart and inventive. Instead of another dull satire about slashers and the horror genre, Lake Nowhere actually takes tropes from the genre (cabin in the woods, slasher POV, horny teens, final girl, masked killer, possession, etc) and puts a little twist on them, all while keeping the basic framework intact. This isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel so much as approximate what a really good, really smart ’80s-era slasher would have looked like. Throw in a finale that manages to be creepy, thought-provoking and cool, in equal measures, and this little sucker is a keeper.
Night of the Living Deb
Based on the punny title and fact that this was yet another indie zombie film, I really wasn’t sure what to expect from Kyle Rankin’s Night of the Living Deb, although my expectations weren’t particularly high. Awkward, socially-impaired, but otherwise rather awesome, Deb (played with just the right amount of quirk by Maria Thayer), meets the hunkiest guy ever at a bar and wakes up in his apartment the next morning. Everything would be swell, if not for a few minor details: Ryan (Michael Cassidy, displaying a gift for comic timing) is actually not interested in her, since he already has a socialite fiancee; they didn’t actually have a one-night stand so much as a one-night pass-out; and the town has been overrun by zombies created by the environmentally-unsound water treatment plant, run by Ryan’s louse of a dad (the constantly amazing Ray Wise, genre MVP). As the pair race to connect with their loved ones, will they discover love, as well, or is the spark as dead as a…you know.
High-energy, full of great performances and constantly fun and light-hearted, Night of the Living Deb is a pretty easy film to like. Thayer and Cassidy have fantastic chemistry, together, but she’s easily capable of carrying the film on her twitchy shoulders, which she often does. None of the zombie stuff is anything to write home about but this is a good example of focusing on your strengths: consider this a rom-com that’s been infected by a good ol’ dose of zom-com mayhem.
Where the Devil Dwells
I was so positive that this zero-budget shocker would be a stinker, based on the first few minutes, that I was absolutely shocked when the film ended and I kind of loved it: talk about working hard to win me over! This is cheap but endlessly inventive filmmaking, full of surprises and one genuinely amazing performance among a slew of decent ones. Set during the ‘Satanic Panic’ craze of the late ’80s, the film involves Lenard (Walter Pena, completely understated and mostly effective), the adult son of a notorious, dead serial killer, who has been placed under house arrest in the old family homestead after attacking someone and going to the looney bin. The Sheriff (wildly OTT Scott Anthony Leet) wants him to make one wrong move, so he can send him back to the asylum, but poor Lenard just wants to get his life back on track. When he starts to see visions of dear, ol’ Oren (aka ‘The Butcher,’ aka ‘Dad) around the house, however, Lenard is forced to confront the fact that he might not be as sane as he hoped.
One of the rare films to constantly pull the rug out from under me, I’d be a jerk to spoil anything for potential viewers. I will go on the record as saying, however, that David O’Hara’s towering performance as Oren is, without a doubt, the single most frightening display of massive misanthropy since Robert Mitchum slimed his way through Cape Fear. He’s so good that he elevates the entire film, whenever he’s on-screen: when he’s not, Where the Devil Dwells manages to stay the course, for the most part, but it becomes something else entirely when he’s around. This is the kind of indie, direct-to-video horror film that makes theatrically-released films look poor, by comparison.
Perfectly serviceable, albeit rather run-of-the-mill, David F. Sandberg’s Lights Out (based on his short film of the same name) reminded me a lot of films like Mama, Insidious and The Conjuring: polished, professional and atmospheric, if short on anything really unique or awe-inspiring. This involves a creature that can only move around when the lights are off, leading to the expected moments when faulty lighting leads to something creeping ever closer and closer to its intended victim. For a change, I actually really liked the backstory and explanation for events, even if Maria Bello’s character was so frustratingly obtuse as to come across as a virtual plot-point.
My main problem with this, as with a lot of megaplex horror, is that everything is too familiar: the creature design is similar to Mama and the Waniverse…the setpieces are similar to films like Pitch Black…the character dynamics are similar to any of a dozen modern horror films…and on and on. There’s nothing particularly wrong with Lights Out, to be fair, and there are moments in the film that work spectacularly well. That being said, there was also nothing that walloped me upside the head or made me think about it for days (or even hours) later. This is pretty much the epitome of a popcorn flick, despite its deep themes about abandonment and mental health issues. Again, not bad, by any definition, but I doubt I’ll remember it come Thanksgiving.
Fear, Inc.
Coming across a bit like a cross between David Fincher’s The Game and another film I screened this week, The Blackout Experiments, Vincent Masciale’s Fear, Inc is a thoroughly entertaining, if slightly predictable (minus a wallop of a twist ending) horror-comedy that should definitely appeal to genre fans. Slightly obnoxious horror fanboy and manbaby Joe (fantastically realized by Raising Hope’s Lucas Neff, who should do much more of this kind of thing) only wants one thing for his birthday: he wants to go through the Fear, Inc. tailor-made horror experience. His loving and long-suffering girlfriend, Lindsey (Caitlin Stasey) and best friends, Ben (Chris Marquette) and Ashleigh (Stephanie Drake) are only too happy to oblige, even if Ben cautions that he’s heard “bad things” about the deviants behind Fear, Inc. When something goes tragicomically wrong, the group will find out what, exactly, happens when you cross Fear, Inc…and it ain’t pretty.
Lots of fun, if occasionally too manic and on-the-nose, Fear, Inc. makes the most of an incredibly game cast and strong script, coming up with some pretty daffy, horror-inspired scenarios. There are plenty of nods to classic horror films, both covert and ridiculously in-your-face, leading fans to play a refreshing game of “Spot the Reference,” ala Scream. The comedy aspects are particularly strong, with a script chockablock with quotable one-liners and snide throwaway comments, most of which belong to Neff’s kind of/sort of lovable asshole. The genius twist (foreshadowed expertly by one throwaway line much earlier in the film) really ends this on a high note but everything before manages to maintain a pretty decent cruising altitude, as well. If you’re looking for a smart, gory, self-referential horror-comedy, Fear, Inc. may just be calling your name.
Stay tuned for the final installments: coming soon!
The 31 Days of Halloween (2016): 10/15-10/21 (Part One)
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Since the third week of October viewings featured 21 films, it seems prudent to break the list up into two chunks. This was a pretty varied week, all in all, featuring not only some of my favorite films of the season but also some of my least favorite. In that spirit, then, I present the first ten films screened during the week of October 15th through the 21st: the second half will follow shortly.
Astoundingly bad film that’s sort of a brain-dead take on Eli Roth’s Hostel, albeit one that hews a little closer to the original Most Dangerous Game source material. There’s really nothing to recommend here, unless you happen to be a fan of bad filmmaking (the performances and dialogue almost reach Ed Wood levels of absurdism) or want to see poor Danny Glover completely humiliate himself in one of the worst star-level cameos I’ve ever seen in a cheap-ass genre film: his character spends the entirety of the film yelling, gestulating wildly and shouting “Fuck!” from a TV monitor. I think I can speak for us all when I say that he’s way too old for this shit.
The Last Heist
Thoroughly entertaining, if rather run-of-the-mill, action-thriller about a bunch of crooks who break into a mob-owned bank and run afoul of a dour serial killer (Henry Rollins, in a fantastically realized performance) who’s just trying to get home with his suitcase full of eyeball trophies: can’t we all relate? I was a huge fan of director Mike Mendez’s Big Ass Spider but this one didn’t get me as fired-up, although it’s still the furthest thing possible from a bad film: full of great performances, well-staged action sequences and just enough gore to edge the needle into the “horror” side, you could do a lot worse than this.
Simply terrible, zero-budget nonsense that seems designed purely to prove the theory that Christian horror films kind of suck. This tale about a teen who flirts with the dark side (via those terrible “rave dance parties” and Ecstacy pills, of course), gets into a car accident and brings back the spirit of a dead girl is just flat-out awful, no sugar-coating possible. Full of so many cliches, amateur performances and poor filmmaking (the color timing, for one, is just wretched) that it’s impossible to ever become invested in the trite storyline, this bears the distinction of having a distinctly Christian angle but that’s pretty much its only distinctive feature.
An easy candidate for one of my favorite films of the entire year, Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Swiss Army Man might sound unpleasant on paper (a suicidal castaway comes upon a dead body and uses it in a multitude of ways to survive) but is simply magical, in execution. Rarely have I encountered a film that hits such heady highs between ridiculous slapstick comedy (think Weekend at Bernie’s but much weirder), devastating drama and soaring joy: it’s like riding an emotional rollercoaster, with each new loop and development charging through you at maximum velocity. Essentially a two-person show (for the most part), everything would collapse if the performances weren’t top notch: good thing that Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe bring two of the year’s very best to the table. While Dano is simply superb, able to bring equal measures of awkward sweetness and genuine darkness to Hank, Radcliffe is nothing short of revelatory as Manny, the corpse. Relegated to playing dead for the entire film, Radcliffe still manages to make Manny a completely alive, vibrant character: his gradual awakening to the world is truly beautiful, something that seems a little hard to comprehend in between the non-stop farting and boner-compassing.
Saying too much about this absolutely delightful piece of filmmaking (the craft of which, by the way, is equally stunning) would be to ruin shee delight and I’ll never be a party to that: suffice to say that Swiss Army Man is one of those truly beautiful films that could actually change your life, if you let it, and we’ll leave it at that. The Daniels (as they’re collectively known) have instantly landed on my “future must-sees” list.
The Grudge director Takashi Shimizu’s latest, Flight 7500, comes with an intriguing premise: a captive audience of travelers on a red-eye flight must figure out what mysterious force is killing them, one by one, as their luxurious tomb hurtles turbulently through dark skies. It’s a pretty interesting, creepy idea, which makes the tedious result even more disappointing: despite being competently made, there’s no spark here, whatsoever, and the film’s numerous plot holes constantly threaten to swallow audience interest whole. The film’s big twist also serves to handily deflate any tension that came before, making the whole thing even more silly, upon closer reflection. Not terrible…just terribly dull.
The Good Neighbor
More drama than horror, in execution, Kasra Farahani’s The Good Neighbor edged its way onto this year’s screenings by virtue of its premise: a pair of pretentious teen shitheads (ably portrayed by Logan Miller and Keir Gilchrist) decide to fuck with a cantakerous, old neighbor (ably portrayed by James Caan) and convince him that his house is haunted, in order to gauge his response. As expected, his response is not what the two guys expect and tragedy ensues. Despite solid performances and execution, this ended up being a bit trite and heavy-handed, by the end, a fact not aided by the film’s frequent courtroom cut-aways. It’s always nice to see Caan in anything, especially at this stage of his career, but this is just okay, no matter how you slice it.
The Devil’s Dolls
A prime example of an indie film’s reach exceeding its abilities, The Devil’s Dolls (nee Worry Dolls) has a fantastic plot but rather unexceptional execution and decidedly iffy acting. A notorious serial killer is gunned down by a heroic cop, who takes the dead guy’s possessions, including a box full of ‘worry dolls,’ as evidence. The cop’s young daughter gets ahold of the dolls and turns them into necklaces, which she sells. Problem is, each of the dolls is actually cursed and causes the owner to commit terrible acts. Our hero cop must now race around the town, desperately trying to stop a vicious killer who’s already long dead and gone, as his innocent daughter becomes more and more possessed. No matter how you look at it, that’s a logline with a tremendous amount of potential, all too little of which makes it to the screen. The kills are graphic and energetic, which will be a plus for the gorehounds, but the performances range from decent to vein-popping. In a hit-or-miss year, The Devil’s Dolls definitely wasn’t one of the worst but it would be a helluva stretch to call it one of the best: file this right in the middle and be done with it.
Field Freak
Much better than I initially feared but still pretty far from my cup of tea, Stephen Folker’s Field Freak is one seriously silly film. This tale about a writer who moves his family to the country only to encounter insane root beer vendors, crazed beaver exterminators and the titular Sasquatian monster is always manic and over-the-top but that seems to be by design. As someone who loathes self-aware dreck like Sharknado, I’m far from an expert on this type of film but Field Freak, at the least, was a fairly painless watch. If campy isn’t your thing, however, this will probably wear out its welcome rather quickly.
B.C. Butcher
As someone who grew up on Troma films, I’ll still freely admit that seeing their logo before a film always gives me pause: will this be one of the outrageously offensive, amazing ones or one of the cheapjack, shitty ones? Without a doubt, B.C. Butcher is Team Shitty, all the way. Painfully amateurish and proud of it, this is nothing more than an opportunity for folks to make a film, pure and simple. When your “movie” features Kato Kaelin as a curiously metro-sexual caveman with an odd obsession with his own ass and I still can’t be bothered to even care, well…what can ya say? The most this warrants is a shrug and a “You got me again, guys…good one.” Extra negative points for the impossibly tedious nightmare sequences, which really hit a new high (low?) in Troma’s search for the most obnoxious film-viewing experiences possible.
When Black Birds Fly
Proof positive that you never, ever judge a book by its cover, When Black Birds Fly might be rough, technically, but it packs more wallop and imagination than most “professional” films. Written, directed and animated solely by mad genius Jimmy Screamerclauz, this is a little difficult to describe but I’ll give it the ol’ college try. Imagine a version of Hellraiser, influenced by The Wizard of Oz, that also doubles as a Biblical allegory for the story of Adam and Eve, animated in the glitchy, occasionally unwatchable style of first-generation computer game cut-scenes. Still confused? Sorry, kids, but that’s the best I got: this howlingly insane film is an experience, in every sense of the word, one of those things that you strap yourself into and just hold on for dear life.
Despite being physically nauseated by the style, at first (absolutely no lie), I actually warmed to the film quite a bit, once I got used to it. Still, this is extremely strong stuff, the kind of material that would be absolutely unthinkable in a live-action film (think extreme Japanese manga, as a reference), full of revolting violence and truly bizarre sex. Perhaps the closest one can get to staring right into the hideous maw of insanity and still emerge, relatively unscathed. Color me thoroughly impressed and more than a little unsettled and freaked out. There really isn’t anything else like this in the entire world, for better or worse.
Keep your eyeballs peeled for Part Two, coming soon!
The 13 Films You Need to See For Halloween (2016 Edition)
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As horror fans, we all get stuck in the same rut of seasonal, Halloween-oriented films: Carpenter’s Halloween, Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, Trick r Treat, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, et al…There’s nothing wrong with any of these films, mind you: they’ve been regular parts of my October viewing for much of my adult life, after all. That’s not to say, of course, that there aren’t other films than these.
In the spirit of The VHS Graveyard’s year-long salute to 2016 horror, we now present thirteen new films that absolutely deserve a spot in your last-minute October film screenings. The films run the gamut, with only one unifying factor: they were all the creme de la creme and handily exemplify all of the best aspects our beloved season. With no further ado and in no particular order, then…the thirteen films you should watch before the clock stricks midnight on Halloween.
If you’re a horror fan, I’m assuming you’ve already seen The Witch: good…see it again. If you haven’t seen Robert Eggers’ ode to the Black Mass, by all means, see it this October. The combination of creeping dread and in-your-face-horror is just what the doctor ordered when it comes to the season of the witch.
In order to be truly frightened, you must be tossed into a completely alien, nightmarish sceanario. Enter Baskin: a Turkish horror film that applies a modicum of logic and an acre of “What the fuck?!,” this is the closest that modern films have come to approximating either Clive Barker’s seminal Hellraiser or any of Lucio Fulci’s batshit beauties. If your stomach is weak, prepare for deja vu on your appetizers.
Ava’s Possessions
Addiction can be terrifying: ask any junkie or alcoholic out there. Is it worse than demon possession? We better go to the panel. Jordan Galland’s Ava’s Possessions repositions that proverbial “morning after” by way of The Exorcist: what if you did terrible, horrible things while possessed by a demon…and then had to go through the 12 steps of atonement? What if you…ya know…aren’t really that sorry? Simply fabulous addiction via Beetlejuice parable that’s as funny as it is shocking.
My early pick for one of the top films of the year and still in the running, Ben Wheatley’s distopian look at a class-segregated London apartment building in utter crisis is nothing short of masterful filmmaking. Like a great work of art that affords new understanding with every viewing, High-Rise (masterfully adapted from the J.G. Ballard novel) is one of those films that functions equally well as art (the film really is a beautiful, Kubrickian wonder) and absolute, soul-sucking horror.
Nina Forever
Who says that Halloween isn’t a time for love? If anyone doubts the notion, pop in this heartwarming tale about a young man, his dead girlfriend and new lover and the ways in which they all learn to live (and love) together. Equal parts erotic, revolting and thought-provoking, Ben and Chris Blaine’s indie marvel will make you rethink the difference between devotion and obsession…along with things better left to individual discovery, shall we say.
All curtains hung in the shower of a particular run-down apartment building happen to disappear into thin air. The current tenant decides to figure out what’s going on, plunging us all headlong into the kind of metaphysical horror that splits the difference between David Lynch and David Cronenberg, ending somewhere in the general zip code of H.P. Lovecraft. If Halloween is about getting creeped out and worrying about what might be lurking around the corner, do not pass Go and head straight to this micro-budget jewel.
Beginning life as a fake trailer and ending as one of the best, flat-out horror films of the year, Clown is nothing short of a revelation. If you want a no-holds-barred (child killing is abound), kill-em-all creature feature, you could do a lot worse than this chiller about a father who puts on a clown suit and just can’t seem to take it off. The origin story is genuinely badass, the kills are intense and plentiful and the monster is one for the ages. Killer clowns are all the rage, this season: might as well watch it done right, eh?
A punk band (led by the late Anton Yelchin) lands a gig at a secluded dive in the middle of the Oregon wilds.Turns out the place is a neo-Nazi stronghold and our hapless heroes have the great misfortune of witnessing something they’re just not supposed to see. Forced to hold up in the aforementioned green room of the bar, the film is one non-stop seige, Assault on Precint 13 writ on the head of a pin, featuring some of the most heart-stopping, frightening and unforgettable setpieces of the year. Regardless of your personal definition of “horror,” any of the scenes involving the ravenous attack dogs more than fit the bill.
The Alchemist Cookbook
Nothing says “Halloween” like misguided deals with the Devil: it’s a combo as classic as peanut butter and bananas! This year, skip Rosemary’s Baby and set your sights on Joel Potrykus’ latest descent into madness, The Alchemist Cookbook. The Evil Dead by way of Waiting for Godot, this slowburner will reward patient Halloweeners with a truly gonzo finale that will make you second-guess that planned trip to turn lead into gold, in the middle of the woods: It’s probably not worth it.
The Greasy Strangler
A timeless story of father-son rivalry, The Greasy Strangler would be right at home on the Hallmark Channel, provided said station specialized in prosthetic dicks, buckets of grease and more eye-popping mayhem than Rikki-Oh could dream about in a lifetime of cinderblock snoozing. As sleazy as a skid-row grind-show, this is a trip to a dirtier, grungier time. If you can’t get a little sleazy during Halloween, though, when can you?
Iranian-made chiller set during the Cultural Revolution and war that’s been compared to The Babadook but is really its own special brand of madness. This slow-burner, about a mother struggling to separate nightmare from reality in a (literally) crumbling apartment, takes its time to let loose with the pure hell but, when it comes, it’s a real kick in the face. Intelligent, creepy, thought-provoking and as well-made as a Swiss clock, this is one that has the making of a “future classic” written all over it.
Sometimes, you just want an old-fashioned, blood-n-guts slasher, seasoned with a liberal dose of humor: Funhouse Massacre has those eyes dotted with little smiley-face xs. A group of insane killers escape from the local insane asylum and slip into their respective exhibits in seasonal house of horrors, ala Waxwork by way of Hatchet. Fun, memorable villains? Check. Bloody kills? Check. Likeable, strong victims? Check. Exquisite sense of what made the best ’80s and ’90s B-horror films work? Check and mate.
Freaks of Nature
Above all else, Halloween should be fun and nothing says “fun” quite like vampires, zombies and humans fending off an alien invasion together, right? Freaks of Nature is flat-out-fun from start to finish, featuring a mob of great actors (Denis Leary, Keegan-Michael Key and Joan Cusack, to name but three) and a seemingly endless number of classic horror and sci-fi references. Put this on after the trick ‘r’ treaters leave and pop the keg on the adult cider: this is the perfect way to end the season.
The 31 Days of Halloween (2016): 10/8-10/14
25 Tuesday Oct 2016
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With no fanfare, I now present Week Two of the 31 Days of Halloween. The fifteen films below represent quite the gamut, from old classics to modern rubbish. The only uniting factor? They’re all horror (give or take) and they were all screened between October 8th and October 14th. On to the films!
Joel Potrykus’ insane Buzzard (Holden Caulfield with Krueger claws, stickin’ it to the phonies and getting frighteningly metaphysical) was one of my very favorite films of last year, so the wait for his follow-up, The Alchemist Cookbook, was nothing short of excruciating. Good thing it’s just as amazing, insane and mind-blowing. Imagine, if you can, a world where Evil Dead, Repulsion, A Field in England and the Sorceror’s Apprentice segment of Fantasia are all the same film. Easy, right? Now imagine that Mickey is a mentally unbalanced, potentially dangerous loner who just discovered either the secret to turning lead into gold or a portal straight into Hell. Or not. The beauty of Potrykus’ latest is that you just don’t know, right up until the point where he pulls the tablecloth off, leaving every last bit of crystalware standing, unmoved. As expected, one of my favorite films of the year, hands down.
If there’s one thing you can’t call Irish writer/director Billy O’Brien’s coming-of-age/supernatural thriller I Am Not a Serial Killer, it would definitely have to be “middle-of-the-road.” The Isolation auteur’s latest involves a small-town teen (the absolutely astounding Max Records, who deserves an acting nomination) who must discover what dark force has been murdering the locals, all while surpressing his own, burgeoning psychopathic tendencies. The scene where Max calmly explains how he just starts complimenting people whenever he thinks about killing them, right before profusely complimenting the town bully, is an absolute masterstroke. Toss in Christopher Lloyd as a kindly old neighbor with a terrible secret, some genuinely disturbing violence and a creature design that’s suitably weird and you have the makings of a pretty fantastic little film. There’s also a nice streak of gallows’ humor that runs through the proceedings, lightening the mood considerably.
Full disclosure: I’m a pretty huge fanboy when it comes to Nicolas Winding Refn: I’ve dearly loved every one of his films that I’ve seen, from the extraordinary, magical-realism of Bronson to the “too cool for school” style over substance of Drive and Only God Forgives. Hell, I absolutely adore Valhalla Rising and that one’s even a tough sell for art film fans. This is all by way of saying that I really disliked his newest, The Neon Demon, almost to the point of actively hating the film. Tedious, silly, obvious and rather obnoxious, Refn approaches this moldy tale of the fashion industry literally chewing up and spitting out young women like he has something new to add, only to come up with something that feels like a lesser version of Starry Eyes. While the film looks absolutely stunning (from the glitter-imbued opening credits all the way through the Grand Guignol model shoot that ends the film, The Neon Demon is, without a doubt, one of the best looking films I’ve ever seen), it’s as empty as a foam mannequin head. Easily one of the biggest disappointments of the entire year.
Phantasm: Remastered
Even when new films are on the agenda, you still have to sneak a few classics in: that’s just tradition. Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm has always been one of my favorite films (the series, not so much), so watching it in a glorious, cleaned-up, 4K transfer is pretty damn awesome. The film is still as weird and nonsensical as it ever was (Demon Jawas? Creepy, trans-dimensional undertakers? Reggie?!) but it now looks better than ever. If you’re an old fan, be sure not to skip this remaster: it’s absolutely worth another look.
Bunni
I’ve seen a lot of truly terrible, bottom-of-the-barrel crap this year but Bunni earned it’s spot at the bottom with an ease that is truly scary. The film looks like shit, the actors aren’t (and never will be, I’m guessing), it’s impossibly tedious, has zero wit, invention or brains and seems to have been edited by someone who graduated from the Ed Wood School of Film and Stuff. It’s also only a little over an hour long, excluding credits, which ends up being the only bright spot, ironically. I have seen quite a few zero budget 2016 horror films that managed to be clever, unique, fun and interesting, despite their shortcomings. By comparison, watching Bunni is like willingly slamming your thumb in a door, over and over, for the better part of an hour. My advice? Don’t.
Antibirth
Some films dip a toe in the weird end of the pool and some films dive right in with gusto: writer/director Danny Perez’ Antibirth is a diver, through and through. Any mere description will fail to touch on just how fundamentally weird this is but here goes: after a wild night of drinkin’ and druggin,’ local burn-out Lou (the impossibly awesome and perfect Natashsa Lyonne, in a truly award-winning performance) wakes up sick, foggy and, apparently, very pregnant. With the help of her best friend, Sadie (the equally radical and amazing Chloe Sevigny), Lou must find what, exactly, happened to her before something even worse happens. By turns hilarious, sad, really weird, gross and a little frustrating, Antibirth isn’t as amazing and outrageous as it could have been but Lyonne and Sevigny make a dynamite combo and the finale will go down as one of the most unforgetttable, unpleasant and amazing things I’ve ever seen. It’s also great to see a horror film that not only focuses on female characters but also on female relationships, dynamics, gender issues and themes. Not perfect, by any means, but pretty darn cool.
Ghost Team
Let’s cut to the chase, shall we? This “comedy” about a team of amateur ghosthunters is terrible…absolutely wretched. Caustically unfunny (it actually made me angry), smug, stupid, obvious, manic, idiotic and a complete waste of a rather serviceable cast (Jon Heder is capable of much better, although Justin Long will always be at home in shit like this), there isn’t one thing about this waste of time that I can recommend. Suffice to say, I got a free copy and it still wasn’t worth it. If this is the kind of thing that makes you chuckle, you might have already been lobotomized.
