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Inside every 29 year and 11 month year-old man is a 5 year old who only watches monster movies so he can produce little doodles of them afterwards.
After much hype, Godzilla (2014) has finally stomped into cinemas around the world. It seems to have been a divisive monster movie, with some taking its slow pacing and focus on human characters as a breath of fresh air in a stale genre, and others wishing it had the wham-bam-thank-you-mam approach of Pacific Rim. Personally, I'm in the former camp, and am especially glad the new Godzilla franchise has not started with two hours of giant monster wrestling. While Godzilla (2014) is not flawless, it takes a lot of risks and feels like a modernised 'classic' monster movie, and not the focus-grouped, merchandise-led fanboy service it could have been. I should add that I'm not especially keen on the last 59 years of Godzilla movies, much preferring the genuine drama and symbolism of the original 1954 movie to the decades of monster fights which followed. Because Godzilla (2014) is tonally closer to the original than the later escapades, I'm not surprised that people just wanting two hours of skyscraper-sized wrestling are feeling a bit disappointed. Anyway, there's a lot we could say about this, but that's not quite what I want to write about here.
A big part of updating Godzilla has been the overhaul of Big G himself, as well as bringing new creatures to this franchise. These are exciting times for monster film fans because, for only the second time in its 60 year history, one of the most famous movie monsters of all is in for a complete redesign (we all know what happened the first time) and, of course, is now free of the constraint of 'suitmation' effects - the fancy term applied to the 'guy-in-latex-suit' approach Godzilla movies are (in?)famous for. A fun fact about the original 1954 Godzilla is that the now-inconic chap-in-suit technology was a compromise, the studio initially desiring stop-motion effects like those of American-made films King Kong or The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Toho, the studio which created Godzilla, had neither the money or expertise to execute stop motion effectively, so opted for using costumes instead. Despite using their second choice, the Japanese trailer for Godzilla triumphantly declares their special effects superior to anything the American movie machine was making at the time! And it certainly worked out for Toho: after a difficult teething process, the 'suitmation' approach worked well for the franchise and wasn't tinkered with outside of the much maligned 1998 Tristar Godzilla.
For 2014, Godzilla is a fully digital and, as we all know, relatively faithful to the original designs. It has, however, been altered in ways which would be difficult to execute if we were still watching a man in a suit. A lot of these changes, as well as the design of Godzilla's adversaries, were pretty neat because they tie into what we know about animal biology, scaling and functionality, and I get the impression that the guys behind this latest Godzilla - Legendary Pictures - put a lot of effort into making half-sensible creatures which biologists, biomechanicists and functional anatomists can be relatively happy with. And yes, yes yes: there's a buttload of stuff which is clearly nonsense: there's no way these animals could be the size they are, or firing beams of nuclear fire from their throats and so forth. But that's just par for the course for a Godzilla movie, and I'm not going to jump on boring old bandwagon of highlighting how impossible the whole lot is. What's far more interesting, and what I want to focus on here, is how Legendary built their animals around standard movie monster tenets to produce creatures which are not only intriguing and cool-looking, but also chime with real animal biology and functionality.
Godzilla's stubby, new-look foot, as seen from an airport terminal. Image from the Godzilla movie forum.
One of the most striking aspects of Godzilla’s redesign is its short, stubby feet instead of the long, plantigrade feet we’re familiar with from the suitmation costumes (above). This is easily one of the best changes to make in the entire redesign. Not only does it move away from Godzilla looking like he’s wearing a pair of comedy slippers, but it makes a lot of sense from a functional perspective. Long, plantigrade feet of bipedal animals (like our own, as well as those of chaps in Godzilla suits) lift our entire body weight with every step, our metatarsals and ankles both supporting and propelling us forward. This works fine for lightweight animals like ourselves, but comparable foot anatomy in a skyscraper-sized animal would need to be immense to avoid buckling under thousands of tonnes of bending force. The superficially sauropod-, tortoise- or elephant-like foot of the new Godzilla negates this risk however, creating a more columnar distal limb structure which is not employed in lift and propulsion but instead ideal for supporting terrific weight. This has several effects on limb structure and locomotion. The foot musculature (anchored to the shin) is reduced, keeping the weight of the limb down overall, thus making movement more efficient. However, it also decreases the foot mobility, limits stride length and overall gracility. Some of these effects are countered, however, by the elongate thigh region common to all Godzilla designs, which can swing the shortened distal-leg over great distances with every step. This increased length of the proximal limb region and shortening of distal is a trend we commonly associate with larger animals, even in species which are quite active and sprightly, and descended from cursorial ancestors (e.g. rhinos). Godzilla’s enormous thighs also fit with observations that proximal hindlimb musculature becomes relatively huge in larger bipeds - see the pelves of large bipedal dinosaurs for examples - providing the powerhouses necessary to move its huge bulk around. The result is a limb which isn’t going to win Godzilla any prizes for sprinting but, more importantly, is much more suited to the animal itself than the older designs. And let’s face it, when you can take strides measured in hundreds of metres, moving relatively quickly isn’t a problem.
Godgilla
Gills ahoy, on the lower portion of Godzilla's neck. Image from Detroit News.
A clear departure from all other Godzilla movies is that new version can breathe underwater. They’re easy to miss, but look closely and you can spot a series of fish-like gills on the side of its neck. At certain points in the movie, you can see them opening and closing as the big chap respires. Apparently, these were added not only because Big G spends a lot of its time swimming from location to location in the movie, but also to explain how an animal as large as Godzilla could keep a relatively low profile for so long. Air breathing animals of such size would surely be better known to the world at large if they were routinely surfacing to take breaths. These are all that's left of fish-inspired designs for the new Godzilla, which also featured fins instead of rows of bony plates; fish-like scales instead of reptilian skin and so forth.
Gills on a big, adult tetrapod sound a bit crazy, and I will admit - the fish-like (bony?) gills of the new Godzilla are difficult to rationalise entirely among real animals. If we’re willing to stretch belief a bit (I assume we are, what with a fictitious 100 m tall reptile being the subject of discussion here), we can find saving grace from early tetrapods and their descendants, modern amphibians. The latter have internal and external gills in at least their larval stages with most species losing them as they become adults. These gills are supported by a series of bones behind the skull which lead to openings in the body wall which allow swallowed water to escape - these are known known as gill clefts. Some amphibians - specifically select caudatans (salamanders, axylotyls, newts etc. - see below) - famously retain gill structures into adulthood, including their elaborate external gills. We know from exquisitely preserved fossils that such gills were present in the ancestors of all modern tetrapods, some of which also retained these gills in adulthood, and others which at least maintained their gill clefts (Schoch 2009). It seems likely, then, that the possession of gills, and possibly retention of gill structures into adult life* is the ancestral condition for all early tetrapods - including, presumably - Godzilla. Amniotes, which also presumably includes Godzilla, have obviously abandoned these structures and co-opted the gill apparatus for other purposes.
An axolotl with its external gills. © Kevin Schafer / www.photoshot.com, linked from ARKive.
Could Godzilla or other creatures ever get their gills back? Well, maybe. For a long time it was thought that evolution was irreversible ('Dollo's Law of Irreversibility') and, under this concept, loss of gills would be a one way street: Godzilla would have to evolve an entirely new set of gills, which is entirely possible. However, it's now appreciated that Dollo's Law is not really a law at all, and that organisms frequently do reverse their evolution, including backtracking on complex aspects of their anatomy and life history: digits, dentitions, wings, larval stages, reproductive strategies are all examples of things which have been lost and then recovered in animals. What once seemed like a law is likely more statistical improbability: a lineage can evolve in many ways at any point in time, and the likelihood that it will directly reverse along a familiar path is relatively low. However, in theory, there's no real reason why this shouldn't happen, so long as the selection pressures are correct. It would take some hefty tinkering with genes and mountains of heterochrony, and it's difficult to think of conditions which would promote the development of early-stage gill anatomy, but I guess it's not impossible for an amphibious creature to regain its ancestral gill condition under the right circumstances. My guess is that they would look more like the gills of caudatans than they would the scale-like fishy apparatus of Newzilla, but, let's face it, big feathery gills would look incredibly silly on a city-smashing monster.
See? Less "Godzilla, King of the Monsters", more "Preszilla, Queen of the Desert". Both are scary, but in very different ways.
Has Godzilla put on weight? No, it's just in it's head
One of the key comments made about the new Godzilla design is that it’s a bit of a heffer compared to other versions. This is debatable (they’ve always been pretty chunky if you ask me), but Legendary’s Godzilla design probably appears fatter than the rest because of its proportionally small head. There are good design reasons for this move: the smaller head gives a natural taper towards the top of the animal, distorting its perceived perspective and size, and it helps avoid the comically oversized, googly-eyed heads of previous versions. It's also in keeping with the natural world. Animals show a disproportionate reduction in skull length with respect to body mass - that is to say, larger animals generally have proportionally smaller heads than smaller ones. Note that this applies to carnivores as well as herbivores (Van Valkenburgh 1990; Christansen 1999). Godzilla represents a real extreme of animal gigantism, so it makes sense that its skull and head is going to carry this allometric trend to an unprecedented limit. What’s more, whatever Godzilla actually is (the new movie, thankfully, doesn’t really concern itself with this), it’s clearly on the reptile branch of the animal tree. Reptile cranial musculature is generally less developed than that of mammals, so their skulls and heads are relatively smaller at a given body mass than equivalently sized mammals (Christansen 1999). Again, this fits neatly with the small cranium of our new-look Godzilla. Of course, making the head look even smaller are the big legs and counterbalancing tail but, as mentioned above, this is also to be expected. Bottom line: far from being fat, 2014's Godzilla is just showing the extremes of proportion that we would expect if an animal ever grew to the ridiculous sizes we see on screen, and my feeling is that we're looking at a far more 'realistically' proportioned version that we've seen before.
"I'm not fat, I just have a head of predictably small proportion based on typical animal scaling allometries which distorts your overall perception of my size!" Whatever, buddy. Image from Godzilla Movies.
MUTO: Finally, a convincing giant, flying movie creature
Moving away from the main attraction: Godzilla vies for attention in the 2014 movie with another species of giant critter, termed ‘MUTO’ (below). The design for the MUTO(s) is very cool: gigantic, eight limbed, insect-ungulate-pterosaur beasts which defy easy classification. We’re shown pronounced dimorphism in adult MUTOs, the females being larger and more robust than the males, and devoting all limb sets to either terrestrial locomotion or gripping. The males, however, allocate one set of limbs to flight, bearing a spectacular pair of enormous membranous wings which recall monowing plane designs of the early 20th century (this isn't a coincidence: male MUTO wings are actually based on stealth bombers). These wings are largely unfoldable and situated on the dorsal surface of the torso so, when grounded, they extend behind the MUTO like a huge cape. Despite being the smallest creature in the film, male MUTO is still huge, so there’s little risk of it clipping its flowing wings on any structures when locomoting terrestrially.
MUTO in flight, from the Godzilla trailer.
There’s a lot to like about the male MUTO’s wing anatomy and flight mechanics. Firstly, the wings of this animal are simply enormous, as they should be for a creature of its size. Not only do they dwarf the body of the animal, but we could measure their span in metric villages. All too often, flying movie creatures are equipped with wings far too small for their body size, but - running off intuition here - these look ‘right’ for its size. As demonstrated by the birds below, wings increase in length and area disproportionately with body size because of standard rules of scaling: any linear size increases equates to a cubed increase in mass, which gives more for gravity to pull against and greater wing area requirements to achieve lift. If we are ever to expect a several-hundred tonne flying creature to become become and stay airborne, it would need significant wingage: MUTO delivers on this front.
A rule of thumb for designing flying animals: as mass increases, wing length increases faster. Demonstrated here by various bird planforms from Rayner (1988).
But it’s not just wing size that’s cool about the male MUTO: it’s flapping, or lack thereof, was also neat. Flapping amplitude - the degree of movement of a full wing stoke - decreases with wingspan in all flying creatures. The larger an animal is, the less movement is required in its wings to produce an effective flap cycle. A familiar example of this is the wing motions of flapping geese compared to pigeons: both flap their wings nearly constantly while flying, but the former move their wings around the horizontal, while pigeons swing them in great arcs. All too often, giant flying movie creatures (including several giant pterosaurs) show whopping huge flapping amplitudes well beyond necessity for flight and, probably, aerial stability. Godzilla’s male MUTO moves his wings just a little, however: he definitely flaps, but his wings move just a few degrees around the horizontal, not in huge arcs (watch the clip, below, for an example. Skip to 0:24 if you're a particularly impatient type). He also largely soars, as would be expected for any uber-large flier: flapping those wings would take a lot of effort, so soaring is the way to go. It would be loads of fun to get some basic wing size and mass data for this guy to work out some basic flight parameters - cruising speed, travelling distance etc. Given that giant pterosaurs seem capable of cruising at 100kph (Witton and Habib 2010), and yet are mere pipsqueeks at 10 m wingspans compared to the male MUTO, I reckon we’re looking at cruising speeds of several hundred kph. And that’s if he’s not in a hurry.
Finally, we get to see the MUTO launch a couple of times in the film, and each time we see something reminiscent of quad-launching. Pterosaur fans will know this trick as the best hypothesis on the table for explaining how flying reptiles became airborne, and a core factor explaining their attainment of gigantic proportions (Habib 2008). The kimeatics of MUTOs takeoff aren't quite the same - which is to be expected seeing as the limbs of pterosaurs are quite different to those of MUTOs - but it's neat to see the same basic components - a standing start, the rocking back crouch, forward thrust, upward push and leaping phase - incorporated into MUTOs takeoff. These actions are all performed with the four walking limbs rather than the wings themselves, as in pterosaurs and bats, but this also chimes well: MUTOs would need all the power they could to become airborne, so using every available limb is logical. Note that insects are an unlikely model for MUTO takeoff because, while seemingly comparable with MUTO because of their similar limb and wing configuration, at least some insects only use one pair of limbs (the mesothoracic) to launch (Trimarchi and Schneiderman 1995). This is probably because insects enjoy much better power/weight ratios than large vertebrates/skycraper-sized-monsters. 2-4 mm long fruit flies can jump up to 15x their own body lengths - about 30 mm - using their middle limbs only (Zumstein et al. 2004). This sets them apart from bats and pterosaurs, which use all their limbs in launching, and makes these the best candidates for MUTO launch models. It would be neat to know how much attention the animators and designers have been paying to bat and pterosaur research or if they came up with this launch strategy on their own. My experience of explaining quad-launch is that a lot of folks find it counter-intuitive at first, probably because we don't see many animals routinely taking off in this way, so I do wonder if the similarity between these takeoff strategies reflects research into animal takeoff.
And that's it for now. If you want to know more about how the animals of Godzilla (2014) were constructed, you should check out the concept art book which accompanies the film: Godzilla: the Art of Destruction (Cotta Vaz 2014). Closer to home, more fun with famous fictitious monsters can be found here, and for more on movie creatures - specifically those of special effects legend Ray Harryhausen, check out this.
Christiansen, P. (1999). On the head size of sauropodomorph dinosaurs: implications for ecology and physiology. Historical Biology, 13(4), 269-297.
Cotta Vaz, M. (2014). Godzilla: the Art of Destruction. Titan Books.
Habib, M. B. (2008). Comparative evidence for quadrupedal launch in pterosaurs. Zitteliana, 159-166.
Rayner, J. M. (1988). Form and function in avian flight. In Current ornithology (pp. 1-66). Springer US.
Schoch, R. R. (2009). Evolution of life cycles in early amphibians. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 37, 135-162.
Trimarchi, J. R., & Schneiderman, A. M. (1995). Initiation of flight in the unrestrained fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Zoology, 235(2), 211-222.
Van Valkenburgh, B. (1990). Skeletal and dental predictors of body mass in carnivores. In: Damuth, J. and MacFadden, B. (eds). Body size in mammalian paleobiology: estimation and biological implications, 18, 1-205.
Witton, M. P., & Habib, M. B. (2010). On the size and flight diversity of giant pterosaurs, the use of birds as pterosaur analogues and comments on pterosaur flightlessness. PLoS One, 5(11), e13982.
Zumstein, N., Forman, O., Nongthomba, U., Sparrow, J. C., & Elliott, C. J. (2004). Distance and force production during jumping in wild-type and mutant Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of experimental biology, 207(20), 3515-3522.
Labels: Frivolous nonsense, Godzilla, Hollywood dinosaurs
Fantastic post. The movie studio published a prequel comic title Godzilla : Awakening which revealed the monster's origin as a surviving species from the Permian period. I thought that was interesting compared to the mutated lizard origin in previous movies.
Mark Witton 29 May 2014 at 09:05
Thanks for the comment. To be honest, I think they should have kept its identity a complete mystery. It seems to me that it's the least important part of most movie monsters, and only serves to demystify them. They're a lot more intimidating and scary when we know next to nothing about them.
Godzilla was only a mutated Lizard in one movie which was the other American remake
I agree Godzilla is a lot older than they originally thought, I also wrote a paper, stating that he was from the Early Permian Period. ( The trilobite found in the sand).
R 18 March 2017 at 23:05
The original Godzilla was a mutated theropod, according to the King Ghidorah origin movie
Fun post Mark! An additional note on insect launching: the flight muscles of some insects actually anchor to the proximal portions of the walking appendages (i.e. the true limbs), and this may constrain which walking appendages are most effective for initiating launch. Since, as you note, they have a high ratio of power:weight thanks to small size, this anatomical quirk ultimately does little to constrain performance.
Duane Nash 24 May 2014 at 13:13
Cool post. I would add that the pudgy neck region makes sense for amphibious lifestyle. Reminds me of a seal.
Nice! I quite liked this post but I have a little question, is the proportionally smaller head with increased body mass also true for theropod dinosaurs? Van Valkenburg (1990) deals with carnivoran mammals and Christiansen (1999), from what I can read in the abstract, only deals with sauropodomorhs.
-Miguel
Hi Miguel,
Just to clarify, the papers I cited here both provide data and commentary on cranial allometry in extant animals (albeit in comparison with sauropodomorphs in one case) which I prefer when discussing general trends on animal form because of the many pitfalls associated with determining size and mass in fossil animals. But yes - obvious caveats aside - the trend of skull size reduction with respect to body mass is also present in theropods. Check out:
Therrien, F., & Henderson, D. M. (2007). My theropod is bigger than yours… or not: estimating body size from skull length in theropods. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27(1), 108-115.
Very nice post! I'm actually quite curious as to how you'd explain other monsters, like King Ghidorah and Gigan
Thanks for the comment. Sadly, my knowledge of other Godzilla creatures isn't good enough to comment on their feasibility. I'm sure there must be other articles on them out there, though.
In the original Japanese movie lore, King Ghidorah and Gigan are alien monsters from deep space. In addition, Gigan is also a cyborg and seems to work as a 'hitman' for various nefarious alien races. They probably won't fit any 'real-world' analysis.
King Ghidorah, Mothra, and Rodan are all appearing in the sequel to Godzilla 2014, Godzilla: King of Monsters. Maybe you'll make an article on those monsters later on, if you watch it when it comes out.
Darrell J. Pursiful 28 May 2014 at 10:09
This is really interesting. Thanks for posting! As for the flying MUTOs, based on your research on pterosaurs, I wonder if you'd care to weigh in on precisely how big is too big for a scientifically believable giant flying monster? 300 kg? 500?
Good question, but not one that's easy to answer. The way to think about this is that there's probably not a universal maximum size for anything in nature, but only a maximum size for given bauplans. So, for instance, flying birds seem to max out at about 80 kg, probably because of their relatively inefficient launch strategy. By contrast, pterosaurs can probably get a lot bigger (maybe 12 m or so across the wings, upwards of 250 kg), because their bauplan lends itself to more effective takeoff. But these limits only apply to pterosaurs and birds. Hypothetically, another type of flying animal could circumvent these constraints and get a lot larger, so long as its own evolution and anatomy were conducive to developing larger size. This is not to say that there is no limit (issues like tissue mechanics will start to be issues at certain sizes), but it's very difficult to put a cap on flying animal size overall.
I, say look at the humble Bee. How does he do it?
Valeriolete 13 April 2015 at 13:13
Even though I don't like this movie so much (the 1954 still a long way better then any godzilla movie made after), I think the MUTOs were a wonderful design. Not only they fly convincingly, but also the sound effects are pretty cool, mixing some sort of electronic sounds with real animal vocalization.
I just didn't get why would they develop a EMP pulse that only seems to work on man-made technology. It didn't even affect Godzilla or the humans! If it was just for communication or to sense its environment, the movie sound not show his using it as his first line of defense.
I also think that feeding on radiation, Godzilla wouldn't really have to breath at all. No need even for nostrils, much less to develop some sort of strange gills.
Also I don't see the MUTOs dislocate air while taking off. I think they would need a great force to push them into the air, so I expected to see a lot of air being pushed back.
My question about the MUTOs is this, hy would a prehistoric creature evolve an EMP weapon which would only be useful against modern technology?
Mark Witton 5 June 2014 at 12:11
Don't forget that a lot of modern animals are electrosensitive, and others are electrogenic. Most use this as a navigation aid, but others use larger electrical forces to stun prey or attackers. I see what the MUTO's do as a monster-movie extension of these physiologies and behaviours: in the movie's fictitious universe, MUTOs may have once existed with animals which were sensitive to their EMP, and they used in in attack or defence.
FigmentJedi 18 August 2014 at 20:40
Apparently the novelization explains the EMP attack evolved as a defense to protect themselves from Godzilla's atomic breath.
Hey, great discussion about all this biology. I'd put this movie up among the best in any list. I believe realistic modern science still makes really giant creatures unable to exist, but in the movie reality, we just have to accept that they do.
Great article and well researched. I quite enjoyed reading it. I know this was written a long time ago but I have a small correction to submit: in the second to last paragraph you state "The kimeatics of MUTOs takeoff" where I'm reasonably sure you meant to say "The kinematics of MUTOs takeoff"
Godzilla's ALWAYS had gills (excluding Zilla [1998 and 2004]). But back then, you couldn't really make them out. But the official source books state that they're located where the suit actor could see out (i.e., eye holes in the neck).
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Built In Austin Names Gotransverse One of 2021 Best Places to Work
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Interstate War
Friday Puzzler: Why the US Kills Its Enemies, Answered
By politicalviolenceataglance
Last week we asked why the US suddenly seems to have litte interest in capturing its enemies alive. We got lots of good answers. Reader Mark suggested that the messy nature of the war on terror has made trying suspected terrorists too difficult — unlike the post-WWII Nurenburg trials, there is no clear framework about how to try detainees like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. This point is echoed by Matt, who points out that trying terror suspects captured abroad would reveal the government’s processes of identifying and targeting individuals for public review. Similarly, Greg Sanders doubted if the US even has a workable method of trying terror suspects during an ongoing war, and Anothny suggests the US is unlikely to go the the trouble of capturing and publicly trying terror suspects unless it has good reason to: during the ideological contest of the early Cold War the US had a clear political incentive to make itself look just. Pauline looked at the question through the lens of US capabilities, asking “if the individual in question truly does pose an immediate threat to national security what options does the US really have, save relying on the tenuous (or nonexistent) capacities of local law enforcement in places such as Somalia or Yemen?”
None of these responses, however, explains why the U.S. might have wanted Saddam Hussein or Qaddafi dead, neither of whom were terrorists. And why wouldn’t the US want to appear equally just now that the Cold War is over?
Others challenged the premise of the question. Dan Trombly went into detail at his blog, arguing that current US policy isn’t that different from previous decades:
“In other words, killing enemy leaders or accepting that outcome has been a bipartisan U.S. foreign policy component for a long time, varying primarily on pragmatic circumstance. Differentiating the assumed lethality of the hypothetical trial of Hitler from the trial against Saddam relies on what I think is a questionable counterfactual case. The U.S. interest in killing its enemies does not seem particularly sudden. Killing enemy leaders through legal means has been chosen where it has been pragmatic (as in the case of Saddam or Tojo), and ignored where it has not been (as in the case of the various attempts or successful assassinations of the Cold War).”
This could very well be true, but it still begs the following question: under what conditions does it make sense to kill via legal means versus just on sight? For those wanting to read more on this subject see Fabius Maximus.
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Greg Sanders says:
As a slight clarification, I think there;s a variety of workable methods depending on the situation, from P.O.W. status to civilian courts. However, at the moment, they don’t seem to be politically viable and Congress has actively restricted such approaches in the instance of transfering detainees to the U.S. for trial. That said civilian trials for terrorists and wider use of P.O.W. camps for admittedly more conventional foes were politically viable not so long ago and I rather hope they will be again.
Taylor says that none of these responses explains why the US might have wanted Hussein or Qaddafi dead. I guess I sort of question the premise there. I actually don’t believe the US “wants” its enemies dead, I just think the US doesn’t feel the necessity of trying to capture and try them…and then they end up dead. Yes the US let the Iraqis deal with Hussein, and yes it was clear he was going to die at their hands. But it’s fallacious to assume that this is therefore why the US handed him over. The counterfactual is that if the US knew that Hussain would NOT have been sentenced to death by the Iraqis, that the US would have taken him someplace that would guarantee his death. I disagree, and I don’t see evidence to support this. And regarding Qaddafi, there was a great quote by one of the Libyan soldiers. To paraphrase him: “we sincerely wished to bring Qaddafi to trial for his actions, but it seems God had other plans for him.” What it makes it difficult to isolate the US as the cause of the death of these guys is that they are ALREADY surrounded by enemies at home. All it takes is for someone to “not” step in for them to end up dead. That’s what happened. So: nefarious plot by Americans to ensure its enemies die, or american policy of taking the path of least resistance? I say the latter. occam’s razor anyone?
I don’t see how there was a clear framework at Nuremberg either. The people involved discussed, argued about, and formulated a novel framework just for the occasion.
Tracy Lightcap says:
I came into this late, but there is another possibility. in some recent research Courtney Conrad and Jackie DeMerritt have found that when governments are denounced for torture, they often turn to other human rights violations that are easier to conceal to control their opponents.
It’s early days to see if that’s what’s going on here, but it fits: the US has enemies, we captured them, we tortured them, we tried to try them, and we got a massive amount of bad press and domestic uproar as a consequence. Perhaps the alternative of death from above suddenly looked more attractive. It’s a cinch that not too many people are going to be disturbed by strikes at the terrorists. We’ll probably learn more about this as the memoires come out.
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Lady Gaga Discusses Arizona Immigration Bill At Phoenix Concert
Lady Gaga weighed in on the Arizona immigration debate during a concert on Saturday night (July 31) at US Airways Center in Phoenix, voicing concerns about the state’s controversial SB 1070 bill. “We have to be active. We have to actively protest,” Gaga told the crowd of over 14,000. “I will not cancel my show. I will hold you, and we will hold each other, and we will protest this state.” Lady Gaga had the slogan “Stop SB 1070” scrawled on her forearm at the show. “I got a call from some big rappers and big rockers. They said, ‘We’d like you to boycott Arizona because of SB 1070’. I told them, ‘Do you really think that us … pop stars are going to shut down the state?'” Watch via YouTube below.
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Reg825 says:
This is of particular significance because Lady Gaga is more known for her support of gay rights. While the LGBTQ community as a whole tends to be supportive of other groups’ civil rights struggles, sometimes it is not always the case on the individual level. Mutual education on tolerance needs to be accentuated with both sets of immigrant rights supporters and LGBTQ rights supporters. Read more:
economicrefugee.net/lady-gaga-comes-out-against-arizonas-sb-1070-immigration-law/
Montana says:
“House Bill 2013” and “SB1070”
0 = Arizona
2 = USA/ Our Constitution/ We the People of the United States
We are a country that is ruled by the Constitution, Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence, not by the majority of the day. When you do not know the principles in these documents, therein lays the problem in losing when you are challenged in court.
This month of July 2010, our U.S. Federal courts have found the so called State of Arizona hate filled legislation namely “House Bill 2013” and “SB1070” Unconstitutional (So much for the intellect of Jan Brewer, “Did you read the bills you signed?”). But we all know that they will go crying to the Supreme Court of the United States, please, please, please go. We will fight you in Arizona, any other state, and yes in Washington DC. We will not tire, we will not be silent and we will persevere, I promise you.
In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme of clans; the Baggers, Birthers and Blowhards (people who love to push their beliefs and hate on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win in November. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”.
It’s all about politics: Jan Brewer you were never elected to be Governor, but you have no problem trying to get elected on the back of undocumented workers, you loser (sure you may win but the long-term effects to your so called State is just beginning). Here is a partial list of your hate filled legislation;
1. S.B. 1070,
2. House Bill 2013
3. No permit conceal weapons law,
4. The famous Birthers law,
5. Banning Ethnic studies law,
6. Could she be behind the Mural in Prescott, Arizona, ordered to be whiten,
7. On deck to pass, no citizenship to babies born to undocumented workers,
8. If she can read she should look up Arizona’s House Bill 2779 from two years ago (which was un-constitution and failed when legally challenged),
9. The boycotted Martin Luther King Day, what idiots don’t want another holiday? Yes, you guessed it Arizona.
Well Arizona, you can keep boycotting new holidays, passing hate filled legislation and the rest of our country will continue to challenge you in court of law and Boycott your so-called state.
Lets face it, no one can real believe anything that comes out of Brewer’s mouth, in an interview, this year, in an attempt to gain sympathy, she first said her father had died in Germany fighting the Nazi in World War II (which ended 1945) but of course we find out the truth that father was never in Germany and died in California in 1955. But we are suppose to believe everything else she says, right!
As they say in the World Cup: Goal!
SPO101 says:
Brewer already had her own prison scandal of sorts: two of her staff members are lobbyists for Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) which stands to benefit from Arizona’s criminalization of undocumented immigrants and their being held as prisoners under SB 1070, it takes fear mongering to another level. Let’s all hope and pray that this latest prison escape does not turn out as badly as the Tison gang did in 1978, so Jan time to prep your answers for the Department of Corrections.
So the Republicans are FINALLY admitting they’re OUT OF IDEAS and asking the public for input (Yah right they listen). Here’s my advice… if you want the Republican Party to make a comeback then QUIT being HO’s for those vain, self-serving, power mad, greed stricken silver spoon con artists that are running the multi-national corporations. Make Newt Gingrich, Tom Delay, Phil Gramm and those Conservative think tanks ADMIT they sold out the American middle class with the hidden legislation of the 90’s (in sort tell the truth).
SOMEONE take responsibility for the Bush/Cheney DISASTER. Fess up to all the waste, fraud, abuse, scandal, sexual deviancy, corruption, lies, deregulation, incompetence, job outsourcing, off-shore tax evasion, reckless economics, corporate welfare, war profiteering, Constitutional violations AND a Corporate Crime Wave of epic proportions. The WORST looting of a nation’s wealth and resources in the history of MANKIND!
And even after the American PEOPLE were just starting to recover then the ghost of Bush/Cheney oil drilling deregulation comes back to haunt the Gulf coast Red States. Y’know, those right-wing nutcases were chanting “drill baby drill” and get the government outta of their lives like they belonged to a fanatical cult. That oily disaster in the Gulf was NOT AN ACT OF GOD! It was the result of incompetent, scandalous government bureaucrats allowing the Oil Drilling Industrial Complex to cut corners… Collusion/Collaboration BETWEEN the Oil Industry and Federal Regulators? WHAT THE #*/!
NOW these hypocrites are blaming Obama/Biden for not saving them from BP’s oily disaster.
The Republican/Conservative culture didn’t take the time to consider our coastal borders could be breached (you listen to Rush Limbaugh instead of Greenpeace), people misplaced and natural environment destroyed for decades. All those tax dollars put into Homeland Security and we let Halliburton, BP and TransOcean do the equivalent of nuking the whole Gulf region of our nation. Oil radiating around Florida to reek havoc on the entire East Coast. AND FORGET ABOUT EATING THE SEAFOOD!
I’m going to make sure the history textbooks show what a bunch of silly stupid, self-absorbed, victimized, apathetic COWARDS you Conservatives wackos turned out to be (1980-2010). “I’m wondering if those who support that so-called Tea Party Movement really know where Republicans are leading them? It seems like the Tea Party rank and file are being used by a bunch of vain, self-serving, evil, power mad, greed stricken, K-Street Con Artists. The scum of the earth who hide their hideous faces by using Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin as spokespersons. Just look at their agenda items. It‘s like Ken Lay’s or Jack Abramoff’s wet dream:
1) Repeal Health Insurance Reform
2) Privatize Social Security or abolish it.
3) End Medicare
4) Extend Bush Tax Cuts for wealthy and Big Oil
5) Repeal Wall Street reform
6) Protect those responsible for Gulf oil disaster and future environmental catastrophes
7) Abolish or cut funding to Department of Education
8) Abolish Dept. of Energy
9) Abolish Environmental Protection Agency
10) Repeal 17th Amendment
11) Rewrite Bible and school textbooks,
12) Replace JESUS with Glenn Beck, Frank Church with Joe McCarthy…
13) After USA is destroyed by Republican Party low grade thought processes, BLAME Democrats/Liberals…”
Remember when the Soviets used to say “America would be destroyed from within”? Who knew it would be the Republican Party to make the Commie’s dream come true. Is there REALLY Americans out there who were ignorant enough to vote for these Republican LOSERS? consciousmc.blogspot.com
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The Titanic Menu at Rayanne House
The Titanic Menu is a recreation of the last menu served in the first class restaurant on board the iconic ship. The Titanic was the most famous ship ever and was proudly designed and built in Belfast between 1909 and 1912.
Chef Conor has meticulously recreated the menu that was served to the renowned passengers such as Benjamin Guggenheim and the unsinkable Molly Brown. The menu is as sumptuous as you would expect, with nine lavish courses boasting gourmet delights from the Edwardian Era.
Dating back to 1886, Rayanne House is the perfect setting for such a unique dining experience. The period grand residence's decor reflects that of the ship's opulence and Rayanne House has a treasured print by esteemed artist JW Carey that shows the Titanic in Belfast Lough with Rayanne House in the background.
This unique dining experience is served in the beautiful period dining room, with views of Belfast Lough from where Titanic would have sailed down the Lough on her maiden voyage on April 10th 1912.
The Titanic Menu is available for private parties and due to popular demand... for couples and small groups on various dates.
Dates for the Titanic Menu open for non- private dining:
9 course Titanic Menu -16th January, 13th February, 13th March (More 2021 dates TBC)
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Authority Revisited: Towards Thomas More and Erasmus in 1516
Lectio International Conference 30th November - 3rd December 2016, University of Leuven, Belgium
In the year 1516, two crucial texts for the cultural history of the West saw the light: Thomas More’s Utopia and Desiderius Erasmus’s Novum Instrumentum. Both of these works dealt freely with authoritative sources of western civilization and opened new pathways of thought on the eve of invasive religious and political changes.
Lectio and the University of Leuven, in collaboration with its RefoRC-partners the Johannes a Lasco Library Emden and the Europäische Melanchthon Akademie Bretten as well as other partners, will mark the 500th birthday of both foundational texts by organizing a conference, from November 30 through December 2, 2016. The university city of Leuven is a most appropriate place to have this conference organized, since it was intimately involved in the genesis and the history of both works.
The conference will be devoted to studying not only the reception and influence of Utopia and the Novum Instrumentum in (early) modern times, but also their precursors in classical antiquity, the patristic period, and the middle ages. The conference will thus lead to a better understanding of how More and Erasmus used their sources, and it will address the more encompassing question of how these two authors, through their own ideas and their use of authoritative texts, have contributed to the rise of modern western thought.
The conference also explicitly aims at enhancing our understanding of iconographic, book-, and art-historical aspects of the transmission of the texts under consideration, both before and after the publication of the two works.
This multidisciplinary Lectio conference wants to bring together international scholars working in the field of theology, art history, philosophy, history of science and historical linguistics.
Thomas More: Utopia Revisited
More’s colorful description of the allegedly recently discovered island of Utopia was so influential as to lend its name to a literary genre. At the same time, although the name Utopia is a neologism invented in More's circle , the utopian tradition reaches back to antiquity.
Papers are invited on the following topics:
The best known examples from classical antiquity are Plato’s descriptions of the ideal state. Yet there are other instances, such as the myth of the golden age, elaborated in many different ways by numerous ancient writers. In addition, More had a thorough knowledge of the works by Greek and Roman thinkers such as Plutarch, Lucian, Cicero, and Seneca. The conference aims to map these ancient representations of the ideal state and to study the way in which More was influenced by them.
Equally influential is the Christian tradition, most prominently laid down in Augustine’s City of God, a text of central importance that marks the transition from antiquity to the middle ages. Augustine’s eschatological view of the perfect City may, for example, be the subject of contributions to the conference. By extension, the various forms of the mythical account of Cockaigne enter the picture as possible topics.
Also of direct impact on Utopia were reports about the New World (for example in the letters of Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus, or Peter Martyr of Anghiera) and the images of the New World in Europe. It would be an interesting contribution to the conference to study in which ways the discovery and description of an “unspoiled” world and its inhabitants inspired More’s views.
Renaissance humanists also influenced More’s Utopia. The most renowned example is, of course, Erasmus. But the views of other humanists, like Pico della Mirandola, also shaped More’s thought. Similarly, the scholastic tradition deserves to be studied in at this juncture. Renaissance humanism and scholasticism were difficult to reconcile, according to More, and on more than one occasion he sets one over against the other.
The conference shall also pay due attention to the reception of Utopia in early modern times, both in the vernacular and in Latin. Authors such as Tommaso Campanella, Vasco de Quiroga, Francis Bacon, Johann Eberlin, Kaspar Stiblin, and Johann Valentin Andreae may be investigated in this regard, as well as the genre of the picaresque novel.
Of particular interest are iconographic, book-, and art-historical aspects of the transmission of Utopia as well as the works of More’s predecessors.
Erasmus: The New Testament Revisited
Erasmus’s revision of the New Testament text was groundbreaking. Obviously, however, Erasmus’s foundational work cannot be properly understood apart from his predecessors’ endeavors to translate the Bible and to comment on it, or to deal with the Bible from a text-critical perspective.
Papers studying biblical exegesis in Christian antiquity and its reception in the works by Erasmus. More in particular, paper topics may include Jerome’s Vulgata, Origen’s Hexapla, and relevant commentaries on Scripture, such as those of Chrysostom and others. Erasmus’s recourse to classical language and culture in the Annotationes to his New Testament may also be the subject of paper proposals.
Medieval biblical exegesis: Even though self-declared pioneers like Erasmus and the Renaissance humanists were not keen to be associated with medieval biblical exegesis, this aspect of possible influences and sources cannot be neglected. The conference invites contributions on the biblical Renaissance of the twelfth century and later (among others, the Glossa ordinaria, Hugh of St. Victor and the Parisian Victorines, Peter Comestor, Peter Cantor and Stephen Langton, Hugh of St. Cher and Nicholas of Lyra). In sum, the conference aims to explore the extent to which Erasmus and his fellow humanists integrated the progress made by medieval biblical exegesis.
The link between Erasmus and Renaissance humanism, both in northern Europe (Agricola, Cornelius Gerardi Aurelius) and in Italy (Lorenzo Valla, Gianozzo Manetti). The main question is here how Erasmus’s Christian humanism did relate to the broader cultural historical current of renewed textual criticism.
The reception of Erasmus’s text-critical and exegetical work in the early modern era will be explored through the establishment of (new) authoritative version(s) of the New Testament and the debates that accompanied the process (Novum Instrumentum, Vulgata, Textus Receptus) as well as the elaboration of humanist, Protestant, and Catholic exegesis, from Luther and Melanchthon through Beza, from Dorpius, Franciscus Lucas Brugensis and Jansenius Gandavensis, via Estienne, Arias Montanus, through Maldonatus, etc. We further look forward to receiving papers on how Erasmus’ New Testament was used in the development of early modern vernacular versions, on all sides of the confessional spectrum.
Of particular interest are iconographic, book-, and art-historical aspects of the transmission of the texts, both of Erasmus’s predecessors and of Erasmus’s Novum Instrumentum.
Papers may be given in English or French and the presentation should take 20 minutes.
To submit a proposal, please send an abstract of approximately 300 words (along with your name, academic affiliation and contact information) to lectio@kuleuven.be by January 15, 2016. Notification of acceptance will be given by the end of March 2016.
The publication of selected papers is planned in a volume to be included in the peer-reviewed LECTIO Series (Brepols Publishers).
Invited speakers:Gillian Clark (University of Bristol)
Henk Jan De Jonge (Leiden University)
Günter Frank (Europäische Melanchthon Akademie)
Brad Gregory (University of Notre Dame)
Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Janseniusstraat 1, 3000 Leuven
Erik De Bom, Anthony Dupont, Wim François, Jan Papy, Marleen Reynders, Andrea Robiglio, Violet Soen, Gerd Van Riel
Rita Beyers (U Antwerpen), Erik De Bom (KU Leuven), Anthony Dupont (KU Leuven), Wim François (KU Leuven), Günter Frank (Europäische Melanchthon Akademie, Bretten), Jan Papy (KU Leuven), Andrea Robiglio (KU Leuven), Herman Selderhuis (Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden), Violet Soen (KU Leuven), Gerd Van Riel (KU Leuven), Wim Verbaal (U Gent)
Lectio KU Leuven
Faculties of Arts, Law, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Blijde Inkomststraat 5
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Shakespeare and European Theatrical Cultures: AnAtomizing Text and Stage
27 – 30 July 2017 University of Gdańsk and The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Poland http://esra2017.eu
Seminars announcement http://esra2017.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ESRA_-_SEMINARS.pdf
This conference will convene Shakespeare scholars at a theatre that proudly stands in the place where English players regularly performed 400 years ago. This makes us ponder with renewed interest the relation between theatre and Shakespeare. The urge to do so may sound like a commonplace, but it comes to us enhanced by the fact that in the popular and learned imagination alike Shakespeare is inseparable from theatre while the theatre, for four centuries now, first in England, then on the continent (Europe) and eventually in the world, has been more and more strongly defined and shaped by Shakespeare. Shakespeare has become the theatrical icon, a constant point of reference, the litmus paper for the formal, technological and ideological development of the theatre, and for the impact of adaptation and appropriation on theatrical cultures. Shakespeare has served as one of the major sources for the development of European culture, both high and low. His presence permeates the fine shades and fissures of a multifarious European identity. His work has informed educational traditions, and, through forms of textual transmit such as translation and appropriation, has actively contributed to the process of building national distinctiveness. Shakespeare has been one of the master keys and, at the same time, a picklock granting easier access to the complex and challenging space of European and universal values.
Please send your abstracts and biographies to seminar organisers (and cc conference organisers at gdansk@esra2017.eu) not later than 31 January 2017.
Organising committee, ESRA 2017:
Prof. Jerzy Limon, convenor | University of Gdańsk and the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre
Prof. Jacek Fabiszak, co-convenor | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the Polish Shakespeare Society
Prof. Olga Kubińska | University of Gdańsk and the Polish Shakespeare Society
Dr. Aleksandra Sakowska | The Shakespeare Institute (UK)
Marta Nowicka | Conference Coordinator for the University of Gdansk
Anna Ratkiewicz-Syrek | Conference Coordinator for the Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre
You are now invited to submit papers for the following seminars:
SEMINARS LIST
1. Avant-Garde Shakespeares/Shakespeare in the Avant-Garde Conveners: Aleksandra Sakowska, The Shakespeare Institute (UK), Lucian Ghita, Clemson University (USA)
2. “The accent of his tongue affecteth him:” “Accentism” and/in Shakespeare Conveners: Carla Della Gatta (University of Southern California, USA), Adele Lee (University of Greenwich, UK)
3. “There are more things in heaven and earth”: Shakespeare’s philosophy, philosophy’s Shakespeare revisited Conveners: Katarzyna Burzyńska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Annie Martirosyan (Independent scholar, Armenia)
4. “You must needs be strangers”: Shakespeare and the Scenography of Mobility Conveners: Miguel Ramalhete Gomes (University of Porto, Portugal), Remedios Perni (University of Murcia, Spain), Christian Smith (University of Warwick, UK)
5. Shakespeare and Translation for the Stage Conveners: Madalina Nicolaescu (University of Bucharest), Marta Gibinska (Jagiellonian University)
6. ‘The strangers’ case’ and the ‘tracks’ of performance Conveners: Boika Sokolova (University of Notre Dame – USA / London Global Gateway), Janice Valls-Russell (Research Institute for the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Era and the Enlightenment (IRCL), University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France)
7. Anatomizing Shakespearean Myth-making: Game of Thrones Conveners: Thea Buckley (The Shakespeare Institute and the RSC, UK), Paul Hamilton, Independent scholar (USA), Timo Uotinen (Royal Holloway, UK)
8. Shakespeare and European Writers: Inspiration, Resistance, Authority Conveners: Juan F. Cerdá (University of Murcia), Ángel-Luis Pujante (University of Murcia), Rui Carvalho Homem (University of Porto)
9. Staged on the Page: Transmedial Shakespeare in Theatre and Visual Arts Conveners: Anna Wołosz-Sosnowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland), Megan Holman (Northumbria University, United Kingdom)
10. Race in European Theatrical Cultures: Border Crossings and Hybrid Identities Conveners: Christy Desmet and Sujata Iyengar, University of Georgia (USA), Krystyna Kujawińska-Courtney, University of Łódź (Poland)
11. The name of action: actors of Shakespeare and Shakespearean actors Convener: Miranda F Thomas (Shakespeare’s Globe and University of Greenwich)
12. Shakespeare and Music Conveners: Michelle Assay (Université de Paris Sorbonne, France/Canada/Iran), David Fanning (University of Manchester, UK), Christopher Wilson (University of Hull, UK)
13. Shakespearean Drama and the Early Modern European Stage Conveners: Lukas Erne (University of Geneva), Ton Hoenselaars (Utrecht University)
14. He do Shakespeare in Different Voices: The use of Regional Accents and Dialects Conveners: Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University), Domenico Lovascio (University of Genoa)
15. Magic through ritual objects and stage props: Early Modern practices and Modern adaptations Conveners: Pierre Kapitaniak (University of Montpellier), Natalia Brzozowska (Kujawy and Pomorze University in Bydgoszcz)
16. Shakespeare and the Politics of Location Conveners: Magdalena Cieślak (University of Łódź), Francesca Rayner (Universidade do Minho)
17. The influence of Shakespeare’s tragic dramatic approach on European thought on justice Conveners: Reina Brouwer (University of Leiden, Campus The Hague, The Netherlands), Zsuzsánna Kiss (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church Budapest)
18. Staging Utopias: Shakespeare in Print and Performance Conveners: Delilah Bermudez Brataas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik (Wyższa Szkoła Europejska, Kraków, Poland)
19. Shakespeare in performance in digital media Conveners: Urszula Kizelbach (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Imke Lichterfeld (University of Bonn)
Download seminars list here to find out more! http://esra2017.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ESRA_-_SEMINARS.pdf
Confirmed PLENARY LECTURES:
Professor Małgorzata Grzegorzewska, University of Warsaw Professor
Diana Henderson, MIT Professor Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame Luc Perceval, the Hamburg Thalia Theatre
Confirmed PANELS and roundtables: http://esra2017.eu/general-information/panels/
The conference takes place during the 21st International Shakespeare Festival http://festiwalszekspirowski.pl/en/home-2/festival/ at the Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29201993
Ben Jonson’s Workes and their contexts: 400 years on
12 November 2016, 10am-4.30pm
Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield
This day conference, hosted by the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, celebrates the 400th anniversary of Ben Jonson’s folio Workes. Its publication was a landmark in English literary history, grouping together Jonson’s work in multiple genres, implicitly aligning him with the classic authors of the past, and embodying his writing in a monumental, thousand-page object.
The conference brings together specialists from a range of disciplines both to explore the text of the Workes and to consider Jonson in relation to the wider social and cultural forms of his day. These include music, the visual arts, clothing, and drinking, as well as the multimedia performance that was his 1618 walk to Scotland.
Martin Butler (Leeds)
John Cunningham (Bangor)
Anna Groundwater (Edinburgh), James Loxley (Edinburgh) and Julie Sanders (Newcastle), representing ‘Ben Jonson’s Walk to Scotland’
Tamsin Lewis (Passamezzo)
Eleanor Lowe (Oxford Brookes)
Jane Rickard (Leeds)
Matthew Steggle (Sheffield Hallam)
Crosby Stevens (Sheffield)
Phil Withington (Sheffield), representing ‘Intoxicants and Early Modernity’
Registration opens soon; for more details, see here.
Dr Tom Rutter
Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama Co-convenor,
MA English Studies Online School of English University of Sheffield
Jessop West 1
Upper Hanover Street
S3 7RA
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/people/rutter Co-editor, _Shakespeare_: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rshk20
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Divis Sweeney BS: The Curse of Cromwell (130* d) RE: BS: The Curse of Cromwell 15 Oct 06
St. Kitts was once the jewel of England's possessions in the New World as its shipping hub and largest sugar producer. 25,000 Irish men and women shipped in bondage as slaves by Cromwell to St. Kitts worked on these sugar plantations long before five star meals and Pina Coladas were being served.
Never before exposed to tropical heat, sun, and insects after being torn from whatever was left of their families after Cromwell's army ravaged the country, the Irish faced misery as slave labourers.
English shipping of Irish slaves to the New World earlier in the 1600s has been documented in many works. In 1612 Irish people were sent to the Amazon River settlements. An English Proclamation of the year 1625 urges banishment overseas of dangerous rogues (Irish political prisoners).69% of all white people on the island were Irish.
By 1650 during Cromwell's unfathomable reign of terror in Ireland the numbers of Irish sent into slavery were unlike anything previously experienced. Remember that in 1641 Ireland had a population of 1,466,000 and by 1652 the population was down to only 616,000. According to Sir William. Petty, ``850,000 were wasted by the sword, plague, famine, banishment during the Confederation War 1641-1652.'' By the end of the war estimates vary from 80,000 to 130,000 of Irish men, women and children captured for sale as slaves to labour in England's expanding empire. The English were quite proud of these accomplishments as can be noted in Prendergast, ``Thurloe's State Papers'' (published in London in 1742), ``It was a measure beneficial to Ireland, which was thus relieved of a population that might trouble the planters; it was a benefit to the people removed, who might thus be made English and Christian, a great benefit to the West Indies sugar planters, who desired men and boys for their bondsmen, and the women and Irish girls to solace them''. Under James I, Cromwell burned the Irish forests to prevent people hiding from banishment as well as clearing the countryside for pasture land to feed cattle for English beef.
Over 100,000 young children who were orphans or had been taken from their Catholic parents, were sent abroad into slavery in the West Indies, Virginia, and New England. Many of the 25,000 Irish slaves on St. Kitts died from tropical heat, disease, or overwork.
Sure tell you what, we will just over look this one.Good enough for the paddies, better still, maybe it didn't happen.
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Wright, Race and Contested Stories
July 14, 2008 April 6, 2008 by Gershom Gorenberg
If you want to understand why Rev. Jeremiah Wright said the US government invented Aids, or what Barack Obama sought to accomplish in his Philadelphia speech on race, the best commentary is political scientist Marc Howard Ross’s book “Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict” – even if it never mentions Obama or Wright.
I described Ross’s book in my recent American Prospect piece about the smears against on Robert Malley and the shoutfest over Israeli-Palestinian history. Ross describes the critical role of the stories that
…ethnic groups build to explain their past, their present, and their relation to their opponents. The narratives are “compelling, coherent” and link “specific events to that group’s general understandings.”
They are also selective and inaccurate. Disagreement with a group’s memory is often perceived as an attack on its identity, if not its existence.
Ross certainly isn’t the first to talk about a shared narrative as part of ethnic identity. In Israel, there’s constant discussion in the tenure-track class of the Israeli narrative and the Palestinian narrative and how they don’t fit together. For Israelis, 1948 means independence; for Palestinians, the same date equals catastrophe. For Israelis, the southeast corner of Jerusalem’s Old City is the Temple Mount, proof of Jews’ ancient connection to their land; for Palestinians, the same place is Al-Aqsa Mosque, the place where Islam and Palestinian nationalism are fused together.
But Ross gives the best description I’ve seen yet of how such narratives are put together, turning all of history into a justification for group identity today – and also of how strange the story sounds to outsiders. Two groups can live side by side, overlapping, among each other, talk about the same history – and select such different facts, give such different explanations of those facts, that it sounds like they are talking about two distant countries. To one group, the other’s story sounds ludicrous. But if you attack a group’s story, you attack the very meaning of its world. Criticize your own group’s story, even softly, and you are likely to be considered a turncoat. And yet, as Ross also notes, within the same ethnic community, there are also conflicting versions of the story.
Politicians and preachers are often high priests of a group’s story. Members of minorities usually know better than to tell their story when the majority is present. Growing up as an American Jew, I learned at an age too young for me to remember that the story we told around the table in my Jewish home – a story out of jokes and horror and jokes about horror – was not to be told at public school.
Observed through Ross’s lens, the Wright affair was a standard, bitter fight over narrative. Wright told one variation of an African-American narrative. To white listeners, that story was not only irrational but an act of aggression – in that it portrayed whites as aggressive. Obama, running as a multiracial candidate, needed both to reject the story and avoid doing so.
For the least upset of white listeners, Rev. Wright was loony to suggest that Aids is a government plot against blacks. (As loony, say, as a Palestinian saying that there was never a Temple at the Temple Mount sounds to Israelis.) But a 2005 survey of African-Americans aged 15-44 found:
27 percent believe AIDS was produced in a government laboratory;
15 percent said AIDS is a form of genocide against blacks; and
16 percent say the government created AIDS to control the black population.
Earlier, a 1999 survey reached similar findings, ad showed that “blacks who agreed that AIDS is a conspiracy against them tended to be culturally traditional, college-educated men who had experienced considerable racial discrimination.” In other words, Wright was repeating a well known variation on an accepted story. The variation was a minority view, perhaps infuriating to some blacks, but not a surprise to them.
The Aids-conspiracy story suffers from the fallacy of intent (someone deliberately made this happen) and the monolithic fallacy – our opponents act as one, lead by their government. Not only are those common flaws in ethnic narratives, they are particularly infuriating to the opposing group. On the other hand, the story fits an essential piece of the larger, shared black narrative: We’ve suffered hatred, neglect and deliberate government abuse. There is more fact in that story than many whites feel comfortable acknowledging. The Aids story says that this latest plague fits the larger, coherent and unchanging African-American reality.
As a candidate, Obama couldn’t disown Wright completely because to do so would be to attack not just the Aids story but the wider narrative, and thereby to attack his own community. Instead, he criticized a third basic flaw of ethnic narratives: the fallacy of timelessness: The past is the present is the future.
Very softly, he also alluded to a white, working-class American narrative of blacks getting unfair advantages. He had to be even more delicate with this one – after all, in the American story, someone half-white is all black, so he’s an outsider. And he’s a candidate, seeking consensus – not a professor or a pundit. He couldn’t say that working class whites sometimes blame blacks for their lack of opportunity because America’s story of itself doesn’t have much room for explanations based on entrenched class privilege.
So what he did instead was to try to offer a new, shared American narrative: All this racial tension is real, it’s part of our past. But the real American story is about constant progress toward a “more perfect union.” Even the constitution started out stained by racism – but can be perfected.
He also offered a symbol for the change: himself. I’m not black, he said, I embody the multiracial future, I’m America reborn.
A new narrative, obviously, isn’t going to solve the practical aspects of the racial conflict in America. It won’t end black poverty. But as Ross has written, solving the practical problems is only part of any process of ethnic reconciliation. The stories do have to be rewritten; new symbols do have to be found, or old ones reinterpreted.
As someone not enamored of personal saviors, I’m uncomfortable with Obama making himself into the symbol of reconciliation. His willingness to present himself as the answer provides the waft of psychological truth in the comments about “Obama is Jesus.”
But it also seems that he belongs to a rare group of leaders who understand that they reshape the stories instead of being prisoners of them, that they can take old symbols and give them new meanings, so that people look at their past and suddenly imagine new possibilities.
It’s not a unique skill. In his book, Ross describes how King Juan Carlos of Spain opened the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. Barcelona is in Catalonia, whose people regard themselves as members of the Catalan nation. For Spaniards, Spain was hosting the Olympics. Catalans had a different idea. At the opening ceremony, Juan Carlos declared “Welcome to Barcelona” – in Catalan. It was as he had said, “I am the king of Catalonia, and of Spain, sister-nations.” Pope John Paul II performed similar magic during his 2000 visit to Israel when he prayed at the Western Wall, affirming by gesture the validity of Judaism and altering the dynamic of Jewish-Catholic relations.
Obama, on the other hand, likes to talk. So he told a different story about America, in which whites and blacks are working together. If he can get other people to tell that story, he might change history – that is to say, history itself, memory.
To which I should add one more point that Ross makes – it’s not necessary for two groups in conflict to agree on one shared story. It’s not even likely. They do need to learn a way of telling the past that leaves room for living together. At a great remove from my native country, I can see how Obama is trying to do that. All together immersed in Israeli-Palestinian madness, I find it hard to imagine how each side in this conflict will rewrite what we tell about the past, about the places we contest, about the future. But it’s quite clear we need to do so.
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huntingdonpost
I think Obama has to tell another story, about his sexism. I got quite a jolt out of this blog:
http://1dumblonde.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/barack-obama-and-the-harvard-law-review-sexism-and-murder/.
I like your post. It’s very thoughtful and requires careful reading. My feeling is that we know very little about Sen. Obama and that is the problem. The conversation he wants to have needs to be done over time, and he wants to be president NOW.
His allusion to the white working class narrative, which you point out, is interesting, because he is himself of an immigrant background, not a traditional African-American background.
Chris Dornan
A lucid and enlightening article, and I agree with almost everything you say, except your point about Obama offering himself as a symbol of reconciliation. Perhaps for those of us used to parliamentary systems it is odd, but the US presidency is all about offering yourself up as a symbol. I do not understand those that say that Obama’s skill with words should count against him–politics is all about words and getting people lined up in the same direction to get sh*t done. The career civil servants get on with the real work. The way he has assembled his team, attacked the machine and dealt with all of the stuff thrown at him has been mighty impressive.
Part of his appeal is that he represents change–to that end he couldn’t have decades in office, otherwise he would be part of the system, right. I can only judge according to the options placed before me, and of the three options, the prospect of Obama not getting in is pretty scary. I am sure if I was an American I would feel the same way.
Anne E
huntingdonpost- I think it’s a unreasonable to associate Obama with a sexist (and sick) satire that took place a year after he left Harvard Law School.
Gershom- Although the idea that the US government created the AIDS virus is obviously false, there are reasons why it might seem plausible to some in Wright’s congregation. There’s the Tuskegee experiment, in which hundreds of African-Americans with syphillis were left deliberately untreated to study the progress of the disease- until 1972.
And as a caucasian American, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard other whites complaining about the African-American birth rate or wanting plans to lower it (“if they want food stamps, they damn welll should be sterilized first”). Back in the 70s and early 80s, several married, middle class black friends of mine heard ugly comments in public when they were pregnant. That kind of stuff doesn’t happen much now, thank goodness, but it did in the quite recent past.
Thank you Anne E. I’ve been shocked that more people haven’t brought up Tuskegee. With a history like this, it’s no wonder that people think it might happen again.
This article was wonderful.
I thought this blog post was very thoughtful and I enjoyed reading it. As a 33 year old women from the U.S. what I find most interesting is that for me, and many of my generation, when Obama talks about a reality “in which whites and blacks are working together” he is speaking OUR narrative. We hear the narratives of the Rev. Wrights, as well as the Baby Boomer women who see Hillary Clinton as just desserts for years of sexism, and we don’t identify with it.
It is the narrative of unity and understanding that speaks to post – Baby Boomers and that is one reason why we overwhelmingly support Barack Obama.
fear is the base of waitíng for Obama to be luminated, it is the fear of the unknown of the other, of the black, of the person with the funny name.
Obama needs to be luminated, need to be studied, for how long. this was the racial motive for the voters of New Hampshire who came in droves and stood in line in the snow, but still voted for Hillary. it was also the motive of the 3.am ad against him.
do we know him, translate itself in to, is he white?
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Published on February 29th, 2020 | by Sportingly Better Tipster
League Cup Final Betting Tips – Aston Villa v Man City
Sunday’s Carabao Cup Final match see’s red-hot favourites Manchester City take on underdogs Aston Villa at Wembley.
Sportingly Better takes a look at the best betting angles ahead of the 60th League Cup final in London.
English League Cup Final Tips
Aston Villa (19.00) v Manchester City (1.14); Draw (8.50)
Favourites Manchester City will be hopeful of a third successive League Cup triumph this weekend, after winning the last two editions of the competition.
Pep Guardiola’s side remain overwhelming favourites and although the Citizens are 22 points behind Liverpool in the Premier League, Manchester City could still conceivably win three trophies this season, with the North West club still going strong in both the Champions League and FA Cup.
The Citizens came away with an excellent 2-1 win at Real Madrid in Europe’s most elite competition and that’s despite Sergio Aguero, Raheem Sterling, Fernandinho and David Silva all being left out of the starting XI.
Opponents Aston Villa it seems, have it all to do.
Villa manager Dean Smith has already conceded that his side are “massive underdogs” to win on Sunday, but historically at least, the Villains can find some comfort in this competition scooping the trophy in five out of nine finals they’ve appeared in.
The Midlands side unfortunately however, head into Sunday’s match at betting odds as big as 19.00 with various sports betting and online casinos sites and these odds may yet drift further before kick-off.
League Cup and Opponent Domination
Whilst it’s true that Manchester City’s League Cup success can only be bettered by Liverpool, it’s the most recent history that makes for the most impressive reading.
Manchester City have won the League Cup trophy in four of the last six seasons and away from this competition, it’s the Citizens that carry yet another dominating record, this time against their opponents.
Manchester City have won seven of their last eight matches against Aston Villa in all competitions including a 6-1 victory in the most recent Premier League encounter in January.
The Aguero Factor
A cup final wouldn’t be the same without Sergio Aguero and this Sunday looks to be no exception.
The Argentinean forward who was rested in the week, has scored five goals in his last nine appearances at Wembley, so the betting odds to score anytime at 1.50 just about provide some value in the betting market.
Aguero has also been rife against opponents Aston Villa as well recently, scoring nine goals in his last five starts, including a hat-trick in the Premier League in January.
Aguero is clearly a player that the Villains have been unable to cope with this term and the Argentina international is likely to be the dangerman for the Midlands side again this weekend.
Manchester City have already comprehensively beaten Aston Villa 3-0 and 6-1 in the top flight this season and given the Citizens recent history and dominance in the competition, expect Sunday’s encounter to go only one way.
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Aggregators of anxiety By Barrett White
Aggregators of anxiety
Barrett White
Artist Jon Rafman captures the anxiety unleashed by the aggregations of Russian trolls and Cambridge Analytica.
In glistening, antidepressant blue, a geist-like figure rises from the collapsed body of what appears to be a crash test dummy. Skeletal coils drift like smoke in the darkness. So begins Poor Magic, a 2017 video by Canadian artist Jon Rafman.
We are greeted by a blue template figure: a puppet standing in an endless voidscape. A slight lag pulls against its stumbling movements as an errant red cube strikes its head from above. The scene plays out like a broken pharmaceutical commercial or banal, affectless theater.
A group of human figures march into a spinning rectangle, dumbly, a relay gone wrong. They behave as sleepwalking zombies whose formation is gleefully scattered, sending figures reeling and collapsing splayed.
Their world is one of total rendering: they exist in the same plane as other dimensions that can be found in various corners of YouTube: Blender simulations and experiments of falling buildings, fluid crashing against invisible enclosures, and chess pieces splattering like goo.
Sometimes we are taken into a fleshy wormhole, as seen from the perspective of a surgical camera delving into an infected esophagus, and then further, into an indiscriminate Gore Zone of pulsating innards.