Sometimes, a film can suffer by being too similar to another film, whether by design or accident. Rebirth, about a boring, middle-management type who is given the opportunity to completely “reinvent” himself via a strange, invitation-only “seminar,” is basically The Game, for better or worse, with a few twists. The film certainly looks good and gathers up a reasonable amount of tension along the way: it also features typically standout performances from genre mainstays Adam Goldberg (simply superb) and Pat Healy. The biggest problem ends up being how familiar the whole thing is: if you don’t get the big “twist” before the main character does, I’m willing to wager you stopped paying attention, which is a perfectly suitable reaction. Decent but distinctly middle-of-the-road and light on actual horror.
Sometimes, you know right off the bat whether a film is for you: this is one of those films. Grungy, gross, cringe-worthy, awkward, weird, silly and, above all, absolutely amazing, The Greasy Strangler is the love child of Herschell Gordon Lewis and John Waters, conceived in a filthy Times Square bathroom and raised on Twinkies, bathtub hooch and lots of grease. If the notion of a greasy old man with a huge, greasy prosthetic penis bothers you, walk on by. If the idea of a 5-minute scene where the leads yell “Bullshit artist” at each other sounds tedious, walk on by. If the very notion of a film that could best be described as the work of a brain-damaged Wes Anderson doesn’t sound like your cup of grease, walk on by. If you watch this and don’t feel anything, however, I have just one thing to say: “Bullshit artist!”
As someone who abhors remakes, in general, I was already predisposed to dislike the new Ghostbusters reboot on principle. On the other hand, I also genuinely like writer/director Paul Feig and think that Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon are amazing, especially when they’re allowed to cut loose. Turns out the only way to know, unlike plenty of internet ragers, was to actually watch the film. After all, if remakes are inevitable, they might as well be made by genuinely creative people, right?
As luck would have it, the film really isn’t very good but for reasons that have nothing to do with the cast (which is actually one of the film’s few saving graces) and everything to do with most modern, mega-budget tentpole films: the new Ghostbusters is a heavy-handed CGI spectacle that is ridiculously colorful and “cool” but as empty and pointless as a carnival ride. Everything is spoon-fed, every hand held. It dials down the horror aspect of the original almost completely: the terrifying Zuul setpiece has been replaced by a silly, action-packed Times Square segment that owes more to The Avengers than the original Ghostbusters. The film is ridiculously overlong and bloated (well over two hours in the version I watched). The script is pointedly unfunny (particularly odd considering Feig and the cast’s largely comedy background) and the film manages to be an uncomfortable mix of blatant fan-service (much of the original cast make silly, unrelated cameos, along with characters like Slimer and Stay Puft) and snarky critique of the original, much of which seems to be aimed at the mouth-breathing, bro-dog bloggers who blasted the film before it even started shooting. There was plenty of potential for this cast and creative team to deliver gold: we got pyrite, at best.
The Hoarder
Easily one of the most pleasant surprises of the year, this was a sleeper, in the very best sense. A woman and her friend go to a storage facility, before closing, in order to retrieve a particular item. They misread the key and get into the wrong (very wrong) storage unit, kicking off a chain of events that’s much smarter, eerier and well-realized than these kinds of films usually are. The production values and cinematography are really good, the acting is consistently strong and the film is disturbing without being overly gory. One of the better indie horrors of the year.
Sort of All is Lost, if Robert Redford were replaced by Blake Lively and the boat was replaced by a ridiculously cool, evil shark. Quite good, full of tense, well-staged sequences and more than a few bits of full-on horror, along with a supremely cute seagull named Steven, this was the epitome of a good popcorn film. Lively is great as the potentially doomed surfer, despite being saddled with a few too many syrupy dramatic moments: she plays the role with a combination of steely determination and whistful flightiness that makes her character one of the more likeable of the summer. That shark, though…when ol’ dead eyes gets his murder instinct up, he’s quite the pulpy cinematic creation and easily one of the better villains of the year.
As a rule, this year’s horror-related theatrical offerings have been pretty weak, quality-wise, which ends up making Greg McClean’s The Darkness one of the better ones, ironically. Kevin Bacon and Radha Mitchell are predicatably solid, the opening is strong, the general concept is certainly original and the “creatures” are pretty great. That being said, the whole thing is also decidedly low stakes and non-lethal, making this PG-13 film more of a family-oriented title than anything else. Still a little hard to believe this is the mad genius behind Wolf Creek, though.
Terrortory
Another ultra-low budget film that ended up surprising me, in a good way, the horror anthology Terrortory actually had more spirit and good intentions than many mega-budget films I’ve seen. The concept is pretty killer (a particular township in America is home to every manner of monster, creepy occurance and urban legend possible, many of which end up as stories in the film), the effects are rather extraordinary, considering the poverty-row budget and each of the stories featured decent twists and plenty of genuinely creepy moments. The acting may have been a bit iffy (the Siren segment, in particular, is rough) and they overuse the generic woods setting a bit too much but this was consistently fun and never painful to sit through, even at its most amateurish. I may not want to live in the Terrortory full-time but I certainly wouldn’t mind another visit sometime.
Concerning a young woman suffering a mental breakdown in her apartment, during a city-wide blackout in New York, writer/director Nick Basile’s Dark never comes across as anything but a much lesser version of Polanski’s classic Repulsion. The film is never terrible, merely dull and uneventful, taking an extraordinarily long time to arrive at a punchline that most genre fans will see coming a mile away. The LGBT themes are refreshing (horror films rarely feature gay or lesbian lead characters), to be sure, and the flashlit apartment stairwells and lofts make for some suitably creepy locations. At the end of the day, however, Dark is never more than functional and obvious, qualities that it shares with a few too many films for comfort.
Coming soon: Week Three of the 31 Days of Halloween. Stay tuned, folks!
The 31 Days of Halloween (2016): 10/1-10/7
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Ahh…October. Changing leaves…a crisp chill in the air…a final farewell to the last, bright vestiges of Summer before Winter takes its hold…October can mean a lot of things to a lot of people but, around here, we hold it sacred for a very particular reason: Halloween. At the VHS Graveyard, we like to celebrate All Hallows’ Eve for an entire month: how, exactly, could you cram all that goodness into one mere night?
In previous years, I attempted to screen a combination of new films and older favorites but this year is a little different. The VHS Graveyard is attempting to see every single horror film released in 2016 so, that end, the focus has been almost exclusively on new, previously unseen films. There are still a few classics sprinkled in, of course, and a few newer films pre-2016. Other than that, however, consider this a preview of our overall look at horror in 2016.
We’ll begin this year’s coverage with the first week of viewings: Saturday, the 1st, to Friday, the 7th. The first week was a little light but things picked up considerably after that. With no further ado, let’s get started, shall we?
3: All Hallows Eve
Micro-budget indie anthology film (three stories and a wraparound) that can be extremely rough going, at times (we’ll call most of the performances “enthusiastic” and leave it at that), but still manages to be a lot of fun. There were no surprising twists, the FX and production values were strictly home-grown and I’m not sure that much of it could be considered “scary,” per se. That being said, there was an inherent style to the second and third segments that was undeniably eerie, despite the limitations, and I had a huge kick out of seeing an actor I actually worked with in the production (Christopher Labadie, who ended up giving the film’s best performance in the Christine-inspired third segment). Film’s like this are the reason I’ll always give a chance to indie horror films, despite initial misgivings.
Extraordinary Tales
Mostly amazing animated collection of Edgar Allen Poe stories that’s connected by a thoroughly tedious, obnoxious wraparound story where Poe’s dead soul is a raven having a dumb philosophical conversation with Death in a graveyard. There are some ridiculous goodies to be found here, however, with each story getting a different animation style and atmosphere: The Fall of the House of Usher gets Christopher Lee as a narrator and a cool, pseudo-woodcut style; The Telltale Heart features supremely kickass rotoscope black-and-white and a scratchy, really-old recorded narrative by Bela Lugosi (!!); The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar is an old EC comic come to life and is, if you’ll pardon my language, impossibly fucking cool…really…it fucking rips; The Pit and the Pendulum gets Guillermo del Toro for a narrator (!) but is otherwise strictly by the numbers and disappointing; The Masque of the Red Death closes the proceedings with a simply stunning watercolor style and one of the coolest, most evocative versions of the tale I’ve ever seen on screen. For fans of Poe and animation, this is pretty much a must-see, stupid wraparound be damned.
The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist
Call me a “genre snob” all you want but I won’t sugar-coat things: I did not care for this sequel to the mega-popular James Wan original (which I did enjoy, to be honest). Despite being exceptionally well-made (parts of the film really do look gorgeous and some of the effects scenes are superbly executed) and featuring a few real chills, this next chapter in the saga of Ed and Lorraine Warren is mostly flat, telegraphed, rather hysterical (it’s impossible to take some of the “tense” scenes seriously) and ridiculously overlong (the entire Amityville opening is a stupid pretension that adds nothing but running time to the film). The whole thing is rather dunderheaded, at the end of the day, symbolized by an over-reliance on the film’s “Manson Nun” demon that borders on a Family Guy skit. This really is big-budget, multiplex horror at its bloated worst.
This indie about a group of ghost hunters checking out a supposedly haunted, fire-gutted prison certainly wasn’t terrible: the film looked pretty, considering the budget, and the prison location proved endlessly creepy and atmospheric. It was confusing, however, full of so many disparate plot elements and genre tropes (justice-seeking ghosts, crazy cultists, baby sacrifice, serial killers, ghost hunters) that the whole thing tended to collapse in on itself like a wet tissue. It was going to be hard for me to hate any film that features former Jesus Lizard singer David Yow as a fire-scarred, nutbag deputy sheriff, however, so this was always going to have a leg up on the competition: that Yow is simply magnificent makes it all that much more satisfying.
As a big fan of genre wunderkind Joe Begos, I was really looking forward to his homage to Cronenberg’s Scanners and I wasn’t disappointed in the slightest. Gloriously ’80s-centric and just about as “authentic” as these types of modern films get (right down to the broad acting and ridiculous set-pieces), this tale of a pair of vein-popping telekinetics on the run from shadowy government baddies really isn’t that different from Scanners but is never less than full-throttle fun. The practical effects are pretty impressive, lending the whole thing the feel of something that a much younger me might have grabbed off a video store shelf on a lazy Saturday. Films like this really light a fire under the ol’ VHS Graveyard!
As a kid, I voraciously devoured any and all Stephen King, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz and Dan Simmons books that I could find. Young-adult superstar R.L. Stine was a bit after my formative young years, however, so I must admit almost complete ignorance regarding his exceptionally large back catalog. I must also admit, in the interest of full disclosure, that I do not really care for Jack Black, finding him to be way too manic and obnixous for my taste. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed this mega-budget, CGI-bloated, Jack Black-starring big-screen introduction of many of Stine’s most famous creations to the silver screen. A clever bit of meta-fiction involving nosy kids accidentally releasing Stine’s (nicely underplayed by Black, for a change) literary creations into the real world, where they wreck havoc under the evil eye of living dummy Slappy (also Black and much less restrained), this was full of fun setpieces and nicely realized (for the most part) monsters. Sure, it was silly, manic and distinctly aimed at a young audience. If you’re the kind of horror fan who has no room at your table for something light-hearted and bloodless, however, expect to be turned away from my buffet: The VHS Graveyard welcomes any and all with open arms.
Coming up: Week Two and the next fifteen films in this year’s 31 Days of Halloween. Until then…keep it scary, boos and ghouls…keep it scary!
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CROI 2018: Advances in Antiretroviral Therapy. Academic Article
The 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) showcased exciting data on new investigational agents including MK-8591 and tri-specific antibody targeting 3 highly conserved epitopes on HIV-1 in a single antibody. Clinical trials of initial antiretroviral therapy (ART) and switch studies involving bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide were presented. Intensification of initial ART with integrase strand transfer inhibitors did not increase the risk of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome. Pharmacokinetic issues were discussed, including the substantial drug-drug interactions between efavirenz-based ART and hormonal contraception delivered via a vaginal ring. Studies on pre-ART drug resistance and emergence of drug resistance after initial and second-line ART in different settings and populations were highlighted. Novel technologies to identify drug resistance included a free, cloud-based web service for HIV genotyping analysis and a promising technology for point-of-care drug resistance mutations testing. New strategies to improve the HIV care continuum included home-based testing with initiation of same-day ART and stratified care with specialized clinics to serve those disengaged in care, but the data on financial incentives were not encouraging. Several studies provided insights into the impact of early ART on decreasing the size of the HIV reservoir in HIV-infected infants. Pertinent conference findings relating to women's health issues included similar clinical outcomes between breastfeeding and formula feeding HIV-infected women, the problem of viral rebound and ART nonadherence in pregnancy and postpartum.
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Malaysia Will Unveil Prototype For The First Flying Car This Year
It is not Sci-Fi anymore.
It is clear that Malaysia will achieve the idea of Vision 2020 by developing the first flying car using Malaysian technology.
1. The prototype would be unveiled this year
According to Datuk Seri Mohd Redzuan Md Yusof, Minister of Entrepreneur Development, it is reported that Malaysia’s first flying car is in the midst of developing using local technology and the prototype would be unveiled this year.
2) International aerospace and automotive companies keen to assist
Automotive and aerospace companies such as Boeing, AirBus, Volvo and Aston Martin have made advances and inquired about the flying car set to be developed by Malaysia.
Other companies in the drone and aerospace industry have also made their interest in developing the first flying car for Malaysia.
3) It would cost not more than RM 1 million
Datuk Seri Mohd Redzuan Md Yusof, Minister of Entrepreneur Development.
The prototype for the flying car was still at the drawing board stages. According to Malay Mail, Mohd Redzuan hoped the prototype soon will be revealed to the public within this year if not after fasting month.
The prototype which would be financed privately would not exceed costs of more than RM 1 million.
4) Focusing on agricultural and public transport industry
The innovation would most probably be first used in the agricultural and public transport industry in a way it could also aid in efforts to reach remote locations for various reasons.
The main target would be towards transport services or related companies and not for sale to the general public.
5) Malaysia has the capability and technology
This project will utilise the country’s capabilities in the aerospace drone, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and automotive sectors. Malaysia has the skill and technology to excel in this field so we need to make full use of it.
Mohd Redzuan explained that the project was separate from the third national car project envisioned by the Prime Minister.
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Q&A with Dennis Urbaniak, Managing Director, Accenture Life Sciences
Dennis Urbaniak on how social and digital are changing life sciences and how sharing health information will turn the industry on its head.
What has surprised you most about working in the life sciences industry?
Without a doubt, I’d have to say the scale of impact the industry can have on patients. I’ll never forget early in my career when I saw a new heart failure drug introduced in a hospital. One day a heart failure patient was bedridden in intensive care, and the next, after receiving the new drug, he was up and walking around.
Seeing the impact that drug had on a single patient made me realize and truly appreciate how the life sciences industry can change someone’s life directly. And thinking about that not just for one patient, but patients all over the world on a daily basis was overwhelming and inspiring.
How do you think social media is changing how pharmaceutical companies communicate with patients?
I think social media is already changing and will continue to change how we communicate with patients. For one thing, it’s allowing pharma and medical technology companies to listen to patients. Initially the industry saw social media as just another marketing channel for more branding opportunities and promotion but now, companies are seeing that they can enter into a dialog with patients and to learn about their unmet needs, their challenges and their potential solutions. That focus on listening and engaging with communities is providing the industry with a new level of insight that many didn’t expect, and it’s resulting in new drugs and solutions that are changing patient lives.
"I think the ability to share information is going to turn the industry on its head."
What are the “digital disruptions” that you think are on the horizon that could have the most profound impact on the industry?
One of the most profound changes I’m seeing is how information is created, shared, distributed and consumed. In the digital world, the industry has new opportunities not just to create new content, but also to curate interesting and relevant content from trusted sources. We’re also now capable of distributing that content and reaching people—payers, policy makers, doctors and patients—using the channels they prefer.
I think that ability to share information is going to turn the industry on its head. One example, where it’s already making a difference, is the Society for Participatory Medicine, an organization that encourages the collaboration of healthcare professionals, patients and life science thought leaders. This level of participation, which is actively informing research agendas, could never have come about without the digital technologies we rely on today.
What is the one thing you think the industry really has to get right and figure out in the next two years?
I think there are actually two things we need to address over the next couple of years. The first is finding more opportunities to engage directly with patients. As an industry, we need to recognize and respect patient voices, and we need to involve patients in policy decisions, at the state and the federal level.
The second is using technology and analytics to assess the real-world impact of drugs, treatments and services on patients. We need to leverage the immense amount of data available from electronic medical records and bring all the separate sets of data together to better understand what is truly delivering a better health outcome for patients – and which patients those are, what they share in common. We also have a huge opportunity to take advantage of data analytics to predict patterns and make modifications to therapies and the care we provide patients to provide the best possible outcomes for patients. If the entire healthcare industry gets this right, this will be the most exciting era in its history.
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On The Ground > Good practice > Short stories > Orchestrating a new Marine Protected Area
Good Practice Short Story
Orchestrating a new Marine Protected Area
In collaboration with WWF Spain, and levering in funding from UP 1 of the EMFF, the Cádiz Estrecho FLAG is setting up an MPA to ensure the sustainable future of its natural environment and fisheries. While the fisheries of Cádiz have always been proactive in the protection of natural resources, further measures were deemed necessary to sufficiently protect the area’s marine environment.
This is one of the areas with the greatest biodiversity in Spanish waters. Its importance must be recognised through the creation of a Marine Protected Area, which requires the consensus of all: artisanal fishers and recreational fishermen, as well as following minimum environmental requirements that could guarantee its sustainability
Nicolás Fernández, FLAG President
For over thirty years, the fishermen of the coastal village of Conil have used self-regulatory measures to protect the fishing grounds of the Cape of Roche area from illegal activities. However, to further protect the area’s fisheries a new Marine Protected Area (MPA) is being developed to provide greater control of natural resources and establishes guidelines for a more sustainable fisheries industry.
To reach a consensus following an extensive consultation process, the FLAG sought the support of local fisheries enterprises, scientific institutes, NGOs and public actors at both local and national level. Several workshops between stakeholders were organised and laid the initial foundations for the creation of the MPA. To then bring the project to fruition, the FLAG participated in a local governance initiative, led by WWF Spain, aimed at improving the environmental protection of the Cape Roche Sea.
Thanks to this project, funded by Union Priority 1 of the EMMF, preliminary research is now being conducted which will not only allow the creation of the new MPA but will also allow Cape of Roche to become part of the Natura 2000 network, the main institution for the conservation of the EU's biodiversity.
EU contribution €45 855
EMFF: €45 855
Other public contribution €15 285
National: €15 285
Private contribution €20 382
Timeframe of implementation
From Dec 2017 to Dec 2018
Cadiz Estrecho FLAG
Ms. Maria José Dominguez Corrales
gerente@galpcadizestrecho.com
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Hub24 reaches $5bn milestone
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Platform provider Hub24 has announced it reached $5 billion in funds under administration thanks to support from financial advisers. In a statement on the ASX this morning, Hub24 said its investment and superannuation platform has reached $5.05 billion in FUA.
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The milestone has been achieved through ongoing support from advisers, clients, shareholders and staff, the company said.
"Reaching $5 billion in FUA is a significant achievement for both Hub24 and for our industry. It's an accolade for choice, innovation, value and great technology," said Hub24 managing director Andrew Alcock.
"These factors as well as client demand for heightened control, flexibility and transparency are representative of the ongoing transformation of wealth management for all stakeholders.
"Hub24 has tripled in size over the last two years and we are continuing to grow rapidly. We value the support of all of our clients and business partners who fuel our commitment for further innovation every day."
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Jets get a modern twist on a nostalgic look with new retro-inspired alternate jersey
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The NHL has released its new Reverse Retro jerseys for all 31 teams, including a modern twist on a classic Winnipeg Jets look. (Source: TrueNorthShop.com)
WINNIPEG -- The NHL has released its new Reverse Retro jerseys for all 31 teams, including a modern twist on a classic Winnipeg Jets look.
While honouring the team’s inaugural NHL season in 1979, the newest sweater combines the team’s look from the 1980s with the current colourway, with the iconic logo once worn by Winnipeg greats like Dale Hawerchuk’s, tweaked with a light blue jet and “Winnipeg” lettering instead of the classic red, on what the team is calling a “fighter grey” jersey.
It’s part of the NHL’s Reverse Retro program with its jersey supplier, Adidas, and marks the first time the league has an alternate jersey program involving all of its 31 teams.
"Hockey fans love retro jerseys and Reverse Retro is a great opportunity for Adidas to work closely with the NHL and all 31 teams to bring back a design from a meaningful point in team history with a unique twist," said Dan Near, senior director at Adidas Hockey in a media release, Monday.
Paul Lukas is a freelance journalist and founder of uni-watch.com based in Brooklyn, New York, and has been covering athletic uniform design and aesthetics for more than 20 years; specifically focusing on how it looks and performs on the field of play.
He says, as can be expected with a league-wide rollout of a jersey program, the NHL’s Reverse Retro initiative is hit and miss.
“In general, these types of projects usually start with a clever idea and then it works really well for some teams, and not as well for others because the clever idea doesn’t apply as well to certain teams because of their colour schemes or their history, or whatever it might be,” said Lukas, “sometimes it’s hard to have a ‘one size fits all’ approach.”
Lukas points to teams like the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings, who have one colour, plus white, with no alternative colour, and the Vegas Golden Knights whose short history doesn’t lend any old logos or uniforms to work with as some of the likely challenges designers faced while trying to develop a new, yet nostalgic alternate jersey.
However, when it comes to Winnipeg, despite his personal distaste for grey uniforms in sports other than the traditional road uniforms in baseball, the Jets final look caught him by surprise.
“The more I looked at it, the more I kind of liked the Jets one.” he said,
“I always liked the original, that WHA Jets original design and I’m actually surprised at how well those two tones of blue, and the white, and that dark grey to sort of charcoal grey, I think it works pretty well.”
With the initial release from the NHL and Adidas on Monday morning showing only the jerseys and not the full uniforms, Lukas says it’s hard to determine just how good these designs are until he sees them on the ice, saying he doesn’t consider marketing or sales of a jersey when evaluating it.
Many, including Jets fans, took to social media to express their love, or hate for the third jersey, making “Reverse Retro” one of the top trends on Twitter for most of Monday.
Time will tell whether the new league-wide jersey program is a hit with fans, as the jerseys don’t officially go on sale until December, and it will likely garner renewed interest when teams start wearing them on ice, as the NHL says each team will wear the jersey in multiple games next season.
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The new measures to prevent COVID-19 spread in schools in Winnipeg and northern Manitoba
Charles Lefebvre Supervising News Producer - Digital
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Published Thursday, October 22, 2020 12:38PM CST Last Updated Thursday, October 22, 2020 2:03PM CST
WINNIPEG -- Due to the rising number of cases in both the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region and in Northern Manitoba, new measures are coming to all schools in those regions next week
On Thursday, Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief provincial public health officer, announced these new measures will take effect on Oct. 26 and will last as long as the two regions remain under the orange or restricted level.
Roussin said Manitoba has seen “minimal” COVID-19 transmission in schools, and teachers, staff, and school administrators have been effectively handling measures and COVID-19 cases, which were put in place at the start of the school year.
“We are seeing, though, widespread community transmission, so this increases the amount of cases we see in school, even though they’re not acquired in school,” he said.
Under the new measures, schools need to ensure physical distancing “to the greatest extent possible,” and adjust the space in the classroom as necessary. Excess furniture in classrooms needs to be removed to create additional space. Other areas in the school, such as multi-purpose rooms, shared spaces, and libraries, need to be repurposed to accommodate more distancing.
Roussin said teachers and staff who move across cohorts of students, including substitute teachers, are now required to wear medical masks, and medical-grade disposable masks have been issued to all schools.
“We certainly use medical masks when people are dealing with cases, or in the healthcare setting, or if we’ve determined there to be an increased need for it,” Roussin said. “When we talk about teachers that move throughout cohorts, that jeopardizes, in a way, the integrity of that cohort. The whole idea of a cohort is that if we have a case within that cohort, we do whatever we can so that the transmission is limited to that cohort.
“If you have people who regularly move between cohorts, if that person should ever be a case, then we can have multiple cohorts affected. So wearing medical-grade PPE is one more step involved in further adding integrity to those cohorts.”
The current blended learning model, which sees students attend school both in-class and online on different days, will continue for Grades 9 to 12. Roussin added Kindergarten to Grade 8 students may now be offered a temporary remote learning option while the restricted level remains in effect.
The new restrictions also only permit extracurricular activities if all learning and distancing requirements are met. In the case of sports, distance needs to be maintained when participants are not playing. All field trips are to be postponed or cancelled.
Indoor choirs and the use of wind instruments are both not allowed.
The remaining public health orders for schools are still in effect.
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Winthrop Transcript
Winthrop Massachusetts Newspaper
Winthrop High Sports Roundup
by Transcript Staff • January 17, 2013 • 0 Comments
Amazing win for Vikings over Revere
The Winthrop High boys basketball team posted a victory that will be remembered for years to come with a 61-57 triumph over Revere Tuesday evening.
“It was one of the most exciting games I’ve ever been a part of,” said WHS head coach Mike DiMarino. “The game had it all and I’m very proud of the way the team fought back and overcame adversity to bring home a win.”
The Vikings were the clear underdogs coming into the contest, having recorded just one win on the season, while Revere sported a 6-4 record and is making a run for a state tournament berth.
However, a Winthrop-Revere encounter in any sport always seems to spring some surprises and this one proved no exception from the outset.
Winthrop jumped out to an early lead and continued to build their advantage throughout the first half, paced by Jeff Laguerre (who had 13 points in the opening two periods). Winthrop eventually opened up a 39-21 bulge with 45 seconds to play. That’s when a fire alarm sounded, forcing the evacuation of the Revere High’s Merullo Fieldhouse. Winthrop returned undaunted and sank a bucket before the half ended to leave the floor (this time for the locker room) with a 20 point lead.