Our blue tour guide, through this pixelated carnage, resembles a sedated version of the Google DeepMind AI, struggling to teach itself how to run. It is sometimes visited by other blue and grey figures, all identical. The artist crashes these dummies together with an invisible hand, click-and-drag, throwing them about like ragdolls.
Film still from “Poor Magic” by Jon Rafman.
But Rafman saves the most catastrophic, violent treatments for his humans. The blue figure watches them from the Gore Zone on a large screen, as if within some Cronenbergian installation (or Rafman’s own). “Trapped in this shadow world my mind eats itself,” the narrator mutters. From an aerial view, bodies go flying in an invisible explosion. A shaky camera from a closer perspective captures a mass of people rushing forward, inarticulately flailing as if gushing from a tube. Some clusters of the human figures appear to be dressed as sports fans, a nod towards mob mentality and the production of sameness. The figures are treated like a weather, or some other surging, uncanny hive entity: Ants spiral around an iPhone. Maggots cluster atop rotten meat. Soldiers goose-step.
In almost military fashion, the bodies march and run into walls. They are awkward digital flash mobs trapped in minimalist architectural structures, warring helplessly against their environment: both template and prison. Their accrual and distortion continues for several minutes, interspersed with a scene of the blue figure being piled full of flying weaponry. Morbidly cartoonish, it stands unfazed.
In the final scene, the blue figure crawls through the Gore Zone, a meatspace labyrinth of veins, tumors, nondescript organs, and fatty tissue. Towards what oasis, if any, remains unclear.
Described as “a beautiful yet terrifying rendition of contemporary consciousness,” Poor Magic was first exhibited in 2017 at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles. Populated by replicas of human bodies, but completely devoid of humanity, Rafman’s video seems to propose some sort of technofascist ontological disaster. He’s already well known for works that are flamboyantly zeitgeisty. His L’Avalée des avalés (The Swallower Swallowed) sculptures pay homage to the “vore” subculture, while inverting carnivorous roles found in nature. Past installations and exhibition designs for his video works have included bizarre viewing receptacles such as ball pits and lurid digital accretions—as seen in 2013’s Still Life (Betamale), with its mesh of furries, hentai, and filthy keyboards exemplary of contemporary kitsch, colored with bathos and the sinister synth drones of Oneohtrix Point Never.
Does all of this amount to post-internet nihilism, or does some kernel of truth emerge from this surreal, nightmarish fantasy world? How do we go from dystopian niche to real political ramifications? In a sense, Rafman’s puppets are as real as can be. They serve as our reflections, doppelgängers buffering their way through a solipsistic collapse.
In March 2018, Facebook banned access to user information from Cambridge Analytica, an independent data analytics firm based in the UK. The rest you probably already know: the firm was consuming the personal information of some 87 million Facebook users through their likes, connecting them to other users through friend networks and third-party apps, developing extensive psychological profiles that accurately identified many user’s personal attributes, including race, age, sexual orientation, and political proclivities.
“Rafman’s mobs are figurative stand-ins for likes in a reality where clicks are currency and currency is votes.”
Per the paranoid political atmosphere associated with Russian trolls and bots (and the absurd-but-true fact that American citizens actively engaged with them without realizing they were being manipulated online), this certainly wasn’t the whole story. Sinister alt-right herald Steve Bannon was a stakeholder in Cambridge Analytica for a time. This was all revealed in The Guardian by a hilariously hackerish 28-year-old Canadian whistleblower who spearheaded the project, assigned with the task of developing a “psychological warfare mindfuck tool.” The whole story is still unfurling, with the media pointing towards solid connections between the firm and the Trump campaign. While there has been much hand-wringing, for many, the dissolution of privacy at the hands of an ubiquitous social media platform comes as no surprise. As disturbed users peeked into the back-end of how Facebook was labelling and tracking them with alarm, some shrugged off the Analytica expose as a systemic fact, working beneath the surface of a website where users willfully provided personal details for monetization.
Just a month prior to these revelations, thirteen Russians associated with hacking and providing false information through the shadowy Internet Research Agency were indicted by a United States grand jury. The IRA is a “troll factory,” a Russian oligarch-funded meme machine designed to spread misinformation on social media platforms. This dark economy of falsehoods was indisputably skewed towards discrediting the U.S. presidential candidate that political statisticians and the media had calculated to obtain a landslide victory. One IRA whistleblower who spoke to NPR described working full-time, day in and out, crafting the false identity of a Russian woman on LiveJournal. Outlandish stories were developed through this cipher. Her false identity became her blue puppet, miming convictions regarding a foreign power. Others reported that they managed up to three LiveJournal profiles, varying in opacities of “realness,” some with quotas of up to 80 comments and 20 shares a day of internally-developed content. The more, the merrier. As bots threw likes and sowed divisions, the blissfully unaware (and frequently internet illiterate) users exposed to this kind of contentious subject matter found new ways of validating their beliefs of America as a fractured, glitching society caught in the Gore Zone of an impossibly reductive paradigm shift. “If there was some creativity at the beginning,” another IRA employee said, “by the end that creative part was gone and we were all like robots.”
In Poor Magic, Rafman’s narrator states: “All I can perceive is the motion of bodies.” It is as if Cambridge Analytica’s AI is given a voice, sifting through digital footprints and farming personality profiles. Sports fans march hopelessly into ad blockers and firewalls. This is the phalanx of bots and ideological shells ganging up into a morass of digital flesh. In the chaos, it’s impossible to differentiate between decoys and the “real” figures falling for their gambit. A dubious conglomeration of false facts violently accumulates against intestinal barriers.
Ripe for the harvest, Rafman’s mobs are figurative stand-ins for likes in a reality where clicks are currency and currency is votes. In the failure to overcome their own bodies, they flail against walls and obstacles hopelessly, en masse, in network. Aggregate behavior becomes predictable, and dissent from the crowd seems hopeless. Conformity is coded.
Blissfully unaware that our actions are being controlled by the invisible codification of big data, we become “one.” Is this the utopian singularity we’ve theorized as the endgame for big tech and its successors? In her book Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space, Elizabeth Grosz explicates several subjects important to Rafman’s oeuvre: virtuality, embodiment, excess, and duration, among others. However, it is her critical assessment of the utopian concept that seems particularly prescient to Poor Magic. Identifying the historical problematics of utopia, Grosz writes that “the utopian mode seeks a future that itself has no future, a future in which time will cease to be a relevant factor, and movement, change, and becoming remain impossible.” Rafman is determined to dissect this proposed utopia, exposing its guts in graphic CGI.
Poor Magic begins with the cryptic statement: “If you can’t sleep at night, it means you’re awake in someone else’s dream.” One thing is increasingly clear: we are certainly not asleep.
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Posted by admin on October 5, 2018 in KENYA NEWS, NEWS, REAL ESTATE | Views | 0 Comment
Kitengela Town in Kajiado. Its growth has attracted land acquisition firms.
Located approximately 31km south of Nairobi, Kitengela is a town that modestly began about 30 years ago as the Kitengela Group Ranch, which then comprised of about 45,200 acres of land.
Back then, the mainstay of the local communities was livestock keeping and herding.
But this trend has seen transformation in the latter years, and now, this hitherto little municipality is progressively undergoing exponential growth.
It now prides in several new buildings comprising malls, complexes and rental apartments within the town’s square and gated maisonettes and bungalows in the backcountry hinterlands.
International schools such as Kitengela International School are pitching tent in the town, major hospitals and shopping centres are already established, even as others are coming up, while the Export Processing Zones Authority (EPZA), has always remained a well-known feature in the area too, retaining its imposing atmosphere.
The town also hosts several other industries and establishments including cement factories, higher learning institutions, grander resorts, hotels and guest houses, and numerous amenities, which are all drawing a good number of private property developers to the once-upon-a-time sleepy neighbourhood.
OPPORTUNITY TO OWN LAND
Safaricom Investment Cooperative (SIC), run by staff of Telco firm Safaricom, has ventured into real estate and owns property in the area.
The asset-venture co-operative which in the past, had been affording parcels of land to its members only, moved away from that norm and are extending the offers to the public.
SIC seeks to give folks an opportunity to acquire land around Kitengela and Athi River towns.
Le Maiyan Athi River, which was born out of an idea by SIC, comprises eighth of an acre parcels near Kitengela Town.
According to SIC marketing officer Gloria Chebet, the development, which is situated about 500m from one of the key access roads in Kitengela, is ideal for family quietude, as it is not by any means congested nor present a likelihood of insecurity.
The area, which is also surrounded by several eminent estates, is located just 500m from a clean water source, and sits on a region under controlled development regulations.
“Security is a necessity for any prospective establishment. Le Maiyan’s security condition is optimal, as due to its proximity to the EPZA, its safety is catered for. This is amplified by the aspect of it being close to SGR Athi River Terminus, which, from a different angle, is also an enticing one in commuting,” says Ms Chebet.
The firm, she says, has gone into partnerships with several banks, to facilitate financing for land.
In the setting, buyers are able to get flexible payment models. These range from between 12-24 months; an ample duration for one to complete the outlays, which can be achieved by developing the parcel and earning from the development.
“Our mother company is a renowned trustworthy brand; one that is reliable in provision of key essential services such as telecommunication, mobile money transfer and banking, information delivery and Internet connectivity, and this characteristic, now extends to the property sector. For quite a while, we have witnessed, and some of us have even fallen prey to defrauders, using devious and conniving means to swindle prospective yet gullible property buyers,” says Stanley Hussein, the sales and marketing manager at SIC.
According to Mr Hussein, the influx of land acquisition firms, has brought with it fraudsters, out to mint money from customers, who, perceive the fraudulent schemes as an easier way to purchase land.
SIC marketing manager Stanley Hussein.
According to him, as an investor in real property, always purchase from well-known credible firms, confirm the titles of the property, and demand for the green card of the property, which details its ownership history.
To be safe from the swindling cartels, the SIC sales and marketing officers say, the buyer should also have a property lawyer at hand, always duly verify the authenticity of the identifications of the agents working for the property firm involved, conduct the real estate’s confirmatory searches, and make a physical visit to the property.
“It is much easier to do these than to live in regret for having lost an investment’s worth to a charlatan,” Mr Hussein advises.
As population increases, according to him, the demand for land also goes up, and one can hardly go wrong with a land purchase, especially in potential prime areas, which exhibit prospective growth and expansion pointers.
Such areas, according to the property acquisition expert, soon see their land rates skyrocket, which makes them an ideal investment for one who seeks to capitalise in the real estate sector.
He adds that the value of land is always appreciating unlike other forms of property whose value depreciates with time.
Ms Chebet moreover points out that land also comes handy as a form of security and in the African context, its ownership is perceived as a source of eminence, giving pride to the investor.
The sales and marketing executives further indicate that Le Maiyan, for instance, is ideal for settlement, farming and agriculture, commercial developments such as construction of rental apartments and flats, and development for recreational purposes, such as amusement parks; all through which the investor can earn, even if he/she does not necessarily plan to settle in the land.
“These developments, when set up in the acquired parcels, are capable of ensuring the real estate pays for its own purchase, if the investors well utilise their resources,” Mr Hussein says.
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SAVE HOME FIRES
#savehomefires campaign blog.
over 33,000!
Hello Homies! I'm sorry it's been such a long time since my last blog update. Chronic illness has meant I've not been able to keep up as well as i'd like to and I also was lucky enough to have a relaxing 2 weeks in heavenly Cornwall.
I'm so grateful to those of you who have worked hard to keep the campaign going and to see the petition numbers continue to rise.
I'm sure many of you know that our wonderful Jess Taylor had her letter printed as Star Letter in What's on TV magazine. From that day the petition numbers made a huge jump and within just 3 days we'd had over 1000 new signatures. That was amazing as we were averaging around 20 signatures a day.
It just goes to show how one little things can have a huge impact, so please continue to write to magazines and newspapers etc... to try to keep the campaign in the public eye.
Press releases: Jess Taylor has been working hard behind the scenes on the press release, which she's been sending out to as many people as she can think of. Press release can be seen on our website here:
Do any of your keep a blog? Do you have family or friends who blog? If so can you do a post about the campaign or ask others to do one? Blogging is a very popular thing on social media now and it could really help get us some more publicity.
Thank you to you bloggers who have already shared a campaign post! It's very appreciated. xxx
Twitterstorms: We have been brainstorming with someone in marketing about the Twitterstorms, when to hold them, times that have the biggest audience, ways of trending etc...
We still desperately need more of you to help us with the Twitterstorms, so if you would like to help us, please do shout and we'll give you as much advice and help that you need.
Jess Taylor has shared posts on both Facebook groups about how to use Twitter and has included plenty of photos to show you what it all means!
We really would be over the moon to have more of you join in, as it'll mean we trend higher, which means more people will get to see the campaign.
We have a few "rules" for the posts, which makes the posts more likely to count towards the trends, so please have a little look:
Women in film and television awards: Thank you to Jess for letting us know about this. We now only have until midnight on the 17th Sept to get our votes in, so can as many of you as possible vote for one of our Home Fires actresses? If we could get one of them winning, it would be a lovely way to give them thanks but also great publicity for the campaign!
Vote here:
WFAT awards
Amazon: Thank you to Patrick Erwin for tweeting me this article:
Amazon article
This really is something we could focus on as they are soon to be employing a commissioning executive in the UK and to invest in UK shows, so we need as many of you as possible to write to them by letter or email or even on their contact us form here:
Amazon contact us form
The address if you want to send snail mail is:
Amazon Studios, 60 Holborn Viaduct, Central London, EC1A 2FD
If we can get enough people contacting them, they MAY decide to look into considering Home Fires. We need to show them just how huge an audience the show has!
The second series will soon be aired in Australia and the US, so we are hoping that brings even more fans into the campaign, when they watch that awful cliffhanger and realise there is no more. I still can't believe we were left with this:
How do they think that is ok??!!! Polly Hill and Kevin Lygo certainly have a lot to answer for! They made a huge mistake and i've been told that many in the business agree with us.
Let's keep the pressure on and continue to show just how much the show means to us!!
We need to keep going!!
help us to keep going!
Hello everyone. I'm sorry things have been a bit quiet on the campaign front. I am chronically ill and am having an extra poorly patch.
I'm still doing what I can and really need as many of you as possible to keep the Home Fires burning for me, whilst i'm unable to do as much as I previously have.
I'm very happy to see so many new members of our two Facebook groups and I welcome you all to the campaign.
The campaign is still trundling along slowly but to stop it coming to a halt we really need as many of you as possible to get involved and help us to get the word out there and get the petition going again.
Sadly, we only had 4 people sign it yesterday (21st July 2016) and our daily average is around 20-30 people, so we'd love to see that increase again.
We know the show was watched by a 6 million consolidated audience, so there are millions of people who will still be unaware that the show has been axed.
The only way we will ever convince a channel to recommission the show is to have a popular, active and noisy campaign.
Many of you will wonder how you can help, so here is a list of things you can do:
*keep sharing the petition online, tweet about the show, share anything campaign related.
*Print out some posters and put them up locally in your area. Put them up in cafes, antique shops, village halls, newsagent windows, in your car window and even at car boot sales.
Download the poster/flyers here:
posters and flyers
We have a competition prize to win, for anyone who displays a poster. Just send us a pic on our Facebook Groups or on Twitter of your poster displayed and we'll add your name to the draw.
See more details on the link above.
*Going to an event? Having a car boot sale? Then can you print off some petition sheets and collect offline signatures? Some people don't have an email address so we collect signatures from people who can't sign online.
Petition download
The petition sheets can be found at the above link.
*Join us with the Twitterstorms on a Sunday evening between 9-10pm (at the time the show was aired)
This is a huge opportunity for us fans to really make a noise but sadly we still don't have as many people joining in as we need to trend.
The only way to trend is if we have a wide variety of people tweeting at the same time. We use a different hashtag each week, to try to increase the chance of trending.
We'll release this week's hashtag as soon as we can.
If you aren't on Twitter, would you please consider signing up to help us? It's so easy to use and we have newbies telling us how much they enjoyed it and what a great community spirit feeling it gives them.
We have tutorials on both of the Facebook groups about how to use twitter and how to get involved. If you want to join in, just give us a shout on the Facebook groups and there will always be someone willing to offer advice.
The most important thing is to use the hashtag given, ONLY AT THE TWITTERSTORM and ON EVERY TWEET AND RETWEET YOU MAKE! Share pictures when you can, as a visual always helps to get attention.
Use #savehomefires at any other time you tweet and just put the same hashtag into the search engine to see everyone's tweets.
I hope we can kick start this campaign going again and have as many of you as possible supporting us.
Thank you to you all for all help you've given us so far! xxxx
Hello Homies!
I want to start by saying a huge
to all who have donated towards our campaign costs. We are so so touched and grateful for such brilliant support! It really is a lovely community we are building here xxxx
Total costs so far (as in previous post) was £132.07 and we've received £120 in donations so far, so we only need £12.07 covered now.
As explained before we are working on a few things that may need a little extra donated, but we are keeping costs to a minimum.
I also want to say a big thank you to all who are sharing news of the campaign and the petition! We had another successful day on the petition yesterday with 101 new signatures, so it's heartwarming to see that we are getting new supporters on a daily basis.
We really are showing these tv companies that they must not under estimate their viewers!
Ok, now on to the role call.
Please can you let me know (either on the comments below, on my twitter (@monkeykezza) or on the save home fires official campaign Facebook group) who has put up our posters and how many.
I also need to know who has sent a letter to the drama channel (Letterstorm 2) (when you have sent them), so we can keep a tally of how many people are joining in, as if we don't get enough, then it won't be something we can continue with, as 10 letters won't have the same impact as 100 letters would.
Please, if you can, do try to join in with the Letterstorms and Twitterstorms. There really is power in numbers and for this campaign to succeed we need as many of you as possible helping us!
If we could get even 100 of you from the 30,000 people who have signed the petition, on Twitter on a Sunday night, then we'd get #savehomefires trending much higher, which then means more people see it when they click on the hashtag to see what it's all about!
So if you haven't yet joined in with the Twitterstorm, will you consider coming and helping us on Sunday? Pretty please with cherries on top?? ;-) If you have any questions about how it all works, just give us a shout on the official Facebook group and we'll be more than happy to help you.
Don't forget that we have this limited edition 1940's style print up for grabs! This was designed with this campaign in mind by jkhoughtondesign on Etsy.
We've extended the deadline so that more of you can get some posters up in your local areas.
To win, all you need to do is put up a poster/posters in local shops, cafes, antique shops, churches, village halls, local age concern centres, your car windows or even car boot sales!
You'll then have your name entered and we'll pick a winner from all who have joined in.
Posters and flyers can be downloaded here:
TWITTERSTORM
Again, this coming Sunday evening, us Homies will be meeting up on Twitter, between 9-10pm (to coincide with the time Home Fires was broadcast) to tweet as many tweets as possible about why we love the show, why we want it saved and sharing the petition and website link. We share many photos and sometimes have a few cast members joining us.
Each week, we now use a different hastag (as this increases the chance of us trending) and we ask that you use the given hashtag ONLY AT THE TWITTERSTORM and in every tweet you make.
I'm going to leave you all with a piece from Jambusters, on which Home Fires was based on, by Julie Summers.
The WI played a big part in getting the government to agree to free milk for children:
Lady Denman made a good point here! "It was always possible for one letter to be overlooked, whereas fifty were bound to receive attention".
This so apt for our campaign and I know if Lady Denman was around now, she'd be a part of this and she'd be urging as many of you as possible to send letters for our Letterstorms. Power in numbers!!
30 thousand and letterstorm 2.
(I've only just seen I can add a title to these posts!! lol I'm really not computer savvy!! lol)
Well, we've finally gone over 30,000 signatures!! Thank you so much to all who have shared the petition.
I can't thank you all enough for all the posts you make. There are still so many people that are unaware that the show has been cancelled so we still need to work hard to get the word out there.
We had a spike in signatures on the 28th too and got more in one day than we were getting weekly!
Thank you to the couple of you who have sent donations to help with the campaign costs. We've received £20 so far)
If any of you can even just spare £2 it would be so appreciated, as like Tesco say, every little helps!! lol
Details of what costs we've incurred so far and where to send donations is on the previous post. xx
Letterstorm 2.
Thank you to all of you who sent letters to the BBC. I hope she has looked into the campaign because of it.
The BBC now have a new drama commissioner, but he's not in the post until the Autumn, so we'll bombard him with letters then!
We are focusing this letterstorm on the Drama channel on UKTV, so please send a letter to:
Adrian Wills
10 Hammersmith Grove
London W6 7AP
IF you are able to send a jar of jam along with the letter, then please do, as that was something the press picked up on and will get noticed more! If not, a letter alone will be amazing.
So thank you again to you all for your support and we appreciate anything you can do to get the word out there to people and more signatures on the petition!
Keep calm and save Home Fires!
DONATIONS NEEDED
Thank you for all the positive messages i've received since my last post. I was having a bit of an emotional day and my feelings got the better of me.
I'm absolutely 100% determined to carry on anyway and we really want as many of you as possible to keep going with us.
This is why we would like to ask if anyone would be willing to help us with the small amount of costs we have accumulated since the start of the campaign.
There is by no means any pressure and I understand that some won't want to and some won't be in a position to, so only offer to help us if you really are able to!
As sites like go fund me have fees and justgiving is just for charities (i think), the easiest way to collect cash is through my paypal account, sent as a gift, so no fees are paid.
( It’s free to use PayPal to send or receive money between friends and family in the UK, as long as the payment is funded by a bank account, debit card or PayPal balance, and no currency conversion is involved.
If you fund the payment using a credit card, send money in a different currency or make an international transfer, we charge you, the sender, a small fee. A currency conversion fee may also apply.)
I will give details of everything on this blog, so everyone is aware what the money has been used for and what donations we have had. If anyone wants to remain anonymous that's fine, just let me know.
So far the costs are :
*£30 Diesel used to drive the petition to London and back again. (nearly 100 miles)
*£11.50 congestion charge.
I had free parking with my disabled badge.
I have covered the paper cost myself.
I was sent ink cartridges by the production team, so none of this needs covering.
We also have website costs which include the domain name (1 year, can be extended if need be) and the website hosting costs:
*£77.57
We also bought the limited edition WW2 style print as a competition prize for the poster campaign:
*£13
So the total so far is: £132.07.
Edited to add my email address for paypal which might help!! lol
KezzaGroves@aol.com
There are other costs to come with things we have planned so we will need a bit more help than what i've already listed. We are doing all we can to keep costs down but if we can have some help from you guys it would be so appreciated.
Any donation, no matter how small, will really help us. xxx
I wanted to also say hello and thank you to all new readers! After I added an update to the petition, we had a spike in people signing the petition and had nearly 1000 views in one day on the website, so thank you!
We really need as many people as possible spreading the word of the campaign, so please keep sharing!
Sunday's twitterstorm will be going ahead as always! Again, we will be using a new hashtag, to increase the chance of it trending, so PLEASE DON'T USE THE NEW HASHTAG UNTIL SUNDAY NIGHT!
For any new visitors who would like to take part but are not yet on Twitter, please consider joining up and helping us! It's very easy to use and any of us homies will help you anyway we can!
Let's all keep doing all we can to keep this campaign firing on all cylinders. xx
CARRY ON OR GIVE UP?
I feel upset having to write that title. I don't want to write it but I have to ask that question of you all.
Over the past few months i've read so many posts from people angry and upset that their favourite show has been cancelled. I've seen so many of you as passionate about the show as I am and wanting to do what they can to save the show. Sadly we're not seeing that same levels of support with the specific campaign events/projects.
As I started the petition, I have organically become the "leader" of this campaign. I've made some very good friends though this and have got a team of supporters and friends who have worked their butts off trying to do all they can to get the campaign progressing and spreading the word to all those millions of viewers who still don't know it's been axed.
I see regular names of those who post on Facebook and Twitter and I can't thank you all enough for the support you've given me and the campaign.
The reason I feel so disheartened today is the number of people who've posted that they love the show is far far higher than those who have posted that they've put posters up, have got signatures on printable sheets, have sent letters, have taken part in the twitterstorm etc....
I really do understand that people have very busy lives and that some will have many reasons for not being able to join in as much as others.
I just really hoped that we would have a bigger response to the campaign ideas that we share on a regular basis.
THE ONLY WAY we will convince another channel to save Home Fires is to all work together, as a team and make enough of a noise that they can't help but notice us. Right now we are barely making a whisper.
I truly understand that this past week has been one of such sadness around the world and in this country. Too many awful, shocking, devastating, cruel and evil things have gone on. It's sometimes hard to find enthusiasm for what many will view as a mundane issue. In the grand scheme of things a tv show is near the bottom of a list of what's really important in life, but it's also not pointless.
The reason I feel so strongly about this campaign though, is that we need more good in the world. We need more happiness. We need to have an emotional break away from too much sadness as it can overtake us all. The campaign may not have importance in relation to so many other things, but it's something that we could have some control over. It's something that if enough people got involved we could make a difference.
So, here I am again, on bended knee, asking you to help us.
If you did love the show and feel angry about how ITV has just dismissed it like it was nothing important, then please help us.
There were only 46 signatures on the petition yesterday. If this continues to fizzle out as it has done over the past few days then all the effort we've put in so far will be for nothing.
Before I add all the links to the ways in which you can help us, please watch this wonderful video and remind yourself of what we are fighting for:
Every time I watch that video it not only upsets me but it makes me more determined to keep going. If it makes you feel the same then please help us in the following ways:
*We need more signatures on the petition! Please keep sharing on all social media platforms!
*Keep sharing the website. A lot of time and effort went into making it!
*print out posters and flyers and get them displayed in your local area
*print out petition sheets to get offline signatures
Offline petition
*join in with the Letterstorm. I'll be giving a new "target" name and address each week on this blog for people to write to, to convince them to buy Home Fires.
*Twitterstorms. These have proven to be successful each week, with us making the trending lists. This then gets more people finding the campaign when they click on the hashtags to see what they mean. We now have a new hashtag to use each week and we'll let you know with a few days to go each time of what the upcoming one is. This is so that we have more chance of trending so please don't use the new hashtag until the evening of the twitterstorm.
Keep sharing the petition and website links. We have to get more people aware of the campaign.
I really hope enough of you feel passionately enough to want to help. We really don't have any chance of saving this show if we don't have enough of you joining Team Home Fires!
I'll leave you with this brilliant campaign song, written by the wonderful Geraldine Pointing from Spain. It's the perfect example of how much she cares about the show! Thank you so much for your time and effort Geraldine xxx
Home Fires, call to arms
LETTERSTORM 1
Hello everyone! Thank you so much to everyone who took part in Sunday's Twitterstorm. We had a great time and ended up trending for over 5 hours!!
We got to number 13 on the trend list with 3481 tweets!
We even had our new campaign mascot joining in. Meet Fred everyone:
(*these photos are copyrighted by Jessica Taylor so please don't use them without her permission xx)
I had a great response to the letterstorm idea. Thank you everyone. It's the only way to get their attention if lots of us do the same thing at the same time.
So here is week 1's letterstorm target:
Charlotte Moore
BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, LONDON,
She is in control of all programmes that are commissioned.
Please keep all letters polite and express why you love the show, how they would take 6 million viewers from ITV and how we would give them a huge amount of free publicity. Explain how important the role of the WI was in the war and how we, as a country, must never forget all that they did during the war.
I will put a post on the Facebook groups and when you've posted your letter, can you let us know on there, or on Twitter, so we have a rough idea of how many letters she'll be getting.
I'm going to send a jar of jam along with my letter, as that got us some good publicity at the beginning of the campaign, so if anyone wants to do the same, it'll make us more noticeable.
Thank you everyone!! xx
Can I just ask if any of you have any experience with video making?
We are having many ideas of how to kick start this campaign again and get us more publicity and it was mentioned that we have yet to really utilise You Tube (excluding this beautiful video of course:)
So we are thinking of putting something together to express why we love the show and try to get it seen on you tube.
If anyone has any ideas for this please let us know on our FB group:
save home fires facebook group
Maybe it could involve video clips from different fans? Clips from the show with text over the top.... ?
Oh and we are now over 29,000!!!!
It's rising much slower than we would want, which is why we so badly need everyone to get the word out there as much as you can.
Please continue to get posters put up locally and try to get signatures offline. (Links for these downloads are in previous posts)
Let's keep moving onwards and upwards!!
TWITTERSTORMS&THUNDERCLAPS!
Not that long ago, I would have had no idea what a twitterstorm or a thunderclap was! lol I'm not quite "down with the kids" as I used to be and computer, techy stuff often confuses the hell out of me lol.
Since starting the SaveHomeFires campaign, i've become quite a "tweeter" and learnt how it all works.
I'm sure many of you feel the same! I know some of you have never been on Twitter before but thankfully decided to give it a go to help the campaign along and for that we are so grateful!
We hope to see even more newbies joining us tonight for the Twitterstorm.
If you are a tweeting virgin and would like to come along and help us to trend, then please see Jess Taylor's brilliant "beginner guide to Twitter" post on our savehomefires official campaign group on Facebook:
We have decided to use a new hashtag for tonight's twitterstorm, which will give it more of a chance to trend, but PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS HASHTAG UNTIL 9PM TONIGHT!
Before 9pm continue to use #savehomefires.
After 9pm use #teamhomefires
We are really excited that we'll get it trending again this week and hopefully get the petition seen by more people!
We also have the Thunderclap ending tonight and the tweets will coincide with the Twitterstorm, so that we have more posts all at once.
Please support if you haven't done so far:
You can help on both Facebook and Twitter, so just press "support" on the link and give them authorisation to post on your behalf. (They don't use your details for anything and only post once on your wall).
Let's all make this the biggest Twitterstorm so far!! xxx
I just wanted to take the time again to say a huge THANK YOU to USA fan, Lorraine Ruth Rosenberg, for sending me such a wonderful Home Fires parcel! I am so touched by such kindness and thoughtfulness.
I just love my Pat doll! She will forever be a lovely reminder of the campaign and the friendships created around the world due to our beloved show!
I have no doubt that the cast and crew involved in Home Fires will be very moved to see how our community has grown and how many new friendships have been made because of the love for their show. It's just another reason why this is about so much more than just a tv show. There are so many awful things happening around the world, so anything that can encourage people to be nicer to each other and make friendships is worth everything in my eyes!
Thank you to the lovely Bunbury village for their mention of the campaign on their village website!! We are so grateful and thankful!
Bunbury village
There has been a great response to the call for "letterstorm" volunteers and we are so grateful that so many of you want to help us.
I'll update this blog tomorrow with the details of the first recipient for our mass letterstorm and if you could all get your letters posted asap it would be really appreciated. Let's show other channels just how much we love the show and how we would all give them a huge amount of free publicity if they bought the show.
Just in case any of you haven't seen our wonderful new website, here is the link again:
It's had many hundreds of views daily and the petition has increased since it went live, so please continue to spread the word and get more people reading it!
Anyway I wish you all a happy Sunday and look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on Twitter tonight xxxx
WE HAVE A WEBSITE!!
One of our wonderful "homies" Jessica Taylor has been working her little socks off for the past few weeks creating our very own campaign website and it looks utterly brilliant. I can't thank Jess enough for all the time, effort and love she has put into it.
Please have a visit and go and see why we all feel so strongly about the show and how well we've all done in such a short amount of time!
SaveHomeFires website.
We know that the production company have come to the end of the road in trying to have the show recommissioned, but we just cant give up so soon. It's only been a month and we feel we have so much more we can do.
I was recently shown this article from the Daily Mirror:
and as you can see, it mirrors everything that Home Fires is going through now. Fans did what we are doing now and eventually Amazon bought the rights.
They've had the same outcome with Foyle's war as well as shows in the US and Australia, so we know that fan pressure can work. It's what's giving us the impetus to carry on.
So again, i'm asking for as much help as possible from all of you that want to continue this campaign with us.
The biggest thing we need is more names on that petition. We need to show a channel that there are enough people angry about the axing of such a good show.
So if you can, can you please print off some posters and have them displayed locally? Take photos of them up and let me know via Facebook, Twitter or here, so we can see how far the word is getting out. There is also a prize to win for someone who puts a poster up (please click here for poster download and competition details: Poster competition )
Also print off petition sheets to collect offline signatures. We can't add them onto the online petition as people need an email address to sign it, but we can keep a record of how many offline names we have! Link here: petition sheet download
I'd like to get an idea of how many people would be willing to write a letter to some tv channels for a "mass letter storm"? We'd choose a channel and a person to target each week maybe and ask you all to get a letter sent asap, so they get them all within days of each other. This obviously would only work if we had a large number of fans joining in. So can anyone that would join in with this please let me know on FB, Twitter or in the comments below, so I can get an idea of numbers.
If the letters could be accompanied with a jar of jam then even better!! lol If we get enough people willing to help then i'll give more details soon.
We again have a Twitterstorm on Sunday evening. As I explained in a previous post, we have looked into how to get things trending and the only way to do it is to have as many people as possible joining in, especially new tweeters, and all using a new hashtag.
SO this Sunday we will be using the #teamhomefires hashtag instead, but to make sure it has the biggest impact on the night, we really need you NOT to use this until the twitterstorm.
Until then continue to use #savehomefires and we'll remind you all nearer the time to use #teamhomefires.
Anyone new to Twitter who wants to help us on Sunday, please give any of us a shout on the FB group and we'll help you as much as we can, although it is very easy to pick up!
I'll leave you all with this, as it was so beautifully put together and it'll remind you of just why you love Home Fires.
WE ARE NOT GIVING UP!!
Last night, I had a message from someone directly involved in Home Fires. I'm not going to reveal names or exact details out of respect for that person.
However I have to share that I was told that despite huge efforts being made to save the show that sadly, they had come to the end of the line with it. They have been unable to have the show bought by another channel and ITV are not budging.
My first reaction to this was genuine sadness and a real feeling of deflation. I feel so strongly about this show, as I know many of you do, and I can't stand the thought that it's just been dumped on the cutting floor as if it didn't mean anything.
Yes I know it's only a tv show. In the grand scheme of things, it's not as important as many things that happen daily. Saying that, tv is a large part of many peoples lives. Lots of people spend the evening in front of the box with their family, loved ones and friends, all laughing together, crying together, being gripped by a drama or being entertained by a comedy.
The special thing about Home Fires is that is appealed to all age groups, male and female, rich and poor. The story of how the WI helped the war effort in the 1940's is an important one to tell. Women are not often celebrated and they certainly weren't back in those days.
Today, there are still examples of gender inequality in many areas of the entertainment industry, with female actors fighting to be paid the same as their male counterparts and the shameless media obsession with a woman's appearance, weight, sex life etc....
The thing that really stood out with Home Fires was the fact that it was a heavily female led cast. Actresses of various ages were all part of a wonderful ensemble cast yet the male roles weren't overshadowed by that.
There has been a change in the types of tv shows made and reality tv as well as talent style shows have become very popular. I won't deny that I am a fan of some of these and I do watch a wide range of types of tv shows. Saying that, I do feel that well written, good quality drama should always be prioritised over cheap to make reality shows. Sadly it seems that ITV don't agree with this and continue to make pretty trashy shows like Love Island, whilst axing a hugely popular drama, leaving it on a cliffhanger.
This is why we are angry. This is why we have felt the need to start a campaign and this is why we will not give up!
I understand that our efforts may be futile. I know that some will think that we are wasting our time and need to accept what we've been told.
The thing is, it doesn't feel like we've done everything we could. It doesn't feel like we've been campaigning for long enough.
SO, alongside many other campaigners, who have now become friends, I am going to keep fighting to have our voices heard. We have been working on some great things, which we will share as soon as they are finished.
This is a plea really. If you really love the show then please will you continue to stand by us? Will you continue to get the word out there? Will you continue to show ITV your disgust at the dreadful way they have treated the cast, crew and viewers? Will you continue to get those posters displayed to alert all the people who still have no idea it's been axed?
Will you continue to contact other channels and show them how big the support would be if they bought the show?
Would you continue to collect offline signatures so we can give a voice to all those who don't have internet access?
Of course I understand that some of you will feel that it's pretty pointless and you aren't willing to keep using your time on something that's unlikely to succeed. However if you feel that you want to continue to fight with us, then we hugely appreciate that.
WHY on earth won't another channel see what a gem this is? Why can they not see that a drama, that already had more of the series written, is worth so much to them? How can they not see that buying the show would give them millions of viewers as well as a free, well publicised campaign full of people who would shout from the rooftops about the show? The free PR they would get from us all would be nothing but a benefit to them. Why can they not see that a drama such as this is real quality?
SO, if you are with me, thank you!! I'm NOT GIVING UP YET and i'm going to continue to show the producers, cast and crew just how much we care.
If you are with me, then THANK YOU xxxx
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Last night's twitterstorm was a great success! We were so happy to see so many new tweeters joining us and with over 4000 tweets it proved just how many of you were tweeting your bums off! lol
Thank you so much to everyone who took part and all you lovely newbies who really helped us trend.
We are doing another Twitterstorm next Sunday night and we need it to be bigger and better.
We can only keep asking that anyone who hasn't joined in, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee join Twitter, even if it's just to help this campaign, and tweet like mad with us.
We've been looking into how Twitter works out the trending list and how best to get something trending:
► It has to have no foul language in it.
► It has to be popular with a lot of people in a short period of time—it has to “peak” in popularity.
► Total tweets AND the total number of people tweeting BOTH matter. But unless there are tweets from a lot of people—what Twitter calls “widespread popularity“—total tweets will NOT matter.
But that’s still not enough to become a trend! Even when a lot of people are tweeting about something, it won’t become a #TT unless it also meets one of these other criteria:
It has to be a new topic that has never been popular before, or…
It has to be a previously popular topic that has become popular with a new group of people.
So lots of tweets is not enough. And lots of people tweeting is not enough. A topic also has to be newly popular, or popular with a new group of people, as determined by Twitter’s automated algorithm
SO, as you can see, we really really need you all to help us. We need as many people as possible, especially as many NEW people as possible, all tweeting at the same time.
We will also be releasing a new hashtag to use this coming Sunday, which will make it more likely to trend, but we'll share that nearer the time so we ensure that it's not used before the Twitterstorm.
I know some of you will think Twitter is too confusing to use, but I promise you it's very simple and you'll soon pick it up.
Here is a step by step guide to help you if you need:
The only way this campaign can succeed is if we get loads more names on that petition and for that to happen, we need the help of all of you fans.
*Please print off a poster or two and get them displayed locally. If everyone just had 1 poster displayed it would alert so many more people to the fact that it's been cancelled. There is still a huge number of viewers that have no idea that ITV have axed the show, so we need to get the word out there!!
(see previous post for poster and flyers download).
*We need more signatures and sadly not everyone will be online or even have an email account. We can't add names to the online petition without an email address, so we have a paper version for you to print off and collect signatures like that. Don't forget to take photos to show us where the posters are so we can add your name to the competition to win a limited edition 1940's style print. (again, see previous posts for the petition download and competition details).
If you'd like to help collect names like this then maybe pop to your local age concern centre, your local church, a retirement home if you visit a family member or even at local events.
Please contact me on Facebook or Twitter for where to send the petition sheets to.
So thank you for everything you've all done so far and keep trying to get that petition rising!
I'll update again soon with more news and info on next weeks Twitterstorm and the campaign. xx
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Local sign warning of Area-179's restricted status. Image taken 4 October 2006. The sign no longer stands.
Item #: SCP-1179
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1179 is apparently dormant, encased in the bedrock under Research Site-██. Apart from simple monitoring and standard research safety protocols, no additional containment is deemed necessary at this time. [Edited, 05/██/1962]
Due to the subterranean nature, self-ambulatory capabilities, and physical properties of SCP-1179, enforcement of containment has to date proven impossible. Project Tartarus is charged with continuous research into developing additional practical containment measures for SCP-1179. It is speculated that SCP-1179 is capable of being destroyed, as wounds inflicted by heavy ordnance during the evacuation attempt of Expedition-1179-VI were later observed to not have healed. To date, isolation and observation of SCP-1179 has mostly proven sufficient, as SCP-1179 has demonstrated no efforts to move above ground and has limited itself to a roughly two kilometer radius from its original location of discovery. In the event that SCP-1179 should be observed to move beyond recorded areas, personnel are to immediately notify O5 Command.
The land above SCP-1179 has been designated as “Area-179” by the Foundation. Due to the proximity of a civilian population center which cannot be moved, Area-179 is to only employ low yield nuclear failsafe devices. [Edited, ██/██/1992]
The general public has become aware of SCP-1179 and believes the cover story that it is, in fact, an anthracite coal mine fire caused by a trash dump fire. Foundation personnel are to infiltrate and coordinate all efforts to extinguish the blaze for the protection of both involved civilians and SCP-1179. All efforts to extinguish the blaze have ceased. [Edited, ██/██/198█]
Civilians living above SCP-1179 have suffered adverse health effects due to byproducts of the fire, including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and insufficient oxygen levels. Civilians are no longer permitted in Area-179. [Edited, ██/██/1992] Effects on civilians are within tolerable levels, with the populace generally unaware of the scale of SCP-1179. Following the incident with Todd Domboski and the associated quantity of press coverage, the Foundation is to work to relocate civilians from Area-179. Area-179 has been claimed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under eminent domain. [Edit, ██/██/1992] It has subsequently been closed to all unauthorized personnel with the Pennsylvania government enforcing evictions of unauthorized residents. [Edit, ██/██/2009]
A bunker has been constructed in a geologically stable section of Area 179, allowing for Foundation operations in the area and monitoring of SCP-1179. Foundation security personnel, along with local law enforcement, are to coordinate to prevent civilians from entering Area 179, in accordance with warnings issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Personnel within Area 179 are to restrict their movement to approved areas, due to the geological instability caused by SCP-1179.
Description: SCP-1179 has not been clearly and scientifically observed since May 1962 during Incident CB-1962-██-███. The original file description of SCP-1179 is as follows:
SCP-1179 appears to be a giant vaguely humanoid figure carved from an unknown volcanic rock. In one hand, it holds a whip; in the other, a sword. Its face has vaguely human features, including a long beard, though it has two large horns like those of a ram flanking its face. SCP-1179 measures over 30 meters from head to toe, with shoulders over 8 meters wide. It resembles a carving of the Norse eld jötunn Surtr (the giant guarding the frontier of the Norse fire realm of Múspell). Dating of the stratum encasing SCP-1179 indicates it dates to the Mississippian subperiod of the Carboniferous period, approximately 359.2-318.1 million years ago. This age is consistent with the geological age of this region.
SCP-1179 has since demonstrated the ability to change shape at will, and to become invisible and without form, appearing as a giant flying shade. Photographic evidence has failed to produce a conclusive image of SCP-1179, due to inexplicable camera feed disruptions, operator panic, and physical destruction of cameras. Expeditionary teams have described SCP-1179 as “having hellfire” for eyes and generally having great height. Its body often is seen as a combination of fire, smoke, and hardening lava.
From there, the descriptions begin to diverge wildly. Survivors generally describe its head as “monstrous,” with some mentioning curved horns consistent with the original form of SCP-1179. Others argue it has fangs larger than a man's arm. Still others state that SCP-1179 has neither horns nor fangs, and its face is encircled by flames which reach down into a long beard of fire. Eyewitnesses cannot agree whether or not it has wings. Most agree that it is usually armed with a multi-tailed whip of flame and a glowing red sword of fire several meters in length, though it will at times appear with either the whip or the sword or neither. Though of great size, it is apparently capable of moving both quickly and quietly. Those few who survive encounters with SCP-1179 generally describe it as smelling of “rotten eggs and old chimneys”. Chemical analysis of air samples taken from SCP-1179’s breath have shown exceptionally high concentrations of carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide.
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SCP-1179 was discovered in 1871, five years after anthracite coal mining was begun in the area. It was nicknamed the “sleeping stone giant”. The mine shaft in which it was discovered belonged to Mr. Sean O’Malley, a member of the Molly Maguires, an Irish-American secret society, whose members were predominantly coal miners in Pennsylvania. The society kept the sleeping stone giant hidden away, a closely-guarded secret. Though the Molly Maguires were dismantled in the late 1870s, the giant’s guardians managed to escape prosecution. The sleeping stone giant came to the attention of the Foundation in 192█, when operatives were conducting a routine background check into Prospective Agent Iain O’Malley (grandson of the original Mr. O’Malley). The land above the giant’s mine shaft was purchased by a Foundation front company and Research Site-██ was established.
In May 1962, residents of the nearby town lit a trash fire in a landfill which had been created from an abandoned coal mine. Those responsible for garbage disposal followed insufficient safety protocols, and a seam of anthracite coal ignited. The seam was small and Foundation geologists have determined it would have burned out in approximately two years, had it not run under Research Site-██. The fire reached SCP-1179, which promptly reanimated in the presence of the fire.
Upon reanimation, SCP-1179 killed all Foundation personnel at Research Site-██ and significantly damaged the site’s bunker. It subsequently retreated into the honeycomb of coal mines and caverns in the area, igniting subsequent anthracite coal fires. The mines, caverns, and surrounding countryside was designated Area-179, though due to the nearby town’s civilian population of several thousand individuals, standard Area construction protocols for Keter containment could not be observed; these were modified to fit the circumstance.
Five separate Expeditionary Teams were sent in to capture SCP-1179 between 1962 and 1970, though none were successful. They did determine that SCP-1179 had proven capable of expanding the caverns to vast proportions and unknown depths. Satellite imagery and evidence of noxious gases and ground collapse contradict these accounts and the photographic evidence which confirms them, indicating that the mine fires are only burning in an area covering roughly 400 acres, or 1.62 square kilometers. The discrepancy between the sizes of the caverns has, to date, not been reconciled.
In 1970, Foundation geologists determined that the subterranean fires caused by SCP-1179 would remain burning for in excess of 250 years. With Foundation personnel successful in perpetuating the half-truth of the original cause of the mine fires and unsuccessful both in recovering SCP-1179 for removal and transfer to an alternate location and extinguishing the blazes it had caused, the decision was made to instead relocate the nearby town. Concurrently, Project Tartarus was formally begun to develop and refine permanent special containment procedures for SCP-1179 and determine means to extinguish the anthracite fires.
Foundation personnel have worked constantly in the area to ensure the continuation of the mine fire cover story and prevent civilians from encountering SCP-1179, though this proved increasingly difficult as the local situation continued to deteriorate. In 1981, twelve-year-old local, Tom Domboski, fell into a sinkhole approximately 1.25 meters wide by 46 meters deep which opened beneath his feet his backyard. He was saved by his cousin, 14-year-old Eric Wolfgang. The plume of hot steam billowing from the hole was measured as containing a lethal level of carbon monoxide, and chemical analysis matched the steam to samples of SCP-1179's breath. Spurred both by the worsening “mine fire” and by covert lobbying by Foundation political contacts, in 1984 the United States Congress allocated funds in excess of $42 million to relocate the civilian residents from the area. At the suggestion of under-cover Agent █████, Pennsylvania Governor Bob Casey claimed eminent domain on all properties in the borough, condemning all buildings within. Foundation personnel ensured that the subsequent legal effort by residents to have the decision reversed were met with failure. As a result, full Keter Area containment protocols could finally be observed.
Addendum 1179-1: Research is pending into harnessing the anthracite coal fires as a means of energy production, as they will likely continue burning for the foreseeable future. See Project Vulcan’s Forge, or contact Project Lead Dr. Crane or Area-179 Director Wilson for further details.
Addendum 1179-2: Images relating to SCP-1179's effects on Area-179.
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Damage caused by SCP-1179 to former Pennsylvania Route 61.
A hillside in Area-179 which has collapsed due to SCP-1179.
Noxious gases rising from a sinkhole in Area-179; chemical analysis suggests some of these were the breath of SCP-1179.
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Labor gains as Australia contemplates possible hung parliament
July 6, 2016 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull may face a comeback bid from the rival he ousted last September, Tony Abbott (AAPIMAGE / Alan Porritt).
Five days after its July 2 election, Australians woke up Thursday morning to find that they still don’t know who will lead the next government — and that Standard and Poor’s is moving its ‘AAA’ credit outlook from stable to negative as political uncertainty reigns.
The only clear result of the first ‘double dissolution’ election since 1987 is that it might be days or weeks before Australians know who will hold a majority in either house of their parliament, with every possibility that both houses could wind up with no clear majority.
The other clear result is that the election is that, though his Liberal/National Coalition is growing closer to winning the narrowest of majorities, prime minister Malcolm Turnbull is the clear loser of the election. Just nine months into his premiership after he convinced his party to oust its prior (more conservative) leader Tony Abbott, Turnbull has lost at least 16 seats in the 150-member House of Representatives to the center-left Australian Labor Party (ALP). The Coalition, as things currently stand, is now trailing in the so-called two-party preferred vote (under Australia’s single transferable vote system) by the narrowest of margins — 50.09% for Labor to 49.91% for the Coalition.
For someone whose leadership pitch came down to electability, it means his days as prime minister might be numbered — even if the Coalition emerges with a majority.
Politics isn’t always fair, but Turnbull’s problem has always been that he’s a moderate in a conservative party.
I have no doubt that Turnbull, who has always been far more socially progressive than many other Coalition MPs, would like to accomplish some heady goals as prime minister. He’s been an ambitious man his whole life, and there’s no reason to believe that, with the right kind of mandate, Turnbull would like to solve several conundrums that neither the Coalition nor the Australian Labor Party (ALP) have been able to solve.
He might *like* to find a way to end the detention centers in Nauru and Manus Island without encouraging thousands of poor Asians to risk their live by getting on rafts to Australia, especially after Papua New Guinea’s supreme court ruled the Manus Island detention center unconstitutional.
He might *like* to have Australia’s parliament vote to pass marriage equality for gay and lesbian Australians and be done with an issue that now separates Australia from much of the rest of the developed world — almost all of western Europe, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.
He might *like* to redesign the failed carbon trading scheme that former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard enacted (and that Abbott, a few years later, abolished) as perhaps a business-friendlier carbon tax. After all, Turnbull lost his position as leader of the Liberal Party to Abbott in 2009 after he tried to compromise with the Labor government on climate change.
He might even *like* to take another run at an Australian republic after leading the pro-republic campaign in the failed 1993 referendum.
Of course, very few MPs and senators in the Liberal Party want any of those things, and their more conservative junior partners in the National Party would, if given the chance, turf out Turnbull tomorrow in favor of restoring Abbott (or, say, even Turnbull’s treasurer Scott Morrison). Continue reading Labor gains as Australia contemplates possible hung parliament →
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Moderate conservative Turnbull looks for double dissolution mandate in Australia
Less than a year after ousting Tony Abbott as prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull is seeking a mandate for his own vision. (Facebook)
Since Coalition prime minister John Howard lost the 2007 election, and thereby leaving office after 11 consecutive years in office, Australia has changed prime ministers exactly four times.
That wouldn’t be so remarkable in an era of rapid change and economic anxiety — except for the fact that Australians have only gone to the polls twice since 2007.
Internal coups, unknown in the democratic and developed world outside Japan, within both the center-left Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the center-right Liberal Party (the dominant partner in the ‘Coalition’ with the more socially conservative National Party) have made politics in Australia possibly more exciting in between elections than during election campaigns.
Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull came to power only last September after ousting his more conservative predecessor Tony Abbott in an internal coup, as Liberal MPs in Australia’s House of Representatives began worrying about polls that showed Abbott would easily lose the next election. Those polls turned around when Turnbull, a more moderate figure who led the Liberal Party briefly from 2008 to 2009 and who led the 1999 campaign to transform Australia from a constitutional monarchy into a republic, became prime minister.
Bill Shorten, Labor’s leader, hopes to pull off an upset victory in a very tight election on Saturday. (Facebook)
Labor leader Bill Shorten, in his own right, has managed to do in opposition what Labor couldn’t manage when it was in government for six years — remain united. Though Labor was elected in 2007 with a wide mandate for Kevin Rudd, he was ousted by his own deputy prime minister, Julia Gillard, within two years. Though she won a narrower mandate in her own right in 2010, the Labor caucus, in turn, ousted Gillard in mid-2013 when it appeared that she would not win the next election. Instead, they turning back to Rudd, who subsequently lost the 2013 election, however narrowly, to Abbott and the Coalition.
As Australia goes to the polls in a campaign that has been unmercifully long by Australian standards and mercifully short by American standards (eight weeks), neither Turnbull nor Shorten seem to inspire much confidence from the electorate. The two have spent the campaign tussling over issues from health care to the economy to LGBT marriage equality to immigration and, in the process, making voters like each of them less.
It’s a tight race. Polls show that the Coalition holds the narrowest of advantages, about 51% to 49%, over Labor in the so-called ‘two-party preferred’ vote — which reflects the outcome of a compulsory electoral system that features a preferential instant-runoff mechanism. It’s almost certain that the Coalition is doing far better than it would have been under Abbott’s leadership, though it’s almost just as certain that, even if Turnbull wins, it will be with a much reduced majority in both houses — and in each house, the balance of power may lie with third parties such as the Australian Greens.
Though both the center-right Turnbull and the center-left Shorten are sensible moderates well capable of governing Australia in a competent and centrist manner, voters seem to have tired of the internal scheming that have come to characterize both of the country’s two major parties.
Turnbull, once a moderate lion who championed climate change legislation, LGBT equality and an Australian republic, was forced by his more right-wing caucus to run on a platform around an AUS$48 billion corporate tax cut.
Shorten, who once vowed to defend the carbon trading scheme, is running on an ambiguous platform, shellshocked by the damage that Labor sustained in 2013 over what was perceived as a double mining tax and carbon tax. Those issues have become especially tender now that the Chinese economy has slowed and the global demand for commodities is somewhat subdued.
On gay marriage, both Turnbull and Shorten personally favor marriage equality. But Turnbull has been pushed towards supporting a nation-wide referendum on the matter, while Shorten has promised to call a vote in the Australian parliament if elected. The Labor position is that a plebiscite is a Coalition tactic to divide Australians that would bring unnecessary strife and animosity to the LGBT community (though Shorten in recent days has taken flak for once supporting such a vote).
Though the Great Barrier Reef is going through a horrific moment of coral bleaching, Australian politics is moving away from the carbon trading scheme (and mining tax) that Rudd promised, that Gillard enacted and that Abbott repealed. Ironically, Abbott ousted Turnbull from the Liberal leadership in 2009 after Turnbull tried to strike a deal with Rudd on the carbon trading scheme. Today, Turnbull, in thrall to his more conservative parliamentary caucus, would never sign up to a similar deal. Shorten, for his part, failed to stop the carbon trading scheme’s repeal last year.
In recent years, both parties have moved towards a more restrictive immigration policy. Both are now wedded to the policy of offshore detention of immigrants bound for Australia in subpar camps in Nauru and Papua New Guinea, notwithstanding a Papua New Guinean judicial ruling in April that called into constitutional question Australia’s immigration policy.
Richard Di Natale, the leader of the Australian Greens, hopes to win enough seats to hold the balance of power in Australia. (Facebook)
In some ways, the Australian election feels retro, like a British election a quarter-century ago. Australian commentators are still talking about ‘swings’ from the Coalition to Labor in a two-party world. That’s even as the Australian Greens stand to make even more gains in Saturday’s election, under the leadership of Richard Di Natale, a senator from Victoria, who took over the party’s leadership in May 2015. Nick Xenophon, an independent-minded senator from South Australia who came to power initially to oppose gambling machines in the late 1990s, is now leading a centrist ‘Nick Xenophon Team’ that could win seats in both houses.
The stakes are particularly higher in 2016, because Australia is having (for the first time since 1987) a so-called ‘double dissolution’ election, in which all 150 members of the parliament’s lower house, the House of Representatives, and all 76 members of the upper house, the Senate, are up for election. In most elections, only half of the Senate’s members are on the ballot — in other words, half of an Australian state’s 12 senators are up for election.
But the current Senate is deadlocked. While the Coalition has more seats than Labour (an advantage of 33 to 25), 10 members of the Senate belong to the Green Party and another eight senators belong to other small parties or sit as independents.
If Australia’s House of Representatives and Senate twice fail to agree on legislation, the government may prevail upon the governor-general to dissolve both the House and the Senate under section 57 of Australia’s constitution. In the current election, four bills qualify to trigger such a double-dissolution election.
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16 in 2016: Sixteen global elections to watch in 2016
December 31, 2015 Kevin Lees 2 Comments
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Of the most important elections in 2015, it’s a safe bet to argue that three of them took place in Greece: the January parliamentary elections, one insane roller-coaster of a referendum in July and another snap parliamentary vote again in September.
So what is the world to do in 2016, when no one expects Greeks to return to the polls? (Though, Athens being Athens, it’s impossible to rule the possibility out.)
Fear not. The new year will bring with it a fresh schedule of exciting elections on all seven continents, including in the United States, which after a marathon pair of primary campaigns, will finally choose the country’s 45th president in November 2016.
But following American politics only begins to scratch the surface.
At least two world leaders in 2016 will put ballot questions to voters that could make or break their careers (and legacies).
New governments could emerge from elections in Taiwan, the Philippines, Morocco, Georgia, Peru, Jamaica, Ghana, Zambia and Australia.
Former president Nicolas Sarkozy will either advance or flame out in his bid for a French political comeback in 2016.
Semi-autocratic leaders in Russia, Uganda, Congo and Vietnam will seek endorsements from their voters while hoping that the veneer of elections doesn’t unleash popular protest.
An opaque series of votes in Iran could determine the country’s future Supreme Leader.
A mayoral election in London (and regional elections outside England) could reshuffle British politics with an even more important vote on the horizon in 2017.
One very special election could change the international agenda of world peace and global security altogether.
Without further ado, here is Suffragio‘s guide to the top 16 elections to watch in 2016. After a short break in the new year, your attention should turn to the South China Sea… Continue reading 16 in 2016: Sixteen global elections to watch in 2016 →
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Turnbull ousts Abbott as Australia’s new prime minister
September 14, 2015 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
Everyone expected that if Australia’s ruling Liberal Party were to lose the upcoming by-election in the Canning district, prime minister Tony Abbott would face an uprising against his hard-edged conservative style, even as rumors swirled that Abbott was preparing to call a special ‘double dissolution’ snap election that would involve members of both houses of Australia’s parliament.
No one expected that Abbott would face a leadership ‘spill’ even before the by-election, though it was abjectly clear that Abbott’s premiership was in danger as far back as February, when he defeated a leadership challenge by a vote of just 66 to 39.
Blindsided by a Liberal caucus worried about its fate in Australia’s coming election, which must be held on or before January 2017, Abbott’s internal party critics finally brought him down late Monday night, Canberra time, narrowly electing former leader and communications minister Malcolm Turnbull (pictured above) as the Liberal Party’s new leader — and, therefore, the leader of Australia’s Liberal/National Coalition government and Australia’s 29th prime minister.
Literally overnight, it brings a new government to Australia from the moderate wing of the Liberal Party — a new centrist prime minister who is LGBT-friendly, more likely to balance liberty and security, sympathetic to the fight against climate change and, above all, ready to signal a singular focus on Australia’s growing economic woes.
Turnbull — a moderate and a ‘small-l’ liberal
Turnbull is a moderate who has always been much more widely popular with the Australian public than Abbott, whose own prickly personality and economic and social conservatism dragged the current Coalition government firmly to the right. Six months into Abbott’s tenure as prime minister, Australia’s center-left Labor Party, under the new leadership of Bill Shorten, took the lead in polling surveys and never looked back. Labor now holds a healthy lead of between five and 10 points in most surveys on the two-party preferred vote (the measure when all third-party votes are distributed, through second preferences, to Labor and the Coalition, as the two largest parties).
Turnbull’s election will pull the governing Liberal Party back to the center of Australian politics after a two-year Abbott government that’s arguably one of the country’s most right-wing in history.
Turnbull is set to embrace a more urgent tone on economic policy, including a full-throated embrace of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA) signed in July 2015 and the multi-continental Trans-Pacific Partnership. Turnbull, in his post-election press conference, praised New Zealand’s prime minister John Key for enacting economic reforms and explaining them well to the electorate. Joe Hockey, the government’s treasurer (essentially the equivalent of finance minister), an Abbott loyalist who denounced Turnbull’s leadership challenge, seems certain to lose his role as the chief economic policymaker.
Turnbull also embraces a much more liberal view on civil liberties, even in an era of rising national security. Unlike Abbott, who firmly opposes LGBT marriage, Turnbull fully supports it and it’s reasonable to expect that he will allow the Australian parliament to hold a ‘free vote’ on the matter — if for no other reason than to lower tensions on the issue before the next election.
As a former environmental minister who once supported the opposition Labor Party’s attempt to introduce a carbon pricing scheme, Turnbull’s election will give Australia a much stronger voice as November’s global climate summit in Paris approaches.
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The Canning by-election, scheduled for September 19, comes after the death of Don Randall, a sitting MP who was first elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 1996. The contest, which takes place in a district on the outskirts of Perth in Western Australia, is essentially too close to call, even though Randall and the Liberals easily won the seat in the 2013 election with 51% of the vote (and with 62% of the ‘two-party preferred’ vote).
Though the Coalition’s political troubles are in large part due to Abbott’s personal unpopularity, Turnbull’s election will not magically transform the perilous fundamentals for Liberal reelection hopes. The tanking price of commodities has hurt Australia’s mining-heavy economy, especially as China’s economy stalls after decades of double-digit GDP growth. If Turnbull waits until early 2017 to call fresh elections, Australia might well be in recession. Moreover, Turnbull may seek a personal mandate as the new Liberal leader — in 2010, Gillard called an election almost immediately after succeeding Rudd to legitimize her own premiership.
It’s difficult to say what the Turnbull coup will mean for Saturday’s by-election. The new prime minister may himself call snap elections earlier than absolutely necessary, despite the fact that the current government can expect to command a stable majority for the next 16 months.
Second time lucky
A Sydney native, Turnbull is a banker whose first involvement in Australian politics came in 1993, when he chaired the Australian Republican Movement, which aims to make Australia a republic with an elected president (and not a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state) — republicans only narrowly lost a 1999 referendum on creating such a republic. Though the 1999 fight brought together traditional allies from the right and the left, Abbott is a committed monarchist and he drew derision in January when he awarded a knighthood to prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II’s husband.
Elected to the Australian parliament in 2004, Turnbull’s ascent was rapid and, in the final year of prime minister John Howard’s government, Turnbull served as minister for the environment and water. Though he won the Liberal leadership in 2008, discontent among the opposition’s right flank to the Labor carbon pricing scheme forced him out nearly a year later after Turnbull instructed his caucus to support the bill. After two leadership spills in a week, Abbott usurped the leadership in December 2009 after two ballots, by the narrowest margin of 42 to 41.
Photo credit to Mike Bowers / The Guardian.
The rest is history.
Abbott led the Liberals to a narrow defeat in the 2010 election, but he held onto the premiership long enough to win the 2013 election. Bringing the climate change policy showdown full circle, Abbott (pictured above after his Monday night defeat) and a handful of third-party allies successfully revoked the carbon trading scheme in July 2014. Continue reading Turnbull ousts Abbott as Australia’s new prime minister →
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Australia’s government changes law to punish anti-vaxxers
April 14, 2015 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
He may be one of Australia’s most conservative prime ministers in recent history, but Tony Abbott isn’t above using government as a nudge to coerce better public policy outcomes.
Earlier this week, Abbott announced that Australia’s national government is serious about compelling parents to vaccinate their children from diseases, such as measles, mumps, rubella and whooping cough, that were largely eradicated in the post-vaccination era, and that are now returning as larger numbers of parents refuse to vaccinate their children out of fears of autism or other untoward health effects. Doctors overwhelmingly argue that there’s no link between vaccination and autism or other severe side effects.