However, the Patriots came out fast and furious after the intermission and sliced the Viking lead by more than half, to 49-40, at the third buzzer. Winthrop was hampered by the loss of Laguerre shortly into the third period when he suffered an apparent bruised knee, forcing him to sit out the rest of the game.
Revere continued to maintain its momentum into the fourth period and moved out to a 55-51 advantage with about two minutes to play. But that’s when sophomore Jake Chiudina stepped up and treated Viking fans of a certain age to a Larry Bird-like performance. Jake first drained a three pointer and then stole the ball from the Revere point guard and went in for a layup, turning the game around completely within a span of a few seconds and giving Winthrop a 56-55 lead.
“Jake came through in a big way for us,” said DiMarino. “He showed great composure for a sophomore and did it all for us.”
Winthrop never yielded the lead from that point, parlaying the combination of some tough defense and clutch free throw shooting down the stretch. Josh Babb and Ervin DeJesus both went 2-for-2 from the foul line on their 1-and-1 attempts in the waning moments (Winthrop shot a nice 14-of-16 from the charity stripe on the night) to pull out the emotion-draining victory.
DeJesus led all scorers with 17 points, followed by Laguerre with 13, and Babb and Curtis Lockett with 10 apiece.
“It was a great atmosphere against one of our traditional rivals,” said DiMarino. “We kept fighting and kept executing and never gave up, even when they took the lead. We’re beginning to mature as a team and we’re looking forward to the second half of our season.”
The Vikings will face two of the best teams in the Northeastern Conference this week, traveling to Salem Friday and then hosting Lynn English Sunday at 3:00.
Winthrop then will trek into the big city Wednesday to take on Snowden Academy, the only Division 4 team on the Vikings’ schedule. A victory will qualify Winthrop for the post-season state tournament.
Lady Vikings edge Revere, 33-31
The Winthrop High girls basketball team bounced back from their first losses of the season last week to Peabody and Lynn English, a pair of rivals from the North (Large) Division of the Northeastern Conference, to slug out a down-to-the-wire 33-31 victory over Revere, another NEC Large foe, Tuesday evening.
“This was a big win for us,” said WHS head coach Ignacio Oyola. “We had not been playing well in our two losses, so it was important for us to stop our slide. It still was not our best basketball, but we did what we had to do to win it.”
Both teams went at each other from the opening tip with full court presses. But the more-experienced Lady Patriots, who came into the game with a 7-3 record and feature two of the top players in the NEC in senior guard Gena Restiano and senior forward Caitlin Caramello, bolted to an early 9-2 advantage.
“At first it was beginning to look like our games with Peabody and English,” said Oyola, referring to those two contests in which his Lady Vikings fell behind early and never got back into it. “But we settled down and cut their lead to three by the end of the first period.”
With the defenses basically dictating the tempo (both teams scored just seven points each in the second frame), Revere held a slim 19-16 advantage at the intermission..
The second half saw more of the same, with Winthrop upping the ante defensively by switching almost exclusively to a man to-man press. The Lady Vikings held Revere to just four points in the third frame, but put in just six themselves, leaving matters at a nearly even 23-22 to start the last period.
Both teams picked up the pace offensively in the final eight minutes. Stepping up for Winthrop were their front-court duo of junior Temison Meggison and sophomore Kristen Siscamanis, who each scored five points to combine for 10 of the Lady Vikings’ 11 points in the period.
The Winthrop defensive effort continued to frustrate Revere, led principally by senior captain Alyssa Mackey and soph Nikki Tsiotis, whom Oyola assigned to cover Restiano.
“Alyssa and Nikki are our two best man-on-man defenders,” said the coach. “They did a great job on Gena throughout the game.” Mackey made one of the key defensive plays of the contest with about 1:30 to go when she timed a three point shot attempt by Restiano and cleanly blocked it, giving the ball back to Winthrop.
The final minute saw Revere still clinging to a 31-30 edge. Winthrop’s stellar guard, Ashelyne Babb, drew a foul as she was driving the lane, but missed the front end of her 1-and-1. However, Meggison, who was immense all night on the boards, grabbed the offensive rebound. Oyola called a timeout to set up an inbounds play. The Lady Vikings worked it to perfection, with Siscamanis shaking free for an open shot at the net and Liana Ferullo giving her the pass.
With Winthrop now ahead 32-31, Revere missed its next shot. Siscamanis snared the carom and was fouled.. Kristen sank her first FT to make it a two-point game. Revere came down again looking to tie and got a good shot, but fortunately for Winthrop, the ball rimmed in-and-out. Siscamanis secured the rebound and time ran out.
Meggison paced Winthrop in scoring with 10 points and led the way off the glass, pulling down 14 rebounds. “Temison was amazing,” said Oyola. “She deserved the game ball tonight.”
Siscamanis ended up with seven points, followed by Nikki Tsiotis with six, Ferullo and Theresa Jones with four apiece, and Mackey with two.
Oyola and his crew, who now stand at 8-2 at the halfway mark of the season, will travel to Salem, another NEC Large foe, on Friday and then to Somerville, a non-league opponent from the Greater Boston League, on the holiday Monday. The Lady Vikings will return home next Friday to host Beverly.
Three WHS girls win events vs. Danvers
The trio of Michaela McCarthy, Holly Benson, and Amy Sena captured first place in their respective events last Thursday for the WHS girls indoor track team in their meet against Danvers that was held in the Marblehead facility.
McCarthy leapt to victory in the high jump, clearing the bar at 4-10. Michaela later in the meet took second place in the mile in a time of 6:38.8.
Benson dashed to victory in the 600 meter event, clocking home in 1:57.3. Sena took first place honors in the 1000 meter run, crossing the line in 3:31.5.
Lady Viking shotputters Ashley Jurovich and Elizabeth Anderson contributed to the team’s cause by scoring points in two events. Ashley grabbed second in both the shot with a toss of 30-0 and the 55 meter hurdles in 10.7. Elizabeth took second in the shotput with a throw of 27-11 and then sprinted to a third place finish in the 55 meter dash in 8.3.
Three Lady Vikings contributed three points to the Winthrop side of the scoresheet with second place finishes: Jordan Griffiths in the 300 in 49.7; Julia Wallace with a high jump of 4-10; and Abigail Love with a 14:44 in the two mile.
The girls will face Marblehead today (Thursday).
Girls hockey team falls to Marblehead
There are some games that just are not meant to be, and such was the case for the Winthrop Lady Bulldog hockey team Saturday evening in a 7-4 loss to Marblehead, an opponent with whom Winthrop has developed a bit of a rivalry in recent years.
The contest was a classic see-saw battle from the opening face-off. Winthrop spurted to an early 2-0 lead, much to the delight of the large crowd on hand (who came out in support both of the Lady Bulldogs and the special Pink the Rink Night fundraiser for the Marie Petrilli Fund that assists breast cancer patients). Kara Donati (assisted by Caroline McKinnon and Ariana Dembro) and Flora English (assisted by Annie Mahoney and sister Emma) potted the Winthrop goals.
However, Marblehead got one back with about a minute left in the period which would prove to be the first of four unanswered Lady Magician tallies that left the visitors with a 4-2 advantage at the second horn. Two of the Marblehead goals were of the “bad bounce” variety, one when the puck changed direction coming off the boards, the other on a high deflection off a Winthrop girl.
However, Winthrop came out firing on all cylinders in the third period and soon notched the equalizers. McKinnon (assisted by Donati and Dembro) and Julianna Kennedy (assisted by Donati) took turns lighting the lamp for Winthrop.
“We had a good talk in the locker room between periods and when we scored two goals to tie things up, we figured we had the momentum on our side,” said Winthrop head coach Anthony Martucci.
However, the momentum reverted back to Marblehead when the visitors capitalized on a pair of rare Lady Bulldog mistakes in their own end. An empty netter in the final minutes accounted for the 7-4 finale.
“Marblehead played well and their goalie was solid,” noted Martucci, referring to Winthrop’s shots-on-goal advantage of 59-18. “Overall we played a good game and controlled the play , but we made some key mistakes that cost us.”
The Lady Bulldogs were set to be back in action tonight (Wednesday) at Masconomet and will host Medford Saturday evening at Larsen. Face-off is 5:00. Martucci and his crew will trek to Watertown for a 1:00 encounter Monday afternoon on MLK Day and to Cambridge next Wednesday.
Corbett-Frank wins dash in Danvers meet
Jordan Corbett-Frank outdashed all rivals to capture first place in the 55 meter sprint for the Winthrop High boys indoor track team in its meet with Danvers Thursday. Jordan raced to victory in a time of 7.1 seconds.
The lone other individual point scorer for the Vikings was Marc Bouche in the 600 meter dash, taking third place in a time of 1:53.3.
The boys will face Marblehead today (Thursday).
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CLINICAL EVALUATION OF MIZAJ (TEMPERAMENT) OF THE SUBJECTS OF PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
Farah Naaz*, Adnan Mastan, Mohd Abid and Noman Khan
Background: The concept of Mizaj (Temperament) is unique to Unani system of Medicine and the whole system is based on these fundamentals of Mizaj. The Hippocrates (460-370BC), father of Medicine was the first to propose the principles of Mizaj (temperament). The theory of Mizaj states that the individual temperament (Mizaj) of a person is fixed and cannot be changed. Just as a fingerprint cannot be changed, so our fundamental temperament (Mizaj) cannot be changed. Each individual may have their own likes, dislikes, interests and skills. These all characteristics make up the unique disposition or temperament (Mizaj). People of one type of mizaj (temperament) may be prone to a particular group of diseases in different phases of their life. Hippocrates rightly said, “It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease, than to know what sort of disease a person has”. A person‟s temperament (Mizaj) has a direct influence on the state of health and inclination towards illnesses. Unani physicians have classified the mizaj (temperament) of an individual into four types namely Damvi (sanguine), Balghami (phlegmatic), Safravi (bilious) and Saudavi (melancholic). Thus, knowledge of temperament can help in planning a diet that is optimum for an individual and physical activities that promote a happy, healthy and productive lifestyle enabling people to live in harmony with self and world around them. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) is a major source of short and long-term morbidity amongst the women in reproductive age group, perhaps also the most important avoidable cause of female tubal factor infertility. Objectives: This study tried to assess and establish the temperament (Mizaj) of patients of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. The consideration of this study had the potential to prevent and treat Pelvic Inflammatory Disease based on classical theory of temperament (Mizaj). An early and accurate diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is of paramount importance for the effective management of the acute illness and for the prevention of long-term sequelae. Material & Methods: The study was carried out at A& U Tibbia College, Karol Bagh, New Delhi-05. 60 subjects with confirmed clinical diagnosis of PID complying inclusion and exclusion criteria‟s were included in the study. Mizaj (temperament) of the subjects was assessed by a standard questionnaire of temperament. Literature Review: All the renowned classical Unani textbooks were searched for the term “Warm-e-Rahm”, such as Kitab al-Hawi, Al-Qanoon fil-Tib, Al-Moalijat-i Buqratiya, Zakhira Khwarzam Shahi, Kitab al-Mukhtarat-fit-Tibb, Kitab al-Taisir, Tarjuma Shara Asbab, etc. The etiology, sign and symptoms and management were carefully studied and recorded. Modern medicine texts such as Dutta‟s Textbook of Gynecology, Shaw‟s Textbook of Gynaecology, etc were also searched for references. Beside this, related articles from authentic journals in PubMed and Google Scholar were also explored. Results: 60 subjects were enrolled for the study. The maximum number of subjects was found in 25-29 years age group. Highest number of subjects was of balghami mizaj (phlegmatic temperament) (n=30) followed by saudawi (melancholic temperament) (n=14). 10 patient of damvi (sanguine temperament) and 6 patients of safrawi (bilious temperament) were found. Conclusion: In light of this study, it can be concluded that patients with damvi (sanguine) and safravi (bilious) mizaj are prone to develop acute form of PID and with subsequent shift of acute inflammation towards mild and chronic grade; the mizaj (temperament) also shows predominance of balghami (phlegmatic) and saudaviyat (melancholic) constitution. So the temperament of a patient may be considered as an important factor in the pathogenesis of PID.
Keywords: Pelvic inflammatory disease, mizaj, temperament, damvi, balghami, safravi and saudavi mizaj.
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Author whatsamattau14Posted on March 8, 2020 March 8, 2020 Categories college life, concert review, drinking, drummer, gimme shelter, Humor, music, music review, radio music, retro, sasha allen, song lyrics, the rolling stones, Uncategorized4 Comments on A Little Head Hunting
When I post articles from other contributors (in this case Kate) I try to shy away and let their pieces speak for themselves. Not this time. For instance, I enjoy learning about different cultures even to the point of embracing them and therefore flattering myself as a forward-thinkin’, open-minded contributor to world society despite my spectacularly noteworthy flaws. Here’s one of ’em…
“The Year of the Rat”? Seriously? Of all the critters in God’s kingdom why a rat? Then I evened myself out again in a trying-to-be-understandin’ kinda way whereupon I figured there’s a secretive yet powerful community in China that exalts the nobler qualities of a varmint that would be shot on sight here in the good ol’ US of A.
The result of my subsequent investigation was that there ARE no superb qualities to a rat. IT’S A F&%@ING RAT! (Beg yer pardon. Got a little outta line there.) Anyway, the following whizbang article was written by Kate for The Temple Daily News…
Temple students celebrate Lunar New Year on campus
The Confucius Institute held its fourth annual Lunar New Year celebration on Monday.
28 January 2020 Catherine O’Connell Articles, Intersection
(From left to right) Qiwen Yuan, Eddie Chia-Hao Hsu and Aris Tang perform “The Triad of Plum Blossoms,” a traditional Chinese song and dance, at the Confucius Institute at Temple University’s Lunar New Year festival at the Student Center on Monday. CLAUDIA SALVATO / THE TEMPLE NEWS
The Confucius Institute at Temple University hosted a celebration on Monday to ring in the 2020 Lunar New Year, which started on Jan. 25 and ends on Feb. 4.
Entertainment included traditional Chinese activities, like a Chinese tea making table, a calligraphy display, a paper cutting activity and various live performances.
Lindsay Fink, a senior global studies major, who was working at the event, discussed the importance of this celebration on campus.
“There’s not a lot of Chinese New Year events in Philly, so it’s nice to have something on campus,” Fink said. “Like, imagine living somewhere where there’s no decorations for Christmas.”
Aris Tang, a management and information systems major, plays the zheng at the Confucius Institute at Temple University’s Lunar New Year celebration at the Student Center on Jan. 27. | CLAUDIA SALVATO / THE TEMPLE NEWS
Since Spring 2016, the Confucius Institute has been providing Chinese language resources for international and domestic students, including a Chinese tutoring program, interpreters for Chinese students during student conduct cases and summer trips to China for Temple students and faculty.
“As a center that promotes Chinese culture and language, it is important for us to hold a Lunar New Year celebration to share the holiday and its traditions with others,” said Ashley Phifer, coordinator at the Confucius Institute. “It also provides our Chinese community here on campus a place to celebrate the holiday with others.”
This Lunar New Year marks the beginning of the year of the rat. The Chinese Zodiac, an ancient system based on the lunar calendar, decides which animal will represent each new year, Time Magazine reported.
Lunar New Year traditions include cleaning one’s bedroom on Lunar New Year’s Eve “to bring good luck to the new year,” said Yingru Zhao, instructor at the Confucius Institute.
“In China, it is the greatest and most important festival…it’s like Christmas,” Zhao said.
Po-sung Hsu, a first year business analytics graduate student, attended the event. His family always comes together for the Lunar New Year, he said.
“On Chinese New Year’s Eve, we [family] have a reunion dinner, and after, the parents and grandparents give out red envelopes with lucky money inside,” Hsu said.
Observing cultural holidays and taking part in celebrations can make students feel more connected with the language they are studying, Zhao said.
“To learn language, you need to know a little background about the culture…in Chinese textbooks we learn about food and Lunar New Year … we celebrate Lunar New Year here because it evokes emotion, despite not being in China.” Zhao said.
Freshman advertising major Alea Burns, who is currently taking a Chinese language class, said she was at the event to familiarize herself with the culture.
“I’m planning on studying abroad in China next year, so I want to dip my toe into the culture,” Burns said.
The Confucius Institute exists to make students feel at home no matter where they’re from, Phifer said.
“Overall, we’re here to provide a safe, warm, inviting environment for any student that comes to our office,” Phifer added.
Author whatsamattau14Posted on February 2, 2020 February 3, 2020 Categories america, Chinese New Year, college life, dads, Humor, music, UncategorizedTags Humor, politicsLeave a comment on The Year of the Rat
Just Sailin’ Across the Breeze
I really enjoy seeing snippets from the morning news broadcasts displaying people enjoying the beach, lickin’ sno-cones, smacking golf balls into unfindable territory and sailboats giving a sense of scope to an otherwise endless blue horizon.
Speaking of the latter, my Dad owned a small (10 feet at best) Sunfish sailboat during the 1970’s leading to my teenage siblings and my sub-teenage self to think it’d be a swell idea to take the Sunfish out to various local lakes and sail away the day. Conceptually, this struck the unsuspecting eight year old me as a great adventure and just the thing to do.
Having unsafely strapped the hull of our noble vessel to the top of my Dad’s station wagon and storing the various other needed accoutrements (mast, sail, rudder, etc…) in the rear of the vehicle, we set off. Arriving at the lake with all equipment intact and incurring no injuries to the general public thus far we felt emboldened to put ourselves and our assumedly seaworthy ship in the water. (I like how my Dad figured this expedition dangerous to the point where he was willing to let me go out there but only under the condition that I wore a life vest.) Being too young to understand that the vest shoulda set off warning flags in my head we headed off onto the lake in a sailboat that The Three Stooges would’ve considered overloaded.
At first everything was progressing famously what with the slight breeze, open water and Admiral Tom competently manning the sail ropes while steering us to a triumphant trip upon an unimpeachably pleasant cruise. That’s when the weather came up.
When the first high winds of the oncoming thunderstorm hit the sail of the Sunfish, we capsized with what I would call “authority”. A mighty struggle ensued involving the crew flipping our now upside-down (and only means of transportation) back to it’s original state minus the mast and sail. (They’re probably still sitting at the bottom of the lake.)
Alertly sensing danger, Mom and Dad vehemently encouraged us to hang on to a vessel I now refer to as the “Andrea Doria” then swim back to shore in spite of sudden and strong lightning strikes. Therefore, I made a few decisions about one or two aspects of my future life…
Being violently thrown overboard from a vessel of any size has a high uncoolness factor.
I gained a sudden preference for motor-driven vessels when it comes to water-involved means of transportation.
Never trust any member of my family again when they say stuff like “It’ll be fine” or “What could possibly go wrong?”
Anyway, I stumbled upon a few videos from the blues/country categories strangely based on themes for a TV show. If that’s what it takes to keep The Blues going then count me in…
Here’s a tremendous band called the Forest Rangers doing a number called “John the Revelator” followed by an equally impressive number dubbed “Forever Young” each featuring a different lead vocalist.
See u on down the road…
Author whatsamattau14Posted on July 26, 2019 Categories bars, beer, dads, drinking, heat wave, Humor, moms, music, radio music, retro, song lyrics, Sons of Anarchy, Uncategorized, Vacation2 Comments on Just Sailin’ Across the Breeze
Back in the High Life Again
OK. Back again after my yearly bout with anemia and willing, even eager to write about the usual goofy stuff I usually, umm, goofily write about. Let’s start with the usual s#%t with the morning news wherein we’re kept up to date as to the weather, the current political atmosphere, who got murdered or otherwise mauled last night and personal interest stories about celebrities getting outta control and fake doctors who somehow manage to put themselves in a postion to conduct “inappropriate breast exams”.
The fake doctor thing got me thinking. What, exactly, do you need to do to pass yourself off as a physician without having any qualifications whatsover? Television commercials are helpful here as they seem to imply that all you need is a white lab coat, a stethoscope and a concerned demeanor. Additionally, you’ll be needing a sterile office environment complete with an unwitting administative assistant, bogus diplomas and posters displaying the more subtle points of the human anatomy (intimidating patients with an actual skeleton hanging from a metal rack’ll will really sell the effect here. It sure works on me.)
All in all, I never appreciated what it takes to be a molesting doctor before. These guys have really put in the effort here. Good luck in prison block B!
Next, will the next rock n’ roll icon please start developing a drug habit? Seriously, outside of Ted Nugent, Angus Young and Gene Simmons I couldn’t name ya any rock stars from the 70’s that were sober. I always considered that era the time of innovation, progress, setting higher standards and getting as f^&$ed up as possible. Currently, this era seems hell bent on staying as milquetoast, unpioneering and uninteresting as can be, valuing a technically proficient hand superior to an inspired one.
I’ll take the Ramones blasting the hell outta their garage any day of the week.
Author whatsamattau14Posted on June 10, 2019 Categories art, bars, beer, drinking, drummer, Humor, music, radio music, retro, UncategorizedLeave a comment on Back in the High Life Again
Author whatsamattau14Posted on January 13, 2019 February 9, 2019 Categories america, art, bars, beer, Humor, music, Uncategorized3 Comments on Marrying Music to Art
They Called Him Flipper
I saw a story this morning about a wounded dolphin that was rescued and nursed back to health under high scrutiny by his/her handlers. This is what humanity likes about itself insomuch as one dolphin can be saved while 5,000 are caught and die in fishing nets each year seeing as they’re suddenly denied the privilege of surfacing for air. What’s the term for that again? I think it’s called “collateral damage” where the dolphins are considered expendable for the sake of our seafood dining.
But I digress. The wounded dolphin was immediately dubbed “Flipper”. I for one think this reflects poorly on our species in as much as we can’t improve on the badly overused, stereotypical moniker already employed by the old TV show and the Miami Dolphins mascot. I wonder what the actual wild, free-roaming porpoises think about this every time one is caught. (BTW-Are dolphins the same thing as porpoises?) Imagine this conversation:
Amy the Friendly Dolphin (halting her frolicking for a moment): “Omigod, This is a disaster! Gus just caught by the humans! What’re we gonna do?”
Stan the Dolphin: “Damn straight it’s a disaster. He owes me fifty bucks. Well, I guess he’s ‘Flipper’ from now on.”
I’m writing this while semi-watching the Golden Globe awards wherein it seems that suddenly famous people who built their careers based on taking chances are so averse to doing so now. Just a thought, but Bill Murray, Dave Chapelle and Daniel Tosh r still out there folks. Whoa! Hold the proverbial phone here but not only one yet two award recipients (the second being Christian Bale) just got bleeped (was the first Ben Stiller?) in an unexpected development. I was mostly expecting preachy, self-serving speeches (one so far) about various issues that I coulda made fun of but won’t cuz I’m admittedly starting to change my tune so as to fall in with our brainwashed Hollywood elite. (Being seen not applauding during a celebrity’s self-righteous, indignant speech can really bring trouble to the uncooperative actor.) Not falling for that trap, my friends!
Turning to another point, I’m getting a little sick of my local news channel suddenly interrupting your “regular programming” with “breaking news” that ultimately winds up being a big pile of nuthin’. I don’t mind waiting ’til five o’clock to hear this stuff, man.
If you haven’t already noticed this is a placeholder column until (proud to say our third writer) Kate’s music column is up and ready to go. On this site, anything goes. (Anybody a cartoonist? I’d love to have one man, even if other people think u stink.)
Author whatsamattau14Posted on January 10, 2019 January 13, 2019 Categories america, bad movie titles, bohemian rhapsody, dads, Dolphins, drinking, Golden Globes, Holleywood, Humor, music, queen, radio music, UncategorizedLeave a comment on They Called Him Flipper
Bohemian Rhapsody-Redux
Chuck came up with some great commentary on the Queen/Freddy Mercury movie in response to the film and my own recent review. Check it out.
Here’s Chuck’s slant…
I haven’t had a chance to write up a full review for the blog, but my take on it was that it was decent. Not great, but not horrible. On the plus side, Rami Malek was fantastic as Freddie Mercury. He elevated the entire film. He didn’t so much “play” Mercury. He became him. It was a marvel to watch. Another huge plus was the dead on recreation of their set at Live Aid. Everything about that scene was so authentic. My favorite part of the film. And of course, the music was stellar. Some of the greatest stuff ever recorded.
On the down side, the dialogue was hackey in places. The pace was too slow in some places. The timeline of their music was off in some places. (IE. Fat Bottomed Girls didn’t come out until 3 years after their first American tour). They got a ton of facts wrong. ( IE. He didn’t tell them he was HIV positive until 2 years after Live Aid). The other actors were bland. (Which, maybe, was the point in comparison to Freddie’s personality). The guy playing Roger Taylor drove me crazy. Taylor has a very (very!) high pitched speaking voice. This guy, um, did not. I cringed every time he spoke. Mike Myers was a little unnecessary. (We get that he used Bohemian Rhapsody in Wayne’s World).
I do get your point about them not focusing on May and Taylor and Deacon more. You and I are rock music nerds and would have loved to have seen a deeper dive into the 3 of them. But most of the movie ticket buying populace aren’t rock music nerds. No way this film makes half a billion dollars if it dove deeply into the life of Brian May. (It likely doesn’t even get made). Freddie is who people wanted to see.
Overall, in terms of stars, I’m right there with you, but for different reasons. 2 ½ out of 4.
Author whatsamattau14Posted on December 6, 2018 December 7, 2018 Categories bohemian rhapsody, dads, Humor, music, queen, radio music, song lyrics, UncategorizedLeave a comment on Bohemian Rhapsody-Redux
Bohemian Rhapsody-A Movie Review
Queen. (The band, not the monarch.) Tailors of the triumphantly sonic rock sound stemming from their inception in the early seventies that so many of the second-stringers coming behind them found to be a band not only uncopiable but still mythical in many ways. Subtle yet dynamic, alternatively humble and bold, honest but still occasionally playful in their sound they used their jazz/blues/classical and God knows whatever other musical roots to bring rock to it’s theatrical zenith.