The anti-vaccination movement has become an increasing problem throughout the world for many reasons, including both pious Muslims in northern Nigeria (who have resisted polio vaccinations) and health-conscious leftists in California (with fears over autism). The Abbott government’s step is one of the most aggressive steps that any government in the world has taken to coerce parents to accept vaccination.
Starting in January 2016, the government will no longer recognize an exemption for ‘conscientious objectors,’ which currently allows nearly 40,000 Australians to refuse vaccination for their children. That, in turn, has boosted the number of incidents of childhood diseases that had largely disappeared (and not only among children). The change means that Australian parents stand to lose funding of up to A$2100 (equivalent to US$1600) per child in tax credits and up to A$15,000 (equivalent to US$11,400) in additional government funding, including rebates for child care, if they continue to refuse to vaccinate.
With enough participation in a vaccination program, not every person needs to be vaccinated, because of the so-called ‘herd immunity’ that comes when a high percentage of a population has been protected. It provided protect to those who can’t tolerate the vaccine, including very young children or the immune-compromised. But it also creates a ‘free-rider’ problem, whereby any given individual has an incentive to opt out of vaccination due to the fear, real or imagined, of any risk that might come with receiving a particular vaccine. Continue reading Australia’s government changes law to punish anti-vaxxers →
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Liberals win big in New South Wales state election
March 29, 2015 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
After two recent high-profile failures at the ballot box, the center-right Liberal Party is breathing a sigh of relief today with an election victory in New South Wales, Australia’s largest state and the home of Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott.
Less than a year after Liberal premier Barry O’Farrell resigned over a gift bottle of wine valued at $3,000, his successor Mike Baird won a renewed mandate for the Liberals in Saturday’s state election. That will come as some relief to Abbott, whose rising unpopularity caused a leadership spill in his own caucus in mid-February and whose hold on the Liberal leadership (and premiership) is still somewhat shaky. A Liberal loss in New South Wales, following losses last November in Victoria state and on January 31 in Queensland, would have certainly renewed calls for Abbott’s replacement.
New South Wales was the original name given to the British colony on Australia’s mainland established at Sydney in 1788. Over the decades of the 19th century, the colony was eventually whittled down to the pattern of today’s Australian states and territories. Nevertheless, its 7.4 million residents constitute nearly one-third of Australia’s population today.
Baird’s popularity won’t necessarily make him a direct threat to Abbott. Success at the provincial level in Australian politics only rarely results in a leap to federal politics. Former Labor premier Bob Carr, who served from 1995 to 2005, overseeing the 2000 summer Olympic games in Sydney, made the jump in 2012 only after then-prime minister Julia Gillard appointed him to Australia’s senate as part of his appointment as foreign minister. Moreover, Abbott is personally and ideologically closer to Baird than he was to O’Farrell. He’s far more likely to face a federal leadership challenge from communications minister Malcolm Turnbull or foreign minister Julie Bishop than from Baird.
Like Abbott at the federal level, Baird governs at the provincial level in a longstanding coalition with the National Party. Though the center-left Labor Party gained 11 seats, mostly at the expense of the Liberal/National coalition, which lost eight seats, Baird will continue to enjoy a plurality of seats in the state legislature’s upper house, the Legislative Council, and a strong majority in the lower house, the Legislative Assembly. Continue reading Liberals win big in New South Wales state election →
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What Malcolm Fraser can teach the United States
In some ways, Malcolm Fraser was the ‘George W. Bush’ of Australian politics.
For many Australians, especially on the left, his road to the premiership was tainted by the original sin of having taken power in a bloodless coup, when he convinced Australia’s governor-general to appoint him prime minister (and ousting Labor’s Gough Whitlam) in the middle of a political meltdown that, to this day, serves as a touchstone for constitutional crisis in Australia. As defence minister from 1969 to 1971, Fraser was among the first officials who bore responsibility for bringing Australia into the US-led Vietnam quagmire.
Fraser, who quickly won his own mandate in 1975, and again in 1977 and in 1980, died today at age 84. He served as prime minister from the center-right Liberal Party and, though he came to office with a reputation for very conservative rhetoric, governed more as the patrician Ted Heath than free-marketeer Margaret Thatcher. Though he’d become Australia’s third-longest serving prime minister — he left public office after his 1983 defeat by popular Labor leader Bob Hawke — he became in his later years a pariah in Liberal circles, beginning with what many young Liberal firebrands believed to be a milquetoast and unambitious record for an eight-year premiership.
RELATED: Remembering Gough Whitlam —
Australia’s progressive martyr
In his later years, however, Fraser became something else altogether. When his former treasurer, John Howard, returned the Liberals to power in 1996, he quickly found in Fraser more of a critic than an ally. The most searing rupture came over Iraq, ironically, with Fraser denouncing Howard’s willingness to send Australian troops to fight an American war in the Middle East.
By the end, Fraser had made peace with his ally Whitlam, who preceded Fraser, his old rival, in death by just five months. Fraser had so alienated Howard and the Liberal hierarchy that Fraser became he of an inconvenient fact, too contrarian to embrace with a record too long to forget.
Like Bush, however, whose efforts to reverse the HIV/AIDS plague across sub-Saharan Africa loom larger to his legacy with every passing year, Fraser too had a humanitarian side. He was a friend to the opponents of South Africa’s apartheid regime before it became a politically safe position, and he even opposed white minority rule in what was then Rhodesia, hastening the rise of majority rule in the new Zimbabwe (at a time when no one could have known just how horrendously Robert Mugabe would betray the promise of its independence). He pushed forward legislation to boost indigenous Australians, and he boosted immigration by welcoming Vietnamese refugees to Australia.
He died unloved — neither by the Liberals who viewed the Fraser years as a wasted opportunity nor by the Labor stalwarts who thought Fraser nothing more than a usurper. But his final message is one that US policymakers should hear more often, as outlined in his 2014 book, Dangerous Allies, a critique of the bilateral relationship between the United States and Australia.
Fraser’s most enduring legacy, beyond the disastrous constitutional plotting that ended Whitlam’s premiership, will be the voice he found later in life, two decades after the end of his own premiership in questioning Australia’s passive willingness to join the United States in short-sighted foreign policy. Continue reading What Malcolm Fraser can teach the United States →
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History shows Abbott faces long odds in holding Oz premiership
February 12, 2015 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
More than an unpopular mining tax or one of the world’s most progressive carbon trading schemes, Australian voters booted the last Labor government as a punishment for the personality-driven drama between Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard who, in six years of government, traded the premiership twice and fought through four different leadership battles.
Rudd eventually returned to leadership in the summer of 2013 when its fickle members worried that sticking with Gillard would result in an electoral catastrophe. Labor lost the election anyways, and Tony Abbott, the conservative leader of the opposition Liberal/National Coalition, became prime minister.
Just 17 months after taking office, however, Abbott now faces the same dynamic, and Australia’s prime minister survived a ‘leadership spill’ earlier this week by a narrow margin of 66 to 39. If successful, the challenge would have opened the way for a direct leadership contest, presumably against either two more popular figures — communications leader (and former Liberal leader) Malcolm Turnbull or Australia’s foreign minister Julie Bishop, a rising star.
The leadership wobbles point to a growing trend of snap leadership contests that are reshaping Australian politics by narrowing the time horizons for leaders of both major parties. Though that makes party leaders conceivably much more responsive to their colleagues and it also gives individual government ministers more power and leverage, it correspondingly creates uncertainty and drives weaker leadership. Think, for example, of the rotating-door premierships so common in Japan or Italy for much of the post-war era.
Why Abbott was so vulnerable
Abbott largely did what he said he would do when he was elected in September 2013. He’s deployed enough military personnel and detained enough asylum seekers at detention centers in Papua New Guinea to sufficiently disincentivize immigrants from attempting the dangerous trek to Australia by boat. He successfully won enough support among the Australian Senate’s independents to kill both Rudd-Gillard era accomplishments — first, their landmark carbon trading scheme and, a month later, an unpopular tax on mining profits (that, in any event, raised far less revenue than initially anticipated). For good measure, Abbott finalized two key free trade deals, with Japan and with South Korea, at a time when the Australian economy is reeling from both China’s economic slump and a decline in global commodities prices. In the crisis over downed Malaysian Airline flight 370, he showed genuine regional leadership, especially in contrast to the Malaysian government. In Abbott, Australians got exactly the prime minister that was advertised — a passionate right-wing conservative not afraid of controversy.
But that meant that Abbott too often embraced awkward positions. Continue reading History shows Abbott faces long odds in holding Oz premiership →
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Labor declares victory in Victoria, rebuking Australia’s Abbott
November 29, 2014 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
It may yet be a long way back to taking national power in Australia, but the center-left Australian Labor Party will begin in Victoria, where it reclaims only its second state government across Australia.
Victoria, the second-most populous state in Australia, and home to Melbourne, has long been friendly terrain for Labor.
It’s not surprising, then, that Labor would win Saturday’s election, even though it represents the first time in 60 years that the electorate in Victoria tossed out a government after just one term in office.
Though results are not yet final, reliable early accounts give Labor 47 seats in the 88-member Legislative Assembly, and the Liberal Party’s leader, outgoing premier Denis Napthine, has already conceded defeat.
The Victorian election is a moderate defeat for Liberal/Coalition prime minister Tony Abbott, who had hoped that Napthine, who has led a razor-thin majority coalition since 2013, could eke out a victory. Napthine replaced Ted Baillieu, who resigned in March 2013 in the wake of a minor scandal involving government favors and the anti-corruption commission. Geoff Shaw, a rogue backbencher, caused headaches for both Liberal premiers, and he was indirectly responsible for Baillieu’s resignation last year.
Labor will take power under Daniel Andrews (pictured above), the leader of the opposition since 2010. Abbott didn’t campaign hard for Napthine, but national Labour leader Bill Shorten, a Melbourne native, devoted significant time and resources to the campaign.
Among the hottest issues in the campaign was a proposed East-West Link, an 18-km tollroad that would have linked the far ends of the Melbourne metropolitan area. It was one of the crowning infrastructure projects of the Liberal/Coalition government in Victoria, though Labor was always far more hesitant about the project.
Ultimately, it’s hard to say that the Victoria result, close as it was, is a harbinger of much of anything for national politics. Abbott brought the Coalition back to power in September 2013 after six tumultuous years of Labor government under Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and, for a brief time, Rudd again last summer.
His chief policy accomplishment is the repeal of the two chief policy achievements of the previous Labor government — a carbon trading scheme and a mining tax, both of which Gillard and Labor enacted in 2012, after Rudd and the party campaigned on them in 2007.
Abbott doesn’t have to call another election until January 2017 and he currently enjoys a strong majority in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Australian parliament. Nevertheless, though Abbott last year won a relatively robust victory (53.5% of the two-party preferred vote for the Coalition versus just 46.5% for Labor), the government now narrowly trails Shorten’s Labor by a margin of 52% to 48%, according to the most recent November Essential survey. Much of the unpopularity stems from Australia’s slowing economy, due in large part to China’s respective economic slowdown, and unemployment in Victoria is currently running the highest in the country at 6.8%.
In short, though Victoria’s election was a solid win for Labor and something of a personal victory for Shorten, there’s not so much to read into the result for a federal election that might be held more than two years from now.
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Remembering Gough Whitlam, Australia’s progressive martyr
October 20, 2014 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
Photo credit to UPI/Bettman Newsphotos.
Gough Whitlam served as Australia’s prime minister for just three years, but the tumultuous Whitlam era gave the country its most severe constitutional crisis, a universal health care program, diplomatic ties with the People’s Republic of China and a progressive statesman whose spirit continues to guide the Australian left today. Notably, his short-lived government was the only one headed by the center-left Australian Labor Party between 1949 and 1983.
Whitlam, who died today at age 98, left office in 1975 after Australia’s governor-general, Sir John Kerr, controversially dismissed him as prime minister, transforming Whitlam into something of a martyr. Whitlam lived for nearly four decades to watch seven more prime ministers come and go, including the internecine battles between the two prime ministers from within his own Labor Party between 2007 and 2013, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
Whitlam personified the hope of the new post-war generation when he came to power in 1972, the first center-left prime minister in over two decades. Despite the opposition of the newly dethroned center-right Coalition of the Liberal Party and the Country National Party, Whitlam introduced a whirlwind of legislation. He created a national healthcare system, Medicare (initially ‘Medibank’), abolished student university fees, eliminated the federal death penalty, withdrew Australian troops from Vietnam and, most controversially at the time, recognized Beijing over Taipei. Within Australia, Whitlam delivered to the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory representation in the Australian parliament’s upper house, the Senate, fought for environmental protections for the Great Barrier Reef (including a ban on offshore oil drilling) and delivered greater control over tribal lands in the Northern Territory for Australia’s indigenous population.
He introduced Australian, rather than British, passports and he replaced ‘God Save the Queen’ with an Australian national anthem. Decades later, he would team up with his former Liberal rivals to support an Australian republic in an unsuccessful 1999 referendum.
There’s no real direct analog to Whitlam in the United States, but you might think of him as Australia’s combination of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter — all in one person and packed into three very tumultuous and very active years in office. Continue reading Remembering Gough Whitlam, Australia’s progressive martyr →
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Revoking mining tax, Abbott dismantles Labor achievements
September 4, 2014 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
If the carbon trading scheme was the signature accomplishment of six years of Labor government, perhaps its second-most important policy achievement was the promulgation of a mining profits tax that came into effect in 2012.
But a month after Australian prime minister Tony Abbott successfully scrapped the carbon scheme, he’s now also managed to repeal the mining tax as well, which levied a 30% tax on mining profits. Ironically, the tax failed to raise anything close to the projections that the Australian Labor Party hoped, due in part a slowdown in demand for Australian commodities as China’s economy decelerates. Eliminating the tax was one of the chief campaign pledges that Abbott made in his campaign to defeat Labor last September.
Nevertheless, with the decision by Australia’s Senate to scrap the tax by a margin of 36 to 33, Abbott will easily pass the repeal through Australia’s lower house, the House of Representatives, where Abbott’s Liberal Party / National Party coalition holds a more solid majority.
As with the carbon scheme, Abbott secured the legislative victory with the support of Clive Palmer, a former mining magnate, and his new Palmer United Party, an alternative to the center-left Labor and to the center-right Coalition. Palmer holds the party’s sole seat in the House of Representatives, but the PUP holds three seats in the Senate, making it a key power broker in enacting Abbott’s policy agenda. Palmer himself is an often beguiling mix of ideologies, but he seems more at home on the right than on the left.
Palmer, who made millions as the owner of several coal and nickel interests, agreed to the repeal after securing the government’s support for several family-based initiatives. He also received a promise to freeze government contributions to Australia’s superannuation plan for nine years, forcing Abbott to rescind a campaign pledge, thereby halting a planned rise from 9% to 12% — employer contributions are now capped at 9.5%.
RELATED: How Tony Abbott killed Australia’s carbon scheme
Under a policy introduced by former prime minister Paul Keating in the 1990s, agreed with business and labor unions, employers are required to make annual contributions to each employee’s ‘superannuation’ fund. The contribution level began at 3%, rose to 9.5% and was set to climb to 12% before the Abbott government’s latest decision, which would freeze contributions at 9.5% through 2025. That, in turn, has caused Keating and other Labor leaders to denounce the mining tax deal, arguing that it could derail the full potential of the superannuation program, which itself was designed to meet the rise of retirement-age Australians set to expand in the current decade and beyond.
Nevertheless, the deal leaves Labor in somewhat of a quandary under the leadership of former education minister Bill Shorten.
Australian voters aren’t exactly keen on Abbott’s government, which hasn’t had an incredibly easy first year in office — it’s been captive to small parties like Palmer’s in the Australian Senate and Abbott was also forced to shelve his plan to expand paid parental leave, one of his top campaign pledges last summer.
But it makes the drama of the last Labor government even more pointless. It now seems less relevant than ever if Kevin Rudd or Julia Gillard was prime minister in 2010, because Abbott has, in about one month’s time, dismantled Labor’s two policy cornerstones. To have spent his first months as opposition leader railing impotently on the sidelines doesn’t make Shorten look like a prime minister in waiting, even as Abbott’s government suffers from its decisions on superannuation and paid parental leave.
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How Tony Abbott killed Australia’s carbon trading scheme
August 6, 2014 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
In the end, Australian prime minister Tony Abbott didn’t have to call a special, massive ‘double dissolution’ election to roll back Australia’s carbon pricing scheme, the signature policy accomplishment of the six-year Labor government that preceded him.
All it took was some deft maneuvering to cobble together a working majority in the 76-member Senate, where Abbott’s Liberal/National Party holds 33 seats, just short of a majority.
Nevertheless, Abbott (pictured above) won a narrow 39 to 32 victory last month in the upper house of Australia’s parliament, on the strength of six additional non-Coalition votes to repeal the carbon trading market. Having been one of the first countries to adopt a carbon trading market, Australia on July 17 became the first country to repeal a carbon trading market.
That included the support of a mercurial former mining magnate named Clive Palmer (pictured above), whose maverick conservative Palmer United Party (PUP) became the swing vote in determining whether Abbott’s repeal push would succeed or fail.
The Labor Party’s new leader, Bill Shorten, led an unsuccessful push in alliance with the Australian Green Party, to oppose the repeal. Labor holds 25 seats in the Senate, while the Greens hold another 10.
Abbott’s resulting victory is primarily a triumphant tactical and policy victory for the Australian right, giving Abbott an easy talking point on reducing the price of electricity for the average Australian voter (though the real long-term impact of the repeal of a carbon scheme that had reduced emissions by less than 10 percent nationally is yet to be determined).
It’s also a narrative about the fragmentation of the country’s two-party system, as far as Australian senatorial elections go, with voters placing increasingly greater power in the hands of independent third-party candidates.
On the global scale, it marks a symbolic victory for opponents of similar climate change legislation worldwide, though the battle over carbon emissions was never going to be won or lost in Australia, a country of less than 23 million. Arguably, China’s decision in June, for the first time, to limit carbon emissions at the national level, will have a much wider impact on global climate change policy.
While British prime minister David Cameron continues to promote a progressive stand on climate change as an issue to pull his Conservative Party to the middle in the United Kingdom, there’s no indication that the UK is set to introduce any major climate change legislation on the scale of Australia’s experiment with carbon pricing beyond the EU’s own carbon trading scheme. Though there was a brief window in 2008 and 2009 when a carbon-based exchange system might have been enacted in the United States with bipartisan support, those days seem long gone. Nevertheless, the administration of US president Barack Obama and the US Environmental Protection Agency, however, introduced executive actions this summer that aim to reduce US carbon emissions by 30% by the year 2030.
Australia’s carbon scheme has its origins as one of the major promises of former prime minister Kevin Rudd’s widely successful 2007 campaign that brought the Labor Party back to government after more than a decade in opposition. It was, in part, Rudd’s decision to back away from climate change legislation that caused his Labor colleagues to dump him in 2010 in favor of then-deputy prime minister Julia Gillard.
After Gillard won a narrow reelection campaign of her own later that year, she enacted a comprehensive climate change bill in 2012, as well as a broader tax on mining profits (that hasn’t raised nearly as much revenue as expected).
The problem, both in Australia and beyond, is that the global financial crisis of 2008-09 left many national electorates wary of climate change legislation that, almost overnight, suddenly seemed much too costly to introduce at a time when so many developed countries were struggling with the highest unemployment and lowest GDP growth in decades.
That made Abbott’s pledge to repeal what’s popularly become known in Australia as the ‘carbon tax’ one of the most popular aspects of his agenda, which won wide support the parliamentary elections last September that brought Abbott’s Coalition into government. His recent victory in winning Senate support to repeal the carbon scheme will almost certainly rank among the chief legislative successes of his first year as prime minister. Continue reading How Tony Abbott killed Australia’s carbon trading scheme →
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How a bottle of wine brought down one of Australia’s top politicians
In the end, all it took for Barry O’Farrell to lose his job as the premier of New South Wales, Australia’s most-populous state, was a $3,000 bottle of wine.
Though he came to power in 2011 in a landslide victory over the Australian Labor Party, O’Farrell resigned last week as premier after just three years in office and seven years leading the NSW division of Australia’s center-right Liberal Party.
O’Farrell, who appeared before the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), denied having received a gift bottle of 1959 Grange Meritage from from an executive at Australian Water Holdings. Unfortunately for him, the commission had found a handwritten thank-you note to AWH’s CEO Nick Di Girolamo, which read:
Dear Nick & Jodie, We wanted to thank you for your kind note & the wonderful wine. 1959 was a very good year, even if it is getting even further away! Thanks for all your support. Kind regards, Baz & Rosemary.
A day after the thank-you note came to light, O’Farrell (pictured above) claimed that, in a ‘massive memory fail,’ he had no recollection of the gift, but nevertheless announced his resignation. He stepped down officially on Thursday, and the New South Wales treasurer Mike Baird became the state’s new premier the same day.
It’s a fairly well-trodden path for a politician caught in a bind like this — if you believe your position untenable, better to resign as early as possible, take credit for ‘falling on your own sword,’ and hope for future rehabilitation via the private sector or, in time, a political sinecure. Sure enough, at the end of the week, Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott was praising O’Farrell for having ‘taken the honorable step’ of resigning.
O’Farrell’s resignation came so fast that some commentators wondered whether he did so because he realized more revelations would come out through the commission’s investigation.
In political terms, his resignation is unlikely to dent Abbott’s Liberal/National Coalition government. But it turns state politics upside down in New South Wales, home to 7.3 million Australians — nearly one-third of the country’s entire population. Continue reading How a bottle of wine brought down one of Australia’s top politicians →
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Labor nearly shut out of Australian state government
March 15, 2014 Kevin Lees 1 Comment
After today’s state elections in two Australian states, the center-left Australian Labor Party has lost power after 16 years in Tasmania and it may yet still lose power in South Australia, where the race remains too close to call.
If Labor hangs onto government in South Australia under premier Jay Weatherill, he’ll be the last Labor premier left standing in any Australian state, capping a catastrophic electoral run — just six years ago, Labor controlled the government in every Australian state. If the center-right Liberal Party emerges victorious in South Australia, Labor will control no state governments (though it remains in power in the Australian Capital Territory of Canberra).
In Tasmania, where Labor was believed to have had a better chance of hanging onto power, premier Lara Giddings lost her bid to win a fifth consecutive Labor government. With around 80% of the vote counted, Labor had won just 27% of the vote and six of the Tasmanian House of Representative’s 25 seats. The Liberal Party, under the leadership of Will Hodgman, who is set to become Tasmania’s new premier, will win at least 14 seats.
In South Australia, however, Weatherill could still remain premier, given the tight margin. Labor has lost ground, but not nearly as much as expected, and it’s been to the benefit of not only the Liberals, but also the South Australian Green Party. Going into today’s election, Labor controlled 26 seats in the 47-member House of Representatives (the lower house of the South Australian parliament), the Liberals controlled 18 and independents controlled three. As the final votes are counted, Labor now has 23 seats, Liberals hold 22 seats, and two independents seem increasingly likely to determine who will form the next government.
A conservative Liberal/National Coalition government under prime minister Tony Abbott swept into power last September at the national level, ending six years of rocky Labor government marked by infighting between supporters of prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. Rudd initially brought Labor to power in 2007, but his Labor caucus pushed him out of office in favor of Gillard in 2010. Shortly before last year’s election and facing a landslide defeat under Gillard, the Labor caucus turned back to Rudd, who served as prime minister again for the final three months of Labor’s government. Both Rudd and Gillard have retired from politics, and former financial services minister Bill Shorten was elected Labor’s new national leader in October.
State-level setbacks have become something of a gruesome spring ritual for Labor over the past few years: Continue reading Labor nearly shut out of Australian state government →
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14 potential game-changers for world politics in 2014
January 6, 2014 Kevin Lees 5 Comments
Though I rang in the new year with a list of 14 world elections to watch in the coming year (and 14 more honorable mentions to keep an eye on), I wanted to showcase a few more thoughts about what to watch for in world politics and foreign affairs in 2014.
Accordingly, here are 14 possible game-changers — they’re not predictions per se, but neither are they as far-fetched as they might seem. No one can say with certainty that they will come to pass in 2014. Instead, consider these something between rote predictions (e.g., that violence in Iraq is getting worse) and outrageous fat-tail risks (e.g., the impending breakup of the United States).
There’s an old album of small pieces conducted by the late English conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, a delightfully playful album entitled Lollipops that contains some of the old master’s favorite, most lively short pieces.
Think of these as Suffragio‘s 14 world politics lollipops to watch in 2014.
We start in France… Continue reading 14 potential game-changers for world politics in 2014 →
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Leaks Show How Press Coddled Hillary
Leaked documents reveal some of the curious ways the media has bent over backwards to treat Hillary Clinton like the living savior of America.
The first, an email from 2015 obtained by The Daily Caller, shows an MSNBC producer offering some assurances in exchange for access to the Clinton team. Sheara Braun, a producer on the “All in with Chris Hayes” program, wrote to Clinton campaign spokeswoman Adrienne Elrod:
“As you guys have probably seen, we’ve been airing a ‘Hillary Clinton for Millennials’ segment on our program every night this past week. The point of the segment is basically to inform young people about all of the crap and nonsense that Sec. Clinton and President Clinton (but mostly Sec. Clinton) had to face back in the 90s when President Clinton was running for office…everything from cookie-gate to stand-by-your-man-gate to Hillarycare.”
Braun, pandering to Elrod in an attempt to get either Hillary or a member of the campaign to come on the air, continued her pitch without the slightest amount of shame:
“The point isn’t to dwell on the past but the point is to talk about this amazing, intelligent woman who probably faced more nonsense back in the day because she is a woman…and she continues to have to face it.”
Finally, she closes with a line that no narcissist could resist:
“She is smarter than most men and more qualified than most men to be president.”
Barf.
The second, published by the Washington Free Beacon, shows that Hillary Clinton was given questions ahead of time before going on the Steve Harvey Show in February. In an email from Clinton’s aides to Hillary herself, she’s told that her team has “coordinated closely with the show’s producers on the script and format of the show.”
According to the Beacon:
Questions included were about Clinton’s granddaughter, the former secretary of State’s pizza preferences — thin crust versus deep dish — and her support for gun control policies.
These leaks aren’t exactly shocking, but they do give you some insight into how little you should trust what you see on TV.
Of course, when Hillary Clinton is involved, that goes without saying.
Pence: Our Administration Will Defend Religious Liberty
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New trade pact facilitates Vietnamese exports through single rulebook
RCEP signing: Highlight of Vietnam’s 2020 ASEAN leadership
Vietnam reaffirms leadership role as ASEAN Chair amid pandemic
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11th ASEAN Regional Tripartite Social Dialogue Conference held online
Vietnam PM visits Thailand, boosts trade
09:08 | 26/08/2017 Vietnam - Asean
(VEN) - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited Thailand from August 17-19 at the invitation of Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
Tightening traditional friendship
Vietnam and Thailand officially established diplomatic relations on August 6, 1976. Relations gradually improved, especially after Vietnam officially joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1995.
Reflecting the steady development of ties between the two countries, in June 2013 Vietnam and Thailand officially upgraded their relations to a strategic partnership during the visit of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong to Thailand. During the visit of Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to Vietnam in November 2014, the two sides signed the action program on implementing the Vietnam-Thailand strategic partnership between 2014 and 2018, a document covering all areas of cooperation between the two countries.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s to Thailand was his first since assuming office in April 2016. During the visit, the two sides discussed bilateral cooperation activities, exchanged international and regional issues of mutual concern, and agreed on measures to promote cooperation.
PM Phuc also attended the Vietnam-Thailand Business Forum in Bangkok with the participation of heads of ministries and departments, and chairmen of Thai corporations in such fields as energy, banking, construction, science and technology.
After the joint meeting between the two senior leaders, five cooperation agreements between Vietnam and Thailand were signed.
During the visit, PM Phuc also participated in the opening ceremony of Vietnamese Goods Week in Thailand at Central Ladprao Department Store.
New land, sea routes
Thailand is Vietnam’s largest trade partner in ASEAN. By April 2017, two-way trade turnover reached US$4.3 billion, an increase of 21.5 percent compared to a year ago. Of which, Vietnam’s exports to Thailand stood at US$1.4 billion, while imports totaled US$2.9 billion.
With 458 valid projects with total registered capital of nearly US$8.2 billion, mainly focused on the manufacturing and processing sectors, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, Thailand ranks 10th among the 116 countries and territories investing in Vietnam.
Vietnamese businesses and Thai companies also signed a number of business deals. They included a memorandum of understanding between Vietnam Oil and Gas Group and the Siam Cement Public Co Ltd; PetroVietnam Ca Mau Fertilizer JSC, PetroVietnam Fertilizer and Chemicals Corporation, Binh Son Refining and Petro Chemicals Co and SCG Chemicals Co Ltd; SCIC Investment Co Ltd and Kasikorn Bank Public Co Ltd.
In terms of labor cooperation, Vietnam and Thailand signed a memorandum of understanding on labor cooperation and an agreement on exchanging workers in July 2015. The two sides are currently working out the final details of an agreement upgrading the earlier one in order to soon implement an agreement.
Vietnam and Thailand also agreed to promote multimodal transport links between the two countries, including land, sea and air routes. A Thailand-Laos-Vietnam bus route, a Thailand-Cambodia-Vietnam coastal route and a new direct flight between Thailand’s Chiang Mai City and Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh were cited as examples of their cooperation.
Vietnam and Thailand are actively promoting cooperation in production and processing of agricultural products and foodstuffs, strengthening cooperation in disease prevention in fisheries and animal husbandry, and accelerating signing of new memorandum of understanding on agricultural cooperation in order to meet development needs and conditions.
The two sides discussed the issue of illegal fishing. In order to enhance cooperation, they are negotiating to set up a hotline to deal with issues arising at sea.
Cooperation between localities has also been enhanced. As of date, Vietnam’s 15 provinces and cities have signed cooperation agreements with Thai localities, such as Long An Province and Trat, Kon Tum Province and Ubon Ratchathani, and Thua Thien Hue Province and Bangkok.
At regional and international forums, the two countries regularly support each other. Thailand attaches great importance to cooperation within ASEAN and actively coordinates with Vietnam in maintaining unity within the bloc. Vietnam and Thailand have achieved important results in cooperation in various fields, contributing to creating a momentum for economic development between the two countries.
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ASEAN Economic Community portal launched
Vietnam, Indonesia to reach US$10 billion in bilateral trade
ASEAN and partners commit to joint fight against Covid-19
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Remedios Málvarez, a social portrait of life through cinema and photography
November 20, 2017 November 17, 2017 almaconluz Culture
cinema, huelva, photography, women.
Remedios Málvarez studied Law but she never worked as a lawyer. She has always had a vocation for photography and image, so she finally shot her first short film ‘Silencio’, and captured life from a different perspective. In 2016 she presented her first feature film, ‘Alalá’, which had seven nominations for the Goya Awards 2016.
Nogalious video games: bringing back 8-bits from the eighties
crowdfunding, eighties, granada, video games.
One Granada-based project, Nogalious, is bringing a blast from the past to the modern-day video game scene. LUEGO LU3GO STUDIOS aims to recreate the look and feel of 8-bit 80´s games so people of all ages can experience them today, with the support of a crowdfunding campaign.
A board game to travel back in time to 1492 and conquer the Alhambra of Granada
November 3, 2017 November 2, 2017 almaconluz Culture
Alhambra, board game, granada, history.
The Alhambra is on the table. Ana and Alejandro have created a board game inspired in this Nasrid palace and the internal power struggles developed there among the members of Muhammad XII’s family. ‘The Conquer of the Alhambra’ will become a reality thanks to a crowdfunding campaign.
Belén’s Tales, a portrait of the inner world of a young woman with Asperger’s syndrome
October 11, 2017 October 11, 2017 almaconluz Culture
Asperger's, autism spectrum disorder, book, granada, tales.
Belén was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, which is an autism spectrum disorder, when she was little. She is 23 today and this Granadian has just published her first book ‘Belen’s Tales’, with the support of Dorothy Editions. The tales it contains from a portrait of her inner world.
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"I told you so."
Most blue shirts earned their paychecks by doing nothing but silently scrutinize inmate behavior for eight or more hours. Officers inspected the line of convicts while convicts marched in hushed columns of two, to and from work. I was certain I'd have been bored out of my skull if I had been a blueshirt. They silently and prudently eyeballed inmates eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the inmate dining hall, four men to a table. Fights, naturally, were problematic. Antisocial men did not automatically become social just because they were locked up in a maximum security prison.
If a fight broke out in the dining hall, other men might easily get involved. That's why dining hall rule breakers spent a lot more time in the hole than they would have if they violated that same rule elsewhere.
During the daytime when inmates were in their cells and during evenings when inmates were deadlocked in those same cells, sergeants made rounds of the four tiers. After 10 p.m., sergeants had to make a number of rounds and report their findings to Control. Sergeants had to see skin. If the inmate innocently covered all of himself with a blanket, the sergeant woke him up by shining a flashlight on his closed eyelids and announcing, "Wake up. I need to see skin."
Harming themselves in one way or the other violated rules and got inmates time in the hole. A few inmates attempted suicide, using a razor blade. Once discovered, they were visited by an inmate nurse and then locked up. One man who felt he was a woman cut off his testicles with a razor blade by inserting it in a toothbrush handle he had melted with a lighted match. He flushed the offending meat down the cell's toilet.
Correctional officers scrutinized convicts while at play. During warm weather months on the rec. field, some inmates ran to a group of steel tables, their pedestal legs anchored in concrete. Although gambling was against the rules, staff was certain those men played poker for sexual favors or ciggy butts, both inmate forms of legal tender.
Meanwhile, other inmates chose to take part in group activities including baseball, basketball, handball, horse shoes, and power lifting. Others chose to run or walk along the cinder track, adjacent to the 22 ft. high concrete wall.
Gun towers placed strategically on top of that wall were manned by armed tower officers. It seemed they'd invariably place one foot on the lower rung of a guardrail while watching activities below. Each tower officer had a two-way radio, (as did the officers on the ground) called "handhelds" at the ready just in case they needed to contact officers below if they observed any bad behavior or if they needed to contact Control if groups of men were raising hell or "peacefully" attempting a sit-down strike, which happened.
As was I, so would you be surprised what men could do even while being closely monitored. What you thought you saw was not necessarily taking place. A man could be raped without staff being aware of the act. At the same time, inmates could be physically beating another inmate half to death, without staff knowledge. That is the reason why some blue shirts were assigned to walk among recreating inmates, making certain nothing knotty was taking place.
During cold weather months, inmates recreated in the "Big Top" indoor recreation area, located above the dining hall. Up there, men could play basketball, volleyball, handball, billiards, and straight pool on pool tables. More than half of the men preferred to lift weights. As far as the inmate code was concerned, might made right. After recreation ended when inmates took showers, blue shirts made certain that inmates didn't "fight or fuck," as the saying went.
Whenever inmates failed to follow rules, blueshirts at once ordered them to stop their illegal behavior with a verbal stun. If men failed to obey those necessarily yelled orders, the blueshirt had to radio Control for help and then physically halt the misconduct by placing himself in harm's way.
One night in a cell hall, an inmate was raising hell by yelling during lights out. A whiteshirt was called. The captain arrived with two blueshirts who were there to help the captain escort the violator to the Greenhouse. The cell hall sergeant told the captain the name of the belligerent inmate at the same time he handed the captain hand cuffs and leg irons. "Oh," scoffed the captain, "I don't need those. Larry and me are just like that." The whiteshirt placed middle finger over index finger.
Sometimes, when we work among inmates for years, we think we know them personally, even consider them nearly friends. "Watch out if you get thinking that way," blueshirts warned me time and again not only during my training period but for many years after that.
When a blueshirt keyed Larry out of the cell, the karate-expert inmate grinned before he kicked the captain in the face, fracturing skeletal bone above the upper lip, the captain's upper front teeth flying here, there. A second later, Larry splintered a number of the whiteshirt’s ribs with a powerful karate punch.
After undergoing emergency surgery and a number of surgeries after that at University Hospitals in Madison, the captain did not report to work for almost a year. Never again did he not follow Department of Corrections' guidelines regarding safe removal of inmates from their cells nor did the cell hall sergeant ever tell him, "I told you so." I'm sure the sergeant harbored thoughts like that, however.
I learned from blueshirts during my two-week training period that DOC suggestions were to be followed in much the same way after a plane's pilot suggests to me I don a parachute before I jump out of his plane, 5,000 feet above the earth.
Hank Snyder
Love your writing, but you might let the reader know that's how things were back when you were working there. In the latest blog, you mention cigarettes being a bartering tool, but smoking is no longer allowed. And, from several friends of mine who work in prison still, when walking down the hallways, the prisoners talk and sometimes slow way down just to get in one's face.
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Baló's Concentric Sclerosis: Clinical and Radiologic Features of Five Cases
Ercan Karaarslan, Ayse Altintas, Utku Senol, Naz Yeni, Alp Dincer, Cicek Bayindir, Naci Karaagac and Aksel Siva
American Journal of Neuroradiology August 2001, 22 (7) 1362-1367;
Ercan Karaarslan
Ayse Altintas
Utku Senol
Naz Yeni
Alp Dincer
Cicek Bayindir
Naci Karaagac
Aksel Siva
Summary: Baló's concentric sclerosis (BCS) is a rare demyelinating disease considered to be a variant of multiple sclerosis. Five BCS cases were diagnosed antemortem based on their typical concentric mass patterns on MR images and based on clinical and CSF findings. Histopathologic investigation was also performed in one case. Our case report supports the concept that BCS may be a self-limited disease that is not always fatal. Characteristic MR imaging findings may allow antemortem diagnosis of BCS when performed at the onset of the disease.
Baló's concentric sclerosis (BCS) is a rare demyelinating disease considered to be a variant of multiple sclerosis. The initial terminology for this entity was leuko-encephalitis periaxialis concentrica, which is based on its early definition of “a disease in the course of which the white matter of the brain is destroyed in concentric layers in a manner that leaves the axis cylinders intact” (1).
The clinical course of BCS was considered similar to that of Marburg's variant of multiple sclerosis, which has a monophasic rapidly progressive course with a fatal outcome (2). Of the <60 reported cases in the literature, most have involved young adults (age range, 4–56 years) (3–7) and have resulted in death within weeks to months (6, 8–10). Recently, however, an increasing number of cases have been described as having prolonged survival (4, 5, 7, 10–22) or spontaneous remission (16, 22). An asymptomatic case of BCS detected at necropsy has also been reported (23). The most commonly reported clinical manifestations are headache, aphasia, cognitive or behavioral dysfunction, and/or seizures. CSF studies often reveal a mononuclear inflammatory reaction and occasionally oligoclonal bands (2).
The characteristic pathologic findings are alternating rings of myelin preservation or remyelination and myelin loss, consistent with demyelination, involving the cerebral hemispheres, cerebellum, brain stem, spinal cord, and optic chiasm (3, 6, 11). The typical MR imaging changes associated with BCS consist of concentric rings or a whorled appearance on T2-weighted and contrast-enhanced T1-weighted images. Several patients who were recently diagnosed as having this entity, based on a rather characteristic MR imaging appearance, were proved to have the typical pathologic changes of BCS at autopsy, suggesting that it might be possible to identify this entity during life (4, 9, 11, 12, 19). After these reports, cases of MR imaging-diagnosed BCS without histologic verification emerged (5, 7, 10, 11, 13–18). In this report, we extend the recent concept of the benign behavior of BCS, as observed in our five cases. Diagnosis was based on clinical signs and symptoms consistent with BCS, exclusion of other neurologic diseases, and the characteristic concentric rings on MR images.
A 52-year-old man developed acute left hemiparesis, ataxia, and agitation in December 1996. MR imaging revealed a lesion with a concentric pattern involving the right centrum semiovale with contrast enhancement (Fig 1). A few T2-weighted hyperintense small lesions could be seen in the white matter. A stereotactic biopsy was performed and showed changes consistent with a glial tumor. The lesion was removed subtotally. However, after myelin staining, the histopathologic diagnosis was corrected as demyelinating disease (Fig 1C). MR imaging was performed 13 months later and showed postoperative changes on the T2-weighted images. Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery sequences revealed barely detectable small lesions with a concentric pattern (Fig 1D). The patient did not experience any relapse, and at the time of the last follow-up examination in June 1999, he had only residual mild left hemiparesis.
Images of a 52-year-old man who developed acute left hemiparesis, ataxia, and agitation (case 1).
A, Sagittal view T1-weighted MR image (560/12/2 [TR/TE/excitations]) shows a lesion in a concentric ring pattern in the right centrum semiovale.
B, Coronal view T1-weighted MR image with contrast enhancement shows focal, peripheral enhancement in the lesion.
C, Histopathologic image shows the area that its myelin-spared (⇓) and strictly separated from the demyelinated area, which contains a high number of macrophages (hematoxylin and eosin, original magnification ×125). On the right (Sudan black, original magnification ×500), the demyelinated area and macrophages, including black myelin debris, can be seen (⇑).
D, Coronal view fluid-attenuated inversion recovery image (15000/170/1; inversion time, 2500 ms) shows a residual concentric lesion 13 months after surgery.
A 20-year-old woman was admitted in March 1997 because of acute left hemiparesis. Cranial MR imaging showed a mass lesion with concentric rings located adjacent to the right lateral ventricle and posterior part of the corpus callosum, without perifocal edema. Prominent enhancement in the periphery of the lesion was detected after contrast material was injected (Fig 2). The typical concentric pattern detected on the MR images was accepted to be consistent with a diagnosis of BCS, and corticosteroids were administered. The patient's condition improved, and the results of her neurologic examination became normal. During 6 months of follow-up, there were no further relapses. No further follow-up MR images of this patient are available.
Images of a 20-year-old woman who was admitted because of acute left hemiparesis (case 2).
A, Coronal view fluid-attenuated inversion recovery image (10000/102/1; inversion time, 1800 ms) shows the concentric lesion with two rings located in the right periventricular white matter adjacent to the corpus callosum.
B, After injection of contrast material, enhancement at the outer ring of the concentric lesion is seen on T1-weighted MR image.
A 48-year-old man developed acute sensorial aphasia 4 days before admission in January 1997. An upper respiratory tract infection had been treated with antibiotics during the preceding period of symptoms. A CSF examination disclosed an albumin level of 98 mg, positive oligoclonal bands, and a normal immunoglobulin G index. Visual evoked potentials and somatosensory evoked potentials were both normal. Cranial MR imaging showed a few concentric lesions located in the supratentorial white matter. There were also small multiple sclerosis-like hyperintense lesions detected on the T2-weighted images (Fig 3). The lesion localized in the left temporoparietal region showed ring-shaped enhancement after the injection of contrast material. Most of the white matter lesions also enhanced with contrast material. A diagnosis of demyelinating-inflammatory disease of the BCS type was reached according to the clinical, CSF, and MR imaging findings. This type of concentric pattern has not been described in association with any other demyelinating-inflammatory disease except BCS, and therefore, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis was excluded. The patient received high dose IV administered methylprednisolone (1000 mg/day for 7 days). After 1 month, the patient showed mild clinical improvement and no activity was detected by follow-up contrast-enhanced cranial MR imaging. There were no further relapses, and no neurologic deficit was detected at the final examination in November 2000. Final MR imaging, performed approximately 4 years after the first attack, showed that the concentric pattern had completely disappeared and that only small residual nonspecific, gliotic plaque-like lesion remained. No additional lesion was detected.
Images of a 48-year-old man who developed acute sensorial aphasia 4 days before admission (case 3).
A, Axial view T2-weighted MR image (5200/95/2) shows a concentric lesion and peripheral edema in the left temporoparietal white matter.
B, Axial view unenhanced T1-weighted MR image (620/18/2) shows another lesion with concentric pattern in the left centrum semiovale.
C, Coronal view fluid-attenuated inversion recovery image (15000/170/1; inversion time, 2600 ms) shows a concentric lesion in the left temporoparietal white matter and a multiple sclerosis-like lesion in the right hemisphere.
D, Coronal view fluid-attenuated inversion recovery image (15000/170/1; inversion time, 2600 ms), obtained 1 month after treatment, shows impairment of the concentric pattern and edema of the lesion located in the left temporoparietal region.
E, Coronal fluid-attenuated inversion recovery image (8000/110/2; inversion time, 2500 ms), obtained nearly 4 years after diagnosis, shows that the concentric pattern of the lesion has totally disappeared. Only small gliotic reminiscent lesions are seen.
A 38-year-old man was hospitalized because of acute onset of dysarthria, dysphagia, and fatigue in February 1997. He reported an episode of dysarthria that had lasted a few days and had spontaneously improved 10 days previously. A neurologic examination revealed mild dysarthria and dysfunction of cranial nerves IX and X. A CSF examination revealed no oligoclonal bands, but the immunoglobulin G index was 0.717 (range, 0.3–0.6). Cranial MR imaging revealed multiple white matter lesions, one of which was located in the right centrum semiovale and had a concentric pattern with perifocal edema. This lesion showed prominent enhancement of an alternating ring pattern after the injection of contrast medium (Fig 4). Methylprednisolone (1000 mg/day) was IV administered for 10 days, and the patient's condition improved within a few days. Three weeks later, follow-up MR imaging showed the same concentric appearance without contrast enhancement. Nearly 4 years later, the results of the patient's neurologic examination remained normal. Because he had no further attacks, MR investigation was not performed.
T1-weighted contrast-enhanced MR image (513/14/2) of a 38-year-old man who was admitted because of acute onset of dysarthria, dysphagia, and fatigue shows an active concentric lesion with prominent enhancement on the right side and small demyelinating lesions with peripheral enhancement in the same hemisphere (case 4)
A 15-year-old female patient presented with acute left hemiparesis in February 1999. She developed hypoesthesia on her left side 20 days before admission that was followed by weakness 5 days later. She also had diplopia for 3 days that disappeared spontaneously. A neurologic examination revealed right abducens paresis, upper motor neuron type facial paralysis on the left, left hemiparesis, and hypoesthesia. Complete blood cell count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, biochemistry, and the results of the serologic tests were normal, as were the results of a CSF examination (immunoglobulin G index, 0.386). Oligoclonal bands were negative. Visual evoked potential studies showed delayed latencies bilaterally, and somatosensory evoked potential studies showed delayed latency on the left. Brain stem auditory evoked potential was normal. Cranial MR imaging revealed a typical concentric lesion located in the right centrum semiovale (Fig 5A). A few hyperintense small lesions, one of which involved the brain stem, were detected on the T2-weighted images. On the multivoxel spectroscopic images of the concentric lesion (TE, 20), an increased choline peak and decreased N-acetyl aspartate peak were detected (Fig 5B). There was also a suspicion of mild prominent lipid and lactate peaks in 0.8 to 1.3 ppm. Methylprednisolone (1000 mg/day for 7 days) was IV administered, and the patient's condition responded well. At her final follow-up examination in July 1999, no further relapses were reported.
Images of a 15-year-old female patient who presented with acute left hemiparesis (case 5).
A, Axial view unenhanced T1-weighted MR image (720/18/1) shows a concentric lesion with minimal hyperintensity at its outer ring due to magnetization transfer.
B, Multivoxel spectroscopic image (1500/20/2) of the concentric lesion shows increased choline peak and decreased N-acetyl aspartate peak.
C, Spectroscopic image of normal appearing white matter near the lesion shows all peaks as normal.
The clinical, imaging, pathologic, and immunogenetic studies looking into the different forms of multiple sclerosis and various other idiopathic inflammatory CNS diseases that fall within the same clinical spectrum are relatively recent (2, 24). BCS is also considered within the spectrum of multiple sclerosis. It shares an apparent basic pathologic similarity to multiple sclerosis, with the exception of a lamellar pattern. The striking concentric pattern of demyelination that distinguishes this disorder has generated much speculation regarding its pathogenesis. It is hypothesized that the lesions begin at the central core, which is often a venule, and the primary demyelinating activity spreads from this focus. Although the initial triggering event is still unknown, a centrifugally spreading band of lymphocytes or factors emanates from this initial site. The polarity of the demyelinating bands suggests that the demyelinating activity is periodically reactivated and then fades in strength as it migrates from the center, only to be rejuvenated when the next bolus of activating substances arrives. Candidate modulators of immune activity include the many cytokines, some of which are known to undergo periodic fluctuations in levels (6). This hypothesis is highly speculative. It does not explain why the concentric pattern in demyelinating lesions is not more commonly seen in cases of multiple sclerosis. Recently, Chen et al (11) reported serial MR imaging results for five patients with BCS. Their data showed that the concentric lesions did not occur simultaneously but developed step by step in a centrifugal direction. These findings were in contrast to those previously reported by Sekijima et al (17). Based on these results, they proposed a possible pathogenetic mechanism for BCS that is similar to Moore's hypothesis (11, 13).
Patients usually present with symptoms of an acute/subacute onset that progresses over a period of weeks to months, suggesting a space-occupying lesion of the brain, similar to that in our first case. Because of the absence of antemortem diagnosis before the advent of MR imaging, the majority of patients reported had a monophasic course resulting in death within the first few weeks or months (2). Several patients who were recently diagnosed as having this entity, based on a rather characteristic MR appearance, have subsequently proved to have the typical pathologic changes of BCS at autopsy or biopsy, suggesting that it might be possible to identify the condition during life (4, 11, 14, 16, 25). Therefore, MR imaging should be considered the diagnostic procedure of choice in such cases.
Clinical differential diagnosis includes acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, multiple sclerosis, neoplasms, and infections such as abscesses. However, the typical concentric pattern on MR images as described above, which is similar to other reports, is highly suggestive of BCS. The concentric pattern is not always observed if the MR imaging is not performed early in the course of the disease (25). A brain biopsy should then be considered to exclude other disorders. When histopathologic investigation is conducted, it is important to stain for myelin to determine alternating concentric zones of demyelination.
We herein present five cases diagnosed as BCS based on their MR imaging findings, which were similar to those of other previously reported cases with antemortem diagnosis (9, 12, 13, 16). All our patients had a benign course without further relapses within a mean follow-up period of 30 months (range, 6–47 months) (Table). Such an outcome has also been reported in recent cases, with some showing spontaneous remission, as seen in our first case (16, 22). Most of the earlier cases with a progressive and fatal course were based on autopsy findings. Therefore, it is very likely that many cases with a benign course were either missed or misdiagnosed before the introduction of MR imaging into clinical practice. Furthermore, it can be speculated that BCS has also its own spectrum with different clinical-prognostic behavior. Because most of the reported cases of BCS occur in Chinese and Japanese patients and considering that known multiple sclerosis in these populations shows different clinical involvement pattern and course, this suggests that different defense patterns exist in different ethnic groups and explains clinical diversity.
Radiologic, clinical, and laboratory features in five cases with Balõ's concentric sclerosis
This case report further supports the concepts that BCS may be a self-limited disease that is not always fatal; MR imaging might show the pathognomonic features reminiscent of the histopathologic findings of BCS and allow antemortem diagnosis when performed at the onset of the disease; and, in addition to the typical concentric pattern on MR images, multiple white matter lesions consistent with demyelinating disease may also be detected.
1 This case report was presented at the 15th Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis, Basel Switzerland, September 15–18, 1999.
2 Address reprint requests to Ercan Karaarslan, MD, Intermed Medical Center, Tesvikiye 143, Bayer Apt, Nisantasi, 80200, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Everything Is Copy (NYFF 2015)
By Zachary Shevich @ZShevich on September 27, 2015
A slick tribute to Nora Ephron, knowingly directed by her son, provides an intimate peek at the writer’s path to celebrity.
Every story told becomes filtered through the lens of its storyteller, and rarely does that implication loom as large as when a son directs a film about his mother. In the case of journalist Jacob Bernstein, his debut documentary Everything Is Copy serves as a semi-reverential tribute to his mom, the late great writer Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally…, Sleepless in Seattle), but one with a distinctly personal investment in the narrative. The immediacy of Bernstein’s relationship with the film’s subject is consistently evident. Interview subjects from famous faces like Rosie O’Donnell and Meg Ryan as well as family friends and Bernstein’s father occasionally refer to Ephron as, “your mother,” Jacob appears on screen himself, and much of the movie is devoted to Ephron the person rather than Ephron the essayist and filmmaker. Often, Bernstein appears to be discovering aspects of his mother’s life in time with the film, assembling a general, but intimate look at an icon as remembered by those close to her.
Though many of the featured talking heads in Everything Is Copy are well known, it’s people like Ephron’s sisters and below-the-line crew members from Ephron’s films that provide the most illuminating details on the late author’s life. People fondly recall Ephron’s magnetism; Meryl Streep speaks in awe of the Julie & Julia filmmaker’s unparalleled abilities as a party hostess, bouncing between cooking and conversation. They’re small glimpses into a trailblazer’s story but not the primary focus of Everything Is Copy.
Instead, Bernstein examines the people and relationships that mattered most to Nora. As one of entertainment’s most formative writers of romance and women’s voices, Ephron drew much of her inspiration at times from a turbulent personal life. Specifically, her marriage and eventual separation from Jacob’s father Carl Bernstein. This lead to Ephron’s bestselling book and 1986 film Heartburn, a movie that the documentary covers extensively for its implications on Ephron’s family life. It’s disappointing when the rest of Everything Is Copy skims over the rest of her film career with the breadth of a Wikipedia entry; however, Bernstein chooses to explore the impact that producing Heartburn had on Ephron’s immediate family.
Everything Is Copy skews toward slick convention in its scattershot glimpse at the experiences that helped to define Nora Eprhon’s life. With striking black & white vignettes of famous actresses—Lena Dunham and Reese Witherspoon among them—reading excerpts from Ephron’s best essays to the exquisitely composed shots of Jacob typing away on his laptop, the documentary moves quickly through Ephron’s life story. The approach feels glossy, perhaps even to its own detriment, despite sleek packaging which gives the documentary a sense of having been consciously constructed.
Everything Is Copy is not the wall-to-wall puff piece one might imagine, though it only samples from Ephron’s less favorable habits. The self-centered choices she made and her thin patience—firing many crew members for single mistakes—are acknowledged in passing. Bernstein understandably focuses on his mother’s successes. The documentary contains a highlight reel of a storied career, resembling a kind of visual obituary. For lovers of her work or those with only a passing appreciation for Nora Ephron, Everything Is Copy provides an intimate peek at the writer’s path to celebrity.
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California Forward, the good government group backed by the state’s most muscular civic foundations, decided Wednesday – at least tentatively – to stand up and play a role in reforming California.
The goo-goos’ leadership council agreed to support scrapping the two-thirds legislative vote now required to approve the budget in favor of a majority vote, according to leakage through the Victorian windows in the Drawing Room of the Sterling Hotel, where the group was meeting in Sacramento to hash out an action item agenda.
Endorsement of a majority budget vote would be part of a package of reforms that includes two-year budgeting, performance management measures, a sunset review of government codes, a rainy-day fund and a “pay-go” requirement that new legislation must identify funds or cuts, Calbuzz also learned. (Until the whole group agrees with the leadership council’s proposals, support for any of this remains provisional.)
The group – backed by California Endowment, the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation – is ideologically diverse, so the two-thirds budget vote proposal has proved a difficult one for members because of the partisan polarization split on the issue.
Cal Forward is also apparently inching toward support for a constitutional change to return to local governments the authority to raise revenues with less than the two-thirds vote mandated by Proposition 13 since 1978.
Whether reforms like these can be accomplished one at a time or in clusters, or whether substantive reform will demand a constitutional convention, as outlined by the Bay Area Council, remains to be seen. But for now, at least, it looks like California Forward is opting to assert an active role in the reform movement.
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Searching for Victory, Beavers set more Records
Caltech's comeback wasn't quite enough on Saturday against La Verne. The Beavers, after being down 13 at halftime saw the spread briefly swell to 20 with just more than six minutes to play (67-47), but they battled back with great defense and scoring punch to finish the game on a 23-9 run. Final score: 76-70.
(Recaps from GoCaltech.com and Pasadena Star-News)
The team continues to set program records as it looks for its next win. On Saturday, Caltech set the mark for the most 3-pointers made in a game as four players combined for a 12 for 22 night from behind the arc. Sophomore Mike Edwards tied his own Caltech record (in an NCAA game) with seven made treys on his way to a career-best 35 points. The 35-point effort ties Travis Haussler's school record for the most points against an NCAA opponent. Freshman Mike Paluchniak poured in a career-high 16 points. In addition, the 6-point margin of defeat is the closest Caltech has come on the road to a SCIAC or NCAA opponent since the 1995-96 season when the Beavers lost by three points at Redlands.
Caltech plays its next two games at home this coming Wednesday and Saturday.
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A Little Hotel in Cornwall by Laura Briggs Review
A Hotel in Cornwall
Little Hotel in Cornwall #1
By Laura Briggs
Release Date: April 30th, 2019
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Struggling American waitress and aspiring novelist Maisie Clark dreams of becoming a full-time writer — even though in real life she's just lost her chance at an exclusive writer's mentorship program that would give her novel its big break. Desperate, she decides to take a chance and ask her favorite writer, a celebrated but reclusive English novelist, to help her find a second chance.
When she receives the author's reply in an envelope with a Cornish postmark, Maisie decides not to take the writer's half-hearted 'no' for an answer. With nothing to lose, she takes off for the author's last known location, a beautiful hotel on Cornwall's western coast. But when the hotel mistakes her for the latest applicant for a maid's position, Maisie finds herself given an opportunity too good to lose ... and a chance for a summer adventure far bigger than she ever imagined.
Surrounded by breathtaking Cornwall and working in an elegant hotel, Maisie's world becomes one of secret identities, quirky friends, and unintentional mishaps — and despite reminders of past relationship disasters, a certain handsome, charming local resident Sidney Daniels has her conflicted about her heart's desires, too.
Will Maisie find the chance she's been waiting for — and a possible new romance — in her perfect Cornish summer?
*ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest and unbiased review*
When Maisie doesn't get on to the exclusive writer's mentorship program she had all her hopes and dreams set on, she was devastated, but she doesn't let that stop her and reaches out to an elusive British novelist to help her pursue her dreams! But even that didn't work, not deterred Maisie hops on a plane and heads for England, specifically the Cornish coast where that Novelist was last spotted, and after a series of hiccups, accidental impersonations Maisie finds herself a chambermaid at an exclusive hotel...but can she find her novelist?
After reading A Wedding in Cornwall by Laura Briggs, I was excited to read another one of her books, but this book is different to A Wedding in Cornwall and that is that this is the first book in a novella series and even though I have mostly gotten over my hated of series books, I struggled with this book, as in my humble opinion I think it would be better if it was a full book, I fear people (like me) will get easily bored waiting for the next installment.
As I love all things Cornwall I found the setting to be perfect, and I have to say I really enjoyed the characters, but it took me a little bit too warm to Maisie. But overall a nice little novella that will relax you for a couple of hours at the beach or the garden.
I give A Little Hotel in Cornwall 4 stars
Laura Briggs is the author of several chick lit and romance stories, including the Top 100 Amazon UK seller 'A Wedding in Cornwall'. She has a fondness for vintage style dresses (especially ones with polka dots) and reads everything from Jane Austen to modern-day mysteries. When she's not writing, she enjoys spending time with family, caring for her pets, going to movies and plays, and trying new restaurants.
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Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:
By John Busbee
The Covid-19 pandemic persists. Be safe. Be considerate. Be compassionate. But, continue to be creative. Find ways to celebrate your thankfulness safely with family and friends.
– John Busbee for The Culture Buzz
“All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song. What we play is life.”
–Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) American trumpeter, composer, vocalist, and actor who was among the most influential figures in jazz
“Support a Local Business” tips of the week:
6 ways to support small businesses: Write a positive review; tell your friends & family; follow them on social media; engage with their posts; give them a shout out; sign up for their newsletter. Cost to do this: $0.00.
Tangerine Foods at Mainframe Studios. A great local business ready to give you more time with your family and friends. Currently offering: Christmas/Holiday for pick-up/delivery on Dec 24. Check out their new online store; tangerinefoodco.square.site.
Mainframe Studios Shopping Event. Sat Dec 19, 11 AM – 5 PM. Mainframe Studios is Iowa’s premier artists studios destination. Over 75 open artist studios to explore, featuring local art and artists of all kinds. Ceramics, jewelry, painting, hand blown glass, custom clothing, scarves, and blankets. Find the perfect gift for a loved one, art to fill your home, or just something cozy to make you smile! Two special events will happen during this open studio time: Live Painting by Amy O’Brien (4th Floor) and Live Music by Caleb Hans (1st Floor). Link to RSVP
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mainframe-shopping-events-last-call-tickets-127216141905
Support an Iowa consumable provider.
A recent interview with the incomparable and inspirational Darcy Maulsby recently yielded a great sidebar conversation. She shared a short-list of great Iowa small food providers that will make taste buds salivate. Give the gift of Iowa farm fresh foods awaits the culinary gifter. Here is a list from Iowa’s Storyteller, a self-proclaimed ‘farm girl’ who loves sharing such information with others:
Feddersen USA Wagyu beef. What makes a superior steak? The Feddersen family of Anthon, Iowa, keeps their cattle on feed for two years, significantly longer than traditional cattle production, to produce extraordinary marbling. In the hierarchy of beef, Wagyu’s superior marbling/ “Our goal is to produce the best-tasting, 100% Wagyu beef,” said Brad Feddersen, who has raised Wagyu cattle with his family since 1997. https://ilovewagyu.com/.
Pammel Park Coffee. Matt and Naomi Hupton from Madison County have been roasting small batches of exceptional coffees since 2018 on their Century Farm southwest of Winterset, just down the road from Pammel State Park. Every batch is prepared with precision to showcase each coffee’s unique attributes and flavor profile, honoring Madison County attractions, such as the Roseman Bridge Blend. https://pammelparkcoffee.com/.
Maytag Blue Cheese. Iowa’s dairy industry boasts one of America’s distinctive cheeses. The Maytag Dairy Farm near Newton started making blue cheese in October 1941 and has built a national following ever since. https://maytagdairyfarms.com/.
Deal’s Orchard Hard Cider. The Deal family from Jefferson hand picks and selects a special blend of apples from their orchards to press into cider. The fresh cider is then fermented. The keg or hand bottle hard cider comes in flavors which include Original, Blackberry, Raspberry, Peach, and Limited-Edition Pear. http://dealsorchard.com/hard-cider/
Early Morning Harvest grains and flours. When you’re ready to bake, why not use Iowa-grown grains and flour? Early Morning Harvest near Panora is a small, diversified, family farm that sells flours made from certified organic cereal grains (wheat, rye, buckwheat, and corn meal) raised on their farm. Earl Hafner, his son, Jeff, and their team also grow vegetables in an aquaponics greenhouse and raise pastured poultry for egg production. “Our highest priority is caring for our land and animals so that the food we grow and offer to our community is fresh and healthy,” says Earl Hafner, who received the prestigious 2018 Practical Farmers of Iowa Sustainable Agriculture Achievement Award. https://earlymorningharvest.com/
Virtual cultural exploration opportunity
Reading: “Christmas — 1931,” Gangster in Our Midst, winner of a 2019 Notable 100 Indie Book Award from Shelf Unbound book review magazine. 7:30-8:00 – Discussion. Gangster in Our Midst tells the chilling story of an Italian-American gangster who works for Chicago Kingpin Alphonse Capone, and shows up on main street of a small midwestern town (Fairbank, Iowa) in the 1920s—where he remains off and on for the next sixty years. RSVP: bbpassickauthor@comcast.net (watch for the Zoom video conferencing link that will be sent to your email address). 6:45 – Click on the Zoom link on Dec 17, 7:00
Ames Town & Gown presents The Mertz Trio for its final concert of 2020, produced at Boston’s Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory. Wed Dec 16-Fri Dec 18, all day and evening. Free to the public. In lieu of their concert originally scheduled to take place here in Ames, the Trio has created a special program, beautifully video-recorded in the New England Conservatory’s renowned and historic Jordan Hall. For the link to this concert, visit https://www.amestownandgown.org/
This week’s guests on The Culture Buzz –
11:00 AM – The new issue of Iowa History Journal has just hit mailboxes, as well as newsstands in HyVee, Fareway, and Beaverdale Books. This issue features a marvelous cover story by Barbara Lounsberry as she takes readers on a rest-of-the-story journey deeper than even Paul Harvey could do as she shares the reality behind the writer of so many Nancy Drew mysteries and other series books, Mildred Augustine.
http://iowahistoryjournal.com/
11:19 AM – Timothy Smith MD shares medical breakthrough news in his book, “Reversing Alzeimer’s: How to Prevent Dementia and Revitalize Your Brain.” With parallels to the incredible breakthroughs in fighting cancer many decades ago, the fight to solve the mysteries and effects of Alzeimer’s is being won. Listen as Tim shares great news for any and all impacted by this disease.
“It is the dawn of the era of treatable Alzheimer’s and pre-Alzheimer’s—after more than a century of failure, reports are appearing documenting success after success. Reversing Alzheimer’s by Dr. Timothy Smith provides clear explanations of the disease mechanisms and a practical, useful approach to combat this scourge. I recommend this book wholeheartedly.”
—Dale Bredesen, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller The End of Alzheimer’s
https://www.timsmithmd.com/
11:31 AM – Tara Lush brings a wealth of writing experience as her muse takes her to new realms as she releases her debut mystery, “Grounds for Murder (A Coffee Lover’s Mystery). Tara livens up the conversation, sharing her inspirations as she takes us behind the scenes in the making of this great story – one to curl up with and simply savor every page.
“It doesn’t matter if you like your coffee hot or cold, you’ll love Grounds for Murder. Tara Lush brings the quirky town of Devil’s Beach to life. You can almost smell the coffee and feel the heat. A sure winner!” — Joyce Tremel, author of the Brewing Trouble mysteries
https://tamaralush.com/
11:43 AM – In the captivating psychological true crime thriller, Phyllis Chesler’s “Requiem for a Female Serial Killer” explores how Aileen Wuornos’ life path brought her to such a complicated and deadly outcome. Phyllis has a deeply researched context to this story, bringing a greater understanding about his unique persona and the motivations behind her crimes.
“Aileen Wuornos—female serial killer? Feminist folk-hero? A broken woman betrayed her entire life by a system that should have protected her? Perhaps all of the above, in one volatile package. In this amazing book, Phyllis Chesler takes you on a mind-bending journey through a story you thought you knew. Chesler sets out to write a book to make you question everything and succeeds.” —Gregg Olsen, author, If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
https://phyllis-chesler.com/
12:00 PM – Author and historian Rachelle Chase returns with a sequel to her exceptional first book on the legacy of Buxton with “Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa.” Rachelle takes us deep into the times and events leading up to the creation of the huge unincorporated coal-mining town of Buxton in SE Iowa where more than 5000 people resided, worked and lived in harmony, most of them black. Fascinating and detailed in its content, this is a major chapter in American history that Rachelle has brilliantly captured.
“Rachelle Chase has a deep knowledge and understanding of a great American story, the legacy of Buxton, Iowa. Her unparalleled research and imagery of this incredible time is captured in her well-researched books, as she brings a modern relevance to this legacy.” -The Culture Buzz
http://rachellechase.com/
12:17 PM – Iowa native and international traveler and author John Shors shares insights into his critically hailed fantasy trilogy, The Demon Seekers.
“Shors is an amazing talent.” -Amy Tan
https://johnshors.com/
12:29 PM – Artistic Director Matt McIver shares information about Iowa Stage Theatre Company’s collaboration with Iowa Public Broadcasting as they present the televised production, “It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” Dec 19, 20, 24. This show was presented to packed houses a couple of seasons ago, and fans of the production are joyously awaiting its return.
“This production captures all of the heart and soul of the original Donna Reed and Jimmy Stewart classic film. It will bring an eye-moistening sentimental rush at the end, a visceral reward for allowing oneself to follow Clarence the Angel in his quest to save George Bailey.” – The Culture Buzz
https://www.iowastage.org/wonderful-life
12:43 PM – Mary Potter Kenyon is a multi-talented creative, and shares her experience and understanding with others seeking their own paths to creativity…at whatever time in their lives they are. “Called to Be Creative: A Guide to Reigniting Your Creativity” is an encouraging guidebook to help find the inner stirrings that simply are awaiting to be fanned into fiery productivity. This book is now in audio format, and recently received an award.
“I devoured this book. Each chapter is filled with encouragement and inspiration. If you’re looking for something to feed your creative soul, this is it.” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author
https://marypotterkenyon.com/
Cultural nuggets –
The Des Moines Community Playhouse prepares for its holiday show, the next live theatre, socially distanced and with COVID protocols in place production, “Miracle on 34th Street.” This play, from Valentine Davies book by the same name, was adapted by Executive Director David Kilpatrick as a radio theatre performance with a live audience, harkening back to the days when this was commonly done. This show opens Dec 4. https://www.dmplayhouse.com/
Des Moines Metro Opera to present Virtual Holiday Concert on 12/18
The Merry & Bright Holiday Concert premieres online on Fri Dec 18 at 7pm (CST) and streams through Dec 31. This concert features 14 DMMO audience-favorite artists and members of the Heartland Youth Choir performing a selection of holiday tunes with an interactive online reception following the program. desmoinesmetroopera.org/holiday or by calling the DMMO Box Office at (515) 961-6221
It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Adapted by Joe Landry, Directed by Matthew McIver. 7:00 PM, Dec 19, 2:00 PM, Dec 20, 8:00 PM, Dec 24. Broadcast on Iowa Public Television. This collaboration between Iowa Stage Theatre Company and Iowa Public Television brings a critically acclaimed performance from 2018 back to audiences for an eagerly anticipated return. https://www.iowastage.org/wonderful-life
Ames, Iowa – The Ames Community Arts Council’s December Gathering of Artists will be held via Zoom on Tuesday, December 15 from 6 – 8 p.m., and will feature Reiman Gardens’ RG Express holiday train. This event is free and open to everyone. Participants will need to pre-register for the event to attend. Please visit our website [www.amesart.org] or email info@amesart.org for registration information.
Check out the Month of Sundays posts at this Facebook site. Thanks to Covid Recovery Iowa, a program with a wealth of ways to help, you will find resources, inspiration and more. https://www.facebook.com/covidrecoveryIowa
Beaverdale Books offers curbside service, or delivery service. Our new hours starting Sun Nov 1:
Sun: Noon – 4:00; Mon-Fri: – 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.; Sat: 10:00 – 5:00.
http://beaverdalebooks.com/ 515-279-5400
Top Ten sellers in our store last month – see what everyone’s reading!
1. A Promised Land, Barack Obama
2. Benny’s True Colors, Norene Paulson*
3. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
4. The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook, Marcus Samuelsson
5. The White Man Who Stayed, James A. Autry*
6. Iowa State Parks: A Century of Stewardship 1920-2020, Rebecca Conard*
7. Classic Restaurants of Des Moines and Their Recipes, Darcy Dougherty Maulsby*
8. One Life, Megan Rapinoe
9. The Heart Hungers for Wildness, Diane Glass*
10. Hello Iowa, Mary Gordon*
*Iowa Author!
Ongoing conversations with Callista Gould always deliver useful information. So much any merging or established professional could use is in her book, which, as she says, is “Best. Graduation Gift. Ever.” The book, The Exceptional Professional: What You Need to Know to Grow Your Career, is the perfect gift for that graduating daughter, son, grandchild, niece, nephew or good friend’s or neighbor’s child who never writes a thank you note. Check out https://cultureandmanners.com/ to get a copy for someone you care about.
PERFORMING & VISUAL ARTS plus Other Cultural Consideration
Please check in advance regarding any scheduled performances, exhibitions, museum visits, etc.
Ankeny Community Theatre – www.ankenycommunitytheatre.com; Facebook: Ankeny Community Theatre
Carousel Theatre of Indianola – www.carouseltheatre.org; Faceook: Carousel Theatre Indianola
Class Act Productions – www.captheatre.org; Facebook: CAPTheatre
Des Moines Community Playhouse/Kate Goldman Theatre – www.dmplayhouse.com; Facebook: DMPlayhouse
Des Moines Performing Arts/Temple Theater – www.desmoinesperformingarts.org; Facebook: Des Moines Performing Arts
Des Moines Young Artists’ Theatre – www.dmyat.org; Facebook: DM Young Artists Theatre
Iowa Shakespeare Experience – www.iowashakespeare.org; Facebook: Iowa Shakespeare Experience
Iowa Stage Theatre Company – www.iowastage.org; Facebook: Iowa Stage Theatre Company
Pyramid Theatre Company – www.pyramidtheatre.org; Facebook: Pyramid Theatre Company
Tallgrass Theatre Company – www.tallgrasstheatre.org; Facebook: Tallgrass Theatre Company
TheatreMidwest – www.theatremidwest.org; Facebook: TheatreMidwest
Urbandale Community Theatre – www.urbandaletheatre.com; Facebook: Urbandale Community Theatre
AUDITIONS and Cultural Engagement Opportunities:
Check with galleries, organizations, destinations you frequented before the pandemic. Many are producing creative and unique ways to engage again…get your cultural fix.
Nocé has instigated strict COVID protocols while launching live music at its destination-worthy venue – check out the schedule and find a time to savor the sublime setting and national-caliber music. https://www.nocedsm.com/
Civic Music Association announces its 2020-2021 Season. Check it out. https://civicmusic.org/concerts/
The Des Moines Symphony will present an appealing series of concert experiences. Check for details. https://www.dmsymphony.org/
Greater Des Moines Independent Book Store Happenings:
The Culture Buzz shares many authors and their books with its audiences. We encourage you to visit your local independent book store regularly. The folks at these destination locations know books, and welcome the chance to help anyone connect with titles and subjects they seek. Check these sites, as their calendars are always filled with enticing activities and news.
Beaverdale Books, Des Moines. http://www.beaverdalebooks.com/
Pageturners Bookstore, Indianola. http://www.pageturnersbookstore.com/
Artisan Gallery 218, 218-5th Street, Historic Valley Junction, West Des Moines (select author events), http://www.artisangallery218.com/
Read a Book Nook, Marshalltown. https://read-a-book-nook.business.site/
Book Vault, Oskaloosa. https://bookvault.indielite.org/
Prairie Lights Books & Cafe, Iowa City. https://www.prairielights.com/
Cultural Exploration Resources:
The Culture Buzz will begin including carefully vetted but comprehensive listings where you can do some advance online exploration before scheduling destinations in the region. These are two great websites to know about:
The Culture Buzz – John Busbee and associates encourage cultural adventures with a comprehensive overview of what The Culture Buzz delivers. Included is an archive library of favorite interviews. http://www.TheCultureBuzz.com/
Center Stage – This Cityview monthly column provides insights into Central Iowa’s theatre. Distributed throughout the region and available online. Current column: http://www.dmcityview.com/center-stage
Cityview – Central Iowa’s monthly printed and continually updated online resource to all things happening in your community, from arts & culture, to music, to civic and political discourse, to fascinating columnists and stories. Cityview is the reliable source for keeping you informed and engaged in the Greater Des Moines community and beyond. http://www.dmcityview.com/
Art Beacon Des Moines is Central Iowa’s home for promoting the visual arts. Our calendar of events highlights exhibitions, art talks and calls for art. Subscribe to the Art Beacon Weekly, our online newsletter filled with links to the latest art happenings. Find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. http://artbeacondesmoines.com/
900Views Podcast. An exploration of arts and community with Host Pat Boddy. Based out of Mainframe Studios in downtown Des Moines, 900Views provides a platform for glimpsing the creative work and lives of the Midwest’s cultural producers and influencers. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/900views-pat-boddy-RCELj1xc7Wh/
Greater Des Moines Community Jazz Center is this region’s source for a decades-established advocacy group for jazz, and established jazz professionals guiding and nurturing next generations of jazz musicians and fans. http://dmcommunityjazzcenter.org/
Central Iowa Blues Society is the area’s connecting point for performance, presentations and education in the world of blues. www.cibs.org
Resources to help, support and guide during any challenges you or someone you care about may be experiencing:
COVID Iowa Recovery: 800-775-9276 https://covidrecoveryiowa.org/
1-800-950-NAMI (6264) or info@nami.org
United Way 211: Dial 211, text ZIP code to 898211 or visit 211iowa.org
CICIL: #CICILServes COVID-19 Hotline: (866) 44-CICIL
Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
LGBT National Youth Talkline: (800) 246-7743
LGBT National Talkline: (888) 843-4564
Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center: dmpcc.org
Broadlawns 24/7 Crisis Team: (515) 282-5752
Your Life Iowa Help Line: (855) 581-8111
Broadlawns Psychiatric Urgent Care: (515) 282-2200
Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 to be connected to crisis counseling
Online Mental Health Crisis Chat: iowacrisischat.org
MercyOne Des Moines Behavioral Health Clinic: 515-643-9030.
Prelude Behavioral Services (substance treatment): 515-262-0349
As always, I appreciate news and information from you out there in the cultural trenches and am ready and willing to pursue a story or interview to share with my audiences. ♦
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The Dark Shadows Daybook: SEPTEMBER 14
By PATRICK McCRAY
Taped on this date in 1970: Episode 1107
When Gerard springs the ultimate trap for Quentin, Barnabas must stop him before his best friend buries himself alive. Gerard Stiles: James Storm. (Repeat. 30 min.)
Collinwood is going to hell. Gerard possesses Quentin, who is more than happy to dig his own grave. Carolyn develops second sight, but is unable to give Barnabas information about where Quentin is. As Quentin nears death, Daphne falls ill and is presented with her dress from the 1840’s. In the middle, Barnabas Collins has nowhere to turn for help.
Just because it doesn’t make immediate sense, doesn’t make it bad.
Containing what is easily (?) the show’s most challenging storyline, this is a sequence that’s impossible to watch on autopilot. A viewer either has to zone out completely or athletically participate in interpreting the action. Last night, I exhausted myself as I watched the episode with a friend who had never seen DARK SHADOWS; there’s a lot to explain. That’s fine. That’s expected. The tough part isn’t the plot, but how it involves characters who behave in atypical and mercurial ways. At a certain point, you simply have to wave the white flag… or green flag in this case.
And yet, it worked. As a piece of high-stakes, suspenseful drama, it held my friend’s attention and made her want to watch more. Within the context of the larger show, it’s a very real nightmare for Barnabas. In that sense, it’s a perfect creation to come from Judah Zachary… the Dream Curse is an amateurish carnival ride by comparison. This isn’t a literal dream, but like so much in the Ragnarok sequence, it echoes the language of dreams and the ways in which they reveal disturbing and profound truths. This is as opposed to surface level sources of fright -- wolves, skeletons, beheadings. Yes, yes, we get it, Angelique, these things are all Real Scary. And in a foggy hall of doors, we kind of see it all coming, Real nightmares don’t traffic in fantasy. They don’t leave you waking up, saying, “That was weird.” They leaving you waking up saying, “I think that was real.”
It’s especially clever because 1107 reveals and exploits Barnabas’ greatest fears: complete responsibility for disaster mixed with a complete inability to control -- or even understand -- the causes of it. This is clearest as he tries to understand what’s upsetting Daphne, why Quentin has escaped, and what psychic truths are held by his now death-obsessed niece, Carolyn. Roger, Liz, and Stokes are nowhere to be found as he dashes about for answers, and said dashing only leads to more confusion. He’s a man of the Enlightenment, which means that he prizes cause & effect, clear reasoning, and crisp, persuasive rhetoric to describe the universe. Here, there is no cause and effect. Gerard’s reasoning is clearly strategic, but since he won’t speak, there is no understanding it, much less negotiation. His communication is psychic. If you’re lucky, he’ll have an expression or extend a hand. But that’s it. His victims change their minds, leap to conclusions, and follow orders by innately understanding them without articulation. To Barnabas, there are no clues to follow… there is no trail to chase, merely a city on fire with nary a bucket in sight. Beyond the morbid niece, who is his only connection to Quentin, there is a one-time ghost, Daphne, who is in extreme pain because the same man, Quentin, is somewhere, controlled by Gerard and vaguely possessed by his own ancestor. Quentin is beset by dread and relief as he digs his own grave.
Quentin is DARK SHADOWS’ most depressed character. (Even Liz has the hope for Carolyn’s love.) Eternally lost, he has every reason for lonely despair -- as well as every reason to be the happiest man in town. In 1107, there is an horrific relatability to his quietly ecstatic sense of release as he skips suicide to simply dig his own grave and climb in. It is a moment of such dark truth that very few will ever want to admit to themselves or others that they understand it. What sells the impossibly black mirror is Selby. You see the relief of a century’s worth of manufactured happiness and released despair in his simple decisions and discoveries alongside his wordless new liberator and jailer.
We’ve heard his mournful, favorite song. Thought it was charming. We saw his endless romancing. Thought it was dashing. We saw his drinking. Thought it made him hard-edged and contemplative. And we witnessed everything else and said, “That’s Quentin,” and left it at that. The clues were there and no one took them seriously. This is a wildly irresponsible betrayal of caring for a deeply unhappy court jester desperate for belonging and help. We should have seen it, and instead we wrote it off. The horror in the scene is as much at ourselves for ignoring the obvious as it is at Quentin. Imagine what Barnabas must be thinking as his savior and surrogate custodian.
Not stopping that fate, and not knowing there was anything to be stopped? That’s a nightmare. That’s a dream curse. That’s what Gerard does.
This episode was broadcast Sept. 22, 1970.
Posted by Cousin Barnabas at 12:50 PM
Labels: Dark Shadows Daybook, September 14, September 22
Dark Shadows joins Decades' evening lineup
Spend some time with Barnabas Collins this Halloween
1942 film offers rare color perspective of fiction...
Every school kid needs this book
Crack open a big box of monsters this Halloween
Enjoy Monster Cereals whenever you damn well please
The Dark Shadows Daybook: SEPTEMBER 7
Monster Crunch: It's now OK to play with your food
The Haunting of Mary Shelley
House Party of Dark Shadows
Come see how the vampires do it on TCM
Big Finish announces the future of Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows cast reunion set for October
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Stock Market Outlook for April 24, 2019
Stocks chart new closing highs as investors remain risk-on.
Incyte Corp. (NASD:INCY) Seasonal Chart
Luminex Corp. (NASD:LMNX) Seasonal Chart
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. (NASD:CSOD) Seasonal Chart
Stocks marched forward on Tuesday as investors welcomed better than expected earnings from some notable market heavyweights. The S&P 500 Index climbed almost nine-tenths of one percent, charting a new all-time closing high. The benchmark remains mere points away from the all-time intraday high charted around 2940, achieved just prior to the fourth quarter swoon. The benchmark has now realized the short-term target presented by the ascending triangle continuation pattern that we have been highlighting over the past week. Short and intermediate-term overbought signals could stall upside momentum ahead.
New all-time closing highs were shared by the Nasdaq Composite, which is similarly inching closer to the all-time intraday highs recorded in the third quarter of last year. The technology heavy index was higher by 1.32% on Tuesday, continuing a trend of outperformance versus the large-cap S&P 500 Index. The performance of the technology sector has far surpassed that of the market in 2019 as investors re-join the growth trade. The sector, which represents almost 22% of the S&P 500 Index, can provide an important tell of the momentum of the broader market. Through the summer of 2018, underperformance of technology stocks suggested lack of investor enthusiasm to chase risk, leading to the massive rotation during the third quarter and eventually resulting in the downfall in stocks that followed. Should strength in cyclical sectors give way to outperformance in defensive areas of the market, we will know that investor enthusiasm towards risk has again shifted, but, for now, things are risk-on, which is conducive to the bull market rebound from the December lows.
Another gauge of risk sentiment may take its own shot at breaking out. The Russell 2000 Small Cap Index has been stuck below resistance around 1600 for the past couple of months, carving out what appears to be the right shoulder to a massive head-and-shoulders bottoming pattern. The index bounced firmly from its rising 50-day moving average during Tuesday’s session, rebounding to levels back above its 200-day moving average. Confirmation of the breakout could entice further buyers from the sidelines who have pessimistic of the strength of stocks. Seasonally, the Russell 2000 has historically outperformed the S&P 500 Index, on average, between now and the end of the second quarter.
Sentiment on Tuesday, as gauged by the put-call ratio, ended bullish at 0.81.
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Elaquent "Baker's Dozen" (Instrumental Album)
Fat Beats Records is proud to present Baker’s Dozen, an exclusive series that shines a light on the best minds of instrumental hip-hop, ambient, and electronic music. Each installment gives one artist carte blanche to capture their signature sound. Every volume’s limited vinyl pressing features one artist and twelve tracks, and comes equipped with a 5x7” postcard insert that features a photo of the artist’s workspace along with the equipment used in their music-making process. Visually cohesive and packaged with the utmost attention to detail, Baker’s Dozen is a series that speaks up for artists whose craft renders voices superfluous, whose instrumentals alone suffice to make a statement. Volume nine highlights the Guelph, Ontario producer Elaquent, who breaks down his creative process below: “Since the beginning, my philosophy has always been that perfection is boring, so despite all the changes that have occurred with my equipment and system, that main philosophy remains the same. In the beginning it was all about flipping samples with FL Studio and just my computer keyboard, and over the years, I added the MPD and Masterkey in order to be able to jam out drums live and play keys, which speeds up the workflow. I like the effects on the 404, and there’s a lot of dope ways to integrate my iPad into it, but at the end of the day, it starts with a melody or sample, and I kinda just let the vibe take over.” - Elaquent. Catch the vibe below...
Baker's Dozen: Elaquent by Elaquent
Tags: 2018, Elaquent, Fat Beats, Instrumentals, Selections
Natural Elements "Built To Last Mix"
Venomous2000 & Trilian "Sounds Of The Great Ones 2"
Senswif "Elevation" (12", 1997)
Westside Gunn "Supreme Blientele" (Album Stream)
Ill Conscious "The Underachiever" (Mixtape Stream)
Apollo Brown & Locksmith "No Question" (Album Stream)
Gang Starr "The Ownerz" (Vibe Magazine, June 2003)
Theory Hazit "Thr3e" (June 23, 2013)
Nas "NASIR" (Album Stream)
Prodigy "H.N.I.C" (Mixtape, 2000)
Prodigy "Thief's Theme" x "Stay Chiseled" Freestyles
Amerigo Gazaway "Mecca & The Soul Brother" (Album ...
Nas "Illmatic: Live From The Kennedy Center" (Albu...
Crimeapple & Big Ghost Ltd. "Aguardiente" (Album S...
2Pac's Testing Option Agreement For Juice (2/26/91)
Ice Cube "The Predator" (Press Kit, 1992)
Debonair P "Debonair Blends 3" (Mixtape)
Cali Agents "How The West Was One" (CMJ, 2000)
Black Thought Interview (NPR, Video)
Rah Digga "Everything Is A Story" (Unreleased Album)
Pawz One "Sell Me A Dream: Flowstalgia" (Album Str...
Ice-T "Cop Killer" Controversy (Spin Magazine, 1992)
Nas x DJ Green Lantern "The N Tape" (Mixtape, 2008)
Tony Touch "Hip Hop 62: Ready For Impact?" (Mixtap...
MoSS "Marching To The Sound Of My Own Drum" (Videos)
Cage "Purple Rain Mix CD" (2004)
Revisiting an Old Playlist
Black Thought "Streams of Thought, Vol.1" EP (Albu...
Pusha T "The Story of Adidon" (Drake Diss)
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Life, Death and Wrestling
Typically, a wrestler will attain for a rope (see rope breaks underneath), solely to put his hand again on the mat so he can crawl within the course of the rope some extra; this is not a submission, and the referee decides what his intent is. Submission was initially an enormous think about professional wrestling, but following the decline of the submission-oriented catch-as-catch-can style from mainstream skilled wrestling, the submission largely pale. Generally referred as “American-Fashion” expert wrestling, companies similar to WWE , Affect Wrestling and ROH run touring professional wrestling occasions all through the world.
The fighters mentioned the promoter didn’t pay them as lots as he mentioned he would. Aptitude’s endurance served him nicely, main him to successful the 1992 Royal Rumble and his first WWF Championship after wrestling for over an hour. Michelle McCool made her 2004 debut on Raw Diva Search.†Though she solely took seventh place, that did not stop her from having an extended, successful profession inside the WWE. Muhammad Ali receives an alternative to the gold medal he gained in boxing throughout the 1960 Olympics. MMA is formally sanctioned by the federal authorities and sports activities activities authorities of Taiwan and fairly a number of Taiwanese MMA fighters are at present coaching and competing at worldwide stage, with a number of in the UFC and different MMA organizations.
McGregor (22-four-zero) has been calling for tight lockdowns in his native Ireland and in other nations to slow the unfold of the coronavirus, but when he have been to affix the UFC 249 primary event, that may make for an exceedingly intriguing Plan B. Nevertheless, Gaethje has reportedly already been supplied to Ferguson, and his attacking style also figures to make for a pretty matchup, should the event actually happen. Fights ended solely within the occasion of a knockout, submission or the nook chucking up the sponge.
To examine for a knockout on this way a referee would wave his hand in front of the wrestlers’ face and, if the wrestler does not react in any means, the referee would award the victory to the opposite wrestler. In all boxing, nonetheless, winners are determined either by a choice of the judges (who hold components or spherical victors on a scorecard as the battle progresses), the referee, or each. UFC president Dana White is adamant Khabib Nurmagomedov’s conflict with Tony Ferguson will go ahead behind closed doorways – however remained coy on the place it will be held.
His reputation would put him at the excessive of the mountain in 1990 when he received the WWF World Championship at Wrestlemania VI. All by the 90s, he would seem sporadically within the WWF and in World Championship Wrestling. When a boxer is knocked down, the alternative boxer should instantly stop stopping and transfer to the furthest neutral corner of the ring till the referee has both ruled a knockout or referred to as for the fight to continue. For a left-handed boxer or southpaw, the hand positions are reversed. These cost cuts have precipitated some banks to decrease their APYs on financial financial savings accounts and cash market accounts.
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The Ginger (Law) Librarian
Bye, Bye Westlaw Classic!
Most academic law librarians know that Westlaw Classic will no longer be with us as of July 1, 2014.
As Law Librarians noted, WestlawNext now accounts for at least 80% of the Westlaw revenues, so the time has come to say goodbye to the old platform. I've been told that all of the content has migrated from Westlaw Classic to WestlawNext, so it's not a huge loss. WestlawNext is easy to maneuver, and it's become a good product.
One thing that I will miss are the research tabs on Westlaw Classic. I used the Law Review tab extensively when teaching Scholarly Writing. The Law Review tab has the content for preemption checking and topic selection all in one place, which is a very nice feature.
I wonder if WestlawNext will eventually have these custom research pages? Until then, I found a way to make your own. WestlawNext allows you to create a custom research page. The instructions are fairly straight forward.
I am currently in the process of creating a Law Review custom research page. I created a 'preemption check' content section, and I am adding all of the resources that are in the Law Review tab's preemption check box on Westlaw Classic, including Law Review & Journals, Legal Resource Index, Am Jur 2d, American Law Reports, Current Index to Legal Periodicals, and Texts & Treatises. I will also add a topic selection content section and add those resources that are currently on Westlaw Classic.
If you use a research tab on Westlaw Classic, hurry up and create a custom research page on WestlawNext before Westlaw Classic goes away!
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US News Scholarship Impact Issues
In spring 2017, I briefly discussed the issues with scholarship impact factor in law as a response to a recommendation by a law professor to create a rankings methodology based on Google Scholar citation. Now US News is trying to get in the game of creating a ranking of law faculty by scholarship impact factor using Hein publication metrics. US News is asking each law school for the names and other details of its fall 2018 full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty. US News plans to link the names of each individual law school's faculty to citations and publications that were published in the previous five years and are available in HeinOnline. Using this data, HeinOnline will compile faculty scholarly impact indicators for each law school . This will include such measures as mean citations per faculty member, median citations per faculty member, and total number of publications. Those measures will then be provided to US News for use in eventually creating a comprehensiv
Are Algorithms Required for Ethical Legal Research?
As we are increasingly aware, the ethical Duty of Technology Competence requires lawyers to keep abreast of “changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology. ” To date, 35 states have adopted the duty . In a previous post , I highlighted the risks of blindly relying on algorithmic results (relevant technology) as a potential violation of the Duty of Technology Competence. We now have case law from Canada focusing on the benefits of using algorithmic results to perform legal research. In fact, this case law may be interpreted as requiring the use of algorithmic results when ethically performing legal research. In both Cass v. 1410088 Ontario Inc. (“Cass”) and Drummond v. The Cadillac Fairview Corp. Ltd. (“Drummond”) justices of the Ontario Superior Court made comments about artificial intelligence and legal research. The Cass case was a slip and fall in which the defendant prevailed. The plaintiff, who was liable for
Creatively Harvesting Bluebook Data
As late as 2016, I was ready to join Justice Posner and give up on The Bluebook . After research into the use of algorithms in the era of big data , however, my thinking has changed. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently ran an article articulating the concerns with following a particular citation style. The problem with the rules-heavy approach to teaching [citation] isn’t just the rigidity with which students are taught those rules or follow them. It’s that too often students are taught rules without any context or justification. That’s just "the way things are." Students are left following rules just because a [law review editor] told them to, none the wiser about their function or history. It’s a recipe for seeing writing as foreign or external — something a student is supposed to do but not necessarily understand. Just follow the rules, kid, and there won’t be any trouble. Instead of taking this approach to citation, the author leads a discussion not about c
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Given to an individual who has contributed substantially to advancing the state of the art in aerospace engineering, sciences and technology, and space exploration and construction with application to civil engineering.
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Bhindi Baazaar
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Name Bhindi Baazaar
Release Date Friday, June 17, 2011
About Movie Set in the underbelly of Mumbai; in the notorious by-lanes where 'Greed is a Culture' and 'Deceit becomes a Compulsion' 'Bhindi Baazaar Incorporation' revolves around gangs of pickpockets who consider pick pocketing as an art. They use their intelligence as a canvas and their spontaneity as a brush to survive in this dangerous lively hood. 'Bhindi Baazaar Inc.' is the story of a pawn and his calculated moves to reach the end of the chessboard. Revolving around a crime syndicate who are in the business of pickpocket, the film starts with a game of chess between two characters 'Shroff' and 'Darzi'. Each move unfolds their story and eventually the motive of their meeting. The story unravels the quest of a small time pickpocket 'Fateh' next in line to be a MAMU (local area-head). The screenplay underlines the gritty politics, hierarchy, rules, commands, intelligence, wit and betrayal within the business.
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
Cast & Crew Members of Bhindi Baazaar
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Alessandro Pellegata
Alessandro Pellegata holds a Ph.D. in Political Studies from the University of Milan and he is currently a research fellow in the REScEU project, for which he supervised the implementation of a cross-national mass and elite survey. His main research interests are in the field of comparative politics, focusing especially on electoral competition and government alternation, political representation, public opinion and political corruption. His latest research has appeared, among others, in the Italian Review of Political Science, Perspective on European Politics and Society, Social Indicators Research and the International Political Science Review. Before joining REScEU Alessandro held a research fellowship at the University of Siena.
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Doctor Who: The Deviant Strain (Doctor Who: New Series Adventures #4) by Justin Richards
A soviet era nuclear naval base has been abandoned. The town surrounding it is surviving essentially at a subsistence level. There is something far more dangerous than the radiation leaking from the subs. It's been there quite a long time sending out a message for help, which Captain Jack inadvertently answers forcing him, Rose and the Doctor to ride in for the rescue. Though their Russian is perfect, at least one person knows that there's more to the arrival of the threesome than their cover story implies.
I love Doctor Who with a ridiculous passion but that being said, this book left so much to be desired. Because Eccleston was only the Doctor for a short time, these stories are precious. After all, who doesn't want a bit more of the Fantastic? Unfortunately, this book is almost painful to read. It's a scant 256 pages and yet felt like a tome that was never going to come to an end. This is the first of the Doctor Who books that I almost gave a DNF rating.
When the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack arrive, they discover one young man dead and his girlfriend Valeria drained of her youth. She is nothing but a husk, with no ability to communicate and absolutely incapable of taking care of herself. Because this is not the first time something like this has happened, townspeople have become suspicious and actually blame Vourdalk - a vampire from Russian folklore. That sounds interesting doesn't it? Naturally, it cannot possibly be Vourdalk as we discover when the Doctor begins investigating. Nope, it's all about aliens, glowing blue blobs and zombies. It seems some people decided that they want to live forever. The story takes a massive turn and feels like a bad rip off of Stephen King's Tommy Knockers. Since King already told this story and brilliantly at that, inserting the Doctor does nothing but remind us that we're reading an author with less than half the talent of King.
The story quickly turns from an intelligent investigation to the Doctor, Rose and Jack running from the blue blobs, and setting shit on fire. That's when it absolutely lost me because it felt like a complete bait and switch. Yes, I get that as much as the Doctor is a super brilliant Time Lord, he spends a good deal of time running and dodging to get away from the bed guys but that usually comes with a coherent story which The Deviant Strain greatly lacked.
In terms of characterisation it was absolutely off. Yes, I can picture Captain Jack running into combat and working to save someone he saw as vulnerable and need of his help. My question however is where did my smiling, flirtatious Jack go? He was absolutely generic. Even though The Deviant Strain is set before Torchwood, there should still be some sense of who Captain Jack is. This character is such a cardboard cut out with no personality that he really could have been anyone with the name Captain Jack tacked on for fan service.
Then there's Rose, who runs around tossing herself at anything that looks dangerous. She's like a fish out of water. I didn't recognise her at all. She seemed to be there so that the Doctor could explain what is going on. Yes, I realise that this is the main function of the companion in the Who universe, however; each companion has a personality that is distinct. Rose just ran and threw herself at stuff without trying to figure out the big picture or even giving the Doctor a sense of humanity which is something that she was really good at.
Then there's the Doctor, who fortunately was not as badly portrayed as Rose and Captain Jack. Yes, we got the big smile constantly, the curiosity and his telltale Fantastic phrase but unfortunately he read more like \Bill Nye than the Doctor. Here's the thing, how many plans does it take for the Doctor to take out the villain? This Doctor took four tries. FOUR TRIES. Umm no. The only interesting reveal in The Deviant Strain, is that The Doctor's DNA is very close to human. This naturally sent me off on a tangent wondering if the Doctor is actually half human? That little revelation was far more interesting to me than the actual story which is saying something.
Onto the social justice part of which there was none to speak of. As become far too common for this series, it The Deviant Strain was heavily erased. Don't start screaming Captain Jack to me. I know that he is a bisexual man but you wouldn't know it from this story at all. His sexuality was not brought up explicitly and he spent most of his time when he was not fighting aliens, concerned about the welfare of Valeria. There were no people of colour in the story either. I do however have to point out that people who not only want to live forever but stay young eternally has a touch of ageism to it. It was reified by the fact that Valeria's father left her to die because after she little run in with the aliens, she was no longer youthful and vibrant. It speaks about the disposability of some people. Sure, you could argue that in the end that the townsfolk chose to take care of Valeria and that this countered the initial message but they have to be guilted into doing the right thing because both Rose and Captain Jack acted to save Valeria, proving that even in a vegitative state that she had some value.
If you are picking up this book because you miss the 9th Doctor and are hoping for a good fix - skip it. Just re-watch his season. You have been warned. The characters all feel off and the story cannot seem to decide exactly whether it just wants to straight up rip off Stephen King, or tell a badly written Doctor Who story. I couldn't even begin to see The Deviant Strain as an episode. It reads like poor fanfiction that should never have been published. Please consider yourself warned.
Posted by Renee at 1:00 PM
Labels: 9th doctor, BBC, books, Doctor Who, Doctor Who New Series Adventures
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New Directors/New Films 2016; Film Comments Selects
Thread: New Directors/New Films 2016; Film Comments Selects
EVOLUTION/ÉVOLUTION (Lucile Hadžihalilović 2015)
LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ: EVOLUTION/ÉVOLUTION (2015)
MAX BRABANT IN EVOLUTION
Boys, water, and women
Her name is a nightmare to spell, though a non-accented version is also accepted and seems preferred by French Wikipedia, Hadzihalilovic. She won admiration from cinephiles for her exquisitely arcane, disturbing 2004 feature, Innocence. She's taken a long time to get around to another feature, but in 2009 she collaborated with spouse Gaspar Noë on his Enter the Void. Her debut was the 52-minute 1996 film La bouche de Jean-Pierre , in Un Certain Regard at Cannes -- not reviewed on AlloCiné, but viewers' comments on it there are favorable.
Anyway, Evolution is her second strange take on childhood and sexual development, and while the first focused exclusively on young girls, in this one it's young boys being giving creepy raising/treatment by women, who may or may not be their moms. Innocence was the (by report ) faithful adaptation of a boarding school-set novella by Frank Wedekind (the German 1880's author of Spring Awakening), this one is all hers. It focuses on the experiences of 11-year-old Nicolas (Max Brebant, a good swimmer who glows with health), a boy who wonders if he is sick and why strange things are happening to the other boys, notably their being sent to a hospital for mysterious treatments.
Like its predecessor an elaborately staged and beautifully photographed film with everyone in coordinated costumes, like a ballet, Evolution is a kind of Jungian science fiction of reversed sexual roles and amphibious birth. It all happens in a little town of primitive white houses by a rocky coast where the sear roars up onto volcanic-looking surfaces. (The scenes were shot at Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands.) It is populated only by women and boys, both of whom often return to the sea and swim, and there are constant references to red starfish. Nicolas is swimming underwater in the first human scene (before that we see a glorious wide under-waterscape of flowing seaweed and coral, all the cinematography by Manu Dacosse, who shot The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears), and tells his mother he has seen a dead boy under water with a starfish on his belly. She says he's wrong.
Nicolas and the other boys are given dark liquid medicine every day, fed a diet of what looks like seaweed mixed with white worms, and given injections. Eventually it develops that roles are reversed, and they, instead of the women, are to have babies. What they give birth to we don't know, but it may be small fetuses, amphibious, perhaps? Nicolas draws -- though why this is important, we don't know -- and is increasingly disgusted and uneasy, as are we.
There is material for a hundred film student theses here, but nothing a viewer can come away with. This, like Innocence, is nothing more than an exquisite art film for a cult audience that will leave more mainstream audiences puzzled and indifferent if not actively repelled. I did not expect to like it, and I did not, though I was impressed by the beauty and distinctiveness of the images.
I don't think Hadzihalilovic knows how to tell a story, or is going to learn. And that's a shame, because she comes so close. She makes beautiful films. But they are stifling and airless. Their festival and cinephile cult potential is bright, their theatrical release future, relatively dim. In his excellent Variety review Peter Debruge classifies Evolution as a "yet another stunning, squirm-inducing contribution to the New French Extremity movement, as practiced by her husband Gaspar Noë and others."
Evolution/Évolution, 81 mins., debuted at Toronto. Many international festival showings, including Fantastic Fest, London, San Sebastian (Special Jury Prize and Best Cinematography), and Dublin (Best Director). Screened for this review as part of the 2016 New Directors/New Films series at Lincoln Center and MoMA, New York. Scheduled for theatrical release in France 16 Mar. 2016.
Opening theatrically 25 Nov. 2016 in the US at the IFC Center, Film Society of Lincoln Center (NYC) and on VOD.
LOST AND BEAUTIFUL/BELLA E PERDUTA (Pietro Marcello 2015)
PIETRO MARCELLO: LOST AND BEAUTIFUL/BELLA E PERDUTA (2015)
Gesuino Pittalis in Lost and Beautiful
A docu-fiction fable of preservation set in its maker's native Capania, in southern Italy
In a kind of documentary turned art film, Pietro Marcello offers in Lost and Beautiful a whimsical, goofy, touching, ultimately overlong and irritating mythical tale spun out of a real event. He was called l'angelo del Carditello. Marcello filmed the poor shepherd Tommaso Cestrone, famous in the local Campania region for voluntarily, and in spite of Camorra threats, caring for the Bourbon palace of Carditello, which the government was neglecting. But during the shooting, on Christmas Eve, Tommaso died of a heart attack, and Marcello rethought his film. He chose to turn his focus on a baby buffalo Tommaso had taken as a special pet and named Sarchiapone, and spun out a fable about Sarchipone's fate.
Marcello brings in the Commedia dell'Arte figure Pulcinella (Sergio Vitolo), coming to save Sarchiapone from the slaughterhouse, and there is a running voiceover spoken by Sarchiapone (the voice of Elio Germano, of My Brother Is an Only Child), recounting his poor beast's life. Writing a review on the Italian website MyMovies, Emilio Sacchi says Marcello is describing here the "growing gap between Italy and the Italians." A raft of liberal Italian newspapers linked to on MyMovies -- L'Espresso, La Stampa, Il Mattino and La Repubblica -- all sing the praises of this film by the maker of The Mouth of the Wolf (2009) and Crossing the Line (2007). But it seemed to me rough looking, overly whimsical, visually repetitious, and meandering, and I do not think it will appeal much to a wider theatrical audience outside of Italy, despite its references to Italian tradition, government indifference, and mafia exploitation, common to most films and literature coming from this region.
It was co-written by Maurizio Braucci, a screenwriter on Matteo Garrone’s Gomorra.
Lost and Beautiful/Bella e perduta, 87 mins., it won the Youth Jury Prize and the international competition prize when it debuted at Locarno, where reportedly it got a long round of applause. So that's Locarno. It was released in Italy 19 Nov. 2015.
I PROMISE YOU ANARCHY (Julio Hernández Cordón 2015)
JULIO HERNÁNDEZ CORDÓN: I PROMISE YOU ANARCHY/TE PROMETO ANARQUÍA (2015)
DIEGO CALVA (RIGHT) IN I PROMISE YOU ANARCHY
"Arty mash-up of crime thriller and full-frontal bromance"
Stephen Dalton's Toronto review in Hollywood Reporter isn't flattering ("Skaters battle haters in this muddled, misfiring Mexican melodrama"), but admits the action is vivid and the film sometimes stylish. Playing with urban Mexico City atmosphere and its scruffy gathering of marginal young men whose every other word is a chinga or a pendejo or a cabrón, Guatemalan-born director Julio Hernández Cordón doesn't really generate enough heat or tell a compelling enough story. He lacks the storytelling skills to juggle or coordinate bromance (or bisexual relationship), generational angst, blood trafficking deal gone wrong, and confused lifestyle and come up with a movie that makes sense.
Miguel (Diego Calva) and Johnny (Eduardo Eliseo Martinez) are two young skateboarders who like to have sex, do drugs, skateboard naked, and make money giving blood sold to gangsters and getting others to do so, so Cordón would have us believe. Starting out with a party where there are hints of gay sex, the film suggests a degree of wildness that's not followed up upon.
Though Calva is tall and handsome, nobody, not even he really, has much style or charisma. His best mate Johnny, with whom he has a running quarrel, turns out to be the son of his family's maid -- a social difference that may faintly echo the relationship between Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna in Alfonso Cuarón's debut feature Y tu mamá también, but the filmmaking here is not of that caliber. Cordón relies on documentary elements that rarely bear full fruit. The greatest success is a gathering at which an intense young man take s hit of a hash pipe and launches into an impassioned, powerful rap poem about his country and his generation. It is the high point of the film. If only anything else here were as intense, intelligent and real -- but nothing is.
Later, Johnny and Miguel's confused and confusing blood sale scam (it's never quite clear how it works, or why their encounter with a gangster is such a surprise to them), which leads to a large group of their friends and street people who agreed to participate are loaded into a truck -- and kidnapped. This was not what Johnny and Miguel intended, and in the process Miguel has also lost his father's Jeep station wagon. After this there is a murder and the existing conflicts between the feckless Johnny and the more ambitious but weak Migues grow more and more intense. But there's no adequate response to the disaster of the mass kidnapping they're responsible for: they just get high and play about and have sex; there's no follow-up. The movie feels thrown together. There are periodic intense musical moments, described by Dalton as ranging from "vintage alt-rockers Galaxie 500 to a terrific Spanish-language version of the pop standard 'Sunny' by Mexican guitar-twangers Los Iracundos."
The best Mexican film I have seen recently is Alonso Ruizpalacios' Güeros, an delightfully atmospheric road movie about the search for a musical idol at the time of the year-long 1999 university strike. It is full of visual wit, profound in its sense of the period, rich in cinematic style, and intelligent. So that's possible.
I Promised You Anarchy/Te prometo el anarchía, 89 mins., debuted at Locarno, showing in over a dozen other festivals including Vancouver, Rio, Havana and Miami. Five prizes and four nominations. Screened for this review as part of the 2016 New Directors/New Films series (FSLC/MoMA) in New York, Mar. 2016.
SUITE ARMORICAINE (Pascale Breton 2015)
PASCALE BRETON: SUITE ARMORICAINE (2015)
KAOU LANGOËT AND ELINA LÖWENSOHN (CENTER) IN SUITE ARMORICANIE
A coming-of-age story and exploration of memory and place
Pascale Breton's fascinating and satisfying new film, her first feature since her distinctive 2004 debut, Illumination (SFIFF 2005), dramatizes her autobiographical protagonist's return to her native Brittany. A festival blurb calls this a "rapturous ensemble film about the persistence of the past in the present." It is that, and despite its nearly two-and--half-hour length, I found it a continual pleasure for its handsome use of digital imagery, its layered screenplay, and its interesting characters. The plot revolves around Françoise (Valérie Dréville), a gifted art historian who leaves Paris and her longtime companion, with whom she's lived for fifteen years, to teach at her alma mater in Rennes. She says she has begun to find Paris "stifling." In Rennes she encounters former schoolmates, many of whom have never left. As she arrives at the university so does a tall, poetic and slightly wild geography student with exploding hair called Ion (Kaou Langoët), who quickly falls in love with a beautiful and assured blind girl called Lydie (Manon Evenat). Ion has issues, for good reason, with his wayward mother, ex-hyppie Moon (Elina Löwensohn), to whom Françoise used to be very close. The separate threads -- though we guess that sooner or later Françoise and Ion will come together -- allow Breton to explore Françoise's past and present, even, toward the end, her childhood, when she used to fetch plants for her grandfather, a Breton healer. Through Ion, Breton explores the development of a youth in the present moment.
Geography and art history are important themes. So are meetings and reconnections. It's not surprising that eventually Proust is mentioned and there's something Proustian about the way Lydie can identify Ion by his smell. "Armorica" is an ancient geographical designation to a region roughly comprising Brittany and a bit more. In one of their first geography classes Ion and Lydie are shown how to use a stereopticon device to look at a topographical photograph. Of course she can't see it, just as one can't recapture one's past. Françoise has a black and white photograph of revelers from the early Eighties in which she and others appear. They include Moon, and John Le Scieller (Laurent Sauvage), now a successful musician, whom "everyone was in love with then" because he was "super-handsome," but Françoise barely know. Now, John seeks her out. There is also the slightly crazy "La Grande Catherine" (Catherine Riaux) whom Françoise drinks wine and dances with in her swaying tower apartment at what was to have been a party where her former lovers would appear, but without her knowledge it was cancelled.
Ion is a bit of a wild and wayward boy, like Ildut Le Du (Clet Beyer), the disturbed protagonist of Breton's first film Illumination, who hears voices, becomes cut off from the world, and is only motivated to get better after he becomes obsessed with a young woman. Ion denies that Moon is his mother. When she turns up and meets him for the first time in four years, invading his dorm room with her seedy boyfriend Dav (Tangi Daniel) and two cronies, he lets them stay, but flees and begins to live like a homeless person himself, though somehow still pursuing his studies. There is a thread of wildness that runs through the film, somehow balanced by Françoise's intelligence and her impressive, soothing performances in the classroom. But she has a dream (handsomely realized) in which a large sphinx blocks every roadway, and the ATM machine is only in the Breton language. Her grandparents spoke it fluently, her parents only a little; she knows only a few words. But two young men from the university's department of Breton and Celtic Studies interview her, and she recovers "frozen" memories of her grandfather that make her weep.
The film brings art history to life, not only with Françoise's lectures but her visits to the Rennes Museum of Fine Arts, where she goes repeatedly but notes to her class she has seen none of them -- except that she unknowingly crosses paths there with Ion, sitting on a bench contemplating George de la Tour's (typically) striking painting, "Newborn Infant." The way painting interpretation appears reminded me of John Schlesinger's A Question of Attribution, and the memorable use of an art museum brought to mind Jem Cohen's subtle docudrama Museum Hours (SFIFF 2013).
Françoise's lectures are interesting. Perhaps a bit obvious but nonetheless touching is her first one (even previewed in her sound test of her mike) when she shows a blowup of Poussin's painting "Les Bergers d'Arcadie" which contains the Latin phrase "Et in Arcadia ego," "I too was once in Arcadia," a reference to her having been where her students now are, and that theirs is an idyllic age. In her final lecture she offers the notion that the Romantics were not so much in harmony and in love with Nature but frightened of its alien power -- an idea that somehow resonates with the geography theme.
Suite Armoricaine has some repeats of scenes from another point of view, slipping from Françoise's to Ion's, and brief flashback images of Françoise's memories, and her meetings with former associates are explorations of the past. But an equally important focus is the "forever youthful" Armorican Arcadia of the university of Rennes, and a handsome use of digital shows in first green landscapes, then wide nighttime panoramas of the built up campus, as the film moves through the months of the scholastic year, from Françoise's adjustment to memories and fear of the new place, the first lectures, and Ion's wild winter time haunted by Moon, losing touch with Lydie, to the pleasant arrival of summer, with promise of sunny travels -- to the town of Françoise's childhood and, for a healthier, happier Ion, to Greece with Lydie.
Suite Armoricaine might have benefitted from being tightened up and made more focused on a few important scenes. Some critics at least seem to think so. But it's nonetheless a wonderfully complex, rich, and intelligent film. It's a pity Pascale Breton doesn't make more and one can only hope it won't be so long till her next one.
Suite Armoricaine, 148 mins., debuted 13 Aug. 2015 at Locarno. One other festival, and Lincoln Center-MoMA's New Directors/New Films, where it was screened for this review. Pascale Breton has made many shorts and worked for TV, but not directed any other feature but this since Illumination. Suite Américaine comes out in France 9 March 2016. It has so far gotten only four reviews, adding up to a very mediocre 3.0 press raint on AlloCiné. It got raves from Cahiers du Cinéma and Transfuge and pans from two other publications that found it too self-regarding and lengthy. Illumination would up with a 3.3 but Cahiers and Les Inrocks were very favorable.
MOUNTAIN/HA'HAR (Yaelle Kayam 2015)
YAELLE KAYAM: MOUNTAIN/HA'HAR (2015)
SHANI KLEIN IN MOUNTAIN
Ignored Jewish Orthodox wife in Jerusalem takes a walk on the wild side
Tzvia (Shani Klein) is a housewife and proper Orthodox mother of four and wife of Yeshiva teacher Reuven (Avshalom Pollak, who is often out after dinnertime and pays little attention to her. They live in a cave-like dwelling embedded along the edge of a Jewish cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives. In her frustration Tiva makes it a habit of going out to the cemetery at night, sometimes in the daytime, for a smoke. More often than her husband would approve, she has conversations and shares smokes with the Hebrew-speaking Arab maintenance man of the cemetery. After a while she discovers that whores have sex with johns by the tombs, and their pimps or handlers are there too, at night. She starts hanging around there and bringing home-cooked meals to build some sort of relationship with these people. They regard her as pathetic or a freak but she nonetheless has conversations with them. The failure of her marital life and her frustration with her children lead her to increasing desperation. She seems literally entombed. The film ends with a violent action whose exact outcome is left unclear.
The film develops slowly. As Jay Wissberg explains in his detailed Variety review, initially outside of her family Tzvia's only contact is with Abed (Haitham Ibrahem Omari), the Palestinian caretaker of the cemetery. Relations with him are formal and polite but she's detached from him because he's a man and probably also because he's a Palestinian. When she encounters a drunken prostitute, she feels more at ease, even though she's "disrespected." Actually, Tzvia's relationship with the seedy characters at the edge of the cemetery at night remains limited, and repeated scenes show little development. Kayam clearly is seeking a slow burn, but almost winds up with a fizzle.
I found it difficult to warm to this film, which lacks the force or the brilliance of other recent films featuring Orthodox Jews, such as the beautiful (if questionable: it's like an ad for female enslavement) marriage film Fill the Void (NYFF 2012)and the stunningly powerful, grim tale of a doomed gay love affair between Orthodox butchers, Eyes Wide Open. I liked the Orthodox drug mule story (based on fact), an unusual role for Jesse Eisenberg, Holy Rollers. Also notable for rich detail, despite initial stiffness, is the French Canadian film about an ultra Orthodox woman's affair with a secular man Felix and Meira, with its detailed portrait of a relationship. Mountain also lacks the vividness and complexity of Nadav Lapid's films, especially his latest, The Kindergarten Teacher (ND/NF 2015). Yaelle Kayam's method seems blunt and simplistic here, the material more like a short story than a feature film. Nonetheless as Tzvia, Shani Klein has a strange mixture of plainness and luminosity that is memorable, and some of the bleached-out images of the cemetery are rather unique. Besides which this is another not-so-subtle suggestion that Orthodox Jewish life is too stifling to bear -- at least for women.
Mountain/Ha'ar, 83 mins., debuted at Venice in the Orizzonti section, and showed at half a dozen other festivals, including Toronto; and New Directors/New Films, where it was screened for this review.
ELDORADO XXI (Salomé Lamas 2015)
SALOMÉ LAMAS: ELDORADO XXI (2015)
Ethnographic documentary on a Peruvian mountain goldmine region
By a Portuguese filmmaker, this ethnographic documentary seeks to present the dangerous, exploited lives of Peruvian Andes gold miners. They chew coca to struggle on and work for weeks without pay under the cachorreo lottery system, betting on their survival and eventual payoff.Hallucinatory filmmaking featuring a long shot of miners endlessly trekking up and down the mountains as there is a background of radio reports and stories of the miners' lives, some presented as interviews.
This is a very long slog indeed and represents a pretty lazy effort visually, if not aurally: planting the camera for an hour on one spot and splicing together recorded material as background shows minimal effort, while requiring exceptional patience from the viewer. While this shot may dramatize the monotony and difficulty of the miners' working lives, we get the point after ten or fifteen minutes, and the continuation for fifty simply suggests the filmmakers' failed as video-journalists, if they were unable to gain access to further aspects of the mining scene. As Young suggests, Lamas has chosen to waste dp xxLuis Armando Arteaga's talents for half the film probably betting on festival juries' proven tendency to be impressed by material that's grueling and tedious. The Inferno of Peruvian goldmines is a topic hat has been richly chronicled in the photographs of Sebastião Salgado. Looking at them is painfully enlightening, but not punishing.
The second half is more conventional, consisting as Neil Young describes it in a Hollywood Reporter review as "an informative and engagingly varied panorama of life in and around 'La Rinconada' (the name of the mine), "culminating in a noisy and colorful religious celebration that finally brings the whole community together in front of Arteaga's lens. Having shot Berlinale 2015 prize-winner Ixcanul Volcano in the damply fecund wilds of Guatemala, the cinematographer now brings his astute eye to a very different mountainous region of Latin America, where blocky habitations cling to hillsides like ice-grey outcrops of nature." Too late, I had lost interest in this film. It is inconsistent, and not up to the sometimes numbing, but rigorous and rich efforts of the Sensory Ethnography Lab based at Harvard, whose efforts I've reported on elsewhere.
Eldorado XXI, 125 mins., debuted at the Forum section of the Berlinale. Not listed on IMDB. Screened for this review at the 2016 New York FSLC/MoMA New Directors/New Films series.
DONALD CRIED (Kris Avedisian 2016)
KRIS AVEDISIAN: DONALD CRIED (2016)
Dramady of financier who revisits his New England home town after 20-year absence only to be waylaid by an old buddy
It seems as if Kris Avedisian made this little movie just to showcase his own talents playing a tiresome loser buddy. But he does it so well, this is okay. To set things up, he sends Peter Latang (Jesse Wakeman) back to his hometown of Warwick, Rhode Island to settle his grandmother's affiars. She has just died in a nursing home. Peter hasn't been back in twenty years and he hates the place. On the way to town, he has lost his wallet, and though he's now a hotshot in finance in New York, he's stuck. So after meeting a real estate agent who's a former flame he goes to see his old pal, Donald Treebeck (Avedisian) to borrow money. And this is where the fun begins. Peter is essentially a straight man for Donald. Wakeman's main job is not to get in Avedisian's way.
What follows is a depiction of what it might be like for someone who has become grown up and uptight and turned into a high achiever to revisit a place where he spent his time doing drugs, wearing eye liner, and listening to Heavy Metal -- in the company of someone who has not moved on from that earlier time. Avedisian's Donald is a hilarious, cringeworthy portrait. Partly he is pathetic, particularly his decades-long desire to have is best buddy back, to get stoned, stock up on munchies, and go to a movie. When he learns Peter would rather meet up with the real estate agent -- by himself -- he's devastated. But Donald is no cliché. He's as good as or better than any Kevin Smith or Judd Apatow creation. That includes the abusive TV wrestling fan bowling alley owner Donald works for, who turns out to be his mom's boyfriend. And the complexity of the dual portrait is enhanced by the way Donald and Peter's interactions turn violent at times.
We feel keenly Peter's dilemma. He has been out of touch with Donald because he has no use for his former life, but Donald is a necessity now, and gradually also an obligation, because he brings out the decency in Peter as he humors Donald's whims, and also takes Peter back to when getting stoned with slackers was good fun. Avedisian's performance and character creation is the main event, but it is given three dimensionality by the character Wakeman creates as Peter. Donald develops as Peter does, morphing from absurd obnoxious bore to sympathetic fool when his essential sweetness gradually emerges, even as he never ceases to be cloying and embarrassing.
Kris Avedisian has wrung vibrant changes on a conventional Amerindie trope, the homecoming movie, which becomes realer and funnier in this version through the brilliance of his improvisational skills. A new talent is born, whose invention could develop equally richly in comedic or purely dramatic directions.
Donald Cried, 85 mins., its making and distribution funded through Kickstarter, debuted at SXSW 12, 13 and 16 March 2016, reviewed there in Variety by Nick Schrader and in Indiewire by Eric Kohn. It was screened for this review at New Directors/New Films, where it was shown 19 and 20 March.
TIKKUN (Avishai Siwan 2015)
AVISHAI SIWAN: TIKKUN (2015)
Another provocation for the Hasids
With Tikkun we have another movie focused on ultra-Orthodox Jews, this time a conceptual puzzler in black and white, without scored music, full of surreal elements and with shocking moments of sexuality including full frontal male nudity. What is the fascination of this community? Perhaps simply its remoteness from the lives of most people, which makes its practices seem surreal, or like an art piece. Filmmakers seem to delight in showing how its rules go wrong, as with the wife in the recent Mountain (ND/NF 2016), who is led to share cigarettes with whores in a cemetery on the Mount of Olives; or the two (male) butchers who fall in love in Eyes Wide Open, or the New York Hasidic boys who turn into drug mules in Holy Rollers.
But in Tikkun, which arouses admiration, puzzlement, and annoyance in viewers, means to present a dilemma -- though what the dilemma is, is left intentionally open-ended. A young man, Haim-Aaron (Aharon Traitel, an attractive non-professional who has a warm, appealing face), the eldest child of a kosher butcher (tall, long-bearded Khalifa Natour) and his wife (short, slight Riki Blich), seems confused and uneasy before his accident; he will seem more so thereafter. While fiddling with the shower, getting an erection, he slips and falls, knocking himself unconscious. Emergency medics give up on reviving him and decide to pronounce him dead, but Khalifa can't accept that, and, struggling to pump air back into Haim-Aaron's lungs, brings him back to life.
This is hailed as a fortunate event. But here's the rub: has Khalifa undermined the will of God, who seemed to have wanted Haim-Aaron dead? Or is it a "tikkun," in the sense of a fixing or rectification? A chance for Haim-Aaron to become a saintly, enlightened man, deeply appreciative of the gift of life? Perhaps it's an opportunity for Haim-Aaron to do good in the world.
Sometimes Tikkun, which is almost as sparing with dialogue as it is with music (of which there is none except for a celebratory Hasidic dance) makes use of mime and tableau, in a way that brings out the absurdity and oddity of the ultra-Orthodox lifestyle. Never more so than when ten men, all identical, with their dark long suits and beards and broad-brimmed hats, come to visit Haim-Aaron, standing over him and making him look tiny in his hospital bed, all exuding wordless identical goofy-chic.
In the event, Haim-Aaron seems far from "tikkun." He goes more haywire than before. He announces -- in the family of a successful butcher -- that because one must respect death (hasn't he returned from death, and in so doing, disrespected it?) he will no longer eat meat. He begins falling asleep at Yeshiva till he gets kicked out, unsleeping at home, hitchhiking and doing increasingly inappropriate things. It seems obvious that this twenty-something virgin is in search of sex, and a run-in with prostitutes, one of them grotesquely fat, follows.
Avishai Siwan, for whom this is the sophomore effort, and his cinematographer, Shai Goldman, and editors, Nili Feller and Sivan, continually roll out events in a mix of shots that is surprising, coy, and sly, as well as surreal and comic (while Khalifa's oddball dreams of lizards and toilets seem just a little vulgar). Unfortunately, Haim Aaron's adventures fall rather flat. Surreal mime is a storytelling method that's hard to sustain interestingly, or hard for them, anyway. The climax, which occurs in a fog surrounding a fatal car accident, and a bloody bed, somewhat counteracts this flatness. But Siwan's film seemed disappointing to me. Its puzzlements never come together. It's promise is not lived up to. Nonetheless, it has enough originality to attract the cinephile class. And there are small moments between Haim-Aaron and his little brother Yanke (Gur Sheinberg) that add a touch of sweetness. Shots of the narrow streets of the ultra-religious Mea Shearim district of Old Jerusalem have an appealing claustrophobic oddity. We have seen such streets before -- in our dreams.
I can add little to the review of Tikkun by Dennis Harvey written at Mill Valley for Variety Oct. 2015 in which he describes the thought-provoking aspects of this film, which he not inaptly calls "willfully enigmatic."
Tikkun, 120 mins. debuted at Jerusalem 10 July 2015, followed by Locarno, awards at both venues, and showing at about a dozen other international festivals including Telluride, Vancouver, the Hamptons, Chicago, and Stockholm. Latterly included in New York's FSLC/MoMA-sponsored New Directors/New Films, where it was screened for this review. Limited release in Israel 3 Dec. 2015. Slated for US theatrical release 10 June 2016 (NYC) by Kino Lorber.
PETER AND THE FARM (Tony Stone 2015)
TONY STONE: PETER AND THE FARM (2015)
PETER DUNNING IN PETER AND THE FARM
Touchingly real documentary portrait of a lone organic farmer in Vermont
The articulate, instantly engaging narrator of this docu-portrait is Peter Dunning, a former artist with Sixties hippie sympathies for whom since he was 35, 35 years ago, his 187-acre Mile Hill Farm in rural Vermont has been more important than anything else. "I am the farm and the farm is me," he says, in part of an articulate running commentary that bursts from every vivid frame. Tony Stone's intimate camera follows even the dirty, brutal side of the work, like Peter butchering, skinning, and gutting a sheep and a vet reaching inside a cow to see if she's pregnant and wrestling with an aging John Deere hay bailing machine, with the eagerness of a young man eager to learn from someone with deep experience.