But this isn’t an assessment of the band but rather the recent movie so let’s go…
I was initially stunned by the resemblance between the actors and the original Queen members (Hey! That guy looks just like Brian May!) for instance. This really helped supply the effect that I was now immersed in Queen-World but the movie as a whole has an annoying tendency to skip this initial platform of credibility and throw away a beautiful opportunity to establish and recognize the tightness the members of the group used to establish themselves as one thing, irreversible and continuous.
When I plunked myself in my seat I was happily expecting a flick about Queen but it quickly became apparent that I was watching a biopic centered around lead singer Freddie Mercury with only occasional references to why we listened to Queen in the first place.
Here’s where I started losing interest.
If your interested in Freddy Mercury himself then your in business. This film dives into his personal life highlighting his personal, conflicted relationships eventually leading to the near destruction of the thing he loved most, writing songs and performing them with the guys who took him in as a brother and stood by Freddy even when his ego got the better of him. While this movie runs two hours and fifteen minutes, plenty of time to give you a sense of Queen’s overall talent, little of that time was used to establish the most critical portion of Freddy’s life. While I admit that Elvis Presley would have been a famous talent without the benefit of the innovative guitarist Scotty Moore, it sure didn’t hurt to have him around. Would Freddy’s superb talent ever been known if it wasn’t for the utterly unique sound of Brian May’s laser-like guitar, Roger Taylor’s huge pioneering drum effect and Fred Deacon’s whizbang bass (as well as songwriting from these three)?
That’s what I was expecting and got nothing but a few glimpses as to why Queen worked at all. Where I was expecting light, I got darkness, I don’t mean that metaphorically though. It seemed that half this venture was deliberately filmed in dimly lit locations like an Orson Welles picture.
The final scene of the movie actually delivers the sound and power that Queen is famous for but why did I have to wait two hours for delivery? Given that the musical advisors were original members Roger Taylor and Brian May, it’s mystifying they’d let this great music be tamped down, volumeless where volume was needed and unspectactular when spectactulerness was so easily within grasp. When I mentioned this to my daughter she agreed speculating that putting Queen’s stunning sound out there at the movie’s early points would’ve lessened the effect at the end. She’s probably right but she’s also seventeen years old and wasn’t available to hear this group in it’s proper time.
I was. We both gave Bohemian Rhapsody 2 1/2 stars out of four. Here’s two original promo videos that Queen provided in the seventies. I’ll ask you to please watch so you can see what I’m driving at here and don’t forget to hit on MAMEMAGAZINE.COM for more music-oriented content and as always, thanks for reading…
Author whatsamattau14Posted on November 26, 2018 November 27, 2018 Categories bohemian rhapsody, dads, drummer, Humor, music, queen, radio music, song lyrics, UncategorizedLeave a comment on Bohemian Rhapsody-A Movie Review
All the News That’s Unfit to Print
Hey, hey and Ho, Ho Dear readers! Lotsa stuff to get to today so let’s dispense with the niceities and proceed right to the usual buffoonery…
I saw in the news recently where there was a lady who had the power go out in her house and sensibly fumbled her way into the cellar to find and subsequently light a candle in order to gain some light thus enabling her to see where she was going and generally provide light to her now very small world. Sound thinking, right? Well, these apparently simple tasks sometimes come with an unforeseen downside as we all know and this case is especially noteworthy as the “candle” she was trying to light was in reality a stick of dynamite.
Don’t get me wrong here, as a fellow citizen who also tucks my candles into the same type of drawers and in the same normally sensible proximity to dynamite I see this is as a triumph of the American Will. I ask you my fellow Americans, in what other country is it OK to accidently risk blowing your block to kingdom come while inciting references to Bugs Bunny and The Three Stooges? No country that I wanna live in and that’s for damn sure. (To our friends at the NSA who’re obviously reading this now that I used the word “dynamite”, I’m just goofin’ around here man)
Speaking of The Three Stooges, I normally refrain from commenting on people’s personal appearance because I’m a fine one to talk but I recently came across a guy who’s toupee reminded me of Moe Howard’s hairdo (“Hey Moe! It’s a tarantula!!)
Next up, why do people who had a sufficient amount of dozing say that they “slept like a baby”? What’re u trying to tell me, that you woke up screaming every three hours?
Having seen the two previous posts, my daughter is trying to straighten me out on the state of modern music in apparent hopes that I’ll embrace some of the newer bands. If u consider her as Lisa Simpson and me as Homer you’ll get the idea that she’s usually right about alotta stuff and this time I want in on the ground floor. In this, the first case she confronted me with will be a band called “Cage the Elephant”. Having listened to their “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked”, they appear to me to be a cross between Run DMC and Paul Revere and the Raiders but form your own impressions with the video supplied below…
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Tales as old as time!
Who'story
Of history. Of travel. Of places less known.
Posted in Andra Pradesh
Chandragiri – Dying of the light
Posted on 5 Feb 2019 5 Feb 2019 by whostorian
Raja Venkata Raya, sat hunchbacked in his chair. Every breath was painful. The bouts of evening fever had left him skin and bones. Food had lost all taste. He coughed into the silk cloth. Blood. How had it all come to this?
The Vizier came in the room and bowed. He bid him come closer.
“Your highness, a group of traders from England have come seeking an audience with you. I have asked them to wait. Shall I tell them that you are indisposed?”
He turned and gazed slowly at the bronze statue of Raja Krishna Deva Raya.
“No!”, wheezed the king, “Tell them to wait. Help me get dressed.”
He coughed again. More blood.
He stood up slowly and walked to the window. The Fortress of Chandragiri was all that was left of the once mighty Vijayanagar Empire.
Vijayanagar. The Diamond of the Deccan.
He had heard his father talk about the beauty of that city. The blue jewel on the banks of Tungabhadra. The light of the south. A city paved with gold and adorned with diamonds. The successor of the Cholas, Cheras and Pandayas. Greater than all of them combined. The last great Hindu kingdom of the South. An empire that stretched from Krishna to the Indian Ocean. Trade had flourished under their grace. Food was plenty and hunger scarce. Great temples and forts dotted their kingdom. They even rebuilt the Meenakshi temple at Madurai. Art, music and poetry had flourished under their rule.
It had all come undone at Talikota. The Sultanates of Bijapur, Bidar, Berar and Ahmednagar had joined forces against the Vijayanagar empire. Even the combined might of all the Deccan Sultanates was outnumbered 3 times by the vast and well-armoured Vijayanagar army.
The court historians were silent on how they had managed to lose to a such a small and fragmented army. His grandfather, Aliya Rama Raya, was captured and beheaded on the battlefield. Some whispered that his commanders had betrayed him and changed sides. Some said that he was betrayed by his pride. Some said that the gods punished him for betraying his father-in-law.
His father had escaped with his family and his household to Penukonda. The Sultanate armies sacked, pillaged and burned Vijayanagar. The City of Victory. It burnt for days. The once prosperous and bustling city became a haunted ghost town within months. They didn’t even call it Vijaynagar anymore. That name was a lie. They called it Hampi.
The Empire fragmented after the loss. The governors of Mysore, Madurai and Tanjore had declared their independence. The Nayaka kingdoms splintered out from the ruins of the Vijayanagar empire. The Golconda sultanate had taken advantage of Vijayanagar’s fall and attacked Penukonda. They had to abandon that fortress and finally reach Chandragiri.
The minstrels still called him the ruler of the Vijayanagar empire. He knew it was a lie. He held swath over only a few hundred kilometers of land far away from Vijayanagar. The Nayakas still called him Emperor but it was an empty title. They owed him no taxes or allegiance. His nephew had joined the Bijapur Sultan and was plotting to depose him.
He had no children. With him the empire would die. It was his fate to see the dying of the light of his kingdom.
“What do the English traders want?”, he asked his Vizier as his put a robe around him.
“They want to buy a fishing village on the coast to build a trading outpost.”
Selling a village would bring some relief to his almost depleted treasury. And what harm could handful of foreign traders, thousands of miles from their homeland do to him?
He nodded his head. He asked his messenger to summon the Englishmen.
As his sat on his chair, he asked the Vizier, “Which village do they want?”
“Madarasapattinam.”
The fortress of Chandragiri was the last capital of the Vijayanagar Empire. The quiet and quaint fort is situated 20 km away from the crowd and bustle of Tirupati. Built in Indo-Saracenic fashion, the fort now hosts a museum.
The Raja’s Mahal is the most imposing structure with a smaller Rani’s mahal nearby. The fort walls enclose a tank and few temple ruins.
There is a remnant of an old house inside the fort which legend say was the home of Tenali Raman, one of the greatest poets in Raja Krisha Deva raya’s court.
It was here that the British bought a piece of land on the Coromandel coast from the the king and built Fort. St. George. They called the place Madras and thus began the history of British colonization in India.
Chandragiri Fort:
Raja’s Mahal
Entrace to the Fort
Rani’s Mahal
Way to the hill top
Fort tank
Ramparts
Statue of Raja Krishna Deva Raya
Chandragiri Fort
Fort buldings
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Tranquebar – ‘The land of the singing waves’
Vellore – ‘Fierce and Fain’
The Battle of Sadras
Gingee – ‘Troy Of The East’
‘Aayi Mandapam’ – A tale of a King and a Prostitute
‘Qila Mubarak’ – The Queen of Hearts
‘Qutb Minar’ – The Slave who became a Sultan
‘Arcot’ – The Reason We Speak English
‘Padmanabhapuram’ – God’s Own City
‘Gangaikonda Cholapuram’ – The City of the Chola who brought the Ganges.
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Julia Grübler, Leon Podkaminer and Oliver Reiter
wiiw Monthly Report No. 6, June 2020
Chart of the month: Ricardian equivalence does not hold in practice
by Leon Podkaminer
Opinion Corner: COVID-19 is complicating global trade debates
by Julia Grübler
Trade policy used to be a niche topic of limited interest to the public. In recent years, however, it has received a much wider audience, making it to the front pages of newspapers. The current global health crisis has pushed some major trade policy issues – including disputes between China and the US – into the background. But they will flare up again, once the biggest uncertainties related to COVID-19 have been weathered, potentially in more complex ways than before.
Trade policy’s about-turn in times of global health distress
by Julia Grübler and Oliver Reiter
Over the last three years, trade policy has been characterised by a global revival of tariffs as trade policy instruments and retaliatory measures. Today, trade policy is in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic, leading to a reversal of recent tariff increases, while non-tariff measures are on the rise. The latter can have far-reaching consequences; and with imprudent use may even deepen the crisis.
A network of free trade agreements
by Oliver Reiter
The number of free trade agreements has been steadily increasing over the years. Do overlapping trade agreements have an additional effect, on top of the widely documented positive effect that trade agreements have on their own? In this article, we investigate how measures developed from a network perspective can add to our understanding of how free trade agreements influence trade flows.
Monthly and quarterly statistics for Central, East and Southeast Europe
Keywords: Ricardian equivalence, public debt, public revenues, coronavirus pandemic, trade policy, free trade agreements, trade in medical products, import tariffs, non-tariff measures, network of free trade agreements, trade creation
Countries covered: US, China, European Union, Japan, non specific
Research Areas: Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy, International Trade, Competitiveness and FDI
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Obese Woman Humiliated By Boyfriend Loses Weight
22nd March, 2018
Standing at 5’3, Paige was morbidly obese, measuring in with a BMI of 57.
At 22 years old, and weighing in at 146kgs, Paige’s boyfriend humiliated her when he said her stomach was too big for sex during a romantic getaway to celebrate their one year together.
You can only imagine the impact this had on her, emotionally.
But despite the hurt, Paige used this as fuel to power a diet that has seen her drop EIGHT dress sizes… And 82Kgs.
She went from size 28 to 12, and now weighs in at 63Kgs.
“It was absolutely mortifying when my boyfriend told me that my belly was getting in the way, but it gave me the push I needed to finally do something about my weight,” Paige told the Daily Mail.
“I’d always been big as a child, and then I was ‘the fat one’ in my bunch of friends. Men would say horrible things about me on nights out, like ‘God, look at the size of her.’
“I had no confidence whatsoever, but I tried to kid myself that I was happy being fat.”
A regular day for Paige would be gorging on sandwiches, biscuits and chocolate, with frequent visits to McDonald’s for two burger meals, fries, a McFlurry and a large milkshake.
“Even when I broke a sun lounger at a family barbecue by sitting on it, I just laughed it off.”
“However, when my boyfriend made that comment, I knew I couldn’t kid myself any longer.”
Paige started on a juice diet, losing 50 Kgs in just 90 days – but the side effects stopped her –
“It was horrendous. I was pleased that the weight was coming off, but I felt terrible. My periods stopped, and I was an emotional wreck.
“After three months, I just couldn’t cope with it any longer and decided to lose weight in a healthier way.”
For the eight months that followed, she ate small portions of healthy food – salad, bran flakes, fruit, etc.
She walked for exercise regularly – and managed to drop down to her 63 kg frame she is today.
She ditched the man who shamed her, but says she’s grateful for the kick up the butt she needed.
“Now I’m happier than I’ve ever been – and I definitely haven’t had any complaints about my belly since!”
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I’m Astrid
A Brand Builder and
50 Grounds Blog
Linley Lord at home with the Lion and the Roo
Pro Vice Chancellor and President, Curtin Singapore
Consumption: Glass of Water
Singapore decided long ago to be politically and socially different from the rest of Asia-Pacific, and it is evident from the traditional gold-dipped orchid flower trinkets at Changi Airport to the innovation hubs and luxury brand outlets.
I first met Linley when she undertook her Doctorate at Curtin, and I completed a Masters. In this 50 Grounds interview, we didn’t speak of Professor Lord’s research about women in leadership. Instead, we took the verbally scenic route of an Australian University in Singapore and touched on some ex-pat tips.
‘I always wanted to work and be connected to the strategic level of the University. When I was elected to the Academic Board at Curtin in Perth eight years ago, I realised the dimension of the job at hand,’ Linley explains.
‘With Deborah Terry as Curtin’s Vice Chancellor, I had great mentoring, support and networking opportunities across the University leadership and stakeholders for the six years I was Chair of the Academic Board.’
‘In 2018, the Singaporean vacancy came up, and I wanted to remain on the strategic side, so I jumped to the offer even though it wasn’t anything I had imagined. The timing was just right.’
In her trademark down-to-earth manner, Linley laughs, ‘I tend to jump in the deep end and then go: ‘gee, I hope I can swim!’
‘Curtin has been in Singapore for over 30 years with a campus since 2008,’ Linley continues with a more serious explanation. ‘I was ready to take the risk because I had the backing of my peers and mentors who could help me with constructive improvement.
‘I’m now in Singapore for just over two years. It’s a fabulous job, and an exciting place to live, even in these times.’
When we had initially scheduled our chat, Linley was busy moving students, staff and curriculum online during the pandemic.
‘We have about 1400 students on the Singapore campus, mainly business and nursing courses. Curtin works with a local partner that runs the campus and student recruitment. ‘40% of Students are domestic, and 60% come from the region wanting a quality Australian degree without wanting to live in Australia for family reasons or personal preference.
‘I realised early on what it means for Curtin to be in a location other than Perth. Singapore is a Fortune 500 business hub with Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore. This city-state, and across the region are talking about the sustainable development goals. This opens up opportunities for us here. It is a much quieter conversation in Australia.
‘Singapore’s only natural resource is its people. It’s reclaiming land rather than digging up resources. Despite the difference, Singapore always had a great relationship with Australia. No wonder the ‘Lion and the Kangaroos’ relationship is mostly about a shared strategic mindset.
‘The economic focus here is longer-term. The Government is preparing people for the skills set needed not only in the short terms but also what will be needed in twenty years for example around artificial intelligence and other technologies.’
In another life of mine (don't ask, I never finished that degree) I had researched the possible impact on the Australian economy of what was then labelled ‘the rise of the Creative Class’ and Singapore fully embraced the knowledge economy back then. Still, Australia decided to bank on its resource sector.
‘In comparison, Australia has a mindset about efficient mining, not what the world will look like when the resource sector is no longer a major contributor to the Australian economy,’ Linley continues.
‘The Asian Pacific region is a dynamic space, regardless of the current pandemic. Singapore is this beautiful contradiction of cutting-edge innovation and deeply seated tradition. Disregard the tradition, and you can’t be successful here.'
‘I look after all the academic matters, the programs, student experience and teaching research. With the Universities’ shift to a global outlook and global campus mindset, we place the same emphasis on research here.
‘It’s an exciting challenge for me to build a research identity and focus on the researchers and their topics. ‘
It looks to me that Linley’s open mindset and curiosity is why she can cross the distance and succeed in forging bridges between the two campus cultures so quickly.
‘I am aware that we are using the Australian curriculum, which not always has an international focus, e.g., case studies that are very Australian-centric. Still, we are trying to prepare students for global careers.
‘Course renewal, new course development, industry involvement; these are areas of mutual influence between Curtin Singapore and Curtin Perth.’
Linley is handling the challenge to be the translator between students, faculty, countries, and cultures represented under one united Curtin brand.
‘It wasn’t until I arrived here that I’ve come to have a much deeper respect for people who can move in the course of a sentence through three languages.'
'For most students, English is one of the many languages they speak. Yet I still come across the underlying prejudice in Australia that if you can’t speak English well, then you can’t be very bright,' Linley says.
‘A shorter-term focus and a privileging of Western knowledge in the curriculum is often the Australian approach, whereas here there are many other teaching influences from across the region.
‘Some developing countries try to shift their economies radically. Vietnam, for example, half of their population is young, yet we are teaching cases studies highlighting ageing populations. Rather than having one or the other conversation, we need to combine them.
‘What are employers looking for in a graduate?’ is the key question of any curriculum review, and we have that discussion across the board with industry, students, and the University. The next question is for us: ‘what would make you choose a Curtin graduate?’ to understand what the distinctive element is.
‘Every trimester I meet with the student clubs and engage with them so we can understand any issues and we can also capture the activities and promote them. The Curtin Singapore students have given me feedback that they like the friendly campus structure and that they have a strong sense of belonging to Curtin Singapore, but they don’t necessarily feel that they are part of Curtin Australia. So we’ve worked hard to raise the profile of Singapore back to Perth and vice versa.
‘To connect our students with industry we have implements a thought leader series which gives students the chance to meet with leaders from a variety of industry sectors, and we have now an industry connect program that mentors students during the transition from study to employment.
‘We’ve initiated collaborating with David Russell who is heading up the Curtin Stadium, to look at opportunities for exchange between the sports clubs.'
Linley is weaving an impressive communications net across the University in two nations.
‘We are raising the profile with the annual public ASEAN lecture series since 2018. This year, because it’s the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, the lecture will focus on Nursing and Midwifery.
‘My role is about bringing people along as I’m asking them now to being more active in promoting the campus and taking part in the organisation of events like the leadership series, public lecture and relationship building.
Linley’s personal philosophy of embracing the new has brought her to the Singaporean Lion’s den, and there’s no stopping her now. To me, Linley embodies the entrepreneurial and socially conscious spirit that John Curtin, the Universities’ naming patron, inspired.
‘I say yes to every invitation’, she laughs. ‘Because then, I find myself in different conversations and learn more about the context. I could get insular if I weren’t open to the experience.’
‘I subscribe to social Singapore magazines for exhibitions, restaurants and events like The Lights Water Fest or the Light the Night at the Gallery.’
Located just north of the equator, Singapore has a tropical climate and stays hot and humid throughout the year. ‘The Wetlands near the border of Malaysia are still on my sightseeing list.’
Linley has relocated to Singapore with her husband. Her two adult kids remain in Australia. She takes great pleasure in describing her retired husband’s activities as ‘the secret man’s business’. He is a member of an ex-pat group comprising of the ‘male trailing spouses’ who reside in Singapore because of their wife’s careers.
Linley’s top tip for relocating: ‘When you live somewhere new, bring more effort.’
‘I needed to discover friends, the environment and being open to connecting and exploration; to the ‘not knowing’. It’s very easy to fall into the familiar and be comfortable with what you did before. Hence, I just try something new and commit to doing it at least once.’
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How does recycling work in your city? A look at the five largest in Alabama
How Alabama's 5 largest cities handle recycling
By Dennis Pillion | dpillion@al.com
While Alabama as a state is markedly better at recycling than it was a decade ago, the state’s five largest cities are each addressing recycling in very different ways. Three of those five cities are planning changes to their recycling programs in 2019.
Birmingham lags behind
Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama by population, but that doesn’t translate to how much recycling it generates. Birmingham even trails much smaller cities within its own metro area.
According to figures provided by Birmingham Recycling and Recovery, a private business that collects, bales and sells recyclables from 25 municipalities in the Birmingham area, Hoover is the top recycler in the Birmingham metro area over the past seven years, generating almost twice as much volume as the Magic City.
Hoover has sent 21,981 tons of recyclables to BRR since 2012, the company said, compared to 11,650 for Birmingham. Vestavia Hills is third, followed by Mountain Brook, Homewood and Alabaster.
Hoover’s 2017 population was 84,820, less than half of Birmingham’s 210,710. Yet, it’s not an apples-to-apples comparison. Birmingham has far more multi-family housing developments which do not feature curbside recycling.
Still, outside observers say the city does not do much to publicize the availability of recycling throughout the city or encourage residents to participate.
Birmingham’s latest proposed city budget included $300,000 to boost recycling efforts in the city, but the city did not provide details about those plans to AL.com by publication time.
Montgomery sorts it for you
As we reported yesterday, the city of Montgomery simply takes everything. The city is trying a new model for waste management by sending all the city’s household waste collections to a central facility, where machines and people sort through it all, pulling out the recyclables as well as non-recyclable paper and plastics that it uses to make a fuel product.
The facility, operated by RePower South, just began accepting trash in February and hasn’t yet had to file semi-annual volume reports to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, but says it processes about 1,200 tons of total material a week from Montgomery, recycling around 30 percent of that amount and using roughly another 30 percent to make fuel.
If it works, Montgomery would immediately shoot up the ranks of Alabama cities in recycling totals.
Montgomery bets on 'magic garbage machine'
Montgomery has reopened its recycling center, which pulls recyclables from household garbage, after a four-year hiatus.
However, the concept of sorting through all the city’s garbage to mine out usable material is hardly a proven technique. The last company that tried that method in Montgomery went bankrupt, leaving the city on the hook for $31 million in loans it had guaranteed and will now be paying off for years.
RePower believes its fuel product is the trump card that will help them make up the revenue the previous owners couldn’t. The rest of the recycling world is waiting and watching to see if they can pull it off.
Huntsville rolls out bigger bins
Like Montgomery and Birmingham, Huntsville is also looking to revamp its recycling program in 2019.
The Huntsville Solid Waste Disposal Authority announced on June 7 that its 18-gallon bins will be replaced with 95-gallon rolling carts with lids, but that the recyclables will only be collected once a month, on a schedule that will be posted on the SWDA web site.
The larger roll-carts will prevent material from blowing out of the open-topped blue bins and will allow the SWDA to use automated trucks to collect the cans instead of having workers grab and empty each individual bin.
SWDA executive director Doc Holladay said the changes to the program will allow SWDA to offer curbside recycling to all 126,000 households in the SWDA service area, which includes Huntsville, Madison and Madison County. Currently, the SWDA can only collect recycling from about 105,000 households, with the rest being too rural and spread out to make weekly collections economical.
There is no charge for the new service, but residents will have to sign up and request a recycling cart.
“Right now we're going up and down streets that, even if there hasn't been a bin put out there in 20 years, we still go down the street because potentially someone could,” Holladay said. “Under this scenario, we'll know where those containers are, where people want to recycle and we'll just go there.”
The changes will take effect on August 1. SWDA encourages users to sign up for carts by June 28 to receive their carts before that time.
In order to participate in the program and get a rolling recycling cart, residents must sign up at www.recycling-alliance.com or call 256-801-CART (2278).
In addition to the recycling program, the SWDA has operated a waste to energy plant on Triana Boulevard in Huntsville since 1990. The plant runs 24-7, burning up to 690 tons of solid waste a day to generate steam for Redstone Arsenal, greatly decreasing the amount of trash that gets sent to Huntsville’s landfills.
Tuscaloosa keeps it clean with curb sorting
The city of Tuscaloosa’s recycling center is missing one ingredient from most similar facilities -- that garbage smell.
Tuscaloosa, the fifth largest city in Alabama, offers one of the few remaining curbside recycling programs where collectors sort the material right there at the curbside, dividing all the plastics, papers and metals into different bins as it’s loaded onto the trucks.
It’s a labor-intensive process, one that most cities abandoned over cost concerns, but there are advantages. First, collectors can immediately identify material that doesn’t belong and leave it in the curbside bin (along with a cheerful pink sticky note clarifying why the materials weren’t taken). The material to be recycled is cleaner, less contaminated and smells better.
Ashley Chambers, environmental educator for the city, runs the Tuscaloosa recycling program and is president of the Alabama Recycling Coalition, a non-profit group devoted to advancing recycling initiatives in the state.
Chambers said that by keeping materials cleaner, the city can sell its products -- especially paper -- for better prices on the markets and that buyers know material coming from their facility will be top quality.
Tuscaloosa does not accept glass in the curbside bins. But the city does take it at drop-off centers and has arranged collections directly with the University of Alabama and a handful of bars in town. The city runs a glass pulverizer that turns the old glass bottles into rubble that can be used as fill material by the city’s maintenance and landscaping crews.
Mobile relies on private curbside recycling
Mobile is the largest city in Alabama that does not offer municipal curbside recycling.