Peter Dunning is a flawed individual and partly an unlucky one. His switch to farming away from a possible career as a painter and sculptor, which he studied to be when young, may be connected to a hand mangled working at a saw mill in his late twenties. What emerges is a life of endurance and dedication that has rather soured over the years as livestock have died out (coyotes have done serious harm in the past year), the buildings have sagged, the weeds have grown, and the man who has done all the work alone has aged and grown into deeper and more dangerous alcoholism. This idyllic place has become a prison in the years -- he says the farm was at its peak of production, when friends and family were all working happily together, in 1999 -- since his wife has run out on him (he's lost two marriages) and his grown children now won't even talk to him on the phone any more. And, worst of all, he knows the drinking is eating away at his soul. Thoughts of suicide seem a daily thing. The F-word flies in every sentence. The tough work of the farm that looked like fun 35 years ago now doesn't.
This is, of course, not an "objective" film. Would cool detachment while filming a man living and describing his life on the land even make sense? Not when Dunning says he feels closer to the filmmaker and his cameraman, than he ever has to any men. They stay out of Dunning's way, but the grown-closeness shows when Stone (sometimes glimpsed) worries or seems to criticize and Dunning seems wounded or angry. But mostly the sense of a seasoned relationship works well, shows in the film's way of making you feel you're there, watching, listening, smelling the barn smells while Dunning tells his stories and explains his processes. And he tells all and explains all clearly and vividly from first to last, the reason why this is a watchable and worthwhile film.
Peter and the Farm, 92 mins., shows in the True/False documentary festival 6 March 2016 and New Directors/New Films, 24 March 9:00 p.m. at MoMA and Friday, March 25, 6:30 p.m. at Lincoln Center. Screened as part of ND/NF for this review.
NEON BULL/BOI NEON (Gabriel Mascaro 2015)
GABRIEL MASCARO: NEON BULL/BOI NEON (2015)
JULIANO CAZARRÉ IN NEON BULL
Tale of rodeo roustabouts breaks the barriers between documentary and fiction
Gabriel Mascaro is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker who has turned to fiction films -- but not entirely: his two features are drenched in exotic real life atmosphere. Both his 2014 debut feature August Winds and his follow-up Neon Rodeo are so steeped in realism they feel like documentaries, but with a visual beauty and sensuality and vague plot line that only conscious manipulation could make happen. Yet it's troubling to see things happen that are "real." Neon Bull takes some thinking about, and the experience it offers is a confusing one. It left me puzzled and not wholly satisfied. But Mascaro is a heck of an interesting director.
We're following a little vaquejada rodeo troupe in Northeastern Brazil that moves a bunch (I didn't count) of silver bulls pairs of cowboys bring down in shows by trapping them with horses on both sides and one grabbing their long tails and pulling them to ground. That's the show. But it's not what this film is really about. It's about people on the fringes of that action. The macho, model-handsome Iremar (Juliano Cazarré), who's a wizard with animals, and also sews sexy costumes; the tubby, gross Zé (Carlos Pessoa), skillful with a tricky prize mare; their lady truck driver, blonde Gaega (Maeve Jinkings), who is also a sexy nightclub dancer wearing a horse-head mask and elaborate G-strings costumes crafted by Iremar; and Gaega's feisty young daughter Cacá, who often gets in trouble but holds her own in the work -- plus Junior (Vinícius de Oliveira, an actor since as a child he played a key role in the classic Central Station), who's brought in later, to replace Zé -- none of them perform in the rodeos. They're just roustabouts, traveling with the bulls, preparing the carefully powdered ends of their long tails, sleeping in hammocks, living by their wits, living their dreams. Those are their roles in the film. They're all actors.
But they're also doing these things -- cleaning up the bullshit, taming horses and such. Zé and Iremar sneak into a fancy horse fair and try to steal a prize stallion's semen -- with comically failed results. That's not the only erect penis we get to see because Iremar has sex with a pregnant woman on the big work table of clothing factory, secretly, of course, at night. These things happen. Where's the fiction? You see why I call this troubling.
The images shot by dp Diego Garcia (of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendor) are composed in wide aspect ration with a soft look where the camera is often standing a little back, to compose a landscape, most memorably a horizon with glowing crepuscular light and multiple shots of the bulls in a row framed by wooden fences. What could have been ugly and crude is unified and often handsome-looking; the color quietly glows. Handsome livestock and handsome male bodies are seen equally, as in a dark panorama of almost a dozen well-built rodeo men showering in a reddish humid scene. Never has a movie contained sensuality so gritty or photographed with such casual beauty.
Mascaro creates a keen sense of this de facto "family's" day-to-day life with a few notable incidents, but the action is meandering, with no particular goal -- and the film suffers from underdevelopment of characters and their lack of backstories, despite a unifying feel of sensuality and ignoring of gender barriers. To some viewers this may feel pointless, and the physicality disgusting at times. What holds it together is a sensuality, a wallowing in muck that seems somehow relaxed and pleasant, perhaps in a spirit that's particularly Brazilian. Iremar, Gaega, and Junior with his long hair wear thrown-together outfits, but they look stylish, despite the heat and mire and muck and shit one can almost smell. Will their marginality eventually catch up with them? Or in Brazil is dolce far almost niente a spirit that can sustain a happy life?
Peter Debruge in Variety says of Diego Garcia's images that "Selected at random, any given frame of the film might stand alone as powerfully as a Dutch genre painting (think Brueghel or Vermeer)." Boyd van Hoeij pretty well sums up the film's feel and themes in his Hollywood Reporter review when he writes of its "indirect meditation on bodies and the way they are used, both in the animal world and in the human one," with an emergent "portrait of a society in which gender and body norms are much less rigid than one would expect."
Neon Bull/Moi Neon, 100 mins., debuted in the Orizzonti section at Venice where it won the prize. The Brazilian rodeo drama also screened at the Toronto Film Festival in the inaugural Platform section (honorable mention), with a number of other nominations and awards. Screened for this review as part of the March 2016 FSLC-MoMA New Directors/New Films series. To be released in US theaters by Kino Lorber. Opens Fri. 8 Apr. 2016 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
WEINER (Josh Krieman, Elyse Steinberg 2016)
JOSH KRIEGMAN, ELYSE STEINBERG: WEINER (2016)
ANTHONY WEINER IN WEINER
Basic documentary of Weiner's disastrous campaign for mayor of New York
Anthony Weiner, disgraced Congressman from New York, then disgraced candidate for the city's mayor, is a politician brought down by sex scandal for the digital age. His special humiliation is that his improprieties never even involved physical sex. They were all only virtual, online, social media, "sexting" (exchanges of lewd text messages), faux pas on social media, and phone sex. This film is mainly a blow-by-blow account of Weiner's mayoral campaign. He already had to contend with the almost insurmountable obstacle to election of the public's widespread disapproval of his past. But it got worse. As the campaign progressed it emerged that after his resignation from Congress he had continued to engage in multiple phone sex relationships.
It becomes clear than Weiner, whatever his liberal bone fides, his declared aim of protecting the middle class in New York City, is a seriously flawed individual. Apart from his weakness for sex-at-a-distance on multiple platforms with multiple (virtual) partners, he also has generally poor impulse control. He is seen behaving extremely as a speaker in the House while a Congressman, though his anger in defending Obama's health care plan against the Republicans is admirable, and may have been effective. Later, he is filmed by the directors frequently flying off the handle with adversaries, whether interviewers in the media or hecklers encountered in the campaign. He also seems compulsive in his persistence in campaigning against all odds. His belief that running for mayor was the best way of wiping his record clean of the 2011 scandal seems misguided. He appears perpetually in denial first of his acts and then of their seriousness. In short, he is a man in need of help. "What's wrong with you?" a prominent TV interviewer asks him. And he has no answer. In 2013 he received only 4% of the vote when Bill de Blasio was elected mayor of New York.
There is nothing special to set apart the TV-ready film by Josh Krieman and Elyse Steinberg from any other rudimentary documentary about a political campaign, with its jiggly digital images and jumpy editing. The only reason for watching it, as with many documentaries, is an interest in the subject matter. The filmmakers had exceptionally good access to Weiner and his wife. This film, like the media, focuses on scandal, presenting virtually nothing about the political issues figuring in the New york mayoral campaigns.
The special focus here is on Weiner's relation with the leading figures in his mayoral campaign, and with his wife since 2010, Huma Abedin, a leading aide to Hillary Clinton. The scandal that drove Weiner from Congress was in 2011. Well, Hillary is no stranger to politician husbands' sex scandals. But will Huda, a Muslim American with Indian and Pakistani parents who speaks fluent Arabic, be an asset to Hillary's presidential campaign? And if she will continue to be too essential to lose, will she be able to stay with the disgraced and failed politician, Anthony Weiner?
Weiner, 96 mins., debuted at Sundance 24 Jan. 2016 (where it was reviewed for Variety by Geoff Berkshire), and also showed at True/False festival 3 Mar. It will show in the New Directors/New Films FSLC-MoMA series, where it was screened for this review, 25 Mar., and it is scheduled for US theatrical release 20 May 2016. It will premiere on Showtime in Oct. 2016.
DEMON (Marcin Wrona 2015)
MARCIN WRONA: DEMON (2015)
ITAY TIRAN (ABOVE) IN DEMON
A nightmare wedding
Demon cooks up an ambitious mess of a nightmare wedding gone wrong with spectacular crowd sequences of increasing madness and a raging rainstorm outside. Marcin Wrona, tragically dead now, a suicide at 42, has created a complex film, with an uneasy groom from abroad -- playing with a fork lift, Peter (Israeli actor Itay Tiran), or Piotr or Pyton (his identity already seeming frangible), of Polish extraction but arrived from England, unearths human remains, and may be uneasy also about the rambling disheveled house his bride has inherited, where the wedding is held. During the course of the elaborately scheduled wedding party, which must go on no matter how things fall apart and how bad the weather is outside, he becomes first disturbed, then has an epileptic fit, and finally, taken into the basement, is fully possessed by a dybbuk, the uneasy spirit of a young Jewish women, from a lost population of the region, and explaining herself in Yiddish. (Without ever overdoing it, Itay Tira gives his all in this commendable performance.) And yet the party goes on, becoming wilder and more debauched as the bride's father, Zgmunt (Andrzej Grabowski), gets everyone as drunk as possible so they won't see how things have gone wrong. A doctor, a professor, and Zgmunt cannot agree on what to do. Out into the damp dawn the revelers eventually all go, scattering away.
I was reminded of two excellent recent Russian films, Zvyagintsev's Leviaton, because here as there a building featured earlier in the film is destroyed at the end; and Yury Bykov's The Fool (ND/NF 2015), because in it there is a party at which people are called upon to remedy a disaster and they delay. The difference is that these two Russian films are harsh, vivid depictions of contemporary social, political, and moral corruption, whereas in Wrona's Polish film that is only vaguely alluded to, with more reference to the past. And Demon has been identified simply as a "horror" film, though that seems reductive and inappropriate. It's about possession, corruption, and madness and it depicts a kind of mass hysteria. But its aims and focus seem a bit hard to pin down. There seems an uncertainty of tone from scene to scene, but the blending of the comical with the horrible is not unwelcome and seems worthy of Poe, as in his remarkable short story, "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether."
Things don't go quite right at the outset of Demon. Neither Itay Tiran, as the groom, nor Agnieszka Zulewska as Zaneta, the bride, is as appealing as one would like, and they're not as strongly established as characters as they should be. It's much more an ensemble piece from the start. A friend said this reminded him of a Chekhov play, and it does seem Chekhov gone mad, with a crowd massing behind the few isolated, ineffectual central characters. This is adapted, freely with an elaborate mise-en-scène whose richness makes one sad that we'll see no more from Wrone, by him with Pawel Maslona from the 2008 play Adherence by Piotr Rowicki.
Demon, 94 mins., in Polish, English, and Yiddish, debuted at Gdynia Sept. 2015 and shortly thereafter at Toronto (where it was reviewed for Variety by Joe Leyden); other festivals. Winner of Best Horror Feature at Fantastic Fest. An Orchard release. Screened for this review as part of New Directors/New Films, where it shows 26 Mar. 2016.
US theatrical release began Fri., 9 September 2016.
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HAPPPY HOUR (Ryusuke Hamaguchi 2015)
RYUSUKE HAMAGUCHI: HAPPY HOUR (2015)
Four women in Kobe in family and marriage crises
The title of Ryusuke Hamaguchi's long film, Happy Hour, is ironic. His four female protagonists, Jun (Rira Kawamura), Akari (Sachie Tanaka), Sakurako (Hazuki Kikuchi) and Fumi (Maiko Mihara), all 37, friends since they were in junior high, move much closer to quiet desperation than happiness in their lives and marriages during the course of the action. What may seem at first glance little more than a classy Japanese soap, has a delightfully soothing epic quietude that links it back to Ozu. For the first three and a half hours, its restrained, very Japanese scenes of concealment and revelation, apology and withholding of forgiveness, are quite wonderful. At that point the unconscionably long public reading of a novel manuscript by a young woman writer, Yuzuki Nose (Ayaka Shibutani), occurs, some of the characters become wild and distraught, and the last hour seems longer than the first three. Perhaps it had to be that way: if Hamaguchi knew how to tie things off neatly, he'd have made a film of normal length. (Happy Hour was shown and got an acting prize at Locarno, a festival that seems to favor long-running movies.)
The marathon run-time allows for the novelistic (or mini-series) pleasure of not only playing out individual scenes in something more like real time, but also taking close looks at multiple relationships -- Scenes from Several Marriages, as it were. For a non-Japanese the four award-winning actresses, relative novices whose roles were developed in workshops, may be a little hard to tell apart; but if they seem similarly ordinary, it's precisely Hamaguchi's intention to avoid the flashy. The first scene makes them seem rather plain as they sit at a picnic on a mountain on a day trip, looking over the Kobe skyline shrouded in a fog that one says is like their future, and planning a get-together. It's the next, much longer sequence, a little workshop with a sort of guru called Ukai (Shuhei Shibata), about "communication" (using the English word, which will crop up frequently later too) and "finding your center" -- an understated Seventies-style touchy-feely process illustrating both the uptightness of Japanese culture and its built-in gift for cooperation and reading each other's minds. But it's at the third big sequence, a dinner following the workshop where the four friends join Ukai and some others, that secrets start to come out. The workshop is fascinating, a study in shyness and openness. The dinner is revelatory, the film's ensemble work at its peak. In these first big sequences Hamaguchi and his ensemble are on a roll.
Around the table, Akari, a nurse and a divorcee, emerges as the strongest of the women (her acting seems a bit strident at first). In an impassioned speech, she declares that she has to play hard and indulge in sexual adventures to escape the grim realities of dealing daily in her job with an aging population with an overburdened medical system. But a greater revelation comes from the more complicated, seemingly withdrawn Jun: she shocks her friends by blurting out that she's seeking to divorce her scientist husband Kohei (Zahana Yoshitaka), having had an affair, and she hasn't told the other three, or told about the court case, which is horrible. This revelation disturbs the bond among the women, because they feel lied to, or deceived. They attend a divorce court session, and we hear how adamant Jun's husband is. In an attempt at reconciliation among themselves, the women go to the thermal baths of Arima -- where Jun disappears. It later emerges that she's pregnant, and that she's taken refuge at a chain of centers for women who've been denied the right to divorce their husbands. By the end both gallery manager Fumi and housewife Sakurako have followed Jun's lead and told their husbands, Takuya (Hiroyuki Miura) and Yoshihiko (Tsugumi Kugai), respectively, that they went divorces.
Men don't come off well here. Beside Jun's husband who wants to keep her in the prison of marriage even if it becomes a "hell," Fumi's long-haired editor mate Takuya, who stages the reading in her gallery and brings in Ukai to conduct the Q&A, emerges as a cold bastard; and Sakurako's Yoshi, who must contend with a young son Daiki, who gets his girlfriend pregnant, is stolid and conventionally macho, while the seemingly gracious and beautiful Ukai, when he reappears, turns out to be a soulless sexual exploiter. With the reading, which arouses memories of Hong Sang-soo, Hamaguchi starts inter-cutting it with other scenes, doubtless aware of the need to jazz it up.
The manuscript-reading sequence may be serious, or deadpan satire. Either way playing it out in real time was a mistake. And at this point the seat-weary viewer may just be exhausted. The choppier later sequences are less satisfying than the earlier long ones, as well as more melodramatic; and people start falling down too often, the writers seeming eager to start killing off the cast but ambivalent about whether or not to actually do so. Nonetheless, Happy Hour, however flawed, is a tour de force made on a shoestring (apparently the budget was $50,000) showing Hamaguchi, who has a background in documentary, to be a director worth watching. The appreciative essay/review by Nicolas Bardot for the Rrench onoine publicaiton Film de Culte makes convincing comparisons with Jacques Rivett5e and the aforementioned Hong Sang-soo, also with a new generation of Japanese directors I haven't even heard of - Katsumi Tomita, Ayumi Sakamoto producing minimalist epics; and pointing to the visual beauties, he cites Kiyoshi Kurosawa. I'm also indebted to a website called Genkinhito, which has a detailed summary of the film, plus some reader comments showing I'm not alone in my dissatisfaction with the manuscript reading and my feeling that things go south from then on.
Happy Hour/ ハッピーアワー (Happî awâ), 317 mins., debuted at Locarno (sixth ND/NF 2016 originating there); the four actresses in the principal roles received a collective best actress award there; at Singapore Hamaguchi got the best director prize. Also shown in the LFF. Reviewed by Mark Shilling in Japan Times. Also in 8 other international festivals, including New Directors/New Films (FSLC-MoMA), where it was screened for this review, showing 26 Mar. at 1 P.m. at MoMA, 27 Mar. at the same time at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.
Fumi (Maiko Mihara), Sakurako (Hazuki Kikuchi) , Jun (Rira Kawamura), Akari (Sachie Tanaka)
IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY/AKHAR AYAM EL MADINA (Tamer El Said 2016)
TAMER EL SAID: IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY/AKHAR AYAM EL MADINA (2016)
KHALID ABDALLAH IN IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY
Song of frustration and stasis
Tamer El Said's beautiful, skillfully wrought, but frustratingly stagnant feature film debut, In the Last Days of the City, is meant as a requiem and an elegy for a Cairo that's gone or perpetually crumbling. Hasn't it always been so? Perhaps, as Jay Weissberg wrote in a detailed, appreciative review in Variety after seeing its debut at Berlin, this is a work "of profound weight and intricate sadness." It's a film drenched in beauty. But it feels maddeningly futile and useless.
Last Days is unquestionably an urban visual poem about what is, however crumbling and stifled, one of the world's greatest and most vibrant cities. The images are all drenched in yellow filter, and artistic to a fault. Notice the wire cyclist on the windowsill with the cityscape beyond, and how the camera lingers on a dissolving cake of powder in a flower vase in the hospital room. Notice how the light sings at dawn behind figures along the Corniche. Having lived in Cairo for several years myself (in the Sixties) and loving urban photography, I'm entranced and made nostalgic by the constant flow of beautiful, unmistakably Cairene images in In the Last Days of the City.
But I'm also frustrated by having to watch the protagonist-filmmaker Khalid (Khalid Abdallah of The Kite Runner and The Square), who seems vaguely handsome but perpetually ineffectual, wander through nearly every frame accomplishing nothing. Yes, he has a camera in his hand. He meets with a sad-faced girlfriend (Laila Samy) who's soon going to leave the country, with a mature woman who apparently does movie voiceovers, and with a generic trio of Arab artist-filmmaker friends from Baghdad (Hayder Helo), Beirut (Bassem Fayad), and Berlin (Basim Hajar). After an enthusiastic reunion in Cairo, they exchange occasional brief conversations, and send Khalid footage -- from Beirut and Baghdad, at least. And we glimpse a very old Iraqi calligrapher, who crafts the beautifully written end credits of the film. Other characters come and go: an acting teacher who longs for a lost Alexandria (Hanan Yousef), his editor (Islam Kamal); a colleague of his late father (Fadila Tawfik) . But these vignettes don't create a sense of action.
Futilely, Khalid goes with a tall, scruffy estate agent (Mohamed Gaber) to look at apartments, because for some reason he must leave his. (These visits are glimpses of decay, shabbiness, and the oppressive encroachment of Muslim fundamentalism.) He edits his film, or looks at shots from it. And very often, he goes to the hospital where his mother (Zeinab Mostafa) lies, suffering from a generic malaise: "you've gotten old," he tells her.
The trouble is that all this, especially for a city and a population that are perhaps the most joyfully and irrepressibly in-your-face in the world, is far too detached a portrait, far too solipsistic. There's too little direct, intense interaction with what's happening in the city, or with people outside Khalid's sphere -- though, granted, we see thousands of them, in the teeming streets. The feel and look of Cairo are wonderfully captured: but at an aestheticized, somewhat humorless and self-important remove.
There is a self-reflexive concept at work in Last Days, with technique to burn. Notice how neatly the film slides back and forth from events happening on screen to their manipulation on an editing screen. And then you realize you're watching both a film about the inability to complete a film about Cairo and the filmmaker wandering around, unable to complete his film. Self-reflexive filmmaker paralysis has never been done better. Perhaps Cairo is the perfect place to stage such convolution. It is the largest city in Africa, it is or was, or still is if there still is, the cultural center of the Arab world today. And yet the crushing of the great hope of the recent "Youth Revolution of 25 January" 2011 now mires Egypt in a regime more repressive than the one they revolted against.
But is this what Khalid wants to talk about in his uncompleted film? No -- because he began making his film in 2009, and the timetable of this film is unclear. We hear some intense (and typically well filmed) anti-Mubarak chants at street demonstrations, and when Khalid meets up with his friends from Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin, Tahrir Square is mentioned. But the 2011 revolution and the events after it, are never described.
And this vagueness is a mixed blessing. Maybe as Weissberg notes Last Days "benefits from hindsight" because it's not one of the various instant responses to the revolution that now "seem hopelessly dated" -- because the revolution has gone sour and been betrayed. However, setting the film's endless meandering flow of images and repetitious actions -- talk with the friends, meet-ups with the girlfriend, visits to the mother, trips with the estate agent -- in no particular time, it seems to lack purchase on the tumultuous events that took place since Said began his work on the film. Sadly, Said marginalizes his effort in a different way.
In the Last Days of the City/Akher Ayam El Madina/آخر أيام المدينة, 118 mins., debuted at the Berlinale 14 Feb. 2016, and is scheduled for 1 Apr. at Vilnius. Also in Buenos Aires Intl. Festival of Independent Cinema. Screened for this review as part of New Directors/New Films (NYC), showing there 26 Mar. 2016 at 1:00 p.m. at Walter Reade theater and 27 Mar. at 4 p.m. at MoMA. (Interview with the star and director at the Walter Reade Theater here.) US theatrical release of this film 27 Apr. 2018. Metacritic rating: 72%.
CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson 2016)
KIRSTEN JOHNSON: CAMERAPERSON (2016)
A politically-conscious, left-leaning cinematographer's visual "memoir" is just a hodgepodge of clips
"How much of one’s self can be captured in the images shot of and for others?" So begins a festival blurb for this film. Well, as it turns, out, not very much, when your visual "memoir" is a tacked-together hodgepodge of one unrelated short film clip outtake after another from Darfur, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and other high-profile photojournalist venues plus scenes here at home. Such is the nature of cinematographer Kirsten Johnson's film Cameraperson. It is difficult to carry away any impression other than a shaky camera, an out-of-focus lens, and a succession of victims. These range from good-natured African ladies, who've been made homeless by marauding Arabs in Darfour (a subtitle giving the location precedes each clip), hacking off pieces of tree for firewood; to an Afghan boy with a blinded eye; to the photographer's own mother, in, a subtitle tells us, the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. In the background, Johnson can be heard pacifying, prodding, or cajoling her subjects. Her murmured words suggest a pleasant personality and the diplomatic skills to safely point a camera in many a tricky place. But not much of a personality emerges, just an awareness that this is a cinematographer with a background in hot spots.
In the scattershot series, one or two may land in the viewer's brain. I remember the smiling boy asked to say what he sees with his good, then his bad, eye; a grizzled, lean old woman in -- was it Bosnia? -- who's held up as stylish; an overwrought American woman a subtitle says has made a film about her mother's suicide, throwing a file of papers across a room in what appears to be angry frustration. What these have in common, or what they have to do with the photographer, is anybody's guess.
Kirsten Johnson indeed has a resume in which documentaries of a provocative or political nature predominate. Her work includes contributions to the "Frontline," "Wide Angle," "P.O.V." and "Independent Lens" TV documentary series. Individual films include ones about the French philosopher Derrida; the Hollywood rating system; a Teamsters strike; a departing governor pardoning death row prisoners; a banjo player touring Africa in search of his instrument's roots; New Yorker cartoons; abortion rights; women raped in the US military; hunger in America. She shot a little known documentary by Michael Moore, the 2007 Slacker Uprising. Moore is shown standing near a bunch of Marines jogging and chanting. Moore declares that it's hard to talk while running. (This would be true for him; not so much for good runners going at an easy pace.) An outtake of Derrida is equally trivial. But these are criticisms of snippets encountered in this grab bag film, not of Johnson's professional work. Her most productive and high profile partnership may be the recent one with filmmaker Laura Poitras, with whom she collaborated on the Oscar-winning Citizenfour, about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and the upcoming Asyum, about the ongoing problems of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The information in this paragraph, if linked together by a searching interview with Kirsten Johnson, might make a good documentary. But none of it is in Cameraperson: I found it on IMDb.
Cameraperson,102 mins., debuted at Sundance, where it was reviewed for Variety by Nick Schrager; also showing at the True/False and SXSW festivals, and as the closing night film of the Film Society of Lincoln Center-Museum of Modern Art's March 2016 New York New Directors/New Films series, where it was screened for this review. Public ND/NF showings 26 Mar. 6:30 p.m. at Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, and 27 Mar. 1:30 p.m. at MoMA.
US theatrical release by Janus Films 9 Sept. 2016 (NYC). Opens 30 Sept. 2016 Opera Plaza, San Francisco and Shattuck Cinemas, Berkeley.
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1. A charge-based compact modeling of cylindrical surrounding-floating gate MOSFET (S-FGMOSFET) for memory cell application Hamzah, A., Johari, Z. & Ismail, R. 21 Sep 2016 2016 IEEE International Conference on Semiconductor Electronics, ICSE 2016 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Vol. 2016-September, p. 157-160 4 p. 7573615
2. Adsorptive removal of phenol from aqueous solution on a modified palm shell-based carbon: fixed-bed adsorption studies Garba, A., Nasri, N. S., Basri, H., Ismail, R., Abdul Majid, Z., D. Hamza, U. & Mohammed, J. 14 May 2016 In : Desalination and Water Treatment. p. 1-12 12 p.
3. A Linear Array passively quenched Single Photon Avalanche Diode Isaak, S. & Bahador, S. N. B. 7 Apr 2016 2015 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 441-446 6 p. 7449375
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5. A study of 3-D Zinc Oxide nanowire field effect transistor with defect and interface charge density Khoo, W. H. & Sultan, S. M. 7 Apr 2016 2015 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 431-434 4 p. 7449373
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12. Influences of Sr-90 beta-ray irradiation on electrical characteristics of carbon nanoparticles Kasani, H., Taghi Ahmadi, M., Khoda-Bakhsh, R., Rezaeiochbelagh, D. & Ismail, R. 28 Mar 2016 In : Journal of Applied Physics. 119, 12, 124510
13. Modeling and simulation of graphene-oxide-based RRAM Lim, E. W., Ahmadi, M. T. & Ismail, R. 17 Mar 2016 In : Journal of Computational Electronics. p. 1-9 9 p.
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Featured: Digging Up Positivity - October 2020 - Hello there and welcome to October's episode of Digging Up Positivity. This month we have a whole bun…
Rumors spread: Sibe behind bars?
Posted by Kiala on Thu 21 Mar 2002 - 09:12
It seems word is spreading over the newsgroups that Ross "Sibe" Reddick, wanted by quite a few artists and network admins for numerous counts of copyright violation, distribution of artwork, DoS attacks, and general script kiddie annoyances, has apparently landed himself in jail.
Now I must note that this claim has not been substantiated, and should be treated as rumor until someone can prove that the poster does in fact speak the truth..
According to a poster on AFF, Sibe took the poster's bank card (who apparently gave Sibe the pin #, which makes the whole story sound fishy. Why would you give someone like Sibe your pin number? But anyway...) obtained $500 from said poster's bank account, and went for a joy ride to Camas, WA (Sibe hails from Portland, OR), where he was apparently arrested. He faces assult and battery charges in Oregon, according to the poster. [mwalimu adds: The arrest was for auto theft.]
As a note, Sibe does have a file with the FBI, who has been watching his antics, with the help of several artists and server administrators..
Also, if anyone CAN substantiate these claims, fill us in! ;>
-Kiala
Anon — Thu 21 Mar 2002 - 17:38
Your rating: None Average: 5 (2 votes)
I heard something about this, as I'm based out of Sutherlin, OR and I've got relatives up in Portland. From my information concerning the auto theft, he decked the guy he stole the car from and ran. And that's my question too, why would ANYfur give Sibe their pin #?
Don't quote me on any of this, I heard it third-hand...
Just a fur out west in the boonies, trying to help.
Kiala — Thu 21 Mar 2002 - 19:57
As a note.. Now that it's morning, folks have called the county jail and have confirmed, Sibe DID spend the night in jail.. He's supposedly been released, but is broke with nowhere to go.. This report comes from Nexxus, who called the county jail..
Teko — Fri 22 Mar 2002 - 08:30
You get what you give.
Anon — Fri 22 Mar 2002 - 12:37
Yes, but no doubt he'll find someone to bail him out of this trouble. For some reason the lowlives of this world always find one more sucker to bail their arses out.
Manawolf — Fri 22 Mar 2002 - 00:22
*BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA*
Now the man who has made a game out of creating enemies finds he just might need some help. Gee....... guess community goodwill might be useful for something! Too bad Mr. "I-don't-care-what-you-think" doesn't have it.
I shouldn't enjoy hearing this... I shouldn't hope that the rumor isn't true... but I can't help it. It's just too amusing when the universe deals a boot to the head to someone who's been asking for it.
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Hong Hai Vietnamese Restaurant's Legacy Crosses into Orange County
Orange County has a reputation for its diverse population, a large part of which is dominated by the Vietnamese community. This results in hundreds of Vietnamese restaurants spread across the county with the highest density located in the Garden Grove and Westminster cities. However, what if you don't live in those areas, don't feel like venturing in that direction, and are craving Vietnamese food? Fountain Valley dwellers don't need to fret because Hong Hai Dining has come to town, built upon the successful restaurant in Vietnam by a similar name (Hong Hai Seafood). Owners Nhu and Dan White opened the restaurant's doors in January 2015 to a much welcome reception by the community. Based on Nhu's mother's restaurant in Vietnam which has been serving seafood for many years and with the goal of keeping it very much family-run, Hong Hai features some Vietnamese dishes that are familiar but uniquely, serves specials brought over from its namesake which we were intrigued to learn more about. We were invited in to give them a try and quickly discovered some specials worth coming back for.
"I graduated in Accounting and Finance but restaurants run in my blood..." - Nhu White, Owner
Armed with the family recipes of her mother's restaurant and her own experience in the restaurant industry for seven years from busser to manager, Nhu put together Hong Hai with a modern look and feel in mind to match the quality of the food itself. They use several different techniques such as cooking their shrimp appetizer in fresh coconut juice as well as carrying housemade sauces such as the family's recipe for a green chile dipping sauce. When you walk into the restaurant, tall and vibrant canvased photographs of individual ingredients common to the Vietnamese cuisine line the walls to invite you. Black and white elements give stark contrast but also play to a modern tune, a move that helps attract both old and young.
We begun with our drinks which were a difficult choice considering how many options there were. Their popular Lychee Infused Tea ($2.95), Fresh Passion Fruit Soda ($3.25), and Fresh Strawberry Limeade Soda ($3.25) items are made with fresh fruits so that was mightily tempting but then we spotted their Thai Ice Tea ($2.75) with sea salt cream and the Fresh Avocado Smoothie ($3.50). Both were done well and not too sweet as their kind can veer towards being. I enjoyed the touch of sea salt cream on top of the Thai ice tea to add a different taste dimension while Duc enjoyed the richness of the smoothie.
Perusing the appetizer menu, we saw some good choices but asked for a few fan favorites. One was their Rocket Shrimp Rolls (4 for $6.95) and another was the Salt and Pepper Calamari ($9.95 - flash-fried calamari rings sauteed with garlic, green onions, and jalapenos) which we opted for to start with. It is slightly different from traditional Italian calamari dishes you may be used to though because instead of being melt-in-your-mouth soft, these pieces had more of a bite to it in texture, not in the way of being overcooked but purposefully done. Nhu pointed out that it is more common for Vietnamese-style to be this way, and their customers enjoy it to the point that some tables put in for multiple orders in one sitting! We're accustomed to this more resistant type of texture as well which is not rubbery nor is it completely soft; the calamari is still quite tender. We enjoyed the batter on it immensely, especially for how peppery it was.
To make the menu items both authentic and special, Hong Hai favors its designated Specials which are signature items from the mother restaurant in Saigon, Hong Hai Seafood. We jumped immediately on the Fresh Baby Clams Bathed in Hong Hai Spicy Broth ($9.95 - live Manila clams bathed in fresh ginger and lemongrass chili broth) for our next appetizer; these were a pleasant level of spiciness but not overbearing. They were also incredibly fresh and the flavors addicting. Though when it arrives, it does not look much more than clams in a thin broth, the dish is quite enjoyable and easy to finish very quickly.
We moved on next to their Oxtail Noodles Soup ($8.95 - one size only, served with beansprouts, basil, and culantro) which is their oxtail phở, a dish sought by many phở lovers but not as readily available at any of the many phở restaurants in Orange County. Their menu boasts 14 varying selections of phở but you could always customize the type of meats you do and don't want in your bowl. This particular one only comes in one size and is the product of Nhu's brother-in-law's cooking. He had worked in his own family's phở restaurants for more than 10 years and has transitioned to being Hong Hai's chef and basically, phở master. The broth draws many customers in and with good reason too. We enjoyed the rich flavor and the noodles cooked to the right texture; there was a little bit of more oil in the broth than we would have liked though but that is merely a preference.
Our last pass at their entrees was the Hong Hai Style Grilled Filet Mignon ($9.95 - grilled filet mignon cubes with Hong Hai's special sauce served with pickled cucumber, salad, and baguette) which many may at first mistake for bò lúc lắc (Vietnamese "shaking" beef) but then realize that it is completely different. We dug right into the pickled cucumber and radish because it was done so well. The accompanying housemade chile sauce was welcome as well though much hotter than expected; it has plenty of dimension so portion it wisely. The beef was extremely tender and its marinade both savory and slightly sweet, making it a perfect combination with the crusty baguette slices. I'd say this is a must-try here.
The other entrees we were unable to get to but came highly recommended from Nhu herself were the Hong Hai Style Steamed Salmon ($19.95) and Hong Hai Crispy Tofu ($9.95). The salmon is presented with all the accoutrements to make rolls - rice paper, fresh vegetables, and the like. The tofu has been compared to a melty cheese because of how soft it is. We'll have to try both of those the next time we're in! Other menu options include noodle dishes, vermicelli dishes, steamed rice combinations, fried rice selections, and even kids' meals. There ought to be something for everyone, and we even saw that with the diverse age and ethnic demographic coming in and out the doors.
We ended with a plate of their Chocolate Lave Cake with Berries Sauce ($5.50; a la mode +$1.50), a dessert assuredly not inspired by the restaurant overseas but one that can appeal more to an American clientele here. We thought that the ganache inside was fair but the cake overall was a bit dry and lackluster. However, it is often raved about from others so perhaps we'll have to give it a second chance.
If you are curious what the libation options are here for alcohol, Hong Hai does have a beer and wine license but not hard liquor so far. Promotions for wine glasses at the bar as well as special wine pairing events are on the horizon. Also keep a look out for monthly specials where they will try to bring in more recipes from "Mom" and continue to serve up solid Vietnamese food. Find them at 18041 Magnolia St Fountain Valley, CA 92708 and remember to give their specialties a try!
Photography by Duc Duong. More photos available on Facebook here.
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A Few Quick Things, vol. 146
February 9, 2015 By Jeff
One more week, and I’ll be rejoining the human race. I feel all weird and isolated, and completely cut-off. All I do is work and sleep, almost literally. But next Monday I’ll be returning to a 40-hour (or so) work week. It’ll feel like I have a part-time job.
Please give me a week to adjust, and we’ll return to the old schedule here: FOCUSED updates on Monday and Thursday, and a super-secret all-over-the-place Friday update for subscribers of the mailing list.
Sorry I’ve gotten so far off-track with this thing. I’ve been working between 55 and 60 hours per week, and it feels like I’ve been lobotomized most of the time. I should’ve just moved to China and started installing iPhone screens, and gotten it over with.
But, only one more week of this horseshit. There’s light at the end of the tunnel — and this time I don’t think it’s a train bearing down on me.
The whole world is encased in a thick layer of ice this morning. It’s like the neighborhood is laminated. Toney tried to go to work, and turned around and came back. School is closed (of course), and I’m supposed to leave for work in about an hour.
I’m going to try to make it. But I’m telling ya… I’m officially sick of it. Every Monday! It’s like God has a recurring Outlook reminder: It’s Monday, screw around with the Northeast USA…
Do you think God uses Outlook? I don’t see why not.
I was invited to appear on a Web-based TV show called HuffPost Live, or somesuch. They wanted me to come on and discuss an article I wrote back in 2012, about farting. This one, in fact.
I would have appeared live, via webcam, at 3 pm last Friday afternoon. And I have a feeling I would’ve been asked to defend my admitted gender-based double-standard as it pertains to farting. I would’ve been on trial, I believe, because I’m not a fan of the sisterhood blasting ass. Yet I give the dudes a pass.
Sounds like fun, right? Unfortunately I was forced to decline their invitation. I’m flattered that I’m still one of the go-to guys for such matters, though. Heh. Wait till my new novel comes out… It’ll surely cement my reputation.
Do you remember these things? We used to make them when I was a kid, and I’d almost totally blocked ’em out of my memory. It looks like they’re still available. I need to seek one out. I can still remember how they tasted. Crazy!
A couple of things I don’t understand… Maybe you guys can help me?
Toney was recently sick, and went to an Urgent Care kind of place. One of the first things they asked her, was “Were you originally born in Pennsylvania?”
First of all, I object to the phrase “originally born.” But, let’s not get sidetracked… Why would they need to know such a thing? Toney’s from Nevada. How is this information helpful to them? I don’t get it.
Also, a friend at work told me recently that folks’ feet usually increase in size as they get older. Is this true? If so, why? Fatter, I can see. But she says that’s not it. People just naturally go up a half or whole size during their adult years. Why?? Help me out, my friends.
And I need to go chisel the door of my car open now. Wish me luck on my 40 mile trek to work in this crap. Every Monday!! Grrr…
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Jazzbone Swirly says:
Wowee
…and my feet did indeed grow about a half-size back in my early 40s. How did I first discover this, you may be asking yourself. Well, I bought a new pair of hiking boots and proceeded to use them on a rather long hike to break them in. I managed to hammer off one of my big toe nails on that particular hike. Good times.
The Qweezy Mark says:
I wore a size 11 shoe for my entire life. Now I am in an 11 1/2 or 12, depending on the shoe.
Joe T says:
And your wiener keeps getting smaller.
johnthebasket says:
Yeah, that’s where it comes from. That’s why circus clowns rarely get laid.
Leave me alone! I’m trying to update my subscription to OnlineBootyCall.com.
Swami Bologna says:
I was a 12 in my late teens. Sometime in my 20s to 30s I became a 13. And these days (early 50s), I generally buy 14s.
Ognir says:
I was asked (at the Doctor’s office) if I had been out of the country recently. I think it has to do with whatever killer diseases are floating around from time to time.
Mike the ripper says:
The flashback farting update was hysterical! A blast from the past!
madz1962 says:
Smartass me decided to take my 3 personal choice holidays every Monday this month. I won’t get paid for them as my last day hurdles towards me on Feb 27th. Every goddamn Monday so far I’ve been shovelling snow. Some vacation.
My feet grew but lately I ordered my new size 8 and the last few pairs have been too big. Thank god for zappos. They have A great return policy.
druglife says:
I remember those pizza kits. i also seem to remember they kinda tasted n smelled like vomit.
Dogberry says:
Glad you said this. I recall that scent as well. Yet I just kept eating ’em.
Have there been Friday updates emailed recently? Because I haven’t received any for a while, which I attributed to Jeff’s busy schedule.
I absolutely remember the pizza kits. We’d have them just about every Friday when I was a kid. I think the arrival of ready-made crusts crippled sales the Boyardee kits, I mean who’s got time to let dough rise and do all that rolling?
chill says:
I’ve read this one or two other places. Who rolls pizza dough? The procedure is to stretch it with your hands. Throwing it in the air is optional; some consider that to be showboating.
I’ve been a size 12 for my entire adult life to the best of my knowledge.
Sure, but Jeff is specifically referring to SHOE size. I envy you.
Limey says:
I didn’t get mail today, there was a note on my mailbox “can’t open it”, and she’s right, nor could I. Damn thing was solidly iced shut. Lovely.
I don’t know about men, but women who have been pregnant and had a child can expect an increase of about 1/2 a size. The body produces a hormone during pregnancy called relaxin. It loosens up all the ligaments so the human larvae can make a graceful exit. The ligaments in the feet also get a dose, so, voila, slightly bigger feet.
Men who have been pregnant have more pressing concerns than their current shoe size.
Personal experience agrees with the notion that feet do get bigger during pregnancy, and the stay that way. Too bad the boobs don’t do the same.
Maybe your day as an expert in farting is yet to come. I’d pay a dollar to watch that!
Becky in Canada says:
As far as farts go….my husband deserves the brown-eye flutter award. Dear God…
shinywilly says:
My feet & stomach size grew during my 40’s but worse than that my testicles now hang lower & my manhood seems shorter. The later could be an optical illusion due to the larger stomach. Getting old sucks!!
As long as your Willy is still shiny. I can’t see a problem.
Ron from PA says:
Your job sounds like a grind, but you got one. I got laid off last week. (not the kinda laid you wanna get) My job was eliminated, heh?? How does a Director of Marketing job get eliminated? They said cost cutting measures cause revenues are in the toilet. Hell that’s not my problem. I got 2 bosses above me steering the ship and they still got jobs, and they’re the ones doing the bullshit clusterfuckness that’s driving the Marketing team into the ground. I like to think I was THAT good and worked myself out of a job. Been doing this type of gig for 22 years! And I’m sick of it. Anyone need an well seasoned, almost non psychotic Director of Marketing? But in the interest of full disclosure, I was nominated in high school as the person most likely to show up to work naked with a shotgun LOL.
Oh and I have no answers for your questions, cause today it’s all about me ranting……………Phew, do feel better now. time for a drink
Sorry to hear this, Ron. Let’s have a pity party as I got my walking papers 2 weeks ago. Get your resume together PRONTO and start pounding the pavement. Then we’ll get drink together!
that was supposed to be DRUNK but I guess that starts with a drink.
t-storm says:
got mine on 12-30-14! woooo!
Lew in Bama says:
Sorry to hear about job losses.
They let us keep our jobs, but cut our pay. And not just a little cut, over the course of the 5 yr contract, I’ll lose approx $30k.
So now we do more work for less pay.
I’m thankful to have a job, but tht’s not stopping me from putting my resume out there.
Damn, I guess I should be grateful. Our pay cut was only 10%, and it was for less than a year. And they still reimburse *some* of our mileage, so that’s only cost me a few thousand.
I’m guessing that the “Where are you from?” question is to screen for certain things that are more common in other areas of the country. For example there’s a fungal infection that is found in the lungs of people from the southwest usually. Women from/in northern states are at greater risk for MS than women in warmer climes.
There are a lot of reasons for asking odd questions. It could also have been an icebreaker and the Doc/PA/NP may have thought Toney was their type. I’ve never hit on a patient but you never know.
I think the regional thing is most likely.
I’ve worn a size 10 shoe since age 13 or so. That was more than 40 years ago.
revashane says:
My question is “originally born”? Unless we humans have an earth shattering religious enlightening experience we are only born once or am I missing something?
Those things were awesome. They had a pepperoni one that mom would never buy. When dad made them he followed the instructions to a t. Letting the dough rise and such.
bikerchick says:
I used to wear size 7 1/2 shoes. Fast forward 20 years, now my flippers are a size 8 1/2 – 9. Goes along with my growing ass too, I guess.
My mom would make Chef B pizza every Saturday night when I was a kid. She’d have it ready for The Carol Burnett Show which was on at 10pm. I still buy them. There’s a box in my cupboard now. We love them. Quick and easy. I usually add other cheese and toppings. Great for nights I don’t feel like cooking a big meal.
Theo Brown says:
I still buy ’em too and they’re still awesome. Going on 30+ years with them.
hardoxdan says:
We always had Big Al Lucioni box pizza. Did they only sell that in the Upper Ohio Valley?
I’ve worn a 7.5 for my entire adult life.
The hubs and I are working on that whole pregnant thing (I’m “advanced maternal age”, it’s a slow process), and while I won’t mind the giant belly/boobs becasue they go away, I’m not exactly excited about possibly having to buy all new shoes because my feet grow and don’t shrink back down.
I have a lot of nice shoes I really like…I’m crossing my fingers I don’t have to get rid of them.
Just had a phone interview. Don’t feel it went super great but it’s a start.
I was always a 9.5 and now I’m like a 10.5 or 11. Maybe the shoes are getting smaller.
With respect to many people losing jobs and others losing income from existing jobs, I quote the “profit” . . .
Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
Jim Workman says:
Jeff – check your email – I sent you a clip from a classic 50 year old home video
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Yankees 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 4 8 0
Indians 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 7 0
The tribe can’t do math?
I did not get As in math, but I’m pretty sure the totals are correct. It looks better in a monospaced font.
I see 1 1 2 4 = 8 but 1 2 3 = 7? Nope I gotcha. I was adding the wrong things and the top line working out messed me up.
It’s an important day in history if you’re a baseball freak, and an important game. Of course, it’s only a game.
I had to ask the inter-tubes about the significance of that game. While doing so, I found this quote: “The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye.”
Joltin’ Joe has left and gone away.
Phil Jett says:
Fuck Joe and the Yankees
Crash Davis
Lawrence Columbus Davis
Positions: Second Baseman, Shortstop and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6′ 0″, Weight: 173 lb.
Born: July 14, 1919 in Canon, GA
High School: Gastonia HS (Gastonia, NC)
School: Duke University (Durham, NC)
Debut: June 5, 1940 (Age 20)
Team: Athletics 1940-1942
Last Game: September 20, 1942 (Age 23)
Died: August 31, 2001 in Greensboro, NC (Aged 82)
I planned to post a box score every 4 or 5 days until Jeff is on his new schedule, but I decided to intersperse a little baseball lore.
Kevindust says:
In regards to the previous post about waking up in strange places; in my twenties, I attended a friends wedding and (apparently) got black out drunk. Getting B.O.D. wasn’t (isn’t) a supremely rare occurance for me but this time was special. The wedding reception was held in the very large community centre of a small town. The party itself took place in a space that is used as an indoor hockey rink in the winter, there were well over two hundred in attendance. I remember having a great time as I got drunk and drunker over the course of the evening. I couldn’t afford to buy double whiskeys all night but as was (is) common practice, I had a flask in my pocket so I could top-up the shingle shot drinks I bought at the bar. The next morning, I woke up alone in a completely unfamiliar place. It was on some kind of cushion, in a small room with curtained windows on all sides. I was comfortable so I didn’t spring immediately out of “bed”. I probably lay there for another hour, in a daze, as the fog cleared from inside my head. Eventually, I crawled to the side of the bed and swung my feet down to the floor of the room and sat up. My head was touching the ceiling. In front of me were cabinets and a small sink. To one side, there were double doors, about four feet high. I opened one of the doors and climbed outside to the ground. I was in front of some strange house. I quickly walked to the end of the laneway and spun around to get my bearings. I saw the community centre across and down the street. I looked back to where I had come from…I had spent the night on some strangers property and slept in the VW camper parked in their yard.
Jerry in WV says:
You win!
I’m laughing trying to visualize kevindust climbing into this camper! That must have been a sight to behold!
Wisey in Ttown says:
We lose Jeff?
Reefie says:
I think Jeff is in a snow bank somewhere…dead, maybe?
Most likely, the Camry’s wheels have been spinning on ice for the last two weeks. The windows are long since blown out by the sonic boom created by hand-whipping-through-hair.
I’m fairly sure Jeff will have bought some Blizzaks by now.
Right, good point. Probably not Hakkapeliittas, though.
Do they serve Greek food at Wendy’s? Might be a regional thing.
Hakkapeliittas might get him to work TOO soon. My friend Kyllikki used Hakkapeliittas, and when the snow got really bad she arrived at work before she left home. She finally downgraded to Blizzaks; safe snow driving is one thing — fucking with the space/time continuum is taking traction too far.
Root 66 says:
Great horny toads…hasn’t Jeff put Blizzaks on that Camry yet?!?
Nope. The Apollo Vredesteins won’t wear out. Snow is the enemy of friction.
Apollo Vredestein… doesn’t he own a Greek diner in Brooklyn?
Greg R. says:
Is this the longest unscheduled pause in the history of the WVSR? It sounded like things were looking up. I’m dying to hear how the new gig is going. I hope all is well.
‘Please give me a week to adjust, and we’ll return to the old schedule here’
Everybody just calm down. Have some dip.
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Invite 10 family members and / or friends to Pastor Kinlock's new series - Restore the Hope - at 11:45 a.m. this Saturday, September 5. First sermon: The church has left the building! Watch on our website, Facebook or YouTube.
New date for youth bible study! Join us at our new date / time - Fridays at 7:30 p.m. We kick things off with an outdoor youth fellowship at 7:30 p.m. in the church parking lot. Bring your own chair and wear a mask. It's gonna be lots of fun! FMI: Ps. Smith
September 12 events: Adventurer Club drive-through registration @ 3:00 p.m. Sister-to-Sister virtual kickoff @ 8:00 p.m.
New program for pre-teens! Sundays at 5:00 p.m. Our first discussion - Let's talk about Tiktok, Instagram, YouTube and Jesus! - takes place on September 13. Sign up for text reminders and information by texting @4youdiv to 81010.
September 13 events: Zoom exercise class @ 9:00 a.m. [meeting ID: 918 7949 6131]. Men's ministry meeting on relationship goals w/Ps. David Defoe @ 10:00 a.m. [meeting ID: 366 729 3028; password: 6307. Dial-in: (646) 558-8656]. La Cour Royale kickoff @ 6:00 p.m. [meeting ID: 975 8338 6573; password: Royalty]
September 5: Join us for our Jericho Prayer Walk in the church parking lot @ 7:00 a.m. [FMI: 340-690-2254]
Invite 10 family members and / or friends to Pastor Kinlock's new series - Restore the Hope - at 11:45 a.m. this Saturday, September 5. First sermon: The church has left the building!
[August 29 UPDATE]
Important youth rally! Saturday, August 29 @ 7:00 p.m.
Exercise Zoom Sunday, August 30 @ 9:00 a.m. Zoom meeting ID: 918 7949 6131
County Council Executive Angela Alsobrooks is hosting a call to action meeting titled “Understanding the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution: Your Right To Vote” on Monday evening at 7:00 p.m. Link: https://mypgc.zoom.us/j/98278747249. Passcode: 196002
Sign up to receive text alerts from our Youth Division. Text @4youdiv to 81010 or (442) 333-4494
September 5: Jericho Prayer Walk in church parking lot @ 7:00 a.m. [FMI: 340-690-2254]. Pastor Kinlock starts a new series - Restore the Hope - at 11:45 a.m. First sermon: The church has left the building!
Election 2020: Choose Christ is here! We start on Saturday, August 22, then run nightly at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, August 23 to Friday, August 28, anc conclude on Saturday, August 29 at 11:45 a.m. Click the image for all the details! Watch on our website, Facebook or YouTube.
The memorial service for Dr. Arnold O. Roberts takes place on Sunday, August 23 at 11:00 a.m. Watch on our website.
Youth Wednesday night prayer meeting will take a break starting Wednesday, August 26. We will resume in September, with a new date and time. Sign up to get text alerts: text @4youdiv to 81010.
Save the date: September 5. Jericho prayer walk on our campus at 7:00 a.m. and Pastor Kinlock starts a new sermon series - Restore the Hope. Sermon title: The Church has left the Building
Message magazine challenge: we are challenging every member to start a gift subscription to Message magazine and have the magazine sent to a family member or friend you'd like to see brought to Christ.
The Adventurer Club would like the church family to complete this short survey.
Foods, Moods and Attitudes - use these foods to help combat the following moods and attitudes
Anger Tea (e.g. Sour sop, chamomile)
Anxiety Oatmeal with walnuts+ strawberries/blueberries
Crankiness fruit and veggies e.g. baby carrots with cottage cheese, guacamole or hummus
Depression salmon burger*, guacamole burger*
Fatigue Spinach salad with walnuts, mandarin oranges and sweet peppers
Female hormonal issues e.g. PMS grilled cheese sandwich*; sardines, tuna, mackerel, salmon, avocado or guacamole sandwich*
Stress 1 ounce of dark chocolate (approx. 2 squares) *all bread sources should be whole grain or organic wheat
[July 31 UPDATE]
Join us for a combined vesper / Permission to Feel session on Friday, 7/31, starting at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Simone Walton talks to us about anxiety. Watch on our website, Facebook or YouTube.
Saturday services - 8/1
9:45 a.m. - Adult Bible study w/Inskip Allsop
10:30 a.m. - Young Adult bible study
10:30 a.m. - Kidz Connect Online
11:45 a.m. - Worship experience; Elder Rob Harris talks about dealing with change. Watch on our website, Facebook or YouTube.
1:00 p.m. - Metro Men in Prayer
3:00 p.m. - Foods, moods and attitudes; our health and mental health professionals lead a panel discussion and live Q&A
4:30 p.m. F.L.O.W. discussion "What's your financial health?" Watch on YouTube.
6:30 p.m. - Time to pray vesper service
Connection information can be found on our worship schedule page.
The Permission to Feel conference concludes on 8/2. We will host a session on depression starting at 8:00 a.m., then move into prayer, and conclude with our Family Life exercise class. Please note: the Power Prayer Session will use Zoom this week, so that we can easily transition to the exercise class.
Join by phone: +1 301 715 8592; meeting ID: 91879496131
Join by video: https://metrosda.zoom.us/j/91879496131
Business meeting takes place Sunday 8/2 at 5:00 p.m.
Save the date! Plan to attend our late summer revival titled: Election 2020 – Choose Christ. Remember, 2020 is not about Trump, Biden or ‘rona. Christ is on the ballot. Choose Christ; choose life. The revival takes place August 22 to 29 at 7:30 p.m. Invite your family and friends.
Donate to our back-to-school supply drive! The list of supplies we are collecting is on the screen. Drop your donations off at the church office, Monday through Friday, during normal business hours until August 17.
Attend our business meeting on Sunday, August 2 at 5:00 p.m. Registration is required for those who did not attend our spring business meeting. Register at metrosda.org/businessmeeting. July 29 is the registration deadline.
We celebrate Communion during the July 25 worship experience (11:45 a.m.). Everyone is welcome to participate. Watch on our website, Facebook or YouTube.
Join us for our health department's inaugural Metro M.O.V.E.S. event: Black Health Matters - July 25 at 3:00 p.m. Win door prizes, listen to an informative panel of health professionals and more! Click here for Zoom info and to pre-register to be eligible to win the door prizes.
This afternoon (July 25) at 4:30 p.m., F.L.O.W. presents: A Special Letter to our Queens. Join them on YouTube.
Our 50+ Club meets on Sunday, July 26 @ 11:00 a.m. Join via Zoom.
Plan to join us for a special series of programs around mental health - Permission to Feel - featuring Dr. Juwanza McIntosh, Dr. Simone Walton and Robert Harris.
Plan to join our Great Expectancy Season of Prayer on Friday, July 17, from 9:00 p.m. to midnight. Get the details here.
Pastor Troy Levy talks about why GE Peters is a great school choice for your children, especially if there is a distance learning requirement this fall.
[July 9 UPDATE]
Pastor Smith's zoom info has changed: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/58574179775857417977.
F.L.O.W. presents "Colorism" - a program about Black women and skin color. 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 11.
Pastor Kinlock starts a new sermon series "I Can't Breathe: Racial Justice and the Global Crisis of White Supremacy" on July 11. Watch on our website, Facebook or YouTube.
Pastor Smith and the Youth Department will host a screening of the movie "Just Mercy" on Saturday evening, July 11 at 8:00 p.m., and a discussion about the movie on Wednesday, July 15 at 7:30 p.m. Watch here: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/5857417977.
We will host our regular Sabbath School program on Zoom today, hosted this week by Pastors Inskip Allsop and Seth Bardu, starting at 9:45 a.m. Get connection details here.
Join our virtual exercise class on Sunday, July 5 at 9:30 a.m. Enjoy Caribbean rhythms and get your blood flowing and your heart pumping. Family Life directors Rob and DeDe Shepherd are the leaders. Classes will be held every other Sunday. Join via Zoom.
La Cour Royale will hold their socially distant Cotillion celebration in the church's parking lot on Sunday, July 5 at 11:30 a.m., not 5:00 p.m. as previously announced. Wear your masks and come celebrate with our debs and beaus.
VBS starts on July 12, but you must register by July 7 so that we have enough time to get your child(ren)'s packets to you. Watch our promo video and register today!
View the virtual condolences book for Mother Bella Sampson
[June 28 UPDATE]
We will be streaming Pastor Smith's ordination service on Friday, July 3 at 7:00 p.m. Watch on our website, Facebook or YouTube.
We will be streaming Allegheny East Conference's camp meeting services on June 27 and July 4. The stream will start at 10:00 a.m. for Sabbath school. Watch on our website, Facebook or YouTube. We will still have Kidz Connect online at 11:00 a.m. via Google Meet or phone [https://bit.ly/KidzMeet | 856-500-3262, pin: 380122333#
Our graduation celebration is this weekend. Zoom celebration - Saturday, June 27 @ 3:00 p.m. Drive-through celebration at church - Sunday, June 28 @ 12:30 p.m.
The memorial service for Mother Bella Sampson takes place on Sunday, June 28 at 9:00 a.m. You can watch on our website, Facebook or YouTube.
The virtual exercise class hosted by Rob Shepherd will not meet on Sunday, June 28 due to the memorial service. Class will resume on Sunday, July 5.
There is no prayer meeting on Wednesday, July 8.
Sign up for Pastor Smith's kids bible study class - starting Monday, June 29 at 5:30 p.m. Email her at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Watch Pastor Kinlock's Juneteenth message.
We've posted new information about food distribution centers in Prince George's County. Visit our Coronavirus Resources page for details.
We're holding a special Father's Day tribute for our dads immediately after our June 20 worship service. Zoom info: https://metrosda.zoom.us/j/98652111245
Participate in our drive-through graduation celebration! The fun takes place on Sunday, June 28. Graduates, register to participate by Wednesday, June 24. We need members to help with the celebration - contact Anitra Vincent [This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.] for details.
Share your favorite Mother Bella memory with her family. Sign our virtual memory scrapbook. Please keep the family in prayer as they deal with her loss.
Pastor Smith is being ordained on July 3! Save the date - details to follow.
We want to know what you think about how and when Metro should re-open. Complete our re-opening survey by Sunday, June 14.
Slots are still open to join our Metro Virtual Support Group. It's a safe place to talk about your concerns about COVID-19, police brutality or anything else that's on your mind. Sign up today!
Exercise class starts this Sunday! Get your workout clothes and a bottle of water and join the Zoom at 9:00 a.m. Rob Sheppard is our instructor. Zoom ID; 918 7949 6131
Join F.L.O.W. for another stirring social justice discussion - To be black or to be Christian? Saturday, June 13 at 4:30 p.m. Join at YouTube.com/c/Flowfromtheheart
[June 6 UPDATE]
Don't miss our virtual town hall with Councilmembers Deni Tevares and Calvin S. Hawkins, II. Monday, June 8 at 7:00 p.m. Pastor Smith hosts and Jason McFarlane moderates. Get connection details here.
Donate trashbags to Ridgecrest Elementary School so they can return students' supplies. Call the church office [301-853-2224] to arrange a dropoff time. Deadline: June 10.
If you've graduated or will graduate this year, we want to celebrate your achievement on June 28. Sign up to particiapte at metrosda.org/graduation.
Let's stay healthy - online exercise classes start on Sunday, June 14 @ 9:00 a.m., and run every other Sunday. Robert Sheppard is our facilitator. Zoom ID: 918 7949 6131.
[May 30 UPDATE]
Our health professionals are starting a virtual support group. This six-week program will focus on allowing individuals to feel supported, emotionally and spiritually. Although it is not therapy, it can still be therapeutic. Members will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. Visit metrosda.org/virtualsupportgroup to sign up.
Watch Pastor Kinlock's "No More Hashtags" video.
Our health professionals have started a Moments of Wellness video series. Dr. Simone Walton-Marcelle discusses resilience in the first episode
Food distribution now takes place weekly on Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m. Call the church office for information. [301-853-2225]
Sign up for the DMV's Got Talent! All are welcome to participate. Click the image to sign up.
Watch a special video message from Pastor Kinlock about the re-opening process.
Register to attend our spring business meeting - Sunday, May 17 @ 5:00 p.m.
Here's a picture that provides concise information on County Exce Alsobrooks' Executive Order to continue to shelter-in-place (May 14, 2020)
Click the image below for information on receiving rent assistance if you live in Prince George's County
[May 7 UPDATE]
Pastor Kinlock preaches the last sermon of his "Restore the Church" series on Saturday, May 9 at 11:45 a.m. Watch here.
We're hosting a special Mother's Day Tribute for our moms immediately after the 11:45 a.m. service on Saturday, May 9. Join via Zoom.
Metro's Men in Prayer will meet at 1:30 p.m. - not 1:00 p.m. - on Saturday, May 9 because of the Mother's Day tribute.
Video: bit.ly/MetroMeets
Dial-in: 260-475-0758; pin: 761593021 (one-touch click for iOS: 260-475-0758,,761593021#)
If you'd like to attend the business meeting scheduled for May 17 at 5:00 p.m., register here.
Pastor Kinlock preaches part 2 of his "Restore the Church" series today at 11:45 a.m. Watch here.
Our prayer warriors and pastors host a Power Prayer Session, every Sunday at 8:00 a.m. | Dial-in: 260-475-0758; pin: 761593021
Sunday, May 3 @ 11:00 a.m. 50+ Club Money Matters discussion w/Pastor Kinlock and Winston Joefield. Join here.
Monday, May 4 @ 7:00 p.m. Listen to Kaylee Samuel's powerful testimony as Pastor Smith hosts "Does God Care." See connection details below.
Wednesday, May 6 @ 10:00 a.m. Food distribution for members and the community: Call 301-853-2224 for details. Volunteers needed; masks and gloves will be provided.
Sunday, May 17 @ 5:00 p.m. Virtual business meeting | Get meeting information here.
[APRIL 29 UPDATE]
Pastor Smith hosts another "Does God Care" - this time interviewing Kaylee Samuel about a sudden, unexpected period of health challenges she went through. Monday, May 4 @ 7:00 p.m. Watch on our website, Facebook or on YouTube, or dial in: 260-475-0758; pin: 761593021
Pastor Kinlock interviewed Dr. Juwanza McIntosh about ways we can stay mentally mindful during social distancing / isolation. Watch the video.