While the city doesn’t send trucks around to collect recycling, Mobile-area residents can pay for their own recycling collections through a private company called Earth Resources, which offers curbside collection throughout the city of Mobile and some areas of Mobile County for $20 per month.
Earth Resources also uses curb sort to keep the material cleaner, and it allows them to take problem items such as glass, all numbered plastics Number 1-7, and plastic shopping bags. Most municipal recycling programs in Alabama don’t take glass and many only accept No. 1 and 2 plastics.
“I think there are a lot of benefits to sorting at the curb,” Earth Resources owner Braxton Kittrell said. “We can do things like take take plastic bags that single stream can't, because it tangles the equipment, and there’s just less contamination.”
Kittrell said Earth Resources has between 900-1000 residential customers in Mobile, and around 100 business customers.
The city of Mobile and Mobile County do have drop-off recycling centers where residents can take recyclable materials without paying the $20 per month fee.
Other coastal Alabama towns, such as Daphne, Fairhope, and Gulf Shores do offer curbside recycling, and there are several recycling drop-off centers in Baldwin County.
Do you have questions about recycling?
Is there something you’re curious about when it comes to recycling in your community or in Alabama? Like, “Where does it go after I set it on the curb?” Or even a skeptical, “Don’t recyclables all just end up in the same place my trash goes?”
If so, submit them in the form below, and we may write a story answering your question.
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9 Orgasm Myths You Need to Stop Believing
By Sophie Saint Thomas
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Most men have figured out by now that women don’t pee out of their vaginas, right? Phew. Unfortunately, likely due in part to the sad state of sex education in America, there are myths about sex — and especially about orgasms experienced by female-bodied people — that just won’t die. I’m almost 30 and still encounter straight men who shame female-bodied people for needing a vibrator to get off during penetrative sex. (Don’t go home with such people if you can help it, because they are assholes.) Now, let’s debunk a few virulent orgasm myths, because, like a good vibrator, knowledge is powerful.
1. Everyone should be able to orgasm from penetration alone.
Let’s finally put an end to this nonsense. Orgasm from vaginal penetration without direct clitoral stimulation is estimated to elude some 75 percent of female-bodied people, and it has nothing to do with how good the sex is. It’s about the distance between the vaginal opening and the clitoris, says Amanda Luterman, a licensed psychotherapist specializing in sexuality. The closer your clit is to your vagina, the more likely penetrative sex is to make you come. If you need to rub your clit or use a vibrator to get off during partnered sex, there’s nothing wrong with you or your partner. It’s just anatomy.
2. Squirting isn't real.
My stained bedsheets are here to tell you that squirting is, in fact, very real. But don’t expect it to look like it does in porn. What you see in those gushing videos is pure performance and often the product of water packets inserted into the vagina pre-shoot, says Holly Richmond, a somatic psychologist and certified sex therapist.
Researchers still don’t quite understand or agree on what the fluid released during squirting is. (Could the female orgasm not be a top scientific priority? Color me shocked.) Some insist it’s simply urine; Luterman and other sex experts consider it its own beast, saying it contains prostate hormones similar to those found in semen. Either way, it's a thing.
And while we're on the subject, just because some people with vaginas can squirt doesn't mean there’s anything wrong with you if you can't. On the flip side, soaking the bed or your partner when you come is nothing to be ashamed of. If you're a squirter, I suggest you celebrate the release — and that your partner does the same.
3. Masturbation ruins your orgasms with a partner.
Masturbation does not mess up your chances of coming during partnered sex. In fact, the opposite is true: Touching yourself and exploring your body is the best way to learn what sort of stimulation gets you off. Then, when you share your self-knowledge with your partner, they too can bring you to orgasm. “The more orgasms you have, the better you’re going to know how to get there, the more you’re going to want them, and the more you understand yourself,” Dr. Richmond says.
However, she does acknowledge that some vibrators, such as the Hitachi Magic Wand, are extremely powerful, and their efficiency can distract you from all of the other wonderful ways there are to come. If you consistently masturbate the same way with the same toy, try switching it up — for example, using just your hands for a night — to diversify your orgasms and stay in touch with a fuller range of your turn-ons.
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4. Good sex means you had an orgasm.
Think back to the best sex you ever had. What made it so great?
While an explosive climax might be on the list, it's probably not the only thing. Foreplay, setting, your connection with your partner, and more play a role in determining how you feel about a hookup. Studies suggest that while likelihood of orgasm certainly impacts sexual satisfaction, variables such as communication and conflict with your partner are also hugely important. Other research shows your sexual self-esteem, or your confidence in getting intimate, has a lot to do with how much you enjoy a sexual encounter. Yes, your orgasm should be considered just as important as your partner's. But having an orgasm doesn't mean you had great sex, and great sex doesn't require an orgasm.
5. Women can’t get blue balls.
Blue walls, pink balls, or just an annoyingly throbbing clit: Whatever you want to call it, people with vaginas can and do experience discomfort from unresolved sexual stimulation, Luterman says. So do those with testicles, but they do not get ownership over the sometimes-agonizing feeling of unfulfilled orgasm. Arousal sends blood to the genitals, which can then swell and ache no matter what they look like.
6. You should be having multiple orgasms when you have sex.
Male-bodied people typically require a "refractory period" after orgasm before they can come again. Some female-bodied people, on the other hand, can stay at a heightened level of arousal after orgasm and experience a second (or third or fourth) in rapid succession.
Research suggests, though, that only about 15 percent of female-bodied have experienced multiple orgasms. It’s totally awesome that some people are capable of having them. What’s not awesome is feeling down if you aren't, because statistically speaking, it’s just not in the cards.
7. It's worth it to fake orgasms to make your partner feel good.
Please, please do not fake orgasms. Anyone who has faked it must take some responsibility for the phenomenon of straight cis men expecting a few thrusts in missionary will make women see god. Every time some dude says, "My ex used to come all the time from that" — "that" being penetrative sex free of clit stimulation — I want to shout that she probably faked it. Then I curse her, and then I feel bad for cursing a woman who was simply taught to believe her partner's sexual confidence was more important than her own pleasure.
So let’s just stop faking orgasms. Luterman says she teaches the couples she counsels to consider faking orgasms a form of lying. You are neglecting your own sexual satisfaction when you fake it, plus misleading your partner about their role in that satisfaction. (Think about how hurt they'll be if they eventually find out.)
8. Everyone has orgasms.
If you can't or don't orgasm, you are no less a beautiful goddess capable of a hot, healthy, full sex life. Some 10 to 15 percent of female-bodied people experience anorgasmia, or the inability to come. Anorgasmia may be caused by medication such as antidepressants, a history of trauma, or, frustratingly, for reasons unknown.
It’s a bummer, but having it doesn’t mean you won’t at some point have an orgasm or that you can’t enjoy sex. Some people can’t get off; some people can only get off with a vibrator or from sitting on cakes. We all have our own individual quirks, preferences, and abilities in the bedroom, and that's more than okay. As long as the sex you’re having is consensual and safe, you’re doing it right.
9. Sex is over when the partner with a penis comes.
Hell no. Sex is over when all parties are satisfied and ready to call it quits. If the yoga instructor I’m having sex with has already finished, he is absolutely going to rub my clit or go down on me until I’ve come, too, because guess what? My pleasure matters just as much as his. (Life tip: Have sex with a yoga instructor at least once — they’re flexible and great with instructions.)
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Sociology courses, as designated by the three-letter prefix SOC, are offered through the Sociology and Anthropology Department.
Sociology Major Requirements
Thirty-six credits which must include:
Core: SOC-101, 301, and 302.
Two concentrations, with eight credits in each area (a total of 16-credits):
Self and Society: SOC-224, 234, 236, or 243
Social Structure and Inequality: SOC-141, 225, 226, 229, or 341
Social Institutions: SOC-220 or 353
Eight credits of SOC electives. No more than four credits of approved SOC-180 may count towards the major.
Required Cognate Course: ANT-111
The senior comprehensive evaluation for the major is the successful completion of the Major Field Test in Sociology.
Department Honors: Successful completion of SOC-500 and a minimum of 3.5 GPA in Sociology.
Sociology Minor Requirements
Twenty-four credits of Sociology; which must include SOC-101.
In total, only 4 credits from SOC and ANT may count toward the Distributive Requirements in the Social Sciences; practicum and independent study courses do not count.
Principles of Sociology
Identify sociology as a tool to widen perspective and understanding, employ basic sociological concepts in the observance of social behavior, and identify the basic social institutions and their functions. Prerequisite for all other SOC courses.
Examination, evaluation and discussion of contemporary social problems providing theoretical orientations and analytical skills to understand their complexities and ramifications. For example: poverty, health issues, crime and ways of dealing with crime.
Topics in Sociology
Investigation of a selected topic. May be taken only once for credit toward the ANT major.
Sociology of Family
Prerequisite: SOC-101
Examines how family life is structured by broader social, political, and economic changes. Analysis organized historically around clan, lineage, nuclear and post-nuclear family structures. Contemporary family problems also studied. Fall Term.
Women, Work, and Calling
Examines the concepts of work, vocation, and calling as they apply to the lives of women, from a sociological perspective. Students are encouraged to apply insights from this course to their own vocational journeys.
Conflict and Class
Examination of class and its consequences. Topics may include ideology, the middle class, social movements, and social order (e.g., war and peace). Class intersects with gender and race issues. Cross-cultural settings will be examined.
Uses socio-historical and cultural awareness to investigate connections between the history of Jim Crow, courtroom relationships, spaces of incarceration, race, family, and community.
Population dynamics mirror plate tectonics - they move slowly, but are very powerful. They influence societies and individuals and are international in scope. One need understand them to better view social problems.
Aging and Health Institutions
Examines key concepts, main theories, and important substantive issues related to aging and health institutions from a sociological perspective. Among the central issues explored are gender and racial inequality in aging, as well as social institutions connected to aging and public policy.
Prerequisite: SOC-101 and PSY-121 or Permission.
Exploration of the intersection of sociology and psychology via such topics as social influence, social cognition, self, and attitudes as they impact areas such as intergroup relations, pro-social behavior, and aggression. Cross-cultural comparisons are made.
Social Deviance
Examination, evaluation and discussion of major theories and approaches to deviance, forms of deviance, their institutional relationships, as well as implications for individuals and applications of concepts to “real world” events.
Examines special subjects in Sociology.
Methods of Social Research
Prerequisite: 12 credits from SOC
Fundamentals of basic principles, logic, and procedures of social research. Examines survey, unobtrusive, and qualitative methodologies as well as research ethics and policy.
Sociological Theory
Exploration of sociology’s theoretical foundations up to developments in the mid-1900s and their implications for social order, human agency, perceptions of social problems, and policy.
Race and Ethnic Relations
Prerequisite: SOC-101 or SOC-141
Examines racism in American society; dominant-subordinate group relations with particular emphasis on African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and White Ethnics; political, economic, social and cultural consequences.
Sociology of Gender
Explores the social construction of gender and the myriad ways gender influences individuals, interpersonal relationships, popular culture, sexuality, race, social class, the life course, and social institutions such as work and family.
Sociology Practicum
Prerequisite: Permission.
Participation in community institutions, agencies, schools, and business with individual faculty supervision. Applications of concepts through experience. About 11-14 hours of field work per week for each four credits. Includes paper report.
SOC Independent Study
Sociology Independent Study
Supervised reading or project in special area of sociology.
Sociology-Senior Thesis
Designed for senior Sociology majors with the consent of the Department. Program of empirical and theoretical research.
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Home Biography Franco Pepe’s Biography and Career
Franco Pepe’s Biography and Career
Stefanel Beerman
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The most famous pizza maker in the world is Franco Pepe, and he is a living legend. Anyone who ate his pizza confirms that the pizza he makes is the best pizza in the world. That’s simply something that you need to try by yourself and you will know why’s that the best pizza in the world.
If you want to know more about Franco and his pizza places, keep reading this article.
Franco Pepe’s Early Life
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Franco Pepe was born in the city of Caiazzo in western Italy. He was born to a family of bakers, so he learned everything that he knows from the best. He grew up in a bakery and he watched his father Stefano work with dough and he learned everything that he could from his father. He learned to make everything the old school way and later he found a way to incorporate old school techniques with modern ones, and to make a delicious pizza in a new style.
Franco Pepe’s Career
Franco is now the most famous pizza maker in the world, and everyone knows about him and his pizza. Once he took over the business he added a special touch to everything, he started experimenting and implementing modern stuff to traditional pizza. Something really special about Pepe’s pizza is the super-soft texture resulting from the high moisture content of the dough.
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The first bakery in the Franco family was opened by Franco’s grandfather Ciccio in a small city of Caiazzo, Caserta in 1931. That year no one could imagine that one day everything will evolve to be the best pizza place in the world.
Franco’s first restaurant was opened in Grani in 2005, and it was just around the corner from his grandfather’s bakery. This area wasn’t very popular for its food, but Franco changed that. Soon the area became famous for its pizza, food, artisanal products and especially for its olive oil. And everything that Franco uses in his restaurant comes from local suppliers, the olive oil, mozzarella, pork, and everything else. His restaurant in Grani in Caiazzo, Italy, was ranked one in the 50 Top Pizza Awards in 2018.
But that wasn’t the only award that he got, and that is not the only restaurant that Franco has. He recently opened a place in Central, Hong Kong.
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Francos’s Most Famous Pizza
The most famous pizza is Franco’s Margherita Sbagliata, or simply “Wrong Margherita”, and this pizza was named the Best Pizza in the World from 2016 to 2018.
But that isn’t Franco’s favorite pizza, his favorite pizza is calzone Scarola riccia, it’s a calzone with curly endive, and he likes to eat it with a glass of Lambrusco.
Franco is a special person in the culinary world and the world of pizza because he was the first who dared to step back from the traditional ways and methods that were set out in Naples. He found the inspiration in the old ways but he also incorporated new things and he managed to make the best pizza in the world.
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[Exclusive] Behold The Leaked Press Renders Of LG's Nexus 5X In White, Black, And Greenish Blue
10:01am PDT Sep 23, 2015
Nexus Devices
We've already gotten a good look at the Huawei-built Nexus 6P, but what of its smaller sibling, the repeatedly leaked Nexus 5X from LG? We've got a full image of that one too. It's definitely the more attractive of this year's two Nexus phones, but at least you've got a choice this time—we usually only have one.
Like the 6P, the front is very plain. Although, the bezels of the 5X don't look quite as symmetrical as the 6P. There are two grilles on the front, presumably for front-facing speakers. On the back is a fingerprint sensor, and directly above that the camera lens. There's a slight bump around the camera, but it's less jarring than the black bar on the 6P.
The 5X is expected to have a 5.2-inch 1080p screen and a Snapdragon 808 chip. It should also make the jump to the new USB Type-C standard. The Amazon leak from earlier listed a weight of 177g, which seems too heavy for a 5.2-inch screen device. That's heavier than the Note 5. I'd bet on that being a mistake. We're also still not sure about the RAM as we heard of 3GB, but both Amazon and this Geekbench benchmark (which could be fake) list 2GB. The Amazon listing also cited three colors—charcoal black, ice blue, and quartz white.
Speaking of the colors:
So, black and white are pretty standard for phones, but what about this "ice blue" thing? In the image above it looks almost green. We are assured, though, this is a light blue phone. It's hard to judge how something like that will look until you see it in person.
We can also see the entire back panel of the white phone in this image, revealing once again the laser autofocus window. It's just a few days until the official unveiling, so hopefully we'll get a closer look at this Nexus phone soon.
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Samsung ditches microSD card slot for Galaxy S21 series
First the headphone jack, now this
Samsung's new Galaxy S21 series is finally official, and most of the attention is on the new features: updated cameras, more consistent 120Hz, S Pen support on the Ultra, and so on. However, there is one detail that slipped under the radar. The Galaxy S21 series marks the end of microSD card support, a selling point since the original Galaxy S (though that phone used full-size SD cards).
AKG N700NC M2 noise-cancelling headphones are $100 on Woot today
It's hard to beat this price for a set of ANC cans from a reputable brand
Here's a deal for those in the market for Bluetooth headphones with active noise-cancelling, but don't want to pay $300 and up: Woot is currently offering a pair of AKG N700NC M2s for $99.99, which is $200 off MSRP and $27-62 off street price.
The Samsung Galaxy SmartTag helps you find your misplaced keys, wallet, and more
It only fully functions with Galaxy smartphones or tablets
Samsung hasn't only announced the S21 series and the Galaxy Buds Pro at Unpacked today, it also took the time to introduce the Galaxy SmartTag. It's a concept that should feel familiar if you've ever heard of Tile. Like the products from the hugely successful competitor, the Galaxy SmartTag will help you find misplaced items via Bluetooth Low Energy. It also has a button that lets you activate a pre-defined smart home routine. It's controlled via the new SmartThings Find service.
Google wants to turn YouTube into a shopping site
The company is testing the ability to buy items from videos
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Officially in testing
YouTube already makes money through advertisements, YouTube Premium (to get rid of said advertisements), and memberships to specific channels. It looks like the company might be preparing to add general shopping functionality to the list, according to an announcement in YouTube's test features and experiments hub.
Samsung has a new rugged tablet with an S Pen and removable battery
The Galaxy Buds Pro are Samsung's challenge to AirPods Pro
Sadly not bean shaped, but maybe the ANC will work better this time
Samsung's recent forays into the true wireless earbud market have been surprisingly decent, with the Galaxy Buds and Buds+ among our favorites and even the leguminous Buds Live sounded pretty good despite their strange open fit. The latest iteration marks a return to more traditional earbuds, with a brand-new design and active noise cancelation on board.
Samsung announces the Galaxy S21 series with (slightly) more humble prices
Starting at a more palatable $800
After all the usual leaks and rumors leading up to today's livestreamed Unpacked event, Samsung finally officially took the wraps off its Galaxy S21 lineup. There were few surprises left for TM Koh and co to reveal as the three phones were introduced alongside the Korean company's latest attempt at true wireless earbuds, the Galaxy Buds Pro.
OnePlus 9 Lite might only be sold in two countries
The last-gen Snapdragon 865 is said to fuel the rumored Lite model
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We’ve time and again heard that OnePlus is working on a "lite" model to accompany its main flagship line. Last year's rumored 8 Lite ended up launching as the Nord, but the company hasn't given up on the idea. It seems to be trying its hand at a proper Lite phone, likely as part of its main flagship line, as a new report suggests that the OnePlus 9 Lite is indeed on the way... but only for two countries in Asia.
Watch the Samsung Galaxy S21 event here
We've unpacked the livestream link for you
After a million leaks and rumors, the Galaxy S21 is about to be officially announced today at Samsung's first Unpacked event of 2021. The annual Galaxy S series affair, which usually takes place in February, has been brought forward a whole month this time around, likely because 2020 felt a lot longer than one single year and people need something to get excited about — or for some boring financial reason. Regardless, Unpacked in happening in less than 90 minutes and we've got the deets on when and how to watch it right here.
Dragon Quest Tact is the latest gacha game from Square Enix, coming January 27
Square sure knows how to bleed its properties dry
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Dragon Quest Tact is coming to Android on January 27th
Square Enix has announced that its free-to-play collection-based tactical RPG Dragon Quest Tact will be coming to the West on both Android and iOS. Back in February (2020), Square announced the game for Japan, and it would appear it was launched in July (2020) and has already racked up 500,000 installs. I suppose this success is the reason the game will soon come to new territories. While the English version isn't slated for a release until 2021, it's already available for pre-registration on the Google Play Store.
Samsung's first product with an under-display camera may not be a phone
It may be a laptop with an OLED display
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Display bezels, be it on smartphones, laptops, or televisions, have drastically reduced in the last few years. But a key problem with reducing bezels, especially in the case of smartphones and laptops, is figuring out where or how to place the front-facing camera. The most novel way to do so is by placing it under the display, and Samsung has showcased just this in its latest teaser.
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App Timer
Digital Wellbeing switches apps to grayscale before they time out
Going once, going twice, gone
We've seen a lot of changes to Digital Welbeing ever since it first launched, nearly two years ago, but the feature's main goal has stayed to same: to make it easy for you to curb your app and smartphone usage. The latest change in the app, even though minimal, follows those footsteps. It turns apps into grayscale when there's less than a minute left on their daily timer.
Android Q's Recents screen highlights apps that are about to be paused by Digital Wellbeing
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Changes are afoot with Digital Wellbeing. In the past few weeks, we've seen Google confirm that the service doesn't affect the performance of Pixel devices, but more importantly, we've also spotted a new day selector for Wind Down mode and a pause button integrated in the launcher's app shortcuts and Recents. It's this latter aspect that has been improved further in Android Q Beta 4. Now, the app switcher will tell you when an app you've been using is about to be paused by Digital Wellbeing.
Digital Wellbeing lets you pause apps on-demand, straight from the launcher [APK Download]
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Not a lot has changed with Digital Wellbeing since its official release in November of last year, but we know big things are on the horizon for Google's built-in digital nanny. While the added Parental Controls and per-app grayscale settings aren't live yet, and likely won't be for a few more months, there's one significant addition in the latest Digital Wellbeing update. It's now integrated in the Pixel Launcher and provides an instant pause control for apps.
Digital Wellbeing goes into public beta on the Play Store
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Android Pie is ready to look after your digital health, but only if you let it. The suite of features that were announced as part of Digital Wellbeing at I/O 2018 finally came to life when Pie 9.0 was released earlier this week, but you had to sign up for them, wait for an email, and then join the beta to get them on your device. Now, the process is much faster.
Android Dashboard, App Timer, Wind Down, and new Do Not Disturb features will help look after your digital wellbeing
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You would think that Google wants you on your phone as much as possible. That's where it can sell you ads and services in order to make money — that's its bread and butter. Yet Google CEO Sundar Pichai made a surprising announcement at Google I/O today. Upcoming new features in Android are going to help you get away from your phone and spend more time by yourself or with your family.
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Grand Declaration of War
Mayhem – Grand Declaration of War Remixed and Remastered Review
By Diabolus in Muzaka on November 29, 2018 in 2018, Black Metal, Norwegian Metal, Reviews, Season of Mist, Black Metal, 78 comments
“It’s odd being given the task of “reviewing” a record that, if it were a person, would be in the age of majority. Mayhem’s Grand Declaration of War has remained a controversial record for arguably black metal’s most controversial band, and this remixed and remastered version is unlikely to change anyone’s mind on the contents. These contents were ably highlighted by Angry Metal Guy himself, and while him and I disagree on a lot, we agree on the merits of this record.” Grand remastering?
Mayhem – Esoteric Warfare Review
By Grymm on June 8, 2014 in 2014, Black Metal, Norwegian Metal, Reviews, Season of Mist, 7 comments
“I’m sure you are looking at the title of the review and my name being attached to it, and getting all sorts of nervous and anxious. Well, don’t be. We all know that Mayhem is one of the most influential black metal bands around, but we also know that their name is synonymous with both divisiveness within the fanbase and severe fluctuations in quality.” After his scandalous bashing of De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, we just knew Grymm was the man to review this.
Angry Metal Guy’s Indefensible Positions: Mayhem – Grand Declaration of War
By Angry Metal Guy on July 31, 2012 in Blog Posts, Indefensible Positions, Black Metal, 13 comments
Every once in a while the metal scene collectively pisses on a band or record and someone needs to step up and defend why they like it. I normally don’t spend a lot of time defending shitty records, but sometimes genuinely interesting or good records get lampooned by an overly conservative heavy metal scene. And that calls for a professional contrarian to defend it! If ever there ever a professional contrarian, it would be me. So here I am to re-hash a record from my past that I still love that everyone else seems to have soured on (or never liked in the first place).
Demonic Resurrection – The Return to Darkness Review
By Angry Metal Guy on August 3, 2010 in 2010, 3.0, Black Metal, Candlelight, Reviews, 5 comments
As world metal takes the stage, something that is happening more and more frequently these days, we’re going to be seeing more of these bands coming from places where metal just hasn’t ever shown its face earlier. Demonic Resurrection, as those of you familiar with Sam Dunn’s documentary Global Metal already know, are a band from India who play symphonic black metal. The third record in a trilogy The Return to Darkness is being released (as I understand it) as the band’s first international release via Candlelight Records. That Sam Dunn is a rockstar creating machine, it turns out. Though, when it comes to Demonic Resurrection, their music speaks for itself and if you give that music a stage that myriads of metalheads have access to, it’s not hard to see how they managed to break beyond their borders.
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What is it about Smithville?
An interview with Beth Wiseman,
author of The House that Love Built
Award-winning author Beth Wiseman has hit the best-sellers lists with each and every one of her books, and her latest, The House that Love Built (Thomas Nelson / April 2, 2013 / ISBN 978-1595548894 / $15.99), is sure to follow. In the interview below, Wiseman shares more about the story behind her newest release.
Q: Is there one particular message or “moral of the story” you hope readers walk away with?
I hope that Brooke, Owen and the rest of the gang will stay on readers’ hearts for a long time, that readers will reflect on the very different ways that the characters handled the events in their lives. And in turn, hopefully the story will inspire people to turn to God in both the good times and the bad.
Q: Forgiveness of self and others is one of the themes that runs through The House That Love Built. Why do you think it is so hard for us to forgive ourselves and let go at times?
People often say we are only hurting ourselves when we can’t forgive someone. That holds true when we can’t forgive ourselves, too. God forgives us . . . and so easily. Yet, we beat ourselves (and others) into the ground over the burdens of our past. I personally have trouble forgiving myself, so that ends up in my books a lot.
Q: Both of your lead characters have “baggage” that keeps them from wanting to pursue a new relationship. Do you think sometimes we let our past get in the way of what God has planned for our futures?
Carrying our burdens of the past is self-destructive, and my goal for this story was to have several of my characters shedding their burdens as they grow in their faith and put their trust in God.
Q: Even though she questioned God’s will, Brooke clung to God after her husband died. However, Owen did the opposite when his wife left. Do you think there’s any reason in particular some people have one reaction versus the other when something bad happens in their life?
I have no idea why people react so differently during a crisis, and I intentionally wanted to incorporate both sides, so to speak, into the story. The spiritual arc in this book is clearly Owen’s, so I wanted to show his struggles and how he eventually reaches out to God. But I also wanted to show that there are people who do not turn from God during a crisis—like Brooke—no matter how unfair things might seem.
Q: Has there been a time in your own life where you could really sense God was putting you in a situation for a reason?
That has happened to me many times, but I couldn’t foresee the reasoning — especially during the bad times. It has taken years to understand that much of what I have experienced was to give me a better understanding of certain situations so I could write about it and hopefully help others. I’m not sure I could have captured the hospital scene in my second novel if my own son hadn’t spent a month in the hospital. My character was fifteen, just as my son was when he was sick, so my emotions ran deep. I’ve witnessed a miracle, so I wrote about one. I’ve made mistakes I’m not proud of, and those seem to find a way into my stories, as well, painful as some of them might be. I’m adopted, so I’ve written about that. Each book I write ministers to my own soul, and I pray the stories will bring peace to my readers.
Q: The House that Love Built is set in Smithville, Texas, where several Hollywood movies have been set. You live nearby. What’s so special about Smithville?
I love writing stories set in small Texas towns, and Smithville is really quaint with friendly people who live there. The movie Hope Floats was filmed there, and the town is very welcoming to authors, film crews and the public in general. There are a lot of older homes like the one Owen purchases in my story. The “mystery” surrounding the house was inspired by a house in another small Texas town: Schulenburg.
Q: You are best known for your Amish fiction, and The House That Love Built is just your second venture outside that genre. What persuaded you to try something new?
I think it’s natural to want to spread your wings a bit when you’ve written so many novels and novellas in the same genre. For me, writing about Texas comes naturally since I live here, and I love to write about a community, as opposed to just “boy meets girl.” I like a good love story, but my secondary characters usually end up with large roles because I like to show how God puts certain people in our paths for a reason, however unlikely it might seem to us at the time.
Q: What’s on the horizon for you? What will you be writing next?
I just finished book number six in the Daughters of the Promise series, releasing in October 2013. I’ll also be doing some Amish novellas for the next couple of years. But the next full-length book I will be working on jumps way outside of the box. It will take readers far away from Amish Country and Texas to a dangerous place on the other side of the world. I can’t say too much yet, just that it is inspired by a true story and something very close to my heart.
Learn more about Beth Wiseman at bethwiseman.com and follow her on Twitter (@bethwiseman). She also hangs out at Fans of Beth Wiseman on Facebook and loves hearing from readers.
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There’s no better way to broaden your horizons than to travel. For car enthusiasts, that includes getting a crash course in other people’s automotive culture. For us, venturing outside of North America allows us to discover creations we didn't even know existed.
Those who know me can guess I wouldn’t miss the opportunity to bring back a few shots of some notable vehicles I saw during a visit to the Caribbean this past February, not long before the curtain came down on leisure travel. Here is the second of two galleries that present quite different realities.
See also: The Vehicles of the Caribbean: Turks and Caicos
See also: Viva Havana! The Classic American Cars of Cuba
Aruba and Curaçao
The islands of Aruba and Curaçao are under Dutch jurisdiction, although they are practically within swimming distance of Venezuela. During our most recent visit there, we had fun taking pictures of products that we don't find at home... with a few exceptions.
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1 - 1975 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
American cars are a rare sight in the Caribbean and the local folks we spoke to there couldn’t really explain how the ones we do see got there. The most likely answer is that they were imported by North Americans who moved there at one time. Considering that, it's quite incredible to find this 1975 Chevrolet Monte Carlo still in working order.
Photo: D.Rufiange
1975 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
2 — Toyota Opa
The Toyota Opa was produced for the Japanese market from 2000 to 2005. When we saw this car, we had the impression we were looking at an older generation of the Toyota Matrix. After a bit of online sleuthing, we realized we weren’t completely on the wrong track: In 2005, the Opa was replaced by the Toyota Voltz, which was based on the exterior of the Pontiac Vibe, which happened to be the cousin of the… Toyota Matrix.
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Mike Barber departs as leader of NEC Australia
Australian operation to become more "aligned" with global
Samira Sarraf (ARN) 08 April, 2019 15:06
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Mike Barber has vacated his role as managing director of NEC Australia, having held the position for the past year.
Barber has been with the company since 2011 when he joined as a general manager for services, holding many leadership roles including joining the board as an executive director in January 2014.
In April 2016, he stepped in as chief executive later becoming managing director in 2018. According to NEC Australia, Barber left the company on 29 March.
"Mike was a valued member and leader of the NEC Australia executive management team, and NEC APAC region over the years," a spokesperson said in a statement sent to media outlets on 8 April.
"Mike led and transformed NEC Australia to be one of the largest high technology companies in Australia. Under his leadership NEC Australia won numerous major deals with Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments. NEC thanks Mike for his leadership and contribution to NEC Australia."
The company said that following transformation changes to the business and the introduction of a new line of business model "a change in leadership approach into a new financial year was also appropriate".
Tadashi Takahama will be acting managing director as the company searches for a replacement, while also continuing in his role as chief financial officer.
NEC said that the Australian operation will "become more directly aligned with the global headquarters in Japan.
"A new approach being adopted by NEC’s operations from this month aims at it becoming an even more agile, productive and attractive company for its growing customer base globally," the company said.
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The report found that the total expenditure on the project was $34 million and none of the project’s milestones or deliverables were met.
After the report was revealed, NEC Australia said it was not the systems integrator but the contractor for the Biometric Identification Services (BIS) project.
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Before joining Arnold & Itkin, Joseph worked for a small Mobile personal injury firm. There, he gained valuable courtroom experience representing clients and their families in a wide variety of personal injury and wrongful death cases. Joseph’s practice included a focus on medical cases, where the defendants often refused to make any settlement offer before trial. This meant that Joseph learned how to win difficult cases involving complex subject matter early in his career. When he came to Arnold & Itkin, his previous experience meant he was ready to do what we’re known for: fight for the results that clients deserve, no matter how difficult the challenge.
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Tropical Plant Genetic Resources and Disease Research: Hilo, HI
ARS Home » Pacific West Area » Hilo, Hawaii » Daniel K. Inouye U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center » Tropical Plant Genetic Resources and Disease Research » Research » Research Project #434299
Matsumoto Brower, Tracie
Keith, Lisa
Wall, Marisa
Research Project: Management, Characterization, and Evaluation of Pacific Tropical and Subtropical Fruit and Nut Genetic Resources and Associated Information
Location: Tropical Plant Genetic Resources and Disease Research
Project Number: 2040-21000-016-00-D
Project Type: In-House Appropriated
Start Date: Mar 1, 2018
End Date: Feb 28, 2023
The long-term objective of this project is to provide high quality management and curatorial care of the NPGS tropical/subtropical crop collection at the USDA, ARS, Daniel K. Inouye U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center (PBARC), Tropical Plant Genetic Resource and Disease Research Unit (TPGRDRU), Hilo, Hawaii. The Hilo repository is physically located on the University of Hawaii, Waiakea Experiment Research Station. Emphasis will be placed on evaluation of the local collection to identify potential gaps and evaluate potential diseases to facilitate transportation/distribution of disease-free plant material; improvement of management practices to advance efficiency of conservation through cooperation with other ARS locations in Beltsville, Fort Collins, Mayagüez, and Miami; and documentation of universal descriptor data and best management practices for U.S. subtropical/tropical fruit and nut genetic resources. Specifically, during the next five years we will focus on the following objectives. Objective 1: Efficiently and effectively acquire Pacific tropical and subtropical fruit and nut genetic resources, maintain their safety, genetic integrity, health and viability, and distribute them and associated information worldwide. Subobjective 1A: Efficiently and effectively conserve and distribute tropical fruit genetic resources and associated information, emphasizing important crop plants and relatives of the primary crops assigned to the Hilo repository. Subobjective 1B: Implement “quarantine-safe” germplasm transfer systems to transfer and back-up the NPGS-Miami avocado and NPGS- Mayagüez cacao collections. Subobjective 1C: Develop long-term storage methods for papaya and pineapple. Objective 2: Develop more effective genetic resource maintenance, evaluation, and characterization methods and apply them to priority Pacific tropical and subtropical fruit and nut genetic resources. Record and disseminate evaluation and characterization data via GRIN-Global and other data sources. Subobjective 2A: Develop and evaluate emerging crops such as cacao, pili nut and breadfruit for increased cultivation in U.S. subtropical and tropical areas. Subobjective 2B: Improve propagation and hybridization of pili nut, breadfruit, guava and macadamia nut. Subobjective 2C: Develop genomic tools for genetic characterization of collection. Subobjective 2D: Identify, mitigate and manage emerging diseases for sub-tropical and tropical fruit and nut crops. Objective 3: With other NPGS genebanks and Crop Germplasm Committees, develop, update, document, and implement best management practices and Crop Vulnerability Statements to efficiently and effectively protect the safety, health, and genetic diversity of the U.S. tropical and subtropical fruit and nut genetic resource collections and associated information.
Subobjective 1A: 1) improve maintenance procedures for our crops to ensure that accessions are maintained as securely as possible given the resources available; 2) survey existing private and public domestic collections to determine if the germplasm they contain would make a valuable addition to the existing collection; and 3) improve distribution procedures to facilitate access to the collection. Duplication of the living collections and procedures for backup storage of seed are in place or in progress for most species. Subobjective 1B: Create back-up collections for avocado and cacao in Hilo, using a quarantine procedure that will prevent the transfer of pests. Any material found to be infected with pathogens or other pests will be destroyed immediately. Subobjective 1C: Develop protocols for long term storage of the papaya and pineapple collections by assessing the viability and longevity of material stored in liquid nitrogen. If pineapple cryopreservation is unsuccessful, the collection will continue to be maintained in both the greenhouse and tissue culture facilities at Hilo. If papaya cryopreservation does not extend the storage of papaya seeds, papaya seeds will continue to be regenerated at current frequency and stored at locally at two separate locations. Subobjective 2A: Evaluate breadfruit, cacao and pilinut accessions for fruit production and qualities. If any fruit or nut samples for evaluation can’t be collected or processed properly due to weather or other protocol failures, the evaluation will be repeated in future years. Pili nut, breadfruit, guava and macadamia nut are important crops, but basic techniques for propagating and/or hybridizing them still need to be developed. Subobjective 2B: Develop and document clonal propagation techniques for pili nut, breadfruit, and guava, and to develop a technique for making controlled crosses in macadamia. We will modify our propagation techniques in a stepwise process based on which parameters seem to be most important for successful propagation. Subobjective 2C: Develop SNP markers through collaborators for rambutan and pulasan. If markers are not successful in detecting redundancies in the collection or sequencing is sufficient to generate a reference genome, further sequencing or different molecular marker techniques will be explored. Subobjective 2D: Systematically evaluate and characterize emerging disease responses of tropical crops, to understand the host-pathogen interactions, and develop rapid methods for detection of pathogens. If insufficient information is found within our selected crops at the germplasm repository, symptomatic trees will be identified through communication with commercial nurseries, research stations, and private residences. Objective 3: We will work with other repositories, scientists and industry to development of best management practices and develop Crop Vulnerability Statements. If external (national or international) assistance is unavailable, the team will focus upon local stakeholder groups to develop locally applicable methods and statements.
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Avon Faire is New York City’s fun, female, traditional 3-part harmony singing group, featuring Andriette Redmann, Kath Green and Anna Marie Spallina; performing rousing pub songs, medieval story ballads, and sea shanties from the British Isles with percussionist John Rokosny and step dancer Dawn Daniels to keep your feet moving.
Avon Faire has 2 CD’s; debut album “Riddles and Love Songs”, and the brand new “Tales of Love and Adventure” to be released in the summer of 2019.
“Tales of Love and Adventure” features guests Cait O’Riordan of The Pogues, Cillian Vallely of Lunasa, and noted cellist Jane Scarpantoni.
2019 marks the fourth return to England for Avon Faire, as the group embarks on another a summer tour in July and August.
"We are delighted to be performing in England again, it is always a highlight of our year", says the group.
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Avon Faire performs in concert, folk and art venues, historic festivals and special events, sharing their magical vocal blend and songs with love.
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The Boulangers of Winnipeg
By Myron Love
With the help of a provincial immigration program, a French couple settles into the business of baking in Winnipeg.
On a bitterly cold mid-February day in Winnipeg, business is slow at Le Croissant. The effect of the weather on business is one of several differences that Jerome and Fabienne Boulanger (yes, a rather à propos name for bakers), the new owners of the French bakery in the city’s largely French St. Boniface district, have noticed since the recent immigrants from France acquired the 10-year-old bakery at the beginning of August.
“In Paris, we knew what to expect from day to day and week to week,” says Fabienne. “Here, it depends on the weather. If it is snowy out or very cold, then not many customers come in.”
Still, despite the learning curve in Canada, Jerome and Fabienne Boulanger are happy with their decision almost a year ago to immigrate to the country.
Jerome is originally from Alsace in the northeast of France while Fabienne is from Brittany in the northwest. The two met in Paris, where they had lived and worked for 10 years. Jerome was a pastry chef in a restaurant and also worked in a bakery. Fabienne worked in a hotel and in a chocolaterie. For Jerome in particular, coming to Canada – with its wide open spaces – was the realization of a long held dream.
The couple is one of five young families (Jerome and Fabienne have a one-year-old child) who were recruited from Alsace under Manitoba’s Provincial Nominee Program.
The Provincial Nominee Program was initiated about 10 years ago at the behest of Winnipeg’s garment manufacturers, who were desperately in need of foreign workers at the time. (Within the last few years, most of the industry’s production has shifted to the Orient.) The problem was that immigration numbers were determined in Ottawa and based mainly on the needs of major centres such as Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. That focus generally left provinces like Manitoba short-changed when it came to immigrants. Under the Provincial Nominee program, Manitoba is allowed to bypass Ottawa and directly recruit (up to a certain number) the kind of immigrants the province needs. The Boulangers responded to an ad in an Alsatian newspaper seeking more French-speaking immigrant entrepreneurs. The ad was placed by the Economic Development Council for Manitoba Bilingial Municipalities (CDEM). CDEM helps the new entrepreneurs get settled and adjust to cultural differences.
“We came for visits twice before we decided to move here,” Fabienne says. “The officials here helped with our paperwork to speed up the process.”
The Boulangers started operating Le Croissant on August 3 and noticed a difference in Canadian versus French buying habits almost immediately. In France, customers visit their local boulangerie every day to pick up a fresh baguettes. In Manitioba, Jerome says his customers visit the bakery one to two times a week, buy a lot of bread and freeze it.
“In France, we had customers who would come in every morning to buy their chocolate croissant for breakfast,” he says. “Here, they don’t come in as often.”
Because of the differences in purchasing habits, the Boulangers, who make their products fresh daily, find it difficult to gauge exactly how much (or how little) to make.
“There have been days when we are sold out and other days when we have quite a bit left over,” says Fabienne. “We are trying to encourage customers to phone in their orders ahead of time.”
Another challenge the couple has encountered in operating a French bakery in Winnipeg is sourcing ingredients – the bakery ends up importing most of its supplies from Quebec.
“We’ve had to adapt some of our recipes,” says Jerome.
Exactly what recipes does Le Croissant whip up? Naturally, there’s the traditional French baguette. Other breads include walnut, bacon, pumpkin, flax and butter bread. The bakery also carries a large array of pâtés tourtières, cheese, and pastries. Le Croissant continues to sell a line of jams leftover from the bakery’s previous owner, although once those are sold out, Jerome will make his own jams.
Besides making bread to sell on-site, Le Croissant also sells bread and a few other products to local restaurants and grocery stores. And the bakery features a 20-seat restaurant that caters to the lunch crowd. The restaurant menu features soups, salads, quiches, tourtières, and other traditional French fare.
“We haven’t really publicized the restaurant,” Fabienne says. “Business has been growing by word of mouth. The biggest problem we have is finding bilingual staff.”
But despite the challenges of adapting to a new home and a new business (and despite a cold winter), the Boulangers are content to call Winnipeg home.
“People have been warm and friendly and very helpful,” Fabienne says. “We have appreciated the support.”
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Living (stained) and dead foraminifera from the newly ice-free Larsen Ice Shelf, Weddell Sea, Antarctica: ecology and taphonomy
Within the past 7 years, the northern Larsen Ice Shelf has broken up so it is now possible to sample the sea floor that formerly lay beneath it. Box cores have yielded surface sediment samples (0-1 cm) that give information on living and dead foraminiferal assemblages. The living assemblages are of moderate diversity and four have >50% calcareous tests while five have >50% agglutinated tests. This is an area of high primary production and the standing crops of the benthic foraminiferal assemblages are high. All the dead assemblages are much enriched in agglutinated tests, often >90%. They give a time-averaged record of the past 7 ice-free years and several decades of ice cover. The loss of permanent ice cover (there is still seasonal ice cover) may have caused some response from the fauna, but it is likely that it was mainly changes in relative/absolute abundance of the existing fauna. The differences between the live and dead assemblages in the surface 1 cm are attributed mainly to taphonomic effects: dissolution of calcareous tests and loss of fragile agglutinated tests. Subsurface samples down to 5 cm show that dissolution of calcareous tests is widespread and there may be some loss of fragile agglutinated forms such as Reophax subdentaliniformis. For these reasons, in this area, it may be best to make palaeoecological interpretations on the agglutinated component of the fossil assemblages.
Authors: Murray, John W., Pudsey, Carol J.
Marine Micropaleontology / 53
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2004.04.001
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Planning for recreation upgrades
Bass Coast Shire Council is seeking feedback on draft Master Plans for Blue Gum Reserve in Cowes, Harold Hughes Reserve in Corinella, as well as a revised Master Plan for Thompson Reserve in Inverloch.
Master Plans are a long-term planning document, providing a layout to guide future growth and development.
Blue Gum Reserve provides a large open space for the community. The Reserve currently provides buildings, storage and activity areas for a number of user groups, including the Cowes CFA and SES, the Artist's Society of Phillip Island, Offshore Theatre Group, Phillip Island Croquet Club, Phillip Island Lions Club, Phillip Island and San Remo Rotary and Phillip Island Scout Group.
The Reserve is also a popular dog walking location and provides a nine hole frisbee golf course.
Through a community engagement process, the key issues and opportunities considered when developing the Master Plan included preservation of the Reserve, investigation of limited vehicle access, dog walking areas, including a fenced off area and redevelopment of the Croquet Club Pavilion to include an externally accessible toilet.
As a major recreation hub for the town, Harold Hughes Reserve is home to the Corinella Bowls Club and Corinella Community Hall, a children's playground, a public art piece, two tennis courts, a basketball ring and cricket nets.
Through a community engagement process, the key issues and opportunities considered when developing the Master Plan were the redevelopment of tennis courts to become multi-purpose, replacement of the playground, increased access and facilities for events and improved, permanent skate facilities.
Inverloch's Thompson Reserve currently has a Master Plan, which was adopted in 2016. This Master Plan has recently been reviewed, in response to recent changes at the Reserve.
Through a community engagement process, some of the key issues and opportunities considered when reviewing the Master Plan included new change facilities for the Inverloch Stars Soccer Club, new multipurpose training facilities for a variety of sports, ongoing maintenance for the BMX track and improved access for vehicles and pedestrians.
The Master Plans include both short and long term actions and are currently on public exhibition for final community feedback until Sunday, 4 August.
Visit www.basscoast.vic.gov.au/projects to view the Plans and provide your feedback by contacting Council's Recreation and Culture Team by phone on 1300 BCOAST (226 278) or (03) 5671 2211 or email active@basscoast.vic.gov.au.
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#Instaperfect: Is inequality fuelling the rise of the sexy selfie?
Pablo Uchoa
duration 4 September 2018
image captionThe humble selfie: is it vanity, gender oppression or an economic behaviour?
Just as pictures are said to be worth a thousand words - it appears there is more to the humble selfie than is on the image.
The online obsession of our times has been equated with vanity and sometimes with gender oppression. But could it also be a behaviour driven by economics?
Asma Elbadawi is a British-Sudanese visual artist who thinks modern capitalism drives women to portray themselves as desirable objects.
She recently posted a selfie on Instagram with facial drawings resembling the markings a patient is given before plastic surgery.
image copyrightAsma Elbadawi/ Instagram
Over the picture, she quoted a line from her latest poem, Shades, about "a world that creates insecurities then feeds them to its people".
Elbadawi, who is also a high-profile advocate for the empowerment of young Muslim girls, said she intended to use the language of billboards advertisements - an irony contrasting with the poem's anti-consumerist message.
"I noticed over the years that with the rise of social media and a drop in cosmetic surgery prices, women across the world have been changing their facial features to look more European as well as getting implants to extenuate their curves and chests," she told the BBC.
image captionThe advent of social media has led to the proliferation of sexualised images of both men and women, but the latter are more numerous
"I was constantly bombarded with images of 'perfect' sexy women and adverts trying to sell me slimming products and cosmetics," she says.
"Seeing this made me realise that in many ways capitalism is about creating insecurities through advertising in order to make profit from consumers - as well as making women dress and look a particular way for a male audience."
Not an object
Elbadawi's work raises an interesting question.
Decades of feminist achievements have enabled women to denounce anything that objectifies them, from anonymous catcalling to Hollywood's so-called casting-couch culture.
Yet the dissemination of social media, if anything, has meant we are more than ever bombarded with sexualised images of women seemingly happy to objectify themselves online. Why?
image captionAccording to the study a "sexy selfie" is one in which the takers were drawing attention to their physical attractiveness
Dr Khandis Blake is a psychologist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, researching what female sexualisation can tell us about societies.
She tells the BBC that selfies are often taken as a sign of gender discrimination (women are taking them because they feel the need to appear attractive to men). But her latest research has also found an economic link.
In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal, Dr Blake describes her findings after an analysis of hundreds of thousands of selfies taken in 113 countries - which were then narrowed down to 68,562 "sexy" selfies.
The phenomenon of the sexy selfie is most prevalent in educated, developed countries, she says - the very societies where female empowerment has been greater.
image captionThe study says selfies are more prevalent in societies where female empowerment has been greater
"[They are ] the very same societies that have spent decades battling the sexual objectification of women and girls - and that are currently calling a string of powerful men to account for their behaviour to women."
To explain this apparent contradiction, her team looked at gender and economic indicators in those countries.
They found that women are more likely to invest time and effort into posting sexy selfies in places where economic inequality is on the rise.
That would explain why the US, the UK and Singapore - where income gaps are widening - are among the most addicted to selfies, together with a pocket of less developed, but much more economically unequal countries, like Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.
People in development countries with lower income inequality - like Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark - took fewer "sexy" selfies.
image copyrightEPA
image captionCountries with high inequality or inequality on the rise scored higher in the selfie prevalence check
Dr Blake says these conclusions are consistent with data from the real economy.
Women in areas of high income inequality in the US spend more in beauty salons and clothing stores, for example.
Elsewhere in emerging nations such as Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, the business of beauty exploded during the noughties economic boom.
But women investing more time and money in physical appearance doesn't correlate with female subordination, Dr Blake says.
Instead, she suggests, "sexualisation may be a marker of social climbing" and female competition.
Who's in control?
image copyrightReuters
image captionKim Kardashian has cashed in on her appearance and is now worth $350m according to Forbes
It is a strategy that may suit some individuals. Kim Kardashian, the self-made reality TV star and cosmetic magnate, is now worth $350m according to Forbes. She has been called the most photographed woman in history.
Dr Blake says that looking attractive or sexy today "can generate large returns, economically, socially, and personally".
"Telling young women to stop posting sexy selfies is like asking them to forgo the pot of 'capital' youth bestows on them."
The problems arise when women are pressured into looking a certain way - the lack of choice is always disempowering, she says.
Asma Elbadawi, who also coaches, mentors and advises young girls playing basketball, worries about other effects as well.
image captionAsma Elbadawi says she fears young girls will 'never love themselves and their bodies'
She fears her pupils and their peers may never learn to "love themselves and their bodies".
"Young girls express the fear of growing muscles if they play a sport. In fact, some of their boyfriends tell them to stop playing so they don't hench (bulk) up. They feel this will make them less feminine and attractive."
It is a shame, Elbadawi says, because girls could learn a lot from an environment that is "about self-development and being in tune with your mind and body to perform at your best".
"But all these things are overlooked. Fitness instructors, fashion bloggers and make-up artists are followed in the millions because their focus is on getting the perfect bodies and looks."
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21 Reasons, Facts, Figures GYB Stands Out
COVID-19: Wealthier Countries Blocking Equitable Access To Vaccines – WHO
Nollywood Actress, Ebube Nwagbo, Loses Mother
Assistant Commissioner Of Police Jailed For Life Over Stolen Vehicle
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Muoka Urges Nigerians To Repent As PFN Tasks Govt On Lasting Solution To Insecurity
Pastor Lazarus Muoka
By Odinaka Uruakpa
The General Overseer of The Lords Chosen Charismatic Renewal Ministry, TLCCRM, Pastor Lazarus Muoka has called on Nigerians to repent and renounce their evil ways so that God will be with them, protect them and give them the grace to combat the teeming problems confronting them as individuals and as a nation.
Muoka who made this call during the church’s 2021 Mgbidi Crusade held recently in Mgbidi, Imo State with the theme, “What God has determined shall be done”, also urged the people to amend their ways and ask for Gods mercy, as they eschew insincerity, hatred and other sins that hinder them from receiving the blessings of God.