Join Pastor Smith for an inspirational discussion on Monday, April 20 at 6:45 p.m., featuring Keziah Allsop. Keziah suffered a stroke about a year ago and is also a COVID-19 survivor! Watch on our website or on YouTube, or dial in: 260-475-0758; pin: 761593021
This evening for prayer meeting, we will all join the Church or Nah series. Rob Harris leads a conversation about finances, starting at 7:00 p.m. Watch on our website or on YouTube, or dial in: 260-475-0758; pin: 761593021. We encourage you to participate in our virtual BusBoys and Poets dinner if you can! Get additional details here.
Check out these pictures from our April 11 communion service.
This week's homework: Pastor Kinlock is requesting that we read Revelation 18, Matthew 25 and John 14:1-6 during this week.
Church or Nah: 7 Words: This evening at 7:00 p.m. We're encouraging our youth and young adults to join the conversation. Pastor Novella Smith speaks about "purpose". Watch on our website or on YouTube. Get additional details here.
[APRIL 9 UPDATE]
We are pleased to invite you to Resurrection Celebration: Praise in the Pandemic - our weekend celebration of the Lord's Supper and resurrection. Get all the details here.
Plan to attend Church or Nah? 7 Words - a series of conversations about the relevance of church for young adults by young adults. The study runs live online from April 12 to April 18. Get more details here.
Community Services has some perishable food items available for distribution to members. Please call the church office at 301-853-2224 to make arrangements if you'd like to pick up.
Prayer challenge: Pray three times a day for seven days, starting on April 5. Pray for (1) the latter rain (2) spiritual understanding (3) identification of opportunities the Spirt presents for us to be a blessing to others. Reading for this week: Revelation 14, Matthew 24 and Romans 13:11-14.
Sabbath School resources: It's the start of a new quarter. Links to Sabbath School lessons online can be found by clicking the Worship Services corkboard.
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Germany : DHL Global Forwarding launches new air freight service for emergency logistics
DHL Global Forwarding extends its product portfolio and launches DHL SameDay Speedline. This new air freight product offers forwarding customers a mission critical solution for emergency shipments. Providing a best flight out service at an optimal cost-performance ratio each unaccompanied shipment will be proactively monitored from origin to destination. With benefits such as 24/7/365 pickup and delivery, collection within 120 minutes and quotations within 60 minutes, the DHL SameDay Speedline product will fill the gap for a much needed global expedited solution. This new service covers urgent delivery of spare parts, critical medical supplies or newly launched products. Although DHL SameDay Speedline is a multi-sector product, it's especially attractive for aerospace & aviation, automotive, electronics, energy and life sciences industries.
"The emergency shipment market is growing with just-in-time inventories for industries from aerospace and energy to manufacturing to adapt their supply chains. The need for mission critical shipment delivery to avoid line down situations continues to arise and requires a partner that has the global reach combined with the technology to provide transparency to each sector-specific logistical challenge. DHL SameDay Speedline fills this gap and provides added value through its many service features", states Ingo-Alexander Rahn, Global Head of Air Freight, DHL Global Forwarding.
The launch of DHL SameDay Speedline' s global network of 50+ stations will cover the greatest geographical demand for emergency shipments, with the expectation, that the network will grow through customer demand. A core strength of DHL SameDay Speedline are the 24/7/365 SameDay Contact Centers in the US, Singapore and Ireland, where each shipment is proactively monitored from origin to destination. Dedicated customer service representatives will handle the majority of quotes and routing option for door-to-door transits in less than 60 minutes. Customers of DHL SameDay Speedline will receive customized milestone updates of their shipments movement after the logistical event. In case of an irregularity a resolution to the issue is available within minutes.
Next to specific industry sectors solutions, the scope of DHL SameDay are those customers that need to ship time-critical cargo regularly or experience unplanned emergencies. "We see DHL SameDay Speedline as a multi sector product offering that is especially attractive for aerospace & aviation, automotive, technology, energy, marine logistics and life sciences industries, including temperature controlled, dangerous or out-of-gauge goods", Rahn adds.
After surveying more than 200 customers from various industry sectors with emergency shipment needs, DHL Global Forwarding saw a need to develop a product utilizing the best of both worlds, the leverage of the DHL relationships in country with the emergency product technology and intelligence of the DHL SameDay team. "Our customers will choose DHL SameDay Speedline for the best flight options to meet just-in-time demand at an optimal cost-performance ratio", stresses Ingo-Alexander Rahn.
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Myanmar net Internet Service
Burma Network Internet Service
The Myanmar Net WiFi service is currently available at the following locations:. In Mandalay next month, Fiber To The Home (FTTH) - an Internet service. Myanmar is seeking to extend its Myanmar Net service to other major cities across the country. Establish a new connection or network; select Connect to the Internet and then Next.
Two main Internet service providers exist in Burma:
There has been a significant increase in Internet connection in recent years. A submarine wire will soon give the user more reason to celebrate.
Internet accessibility has improved significantly in recent years. A submarine wire will soon give more reason to party. Everyone who uses the Internet in Myanmar knows that what is possible in 2016 was almost a dream just two years ago. Myanmar telecoms have been making good news since Telenor and Ooredoo received cell phone licenses in June 2013 and began expanding their service the following year.
Myanmar's share of the Myanmar public with a cell telephone plan rose from just over 1 per cent in 2010 to 49.5 per cent four years later. In spite of the news coverage, little consideration has been given to the fiber-optic upgrades needed for the so-called "mobile revolution" in Myanmar. The cost of connection has remained more or less the same since then: although the cost of using your own smart card is low, the cost of your smart card is still too high for the general public to use the Internet.
Burma is linked to the global Internet via three connections: an underwater wire known as SEA-ME-WE 3, a large land-based connection to Thailand and a sparse land-based connection to China. Despite significant improvements since 2013, there are few global and national optical fibers; the grid does not have enough power and failures are still high.
All of these public-rent access is managed by state-owned Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications, a cost fixing roaming system that is seven to ten time higher than in Singapore and twice as expensive as in neighboring Thailand. Early this months, Singapore based Campana Group announced a turn-key agreement with Alcatel-Lucent, a global leading provider of underwater cabling systems, to deliver the first privately held underwater cabling to Myanmar.
Myanmar Malaysia-Thailand Internacional Connections (MYTHIC) cables will give Myanmar an additional 300 Gigabit per second of bandwith. Surveying work on the MYTHIC will begin in the next few month and the fiber optics line is scheduled to go into operation by April 2017. This will be Myanmar's second underwater fiber optical cord. The MYTHIC will also be the first "carrier-neutral" cabling in the state, which means that it will not give privileges to any telecom companies or operators.
The Campana is in discussions with the country's telecom operators about renting bandwith over the wire, but neither they nor the businesses wanted to make any comments. How telecoms and Internet service provisioners take advantage of lower pricing will dictate how much of these benefits will pass to the consumer and how quickly.
In order for the user to profit from the increase in global capacities, the local fiber optic network must be able to bear the higher burden. In addition to the increase in global capacities, MYTHIC was to make a much-needed Internet line available and significantly reduce the high costs of the Internet for the local consumer.
Because fiber optics are more susceptible on shore than in the sea, Campana is planning to place the wire in Thanlyin, next to the Bago River on the west edge of Yangon, the nearest secure docking site in the city. It will extend as far as Satun in the south of Thailand - a major crossroads for cross-border connections.
Alcatel-Lucent Head of Market Communication Francesca Cazzaniga said the agreement with Campana left her in control of the â??from A to C, which means that we will be designing the wire, making the wire, laying the wire and putting the system into operationâ?. In addition to the surveying work at the beginning of the installation, Alcatel-Lucent will service the cabling system after installation.
While MYTHIC is the most significant major advance in Myanmar's global interconnectivity, it is not the only remarkable evolution. She has established three distinct long distance routes from the UK (from 10 to 30 Gbps) - two to Thailand and one to China. "We are approximately 10 per cent totally dependent on MPT," said Joachim Rajaram, Telenor Myanmar VP and CIO.
Myanmar Telenor is also the first local telecom company to appear on the next Internet Stock Market (IX) in Singapore, starting to peer or directly share Google traffics. The Internet is an important Internet hub around the world, where data service provider and telecommunication company gather to handle data transfer without intermediaries.
Dyn Research's Doug Madory said that most telecommunications operators in the global telecommunications market have an agreement named "settlement free peering". Here, businesses arrange to transmit Internet communication to another company's networks free of cost. It' s a worldwide phenomenon, and Mr Madory says that Telenor's attendance at the Equinix Internet Exchange in Singapore means "the maturation of this network".
Ooredoo, the other global telecom giants starting in Myanmar in 2014, says there are also three fiber optic connections, two to Thailand and another to China. Researchers who are well acquainted with the issue, however, believe that at least one of Ooredoo's connections to Thailand is most likely a rented service on MPT's wire.
Having significantly boosted publicity expenditure since the loss of its exclusive rights in the wireless communications sector, IPMT is working on a new global connection that includes the introduction of SEA-ME-WE 5, an offshore submarine lead to Myanmar held by a group. MPS would not say when work would start on SEA-ME-WE 5's Myanmar office, but Yosuke Fukuma, an MPS PR consultant, and U Zaw Htay, an engineering in his offshore division, stated that it would be ready for operation by the end of 2017.
Unicom China has also worked to bring the new AAE-1 submarine power cord to Myanmar in collaboration with MPT. Zaw Htay said China Unicom currently only has one permit to touch down the wire and transfer back to China. It has requested a licensing to be able to sell within Myanmar's range.
A further way to diversify interconnectivity is for Ooredoo and Telenor to run their own global business hub. A global network is the place where Internet or Internet transport from one jurisdiction is aggregate and shared with other jurisdictions. The Campana Group applies for a license to run an interna-tional gate.
In spite of the nascent interconnectivity from a wide range of political groups, Mr Madory says that personal wires like Campana's are the way forward. There are usually more susceptible terraced connections and Myanmar's global connections are crashing almost every week. "This is a real subcable not in the possession of the federal administration.... this is the advanced way to do it," said Mr Madory.
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Bourkevale Community Centre
100 Ferry Rd, Winnipeg, MB R3J 1V7 (204)888-1599 email: bourkevale@gmail.com
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Video: How ice is made at Bourkevale
Kids show parents a thing or two about hockey
Bourkevale kicked off its first weekly Kids vs. Parents hockey game Sunday with more than 30 skaters out to play a little informal hockey and enjoy the outdoors. It appeared the kids were dominating most of the game although no official score has yet been registered with www.mybourkevale.com. In any event, the kids and parents had a blast and it looks like this weekly event — held every Sunday from 1-2 p.m. on the north rink — will be a community favourite.
Check here for updates on cancellations due to inclement weather.
Huge crowds at Bourkevale
Bourkevale Community Centre was the only club with ice rinks open the first week of December in the St. James area. That's thanks to our dedicated volunteer ice-making crew who put in countless hours in the 10 days leading up to our official opening Nov. 28, providing area residents with excellent ice all week. And it's been drawing massive crowds.
Over 150 skaters and hockey players jammed into Bourkevale's two sheets of ice Thursday, Dec. 2, many of whom skated until 11:30 p.m.
Kids' Christmas party a huge success
What a wonderful way to kick off the holiday season. Bourkevale Community Centre hosted a fun and well-attended Children's Christmas Party Sunday Nov. 28. And you won't believe who showed up! St. Nick himself — despite his very busy schedule this time of year — made an appearance at our club to hear the Christmas Day wishes of local children.
Ethan Iwanusiw, shown here with Santa, was one of dozens of children who spent some magical time with Santa Claus at Bourkevale.
A big thank you to Brenda Waterman, Bourkevale's new Special Events Coordinator, who did an exceptional job of making this event a memorable and unique kids' Christmas party. Well done Brenda.
Ice skating now open
Bourkevale's crack volunteer ice-making team was busy around the clock the last week of November flooding the club's two ice rinks as they prepared the ice for the winter season.
The club officially opened its north rink Sunday, Nov. 28 at 1 p.m., coinciding with Bourkevale's annual children's Christmas party from 1-3 p.m.
Volunteer ice-makers Ron Templeton, Jeff Valgardson, Andrew Kelch, Ed Toews and Dan Reles have put in countless hours preparing the rinks for flooding, clearing snow and laying down well over two dozen floods on both the south and north rinks. Their efforts were made a little more challenging with heavy snowfalls in late November that delayed flooding.
The response to our first day of skating was nothing short of phenomenal with dozens of skaters out on the ice the first afternoon it was open.
The skate room and canteen will be open regular hours — 6-9 p.m. Mon-Fri and 1-9 p.m. Sat.-Sun. — beginning Monday Nov. 29. Come out and enjoy the best outdoor ice in the city and warm up with a tasty hot chocolate and snack at our friendly canteen. And while you're at it, leave a thank you note in the comment section below to our volunteer ice makers who put in unbelievable amounts of hours to give us the high-quality ice we enjoy every year.
Video: Halloween Howl was a hoot
Bourkevale Bruins rocked the soccer world
The Bourkevale Bruins U11 boys soccer team not only had a highly successful outdoor season this year, they had an extremely fun and exciting soccer experience. The Bruins cleaned up in the regular season, finishing first in the 10-team St. Charles Soccer Association league. That earned them a spot in the A-side of the playoffs, squaring off against the best teams in the city. And the Bruins did very well, coming in third place out of six teams in their division in post-season play.
"The boys had a great season," said Bruins coach Rob Dorbolo, adding he was very proud of his team's performance this year.
Meanwhile, the Bourkevale Blades U13 girls team came within a whisker of making it to the finals in the B-side of their league. The Blades, who finished sixth place out of 12 teams during the regular season, performed exceptionally well in post-season play with a 3-1-1 record, only two points behind first-place River Heights. For full playoff standings for the U13 gils, click here.
Video: Hoedown 2010
Hoedown a smash hit
Bourkevale Community Centre's 2010 Hoedown/Soccer Windup Sept. 11 was a rousing success with a strong turn-out from all parts of the club's catchment area. It was a fun-filled day for kids of all ages and their parents, including bouncers and kids' games in the afternoon, an evening dog show courtesy of Wilddog Sports and more evening games for children. The food was great and the beer garden was humming as families enjoyed live entertainment, a well-stocked silent auction and the company of good friends and neighbours. A great time was had by all. Thanks to the dozens of volunteers who worked tirelessly to make this event so special.
New play structure on the way
Bourkevale Community Centre's new play structure has been ordered and could arrive as early as this fall. The structure, as featured here, will replace the old wooden model and will be located on the same foot print just north of the club.
The structure includes a steel, double slide that will face north to avoid direct sunlight, a corkscrew slide, climbing nets, multiple platforms and a track slide. There will be swings located to the west of the main structure and even a spring teeter-totter.
The structure will be wheelchair accessible.
The existing site will be excavated and the current pea-gravel will be replaced with a safer, spongy material known as engineered wood fibre. Bourkevale will also be getting two new picnic tables, two new park benches and two modern-style garbage containers in the immediate area.
The company that won the bid for the play structure is scheduled to begin construction this fall. But there is a possibility it may not get done until the spring. Bourkevale's executive has been working with the city in recent months to acquire a new play structure and finalized plans with city officials in August.
Video: Bourkevale Bullets rock
Bruins in top spot after spring soccer season
Call it World Cup inspiration. The Bourkevale Bruins have been tearing up the U11 boys soccer league this spring, posting an impressive 9-1-0 record to secure 1st place in the 10-team St. Charles Soccer Association league.
The team finished the spring session with two straight wins giving them 27 points, well ahead of R.A. Steen's second-place showing of 19 points. The Bruins' offence has been explosive, netting a league-leading 29 goals in 10 games. The team has allowed only eight goals this season, giving them a goals-for/goals-against of 21, tops in the league.
Although the Bruins don't play their home games at Bourkevale, they're a regular fixture at the club's south-end rink where Bruins' coach Rob Dorbolo runs the team through drills and training, rain or shine. Devin Dorbolo is seen here preparing for the team's last few games of the spring session.
The Bruins will resume their schedule in the fall, including a playoff season that's sure to be a thriller. Check our website in the fall to find out where you can go to cheer on the Bruins during the playoffs.
Bullets field an explosive team this year
The Bourkevale Bullets are enjoying an outstanding season in 2010 with 13 local talented players. Many of the players — turning either 7 or 8 this year — have been together since the early years when they first kicked the ball around at ages 4 and 5.
Head coach Mark Saunders is joined by assistant coach Cameron Iwanusiw and team manager Mel Saunders, making up the team's dedicated volunteer coaching staff.
Most of the team's games have been on the road in May. But the Bullets play their final games in June Mondays and Wednesdays around 6:15 p.m. at Bourkevale's mini soccer pitches right at the club. Get your lawn chairs out and come and cheer on your local players.
It doesn't get more fun than this!
Bourkevale Blades kick off outdoor season
The Bourkevale Blades U13 girls soccer team opened its outdoor season last month and are looking forward to an exciting season of soccer. The Blades, also known as the Bourkevale "Bumble Bees" according to some players on the team, are one of five teams playing out of the club this year. Their home field is the St. James Collegiate soccer pitch, directly north of the Bourkevale grounds.
The Blades play in the north division of the U13 Girls Recreational league, which includes teams from Stonewall and East St.Paul.
Bourkevale won its opening match-up 2-0 against PCW (Olsen). The "Bumble Bees" tied their second game 2-2 against VGCC's Perdonic squad.
Come out and cheer on the team at St. James Collegiate Tuesday June 15 at 6:15 p.m. when the Bees take on Garden City. The Blades also play home games Sunday June 20 at 6 p.m. against Stonewall and Tuesday June 22 at 6:15 p.m. against VGCC.
Bourkevale: A soccer mecca
Bourkevale Community Centre kicked off its spring soccer season last week, hosting five local teams ranging in ages from five to 13. The club is fielding two 5/6 teams again this year, one 7/8 squad, a U11 boys team and a U13 girls club.
It's expected to be another exciting season at Bourkevale with the club's 5/6 teams and 7/8 squad playing their home games on BCC's freshly lined soccer fields. Grab your lawn chairs and come out and cheer on our budding athletes who normally play Monday to Thursday around 6 p.m.
Meanwhile, Bourkevale is rapidly becoming a popular centre for St. James and Charleswood soccer organizations with a number of developmental teams choosing the club to hold regular practices and clinics.
Portage Trail Soccer held its annual spring kick-off at the club over a three-day period last week, drawing over 125 soccer players to Bourkevale's sprawling greenspace. PTS has also selected Bourkevale to hold its weekly soccer academies and a number of individual PTS teams hold regular practices at the club.
Bourkevale has indeed become a Winnipeg soccer mecca.
Video: Tacos and Trophies
Yozenko, Templeton win Bob Pyne Trophy
Bourkevale residents Breanne Yozenko and Ryan Templeton have been selected as the 2010 recipients of the historic Bob Pyne trophy, awarded by the Bourkevale Community Centre to recognize excellence and dedication in amateur hockey.
Yozenko, this year's female winner, is an accomplished player who played with Sturgeon Creek Community Centre and also skated with her high school hockey team this past season. Templeton, this year's male recipient, is a former AAA player who has enjoyed years of success in amateur hockey. Templeton played for the St. James Collegiate team this year.
"We think it's very important to recognize the dedication and hard work our Bourkevale youth put into amateur hockey," said BCC hockey convenor Jeff Valgardson. "These kids play with a lot of heart."
The Bob Pyne trophy was first awarded in the early years of the Bourkevale Community Centre. The trophy is named after the late Bob Pyne who was instrumental in building the centre which officially opened in 1949. The whereabouts of the original trophy is unknown. But a new version of the trophy was resurrected in the 1980s and awarded for several years.
After some 25 years of dormancy, the Bob Pyne trophy was awarded again in 2009. Last year's winners were Devan Schram and Alana Moffat.
Bourkevale gets new play structure
Bourkevale Community Centre will be the proud recipient of a new play structure on the north side of the facility, Coun. Scott Fielding announced at the center's AGM April 8.
"This is going to be a great addition to the club," said Fielding. The type and size of the play structure has not yet been determined. But Fielding says the city will put the project out to tender within a few weeks. He invited area residents to give their input into what they would like in a new play structure. You can call Bourkevale at 888-1599 or Fielding's office at 986-5848.
The new play structure will replace the aging, wooden structure currently on Bourkevale grounds.
The Bourkevale board has been working with Fielding for several months on getting a new structure after many families have requested one.
**Bourkevale is not accepting new bookings at this time due to the COVID-19 pandemic**
Bourkevale's main hall is available for a variety of events and functions, including birthday parties, wedding and baby showers, anniversaries and even weddings. It's a great place to hold a business meeting or a small to medium-sized AGM.
For more details about renting, including rates, click here.
To make a booking, contact our hall rental director at bcchallrentals@gmail.com.
Click the icon and read about the very early days of Bourkevale Community Centre
Bourkevale is on Twitter
Follow Bourkevale on Twitter. It's a great way to keep up with what's happening at Bourkevale. Click "follow me."
Bourkevale board meetings - get involved!
Bourkevale holds its monthly board of directors meetings every third Thursday of the month in the main hall. Meetings begin at 7 p.m. and are open to the public. We encourage area residents who are interested in finding out more about the club or who want to get more involved to attend.
Bourkevale is run by a volunteer board of directors from the community. Without community involvement, the club would not exist.
Click the map for our location.
Got an idea for a new program? Questions about the club? Want to give us some feedback about Bourkevale? Please e-mail us at bourkevale@gmail.com. We want to hear from you.
Bourkevale featured at MTS Centre
This classic Bourkevale hockey jersey hangs in the main concourse of MTS Centre among many classic jerseys on display at the facility.
How do I get involved with Bourkevale Community Centre?
That's a great question. Your connection with Bourkevale CC can be anywhere from volunteering for a single event to getting more involved at the board level. But don't let the "board" level scare you away.
Our board is comprised of friendly, community-minded people who want the best for our kids and families. We volunteer our time to ensure Bourkevale survives as a community centre and to maintain the important services it provides. Mostly, though, we have a lot of fun.
Why not join us? If you'd like to ask a few questions about what Bourkevale is all about, send us an e-mail at bourkevale@gmail.com.
You won't regret it. We guarantee it.
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Old Dominion Comes to Playstation Theater, So You Go.
And you love every single second of it.
I don't need to ramble on about how much I love Old Dominion, or how unbelievable their show was, because you've already had your fair share of that (here, here, here, here, here, aaand here - but who's counting?). What I will share with you though, are some of the important highlights from last night's show in New York.
1) Album number two is in the works, and last night they played two new songs that'll be a part of it -- Be With Me and So You Go. These songs fall nothing short of the witty, catchy tunes you're used to hearing from them (yet never tire of). Crossing my fingers that Can't Get You, Still Writing Songs About You, and Brad Tursi's Almost September will also make the cut. Now we just, wait...
2) A lively version of Pink Houses by John Mellencamp was a nice surprise, and also led to a "USA!" chant immediately following (ya gotta love country music, folks). Though I knew Song For Another Time was full of song references, this prompted me to look a little deeper and was I blown away. In case you also want to be in the know, check out the Spotify playlist I made.
3) We Got It Right. They got it right. And everything was more than alright. I fell in love with this song from the first moment I heard it, and somehow witnessing it live (for the first time) made me love it even more. Thanks for giving me my moment.
4) Sold Out. What a year these guys have had! As I was looking back to reference just how many times I'd written about Old Dominion, I stumbled across this line (circa May 2015), "Old Dominion is definitely going SOMEWHERE fast." It was true then, and it's still true now. Hats off to you, fellas!
It wouldn't be right to end this piece without applauding the phenomenal opener, Steve Moakler. Though the crowd may have only known Love Drunk, Suitcase and Riser, I don't expect that to be the case next time around. There's more where that came from... here are a few of my personal Moakler faves -- All The Faint Lights; Damn, Do I Think About You; Steel Town.
Why night's like this go by so quickly, I will never understand. But on the bright side, they're touring so. much. Which means plenty of opportunities to fall even harder for this incredible band (if that's possible).
Yeah, we got the looks
We got the lights
We got the days
We got the nights
Even though it ended
We got it right
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Archive for: November, 2019
Pro-life groups file lawsuit over latest New York abortion law
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Several pro-life organizations in New York have sued the state over a law they say targets pro-life and religious employers, barring them from reflecting their core beliefs in hiring policies. “No government has the right to tell pro-life or religious organizations they must hire someone who doesn’t agree with their core mission,” Ken Connelly, senior counsel…Read More
Kansas Catholic Conference says Medicaid expansion needs pro-life revisions
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As Kansas considers expanding its Medicaid program, the state’s Catholic Conference said its support is contingent upon the establishment of pro-life safeguards. Last week, the Special Committee on Medicaid Expansion – a joint House and Senate panel – held two days of hearings discussing an expansion of KanCare. Chuck Weber, executive director of the Kansas…Read More
Washington DC drops bill to legalize sex trade
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A bill to legalize the buying and selling of sex in Washington, DC, will not move forward after widespread opposition and concern that the bill lacked enough support of the city council to be passed. The Community Safety and Health Amendment Act of 2019 (B23-0318) would have made the capital the first city in the…Read More
Oklahomans with DACA fight to protect the program
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Even with their immigration status in question, undocumented Oklahomans are speaking out for the federal program allowing them to stay in the U.S. Rallies in the state and Washington, D.C., shone a light on immigrants who have made Oklahoma their home, in part with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA reached the U.S.…Read More
As SCOTUS hears DACA arguments, bishop calls for congressional action
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The USCCB’s migration committee chairman hopes that Congress can come to a solution regarding the situation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy recipients, as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a case seeking approval to eliminate the program altogether. Bishop Joe Vasquez of Austin told CNA Nov.12 that while he and his brother…Read More
Ohio bill would target proposal on abortion reversal notification
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Two Democratic lawmakers in Ohio have introduced legislation that would prohibit the state from requiring doctors to provide patients with information that is not recognized by expert medical associations or supported through peer-reviewed research. The bill challenges another piece of proposed legislation in the state, which would require physicians to inform patients seeking a medication…Read More
Second federal court rules against HHS conscience protection rule
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For the second time in two days, a federal judge on Thursday said the Trump administration’s conscience protection rule for health care workers violated the law. Judge Stanley Bastian in the Eastern District Court of Washington, an Obama appointee, ruled against the Department of Health and Human Services Nov. 7 after the State of Washington…Read More
Stitt considers Medicaid block grant, refuses support for SQ802
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Gov. Kevin Stitt believes he has found a solution to Oklahoma’s health care problems. “The solution for Oklahoma is a block grant,” he said during a recent radio interview in response to a question about his health care plan. A Medicaid block grant, which would require approval from the federal government, would completely overhaul how…Read More
Oklahoma Supreme Court blocks dismemberment abortion ban
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The Oklahoma Supreme Court granted an injunction on Monday barring enforcement of a law that bans a method of abortion in the second trimester. Six justices agreed to the injunction, while two dissented. The injunction is expected to remain in place while the court hears an appeal of the “Unborn Child Protection-from-Dismemberment-Abortion Act,” which was…Read More
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Parsons, Albert Richard. Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Scientific Basis as defined by some of its apostles. Chicago, Mrs. A. R. Parsons [c1887]. CHAPTER IV. CAPITALISM-ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE. The wage system of labor is a despotism It is coercive and arbitrary. It compels the wage-worker, under a penalty of hunger, misery and distress of wife and children to obey the dictation of the employer. The individuality and personal liberty of the, wage-worker, and those dependent upon him is destroyed by the wage-system. A republican form of government does not alter the class servitude of the wage-worker. While governments are necessarily despotic--they may differ in degree. But all governments based upon the wage-labor system are essentially the same. The government of the United States, based upon the wage-labor system, does not, and cannot guarantee the inalienable right of the wage-workers to "life, lib...
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[Comrade H. Davis or the Socialist League, delivered a lecture having this title, at 13 Farringdom Road, under the auspices of the Clerkenwell Branch of the Socialist League, on the 22nd of last month.] IN all discussions on this subject, said be, whether our opponents be of the most generous or the most hostile sort, Anarchy, is, they admit, the highest form of civilization conceivable. Anarchy has been defined by an intelligent opponent as "a state of Society in which each individual is a law unto himself." A grand, but an impossible ideal, we are told, this is when looked at from the imperfections of to-day. Now opposition to most schemes for a reorganization of Society are urged from a more or less well defined knowledge of the imperfec... (From : AnarchyArchives.)
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The Great Anarchist Trial: The Haymarket Speeches As Delivered On The Evening Of The Throwing Of The Bomb, At Haymarket Square, Chicago, May 4, 1886, By: August Spies and Albert R. Parsons 1886 Published by the Chicago labor press association Room 17, No, 76 and 78 Fifth Ave., Chicago NOTE. The Chicago Times of August 10 contained the following statements, among others, in regard to the great trial: "The climax in the Anarchist trial was reached yesterday. Schwab, Spies and Parsons told their respective stories to the jury from the witness-chair, to a spell-bound audience of spectators, an amazed jury, and a surprised judge. Parsons was composed and eloquent. His brother, General W. H. Parsons, sat with eyes fixed upon him during the time h... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
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The second Anniversary of the day on which our brave comrades Engel, Fischer, Parsons, and Spies, were murdered by the State of Illinois, has been commemorated by meetings all over the earth. Besides the British meetings, some of which we notice elsewhere, we have at the time of writing heard of meetings having taken place in America at Boston, St. Louis, and Chicago; in Spain, at Barcelona; and in France, at Paris, Lyons, Vaucluse, Le Chambon, and Roanne. Next month we hope to give a fuller list, but these first arrivals go to show how strong a hold the Chicago Martyrs have upon the workers of the world. In Barcelona an interesting literary competition was held in connection with the Commemoration, and a number of most valuable papers on t... (From : AnarchyArchives.)
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Indian cartoonist could be jailed for cartoons about India’s supreme court
January 12, 2021 Maneesha W 0 Comment
For three innocuous drawings, Rachita Taneja is accused of having “shaken the public trust and confidence in the judicial system of [India’s] constitutional democracy
Following last month’s Indian supreme court decision to authorize a “contempt” case against a New Delhi-based cartoonist over a series of cartoons satirising the court, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the judges in charge of the case to respect the right to free speech as proclaimed in India’s constitution and to dismiss these absurd proceedings.
The supreme court gave the go-ahead on 18 December for contempt of court proceedings against Rachita Taneja in connection with three cartoons on her @SanitaryPanels Twitter page, where she has been commenting on Indian politics for the past six years.
The proceedings are the result of a complaint filed by Aditya Kashyap, a member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s student wing, claiming that Taneja had “shaken the public trust and confidence in the judicial system of our constitutional democracy by directly attacking and making insinuations against the Supreme Court of India.”
Taneja has been asked to submit a written defence which the court will examine on 29 January. If found guilty, she could be sentenced to up to six months in prison.
“We call on the supreme court’s judges to drop the absurd charges they have allowed to be brought against Rachita Taneja, who just exercised her right to freedom of expression as guaranteed by article 19 of the 1950 constitution,” said Daniel Bastard, the head of RSF’s Asia-Pacific desk. “It is very shocking to see India’s highest court stoop to harassing a cartoonist on the pretext of a spurious contempt of court case when the cartoons were completely inoffensive.”
Innocuous
Posted on 7 August, 11 November and 12 November respectively, the three cartoons are very innocuous. The first parodies an exchange of favours between a judge and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The second shows the flag of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh – the Hindu nationalist militia of which the BJP is a political offshoot – flying over the supreme court building. And the third refers to a supreme court decision concerning a journalist with the pro-BJP Republic TV channel.
Contempt of court proceedings are increasingly used to silence journalists and commentators who refer critically to the judicial system. Those targeted have included the political commentator and comedian Kunal Kamra, who was accused of contempt in December over a series of satirical tweets about the supreme court.
As RSF reported at the time, Shillong Times newspaper editor Patricia Mukhim and publisher Shobha Chaudhuri were each fined 200,000 rupees (2,600 euros) in March 2019 for contempt of court because of an article drawing attention to a court directive on benefits for retired judges in Meghalaya, the northeastern state where they are based.
India is ranked 142nd out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2020 World Press Freedom Index.
Source: https://rsf.org/en/news/indian-cartoonist-could-be-jailed-cartoons-about-indias-supreme-court
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Randi was invited to participate in The Mad Ones Lab as a director. The Lab facilitates collaboration with folks around the globe to form teams, who each created a digital short adaptation of an assigned section of The Mad Ones. Randi directed a watercolor animation version of the song Moving on, with vocals by Renan Teodoro, Alexandra Desuze, Jenna Kuerzi, and Sidney Houck. Sound design and film editing by Damien Figueras. The Lab culminated in a digital showcase, launching November 8th, in which audiences can watch the full musical, with each section of the show having been created by a different team. This showcase platform is The Mad Ones Engine, and is available for viewing at engine.themadonesmusical.com
The Mad Ones' story of two girls in a car overcoming their grief has inspired a bestselling cast album, thousands of performance videos, viral fan-art, and over 20 million views.
www.themadonesmusical.com
Text & Stories by The Ensemble & Matthew Arnold
Arrangements by Damien Figueras
"But often, in the world's most crowded streets,
But often, in the din of strife,
There rises an unspeakable desire
After the knowledge of our buried life;........”
The Buried Life was Randi's directorial return to Fringe! This immersive storytelling piece is a cabaret//gathering//soiree that adapts a poem by the same name for the stage. Inspired by The Life and Death Brigade, seven wayfaring friends hold an annual gathering to uncover their shared time capsule, take stock, and bury a piece of wisdom for their future selves.
Now We Are Six
directed & conceived by Randi Alexis Hickey
book & score by The Ensemble & Damien Figueras
An ensemble of six actors create an original, stage adaptation of A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. The piece explores the complexities and joys of growing [up]- whether we be six or eighty six. Six friends make their annual trip to Galleon's Lap to reconnect to the truest parts of themselves through a collection of songs, stories, and dances.
"Sitting there they could see the whole world spread out until it reached the sky, and whatever there was all the world over was with them at the Enchanted place on the very top of the Forest."
She Fool
by Francesca Piccioni and Randi Alexis Hickey
She, a modern clown, playfully navigates the misconceptions and misunderstandings of third-wave feminism, and how it manifests in media, relationships, and body image. Creators, Randi Alexis Hickey and Francesca Piccioni, grapple with She’s ignorance and curiosity as she seeks to find the truths behind feminism. As co-creator/directorial collaborator, Randi worked with performer, Francesca Piccioni, to collect first person stories from fellow artists and feminists and translate them into a solo clown piece. She Fool was performed as a part of Philadelphia's SoLow Fest.
by Ben Hennesy
"She. Rooted like old growth. He. Like soft wind, like a breeze."
Last July, in a span of 24 hours, At Sea was created in a room with two actors, a writer, and Randi as director, and then performed for the general public as a fully rehearsed, staged, and memorized short play. It is one of five plays created during The Sideways Mandate Experiment with Chalkboard Theatre Project.
21 artists. 24 hours. 5 world premiere plays.
*Representative projects listed*
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SHARE Predictability Is Dead: The Turbo Mercedes 190
Predictability Is Dead: The Turbo Mercedes 190
Ben Chandler and Paddy McGrath
31st July 2013 6 Comments
Energy. That’s what I feel when I talk to the owner of this Mercedes-Benz 190E. Although he’s just 22, Alexander Lindquist has managed to piece together an incredibly cool machine that’s nothing short of rowdy with an amazing sense of vigor. Cars for me should be an extension of someone’s personality and this Benz is exactly that. It would be easy to take a quick look at this car and not give it full respect for what it actually is. And you know what? I kind of like that. From some angles the car looks like just another stance-pleasing creation. But that’s not the case. I promise it’s not.
For me personally, the recent car features on Speedhunters have been some of the most interesting ever shown on the site. Not just because of the the extreme nature of the builds, but also down to the discussion which some of these machines have provoked. I always think that there’s one thing – and one thing only – that matters about all of this car building malarky and this is fun.
I don’t know about you, but my passion for cars goes in waves – sometimes I can think about nothing else at all and my mind builds multiple cars on a daily basis. Then every now and then, usually when things aren’t going quite to plan with a project, I question why I am in this game at all. If you’re ever having a slump then you only need to hit up a quality event to get inspired again. It’s things like this DTM-style exhaust that make my mind go mental. Immediately I want to buy a car from the 1990s and incorporate a pair of upswept exhaust tips into the build.
When it came to the promotion of creativity, Gatebil was a very positive experience. Alex kindly brought his car along to the event where it sat on the Speedhunters stand for a weekend that was full of awesome. As you can see Paddy couldn’t wait to shoot this car and pulled it away from the stand, into the crowd slightly, and made up his own personal feature car location right in everyone’s way – you gotta love the Irish!
What anyone at all thinks of your car should not be important. As long as you are enjoying the build and the resulting driving experiences which come as part and parcel of creating these automotive dreams, then surely that is all that matters?
It seems to me that the Scandinavians are far too busy building, driving and having fun with their cars to give a single care about anything else at all. And it’s this attitude that makes every moment that you’re submersed in car culture over in Scandinavia an awesome one. I’ve just finished up reading Larry and Brad’s epic ‘Attack Mode Enabled’ story on MI Performance’s BMW 5 Series E34, which I’ve been really looking forward to. Brad really nailed it with the opening line of that feature when he said: ‘If there’s one thing our look into Scandinavian performance car culture over the past month has taught me, it’s to always expect the unexpected.’ This sentence could not be any more on-point when it comes to Alex’s Mercedes…
… and the gargantuan turbo that I never expected to see in the engine bay of a Mercedes 190E. I really do love Scandinavia!
This is a serious forced induction device, and that Holset HX52 turbo is surely too big for a 22-year old? Which kind of got me thinking…
… this whole car is a celebration of what is exciting about building cars when you are young.
Personally, I just cannot get overly excited about builds that incorporate parts that have been brought together for the sake of box ticking. Predictability in the automotive world, and of course life in general, is tedious. Don’t get me wrong, we need people who live on the safer side of unexciting so as builds like this one can stand out. In its current guise, this Mercedes is not going to set the fastest time around a race track or lay down record-breaking quarter mile times. The build of this 190E is in its infancy. And, much like his car, Alex too is at the beginning of a very long and exciting automotive life of adventure.
In my short time as a Speedhunter I have enjoyed the experience of encountering cars at different stages of their life. Some have seen a few much action and abuse, some are unfinished and a handful of cars have literally just been completed. Like many, Alex had worked hard to get his car complete for the Gatebil event. It just required some final mapping to the motor and a few other tweaks before it was ready, hence why it didn’t get any track time. I love fresh builds and I wonder what the front end of Alex’s 190 will look like in a few years time? Hopefully the motor will ensure that the business end of the Merc gets peppered in track debris during its next outing at Gatebil.
The project started in September for Alex and he has been in the garage working on his creation almost every night.
In January his daily BMW got sold to release some money so that he could carry on with the build he was passionate about. Everything has been a massive learning curve for this dedicated car creator.
At the beginning the 190 had an M102.910 motor, which for those of you unfamiliar with Mercedes-Benz engine codes is a 1.8-litre lump that doesn’t make much power. Obviously it was really slow, and to make the car even less cool it even had a tow bar. The only time Alex used that tow bar was when he bought the new engine that you see in the bay now. The new M103 103.980 is a straight-six displacing 2960cc in factory form.
So was it hard to install? Well this was the first time Alex has ever built a motor and, like anything I guess, in the beginning it was a challenge. But, everything is possible if you really want to achieve it. I think it’s fair to say things are looking pretty good in this bay now.
The car itself has been rebuilt from scratch. Alex had a lot of rust to take care of and many hours were spent repairing all of the gaping holes. This is his first attempt at a really involved build and I love his attitude. Suspension-wise the 190 uses Bilstein B8 shock absorbers on all four corners with AP lowering springs from a R129. The front anti-roll bar is 28.5mm thick and came from a A124 300 24V, with the rear item sourced from a 190E 2.3-16 Evolution 1.
Although Alex had never welded before and as soon as all of the rust had been attended to, he made a start on the roll cage – another first. He’s the first to admit that some of the welds on his car aren’t that perfect, but they did become better as the build progressed. Alex joked with me that you can follow the welds and see where the cage starts!
Another innovative aspect of the build is the cooling system, which Alex has designed and created himself. It has yet to be tested with the car at full noise, but of course, this is all part of doing things in an outside-of-the-box fashion. I guess, once the motor is fully mapped Alex will find out how all of his ideas have come together.
The innards of the 190 are pure class. In keeping with the ago of the car, period styling is rife, and I’m a massive fan.
That Benetton steering wheel – just awesome.
Stepping back the details of the Momo Corse Extreme seat in carbon/Kevlar add a nice contrast to the fresh white bodywork, and are still perfectly in keeping with the rest of the build.
Another nicely chosen upgrade is the rolling stock. Dreamy 17-inch OZ Racing Futura wheels measuring 9.0 inches wide at the front and 10.5 inches wide at the rear are bang on the money.
The reason for selecting this engine was simple: it’s understated and people do not expect mad power from a Mercedes. These are just old engines now but 700hp is no problem. Plus they’re extremely cheap and reliable. For such a young guy Alex sure does have a bright head on his shoulders. In just a short time he’s built a motor with his own hands and clearly is on a mission to create some awesome motor vehicles. Keep an eye out for this kid.
Like Brad highlighted, the Scandinavians do not do the expected. I can’t wait to get back over to there and hopefully I can see how this Mercedes 190 is evolving. Predictability does not exist in Scandinavia and that alone makes it worth a trip to an event in this amazing part of the world. Sure a can of Coke might be $5 (I joke not) but the experience is absolutely priceless.
Words by Ben Chandler
Twitter: @Ben_SceneMedia
Instagram: @ben_scenemedia
Photos by Paddy McGrath
Twitter: @PaddyMcGrathSH
Instagram: speedhunters_paddy
paddy@speedhunters.com
Alexander Lindquist’s Mercedes-Benz 190E
M103 103.980 2960cc, standard bottom, pistons, rods, match-ported head with standard camshaft and dbilas valve springs, Elring head gasket, OEM head bolts, modified manifold for Bosch 1680cc injectors, custom fuel rail, 500x350x76mm Intercooler, 3″ piping, Marmander blow-off-valve, Turbobanditen stainless exhaust manifold, Holset HX52, 60mm wastegate, 4″ stainless downpipe and 3.5″ exhaust, oil cooler, KL-Racing 044 fuel pump x2, 13mm feed line, 11mm return, 19L fuel cell, rear-mounted radiator, 16″ cooling fan, Bosch Motorsport coil pack, Vems ECU, running on E85 with 2-bar of boost.
Getrag 717.404 dog-leg 5-speed gearbox, lightened and balanced flywheel by DLI-Teknik, 4-puck sintered clutch, Sachs 765 pressure plate, ASD differential from W124, 2.5-16V ASD driveshafts.
Bilstein B8 shock absorbers, shortened AP springs from R129, Dibed camber plates, R129 wheel hubs, Hedgehog polyurethane control arm bushings, delrin subframe bushes, 28.5mm front anti-roll bar, 13mm rear, S124 drop links, stiffened subframe and rear top mounts.
Brembo 4-piston calipers, EBC YellowStuff pads, 330mm drilled discs (front), ATE 2-piston calipers, EBC YellowStuff pads, 300mm discs (rear), steel braided brake hoses, rear mounted ABS, hydraulic handbrake.
OZ Futura 17×9-inch (front) and 17×10,5-inch (rear) with Federal EVO 595 215/40R17 (front) and Federal SS-595 235/40R17 (rear).
Full 2.3/2.5-16 body kit, shaved front fenders, custom DTM-splitter, red tail lights, white turning lights.
Full roll cage, stripped interior, Momo Corse Extreme seat in carbon fibre, Momo Benetton F1 steering wheel, STR 6P harness, 2.3/2.5-16V centre console.
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I like how you say that he only used his towbars once. Frankly, I've seen that a lot of times. I wish there were a lot more opportunities, but I'm a Boy Scout. Be Prepared, that's my motto. If you only ever use it once, it was still worth having.
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IN SEARCH OF LOST ARK. BY FABIAN MASSA.
De Asesor Fabian Massa - marzo 26, 2017
Translated from Spanish to English with Google Translator.
In chapter XIII of the book "DE EDÉN A LAS NACIONES [1]" we deal with the subject of expeditions, some serious and some not so much, in search of Noah's Ark. Here the extract:
Were there serious archaeological expeditions to search for the Ark? Summary of alleged archaeological discoveries of the Noah's Ark.
All the information on this point was extracted from the Internet, for free, there are references to the footer indicating the websites.
Archeological Expeditions [2]
Marco Polo wrote in his book The Travels of Marco Polo: "In the heart of the Ararat Mountains, there is a cup-shaped mountain where tradition says that the Ark of Noah rests ..."
In 1616 Sir Walter Raleigh in his book History of the World, dedicates several chapters to the subject of the Ark, locating its possible place in Mount Orient.
In 1829 Dr. Loro led a campaign in Ararat, which he later described in his book Viaje al Ararat, where he emphasized that the inhabitants of the whole region believed in the existence of the Ark stranded in one of the mountains. Ron Wyatt, in the 1990s (1990) also visited the area and on the official website of the Wyatt Foundation [5] publishes the same statement as Dr. Loro.
In 1876 the historian James Bryce ascended to Ararat and found a piece of wood which he attributed to the Ark.
In 1883 the British Prophetic Messenger Ministry reported that Turkish soldiers reported that they had sometimes seen the Ark.
In 1916, Vladimir Rosskowizky, a Russian explorer, claimed to have found a boat half-buried under ice at an altitude of 4 000 masl [6] on Mount Ararat. Shortly before the Russian Revolution overthrew it, Tsar Nicholas II sent an expedition that ratified the discovery of the Ark and extracted evidence that was considered as definitive. The Soviet Revolution [7] and the end of the tsarist regime caused that evidence to be lost forever.
After World War II, former astronaut James Irwin [7] led seven expeditions to Ararat, but he could not find anything. That same year, Aaron Smith, dean of the University of the Peoples Bible (Greensboro, North Carolina, USA) was not successful in his expedition either.
After World War II, many climbers or explorers have reported seeing or finding fragments of the Ark near the top of Mount Ararat, in addition to several documentaries, some quite serious about the subject, including satellite tracking and photos taken At high altitude. Explorations have been limited because the geopolitical situation of the area (especially during the Cold War [9]) has prevented the authorization of promotions by countries that converge or have converged in their geographical boundaries with the Ararat area: Armenia, Iran, Turkey (current) and former member countries of the old USSR
In 1949, a Turkish-American expedition photographed what would be known in the future as the "Anomaly of Ararat".
In 1955 news came again about its alleged discovery when a French alpinist named Fernand Navarra claimed to have observed a wooden structure at more than 4 000 meters above sea level and identified as Noah's Ark. In addition, he provided a black wooden crossbar.
In 1959, the Turkish aviator İlhan Durupınar photographed what he believed was the trace of a boat between some ice fields in Ararat. Later it would be known as the Ararat Anomaly. This anomaly is an unusual geological formation that seems to have been depositary of the ark, since it presents / displays the form of a ship as they are known at the moment and whose measures are quite similar to those described in the Bible. This geological anomaly found at 4 600 m altitude in the Iranian sector was identified, in turn, in 1974 by satellites.
The most recent expedition, in 2010, was composed of Chinese and Turkish researchers who assured, (99.99%) that they had found an important portion of the vessel. Such discoveries included a compartmentalized section of wood dated by the method of carbon 14 (C14) in 4,800 years and which could have housed animals, since it looked like a manger. Nevertheless, at the same time that the discovery was announced, a group of Christian scientists assured that it was a fraudulent assembly in cooperation with the peasantry of the zone.
Material extracted from the book "DE EDÉN A LAS NACIONES". To read more or to acquire the same, enter in:
(Spanish Edition)
Https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ed%C3%A9n-Las-Naciones-estudio-cap%C3%ADlules-ebook/dp/B06XG9SWGC
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[1] "DE EDÉN A LAS NACIONES" ADRIAN PABLOS & FABIAN MASSA, EDITORIAL BOOKBABY, MARCH 2017. DIGITAL FORMAT SPANISH.
[2] http://www.wyattmuseum.com/; Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Wyatt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arca_de_No%C3%A9
[4] Sir Walter Raleigh (1554 - 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer.
[5] http://wyattmuseum.com/
[6] Msnm = meters above sea level.
The term Russian Revolution groups to all the events that led to the overthrow of the tsarist regime and to the prepared establishment of another, Leninist, then between February and October of 1917. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Revolución% C3% B3n_rusa
[8] James Benson Irwin was an American astronaut and the eighth man on the Moon. He was born on 17 March 1930 and died on 8 August 1991. In 1971 he participated in the Apollo 15 mission. In 1972 he founded the Christian religious group High Flight. He led seven successive expeditions to Mount Ararat in Turkey, in the fruitless search for Noah's Ark. Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Irwin
[9] The stage that followed the USA And the old U.R.S.S. From the end of World War II to 1991.
ARCA DE NOÉ, DILUVIO, EXPEDITIONS ARARAT.
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LA BATALLA DE BABEL. BY FABIÁN MASSA.
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The Sports Academic
For people who love sports and for people who love to hate them.
Sport as Socializing Agent
I would like to begin a conversation on sports acting as socializing activities. Scott and I have talked around this issue some in other posts and comments. The general theory is that sports serve the interests of society by teaching practitioners and spectators behaviors needed or prized in a given time and place. This means that the same sport may socialize practitioners and spectators differently when the historical and social contexts change.
Speaking generally, Victorian era British sports, for example, emphasize social etiquette and restraint. American sports, on the other hand, tend to blatantly defy British decorum and, in the case of baseball, attempt to erase European genealogy. Instead, craftiness (cheating?) and a dogged determination to win are prized. "Stealing," is even permissible.
I attended a "Philosphy of Sport" conference in England in 2004. Most of the attendees were European and I surprised some when I mentioned that in America, soccer is largely a sport for the upper middle class, played in wealthy suburbs. In Europe, it is a decidedly working class sport, and the matches often attract many disenfranchised, unemployed young men looking to take their anger out on the opposing team or its fans.
I offer these two general examples merely as primers. Over the next few weeks, I invite you to join me in analyzing the socializing effects of a number of sports and games: golf (yes, there is more to be said), tennis, soccer, baseball, fencing, trictrac, football, basketball, and maybe racquetball, rodeo, hockey, and others you might suggest.
Posted by Corry Cropper at 8:30 AM
It appears that soccer and beer have more in common that I would have supposed before reading this post. I read a case study in business school about InBev, the company that recently made and unsolicited offer to acquire Anheuser-Busch (ticker: BUD) for $46 billion. InBev produces Stella Artois beer, which is considered a working man's brew in Belgium (and the rest of Europe if I remember correctly). A la soccer, Stella Artois is marketed as a high end brand here in North America. Interestingly enough, Budweiser is marketed in the opposite manner -- a middle-income beer in the U.S. and a high-end import in Europe.
SM Sprenger said...
Seems like you need to make a clearer distinction about whether you're considering the social class of the players or that of the viewers. In Europe, football (soccer) cuts across ALL social classes. It seems to be a universally watched sport from the top to the bottom. As for players, sure: they come from lower classes. If it's middle to upper class kids who play in the US, it's because it's an "import". Imports always appeal to a certain snob factor. The same holds true for American football in Europe.
Corry Cropper said...
No question, there are fans from all levels of society, especially for international matches. But if you go to a stadium in France, particularly for a regular club match, you'll not see a lot of Lacoste... in fact, the name of the national team, "les bleus," is, beyond just the color of the jersey, a tribute to the French working class (blue is the color worn by French manual laborers). Look, too, at the origins of the sport: Rugby was played on elite British campuses, the embodiment of muscled Christianity; Soccer was played by the dock workers and in industrial towns. So I am speaking largely historically, here, but I think to a large extent the class distinction (in soccer) still generally holds true, even in France.
Corry,
Here's a post that had me thinking of your blog:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=weinreb/080625&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab6pos1
In this case, the public shaping the behavior of the athlete.
Derek said...
Cricket is another good example where classes clash on the field. In the British Empire it was historically a nobleman's game, even as the empire spread to India, Australia, South Africa, and the Indies. The National teams of today's industrialized nations are still mostly composed of the upper crust. The more impoverished nations - Pakistan, India, the West Indies are teams of men off of the street. This has even spread to the U.S. where most of the U.S. National team is taken from immigrants from these other countries. In England they play soccer on the streets and in the islands of the Caribbean it's cricket.
Elizabeth J. Neal said...
Bubble Soccer! What do you get when you put yourself and 9 of your friends in giant inflatable bubbles with one soccer ball? Something Awesome Thats What! bubble ball soccer
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Final Girls
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The thriller of the year! Come sink your blade into this slasher book with ALL the twists you really won't see coming.
Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to—a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who went up against the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape Pine Cottage and the man she refers to only as Him. The three girls are all attempting to put their nightmares behind them, and, with that, one another. Despite the media's attempts, they never meet.
Now, Quincy is doing well—maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. She has a caring almost-fiancé, Jeff; a popular baking blog; a beautiful apartment; and a therapeutic presence in Coop, the police officer who saved her life all those years ago. Her memory won’t even allow her to recall the events of that night; the past is in the past. That is, until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists slit, and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy's doorstep. Blowing through Quincy's life like a whirlwind, Sam seems intent on making Quincy relive the past, with increasingly dire consequences, all of which makes Quincy question why Sam is really seeking her out. And when new details about Lisa's death come to light, Quincy's life becomes a race against time as she tries to unravel Sam's truths from her lies, evade the police and hungry reporters, and, most crucially, remember what really happened at Pine Cottage, before what was started ten years ago is finished.
Final Girls - named by the horror industry as the only girl left alive after a massacre. In Quincy's world, there are three of them - the first being Lisa, the second being Sam and then Quincy. Quincy survived a night with her friends at Pine Cottage that was supposed to be a fun weekend. Stabbed and somehow left alive, Quincy's tried hard to make her life as normal as possible. With a successful blog on baking and an understanding boyfriend, she's moving forward as much as she can. For ten years she's managed with the blessing (?) that she remembers almost nothing about that night. But she does hold secrets on how she handles some of her post traumatic stress and she keeps that secret close to her chest.
Then one day, she gets a call that Lisa has been found dead in her bathtub and shortly after, Sam shows up on her doorstep. Bound by their survival stories, Lisa brings Sam into her home. Sam tests her and pushes her to remember and deal with her residual feelings of anger. But can Sam be trusted? Can she trust her own memories?
This book has been EVERYWHERE and it holds up to its hype. Written almost like a slasher film, it's taut, tense, action packed and keeps you on your toes. Trust me when I say that what you think it is, probably isn't... and it isn't THAT either. Flashing back to the night in question, we get a deep look into Quincy ten years ago and to her today - building up into a final reveal you really won't see coming. Riley Sager has a way of seamlessly building Quincy's world and everyone in it. I read this in one sitting and couldn't put it down. After turning the last page, I immediately went into conversations with others who have read it and we all readily agree - it's a shocker... and a good one! Already being touted as the thriller of the year, this book will be talked about for quite some time - get yourself a copy and join the conversation!
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Jessica's Thoughts:
Here is probably one of the most talked about thrillers of 2017 - and with good reason! When the King has a blurb on the cover, I'm drawn to it instantly. When he says this is the best thriller of 2017, then I need it! Riley Sager's debut FINAL GIRLS was an incredible thriller with a nonstop pace that had me flipping through pages.
Quincy, Lisa, and Sam are all Final Girls. All three are the survivors of horrific, horror movie worthy killings. Quincy was the only one to make it back from her vacation with five college friends. Lisa survived a knife attack when her nine sorority sisters did now. Sam went up against the Sack Man during her shift at work at the Nightlight Inn. Despite the constant attempts from the media, the three girls have not met. They just want to get on with their lives.
Quincy has finally gotten on with her life - a fiance, job, beautiful apartment, and her Xanax make for a great life. That is until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, from an apparent suicide. Sam, the second Final Girl, shows up on Quincy's doorstep and her world is turned upside down.
Quincy is our narrator, but we alternated between past and present to try and work through all the lies and buried memories. The characters were so well developed - you could relate to Quincy and she felt like a real person. The girls are multi-dimensional and as the story goes on we learn more and more about them. I loved how original this story was - a girl wandering out of the woods and covered in blood. That only happens in horror movies, right? Not for these Final Girls, that is only the beginning of their nightmares.
From the first page this book has you on the edge of your seat. If I didn't have work interrupting, then I would have easily read this in one sitting. The ending! Did not see that coming - I thought I could predict where things were going to end, but then a huge twist was thrown in. Sager tied together everything so well in this novel and I will be waiting for more from this author!
If you want an addictive thriller with nonstop suspense, then stop looking because this is the book you need!!
I give this 5/5 stars!
Sam's Thoughts:
Quincy Carpenter is the sole survivor of a massacre that killed six of her friends while they were on vacation at Pine Cottage ten years earlier. The media dubbed her one of the Final Girls; joining Lisa and Samantha, who were also survivors of murderous rampages. These girls screamed louder, ran faster and fought harder. They survived. Quincy is trying to move on with her life, and is doing well until Lisa is found with her wrists slit in her bathtub; an apparent suicide. Leaving Quincy reeling, Samantha shows up on her doorstep, making Quincy relive bits of her past that she has fought so hard to forget. As the details surrounding Lisa’s death become clearer, Quincy begins to unravel the truth, Sam’s truths and her own, to remember that night at Pine Cottage…the night she became a Final Girl.
Final Girls is the debut novel by Riley Sager. It is an intense, on the edge of your seat, completely addictive mystery thriller. I refuse to believe that this novel was a debut. It was that amazing. From the first page, I knew this would be a book that I would need to read in one sitting. I finished this one in an afternoon easily.
The concept for this novel is completely original; Quincy is a Final Girl, like the girls at the end of the horror movie who stumble out of the woods and flag down an unassuming vehicle. Except, that this was not a movie. This was her life. She stumbled out of the woods, covered in blood, and escaped becoming HIS (she will not speak his name) final victim that night at Pine Cottage. As she works through her past demons, she is surprised when Samantha, another Final Girl (having survived a massacre at a motel) arrives at her home. Sam quickly throws Quincy’s life upside down as she brings up past memories and calls into question everything that Quincy knows.
From the initial moments, this novel proves to be a suspenseful, engaging read. The plot was intricate and smart. The novel is narrated by Quincy, both in the present and in flashbacks to the past, before and after the massacre, as she tries to piece together her lost memories. This one has many twists and turns; I was left reeling. Just as I was beginning to understand what was happening or guess where Sager was leading me, it turned out to be a red herring and I was left baffled. By the ending of the novel, when all the pieces come together and the revelations are made, I was in complete shock.
I also loved the character development in this one. Quincy Carpenter is both tough and vulnerable. I loved watching her experience her survival’s guilt, struggle to deal with her loss and see the media circus that follows her. I also loved watching her piece together what happened that night.
Frankly, I believe that Final Girls by Riley Sager is a book that everyone will be talking about in 2017. I would also be shocked if this one didn't get picked up for its film rights. If you are a fan of the mystery/thriller genre, or just a fan of an extremely well-developed narrative, you’ll want to add this one to your TBR pile and pre-order lists. This one releases (and starts taking the literary world by storm) July 2017.
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Sometime in March three young Cheyenne attorneys will present oral arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States in a case that may change the organization of the Wyoming legislature for a generation.
It will be one of only 246 cases to be heard by the nation's highest court and it will be the first time any of the three lawyers have appeared there.
The case, officially known as Brown. v. Thomson, presents some intriguing issue on legislative representation. Should a county be entitled to a representative in the legislature regardless of its population? Are there unique circumstances that justify giving an area representation?
The focus of the case is Niobrara County in east central Wyoming next to the Nebraska border. With its county courthouse locate at Lusk, the county is rolling hills of grassland some small dryland farms. Now inhabited mostly by ranchers and small businessmen, the county was formed in 1911 from part of Converse County the west. Originally settled by ranchers who took notice of the cattle country along the route of the Cheyenne-Deadwood stage road, real growth came when the railroad built through the southern third of the present-day county in 1885-86. Homesteaders and businessmen were joined by oil workers in the years before World War I when the Lance Creek oil fields in the county were among the most productive in the U. S.
with roughly the same land area as Laramie County, the population today is barely that of one Cheyenne neighborhood--2,924 people. During the same period that neighboring Converse County (Douglas) had a population boom of 137 percent, Niobrara was the only county in the sate to show no growth from 1970-80. The oil fields were no longer active and unlike nearby Campbell or Converse counties, there is coal in Niobrara.
Until recently, even future prospects for growth appeared dim. Nearly one person in six is over 65 years old, compared with just one in 12 in Laramie County. The average age in Niobrara is the highest of any county in the state.
Despite the small population, Niobrara County residents have exerted great influence over Wyoming. As late at the mid-1970s, two of the five top elected officials were Niobrarans. It was partially through the efforts of one of these, State Treasurer Jim Griffith, that the site of the new women's correctional center is Lusk. It is just one project that will bring more people to their county, Niobrarans believe.
Had the population of the rest of Wyoming remained static like it had in the previous two decades, Niobrara County's decline would have been barely noticed, even by the state legislature. But this time, when the calculation were made for representation, it was determined that one legislative seat would be allotted for each 7,453 people, with fractions of that total rounded to the nearest whole number.
The formula worked for 22 counties, including Sublette with 4,548 people which had only 62.1 percent of the population necessary for a legislator. Nonetheless, when rounded to the nearest whole number, Sublette still rated one legislator.
But not so Niobrara.
The county's population was just 39 percent of the necessary number. Rounded to the nearest whole number, it gave Niobrara zero legislators.
During the legislative discussion of the issue, the House decided Niobrara could share a legislator with it southern neighbor. Goshen County, which had a population six times larger--12,040.
The Wyoming League of Women Voters has a membership of about 450 people. Watching over the legislative deliberations on apportionment were League members concerned that like in two prior apportionments, equality would not be fairly observed. In both earlier instances (1960 and 1970) the League did not become actively involved because other organizations handled the litigation for "equitable representation."
"When the House combined Niobrara with Goshen to get the number fairly equitable, it wasn't a perfect solution," Margaret Brown, then president of the League said. "But was one we could live with."
But Niobrarans believed the House action was not something they could live with and before the issue came up for debate in the Senate, it seemed that half of the county was in the Capital City lobbying to save their legislative seat.
Badges, similar to those worn by lobbyists, seemed to sprout from every lapel. It proclaimed in red letters, "Save Niobrara." One observer who was new to the state said he thought the badges were a sign of support the protection of "some rare and endangered species." Niobrarans agree with that--the endangered species was their legislator.
A decade ago the county lost its sole state senator when the county was combined with Converse County to form one senatorial district. This time around, county residents were in no mood to have a share a House seat with an adjacent county, too.
The lobbying effort worked. The State Senate refused to go along with the House plan. Niobrara had to have at least one legislator, the upper house argued. As the clock was ticking off the final hours of the legislative session, the House and Senate still couldn't agree on what to do about Niobrara. It was the last act of the session when the Senate and House agreed on a compromise--Niobrara could have one legislator, as long as it was not challenged on constitutional grounds in which case the rest of the apportionment would not be affected by the result of the lawsuit. One extra chair would added for Niobrara.
Prior the session, the League of Women Voters already had gone record "In favor of one man, one vote," Brown said. The decision then had to be made at the 450-member organization's annul meeting whether it would take legal action "to carry out our positions," Brown said, adding that the organization "knew it would be an expensive case for us--a very low budget group."
The prohibitively expensive legal fees were avoided when Sue Davidson, a Cheyenne attorney with the firm of Urbigkit and Whitehead, offered to take the case for no fee as long the League raised sufficient funds in donation to pay the court expenses.