While quoting I John, chapter 3:8-9, and further calling the people to repentance so that they could get closer to God, Pastor Muoka noted that those who commit sin are of the devil.
Said he: “Repent today, renounce your evil ways, confess your sins and promise God that you will not sin again. He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The reason the son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
“Do away with insincerity, hatred, envy and other terrible sins. Ask for the mercy of God, amend your ways. Repent so that God shall be with you and nothing will happen to you. So many people because of fear will fall into the trap of the devil”.
Noting that the unrighteous cannot inherit the kingdom of God, the GO urged Christians to confess their sins, so as to prosper in the land.
He also urged Christians to accept Jesus as their Lord and saviour, so as to have the power and transformation of grace for righteousness and son ship of God.
Noted he: “You must accept Jesus as your Lord and personal savior to have the power and transformation of grace for righteousness and the son ship shall be yours.
“We shall operate in dominion and blessings the Lord will separate his people from other people so that no form of disease or pestilence will touch them; nothing to sorrow about, nothing to fear. This pandemic is not for us. All of us shall be protected. We enjoy divine protection. Protection, dominion, threading upon serpents is our portion this year”.
The GO also assured that to fulfil the church’s threefold vision and the 10billion soul mandate, all who came to the Crusade from all over the world are hopeful that the programme would bring healing, deliverance, miracles, signs and wonders in their lives.
Also speaking at the crusade, Chairman Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Imo State chapter, Bishop Titus Akanagbu called on the Federal Government to take seriously the issue of insecurity in the country.
He said that the value of human life in Nigeria has been brought down to zero, “when you go to Kaduna for instance, human beings are being killed like animals, this shows how human life is being valued, which has reduced to 200”.
Akanagbu also called on the government to do all it can to stop the spate of insurgency in the Northern part of the country.
He also appealed with the government not to make compulsory the coronavirus vaccine for Nigerians.
Said he: “The Bible says we should obey the laws of the land, however there are some controversy over this pandemic, the first time we all faced the lock down, but God was gracious to us. This time around, there is the vaccine. Certain things can be altered in human life, things like injection, as a person, you have the right to accept the injection or not to.
“Anything that has to do with ingestion into your body chemistry, or injecting anything or altering the chemistry of your body, you are qualified to say inject me or don’t inject me. The vaccine shouldn’t be made compulsory. People like members of Faith Tabernacle don’t take medicine, even Jehovah witness; a mans faith is to be respected, so we must not go behind. I believe all of us in Nigeria have been saved by God because Italy and some other nations are devastated by the pandemic.”
Also present at the Crusade Ground, former Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha who had earlier declared himself a chosen, while asking for the prayers of the General Overseer stunned the people as he promised to sponsor an 11 year old boy, Chinaraekele Winner Orisakwe whom he (Okorocha) said he had sighted and drawn to, to university level.
Said he: “My GO, God bless you. This is a little bit of testimony. As I sat there listening to your sermons and prayers, and you called Bayelsa Governor to come for prayers. Then, my eye contact met with this young boy, and I asked him come my son. He wasn’t too sure of himself, he said myself? He withdrew back. I called him; he sat with me. The ushers did not want him to come in, and I said bring him in and he came up to me.
“There’s something about this boy that magneted me. Unfortunately, the mother said she’s not seeing very well; she’s half blind. Here, I want to pick this boy, and I want to hand him over to the GO. GO, you will bring this boy and I will take care of his education up to university. And I will give the mother 200,000 to start business.
While thanking Okorocha for his magnanimity, the GO prayed for the senator and assured him that the boy will be brought to him.
Said the GO: “He will surely reach your hands. By the grace of God, we will do that without wasting time, may God bless you. We are so grateful.”
The elated mother of the young Orisakwe, Precious Ndidiamaka Orisakwesa who was full of appreciation for what God has done for her son and in extension herself, said since she came from Aba, Abia State where she resides with her family to the Crusade Ground, she had not taken any medication like she usually did, adding that being on the Crusade Ground had brought immense improvement in her health.
She prayed that the God of Chosen will locate others who were in need of help, and connect them also to their destiny helpers.
Highpoints of the event include the award of Golden Certificate to The Lord’s Chosen Egypt branch by the Government of Egypt. The church was also said to be chosen by the Rwandan Government as the only Christian body that would be operating in Rwanda.
Others highpoints on the occasion was the ministering in songs by the various Chosen Choir groups like the Mali Chosen Choir, Ghana Choir, the Children’s Choir, Campus Choir, Duet Sisters, National choir and Youth choir, the Voice of the Cross among others.
Many who came there said they were at the Crusade to obtain power to crush the problems that may want to crop up in the year, 2021, adding that they were at the crusaders to pray against Corona Virus, knowing well that the General Pastor of the church, has being granted unction and power from above to pray for them, and enable them to overcome the challenges of life.
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Bechtel to Hire 400 Adult Apprentices for LNG Construction
15 November 2011 GLADSTONE, Australia
One of the Largest Adult Apprenticeship Efforts in Australia’s History
Bechtel announced today it will hire an unprecedented 400 adult apprentices for work on construction of the three LNG plants in Gladstone – Queensland Curtis LNG, GLNG, and Australia Pacific LNG. This will be one of the largest single intakes of adult apprentices in Australia’s history and the company will work closely with the Federal Government’s National Apprenticeships Program (NAP) to deliver the opportunities.
“This innovative program is a win-win and we are pleased to be part of it. It will help meet the demand for skilled labor and give adult workers with uncompleted apprenticeships, or those working in allied industries without a trade qualification, the chance to complete an apprenticeship in a reduced amount of time,” said Andy Greig, Bechtel’s managing director in Australia.
Under the adult apprenticeship program, experienced workers will have their existing skills recognized. They will be given the opportunity to complete the competencies required without compromise, to get a full trade qualification in just 18 months instead of the traditional four years.
Mr. Greig acknowledged the work done by the Federal Government NAP team under the sponsorship of the Federal Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, Senator Chris Evans.
“We have been working closely with other industries to support Premier Anna Bligh’s jobs push in Queensland, and we have been pleased to get involved with this innovative Commonwealth-driven scheme. For us, the initiative is very closely linked with Premier Bligh’s “Jobs for the Regions” program, and I am pleased to say that recruits will be sourced from all around Queensland as well as other parts of Australia.”
Bechtel has been in Australia for almost 60 years and in Gladstone for more than 30. Existing trainee programs give opportunities at Bechtel construction sites in Gladstone, Central Queensland and Western Australia. Under this National Apprenticeships Program, adult workers with existing skills are being targeted.
NAP Program Director Alan Sparks said recruitment of the adult apprentices for Bechtel would begin immediately through a series of advertisements focusing on seven trades: electrical fitter mechanics, dual trade electrical/instrumentation, metal fabrication boiler maker welders, metal fabrication pipe fitters, mechanical fitters, and carpentry formworkers.
Likely candidates will include:
People who have partly completed an apprenticeship
Permanent Australian residents with overseas qualifications not yet recognized in Australia
Former members of the defense forces with aligned skills
People with other related trade qualifications and
Trades assistants from the construction and engineering trades
ATTENTION - For interested applicants:
Bechtel’s intake of Adult Apprenticeships is being managed on our behalf by the Australian government’s National Apprenticeship Program (NAP) so they are the people you need to contact. They intend to advertise the availability of Bechtel adult apprenticeships in newspapers across Queensland and Australia very shortly. You can go to this link: http://nationalapprenticeships.com.au/ to put in an Expression of Interest. There is a place for Gladstone residents and one for those outside of Gladstone.
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Eifion Sven-Myer
Details: Eifion Sven-Myers ideas revolve around ideas of space and processes of transformation, he seeks to widen the usually strict boundaries of painting and inspire a dialogue around the processes and construction of his work. Using former paintings, mirrors and recycled wood. The aim of this residency will be to create an obscure space that one would walk into where the boundaries merge. A room where two and three-dimensions fluctuate, where paintings have been manipulated into sculptures and the walls and floor have become supports for paintings.
This must be the place I never wanted to leave
Location: ARCADECARDIFF, Unit 3b, Queens Arcade, Queen Street, Cardiff, CF10 2BY
Details: A selection of paintings from contemporary Welsh painters and selected works from the Beep2016 Painting Prize curated by Beep and elysiumgallery Director Jonathan Powell.
Artists: Sinead Aldridge | Tom Banks | Sam Chapman | Philip Cheater | Michelle Conway | Tom Down (image) | Ilona Kiss | Arron Kuiper | Anna McNeil | Eifion Sven-Meyer | Fran Williams | Camilla Wilson | (Beep Peoples prize winner TBA)
Location: elysium gallery, 16 College Street, Swansea, SA1 5BH
Details: Born and raised In Haifa, Israel and based in south west Wales since 2001, Dalit Leon is a painter/ drawer/ printmaker. She completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London in 2013. The artist will be creating a new body of work for this exhibition seeking, through the subject of landscape and space, to explore the relationship between symbolic and material language, to visualise and question the overlapping realities of sense perception, cultural and historical readings, as well as deep consciousness, mythical and primordial histories. Dalit exhibited in the first Beep Painting Prize in 2012 and shows her work both nationally and internationally with a solo exhibition planned for 2016 in Israel.
www.elysiumgallery.com
Location: elysium gallery, 16 College Street, Swansea, SA1 5BH
Details: The results of a live performance create a body of work for this exhibition where the artist attempts to find a way to visualise the Earth’s rotation. The role of the artist becomes purposely minimal as the apparatus is set up and the pendulum creates spontaneous paintings that illustrate harmony and balance juxtaposed against a human species which is increasingly at odds with the planet. Bonada is also curator and exhibitions officer at Undegun, Wrexham and regularly organises artist exchanges between Finland and Wales.
Phoebe Phillips
Details: The Jane Phillips Award is a memorial to Jane Phillips (1957 – 2011) Mission Gallery, Swansea's first Director. Launched at Mission Gallery in 2011, the award is intended as a legacy to Jane’s passion for mentoring and nurturing talent, consistently supporting emerging and early career artists across the Visual and Applied Arts in Wales and beyond in a variety of different ways. As part of the Award, a Graduate Residency is offered where a selected artist will have the opportunity to make use of the Jane Phillips Award Studio at Elysium High Street studios. We are happy to announce the recipient as Phoebe Phillips, a Fine Art: Painting graduate from Carmarthen School of Art & Design
Details: Goodger (Beep2012 People’s Prize joint winner) and Rowe collaborate to explore themes around the Paris commune, barricades and the sublime. Steph Goodger is a painter working in Bordeaux, France whilst Julian Rowe is a Kent-based sculptor, painter and installation artist. They have a mutually supportive working relationship based upon shared areas of interest and research. Le Temps des cerises (Cherry Time) is a well-known song in the French-speaking world, that became popular and took on a political meaning during the Paris Commune.
Details: Beep2014 Main Prize winner Lee Williams’s recent work and research explores place attachment and the bonding of people to places. Relating attachment to constructs such as place identity, sense of place and place dependence. The environment we are brought up in exerts pressure on our personality formation; and the culture in which we are raised, plays a substantial role in shaping our personalities. Fundamental influences of a certain environment can be more powerful than hereditary / genetic factors.
www.elysiumgallery.com
Painting Parallels
Location: Swansea Grand Theatre, 2nd Floor Arts Wing, Singleton St, Swansea, SA1 3QJ
Details: This exhibition situated on the second floor of the Grand Theatre Arts wing brings together a selected group of Welsh painters who work collectively within the Swansea arts community but tread very different paths within the medium of paint.
These exhibitions were curated by Beep & elysiumgallery Director Jonathan Powell.
The Painters Studio
Location: Swansea Grand Theatre, 1st Floor Arts Wing, Singleton St, Swansea, SA1 3QJ
Details: This exhibition offers a unique glimpse into the working practice of a group of contemporary Swansea painters and details the intricacies of studio life. The first floor of the Grand Theatre Arts wing will feature a mixture of finished paintings and works in progress on studio easels intermingled with photographs of the artists’ studios and insights into the mind and spaces of the creative individuals.
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Final Fantasy XIII Standard Edition - Xbox 360
T (Teen 13+)
Mild language, Suggestive themes, Violence
User rating, 4.2 out of 5 stars with 77 reviews.
Rating 4.2 out of 5 stars with 77 reviews
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AlexInAfghanistan
One of the best in the franchise since IX.
Ignore the poor reviews. Throw them out. Sure, an average of 8.2/10 isn't that bad, but it deserves better. 9.5-better. Story: You won't find many games these days with a story so intricate and developed that it needs its own datalog to explain what everything means. The story is very unique -- it's based around human nature and the struggles normal individuals face, and with struggles those with power have. You witness genocide, bigotry, segregation -- you name it -- but all of these are unique to the gameworld, not any of this as we'd recognize it. All characters choose to fight in their own unique way, from their personal struggles, to personal goals, to saving the world. Yes, it's a save-the-world story, but you're in one heck of a surprise if you expect the normal cookie-cutter story. My only complaint is the pacing, things don't get deep until the 9th (of 13) chapter, but is vindicated by all coming together in the end. Sound: Voice acting is the best in the series, hands down. Lip synching is almost spot on. A lot of areas' music has vocals, which is nice for ambience -- no theme songs here until the end -- which you will hear only once ("My Hands"). My only complaint is some of the dialogue is downright wacky -- and Lightning's voice is like nails on a chalkboard. Gameplay: There are no levels as we know it here. The game uses a system called Crystarium, which is very similar to Final Fantasy X's sphere grid, if not almost exactly the same. Enemies grant CP, or Crystarium Points. There are no random battles, but rather enemies on the field -- all of which are aggressive unless you encounter them without spotting you. There are a lot of rewards for the hard work later on, and if you work hard enough, endgame will be a breeze. Let's not forget about Paradigms. Paradigms are custom class designations. You can choose a class for each character, and create six of each at a time and switch instantly in battle. Weapons can be leveled with items, and later on, can be maxed out to their epic status with rarer items. My only complaints are as follows: you traverse through one long corridor, pretty much, things don't get very open or branch off until near the end. It's not a big deal because the Crystarium system is rewarding, but it'd be nice to have villages and such. Also, some of the battles are longer than they should be early on. Graphics: The art is amazing. Faces are well-rendered, and some of the enivironments are awe-inspiring (you can see for miles, this "wide-open world" at the end is HUGE). There's a lot going on screen in a lot of cases that looks really cool. However, the 360 version suffers from blocky/grainy FMV not found in the lossless 1080P PS3 version. The 360 version is sluggish sometimes when you turn the camera coming around the corner. Also, the hair on the female characters is blocky and an eyesore. Characters could use more polygons. I could write a 10-page review and that still wouldn't be enough to detail this game. When things seem convoluted, don't give up, finish the game and smile at the ending -- it'll break your heart with every emotion a game could conjure. The game's Crystarium and endgame rewards are worth coming back for, but once you finish absolutely everything (there's more when you finish the game), there's nothing to comeback to except looking at the box and being proud of the 100+ hours you spent maxing out absolutely everything.
Daveak47
Battle System = PURE AWESOMENESS
So far I have played Final Fantasy 7, 10 and 12 and have liked all of them. With all of the hype going on around Final Fantasy 13, I decided to give this one a try and here is what I thought. PROS. PARADIGM COMBAT SYSTEM: This game utilizes unique turn based combat system. To me, this combat system was the BEST ASPECT of the game. In Final fantasy games so far (other than 12), you have to do each action such as attack, healing, magic one by one by one. This game gives you option to do that or you can have "auto battle" mode where things are taken care for you. So the enemies you want to deal with "personally" you can combat them yourselves, but then you are not stuck hitting same command again and again for each fight you do in the game. Think of it this way, in other final fantasies, you are acting as individual soldiers while in this game you are mainly acting as commander. So instead of controlling each of the party member's action individually, you can set up a "paradigm" where you can focus more on physical or magical or healing or combination of these actions. At first you will find it a bit puzzling but once you get it, you will most likely love it. STAGGERING ENEMIES: To win a battle, you have to punish an enemy (or enemies) up to the point that they "stagger". At this point, the enemy will take a lot more damage and is less likely to attack. While it is not necessary to stagger an enemy to defeat it, for most game, you will find it difficult to defeat enemies without staggering them. So what is so special about staggering enemies? In order to stagger them in most cases you will have to use variety of paradigms and will have to come up with different strategies. Again, in the beginning you may find this difficult to understand, but once you get it, it gets to be quite fun. VARIETY OF BOSSES AND ENEMIES: Yup, there is great variety of enemies and different bosses in this game (as expected of "final fantasy"). Before you finish the game, you will have defeat quite a few different enemies and bosses and to defeat them you will have to use different strategies. While most enemies you may find it pretty straightforward to beat (especially in the beginning of the game), many later on enemies and bosses will be quite difficult until you figure out the right strategy. But don't worry there are ways to defeat them and you will find these challenges fun rather than frustrating. CRYSTAL LEVELING UP SYSTEM: This game has similar leveling up system as Final Fantasy 10. Defeating each enemies gives you points and then you use these points to level up different characters. The difference is you can level up a character in different direction (i.e. you can make a character better at magic, physical attacks, healing, sabotaging enemies, etc.) Each character will have 3 specialty areas and later on you can develop the character in all 6 different classes. Pretty addicting if you ask me. TONS OF SIDEQUEST BOSSES: So it takes a while to get up to this point, but once the open world portion of the game begins, there are tons of (>60) mini and major bosses to beat in the game. There is this portion called TITAN CHALLENGE (won't spoil much) which is very interesting. Here you will have to defeat a series of enemies in certain way. I liked it. SPECTACULAR SUMMONS: In this game each character gets a cool summon. While you don't have control over when you can obtain it, in order obtain them you have to beat them. LOVED IT. Once you obtain them you get to use their awesome powers and most importantly limit breaks. This has been my favorite part in many of the final fantasy game and just like previous final fantasies, this game has delivered them nicely. BEAUTIFUL AND ELEGANT FANTASY WORLD: The creation of Cocoon and Pulse are just mind blowing. Everything in these worlds is very elegantly designed. If you look carefully designers have truly given attention to details. Loved just loved each and every level. WEIRD BUT UNDERSTANDABLE STORY: Really can't tell you much without spoiling it, but like in many Japanese games, this one also has a very strange, but unique story with a great underlying theme. WEAPON AND ARMAMENT LEVELING UP: I am happy in addition to character they also have weapon leveling up in this game. To level up your weapon though you have to collect and use different items in a unique manner. For example, certain weapons can only be leveled up to level 11; however, if you obtain these unique item you can break that limit and level it up even further turning it into a completely different weapon. If you like this type of stuff the game will keep you occupy for a LONG TIME. CONS LACK OF CONTROL OVER BATTLE TEAM: As described in pros, you have to design specific paradims and you can use them in the battle to your liking. However, these combination are not limitless. In other words, you won't be able to control all three of the party members in the exact manner you want to. For example, with characters A,B, and C, I want both characters A and B to attack the same enemies with physical attacks, I don't have that option. Also if I want to revive character B before healing character C that is also not an option (unless the character I control is the healer). While it seems like a major issue, it really is not. There is not a single enemy you won't be able to beat due to this problem. WHINY CHARACTERS: Ever since Final Fantasy 10, they have been having so many whiny characters in these games. Hate it, just hate it. Good thing is whiny character in this game will only whine for first quarter of the game. Also, what Japanese people and Westerners find "awesome" and "funny" are quite different. Some dialogues that Japanese may find awesome will simply sound lame to us. So that is also a problem in this game. CONCLUSION Contrary to the cons I described, this is a great game. Battle System, leveling up and hunt for different bosses and items will keep you busy and entertained for a long time. With side quests, it has taken me about 84 hours and I am still not quite done. With lowered prices, I would say this is a MUST OWN game.
JAG331333
Here goes....
Okay i know that this will be my longest game review i have ever made. Simply because this game has som much valuable content to cover. The story starts out with som simple batlles and a lot of cutscense some of them are really cool and others are just used to extend the opening sequence. The game essentially starts out slow. But it doesnt take long for the characters to begin building in the first couple hours fo gamplay and the story is very engrossing and unique and i think it is up there with the best FF games like 7 and 10. The first few videos you see are really cool,.. obviously its The gameplay developes so well in this game its starts to get herder and more complex but in a way that adds to it and makes it more interesting. I was very impressed with the ability to change to so many different styles during battle. You absolutely have to get that down to a science in order to truly experience the battle system. It is often necessary to change styles during battle. On flaw if you will, is that you only completely control the main character lightning. All the other characters do thier own thing durning battle and it works out quite well. And the summons are very fun to use because u have the option of controling their attacks. Each individual character has thier own summon which is very simple and convinient. The Crystal system used to upgrade your characters is also simple and very useful. it is alot like the sphere grid on FFX but it gets the job done wonderfully. THe characters can upgrade each style according to how you use them during battle. And feel free to do this any way you like the game should be more interesting this way. Rather than doing excatly what the strat. guid says. furthermore there is a point in the game near the intermission where it gets a little boring but the story is so interesting it will keep you going. I mean the emotions the characters go through are unlike anything ever created in games for the most part. The game is just quite beautiful when it comes to graphics and it is such a great experience to beat a game like FFxiii......!
I liked the game...after awhile
At first I was surprised at the monotony of fighting the "monsters" as its the same moves over and over. But after awhile I got into the story and used to the game, was more fun.
je1286
I really love the final fantasy franchise! They have always been on my game lists. I really like the storyline and the overall graphics. I just wish there would be a little more free roaming/extra stuff kinda like FInal Fantasy X and X-2 but overall it's great!
Vaiyo
Good addition to the long-running JRPG series
Final Fantasy XIII may not be the best RPG game to come out in recent year but it is a good addition to the long-running RPG series and a must have for all Final Fantasy fans. With excellent graphics & sound, the game shines on HDTVs and may trick some people into thinking that it is a 30+ hour long movie! As usual with the series, the story and the combat system in Final Fantasy XIII are both similar and vastly different from other Final Fantasy games and they are well-worth the money because it is a LONG game (compared to most games nowadays). Some people finished it in 30 to 40 hours but you can easily go over 80+ hours if you try to go for all of the achievements within the game. However, the game is not perfect. The pacing of the story and game play elements is very awkward as it literally feels like two-thirds of the game was nothing more than a tutorial. Loading screens seems to pop up just about every other minute as you are running exploring areas in a [almost completely] linear world and story (note that this may not be as bad on the PS3). Lastly, the UI is extremely bad in that it is pretty much in the same style used in other Final Fantasy games (which has always been wordy and required lots of clicks to get around) and has not been improved at all. All in all, the good parts of the game definitely trumps the bad parts of the game and Final Fantasy XIII is a good addition to the RPG library and to the beloved RPG series. I would definitely recommend this to any RPG fan out there. If you are a Final Fantasy fan ... well, what are you waiting for???
rundus345
A worthwhile game
I was pleasantly surprised how much fun I had while playing this installment of the final fantasy franchise. All flaws aside (some framerate issues ect.) the gameplay was solid and enjoyable.
Valenz0711
Great game look forward to XIII-2
This is a very good final fantasy, not as fun fun as VII but still fun nonetheless. I do recommend this game for any final fantasy fan. It is a little too linear but still a great game
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The Complete Jewish Bible
CJB 1 ADONAI called to Moshe and spoke to him from the tent of meeting. He said, NIV 1 The LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting. He said, CJB 2 "Speak to the people of Isra'el; say to them, 'When any of you brings an offering to ADONAI, you may bring your animal offering either from the herd or from the flock. NIV 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When anyone among you brings an offering to the LORD, bring as your offering an animal from either the herd or the flock. CJB 3 If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he must offer a male without defect. He is to bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, so that it can be accepted by ADONAI. NIV 3 “ ‘If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you are to offer a male without defect. You must present it at the entrance to the tent of meeting so that it will be acceptable to the LORD. CJB 4 He is to lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him. NIV 4 You are to lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on your behalf to make atonement for you. CJB 5 He is to slaughter the young bull before ADONAI ; and the sons of Aharon, the cohanim, are to present the blood. They are to splash the blood against all sides of the altar, which is by the entrance to the tent of meeting. NIV 5 You are to slaughter the young bull before the LORD, and then Aaron’s sons the priests shall bring the blood and splash it against the sides of the altar at the entrance to the tent of meeting. CJB 6 He is to skin the burnt offering and cut it in pieces. NIV 6 You are to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces. CJB 7 The descendants of Aharon the cohen are to put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire. NIV 7 The sons of Aaron the priest are to put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire. CJB 8 The sons of Aharon, the cohanim, are to arrange the pieces, the head and the fat on the wood which is on the fire on the altar. NIV 8 Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, including the head and the fat, on the wood that is burning on the altar. CJB 9 He is to wash the entrails and lower parts of the legs with water, and the cohen is to cause all of it to go up in smoke on the altar as a burnt offering; it is an offering made by fire, a fragrant aroma for ADONAI. NIV 9 You are to wash the internal organs and the legs with water, and the priest is to burn all of it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD. CJB 10 "'If his offering is from the flock, whether from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he must offer a male without defect. NIV 10 “ ‘If the offering is a burnt offering from the flock, from either the sheep or the goats, you are to offer a male without defect. CJB 11 He is to slaughter it on the north side of the altar before ADONAI; and the sons of Aharon, the cohanim, are to splash its blood against all sides of the altar. NIV 11 You are to slaughter it at the north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall splash its blood against the sides of the altar. CJB 12 He is to cut it into pieces, and the cohen is to arrange them with the head and fat on the wood which is on the fire on the altar. NIV 12 You are to cut it into pieces, and the priest shall arrange them, including the head and the fat, on the wood that is burning on the altar. CJB 13 He is to wash the entrails and lower parts of the legs with water; and the cohen is to offer it all and make it go up in smoke on the altar as a burnt offering; it is an offering made by fire, a fragrant aroma for ADONAI. NIV 13 You are to wash the internal organs and the legs with water, and the priest is to bring all of them and burn them on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD. CJB 14 "'If his offering to ADONAI is a burnt offering of birds, he must offer a dove or a young pigeon. NIV 14 “ ‘If the offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, you are to offer a dove or a young pigeon. CJB 15 The cohen is to bring it to the altar, snap off its head and make it go up in smoke on the altar; its blood is to be drained out on the side of the altar. NIV 15 The priest shall bring it to the altar, wring off the head and burn it on the altar; its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar. CJB 16 He is to remove the food pouch and its feathers from its neck and discard it on the pile of ashes just east of the altar. NIV 16 He is to remove the crop and the feathers and throw them down east of the altar where the ashes are. CJB 17 He is to pull it open with a wing on each side, but without tearing it in half. The cohen is to make it go up in smoke on the altar, on the wood which is on the fire, as a burnt offering; it is an offering made by fire, a fragrant aroma for ADONAI. NIV 17 He shall tear it open by the wings, not dividing it completely, and then the priest shall burn it on the wood that is burning on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. (The Complete Jewish Bible Online)
NIV 1 The LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting. He said, NIV 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When anyone among you brings an offering to the LORD, bring as your offering an animal from either the herd or the flock. NIV 3 “ ‘If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you are to offer a male without defect. You must present it at the entrance to the tent of meeting so that it will be acceptable to the LORD. NIV 4 You are to lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on your behalf to make atonement for you. NIV 5 You are to slaughter the young bull before the LORD, and then Aaron’s sons the priests shall bring the blood and splash it against the sides of the altar at the entrance to the tent of meeting. NIV 6 You are to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces. NIV 7 The sons of Aaron the priest are to put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire. NIV 8 Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, including the head and the fat, on the wood that is burning on the altar. NIV 9 You are to wash the internal organs and the legs with water, and the priest is to burn all of it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD. NIV 10 “ ‘If the offering is a burnt offering from the flock, from either the sheep or the goats, you are to offer a male without defect. NIV 11 You are to slaughter it at the north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall splash its blood against the sides of the altar. NIV 12 You are to cut it into pieces, and the priest shall arrange them, including the head and the fat, on the wood that is burning on the altar. NIV 13 You are to wash the internal organs and the legs with water, and the priest is to bring all of them and burn them on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD. NIV 14 “ ‘If the offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, you are to offer a dove or a young pigeon. NIV 15 The priest shall bring it to the altar, wring off the head and burn it on the altar; its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar. NIV 16 He is to remove the crop and the feathers and throw them down east of the altar where the ashes are. NIV 17 He shall tear it open by the wings, not dividing it completely, and then the priest shall burn it on the wood that is burning on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
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List of Websites
Note: all of GeoCities was taken down on October 27, 2009, so all sites hosted on that service are only accessible through the Wayback Machine or other archives such as Oocities or Reocities.