A native of Laramie, Davidson was graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1974 and took her J.D. degree in law from UW in 1978. She said she viewed the case as essentially one of "equitable representation," pointing to the Supreme Court decisions allowing no more than a ten percent differential between population in state legislative district. She questioned the exception made for Niobrara County. "The Constitution specifically prohibits local laws such as that exception," she noted.
While the League was attempting to bring the case to court, Richard Barrett (grandson of one Niobrara County's most famous citizens, the late Senator and Governor Frank Barrett, and son of 10th Circuit Judge James Barrett), received a letter from the League addressed to all members of the Wyoming State Bar. "The League was soliciting help with the reapportionment case and they made some disparaging remarks about Niobrara County that really made me angry," Barrett said.
Born in Lusk in 1952, Barrett moved with the family to Cheyenne when his father was named the state
attorney general in 1967. He graduated from the University of Wyoming with a degree in journalism in 1973 and graduated from the UW College of Law in 1977.
"I wrote a scathing letter to the president of the organization (Brown) and then sent copies to several other people," Barrett said. One copy of his letter ended up in print on the editorial page of the Lusk Herald. A few days later, several county residents contacted him at his Cheyenne offices (the firm of Hathaway, Speight and Kunz) and asked him to file as an intervening party in the suit brought by the League. "Well, I guess so," Barrett told them, still angry with the League's letter.
The League brought the suit in U S. District Court in Cheyenne. Named as defendant in the case was the state's election board. Secretary of State Thyra Thomson chairs the board and, consequently, her name is on the suit as defendant.
Because the suit was against the state, the attorney general's office furnished counsel for the defendant. As a result, Randall Cox, another young lawyer, was assigned the case.
A three-judge federal panel heard the case in March 1982. Presiding judge was Ewing T. Kerr. Other judges hearing the case were U. S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer and U. S. District Judge William Doyle (who sits on the federal bench in Colorado).
Davidson set forth the League's position in simple terms: the reapportionment plan violates one-man, one-vote. Cox, for the state, responded it was a rational state policy to maintain the integrity of county representation districts.
But the interveners "took over the case," Brown notes.
Numerous witnesses were called to testify about Niobrara County's "uniqueness." Former State Senate President James Thompson testified about the improbability of any Niobrara resident being elected to the House should the county be combined with a larger neighbor. High school librarian Dorothy Lohr testified about the problems Niobrara had in breaking away from Converse County in 1911. The witnesses kept drumming the theme-- "Niobrara IS a unique area that sets it apart from other counties."
When the court's decision was announced some weeks later, Davidson said she wass "surprised." The court unanimously upheld the state's position. Niobrara could keep its legislator, the court said. Barrett was ecstatic over the result although he and other legal experts knew the League might appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.
"The expense of conducting the appeal was going to be high,' Brown said. "but the League knew it was necessary.' The $2,500 charge for trial transcripts is one indication of the high cost of the litigation, Brown said.
And the League appealed. "We were not picking on Niobrara County, she argued. "It just happened that Niobrara County was first."
"Niobrara County people kept saying the legislature was taking away their representation," Brown said. "It was not the case at all. That's the last thing the League would ever stand for. They'd still have representation," Brown asserted.
Barrett agrees that Niobrara might well be first--"the first small county to lose their representatives if the League were to prevail." He asserts that "if this sort of thing were allowed to happen, all of the legislature would be from Casper, Rock Springs, Gillette and the large towns and none of the smaller counties would have their own representative."
Brown views Barrett's argument as specious. "A legislator's job is to represent all of his constituents regardless of where they live," she said. She pointed to the Carbon County delegation in the last legislature. "Until this election, we had no representative from Rawlins. My nearest legislator was 75 miles away in Baggs, Encampment or on the Sweetwater. If I lived in Shirley Basin, they would have been even further from me, and right in my own county," she said. ""We aren't taking away Niobrara's representation. We'll just saying that people in Washakie County deserved similar representation. (Washakie, with 9,496 people, stood to possibly pick up one seat had Niobrara been combined with Goshen County for legislative representation).
Brown said the decision to bring the suit "didn't hurt the membership of the League." She said as many people joined the League over the issue as dropped out the organization because of the stand.
Counsel for all parties are unsure of what the court may rule. "You can't second-guess the Supreme Court on cases like this," Cox said. Davidson said she believes the court might rule on the constitutionality of multi-member districts although it is not part of the League's case. Brown said the League would favor such a result. Under the present multi-member district concept, as many as five Laramie County legislators live in one neighborhood in north Cheyenne while not one of the nine legislators live in the south side, for example. A similar situation also exists in Natrona County.
Attorney Cox disagrees. "Subdistricting is not an issue in the case and I would doubt that if it were dragged in, kicking and screaming, the court would rule on it. He said multi-member districts have never been declared unconstitutional by the court and because Wyoming has never had a history of subdistricting, the court would never order it in this case.
A 1981 University of Wyoming College of Law graduate, Cox said the state's case will be argued a little differently than it was before the District Court.
"We pointed out prior cases in the lower court," he said. "Before the Supreme Court, we will concentrate more on the trends in equal protection." He said there is no evidence of discrimination on the part of legislators who gave Niobrara the seat. "The legislature can hardly be charged with discriminating against their own constituents," he added. He dismissed the League's "numerical" argument by pointing to the context for those types of decisions. When you look behind those particular reapportionment acts, it is clear that racial discrimination is involved," Cox said. The situation does not apply the Niobrara case at all, he concluded.
"No more than two cases per year ever go to the U. S. Supreme Court from Wyoming," Cox said. "That doesn't give much opportunity for any lawyer to appear before that body," he pointed out. The Niobrara litigation will be his first Supreme Court appearance as well as the first for Davidson and Barrett.
Davidson concluded that she was very confident that the court would rule in the League's favor. "Our position is based solidly on past precedent," she stated.
Barrett is equally confident that his home county still will have its own legislator once the Supreme Court decision is announced.
A few things have changed since the case was brought early last year. Brown is longer president of the Wyoming League of Women Voters. She is a newly elected Republican legislator from traditionally Democratic Carbon County. One of the interveners has a different status now, too. Niobrara County's sole legislator whose job was in jeopardy because of the League case does not have to worry about losing his seat because of an adverse decision. Rep. Russ Thompson was defeated for reelection in November by Mel Zumbrunnen, a political independent who shares similar views on the Niobrara issue.
Such are the ironies of politics, the law, and case of Niobrara County v. The League of Women Voters.
Editor's Note (March 3, 2018): The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the State/Intervenor position and Niobrara retained its representative. The victory proved to be temporary. After the next census in 1990, the 100-year-old method of at-large county representation was changed to single-member districts. In the opinion of this writer, the overall access to representation has diminished steadily under the new system--not only for Niobrara County, but for most of the counties in the state.
--Phil Roberts
Opinions expressed herein are solely those of the writer. Copyright Wyoming Almanac. All rights reserved.
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Dr. Imogen Coe is the inaugural Dean of Science at Ryerson University, a respected scientist working in the area of cell biology, and a leading champion in the area of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Imogen is a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences and events across the world and has brought a great deal of awareness about EDI matters to myself and countless others.
As a gay mathematician without role models, I’ve always looked up to Imogen as she helped pave the way for myself and others to stand up and speak out on EDI issues. She’s worked tirelessly for six years as Dean to bring fresh perspectives on items such as equitable faculty hiring practices, running inclusive conferences, and showcasing EDI STEM heroines and heroes. When the movie Hidden Figures (about African-American mathematicians and scientists at NASA in the 1960s) came out, Imogen hosted a screening of the film for faculty, students and staff at Ryerson. I have great memories watching the movie with my husband and a diverse swath of colleagues from across campus.
If you haven’t seen it, check out Imogen’s TEDx talk on EDI in STEM.
Endings are beginnings
Imogen has been Dean of Science for six years, and she decided not to seek an additional term as Dean. Having completed nine years in administrative-type roles at universities, I fully respect her decision. A scientist of her calibre and advocate of her profile has many career options.
While visiting colleagues on my sabbatical this past year, I thought about some kind of personalized gift I could give Imogen as a token of my respect and admiration. I’d heard about the card deck STEM: Epic Heroes, which portrays famous scientists, mathematicians, and engineers as superheroines and heroes in a card game. Limetown Studios in Brazil, headed by Amanda Duarte, were the artists who worked on the cards. Below are two of the cards, featuring famed mathematicians Emmy Noether and Alan Turing.
I discovered on Limetown’s website that they do commissioned portraits. I reached out to Amanda who said they could make a superheroine-type card for Imogen. The final result is fantastic.
Commissioned portrait of Imogen Coe. Artist: Limetown Studios.
How the portrait unfolded
I sent Amanda source material about Imogen, including a link to her TEDx talk, a video about her research, and links to her Twitter account where Imogen frequently posts. I also sent these two images, one of a younger Imogen and one as the Dean I’ve come to know.
Imogen in the lab.
A playful picture of Imogen as Dean with Faculty of Science colleagues that helped inspire the portrait.
From there, Amanda came back with two sketches representing places the portrait could go.
I liked the first image (on the left), so we worked with that one. Amanda came back with the final sketch, which added facial features and other details. The artists added some cool imagery (the molecular chain between Imogen’s hands) taken from her papers.
I asked for phrases “EDI” and “women in STEM” to be somehow incorporated into the picture. Amanda came back with the final portrait, adding colors, and I was so impressed by the high quality of their work. Notice the superheroine-type EDI badge on her lab coat!
I posted the image and some background on Twitter, and to my joy and relief, Imogen loved it:
OMG – this is amazing! I love this! And exactly how I imagine myself 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you SO MUCH………. I'm not crying – not even slightly – I've just got something in my eye…..
— Imogen Coe 🏳️🌈 (@RySciDean) June 7, 2018
Why superheroines matter
Our culture is saturated with movies and television shows portraying heroic male superheroes. From Captain America to James Bond to Rick Grimes, men are the default for fierce, influential leaders who routinely save the day.
Scientists are rarely viewed as heroines or heroes, although movies like Hidden Figures and The Imitation Game are great recent counterexamples. I wrote a short story about the famed historical mathematician Emmy Noether, where she has to help save the future world from destruction. For me, this was a way to honor Noether and give her agency she was often denied in life.
My goal in commissioning the portrait of Imogen as a superheroine was not only to pay homage to her but to showcase an amazingly talented woman in STEM that people might not otherwise know. We need more of that in our culture. Young girls will continue to be inspired by Imogen and the women in STEM like her, who are forging a path for them to dream and be whoever they want to be.
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My name is Brea, and I am Imogen’s daughter. I just wanted to thank you for commissioning this portrait of my mother. Although I was raised by two scientists, I am a Liberal Arts major (much to my mothers dismay) and have a great imagination and appreciation for heroes and heroines.
Seeing my mother commemorated in this way brought tears to my eyes, and having another person view her as a hero as much as I do, is amazing.
Thank you for being you, and continuing the equity and diversity in science.
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Advances in Mungbean Breeding
Published: 2020.07.10
Received: 2019.05.28
Accepted: 2020.07.10
Ramakrishnan Madhavan Nair
World Vegetable Center, India
Mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek var. radiata), also known as green gram is an important warm season food legume crop, with major production in Asia. The crop is expanding to Sub Sahran Africa and other parts of the world due to its short crop duration (60 days) and due to the ability of the crop to fit into different cropping systems. The breeding efforts in mungbean are coordinated through the International Mungbean Improvement Network led by the World Vegetable Center and funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). New lines with resistance to Mungbean Yellow Mosaic Disease (MYMD) and to storage insect pest bruchids have been developed for testing by farmers. The mungbean mini-core collection of 296 accessions is proving to be a good source of resistance to pests and diseases, and is currently being field tested in Asia and in Sub Saharan Africa (with funding from UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID). The promising accessions identified will be utilized in the breeding program to broaden the genetic base of mungbean. Efforts are in progress to accelerate the adoption of improved varieties and Good Agricultural Practices among farmers with the help of national partners.
Keywords: Mungbean, Nutrition, Consumer, Agronomic traits, Disease, Pest, Environmental stress
Mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek var. radiata) is an important food (Table 1) and cash crop in the cereal based farming systems in Asia and in Sub Saharn Africa. Short crop duration, low input requirement and high global demand make mungbean an ideal rotation crop for smallholder farmers. It generates a triple benefit: additional income, additional nutrient-rich food, and increased soil fertility.
Currently mungbean is grown in over 7.2 million ha, with a productivity of about 750 kg/ha (Nair and Schreinemachers, unpublished data). The current yield levels of mungbean are low and vary from 0.5-1.5 t/ha. Genetic improvement is one of the strategies to raise the productivity levels. The International Mungbean Improvement Network funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and led by the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) coordinates the mungbean research and is aimed to unlock the potential of mungbean to improve system productivity and livelihoods. The network aims to: 1) strengthen local mungbean research (India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Australia), 2) improve access to mungbean genetic diversity for researchers to source traits required for future elite varieties, 3) develop improved mungbean germplasm and elite lines combining key pest and disease resistance traits with abiotic stress tolerance and desirable agronomic traits and provide these materials to farmers for participatory selection. Selected lines will be channelled into variety release pipelines by the project partners. In the target countries, national entities and private sector organizations have been identified that are willing to take-up the improved lines. These partners include ministry departments, extension services, agricultural research entities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and seed companies.
Table 1. Protein, carbohydrate, starch, amylase, and energy content of mungbean grains compared to other pulse crops.
(g/100g)
Carbohydrate (g/100g)
Starch (%)
Amylose
(as % of starch content)
Energy (kcal/100g)
Pigeonpea
Sources: Adapted from review by Ofuya and Akhidue (2005); USDA (2010) National Nutrient Database (http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/), Chung et al (1998); Nair et al (2013)
NUTRITIONAL TRAITS
Mungbean is a good source of protein (24 g/100 g), carbohydrates (63 g/100 g), and a range of micronutrients in diets (Table 1). Mungbean has added advantage compared to other legumes that both protein and carbohydrates are easily digestible and create less flatulence. Phytic acid is commonly found in cereal and legume crops and has a negative impact on iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) bioavailability in plant-based diets. The lower phytic acid concentration (2.6–3.8 g/kg) in mungbean compared to other pulses may lead to increased bioavailability of micronutrients (Nair et al 2015). Due to its palatable taste and nutritional quality, mungbean has been used as Fe-rich whole food source for baby food. Mungbean lines which have the capacity for improved uptake of iron from the soil have been identified by WorldVeg (Nair et al 2015) and these lines have been utilized in the breeding program for improving the iron contant in commercial varieties. The nutrient content of mungbean depends on several factors including the variety used, the location where the crop was grown, agronomic practices adopted and the storage conditions. In addition, postharvest processes such as sprouting, dehulling, soaking, boiling, autoclaving and microwave cooking can affect the composition of nutritional and anti-nutritional factors of mungbean. There is need to increase the awareness about the nutritional value of mungbeans among the communities in mungbean-exporting countries like Myanmar to increase the domestic consumption. This is also true in East African countries like Uganda and in West Africa.
Mungbean is consumed in various ways including as dry grains (whole or split) as dahl, cooked with sugar to make a sweet desert, as bean sprouts, as transparent noodles, bean paste as sweets, powder as weaning food and as other health foods. The consumers may have particular preferences for grain size, seed coat luster (shiny or dull), and seed coat color (green or yellow). For instance, in the Indian sub-continent, consumers tend to prefer shiny green grains, while shiny yellow grains are preferred in some parts of India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Dull green grains are preferred by consumers in Indonesia, Taiwan, Kenya and Tanzania. Large seed size was a preferred trait during farmer participatory evaluation of mungbeans in the semi-arid environments of Eastern Kenya (Karimi et al 2019). Dhaiya et al. (2015) indicated that more knowledge of the food processing properties of mungbean could lead to the development of new value-added products from mungbean
AGRONOMIC TRAITS
Extra-early maturity (50-55 days), early maturity (about 60-65 days) and medium maturity (70-75 days) types have been developed based on the requirement of the farming system (Table 2). For example, mungbeans grown as a rotation crop following rice and wheat in the Indo-Gangetic Plains prefer extra-early or early maturting varieties. Developing high yielding (> 2 t/ha) types with synchronous maturity are also priority traits in the program Early maturity, high yield, non-shattering pods and ease in threshing were the farmer preferred traits during participatory evaluation of mungbeans in the semi-arid environments of Eastern Kenya (Karimi et al. 2019).
Among the diseases, susceptibility of varieties to Mungbean Yellow Moasic Disease (MYMD) is one of the major constraints for improving productivity, particularly in Asia. This disease is caused by several begomoviruses which are transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae). A study conducted in India by Nair et al (2017) found that the indigenous B. tabaci cryptic species Asia II 1 was dominant in Northern India, whereas Asia II 8 was predominant in Southern India. The above authors established that Mungbean yellow mosaic virus strains genetically most similar to a strain from urdbean (MYMV-Urdbean) was predominant in North India, strains most similar to MYMV-Vigna was predominant in South India, and Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus (MYMIV) strains was predominant in Eastern India. The variety NM 94, which is known for its resistance to MYMD, was found to be susceptible to the MYMV-Urdbean strain. However, the authors found high level of tolerance in mungbean line, ML 1628, which has been used in the development of new improved lines (see Table 2).
Fungal diseases that affect mungbean include species of the genera Fusarium (wilt), Rhizoctonia (wet root rot), and Macrophomina (dry root rot) during seed/seedlings stages (seed-borne or soil borne), while species of the genera Colletotrichum (anthracnose), Alternaria and Cercospora (leaf spot), Erysiphe/Podospheara (Sphaerotheca) (powdery mildew) during vegetative and reproductive stages (Pandey et al 2018). Different research groups have identified major resistant genes (R genes) and quantitative trait loci (QTL) for resistance to powdery mildew and Cercospora leaf spot, for potential Marker Assisted Selection (MAS). The recent screening of the mungbean mini-core collection of 296 accessions (Schafleitner et al 2015) has provided us with very promising results for both pests and disease resistance. For example, out of the 296 accessions, one accession was highly resistant, 28 were resistant, 124 were moderately resistant, 62 were moderately susceptible, 75 were susceptible and 6 accessions were highly susceptible for resistance to dry root (by paper towel method). Confirmation of the resistance by using the sick plot method is in progress. Evaluation of the mini-core collection is being carried out by the partners of the IMIN project as well as in seven African (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Benin, Mali, Ghana and Nigeria) countries as part of the UK aid project on “Unleashing the economic power of vegetables in Africa through quality seed of improved varieties” – “Triggering a mungbean transformation in Africa”.
Bacterial diseases such as tan spot (Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens) and halo blight (Pseudomonas syringae pv phaseolicola) are the emerging ones and need urgent attention, as they are seed borne. Resistance to both diseases has been identified in a black gram (Vigna mungo) accession, which is being currently used as the resistance source to improve mungbean. Preliminary screening of the mini-core collection in Australia showed variation for resistance to halo blight and any resistant source identified could be donor line for resistance breeding in Australia, where the disease is a serious problem.
Important mungbean insect pests include, bruchids (Callosobruchus spp.), white fly (Bemisia tabaci), thrips (Thrips palmi and Caliothrips indicus), stem fly (Ophiomyia phaseoli) and cowpea aphid (Aphis craccivora). Bruchid resistant lines developed by WorldVeg (Table 2) will reduce post-harvest losses and also pave the way for reduction in pesticide use. In the evaluation of the mini-core collection for resistance to thrips, 14 accessions showed high resistance, 76 accessions showed moderate resistance/tolerance and 206 accessions were susceptible.
Table 2. Characteristics of Outstanding World Vegetable Center-Developed Mungbean Lines
Mungbean Line
Seed Character
Seed yield (t/ha)
Pest and disease resistance1
Types of MYMD2
Bruchid
Powdery mildew disease
Vigna3
Urdbean3
MYMIV4
AVMU1622
Dull Light green
Dull Dark green
Shiny Dark green
Shiny Light green
1 R=Resistant; S= Susceptible
2 Mungbean Yellow Mosaic Disease
3 Mungbean yellow mosaic virus (MYMV) strain
4 Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus (MYMIV
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS
Important abiotic stresses that affect mungbean include salinity, waterlogging and heat stress. Manasa et al. (2017) studied seedling and whole plant level tolerance to salinity in mungbean, which led to the identification of salt tolerant lines. High temperature stress is experienced during spring/summer season in major growing regions in Northern parts of India. Sharma et al (2016) found that the phenology was accelerated, leading to a sizable reduction in leaf area, biomass, flowers and pods. A few heat tolerant lines were identified by the above authors and are currently being utilized in the breeding program. Evaluation of the mini-core collection to salt tolerance and waterlogging stress is currently in progress.
It is envisaged that the International Mungbean Improvement network will eventually expand to include other South and Southeast Asian countries and countries in Africa. Improved cultivation technologies such as line sowing, fertilizer application, plant protection measures, harvesting and storage, together with use of elite and better adapted mungbean varieties, will increase mungbean production and increase consumer demand for healthy foods.
ACKNOWLEDEGMENT
Funding for this research was provided by Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID), and long-term strategic donors to the World Vegetable Center: Republic of China (Taiwan), UK aid from the UK government, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Germany, Thailand, Philippines, Korea, and Japan.
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Later, Regina wakes up in a Legion Base around the United Federation. Eggman has decided to let Regina and Snively live together, leading that portion of the Legion (replacing Hugo), though he expects them to still play "the game" with him, only better. Regina and Snively are ecstatic, realizing their new position lets them be together and will give them an edge when fighting Eggman in the future. When Regina is examining Hugo's machinery, she talks about how happy they'll be and Snively, with technomagic symbols floating around his head, happily agrees.
Eggman is later explaining what happened to someone unseen, describing how G.U.N. and the U.F. are weakened, Hope's location has been revealed, the Dark Egg Legion is powerful more than ever, and that Regina will be helping him somewhat. He taunts the unseen person some more, saying that he beat them even at their best. It is revealed that he is talking to Snively, beaten, bruised, and crying in a capsule. Eggman tells him that an Infiltrator copy is living with Regina, pretending to be the real Snively, and that it will take a while before she discovers the truth. He leaves Snively with the knowledge that he is the only person who knows Snively is there and that he won't even leave the cell.
His last words to his distraught nephew are "Game over, Snively. Thanks for playing."
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Eggman, Orbot and Cubot are returning to the Death Egg in their aircraft, when Eggman yells that they need to descend. Their aircraft crashes in the wrong place with the Death Egg, with the moustauche over his eyes, which are now popped. Eggman yells at Orbot and Cubot for doing this.
Snively: In a minute you won't be anything! I have the massive weapon! I have my darling Regina! You have nothing! The Eggman Empire is MINE!
Eggman (upon entering the Egg Beater II): Get a load of THIS!
Monkey Khan: As soon as I'm healed...soon as the people are safe...I'm coming for you. When I'm through...all that will be left of you...will be a bad memory.
Eggman: Game over, Snively. Thanks for playing.
Monkey Khan is restored to normal, his village left alone in exchange for Eggman saving Metal Sally's life
Regina is given control of a Dark Egg Legion group with Snively by her side.
The real Snively is trapped in his own prison, the one with Regina a copy
The cover of the issue is a parody of Sonic the Fighters.
Honey the Cat makes a cameo on the front cover of the issue, though she did not make an appearance in Sonic the Fighters. She was originally going to be playable, but was canceled and only playable via hack. She is however playable in Sonic the Fighters when they Re-released the game for PSN and Xbox Live. Her personality hasn't been delved into the Archie comics either (appearing on the front cover of the issue instead), but fans and fan fiction writers tend to give her the same personality as her source character—sweet and pleasant, but can become aggressive when she puts on the rubber/plastic dress she made herself. They also make her a fashion designer/fashion school student, just like her source character. She is based on the character Honey from Fighting Vipers, a game developed by Sega AM2.
Eggman is holding multiple Badnik heads on the cover, implying that he can do fatalities (finishing moves used in Mortal Kombat).
When Eggman enters the Egg Beater II, he quotes his famous (and annoying) line from Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut, "get a load of this"!
This issue marks the final on panel appearances of Monkey Kahn and Regina before their removal to the reboot.
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Response of microbial community structure and metabolic profile to shifts of inlet VOCs in a gas-phase biofilter
Lichao Lu1,
Guangchun Wang3,
Marvin Yeung1,
Jinying Xi1,2 &
Hong-Ying Hu1,2
AMB Express volume 8, Article number: 160 (2018) Cite this article
The effects of inlet VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) shifts on microbial community structure in a biofiltration system were investigated. A lab-scale biofilter was set up to treat eight VOCs sequentially. Short declines in removal efficiency appeared after VOCs shifts and then later recovered. The number of OTUs in the biofilter declined from 690 to 312 over time. At the phylum level, Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria remained dominant throughout the operation for all VOCs, with their combined abundance ranging from 60 to 90%. The abundances of Planctomycetes and Thermi increased significantly to 20% and 5%, respectively, with the intake of non-aromatic hydrocarbons. At the genus level, Rhodococcus was present in the highest abundance (≥ 10%) throughout the experiment, indicating its wide degradability. Some potential degraders were also found; namely, Thauera and Pseudomonas, which increased in abundance to 19% and 12% during treatment with ethyl acetate and toluene, respectively. Moreover, the microbial metabolic activity declined gradually with time, and the metabolic profile of the toluene-treating community differed significantly from those of other communities.
There has been growing interest in control of the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) because of their potential to harm the environment and human health toxicity (Zheng et al. 2013). Recently, waste gases emitted in high volume containing complex VOCs at low concentration have hindered performance enhancement of related treatments (Cheng et al. 2016). This has led to increased interest in biofiltration systems, which have advantages of high efficiency, minimal secondary pollution and low costs (Khan and Ghoshal 2000).
Microorganisms play an important role in biodegradation, having direct interactions with contaminants. In previous studies, significant shifts in the bacterial community were observed during biodegradation, especially in the initial period (Qiu et al. 2013). Increasing doses also impact microbial communities (Li et al. 2017). Efforts were also paid on microbial community structures analysis to determine microbial indicators of contaminants (Obi et al. 2017). Evaluation of the influence of different degrading conditions on microbial communities also revealed significant effects (Techtmann et al. 2017). However, it is worth noting that previous studies were predominantly conducted using simple and stable inlet chemicals, while few investigations have focused on microbial changes with contaminant shifts.
Various VOCs have physical and chemical characteristics that differ significantly. Water-solubility and biodegradability are the two main factors that influence the removal efficiency of biofilters (Deshusses and Webster 2000). Low water-solubility limits mass transfer prior degradation (Alonso et al. 1998), while biodegradability influences the degradation of soluble VOCs. Among all pollutants, hydrocarbons (i.e., alcohols, ketones, esters etc.) have been shown to be the easiest degraded compounds, before alkene and aromatic hydrocarbon (Delhomenie and Heitz 2005). Therefore, different types of VOCs alter biofilter performances and microbial community structures significantly. However, precise analyses and conclusive studies are not yet available, especially for waste air treatments.
Few studies have investigated the interactions between environments and microorganisms (Zhang et al. 2018); therefore, the present study was conducted to elucidate these interactions. Specifically, this study investigated a biofilter applied to treat a variety of volatile organic compounds (toluene, ethylbenzene, chlorobenzene, acetone, isopropyl alcohol, ethyl acetate, n-hexane and tetrahydrofuran) in sequence. Differences in degrading performance and the changes in microbial structures during the process were then evaluated. The data obtained in this study will provide insight into microbial community function, functional diversity, and other aspects of the biofilter operation.
Biofilter configuration and operation
Biofilter set up
The system had a height of 335 mm and an internal diameter of 118, giving an effective height of packing material of 150 mm with an approximately 1.7 L volume (Additional file 1: Figure S1). The air flow was pressurized and controlled with an electromagnetic air compressor (ACO-318, Hailea Co., Ltd., Guangdong, China) and a flowmeter (LZB-WB, Zhenxing Flowmeter Factory, China). Pressurized airflow entered the mixing chamber, which contained multiple vials of evaporating VOCs. The quantity of the vials, volume and volatile area of the VOCs was used to control the inlet concentration. Mixed air flow then entered the biofilter from the bottom and passed through the packing materials containing the microorganisms, after which the treated air was discharged from the top of the biofilter. An electromagnetic flowmeter (Iwaki Co., Ltd, EH-B20VC-220R1) was used to control the liquid flow rate and a microcomputer time controlled switch (Toone Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China) was used to control the spraying rate.
Eight common volatile organic compounds were selected in this study for biofilter performances and microbial community analyses. The selected compounds, including aromatic and non-aromatic hydrocarbons, were common industrial materials or organic solvents (Additional file 1: Table S1). Different VOCs were applied one by one in the order toluene, ethylbenzene, chlorobenzene, acetone, isopropyl alcohol, ethyl acetate, n-hexane and tetrahydrofuran. The duration of operation for each compound ranged from 12 to 17 days, depending on the time spent to reach a stable state.
Biofilter operation
The inlet air flow rate was 2.2 L min−1 with an empty bed residence time of 46 s. Spraying was conducted for 1 min every 3 h, giving a total sprayed volume of 90 mL. The nutrient medium was renewed every 3–4 days, the pH of the medium was controlled at 6.5–7.2, and temperature ranged from 25 to 32 °C.
Nutrient medium and inoculation
The nutrient medium used consisted of 10 g NaNO3, 2.56 g Na2HPO3 and 1.66 g KH2PO3 per L water, and the pH values ranged from 6.5 to 7.2. The medium was inoculated with suspended activated sludge, and 1.7 L packing materials were filled into the biofilter after being soaked in 1 L of the activated sludge suspension for an hour.
VOCs, CO2 and biomass concentration
The concentrations of the chemicals were analyzed by gas chromatography (GC-14C, Shimadzu Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China). The temperatures of the inlet, column (HICRON HP-1, 50 m × 0.25 mm) and detector were 150 °C, 100 °C and 150 °C, respectively.
The concentration of CO2 was tested using a portable CO2 m (Testo 535, Testo China Co. Ltd., China), while decreases in pressure were analyzed with a manometer (Testo 512, Testo China Co. Ltd., China).
Biomass in different periods was tested 2 h after spraying to minimize the influence of sprayed nutrient medium. The growth of biomass was compared among treatments to evaluate increases in microorganisms.
DNA extraction was performed during the stable phase using a Fast DNA™ SPIN Kit for Soil (MP Biomedicals, Canada), after which the extracted DNA was sequenced using the Illumina MiSeq sequencing platform (Novogene Co., Beijing, China) and the 515F (5′-GTGCCAGCAGCCGCGGTAA-3′) and 806R (5′-GGACTACCAGGGTATCTAAT-3′) targeting the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene. Each reverse primer contained a 6-bp error-correcting unique barcode and PCR amplification was conducted by subjecting the samples to 98 °C for 5 min, followed by 40 cycles of 94 °C for 30 s, 55 °C for 30 s and 72 °C for 45 s, and then final extension at 72 °C for 10 min. Sequences were then analyzed using the Illumina MiSeq platform (Novogene Co., Beijing, China).
Illumina MiSeq original DNA sequence data were processed and analyzed by Qiime (http://qiime.org/) and UPARSE (http://drive5.com/uparse/). Paired-end reads from the original DNA fragments were combined using FLASH18. All sequences were aligned with the SILVA bacterial 16S rRNA database. Sequences were clustered into operational taxonomic units (OTUs) at a cutoff of 97% sequence identity, after which the unweighted UniFrac in principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) was determined by Qiime. Some indices (rarefaction curves, Chao, Simpson, Shannon, coverage) were calculated to reveal Alpha diversity using mothur v.1.32. (http://www.mothur.org).
The Illumina MiSeq sequencing raw data have been deposited in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive database, and the SRA accession is SRP148831.
Biolog test
BIOLOG ECO Plates and high-throughput sequencing were used in this study to monitor microbial communities. High-throughput sequencing has helped investigators identify changes in the microbial structure and diversity (Alpana et al. 2017).
BIOLOG Eco-plates were used to investigate Sole-Carbon-Source Utilization (SCSU) of different microbial communities. Each plate contained a total of 31 carbon sources in triplicate. The suspension samples required a 5-min resting after they were obtained from the biofilter. Then, the supernatant was diluted to make the OD600 close to 0.05. Next, 150 µL aliquots of the diluted supernatants were added to the wells of the microplate and incubated at 30 °C for 3–4 days.
Data from the Biolog experiments were subsequently analyzed for metabolic function of microbial communities. The ability to degrade each of the 31 carbon source was indicated by average well color developments (AWCD):
$${\text{AWCD}} = \frac{{\sum_{{{\text{i = }}1}}^{96} {\left( {{\text{A}}_{\text{i}} - \frac{{{\text{A}}_{ 1} {\text{ + A}}_{ 3 3} {\text{ + A}}_{ 6 5} }}{3}} \right)} }}{93}.$$
In this equation, Ai refers to the OD600 value in well number “i”, among which No. 1, 33, and 66 were blank values.
Metabolic activities were indicated by changes in the AWCD rate (v) obtained in during the rapid growth rate as follows (Choi and Dobbs 1999):
$$v = \frac{{{\text{AWCD}}_{1} - {\text{AWCD}}_{0} }}{t},$$
where AWCD0 is the AWCD value at the beginning of the rapid growth period, AWCD1 is the AWCD value at the end of the rapid growth period and t is the length of the rapid growth period in hours.
The results were then subjected to principal component analysis (PCA) using SPSS 22.
Removal and mineralization of VOCs
Shifting of inlet VOCs influenced removal efficiencies were observed (Fig. 1). Specifically, significant declines in removal efficiency were obtained after shifting VOCs; however, it recovered several days later, indicating that the system required time to adapt to the new conditions. Differences in molecular structures are known to impact the biodegradability of different compounds. For example, simpler compounds such as ethanol are more readily degraded by microorganisms than more complex materials (Sempere et al. 2008). In the present study, the removal efficiency varied from 18.2% (chlorobenzene) to 92.3% (isopropyl alcohol). The maximum elimination capacities of different volatile organic compounds are listed in Table 1. Alcohols, ketones, esters and ethers appeared to be more easily removed, whose eliminated capacities were higher than 600 mg m−3 min−1. Moreover, the system showed satisfactory performance for degrading toluene (678.11 mg m−3 min−1) and tetrahydrofuran (401.53 mg m−3 min−1). Conversely, chlorobenzene and n-hexane were not easily degraded by microorganisms, as indicated by removal efficiencies lower than 30%. Overall, considerable differences in degradation performance were seen among different VOCs.
Removal efficiencies (RE) and average mineralization rates (MR) of the biofilter with shifting of VOCs (inlet VOCs were changed every 15 days with the order of toluene, ethylbenzene, chlorobenzene, acetone, isopropyl alcohol, ethyl acetate, n-hexane and tetrahydrofuran)
Table 1 Performances of the biofilter with different inlet VOCs
Similar results were observed among VOC mineralization rates (Fig. 1). Surprisingly, the mineralization rate of tetrahydrofuran was lowest among all tested compounds. More tetrahydrofuran was degraded into intermediates or microorganisms instead of CO2 and H2O.
Different performance was observed for different inlet VOCs, suggesting that the characteristics of the microbial community changed with inlet VOCs.
The microbial community was analyzed following changes in VOCs (Table 2). The highest OTU value of 690 was observed for toluene, while all other VOCs had OTU values of less than 380. The ACE and Chao1 index values showed a similar trend, confirming that there was higher microbial diversity when treating toluene.
Table 2 Indexes of microbial following treatment with different types of VOCs
Shannon’s index was lower for compounds of aromatic hydrocarbons, indicating lower microbial diversity. A similar trend was observed for Simpson’s index, indicating that a higher microbial diversity led to lower dominance of the dominant species, as occurred with toluene. High consistency was seen between degrading performance and microbial community. As previously mentioned, higher microbial diversity was observed for toluene, which had the highest biodegradability among the aromatic hydrocarbons.
Microbial community structure
During the course of varying inlet VOCs, 21 phyla were found. Ten known phyla and two unidentified phyla were found to account for over 98% of the abundance (Fig. 2a).
Figure 3-2 Microbial community structures (a relative abundances of microorganisms at the phylum level following the inlet of different volatile organic compounds; b relative abundances at the genus level when treating different volatile organic compounds. 22 genera were included, including the five genera with the highest abundance in each stage)
Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria remained dominant throughout the experimental period. Upon further analysis, the abundance of Actinobacteria was found to fluctuate from 17 to 72%, while that of Proteobacteria varied from 19 to 57%. As the inlet VOCs were changed from toluene to ethylbenzene and chlorobenzene, the abundance of Actinobacteria increased in a stepwise fashion to 33.2%, 63.9% and 71.1%, respectively, while that of Proteobacteria decreased from 56.4 to 24.6% and then 19.8%. Surprisingly, the sum of the two phyla remains stable, with values of 89.6%, 88.5% and 90.9% being observed for toluene, ethylbenzene and chlorobenzene, respectively.
The changes in the microbial community occurred when the VOCs were switched from aromatic to non-aromatic hydrocarbons. The sum of Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria decreased from 90% to approximately 60%–70%, while the abundances of Planctomycetes and Thermi increased significantly after the hydrocarbons were changed. The abundance of the phylum Planctomycetes increased when some aromatic chemicals were removed. Moreover, their abundance increased when the aromatic hydrocarbons were replaced with non-aromatic chemicals such as acetone. Thermi remained stable during purification of non-aromatic hydrocarbons, fluctuating at levels of 5.0–8.0%. The abundance of Bacteroidetes peaked at 14.6% in response to acetone and then decreased to 1.0% upon application of n-hexane. These findings indicate that acetone was a better carbon and energy source for species in the phylum Bacteroidetes than n-hexane. The abundance of Cyanobacteria tripled in the presence of tetrahydrofuran when compared to other compounds. It has been speculated that members of the phylum Cyanobacteria could include more tetrahydrofuran degraders than other phyla.
A total of 264 genera were obtained during the operation, 21 of which were present in high abundance. The sum of these dominant genera accounted for 75%–91% of the total biomass (Fig. 2b). All genera belonged to the top seven phyla, with most belonging to the phyla Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria. Four genera, including Rhodococcus, Pseudonocardia and other two unidentified genera from the phylum Actinobacteria, had high abundances. Among them, Rhodococcus had significant advantages in abundance throughout the experimental period. The phylum Proteobacteria, which contained Pseudomonas, Devosia, Aquimonas, Marinobacter and eight other genera, showed high stability and uniformity with increased abundance when treating various contaminants, as opposed to genera belonging to the phylum Actinobactria.
The genus Rhodococcus, which belongs to the phylum Actinobacteria, was obtained in high abundance (> 10%) throughout the operation. Surprisingly, higher values of relative abundance were observed when aromatic hydrocarbons were being eliminated. Similarly, the abundance of Devosia sp. increased in response to the inlet of aromatic hydrocarbons. During the operation, specific degraders were identified. Specifically, high abundance (18.8%) of Thauera was observed in the presence of ethyl acetate, while less than 1% was observed in the presence of other VOCs. In addition, the genus Pseudomonas showed highest abundance during the inlet of toluene, while it comprised less than 0.5% in the presence of other VOCs.
Microbial metabolic profile
The values of average well color development (hereafter AWCD, Fig. 3) were affected by density and activity of bacterial community (Preston-Mafham et al. 2002; Rutgers et al. 2016). The results showed that carbon source metabolic capacity of the microbial community decreased gradually with time. Initially, the AWCD values of toluene and ethylbenzene were higher than those observed for other VOCs. The rate of AWCD increase was 0.042 cm−1 h−1 for toluene and 0.035 cm−1 h−1 for ethylbenzene, which illustrated that the microbial community had higher activity in the presence of purified toluene than ethylbenzene. Growth rate declined to approximately 0.025 cm−1 h−1 when treating acetone and chlorobenzene and carbon source metabolic capacities and activities declined with time. The increase rate of AWCD when treating isopropyl alcohol, ethyl acetate, hexane and tetrahydrofuran were 0.013 cm−1 h−1, 0.014 cm−1 h−1, 0.010 cm−1 h−1 and 0.015 cm−1 h−1, respectively. Taken together, these results suggested that some measures might be taken to increase the activities of microorganisms after a long-term operation.
AWCD changes in microbial community under different inlet VOCs
The duration between hours 20 and 30 was a period when the highest AWCD increasing rates were obtained. Therefore, principle component analysis was conducted in this study to obtain further insight (Fig. 4) based on data obtained between hours 20 and 30.
Carbon metabolism principle component analysis of microbial community with different inlet VOCs: No. 1–8 referred to stages of toluene, ethylbenzene, chlorobenzene, acetone, isopropyl alcohol, ethyl acetate, n-hexane and tetrahydrofuran
The dominant phyla Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria are the most commonly reported prokaryotic degraders (Coleman et al. 2006). As reported in previous studies, many members of the phylum Actinobacteria have aromatic hydrocarbon degrading abilities, and some species can utilize complicated chemicals as carbon or energy sources for growth; however, the capability for degradation decreases with increasing carbon chain length (Wen et al. 2014; Zylstra et al. 2000). Proteobacteria has previously been widely applied in bioremediation for hydrocarbon purification in combination with Actinobacteria, which is another dominant phylum commonly seen in aromatic hydrocarbon biodegradation (Fuentes et al. 2014). Hence, we can conclude that Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria played crucial roles in aromatic hydrocarbon purification in this study. Increasing abundance of the phylum Planctomycetes when some aromatic chemicals were being removed have also been confirmed in previous study (Delgado-Balbuena et al. 2016).
On genus level, it was previously reported that Rhodococcus can utilize and removal a large variety of pollutants (Maia et al. 2018; Warhurst and Fewson 1994). Members of the genus Rhodococcus were found to have the considerable ability to degrade a great number of aromatic hydrocarbons several decades ago (Sorkhoh et al. 1990). As well-known VOCs degraders, Rhodococcus species can utilize various chemicals and have therefore been applied frequently in VOCs purifications (Li et al. 2016). It was also confirmed that Rhodococcus species can degrade complicated chemicals like three to five rings polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) (Song et al. 2011). Moreover, some strains of Rhodococcus were shown to have broad degradation capacities toward a mixture of 16 VOCs including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, m-xylene, p-xylene, o-xylene, and octane (Auffret et al. 2009). Because of its efficient and broad degradation capacities, Rhodococcus was used to remediate heavily PAH-contaminated soil with total PAHs of 375 mg, and up to 55% was removed (Sun et al. 2012). These performances could explain the high abundance of Rhodococcus throughout the experimental period and likely contributed greatly to the biodegradation performance in this system.
In consideration of other genera, the findings in this study are consistent with those of previous reports. High abundances of Devosia sp. were previously observed in aromatic compounds purification systems (Ramos et al. 2015), and they have been used as aromatic compounds degraders in previous studies (Papale et al. 2017). Ethyl acetate can be utilized as carbon resources by Thauera sp. (Du et al. 2017). The genus Pseudomonas was previously reported to be a toluene utilizer and degrader (Hernandez and Torre 2011; Su et al. 2014). Pseudomonas sp. was previously proposed to be indicators of biodegradation because of their sensitivity to substrate change (Obi et al. 2017; Yakimov et al. 2007).
The significant differences observed in this study indicated that target VOCs had significant effects on microorganisms, particularly at the genus level. The population of utilizers and degraders increased rapidly in the response to VOCs, with some becoming dominant species. Subsequently, changes in inlet VOCs caused dramatic decreases shifts in these populations. Taken together, these results indicate that the microbial community has the ability to adapt to new environmental conditions. Accordingly, there is the potential to develop specific measures to facilitate such adaptation to optimize biodegradation, such as increasing the abundance of specific degraders artificially.
The results revealed that the microbial community was significantly different when purifying toluene then when treating other VOCs. Surprisingly, the communities were highly similar in the presence of all other test compounds. This might have occurred because of significant microbial community shifts in the initial operations (Qiu et al. 2013). After the initial operation, the system became relatively stable, possibly indicating that the community stabilized with time.
Biodegradability of different VOCs has remarkable influences on microbial elimination performance, community structures and metabolic profiles. The highest diversity was obtained at the beginning of the operation while eliminating toluene. Diversity declined with prolonged operation, and significant differences were found in microbial community structures at both the phylum and genus levels. As the experiment continued, the carbon source metabolic capacity declined gradually. The metabolic characteristics of carbon source utilization differed significantly following toluene input, while it was similar among all other treatment groups. Artificial addition of degraders and measures to increase microbial activity might optimize biofiltration.
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JX conceived the original idea and supervise the project. GW, MY and LL completed the experiment and data analysis. LL wrote the draft of the manuscript. All authors discussed the results and contribute to the final manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51378286). This study was also supported by the Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control (No. 2011ZX07301-003). Help from the State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Microorganism Application at Tsinghua University is appreciated. Thanks are given to Dr. Guo Qian for her linguistic assistance during the preparation of this manuscript, and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments regarding the manuscript. We would like to thank LetPub (http://www.letpub.com) for providing linguistic assistance during the preparation of this manuscript.
All datasets supporting the conclusion of the manuscript were included in the manuscript.
All authors gave their consent for publication.
This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.
This work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51378286) and the Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control (No. 2011ZX07301-003).
Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control State Key Joint Laboratory, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Lichao Lu, Marvin Yeung, Jinying Xi & Hong-Ying Hu
Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China
Jinying Xi & Hong-Ying Hu
Central Research Institute of Building and Construction, MCC Group, Co, Ltd., Beijing, China
Guangchun Wang
Lichao Lu
Marvin Yeung
Jinying Xi
Hong-Ying Hu
Correspondence to Jinying Xi.
Additional file 1: Figure S1.
Biofilter structure and the flow directions of air/water flow. Table S1. The characteristics of the selected VOCs.
Lu, L., Wang, G., Yeung, M. et al. Response of microbial community structure and metabolic profile to shifts of inlet VOCs in a gas-phase biofilter. AMB Expr 8, 160 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13568-018-0687-z
Accepted: 25 September 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13568-018-0687-z
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Health FDA & Prescription Drugs Apr 19, 2012 1 min read
Balding Medication May Do Much More Than Just Stop Hair Loss
Darren Tobin
Are you currently taking Merck & Co.’s prostate drug Proscar or Propecia, the company’s drug that treats male pattern baldness on this prescription drug? New information identifying the side effects of this drug are important for you to know.
The Food and Drug Administration expanded the warning label on Proscar, Propecia, and the generic brands. The new warning came out this past April 12, 2012.
According to the Associated Press, finasteride and Propecia have been linked to sexual side affects. The expanded warning states that side effects continued after patients stopped taking the drug.
The newly expanded warning label for Propecia will say that some men who took the drug experienced libido disorders, orgasm disorders, and ejaculation disorders after they stopped taking the drug.
Proscar’s label now has included decreased libido. Both drugs now include a description of the difficulties experienced by men including cases of male infertility and poor semen quality. In these particular cases, it changed for the better or normalized after the men stopped taking the drug.
The drug Proscar was first approved in 1992 in order to treat symptoms in men who had an enlarged prostate and to reduce the chance of urinary retention. The drug Propecia was first approved in 1997 for the treatment of male pattern hair loss.
It took many years for the FDA to expand the drugs’ warning labels. However, with these new warnings both present and future patients will recognize that there are serious side effects related to taking finasteride.
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Toxic Cabin Air? New Information Reveals the Potentially Neurotoxic Effects of Contaminated Airplane Cabin Air
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Superspreader event in Saint John the source of more than 60 COVID-19 cases
Laura Brown CTV News Atlantic Reporter
@LauraBrownCTV Contact
Published Wednesday, December 2, 2020 10:42PM AST Last Updated Wednesday, December 2, 2020 10:50PM AST
FREDERICTON -- A superspreader event in the Saint John, N.B., region has been confirmed as the source of some 60 cases of COVID-19.
Dr. Jennifer Russell said the superspreader event -- a gathering where someone or several individuals were asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic -- was held at two venues on the same night in November.
There's lots of speculation as to who was on hand -- and where -- but it's not the first time the province's chief medical officer of health has mentioned the event.
"Number one, where there is a superspreader event, and there are some superspreaders involved in some of the cases, so we are expecting more cases to pop up," Russell said on Nov. 20.
That's the day Saint John went into the orange phase.
Since then, more than 60 cases have been announced in the Saint John region.
Russell also said that many health-care workers were having to self-isolate because of the event.
"The fact that there are so many health-care workers involved at this moment in time that are self-isolating and again with the contact tracing we’ve done and the type of contacts we’ve found and those people who are self-isolating as a result, we expect many of them to become positive," Russell said.
Of the almost 2,000 people isolating in the province, about 80 of them are Horizon Health workers.
The Kennebacasis and Saint John police forces say none of their members have had to self-isolate as a result of the recent uptick in cases.
Russell will not confirm the Parkland Saint John outbreak is the result of the superspreader event, but did say all of those cases are linked to one source.
Parkland Shannex said Wednesday that no more cases have been found after mass testing at two of its facilities on Monday.
Testing was also done at another facility Tuesday, and they're hoping to get those results in the next 24 hours.
N.B. reports 7 new COVID-19 cases; 'superspreader event' confirmed in Saint John area
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MERIDIAN & IMAGINATION
Obydwie firmy rozpoczynają pracę nad nową generacją wysokorozdzielczych systemów wielokanałowych
Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) and Meridian Audio announce that they have entered into an agreement to collaborate on the next generation of multi-channel high resolution wireless audio streaming systems.
Meridian Audio, one of the world’s most respected leaders in digital sound and a leader in high quality audio and video reproduction, is to use Imagination’s family of Caskeid technologies to apply its audio expertise and leadership to the wireless audio streaming environment. This agreement will draw upon Imagination’s breadth of processor, connectivity and audio technologies to complement Meridian Audio’s market leading technologies for lossless stereo and surround sound.
Says Bob Stuart, Meridian Audio chairman and co-founder: “At Meridian, we’ve been designing and creating state-of-the-art audio and video home entertainment systems for over 35 years. Our passion is in achieving the best possible audio and video reproduction, while retaining the purity of the original source material. The quest to achieve this in the wireless sphere is our next aim, which is why we are working with Imagination and its Caskeid family of technologies, which is the only wireless multiroom synchronization technology out there that truly delivers a platform for high quality audio.”
Hossein Yassaie, CEO, Imagination says: “Partnerships like this will elevate the listening experience and bring audio quality back to the center stage enabling music fans to hear content as the artist originally intended. We are delighted to be working with a company with such a respected audio heritage as Meridian Audio to drive this agenda.”
Caskeid is a family of technologies developed by Imagination to deliver efficient and accurate wireless multiroom and multi-channel audio. Specifically, Caskeid technologies address accurate and advanced synchronization (for the best sounding audio), effective low latency (for instant response across the system) and comprehensive management of the speaker system. Caskeid technologies are available for licensing from Imagination now as part of its portfolio of advanced connected audio platforms, based on MIPS processors and Ensigma wireless connectivity technologies, for custom SoC design. Caskeid enabled speakers can be used with any music streaming services including Pandora, Rdio, Deezer and Spotify through a unique combination of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Both PEAQ and Pure are already shipping Caskeid enabled speakers and Onkyo is to use the technology in a future product range. Many more licensees are in the pipeline to integrate Caskeid or selected technologies from the Caskeid family.
To make Caskeid’s advanced capabilities fully accessible to music services, a Caskeid Software Developer Kit (SDK) enables agnostic app support over Wi-Fi for any Caskeid speakers. Apps that have Caskeid embedded into them will give users a richer multiroom audio experience. Announcements from partners who are using the SDK are expected later this year.
Uniquely, Caskeid technology delivers outstanding audiophile-quality stereo playback with less than 25µs synchronization accuracy, providing a true ‘Wi-Fi Hi-Fi’ experience that is good enough to replace wires, satisfying even the most demanding audiophile.
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Meridian Audio is based in Cambridgeshire, UK, and was founded in 1977 by psychoacoustics expert, Bob Stuart and design engineer, Allen Boothroyd. With over 35 years’ history of innovation and development of uncompromised consumer home entertainment systems offering exceptional performance, this award-winning company is widely recognized as a world leader in high-quality audio and video reproduction. Meridian developed the first audiophile CD player, the world’s first consumer digital surround controller, and the MLP lossless packing system included in Blu-ray Disc. The company’s optical disc players, DSP-based loudspeakers, video projectors, and scalers are unique in the industry, maintaining a super-quality digital signal throughout the path from the studio to the home, using advanced digital signal processing to deliver natural sound and smooth, crystal-sharp images with true cinematic realism. In 2008, Meridian established its Automotive division and has since developed in-car entertainment systems featuring their unique Trifield technology for models including the McLaren MP12C supercar, the Range Rover Evoque, and more recently, the luxury Jaguar XJ Ultimate. www.meridian-audio.com
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Imagination is a global technology leader whose products touch the lives of billions of people throughout the world. The company’s broad range of silicon IP (intellectual property) includes the key multimedia, communications and general purpose processors needed to create the SoCs (Systems on Chips) that power all mobile, consumer, automotive, enterprise, infrastructure, IoT and embedded electronics. These are complemented by its unique software and cloud IP and system solution focus, enabling its licensees and partners get to market quickly by creating and leveraging highly differentiated SoC platforms. Imagination’s licensees include many of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers, network operators and OEMs/ODMs who are creating some of the world’s most iconic and disruptive products. See: www.imgtec.com.
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Songs > Breathe
Breathe was originally performed by Pink Floyd
It has been performed live by Umphrey's McGee 43 time(s).
It was last performed 144 show(s) ago.
Average performance gap: 35.58
Yearly Performances
Show Gap
2018-10-05 The Sylvee Madison WI 68 Umphrey's McGee
2018-01-13 Taft Theatre Cincinnati OH 42 Umphrey's McGee
2017-06-17 Founders Brewing Co. Grand Rapids MI 45 Umphrey's McGee
2017-01-26 College Street Music Hall New Haven CT 27 Umphrey's McGee
2016-09-09 Stage AE Pittsburgh PA 29 Umphrey's McGee
2016-06-02 Hunter Mountain Hunter NY 18 Umphrey's McGee
2016-04-08 The Ritz Raleigh NC 55 Umphrey's McGee
2015-08-13 Iroquois Amphitheater Louisville KY 59 Umphrey's McGee
2015-02-05 Track 29 Chattanooga TN 31 Umphrey's McGee
2014-10-22 House of Blues Cleveland OH 48 Umphrey's McGee
2014-04-12 Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park Live Oak FL 13 Umphrey's McGee
2014-03-19 Belly Up Aspen Aspen CO 56 Umphrey's McGee
2013-08-23 Riverfront Park Nashville TN 7 Umphrey's McGee
2013-07-11 Indian Lookout Country Club Mariaville NY 36 Umphrey's McGee
2013-03-21 House of Blues Las Vegas NV 26 Umphrey's McGee
2013-01-23 Ziggy's Winston-Salem NC 16 Umphrey's McGee
2012-11-02 Penn's Peak Jim Thorpe PA 47 Umphrey's McGee
2012-06-08 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival Manchester TN 31 Umphrey's McGee
2012-03-10 The Depot Salt Lake City UT 16 Umphrey's McGee
2012-02-02 First Avenue Minneapolis MN 32 Umphrey's McGee
2011-10-20 The Bluebird Nightclub Bloomington IN 13 Umphrey's McGee
2011-09-10 Catskill Chill Music Festival Hancock NY 66 Umphrey's McGee
2011-02-02 The State Theatre State College PA 21 Umphrey's McGee
2010-11-03 Higher Ground South Burlington VT 33 Umphrey's McGee
2010-08-04 Saranac Brewery Utica NY 39 Umphrey's McGee
2010-03-06 Madison Theater Covington KY 46 Umphrey's McGee
2009-10-28 McNear's Mystic Theatre Petaluma CA 14 Umphrey's McGee
2009-09-19 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival Telluride CO 37 Umphrey's McGee
2009-06-06 BamaJam Enterprise AL 7 Umphrey's McGee
2009-05-02 The Lyric Oxford MS 37 Umphrey's McGee
2008-11-21 9:30 Club Washington DC 32 Umphrey's McGee
2008-09-05 Robert J. Fischgrund Center for Performing Arts South Bend IN 19 Umphrey's McGee
2008-07-12 Westfair Amphitheatre Council Bluffs IA 16 Umphrey's McGee
2008-05-02 House of Blues New Orleans LA 54 Umphrey's McGee
2007-11-09 Indiana University Auditorium, Indiana University Bloomington IN 30 Umphrey's McGee
2007-07-28 Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom Hampton Beach NH 51 Umphrey's McGee
2006-10-21 The Avalon Hollywood CA 15 Umphrey's McGee
2006-09-21 The Fox Theatre Boulder CO 60 Umphrey's McGee
2006-04-15 The Fillmore San Francisco CA 28 Umphrey's McGee
2006-02-17 Nokia Theatre Times Square New York NY 10 Umphrey's McGee
2005-12-31 Aragon Ballroom Chicago IL 978 Umphrey's McGee
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Blur – The Great Escape – Classic Music Review (Britpop Series)
By altrockchick on February 7, 2019 | 6 Comments
Regular readers of this blog are aware that the proprietor approaches the work of paid music critics with healthy skepticism. Some have pretensions of grandeur (Christgau, Erlewine) while others work for publications who accept advertising from record companies (Pitchfork, Rolling Stone), assuming that readers will ignore that fundamental conflict of interest and accept their evaluations of artists working for those record companies as unbiased. In one sense, those critics are merely a reflection of the precipitous decline in professional journalism in the United States and United Kingdom—it’s all about the ratings, it’s all about the circulation, it’s all about the money, fuck the notion of journalistic standards and screw integrity. The presence of Rupert Murdoch publications in both countries has clearly facilitated the move towards inflated controversy and sensationalism in the daily journals.
The British were way, way ahead of the States in cheapening journalism; Murdoch launched his topless Page 3 as far back as 1969. The music rags soon began filling column space with outlandish opinions designed to spark controversy, and the publications made little effort to hide the fact that their #1 goal was not to provide the public with useful, carefully-researched information but to do whatever it takes to increase readership, which in turn increases advertising, which in turn makes a few self-important people very wealthy. British music critics tried very hard to identify the next big thing in music, often inflating the value of a particular artist (hello, Stone Roses) as they attempted to remain relevant and project the appearance of cutting-edge trend setters. More often than not, they lagged behind the public in that area, rallying to the support of a hot new artist in response to record sales.
The critical reaction to The Great Escape is quite instructive in this regard. On first release, it was the greatest thing to hit Britain since William the Conqueror. After all, Blur had defeated Oasis in the “Battle of Britain” when the lead single from the album (“Country House”) outsold the promotional single from Morning Glory (“Roll with It”). The message from the press was BLUR IS BETTER THAN OASIS. BLUR HAS ALWAYS BEEN BETTER THAN OASIS.
Then Oasis achieved something that no other Britpop band had come close to achieving: mass market acceptance in the United States. Q withdrew their review of The Great Escape and issued an apology; other critics piled on, accusing Blur of trying to make the British public miserable through their allegedly cynical world-view. Some accused Blur of faking their affinity for the underclasses and launched the narrative that Oasis was the real working class band. The message shifted: OASIS IS BETTER THAN BLUR. OASIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN BETTER THAN BLUR.
Even Damon Albarn got caught up in the Orwellian reassessment, defining The Great Escape as a “messy” release. As I trust an artist’s opinion of their work less than I do the opinion of a paid critic, we’ll ignore that piece of self-immolation. The truth about this shift in critical favor was best expressed by BBC music journalist James McMahon, who opined that the “critical euphoria that would prove to be short-lived – truth be told, about as long as it took publishers to realise Oasis would probably shift more magazines for them.”
Albarn wasn’t the only Blur member who lacked fond memories of the album or the experience; Graham Coxon had fucking had it with the whole Britpop scene and was ready to move on; there were also growing tensions between Coxon and the other band members. However, bad memories of the interpersonal dynamics and their mutual desire to hurry up and get to the future serve to cloud their views of the album’s worth. Regardless of tension and a pending shift in artistic direction, The Great Escape is a worthy conclusion to the “Life Trilogy.” While the quality of the album is a mixed bag (strong first half, weak middle and transitional final phase), I admire the courage of the record, captured in the willingness to call bullshit for what it is.
The album title wasn’t selected until the last minute, but it reflects the dominant theme. The characters in each story (including Damon Albarn himself) are in varying degrees attempting to avoid the truth about their lives, finding escape mechanisms in everything from sex to status, from drugs to dreams, from the latest trend to pulling all-nighters glued to the telly. To dismiss Blur’s perspective on British life as “cynical” says more about the labelers than the songs themselves; critics often use the term when they’re uncomfortable with satiric views that hit too close to home or with those who dare to disturb the status quo by exposing what’s wrong with the world. I don’t find The Great Escape particularly cynical, and only occasionally melancholy. It’s a hard look at the reality of the times, and excuse me if I’m wrong, but I think that’s pretty much what Swift, Dickens and Thackeray did in their universally honored works.
The Great Escape isn’t Parklife, and that message is communicated sonically in the edgy opening passage of “Stereotypes,” where Graham Coxon leads with a screeching B minor chord accompanied by a foreboding minor key pattern on the organ. Damon Albarn’s world-weary vocal communicates a sense of exhausted impatience with the all-too human tendency to follow a trend, to be in with the in-crowd, no matter how ludicrous the adventure. Here we have The Case of the Oversexed Divorcee, who believes she needs to fuck her brains out because . . . because that’s what divorcees are supposed to do to convince themselves they’ve still got it:
The suburbs they are sleeping
But he’s dressing up tonight
She likes a man in uniform he loves to wear it tight
They’re on the lovers sofa they’re on the patio
And when the fun is over watch themselves on video
I’ll bet she spends hours with her divorcee girlfriends comparing boyfriend dick size and bragging about the impossibly difficult Kama Sutra position she pulled off the night before. I love sex as much or more than the next person, but this is gross sex, superficial titillation designed to bolster one’s fragile ego to avoid facing the emptiness inside. The arrangement is rock-solid, with pulsating bass from Alex James, strong punctuation from Dave Rowntree and the ever-present screeching minor chord from Graham Coxon sounding the mental health alarm.
Now it’s off to . . . The Battle of Britain! From the Guardian archives:
Blur or Oasis? Oasis or Blur? Four days after the launch of Britain’s most hyped battle of the bands Manchester’s working class lads appear to be edging ahead of London’s art school trendies in the race for the No. 1 spot.
Both groups released their £2.99 singles on Monday, claiming to be bitter enemies, which led some in the music industry to compare the rivalry to that between the Rolling Stones and the Beatles.
Early indications suggest that Oasis’s Roll With It is edging ahead of Blur’s Country House in sales, so the Guardian conducted its own survey of the music critics who really matter – the fans.
In Manchester, home of Oasis, one of the city’s leading music stores was buzzing with debate about the Blur-Oasis head-to-head. Andrew McQueen, assistant at Piccadilly Records, tried to give an objective assessment. He dismissed Manchester’s alleged chauvinism about Oasis as merely a mirage in a PR person’s mind. He paid Blur some gracious compliments but his loyalties soon became obvious.
“Oasis plagiarise from the great names – the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, the Who. But they make their own exciting rock and roll. It’s not pompous and has great tunes. They wear their hearts on their sleeves. They go for the jugular and move people.
“Blur plunder the past, too, but they do it with an irony and a cleverness which I don’t like. Their music has a knowing wink. Oasis seem more heartfelt, more direct. Blur are probably better musicians. They write good songs – but you don’t feel they mean it.”
This view seems to be born out by record sales: 75 to Oasis, 25 to Blur at Piccadilly. Round the corner at the Virgin store, the tally was 300 Oasis to 250 Blur.
If only today’s journalists would report genuinely important news with such doggedness and detail.