Early draft of the official Blood homepage
This article outlines the various websites about Blood, not including official websites for projects or independent sections of larger sites.
1 Major Websites
2 Middle Websites
2.1 Blood Facebook
2.2 Karthik's Blood Website
2.3 Caleb's Corner
2.4 Steven's Blood Page
2.5 Zaphod's Blood Page
2.6 The Pit of Blood
2.7 DMZGAMES BLOOD ZONE
2.8 Blood SuperSite
2.9 Bloodphreak's Blood Section
2.10 Bloody Hell
2.11 Ivan's Blood Page
2.12 Fandangos Guys Blood Page
2.13 Ristaze's Blood Page
3 Minor Websites
3.1 Jaymez's Blood Page
3.2 Mojoash's Blood Page
3.3 Eternal Blood
3.4 Tempest's Blood Page
3.5 The New 3D Gaming Scene - Blood
3.6 Game Planet Presents Blood
3.7 Pinemans Blood Stuff
3.8 Joe's Blood Page
3.9 My Blood Page
3.10 Delfi's Blood Page
3.11 Steves Blood Cheats and Secrets
3.12 Blood
3.13 Bloodlust
3.14 Stash's Blood Review
3.15 Hank's Blood Page
3.16 Scrop Underground - Blood Net
3.17 The Blood Pool
3.18 Jack's Spanish Blood Page
3.19 Rob's Blood Page
3.20 Nailer's Blood Page
3.21 The Krunatus Blood Page
3.22 The Blood Links
3.23 3D Frontiers
3.24 Access Denied
3.25 My Stupid Place
3.26 Game Giant
3.27 Bloodbath Archives
4 Lost Websites
Major Websites[edit]
The following websites have been deemed notable enough to feature their own articles.
First the sites still currently online:
Russian Blood Community
Blood Wiki
The Postmortem
Altar of Stone
Blood Line
Blood Hispano
RTCM
blood.freeminded.de
Bloodpedia
The following were notable in their heyday but are now offline:
Game Leader
The Blood Shack
LithTimes
Planet Blood
Polish Blood Centre
Crudux Cruo
Monolith Forums
The Bloody Repo
Another prominent Blood community has been the forums hosted by the Transfusion project.
Middle Websites[edit]
Blood Facebook[edit]
Facebook fan art
A page hosted on the social networking site Facebook. The site contains a well complimented screamshot gallery, a small fan art gallery, a collection of Caleb quotations, two listed videos, and some storyline notes. It can be considered most notable by being maintained by a French man, and as such has some French translations of the Blood storyline. It also contains a few discussions, mostly typical Bloodite talk such as the possibility of a "Blood III" and talking about the possibility of a Blood source release. It has two fan art pieces created by the site maintainer to which it was unique until the images were found and merged into the Blood Wiki gallery on September 30, 2009. The maintainer is a listed as a fan on the Blood Wiki page on Facebook. The site also links several times to The Postmortem.
Link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blood/30984583735
Karthik's Blood Website[edit]
A site about Blood by Karthik Abhirama Krishna mostly discussing the shareware version but also talks about the full version and a bit about Blood II: The Chosen and some other games (such as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Duke Nukem 3D). It hosts information about enemies, weapons, cheat codes, story line, game structure, system requirements, and credits. It also hosts the Blood desktop theme, Blood music, screamshots, the shareware version, and some fan made wallpapers.
Link: http://www.geocities.com/blood_ak/ (Internet Archive, ReoCities Archive)
Caleb's Corner[edit]
A site by Steven "Baytor" Clubb (who later became a major contributor to Planet Blood) which contains guides to Blood enemies, weapons, walkthroughs, and secrets. A lot of this text was copied to and hosted on Planet Blood.
Link: http://www.geocities.com/baytor/Blood (Tchernobog's Archives), Baytor's Love Shack (archived), Caleb's Corner on ReoCities (archived)
Steven's Blood Page[edit]
A website by Steven, with input by Andrew Greg and Angela, that lists a wide variety of game notes.
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Fortress/4791/blood.html
Zaphod's Blood Page[edit]
A site by Dan "Zaphod" Rouse, last updated October 21, 1998, that listed cheats, links, hints, secrets (with Vincent Ledoux), cheat codes, screamshots and custom maps and mirrors for the Blood shareware.
Link: http://www.ziplink.net/~trouse/blood/
The Pit of Blood[edit]
A website by Desmond Shepherd primarily for hosting custom maps for Blood, but also featuring the usual cheats and links - with a specific project called Evil Uprising. It was last updated on December 28, 1997.
Link: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/2067/index.html
DMZGAMES BLOOD ZONE[edit]
A detailed "Blood zone" for the site DMZgames.com featuring custom levels, news, files, cheats, story notes, screamshots, cutscene previews, music and other content. It was never fully competed because of the distraction of making a Quake zone, and the last news post is from January 29, 1998.
Link: http://dmzgames.com/blood/indexnew.html
Blood SuperSite[edit]
A section hosted by pcgame.com that hosted pages titled "Description", "Beasts", "Demos", "Patches", "Map Editor", "Win95 Theme", "Cheats", "Blood Pool", "Ladder", "Reviews" and "Links".
Link: http://www.pcgame.com/super/blood/index.htm
Bloodphreak's Blood Section[edit]
A site about Blood that contains a page about Blood enemies, weapons, screamshots, cheat codes, and a now inaccessible custom map.
Link http://members.tripod.com/~bloodphreak/blood.html
Bloody Hell[edit]
What appears to have been a large site, featuring maps, cheats, secrets, files, weapons, monsters, uploads, prizes and items. It is not very well archived through the Wayback Machine.
Link: http://www.stals.com/blood/Document.htm
Ivan's Blood Page[edit]
A page by Ivan Sugiarso, of Indonesia, that lists story notes, screamshots, cheat codes, links, secrets and hints and a download for the Windows theme. It was launched on July 12, 1997 and was last updated on July 21, 1997.
Link: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/9970/blood.html
Fandangos Guys Blood Page[edit]
A website that contained news, cheats, story and feature notes, links and various files and user maps - including an add-on project.
Link: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/8976/blood1.htm
Ristaze's Blood Page[edit]
A website by Ristaze that contained game notes, cheats, Cryptic Passage promos, custom maps and modding information.
Link: http://web.archive.org/web/19970809075826/http://www.op.net/~ristaze/blood.html
Minor Websites[edit]
http://web.archive.org/web/19981202070008/http://aaa.simplenet.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19990222131858/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6629/songs.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19990203170948/http://members.wbs.net/homepages/e/v/i/evilkeithdunlap.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19990219232450/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/9697/su_blood.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19990218185337/http://www.angelfire.com/va/cyberstefan/bloodmain.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19981201215727/http://www.pa.uky.edu/%7Edeboard/mypage/games.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19990224073012/http://members.aol.com/holgi5/blood/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19980613170820/http://www.gamemenu.com/blood.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/19971010223542/http://www.comnet.ca/~mallen/page1.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/19980121101228/http://www.game-giant.com/blood/blood.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19971211094213/http://www.panda.co.jp/products/Blood/Bloodmain.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/19990222120512/http://www.freedomcomputers.co.uk/blood/alchemis.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20010727032259/http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/7002/
http://web.archive.org/web/19990127145132/http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/7756/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19990209131230/http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/8497/main.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19990128090031/http://members.xoom.com/BLOOD_/
http://web.archive.org/web/19990220035214/http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Bunker/4036/timinator.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19990219130456/http://members.aol.com/sonicwar/blood.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/19990128093331/http://engdep1.philo.ulg.ac.be/luc/blood/
Jaymez's Blood Page[edit]
A site introducing Blood and containing what appears to be an in development back story that talks about never completed features such as the Bloodlust and an alternate history for Tchernobog and Caleb. It also contains a custom map recreating the first deathmatch level of Quake.
Also known as Certain Death.
Link: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/5563/blood.htm (Internet Archive, ReoCities Archive)
Mojoash's Blood Page[edit]
A page about Blood that contains links, cheat codes, an incorrect link to Blood II: The Chosen, and a personal diary.
Link: http://www.angelfire.com/de/blood/
Eternal Blood[edit]
A site by John featuring story notes, cheat codes, links, custom maps and various file paths. Its logo was by Charlie Beaupre and it was a member of the Blood Pool web ring.
Link: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/3718/bloodlinks.htm
Tempest's Blood Page[edit]
A section by Cho Yan Wong (aka Tempest) containing a custom map called "Sin" (included in volume two of Blood Chronicles) and a theme; he is thanked in the Blood credits. It used to be a larger sub-section of his site, but he later scaled this back.
Link: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~cwong/games/blood.htm
The New 3D Gaming Scene - Blood[edit]
A section of a much larger website on 3D and 2.5D gaming, that featured a short overview of the game, cheats, screamshots and a variety of file links.
Link: http://www.3dgaming.se/3d/split/blood_nfr.shtml
Game Planet Presents Blood[edit]
An overview of Blood by the Game Planet website with sections on enemies, weapons, items, secrets, maps, MapEdit, cheats, and links.
Also known as Michael's 3D Games Site.
Pinemans Blood Stuff[edit]
A small website that is largely a collection of links.
Link: http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-16981/Blood.htm
Joe's Blood Page[edit]
A website by Joe Stevens featuring cheats, images and reviews.
Link: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/3520/
My Blood Page[edit]
A website by Harman, featuring cheats, maps, screamshots and utility links.
Link: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/6543/myblood.html
Delfi's Blood Page[edit]
A part of the larger "Delfi's Gaming Page" containing Blood files, patches and cheat codes, noting that "Blood is the best multiplayer 3d shooter game ever".
Link: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/9311/bldfiles.html
Steves Blood Cheats and Secrets[edit]
A website by Steve Wells that contained, as the title says, cheats and secrets help as well as other information. This was also compiled and constituted into a text file called "bloodfaq.txt". He shut down the site on July 21, 1997 after having to focus on his studies and having not been able to purchase the full version of the game at that time. He also received help from a number of listed volunteers.
Link: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/9127/blood.html
Blood[edit]
An otherwise untitled website, that, despite apparent indications, simply hosted versions of the Blood cutscenes.
Link: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/5701/
Bloodlust[edit]
A site by Tjaiden that sought to contain "general game news and information, hints and tips, cheat codes, user made levels, and more", but now is primarily notable for its commentary regarding the release of Blood II: The Chosen and other events; partly because of its archived status. It was launched on July 3, 1998 and the last update was on April 19, 1999.
Link: http://www.stormcity.com/tjaiden/
Stash's Blood Review[edit]
A site about Blood containing story line, screamshots, cheat codes, enemies, items, weapons and a game review.
Link: http://godsstash.atspace.com/games/reviews/blood/blood.htm
Hank's Blood Page[edit]
A page by Hank claiming to house "the most up-to-date files page and the most up-to-date cheats page". Its logo was by Charlie Beaupre.
Link: hhttp://www.webspan.net/~ahdiii/blood/index.html
Scrop Underground - Blood Net[edit]
A website that lists several custom maps for download, the file links still work through the Wayback Machine.
Link: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/9697/su_blood.html
The Blood Pool[edit]
A website that Chris Scharling that posted news, links, a custom map and some game information. It was a member of the web ring of the same name.
Link: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/3194/Blood.htm
Jack's Spanish Blood Page[edit]
A website reviewing Blood in the Spanish language.
Link: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/5690/
Rob's Blood Page[edit]
A website basically only containing the game's cheat codes and non-archived images.
Link: http://members.tripod.com/~robd2002/blood.html
Nailer's Blood Page[edit]
See Also: List of Mods for Blood#Nailer's Blood Page
A website hosting several modifications for Blood by different people as well as some map editing tutorials.
Link: http://www.pyramid.net/steveg/blood/
The Krunatus Blood Page[edit]
See Also: List of Mods for Blood#The Krunatus Blood Page
A page about Blood by Krunatus which lists story line, fan sites, and offers downloads of some custom maps and sounds from Blood. The name "Krunatus" is derived from the cultist word "crunatus" meaning "blood brother", the user name is actually an acronym for "Kinetic Robotic Unit Normally for Assassination, Troubleshooting and Ultimate Sabotage" created by a name generator.
Link: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jayliv/blood.htm
The Blood Links[edit]
http://www.cici.mb.ca/tnikkel/blood/
3D Frontiers[edit]
http://3dfrontiers.com/coming/blod.html
Access Denied[edit]
http://web.archive.org/web/19980222165221/http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~aluetke/
My Stupid Place[edit]
http://web.archive.org/web/19990502215258/http://home.sol.no/%7Erck/html/about_blood.htm
Game Giant[edit]
Bloodbath Archives[edit]
Lost Websites[edit]
These sites are known by reference/scant fragment only (quotes from the Official Blood Pool, Zaphod's Blood Page and Games Planet Presents):
Rock_Sockm Blood Site - "This page also has forums and some other great BLOOD related areas."
Tim Nikkel's Blood Links - "Really interesting page that has tons of BLOOD stuff."
The Hackers Guide to Blood - "Probably one of the best BLOOD pages there is! This page has some great editing info, news, and tons more! BOOKMARK THIS PAGE!"
If you want BLOod you got it... - "Wicked awesome page! Try this site now or you'll regret it."
The Bleeding Pit - "Great page with cheats, my little monsters and more. Check it out!"
N A I L H E A D ' S Blood Site - "Nice page with current news and info."
Blood's Unofficial Map Edit Site - "This Blood site is the most helpful one that I've seen yet. It contains help on making Blood maps. In a little while, you can be making maps as good as the ones in Blood."
Beavis53's Blood Page - "This is a very informative Blood page that has one of the largest collection of Blood maps on the internet. You'll also find the latest info on Blood and some great links." (merged into The Blood Shack)
Arjan's Blood Page - "This is the place to go if you're looking for the best Blood maps on the internet. Arjan Van Rossen makes excellent deathmatch and single player maps. Check out his page!"
Bloody_Ninja's Blood page. - "A BLOOD page featuring: Items/Weapons/Beast description-d/ls-mapediting lessons/faq/files-AND MORE..."
Blood for All - "Hints and Tips on the Entire Game!!!"
Jim's Blood Page - "Cool pics, info, patches, and of course, codes!!"
Paul's Bath - "User maps and tools"
The Blood Basement - "Bloody files... Downloads and Maps"
AGAMEMNON's Blood Editing Page - "Come here for cool maps and help with Mapedit!"
LarchOye's Bloody Home - "my thoughts about, and a few pics of... Blood!"
Astaroth's Realm of Blood - "Info. Editing. etc. One of the originals."
Kyle's Blood Page - "Blood Maps, Files, Links and cheats."
Blood/ICQ Page - "This site will help Blood enthusiasts to find each other for chatting and fragging!"
Ron & Louis's BLOOD! Site - "This site describes all the enemies, weapons, and items of This site describes all the enemies, weap"
Nikodemusī BLOOD-Page - "a serious Blood-Page with lotīs of great stuff..."
geronimo home page - "add-ons for pc(warcraft2,duke nukem 3d,blood,pod) emulators"
Prey to Human Silence - "A page about Blood with a lot of stuff!"
Welcome To Clan Blood - "My Bloody web page!"
corpz's attic of death - "new maps, a speacial secrets section, and MORE"
The Furor`s Blood page -"Good and usefull (also a good layout)!"
Stefans Homeapge - "One hell of a Blood Page. ALL the weapons, ALL the Badguys, AND much more. Please visit this me!!"
Loco Page - "PC Games Ect"
Ethan's Blood Site - "All the latest info on the best game ever created, BLOOD!"
Intimate Illusions - "Everything from Blood to CakwalkPro"
State of art - "My homepage features Blood stuff, 3dart, my music."
robd2002's Blood - "Codes"
Master Bean`s Webpage - "COOL BLOOD STUFF AND HACKING STUFF TOO (sign the guestbook)"
CLAN-WKYA - "WKYA clan homepage"
ostronic - 3D games
Chocolates blood page - "Stuff on blood"
vladimir's bloody page - "cheat codes, monster animation etc."
Vladimir's World - "Cheat Codes And Lot And Lots Of monsters"
LARRYS BLOOD PAGE - "cheats,links"
SkyLiters Blood Page - "Bloood stuff"
undertaker's "My blood site come find out abunch about blood"
Hex hompage - "Blood, Maps, Me, My girlfriend."
INDY'S PAGE - "A COOL PLACE OT CHECK OUT BLOOD"
chemical euphoria's gamez - "All the latest PC games including a huge section on blood. Chat room and forum. Don't miss out."
!!!!!!!! JOJO'S BLOOD & DUKE3D SITE !!!! - "It's a site for Duke nukem and Blood (download,cheats,Buildhelp,Files,and much more !!!!!!!!!!!!"
DUKE NUKEM 3D DOWNLOADS - "cheats, user maps, con files, secrets, dukematch strategies"
The Blood Lair - "Blood and Blood2 news, Pics, Codes, Files, Maps etc."
Maps made for Blood - "Nice maps, made for blood"
Maps made with blood Very nice levels for blood..."
Gemini's Blood Page - "Blood and all there is about it!"
Cult of Phoebus - Blood
Donuts Blood site
Nikodemus'Blood-Page
BoneThugz Graveyard
Fandagos Guys BLOOD page
Delif's Blood Page
Davids Blood Page
Demos Blood Page
Bloodphreak's domain of Blood
Bloodiest's Blood Page
Official Blood Pool (circa 2001)
Game Planet Blood links
Eternal Blood links
Ivan's Blood Sites
Zaphod's Blood Links
The Blood Shack links page
Planet Blood links page
Crudux Cruo links page
Polish Blood Centre links page (Polish)
Blood Hispano links page (Spanish)
Russian Blood Community links page (Russian)
Filling up the Blood Pool - Good Old Games thread
Retrieved from "https://www.blood-wiki.org/index.php?title=List_of_Websites&oldid=46236"
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Association of Coloproctology of United Kingdom and Ireland
Inflammatory bowel disease surgery
Laparoscopic inguinal hernias
Laparoscopic and open incisional hernias
Laparoscopic colectomy
Laparoscopic ileoanal pouch surgery
Rafaelo Procedure for haemorrhoids
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Removing benign skin lesion
Following medical school and house jobs in Oxford and Northampton, Mr Suggett completed his Basic Surgical Training and Higher Specialist Training in Surgery in the West Midlands before being appointed at the Queen Elizabeth in October 2006.
His research interests include: the use of proteomics (detection of proteins) in the early diagnosis and management of colorectal cancer, the treatment of erectile dysfunction after rectal cancer surgery and rapid access clinics for inflammatory bowel disease. He is also involved in several ongoing clinical trials and audits.
His particular clinical interests are the use of endoscopic and laparoscopic surgery in the early diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease, and he currently offers the majority of his new cancer and IBD patients a laparoscopic resection. He is also keen to deal with diverticular disease, rectal bleeding and other benign anorectal pathologies as well as emergency and elective general surgery.
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Uber and Lyft are Stepping Up Multi-Modal Strategies
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Intermodal freight transportation has provided businesses with flexibility in their supply chain for decades. Similar to supply chain complexity, urbanization is making commuting around cities increasingly challenging —roads can be congested, travel times can double, and commuters are constantly looking for additional conveniences. Uber and Lyft are the top disruptors in the field of ride-sharing throughout the United States. Furthering their strategies of creating efficiencies and convenience in commuting, both companies are now branching further out into multi-modal transportation strategies and their applicability to urban environments.
What is Multi-Modal?
Multi-modal transportation, otherwise known as combined transport, is the combination of different means of transport, in order to make the movement of cargo easier, faster and more efficient. Uber and Lyft are both undertaking the notion of creating multi-modal cities as populations shift into urban environments.
Uber and Lyft are in acquisition talks with various companies this year to expand their transportation offerings. This is their multi-modal approach—a strategy that means having a market share in different forms of transportation. Uber and Lyft already offer a handful of ride types in their apps. They offer shared rides, low-cost rides for large groups, luxury vehicles, and wheelchair-accessible vehicles, among others. However, traditional bikes, electric bikes, electronic scooters, and buses are fair game for both companies.
Bikeshare or Scooter Around
Another aim of ride-hailing apps is to make cities greener, smarter, and even more accessible to people. In Seattle, this August, Uber, Lyft, and LimeBike have sought to operate bike-sharing in the city by 2019. Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) recently passed bike regulations that allow only four companies to operate, with 5,000 units each. Ten bike-sharing companies expressed their interest in joining, but only three applied for permits. SDOT granted Uber’s JUMP the ability to operate in the city, as well as two other companies. It seeks to provide consumers an alternative to car ownership and commuting.
To use a bike, a user needs to download the app and locate one within the vicinity through the app. JUMP will send a PIN to unlock the bike, while a person using LimeBike can scan the QR code through the app. Once done using the bike, the user can leave it at any designated public area and lock it.
With Sequioa Capital, Uber and Google making large investments in scooter technology, Bird, Lime, and Spin. These scooters are aimed at tackling the travel of people for short distances across cities. Bird, the quickest company to ever become a unicorn, is announcing expansion plans outside of the U.S.
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Uber and Lyft, racing for a global multi-modal expansion.
Special Shuttling
Uber and Lyft reportedly pursued a bus startup called Skedaddle. Skedaddle offers one particular service: easy public transport for large groups of people by bus. It is one form of ride-sharing, but for people who are going to the same destination — like a music festival for instance. It lets individuals crowdsource private-public bus rides. As soon as there is demand for the same ride from different people, the bus is considered booked.
Skedaddle is a company based in Boston and New York and has maintained operations in the East Coast. It recently expanded after the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. on March 2017. The company said it transported more than 11,000 individuals to the march, attracting a lot of media attention since then.
However, no conclusions or further plans have been announced after the reported discussions with Skedaddle.
Discontinued Discussions
In July this year, it was reported that Lyft was in talks to acquire Spanish transportation company, Cabify. This was a lucrative option for Lyft, which would expand its operations beyond the US Canada as Cabify serves Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. Lyft also established an office in Munich, Germany, but operations in Europe have yet to begin. However, Cabify categorically denied the reports about the supposed acquisition. It says it is in excellent financial health and will continue to establish itself in the markets in which it operates.
Uber likewise tried making a deal with the bike-sharing company, Motivate. It is the firm behind San Francisco’s GoBikes. The deal fell through for undisclosed reasons. However, as soon as Uber passed on the deal, Lyft acquired Motivate for $250 million, making it America’s largest bikeshare company. Motivate operates as New York’s Citi Bike, Chicago’s Divvy, Washington D.C.s Capital Bikeshare, and Boston’s Bluebikes. Between these four cities, the company generated 74% of the nation’s docked or dockless rides which were taken in 2017.
Head-to-Head Race
Uber and Lyft are in the race for global multi-modal expansion. They are going after the same opportunities in the hope of providing more options for the public and creating sustainability for communities everywhere. People all over the US and the rest of the world are highly interested in the expansion developments of these ride-sharing companies. Any new offering ultimately signals the advancement of transportation and mobility, the strengthening of economies, and enhancement of people-centered societies.
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