Blur did pull it out in the end, for what it’s worth. To my ears it was a no-contest battle—“Country House” is a far stronger song than “Roll with It,” the weakest of any of the singles released from Morning Glory. Kinks fans will immediately make the connection to the anti-hero of the Face to Face trilogy and the song “A House in the Country,” but unlike that character, who “don’t need no sedatives to ease his troubled mind,” Blur’s Man of the Nineties “takes all kinds of pills” and passes the day “reading Balzac and knocking back Prozac.” You don’t really need those details, for all you need to know about this self-important asshole is contained in the absolutely brilliant line, “I’m a professional cynic but my heart’s not in it.” In the context of the theme of escape, the country house represents a complete failure to leave the rat race behind, as the gentleman in question has traded one form of stress for another in the form of health nazi paranoia (“He doesn’t drink, smoke, laugh/Takes herbal baths in the country”). The use of the phrase “animal farm” leads most people to draw a connection to Orwell, but the video for the song, full of bouncy, smiling, dimwitted babes, suggests the animalistic, mechanical sex of a perpetual orgy. The arrangement is terribly exciting, featuring an ironically jaunty beat with a stunning build to the chorus where Blur mingles rising lead and background vocals to reach a satisfying climax. I also love the high harmony bridge with its hints of Beatles and Beach Boys as the voices join together to reveal the awful truth that this wealthy, entitled prick feels terribly sorry for himself.
I’m not 100% sure where the critical perception of cynicism came from, but the melancholy “Best Days” is a likely source because it explodes the long-standing myth peddled by regret-filled old farts that the best years of our lives are when we’re young and responsibility-free. Not only is that notion total bullshit, but it sets up young people to believe that something’s wrong with them when the good times they’re supposed to be having fail to materialize. While the having-to-work part is a bit of a drag, I’m having a much better time in my thirties than I ever did as a confused, physiologically unstable and uninformed teen hanging out with other insecure people who also had no idea what the fuck they were doing. Since celebration of youth was a key component of the Britpop scene, Blur is to be commended for repeatedly pointing out (see “Girls and Boys”) that the mindless search for sex and substance-fueled good times isn’t the best way to establish a foundation for a meaningful future.
The opening verses set up the fundamental problem of modern humanity: our perpetual state of separation from one another. The bells toll at St. Mary-le-Bow church as they have on that site for centuries as Londoners exit the city hoping “someone’s waiting out there for them.” Meanwhile, a cabbie ferries the young drunks around Soho, compensating for that unpleasant, impersonal task by dreaming of sunnier climes. In a vain search for something remotely resembling intimacy, the poetic camera zooms in to take a closer look and comes up empty:
Trellick Tower’s been calling
I know she’ll leave me in the morning
In hotel cells, listening to dial tones
Remote controls and cable moans
In his drink, he’s talking
Gets disconnected sleepwalking back home
Other people wouldn’t like to hear you
If you said that these are the best days of our lives
Other people turn around and laugh at you
The music is quite lovely in a melancholy sense, somewhat reminiscent of the structures and norms of the baroque rock of the mid-60’s. I adore the descending figure that serves as Graham Coxon’s guitar solo, where he repeats the relational pattern of the notes as he moves down the fretboard, reinforcing the motif of disappointment. The chorus harmonies are again excellent, and though it didn’t make the cut as a single, I’d have to say that “Best Days” is my favorite song on the album.
Our travels now take us to the place where most of us go to drown our troubles to meet the “Charmless Man,” the embodiment of a person decked out in all the trappings of status with all the depth of an evaporating puddle of rain. Though he meets all the criteria of one who “has it made” (a portfolio, an expensive and empty education from a superficially prestigious school and A-list entry to all the fashionable places), it’s all for naught, as his status fails to impress anyone. I’m certainly not impressed that “he knows his claret from his Beaujolais,” which is like knowing the difference between a Guinness and a Diet Coke. The only thing he’s got going for him is that all his acquaintances are equally charmless and completely supportive in maintaining appearances:
He thinks his educated airs, those family shares will protect him
That we’ll respect him
He moves in circles of friends who just pretend
That they like him, he does the same to them
And when you put it all together
There’s the model of a charmless man
It’s no surprise that his secret role model is Ronnie Kray, the head of a notoriously brutal criminal enterprise who evaded the authorities for quite some time because his nightclubs were popular with the Charmless Man Set. Perhaps if Ronnie were around today in our more corruption-supportive environment, he’d be up for Prime Minister, and if you doubt that assertion, let me draw your attention to the gangster enterprise running the United States. Our Charmless Man would be a great fit for the Trump administration, willing to mold himself into any shape likely to result in increased status, let values and integrity be damned. The rollicking music reflects a party where the musicians are trying with all their might to keep the good times going, and while it works just fine, I think a small horn section with growling saxophones and exaggerated trombone slides would have highlighted the gangsterism more effectively.
If you were searching for clues indicating that Blur was feeling a bit restless within the confines of Britpop, you need look no further than “Fade Away.” Though the theme of suburban ennui fits nicely within those boundaries, the music is . . . well . . . certainly Latin-influenced . . . almost but not quite mariachi . . . occasionally avant-garde dissonant but not quite jazz . . . electronically-spiced . . . with flavors of cheap and cheesy. The glue that holds it all together comes from Alex James on the bass, who clearly left it all in the studio and probably wound up with some impressive blisters on his fingers. Though the musical style may be hard to pin down, the lyrics tell a story of lives lost to cultural expectations that neither husband or wife understand in the least—like robots, they just do what they’re programmed to do:
They stumbled into their lives
In a vague way became man and wife
One got the other they deserved one another
They settled in a brand new town
With people from the same background
Of course they did. These are people in desperate need of sameness, because different is threatening. The most damning sequence appears in the second verse:
He noticed he had visible lines
She worried about her behind
Their birth had been the death of them
It didn’t really bother them
Their birth had been the death of them. For these people, life is summarized in the chorus: “All you ever do is fade away.” If I were to encounter this couple in the street, it would take every ounce of strength I have to stop myself from shouting, “Get off the fucking planet, assholes! You’re wasting space, food and energy!” I’d feel completely justified in doing so, because these are the sort of unaware people who feel threatened by diversity and vote their fears . . . and we’ve had enough of that lately, in both Britain and America.
“Topman” takes its name from the trendy menswear chain, and Blur was thoughtful enough to mention Hugo and Boss to avoid any perceptions of favoritism. I think this song is a hoot, not because of a brilliant musical structure or stunning lyrics but for the deep-voice background vocals repeating the syllable “Oh” with supporting harmonica in the opening passage. The sound reminds me of Johnny Preston’s “Running Bear,” a 1959 monument to American racism that tried to capitalize on the cowboys-and-Indians fascination of the time by featuring white people using low-scale vocalizations to mimic their perception of how “Indians” communicate. The young braves of England don’t dress up in war paint but they do cling to the latest fashions and compensate for their youthful lack of wealth by powering up putt-putt cars (Clios, Saxos and Fiats) and loudly cruising through the streets (the boy-racers in the States did the same to Hondas and old-model Acuras). The Nineties were the period when “personal branding” really began, led by the garment industry when they started using clothes to sell clothes by advertising on the clothes themselves. I try to imagine building my identity around the clothing brands I choose and the cigarettes I smoke and just get fucking depressed at the thought of it.
The Great Escape isn’t cynical! This is real shit, people! Kids have killed other kids for their Nikes! Wake the fuck up! Our societies create insanity!
As was true in Parklife, the weakest part of the album is in the middle. It begins with “The Universal,” a song featuring lyrics about a future where we all go into mass denial about the ugliness of reality with the assistance of a universal drug. As Aldous Huxley had already covered the concept pretty thoroughly in Brave New World, the song doesn’t break any new ground. Worse still, the music is as un-futuristic as one can imagine, a Mantovani-esque string-heavy arrangement with Henry Mancini overtones. “The Universal” began life as a ska number (bad idea) and was headed for the crapper until Damon Albarn “saved” the song with the string section. I think early Pulp might have been able to do something with the song, given their occasional experimental leanings, but as it is, it’s a promise of something big that fails to deliver. Unlike “The Universal,” “Mr Robinson’s Quango” skips the pretentious opening but also falls flat in a too-crude attack on political appointees who fatten themselves at the public trough. “He Thought of Cars” continues the mid-album slump using a weak metaphor of “things that are supposed to get us to destinations” that only brings us to Destination: Loneliness—a theme more effectively treated elsewhere on the album. The “meh” part of the album ends with “It Could Be You,” an exposé of the absurd fantasy that a person can only be happy when they win the lottery, a topic that would have been treated more effectively had they given us the end of the story—that many lottery winners wind up broke, besieged and in therapy.
The pre-mayoral version of Ken Livingstone steps into save the day with his drier-than-the-driest-martini narration of a typical day in the life of one Ernold Same:
Ernold Same awoke from the same dream
In the same bed at the same time
Looked in the same mirror, made the same frown
And felt the same way as he did every day
Then Ernold Same caught the same train
At the same station, sat in the same seat
With the same nasty stain
Next to same old what’s-his-name
On his way to the same place with the same name
To do the same thing again and again and again
Poor old Ernold Same
Blur then launches the musical version, a nicely layered vocal ensemble that confirms Ernold’s endless loop of sameness and adds a touch of compassion to the recitation of the all-too familiar dreary routine followed by billions of people across the globe.
When your single, solitary goal in life is to become the attractive, devil-may care rich guy in the television commercial, you are by definition a hollow man—and the lead character of “Globe Alone.” Anticipating the lo-fi adventures of their next album, Blur comes close to pop punk in this high-speed romp where Dave Rountree gets a nice workout and Damon Albarn does his best Johnny Rotten imitation on the choruses. The lead character is such a disconnected, self-centered loser that he a.) gets a stiff prick when he fondles his new cell phone, b.) fantasizes about Sharon Stone (I used to see her every now and then at the Whole Foods Market on California and Franklin back in the day and she was pretty hot) and c.) takes comfort in his insistence that he “wouldn’t be seen at bedtime/Without putting Calvin Kleins on.” Logic would dictate that the people who do the laundry for him learned to slip on sanitary gloves before they picked up his crusty shorts and tossed them into the wash. The contradiction between the assertive music and the happy-slappy la-la-las create a psychological tension that simply can’t hold, but rather than opting for the classic nervous breakdown, this hero of materialists everywhere opts to believe that the outside world exists for his convenience and no one else:
He is because he saw it on a commercial break
And if he doesn’t get what he wants then gets a headache
Because he needs it, wants it, almost, loves it
He’s here on his own, all globe alone
Here on his own, all globe alone
Here on his own
Please don’t introduce me to anyone like this guy. Ever.
And I’m not sure I’d like to meet “Dan Abnormal,” aka Damon Albarn sans the rockstar regalia. In this self-reflective piece, he describes his “real life” as one combining television binging with trips to McDonald’s, where he unnecessarily threatens the employees with bodily harm unless they cough up the burger and chips. Hardly the glamorous life of a celebrity, but I believe that’s the point of the song: to blow the rockstar image to smithereens and show his fan base that he’s subject to the same petty whims and neuroses that dominate their lives. At the time, Albarn was experiencing the classic identity crisis that comes with the shift from normal life to the spotlight, one of many cultural icons who have suffered its debilitating effects in the form of nervous breakdowns (Thom Yorke, Ray Davies) or immersion in the drug scene (too many to mention). Kurt Cobain bemoaned his depersonalizing experience in “Smells Like Team Spirit” in the line, “Here we are now—entertain us,” and Albarn echoes that sentiment in the opening stanza (“Meanie Leanie come on down/Come and entertain the town”). It’s a tricky balance between complaining about the fact that the transformation has given you wealth and the fame you thought you wanted and detached commentary about the fundamentally dehumanizing process of idolization, and I think Damon Albarn struck the right tone here.
Echoes of Kurt Cobain and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” appear in the penultimate track, “Entertain Me.” For those of you who are not Nirvana fans, I’m referring to the lines, “I feel stupid and contagious/Here we are now—entertain us!” Damon Albarn’s take is somewhat similar, directed more at the general population caught in the humdrum than demanding teenagers. The most interesting diversion comes in the second verse, where he takes on the transactional nature of mating in our technologically advanced society:
At his and hers dating
Bored minds agree
Requirements to be stated
And replies awaited
She wants a loose fit
He wants instant whip
Guesstimates her arrival
Will she want it really badly?
What a weird, weird world we have created.
The song opens up with a pattern that resembles a high-speed version of “I Am the Walrus,” but that proves to be a feint when Dave Rowntree enters and slows the perceived tempo. The deceleration actually serves to increase the energy of the song, as Rowntree’s punctuation gives the song a strong, steady beat. In contrast, Albarn’s vocals on the verses are half-narrated in a mechanical, bored-with-it-all tone that strengthens the theme of human detachment. The chord pattern features those subtle changes that excite me no end—a shift from the root A major in the verses to A minor in the chorus and pattern-closing adjustment from straight G to the augmented G to emphasize the sour note. The effect of those minuscule adjustments is palpable, complementing the bitter edge in the lyrics.
The Great Escape ends with a curious song about life in the Japanese workforce, “Yuko and Hiro.” Few cultures embraced workaholic behavior as thoroughly as the Japanese, but that embrace was not the manic behavior of Americans desperately trying to get ahead of each other but an allegedly honorable exchange of extra work for lifetime employment (at least in the larger firms). Although some progress has been made in the last two decades in reducing the length of the workweek, the norm of undying loyalty to the company still inspires overwork—so much so that the Japanese have a term for “death by overwork” (karoshi). This is the environment Blur attempts to capture in “Yuko and Hiro,” a deeply sad state of affairs where love and companionship are available only one day a week and booze is essential to survival:
We work for the company
That looks to the future
We work hard to please them
They will protect us
I never see you
We’re never together
I’ll love you forever
I drink in the evenings
It helps with relaxing
I can’t sleep without drinking
The music is appropriately morose and semi-tragic, featuring loose approximations of the dissonance (at least to Western ears) of Japanese music and some lovely vocals from a female trio. What I like about the song is that it makes listeners aware that the challenges of finding a meaningful life in the context of a consumerist culture aren’t limited to the British Isles, but represent a global quality-of-life challenge. I wish they would have let the song fade into oblivion rather than tacking on a harmonium-driven music hall fragment to the end, for it interferes with a very powerful closing message.
As things turned out, The Great Escape was hardly the end of Britpop (as Pulp would conclusively demonstrate with the biggest fucking exclamation point ever), but it was the end of Blur’s uneasy flirtation with the movement. Though they still remain popular in the Isles to this day, Blur and the individual members moved on to explore different forms of music, from electronica to lo-fi to hip-hop. Regardless of their later achievements, they will always be remembered for the trilogy, and I can’t listen to the Blur of the 90’s without wishing for a tectonic shift in popular tastes that embraces intelligent, melodic and socially-aware music.
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DTI (formerly Document Technologies, Inc., EED a DTI Company, Daticon-EED, or EED) May 2011 - March 2014
EED, a DTI Company October 2006 - May 2011
The Back Room, LLC 2001 - 2003
Litigation Support, IPRO, eCapture, SQL, ESI, Relativity, Data Analysis, Document Review, Process Improvement, Document Management, Software Documentation, Computer Forensics, Equivio, Microsoft SQL Server, Troubleshooting, iConect, T-SQL, Project Management, Database Administration, Quality Assurance, Analysis, Databases, SharePoint, Training, SQL 2008, RCA, Records Management, Windows, Nuix, Clearwell, Management, SQL Server, Legal Technology, Black Magic, Voodoo, Technical Support, Access, Windows 7, Visio, Forensic Analysis, Legal Assistance, EDRMS, Relativity Certified..., Litigation Consulting, Integration, Workday, Eclipse, Web Services, XML, XSLT
Aaron Dressler
Web Developer / Tenor Saxophone
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Computer Science and Information Systems and Technology, A
Berklee College of Music 2001 — 2004
Performance, Saxophones and Flute
Bump Kitchen July 2011 - Present
Aaron Dressler Design 2005 - Present
Hawaii Paipo Designs 2005 - Present
Aaron Emde
Technical Architect at AXmentor
BS, Informatics: Information Architecture
AA, Business Administration
AXmentor October 2013 - Present
Avanade September 2012 - October 2013
Multifaith Works September 2010 - September 2012
Your Sound Entertainment January 2011 - March 2011
Griptonite Games July 2010 - September 2010
Christine Komatsu May 2010 - June 2010
Mercury Seattle January 2010 - March 2010
World Class Communications March 2007 - December 2009
Mieko's Fitness August 2006 - March 2007
SQL, MySQL, HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Wordpress, Microsoft SQL Server, Joomla, Microsoft Office, Usability Testing, Microsoft Excel, Visio, Information Architecture, Strategic Planning, Visual Studio, Systems Analysis, Databases, Troubleshooting, HTML 5, XML, C#, Windows Server, Web Design, Database Design, Web Development, .NET, Windows XP
Aaron Gazes
Real Estate Broker at Realogics Sotheby's International Realty, Seattle WA
Eastern Washington University 2007 — 2009
The University of North Dakota 2002 — 2005
BS, Commercial Aviation
Honolulu Community College 2001 — 2002
Inglemoor High School 1999 — 2001
Commcercial Aviation
Realogics Sotheby's International Realty, Seattle WA February 2014 - Present
Asset Realty Group August 2012 - February 2014
206 Entertainment October 2009 - January 2012
Matts 2006 - 2008
Investment Properties, Entrepreneurship, Entertainment, Real Estate, Selling, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Producing, Strategic Planning, Recording, Marketing, Facebook, Event Management, Digital Media, Event Planning, Advertising, Management, Referrals, Relocation, Single Family Homes, First Time Home Buyers, Contract Negotiation, Sellers, Foreclosures, Short Sales, Real Estate Transactions, Investors, Condos, Residential Homes
Aaron Hsu
Aspiring Video Game Programmer/Designer
Chung-Hua University 2009 — 2014
Masters, Computer Science and Information Management
Associates, Digital Media and Animation
National Experimental High School Bilingual Department 1995 — 2004
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)(工業技術研究院, 工研院) July 2008 - August 2008
Circuit City November 2007 - August 2008
Illustrator, English, Time Management, Mac, Video Games, Matlab, Customer Service, Teamwork, Public Speaking, Microsoft Word, Research, Mandarin, Maya, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Troubleshooting, Social Media, Windows, Photography, C++, Labview, Mac OS, Project Management, Programming, Premiere, Game Development, After Effects, Editing, Adobe Creative Suite, Computer Repair, Mac OS X, 3D Modeling, Flash, Data Analysis, Microsoft Excel
Aaron Kempf
Database Expert, WordPress Fan
RedGate Conference 2012 — 2012
SQL Server, Hadoop, Tablular Model, Analysis Services, SQL Server, Hadoop, Tablular Model, Analysis Services
Washington State University - College of Business and Economics 1993 — 1998
MIS, Accounting, Econ, PoliSci, SpeechComm
SqlSoft 2001 — 2009
MCITP, Database Administrator SQL 2005
SQL Server, Computer Programming
Management Information Systems, Generall Studies
Woodinville High School 1990 — 1993
Diploma, Advanced Calculus, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program
Oracle User Group 2002 — 2006
Oracle, Oracle Business Intelligence
Gorge Networks June 2013 - Present
Consulting / Short-Term Projects February 2011 - Present
McFarland Cascade October 2012 - February 2014
EagleView Technologies - building services for HomeDepot.com December 2011 - October 2012
Alliance Enterprises November 2010 - December 2011
ePropertyData.com - a Division of the National Association of Realtors October 2008 - November 2010
ABC Legal Services May 2008 - July 2008
G4 Analytics June 2007 - April 2008
Expedia, Inc. June 2007 - June 2007
AETEA Information Technology March 2007 - May 2007
T-SQL, SSRS, Microsoft SQL Server, Database Design, SQL, Access, Analysis Services, IIS, Windows, Business Intelligence, Database Administration, Visio, MySQL, SSIS, ASP.NET, SharePoint, Relational Databases, Stored Procedures, DTS, Visual Studio, ETL, Data Warehousing, ASP, XML, .NET, Crystal Reports, Data Modeling, Software Development, Visual Basic, PHP, XHTML, VBA, Agile Methodologies, Testing, Data Marts, VBScript, SQL Server 2000-2008, Wordpress, VB.NET, CSS, SQL Tuning, SSAS, Cubes, Star Schema, Excel, SQL Server, SQL CLR, T-SQL Stored Procedures, Databases, OLAP
Aaron Matthew Holmes
Photographer at A.M.P. Studios
Digital Media, Digital Media Arts
None, Mastering Social Media, Unknown
G.E.D. Certificate, General Education, Graduated
Optimus Reports February 2012 - Present
A.M.P. Studios January 2012 - Present
Google February 2014 - July 2014
New Breed Games June 2012 - 2014
Apex Systems April 2012 - July 2012
Nintendo August 2011 - April 2012
Press 2011 - 2012
Microsoft August 2009 - June 2011
CoroWare / Microsoft August 2009 - August 2009
Microsoft Game Studios June 2008 - October 2008
Video Games, Quality Assurance, Testing, Wii, Computer Games, Software Quality..., MMO, Black Box Testing, Bug Tracking, JIRA, English, Attention To Detail, Team Leadership, Technical Reviews, Agile Testing, Test Planning, System Testing, Open to Learning, Learning Quickly, Press Releases, Customer Service, Technical Support, Test Cases, Software Tester, Perforce, Teamwork, Strategic Thinking, Typing, Dedicated to work, Social Media, Listener, Professional Experience, USB, Repetitive, Software Testing Life..., SDK development, Game Design, Microsoft Office, Social Networking, Game Development
Aaron Nilsen
Bachelor's Degree, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 3.52
Physics, Mathematics, Engineering
Government July 2015 - Present
University of Washington January 2014 - June 2014
University of Washington Rocket Team September 2012 - June 2013
Bellevue College July 2009 - June 2012
Bellevue College November 2010 - August 2011
Technical Writing, Critical Thinking, Physics, Matlab, Microsoft Office, Higher Education, PowerPoint, Research, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Data Analysis, Statistics, SolidWorks, Simulink, Mathematica, Student Affairs, Linux Server, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering
Aaron Pham
University of Washington Mechanical Engineering Graduate
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering
Associate in Science Track II: MRP* Civil, Mechanical & Other Engineering, Transfer Credits Only/Not Complete, 3.56
Eastlake High School 2009 — 2012
High School Diploma, 3.6
SolidWorks, Mechanical Engineering, Autodesk Maya, 3D Modeling, Teamwork, Leadership, Problem Solving, Concept Generation, Technical Writing, Matlab, Product Cost Analysis, Material Testing, Manufacturing, Machining, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Public Speaking, Customer Service, Engineering, Project Management, AutoCAD
Aaron Reed
.Net Application Developer, Lead at Virtuoso Ltd.
Pierce Community College 1999 — 2000
Virtuoso January 2011 - Present
Virtuoso March 2005 - January 2011
Adobe January 2005 - March 2005
IBM September 2003 - January 2005
Microsoft December 1999 - November 2002
PC Gamers Tech September 1999 - December 1999
Future Shop March 1997 - April 1999
C#, Microsoft SQL Server, JavaScript, Test Automation, IIS, Testing, Windows Server, MySQL, HTML, VBScript, PHP, C, Windows, Silverlight, Shell Scripting, .NET, AJAX, Agile Methodologies, Software Development, Software Quality..., T-SQL, TFS, Visual Studio, Web Services
Aaron E. Springer
Barista at Starbucks
Seattle Central Community College 2009 — 2015
Associated Arts Degree
Franklin High School 2005 — 2009
High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates
Starbucks October 2014 - Present
Springer Photography January 2009 - Present
Bartell Drugs April 2012 - October 2014
Safeway April 2008 - March 2012
Cashiering, Digital Photography, Customer Engagement, Customer Service, Photographic Printing, Photoshop, Lightroom, Wedding Photography, Retail, Sales, Data Entry, PowerPoint, Time Management, Telephone Skills, Research, Microsoft Word, Teamwork
Aaron Tarlyn
Business Analyst at National Frozen Foods
National Frozen Foods May 2011 - Present
Teleion Consulting February 2011 - April 2011
Corbis March 2006 - December 2010
Western Wireless Corp June 1998 - March 2006
Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Requirements Analysis, Business Intelligence, SSRS, Databases, Data Warehousing, QlikView, Stored Procedures, Agile Methodologies, Process Improvement, CRM, Requirements Gathering, Forecasting, Project Management, Analysis, Analytics, T-SQL
Aaron Wong-Weinrieb
Occupational Therapy Student at University of Washington
Masters in Occupational Therapy
Lake Washington Technical College 2012 — 2013
Pre-Occupational Therapy Studies
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Production Animation
Private Home Care May 2014 - January 2015
Lake Washington Institute of Technology January 2013 - August 2013
Aditi Technologies June 2011 - November 2011
Digipen Senior Film: War-Torn August 2010 - May 2011
Digipen Junior Game: Lux January 2010 - May 2010
3D, Maya, Art
Amanda Townsend
Event Management | Experiential Marketing | PR
Seattle University 2009 — 2013
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Strategic Communications
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS)
Union+Webster September 2015 - Present
Independent Contractor January 2012 - Present
City Arts Magazine June 2014 - September 2015
Seattle University November 2014 - November 2014
One Reel August 2013 - August 2014
b2d Marketing January 2014 - June 2014
Northwest Folklife May 2014 - May 2014
High Beam Events March 2014 - March 2014
Tolo Events LLC July 2013 - December 2013
VIBEHEAVY June 2013 - November 2013
Event Planning, Social Media, Marketing Communications, Social Media Marketing, Public Relations, Marketing, Strategic Communications, Community Engagement, Press Releases, Copywriting, Special Events..., Google Docs, Google Analytics, Hospitality Industry, Creative Strategy, Copy Editing, Talent Booking, Strategic Public..., Pitch Letters, Organizational..., Conversational Spanish, Hootsuite, Media Planning, Experiential Marketing
Andrew Bendokas
Game Tester at Nintendo at Parker Staffing Services
AA, Animation & Graphics
Parker Staffing Services September 2014 - Present
Seeking New Opportunities July 2013 - September 2014
Microsoft July 2012 - June 2013
Impact Studio Pro October 2011 - December 2011
Photoshop, Illustrator, Graphic Design, Illustration, Graphics, Maya, After Effects, Flash, Adobe Creative Suite, Lighting, Texture, 3D Modeling, Gaming, Gaming Industry, 3D modeling software, Motion Graphics, Visual Effects, Adobe Audition, After FX
Abhishek Sodhi
Financial Analyst Intern at Amazon
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Accounting and Finance
University of Portland 2010 — 2012
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Accounting & Finance
Associate of Science (AS), Chemistry
Amazon March 2014 - September 2014
Wells Fargo 2012 - August 2013
Ayush Herbs, Inc. 2010 - 2012
Merrill Lynch 2009 - 2010
Microsoft Excel, Financial Analysis, Finance, Management, Investments, Financial Accounting, Social Media, Microsoft Office, Advertising, Photoshop, Marketing Communications, Tax Accounting, Retail Banking, SQL, Cognos
Abirami Ramachandran
Scrum Master\Project Manager at AT&T
SmartPathLLC 2014 — 2014
Certificate course, Project Management
City University of Seattle 2002 — 2004
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science
Certificate course, Software and Automation Testing
University of Madras 1994 — 1997
Bachelor of Science (BS)
CGI Consulting onsite at AT&T May 2014 - August 2015
Crystal Equations consulting onsite at AT&T April 2011 - August 2013
T-Mobile September 2009 - March 2011
SmarTek21 March 2009 - August 2009
T-Mobile November 2005 - April 2008
Microsoft January 2005 - August 2005
AT&T April 2000 - June 2004
eSociety.com February 2000 - April 2000
BiTech January 1997 - May 1998
Business Requirements, Testing, SDLC, User Acceptance Testing, SharePoint, Test Planning, Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Requirements Analysis, Business Process, Visio, Software Project..., Agile Methodologies, Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, Business Process..., Project Management
Experienced web developer and software engineering manager. Bitcoin enthusiast.
Hennepin Technical College 1999 — 2003
Big Fish May 2015 - Present
Big Fish Games December 2012 - Present
Big Fish Games May 2010 - December 2012
Freelance 2002 - January 2012
Serena Software November 2007 - May 2010
CheckOutMyCards.com February 2007 - November 2007
Saint Paul College October 2005 - January 2007
Saint Paul College September 2006 - December 2006
OOP, jQuery, CSS, TDD, XML, Scrum, Web Applications, Test Driven Development, Java, PHP, C#, T-SQL, Software Development, JavaScript, Python, Agile Methodologies, Linux, HTML, Web Services, User Experience, Software Design, ASP.NET, Web Design, XHTML
Andrea Lu
Associate of Arts (A.A.)
Streambox, Inc. May 2015 - Present
Blucora December 2014 - May 2015
Yuan Spa 2014 - 2015
NBTY June 2012 - February 2014
Customer Service, Wellness, Event Planning, Nutrition, CPR Certified, Social Media, Teamwork, Social Media Marketing, Sales, HTML, Phone Etiquette, Multi-line Phone, Time Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Social Networking, Public Speaking
Achara Supaphakorn
AA, Animation and Graphics
Wellington Polytechnic
Adv Cert in Design, Design
BA, Motion Pictures and Still Photography
Kois Center February 2013 - Present
University of Washington October 2002 - July 2010
Media Passage May 2000 - September 2001
Media Passage December 1998 - May 2000
Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Web Design, Dreamweaver, Flash, HTML, CSS, Unix, Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, User Interface Design, Interaction Design
Aaron Cozzens
SQL Database Analyst/Developer
BS, Business Management Information Systems
na, Electrical Engineering
Adam Aly
Digipen Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Digital Art and Animation
Paramount Realty Group, Vida, Phlint, Minted, AdamAlyArt June 2014 - Present
Cascadia Pacific February 2014 - April 2014
RedDogStudio January 2014 - April 2014
Volt June 2008 - September 2008
Best Buy October 2006 - April 2008
Microsoft May 2007 - September 2007
Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator, Layout, Graphic Design, Max, AfterEffects, Zbrush, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, Digital Illustration, Image Manipulation, 3D animation, ArtRage, 3D Layout Artist, Computer Graphics, DigiPen, Video Games, Animation, Texturing, 3D Studio Max, Art, Illustration, 3D Modeling, Graphics, Unity, Computer Animation, ZBrush, After Effects
Adam Crabtree
Informaticist at Boulder Community Hospital
Southwestern Oklahoma State University 1989 — 1996
B.S., Pharmacy
Certificate, Health IT & Clinical Informatics Foundations
Boulder Community Hospital August 2013 - Present
Virginia Mason Medical Center April 2012 - Present
Pacific Medical Centers 2004 - September 2013
Jefferson Healthcare December 2009 - June 2012
Maxor National Pharmacies October 2003 - December 2009
Cameron & Company 2000 - 2003
Virginia Mason Medical Center 1999 - 2001
NCS Healthcare 1997 - 1999
Patient Education, Meditech, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Practice, Clinical Pharmacology, Medication..., BLS, Anticoagulation, Cerner, Pharmacoeconomics, Patient Counseling, ACLS, Healthcare Consulting, Rhetorical Analysis, Urology, Pharmacokinetics, Acute Care, Pharmacology, Pyxis, Immunization, Certified Immunizer, Compounding, Leadership, Trainers, Discharge Med Rec
Adam Foy
Seeking Employment
Amazon Web Services February 2015 - Present
Caring for Kids June 2007 - Present
Lowe's Home Improvement May 2012 - December 2014
Quick Ship Electronics July 2009 - February 2012
Adam Lile
Client Partner at FranklinCovey
FranklinCovey April 2015 - Present
Next Phase Enterprises January 2012 - December 2014
Gobo Enterprises 2004 - January 2012
Behringer Harvard October 2008 - October 2009
Edward Jones January 2007 - October 2008
Sales, Marketing Strategy, Business Planning, Retail, Marketing, Sales Management, Project Management, Time Management, Account Management, Finance, Strategic Planning, Forecasting, Program Management, Contract Negotiation, Leadership, Customer Service
Adam Lindgren
Wheaton College 2012 — 2016
Bachelor of Music, Composition
Lake Washington High School 2007 — 2010
Diploma, N/A, 10-12
Cornish College of the Arts 2010 — 2011
Music Theory and Composition
Kirkland Junior High School 2004 — 2007
Discovery Community School 1998 — 2004
Wheaton College Concert Choir May 2015 - Present
Exceptional Choir Events August 2012 - Present
Wheaton College Symphony Orchestra October 2013 - May 2015
Wheaton College Thundertones (A Cappella) September 2012 - May 2015
Wheaton College Symphony Orchestra September 2012 - May 2015
Wheaton College Men's Glee Club August 2012 - May 2015
Heathman Hotel Kirkland June 2014 - August 2014
B.O.N.E August 2011 - July 2014
New American Chorus February 2014 - February 2014
Wheaton College Media Relations November 2013 - November 2013
Composition, Vocalist, Social Media, Orchestral Music, Trombone, Arranger, Tuba, Directing, Sound Editing, Choral, Editing, Event Planning, Music, Singing, Teaching, Acting
Adam Major
Sr. Sourcing and Production Manager at Eddie Bauer
University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business 2005 — 2008
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, Business
Associate in Business with Honors, Business Administration
Eddie Bauer December 2014 - Present
Eddie Bauer February 2013 - December 2014
Eddie Bauer March 2011 - February 2013
Eddie Bauer October 2008 - March 2011
Product Development, Product Management, Apparel, Sportswear, Wovens, Denim, Knitwear, Production, Retail, Global Sourcing, Sourcing, Trend Analysis, Trend, Fashion, Inventory Management, Fashion Design, Textiles, Merchandising, Private Label
Adam Maloy
Software Development Engineer in Build at Microsoft TrygTech
C# Programming Level 1 certificate, C# Programming
Jackson High School 1996 — 1999
Microsoft - TrygTech January 2011 - Present
TrygTech October 2010 - January 2011
Microsoft - TrygTech February 2010 - September 2010
Microsoft - TrygTech February 2008 - February 2010
Microsoft - Volt 2005 - October 2007
Microsoft - Volt February 2000 - October 2004
Windows Mobile, Windows CE, Mobile Devices, Testing, Software Quality..., Windows Phone, Software Development, Test Planning, Test Automation
Adam Ryman
Value Creator
Informatics, Philosophy
Computer Science Transfer, Computer Science
Redmond High School 2007 - 2010
Web Application Intern June 2014 - September 2014
BlackRock November 2013 - June 2014
StudentRND June 2010 - June 2013
Tapin November 2011 - June 2012
Bellevue College September 2011 - June 2012
LetsTea.ch October 2011 - October 2011
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory June 2011 - August 2011
Interrobang Interactive December 2009 - June 2010
Python, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Basic, Action script, Social Network Analysis, Data Mining, Microsoft Office, Illustrator, Photoshop, Photography, Wowza Media Server, Visual Basic, General troubleshooting, Google, Linux, PHP, Troubleshooting, Windows, Ruby, Java, Computer Science, ActionScript, Web Development, SQL, MySQL, C++
Adam Semon
IT Tech Support at Support Space
Liberty High School 1991 — 1996
Support Space October 2011 - Present
US Census Bureau April 2010 - June 2010
Primerica Financial Services January 2010 - June 2010
Sigma Alimentos March 2009 - September 2009
Circuit City October 2008 - December 2008
Westlake Hardware March 2008 - September 2008
WinkwinkNodnod, LLC August 2005 - March 2008
Cryptocybernetics 2005 - 2008
Huling Brothers August 2003 - September 2004
Bartell Drugs November 2003 - March 2004
Web Design, Sales, CSS, Retail, PHP, Advertising, Customer Service, HTML, MySQL, Brand Development, Quality Assurance, Time Management
Erin Adams
Volunteer Connections Program Manager at Human Services Council
The Evergreen State College 2005 — 2008
Bachelor's degree, Political Economy; Pre-Law; Popular education; Business Management
Transfer, General Studies, 3.92
Human Services Council - VC February 2015 - Present
Volunteer February 2013 - February 2015
AmeriCorps VISTA November 2012 - February 2015
Columbia Crossings May 2012 - November 2012
AmeriCorps VISTA April 2010 - April 2012
Kitchen Design Center September 2007 - May 2009
John Erwin Remodeling, Inc. February 2007 - September 2007
Northwest Harley-Davidson May 2006 - August 2006
Northwest Harley-Davidson October 2005 - May 2006
Barrier Motors June 2001 - August 2005
Automotive, Customer Service, Microsoft Office, Sales Management, Negotiation, Continuous Improvement, Strategic Planning, Project Management, Workshop Facilitation, Marketing Communications, Human Factors, Human Development, Proposal Writing, Editing, Employee Training, Volunteer Training, Volunteer Management, Leadership, Program Management, Community Outreach, Training, Event Management, Marketing, Recruiting, Nonprofits, Data Entry, Social Media, Team Building, Grants, Research, Event Planning, Fundraising, Newsletters, Interviews, Grant Writing, Community Organizing, Press Releases, Program Development, Youth Development, Public Speaking, Volunteering, Leadership Development, Community Development, Management, Program Evaluation, Teaching, Organizational..., Writing, Social Networking, Microsoft Word
Adam Tabor
Software Test Engineer || IT Professional
N/A, Communication
Costco Wholesale August 2014 - Present
AIM Consulting Group July 2012 - May 2014
Microsoft March 2011 - June 2013
Microsoft August 2008 - November 2010
Microsoft April 2007 - April 2008
Zipper Interactive April 2006 - April 2007
Microsoft September 2005 - May 2006
Test Planning, Xbox 360, Testing, Test Automation, Manual Testing, Test Cases, Visual Studio, Software Quality..., Scrum, Bugzilla, Xbox, Automation, JIRA, Regression Testing, Multiplayer
Adam Walczyk
Retail Sales Lead at Brooks Running
University of Washington Bothell 2011 — 2015
Business Management, Marketing, Finance
Associate in Arts and Sciences, Engineering/Business Administration
Brooks Running August 2014 - Present
O'Reilly Auto Parts May 2013 - September 2013
MAD Anthony's Inc. May 2009 - October 2010
Branzino Restaurant February 2008 - December 2008
Marketing, Public Speaking, Access, Market Research, Facebook, Social Networking, Social Media, Teamwork, Time Management, PowerPoint, Leadership, Event Management, Microsoft Excel, Customer Service, Outlook, Data Analysis, Sales, Microsoft Word
Adina Delgeanu
Operations Coordinator at Microsoft
Program Certification, On the Job Communications
Program Certification, Preparing for Work
University of Bucharest 2004 — 2008
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Foreign Languages (English-German)
Microsoft University Recruiting August 2015 - Present
Microsoft Global Product Engineering via Loft9 October 2013 - September 2014
Microsoft Global Product Engineering via adaQuest September 2012 - September 2013
Bellevue Arts Museum May 2012 - December 2012
Prime Telecom 2008 - 2009
Student Services - College of Foreign Languages April 2005 - June 2008
Time Management, Foreign Languages, Telecommunications, Customer Service, Microsoft Office, Project Planning, Job candidate screening, Event Planning, Logistics, Office Management, International Relations, Localization, Visual Studio, Product Studio, International Project..., Training, Management
Adrien Lo
Interactive Developer at Radius Inc
Radius Inc. - mobile.cloud.data.APIs April 2014 - Present
POSSIBLE September 2013 - February 2014
Tier 3 May 2011 - September 2013
Hornall Anderson July 2005 - May 2011
RockPaperScissors/RPS Life October 2007 - January 2010
Dual May 2005 - July 2005
POP February 2005 - April 2005
Zaaz July 2004 - November 2004
Adrienne Schultz
Service, Sales, Reporting & Analytics
Certificate, Human Resources Management
BS, Geology, Geography
Mazlo May 2014 - Present
Alere Wellbeing April 2011 - April 2014
Alere Wellbeing (formerly Free & Clear) March 2008 - April 2011
Ultreo 2006 - 2008
Bellevue High School 2003 - 2006
tw telecom 1996 - 2002
Sales, Salesforce.com, Account Management, Strategic Planning, Training, Employee Benefits, Recruiting, New Business Development, Team Building, Social Media, Microsoft Office, HubSpot, Nimble, OneSource, Data.com
Adrienne Marie Pollock
Senior Consultant (content focus) at Logic20/20, Inc.
Seattle Pacific University 2008 — 2011
Bachelor's of Arts in Creative Writing
Blackheart Honeymoon July 2013 - Present
Logic20/20, Inc. August 2011 - Present
Self-Employed September 2011 - June 2014
ReachingNotoriety.com 2013 - April 2014
Skype April 2013 - October 2013
The Mountaineers Books July 2011 - August 2011
Western and Central WA Alzheimer's Association April 2010 - August 2011
Seattle's Office of Economic Development May 2011 - June 2011
The Falcon, SPU Student Newspaper September 2010 - June 2011
Seattle Pacific University January 2010 - March 2010
Editing, Copywriting, Copy Editing, Proofreading, Writing, Technical Writing, Creative Writing, Feature Writing, Resume Writing, Program Management, Office Administration, Attention To Detail, Multitasker, AP Style, Press Releases, Editorial, Content Management, Newsletters, Social Media, Blogging
Agnieszka Kroczek
Polish LQA Tester at adaQuest
Certificate, Graphic Design
University of Gdansk 1999 — 2004
MA, Russian Language and Literature
Master of Arts (MA), English Language and Literature
English Teacher Training College in Raciborz 1996 — 1999
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor
typechromatics November 2012 - Present
Interpreter April 2007 - Present
adaQuest April 2015 - June 2015
Pacific Interpreters - Language Line Solutions Company March 2009 - December 2013
Moya Maya March 2009 - January 2010
Voiance Language Services June 2008 - July 2009
FC Translations December 2005 - August 2006
Mackenzie Consulting February 2004 - September 2005
Top English School 2000 - 2005
Localization, Language Services, English, Translation, Editing, Graphic Design, Logo Design, Brochures, Website Localization, Intercultural..., InDesign, Interpreting, Technical Translation, Copy Editing, Linguistics, Foreign Languages, Graphics, Drawing, Web Design, Adobe Creative Suite, Desktop Publishing, Photography, Language Teaching, Newsletters, Posters, Proofreading, Literature, Illustrator, Trados, Dreamweaver, Copywriting, Typography, Simultaneous..., Layout, Medical Translation, Polish, Digital Photography, Globalization, Art, WordPress, Legal Translation, Transcription, Grammar, Business Cards
Aguido Macandog
Test Analyst at Costco Wholesale
Certificate, Software Testing and Quality Assurance
Certificate, Web Technology Solutions
ATA, Computer Information Systems - Web Specialist
Costco Wholesale February 2013 - Present
Costco Wholesale October 2008 - January 2013
Costco Wholesale October 2005 - October 2008
Edmonds Community College September 2002 - May 2004
CSS, JavaScript, XHTML, PHP, IBM Websphere Commerce, Web Development, MySQL, XML, Photoshop, jQuery, User Experience, E-commerce, Quality Assurance, Software Quality..., Test Execution, ClearQuest, Test Design, Blueprint, Bug Tracking, Google Apps, ALM, Supervisory Skills, SEO, Team Leadership, Web Applications, Testing, CMS, SQL
Ahad Sheriff
Student, Developer, Entrepreneur
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Computing Security, Freshman
Skyline High School 2011 — 2015
Muslim Community Resource Center (MCRC) Seattle 2011 - Present
Web Development, Swift, Objective-C, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Applications, Start-ups, Marketing, Writing, Blogging, Social Networking
Ahmad Zeki, Juris Doctor
Client Development Manager at Garretson Resolution Group
Concord Law School - Kaplan University 2005 — 2008
Juris Doctor (JD), Law
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Arts and Sciences
Redmond High School 1996 — 1998
Garretson Resolution Group October 2014 - Present
National Healthcare Exchange Services, Inc. March 2013 - October 2014
Realty World - Complete Real Estate March 2010 - July 2013
MetLife April 2009 - January 2011
The Hartford January 2005 - April 2009
Marketing, Microsoft Excel, Economics, Real Estate, PowerPoint, Public Speaking, Outlook, Negotiation, Customer Service, Contract Negotiation, Sales, Customer Satisfaction, Team Building, Purchasing, Budgets, Management, Process Scheduler, First Time Home Buyers, Microsoft Office, Inventory Management, Insurance, Strategic Planning, Risk Management, Leadership, New Business Development, Analysis, Sales Operations, Direct Sales, Cold Calling, Project Planning, Sellers, Residential Homes, Short Sales, Investment Properties, Foreclosures, Referrals, REO, Real Estate Transactions, Investors, SFR, Buyer Representation, Single Family Homes, New Home Sales, Real Property, Condos, Property, Relocation, Resellers, Sales Management
Ahmed Homsi, MBA
COMPTIA 2008 — 2008
Project +
Alexandria University 1991 — 1998
Nintendo 2014 - Present
Business Analysis, Visio, Data Analysis, Business Requirements, Cross-functional Team..., Access, Customer Relations, Team Leadership, Customer Satisfaction, Telecommunications, SQL, Problem Solving, Call Center, Analysis, Excel, Business Intelligence, Agile, Customer Service, MS Project, Team Building, Requirements Analysis, PowerPoint, Project Planning, Databases, SQL Server, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Atlas, Relationship Management, Microsoft SQL Server, Agile Methodologies, SDLC, Call Centers, Program Management, Management, Strategy, Salesforce.com, Analytics, Software Documentation, Training, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Testing, Agile Project Management, SharePoint, Process Improvement, CRM, Vendor Management, Oracle, Requirements Gathering, Business Process...
Anna Houston
Bookkeeper/HR at Intava Corporation
AA, Accounting
Intava Corporation August 2006 - Present
HR Novations December 2003 - March 2005
Aiden Ho
Issaquah, Washington
Photo Tech Specialist at Walgreens
Administrative Assistant and Advanced Business Software Specialist Certificates, Business/Office Automation/Technology/Data Entry, 3.36
Mount Rainier High School 1996 — 2000
Walgreens August 2009 - Present
Walgreens November 2007 - July 2009
Delta International Technologies September 2006 - October 2007
IPTN North America June 2006 - September 2006
Japanese Gourmet Restaurant June 2001 - September 2001
Microsoft Office, Access, Excel, Vlookup, Pivot Tables, Visual Basic macros, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Adobe Creative Suite, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, IBM AS/400, Windows Vista, XP, 7,..., 10 Key Typing By Touch, Typing Speed: 48 wpm, Windows File and Disk..., Project Management, Time Management, Inventory Management, Order Management, Record Keeping, Payment Transaction..., High Level Of Accuracy, Extremely Organized..., Problem Solving, Reliable, Flexible, Strong Team Player, Cross-cultural..., Nine Years Customer..., Up-selling, Cross Selling, OSHA Certified, Microsoft Excel
Aimee Sheridan
Divisional Executive Director of Development at The Salvation Army Northwest Division
The Salvation Army Northwest Division February 2015 - Present
A Sheridan Company September 2013 - Present
TEDxSeattle September 2014 - Present
Auction of Washington Wines December 2013 - December 2014
PAWS October 2009 - October 2013
Aimee Sheridan - consultant August 2009 - November 2009
Boys & Girls Clubs of King County August 2005 - August 2009
The Salvation Army 2001 - 2005
Non-profits, Fundraising, Volunteer Management, Stewardship, Annual Giving, Community Outreach, Philanthropy, Grant Writing, Board Development, Event Planning, Public Speaking, Public Relations, Fundraisers, Grants, Event Management, Non-profit..., Resource Development, Program Development, Strategic Communications, Marketing Communications, Social Media, Media Relations, Leadership, Strategy, Nonprofits, Newsletters, Press Releases, Community Organizing, Strategic Planning, Marketing
Aisha Salman
Health Information Management Major at University of Washington
Bachelors of Health Informatics and Health Information Management, Heath Informatics
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.)
SHIMA 2015 - 2015
Medina Academy September 2009 - June 2010
La Petite Academy April 2008 - November 2008
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Access, Writing policy and..., Teaching, C++, Customer Service, Software Project..., PowerPoint, Agile Methodologies, Curriculum Design, .NET, Healthcare, C#
Adam Batten
Survey Statistician Data Scientist at Veterans Health Administration Health Services Research & Development
AS, Physics
VA HSR&D August 2008 - Present
VA HSR&D May 2008 - August 2012
NIH 2006 - 2008
Statistical Programming, Database Analysis, Mathematical Modeling, CV, R, Statistics, SAS, Stata, Perl, SQL, Physics, SPSS, Numerical Analysis, LaTeX, Biostatistics, Mathematica, Statistical Modeling, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Data Analysis, Data Mining, Algorithms, Time Series Analysis, Neural Networks, Survival Analysis, Experimental Design, Programming, Multivariate Analysis, SAS programming, Multivariate Statistics, Statistical Consulting, S-Plus, Research, Text Mining, WinBUGS, Predictive Modeling, ANOVA, JMP, Analysis
Andreja AJ Trbojevic
Network and Security Engineering at Microsoft
Associates in Arts and Sciences, Network Administration
Microsoft June 2015 - Present
Microsoft (V- Contractor) October 2013 - June 2015
Univar December 2012 - November 2013
Telnes January 2012 - December 2012
Evergreen Healthcare / Denali Advanced March 2011 - February 2012
Cisco Technologies, Troubleshooting, Network Engineering, Networking, VPN, Routing, Data Center, Switches, VoIP, Cisco IOS, OSPF, Routers, MPLS, System Deployment, DNS, DHCP, Security, IPSec, Cisco Routers, STP, BGP, IPv6, Adtran, Enterprise Switching, Cisco Nexus, HSRP, L2TP, Ethernet over Copper, Solarwinds, Disaster Recovery, ASA, Juniper, F5 BigIP, Network Security, NX-OS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR, Nexus 7k, OpenFlow, SDN, Cisco ASR, vPC, HPNA, Riverbed, Fortinet, ArcSight, QoS, Network Architecture, Network Design, Windows Server
A.J. Kishel
Systems Security Administrator
Associate of Arts and Sciences, Computer Science
Associate of Arts, Network Services & Communications
Associate of Technical Arts, Information Security & Digital Forensics
Certificate, Digital Forensics
Kishel Consulting 2000 - Present
Edmonds Community College 2010 - 2010
King County Department of Information and Administrative Services, ITS Division 1998 - 2000
McCaw Cellular 1991 - 1995
Bellevue Community College 1990 - 1993
Network Security, Troubleshooting, Security, Computer Hardware, Active Directory, Windows 7, Network Administration, Computer Security, Windows Server, Firewalls, Information Security, VPN, Networking
Austin (Krause) Ruthruff
Technical Writer / Desktop Support Technician at http://www.groovyPost.com
http://www.groovyPost.com September 2007 - Present
Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. January 2007 - November 2008
Jamba Juice January 2007 - January 2008
Quixtar 2005 - 2008
Customer Service, Troubleshooting, Sales, Technical Support, Customer Support, Customer Satisfaction, Process Scheduler, Networking, Computer Repair, Software Documentation, Outlook, Inventory Management, Training, Team Building, Microsoft Office, Time Management, Computer Hardware, Call Center, Small Business, Data Entry
Amandeep Kainth
Supply Chain Management Analyst Intern at Boeing
University of Washington Bothell School of Business 2013 — 2016
Bachelor’s Degree, Finance & Management Information Systems
Hazen highschool
Boeing 2015 - Present
Bank of America June 2013 - Present
Boeing June 2014 - September 2014
Best Buy October 2012 - September 2013
Pacific Market Research November 2010 - October 2012
Data Analysis, Data Entry, Networking, Market Analysis, Presentations, Sales, Sales Presentations, Cross-functional..., Referrals, Financial Transactions, Problem Solving, Databases, Customer Service, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Relations, Adaptation, Adaptive Learning, Leadership, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office
Akash Kiran Kaur
Technical Recruiter at Tech Species LLC
Certification, Recruiting and Retaining Talented Work Force
Punjabi University 2006 — 2008
MBA, HR
Tech Species LLC June 2010 - Present
Oscar Leathers Pvt Ltd. June 2008 - October 2009
Steel Strips Wheel Ltd. June 2007 - August 2007
Alana Chesley, PMP
Leading teams and processes toward improved efficiencies and cost savings.
Classes taken
Yakima Valley Community College
Bridge Partners Consulting May 2013 - November 2014
Microsoft 2006 - January 2013
Microsoft 2006 - 2007
SeaMED 1992 - 1997
Gretag 1990 - 1993
Cross-functional Team..., Program Management, Product Development, Vendor Management, Manufacturing, Management, Product Planning, Leadership, Hardware, Engineering, Product Management, Risk Management, Project Management, Process Improvement, Mechanical Engineering, International Project..., Budgets, Engineering Management, Process Simulation, Team Building, Team Leadership, Timeline Management, Team Coordination, Executive Communications, Design Review, Product Lifecycle..., Product Design, Budget Management, Process, Process Development, Process Management, Procedure Development, Procedure Creation, Mentoring, Staff Mentoring, Staff Training, Customer Focus, Leadership Communication, Global Projects, Risk Mitigation, Project Scoping, Opportunity Assessments, Product Conception, Process Efficiencies, Escalation Management, Reliability Analysis, Assembly, Microsoft, Teamwork, Administrative...
Alana Ray Osborne
Cultivating change on step at a time!
Master's Degree, Mass Communication
Bachelor's Degree, Journalism and Mass Communication
Associate's Degree, Arts and Science, 3.9
Mercer Island High School 2008 — 2011
Public Insight Network (PIN Bureau) January 2015 - Present
Story Sisters January 2015 - Present
Patient Empowerment Network June 2015 - July 2015
2015 Graduate Class Broadcast News Packages August 2014 - December 2014
Eight, Arizona PBS January 2014 - June 2014
Eight, Arizona PBS May 2013 - January 2014
WinInFaceOfLoss (Blog) August 2012 - January 2014
Eight, Arizona PBS January 2013 - May 2013
Operation Night Watch January 2006 - December 2012
Kiss FM May 2012 - August 2012
Social Media, Editing, Radio, Public Speaking, Social Media Marketing, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Marketing, Blogging, Web Managment, Advertising, Social Networking, Facebook, HTML, Adobe Creative Suite, Promotions, Microsoft Office, Broadcast, PowerPoint, Event Planning, Research, Video Production, Multimedia journalism, Communication Planning, Community Outreach, Community Engagement, Storytelling, Video, Multimedia, Writing
Alan Ewing
System Design and Integration Specialist at The Boeing Company
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Drafting Technology
The Boeing Company March 2007 - April 2015
The Boeing Company February 2003 - March 2004
The Boeing Company September 1992 - March 1996
The Boeing Company March 1992 - September 1992
The Boeing Company March 1987 - February 1992
Integration, Configuration Management, Systems Engineering, Requirements Management, Aerospace, Testing, Requirements Analysis, Process Improvement, System Design, Software Engineering, Visio, Earned Value Management, Software Development, Engineering Management, ClearCase, Avionics, Software Documentation, System Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Catia, Visual Studio, ClearQuest, Software Project..., Cross-functional Team..., Microstation, VBScript, Shell Scripting, Aircraft, VB.NET, Product Lifecycle..., Solid Edge, Windows 7, CATIA
Alan Stuart Eskenazy
AudioVideoWeb Production, IT, Marketing, DJ
Certified in Adobe Flash, Information Technology
Specialized Program for Radio Broadcasting and Marketing, Radio Broadcasting and Marketing
Martini Design July 2008 - Present
Spunk FM 2004 - Present
Delilah Radio November 2004 - January 2008
Microsoft October 1998 - December 2003
KJR 950 AM July 1990 - June 1991
KLSY 92.5 FM - KJZZ 1540 AM July 1981 - June 1989
Social Media, Entertainment, Broadcast, Video Production, Webmaster, Graphic Design, Computer Graphics, Motion Graphics, IT Operations, IT Strategy, Audio Post Production, Camera Operating, Studio Lighting, Radio Broadcasting, DJ, Radio Host, Radio Programming, Radio Producing, Audio Editing, Audio Production, Audio Engineering, VJ
Alan Capps
Program Manager at Zipwhip
AA, General
Cedarcrest 1999 — 2003
High School Degree, General, emphasis on Computer Science.
Zipwhip January 2011 - Present
AT&T, TEKsystems April 2008 - March 2011
AT&T, TEKsystems August 2006 - April 2008
Microsoft, Volt October 2005 - July 2006
Safeway June 2002 - October 2005
Quality Assurance, Testing, Telecommunications, Mobile Devices, Team Leadership, Agile Methodologies, Wireless, VoIP, Leadership, Program Management, Management, Software Project..., Vendor Management, Product Management, Project Management
Albert Yee
Supply Chain Buyer Planner
Bachelor, Business
BA, Marketing
Ingraham HS
OTR Wheel Engineering, Inc October 2012 - Present
Blackstone OTR January 2012 - October 2012
Greater Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce September 2009 - November 2011
Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Logistics, Inventory Management, Microsoft Office, Process Improvement, Management, Microsoft Excel, Event Planning, Training, Event Management, Marketing, Microsoft Word, Customer Service
Albert Squiers
Director of Technology Recruiting at Fuel Talent
Fuel Talent May 2014 - Present
WideNet Consulting Group August 2011 - May 2014
thePGCgroup March 2008 - July 2011
The PGC Group March 2008 - December 2008
Consultants Exchange USA Inc February 2008 - April 2008
Impact Enterprise February 2007 - January 2008
Sourcing, Recruiting, Technical Recruiting, Interviews, Internet Recruiting, Management, Leadership, Contract Recruitment, Talent Acquisition, Contract Negotiation, Executive Search, Permanent Placement, Staffing Services, Hiring, Negotiation, Temporary Placement
Alexander Melamed
Program Manager at Aplana Software
Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University) 2006 — 2009
PhD, Computer Science
Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation 2003 — 2006
Master of Science (MS), Financial Management, Economics
Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering
Aplana Software June 2007 - Present
enTourage Systems, Inc. 2011 - 2012
Aplana Software 2005 - 2007
Alexandra Chauran
Fortune Teller and Author
B.S., Zoology, Clinical Pastoral Education
M.I.T., Teaching
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Public Administration, 4.0 GPA
Springbrook Academy of Fine Art
Aura Drawing
Public Speaking, Blogging, Teaching, Social Media, Editing, Microsoft Office, Fundraising, Community Outreach, Public Relations, Non-profits, Event Planning, Tarot, Event Management, Facebook, Creative Writing, Curriculum Design, Research, Spanish, Grant Writing, Volunteer Management, Social Networking, Nonprofits, Entrepreneurship, Entertainment, Leadership, Television, Motivational Speaking, Social Media Marketing, Copywriting, Online Marketing, Newsletters, Books
Alex Gilliom
Bastyr University 2015 — 2017
Central Washington University 2007 — 2011
Associates of Arts and Sciences
Alex Hayward
Quality Assurance Engineer II at Apptio
Software Test Automation
Lake Washington Institute of Technology 2005 — 2009
3D Animation and Design
Apptio December 2014 - Present
Microsoft April 2014 - December 2014
Amazon September 2013 - April 2014
Nuance Communications August 2012 - September 2013
Freelance March 2011 - August 2013
Parenting Time Dot Net September 2009 - June 2012
Software Quality..., Mobile Applications, Mobile Devices, HTML 5, JIRA, Quality Assurance, Black Box Testing, Testing, Test Cases, Test Case Generation, Test Automation, Scrum, CSS, JavaScript, Android, Localization Testing, Java, Python, Test Planning, Jenkins, TestLink, Accessibility Testing, Usability Testing, Performance Testing, Regression Testing, Integration, Manual Testing, Software Engineering
D. Alex Howard
Managing Partner at Ad Ventures Design & Marketing
Ad Ventures Brand-Strategy-Design, Seattle & Phoenix 1987 - Present
Pacific Nautilus Corp. 1984 - 1987
Online Marketing, Web Design, Copywriting, Advertising, SEO, Marketing Communications, Art Direction, Creative Work, Business Strategy, Google Analytics, Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, WordPress, Brand Development, Digital Marketing, Business Communications, Graphic Design, New Business Development, Managing Associates, Creative Direction, Name Development, Entrepreneurship, Business Coaching, Marketing Strategy, Integrated Marketing, Strategic Consulting, Direct Mail, Online Advertising, Digital Strategy, SEM, Email Marketing, Lead Generation, Strategy, Digital Media
Alexis Jensen
Mechanical Engineering Intern at Spiration
Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering- Nanoscience and Molecular Focus, 3.69
Central Oregon Community College 2011 — 2013
Pre-Engineering, 3.58
Methodist Ladies' College
Redmond High School
Olympus Respiratory America - Spiration June 2015 - Present
University of Washington Cell Biomechanics Lab December 2014 - April 2015
Club Z! In-Home Tutoring Services September 2013 - March 2014
Trattoria Sbandati September 2011 - July 2013
Starbucks September 2010 - January 2012
Union Jack School of English August 2009 - June 2010
Microsoft Office, Technical Writing, Laboratory Skills, Statistics, Mechanics of Materials, Communication, Italian languages, Matlab, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Cryopreservation, Dissection, Engineering Statistics, Design, SolidWorks, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular & Cellular..., Human Anatomy, Organization Skills, Customer Service, Problem Solving, Management, Microsoft Excel, Engineering, AutoCAD, Mechanical Engineering, Leadership, CAD, R&D, Research, Product Development, Project Management, Public Speaking, PowerPoint, Testing, LabVIEW, Data Analysis
Alexis Waters
Bellingham, Washington Area
Motivated Marketer with Emphasis on Social Media
Associate's degree, Marketing/Marketing Management, General
Glass City Communications 2012 - Present
Verizon Wireless June 2006 - June 2012
Telecommunications, Customer Experience, Call Centers, Email Marketing, Wireless, Call Center, Cellular Communications, CDMA, 4G, LTE, Customer Satisfaction, Mobile Devices, Customer Retention, M2M, EVDO, VoIP, Customer Service, 3G, Vendor Management, GSM, Account Management, Direct Sales, Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Access, Voice Acting, Advertising, Online Marketing, Online Advertising, Online Journalism, Marketing Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Communications, Creative Writing, Typing, Social Media
Network & Systems Administrator at PSC Power Systems Consultants
Associate in Applied Science-T Degree, Network Services & Computing Systems, 4.0
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business 2009 — 2011
Bachelor's Degree, Corporate Finance, GPA: 3.6
Nevsky Institute of Language and Culture 2000 — 2003
Bachelor of Arts, Public Relations
PSC - Power Systems Consultants January 2015 - Present
Microsoft February 2012 - September 2014
HireJ1.com (Internet start-up) January 2011 - August 2011
Flashcity June 2010 - August 2010
US Navy September 2005 - February 2007
Midwest Airlines March 2005 - September 2005
ABC Plus Corp.(Real-estate agency) May 2003 - September 2004
Citynet Corp. (Cellular phone store) April 1999 - May 2002
IT Service Delivery, IT Service Management, SaaS, ITIL, Cloud Computing, Project Management, IT Strategy, Management, Business Development, Technical Leadership, Enterprise Software, Business Intelligence, Major Incident..., System Deployment, Microsoft Technologies, Microsoft Office, Sales Management, Sales, Customer Service, Planning, Active Directory, SharePoint, Professional Services, Russian, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Strategic Partnerships, Strategy, CCNA, CCENT, Cisco Technologies, Cisco IOS, CompTIA A+, VLAN, LAN-WAN, IPv6, IPv4, Subnetting, OSPF, EIGRP, VPN, PPP, SNMP, IPSec, VMware, Windows Intune, Office 365, Windows Azure, Frame Relay, Cisco Networking Devices
Alex Legault
Jr. Product Manager at PitchBook Data
Associate in Arts & Science (DTA), Psychology
PitchBook Data October 2014 - Present
Social27 February 2014 - 2014
State Farm Insurance Agency June 2012 - 2014
Judge Bruce Hilyer for Supreme Court Pos. 9 June 2012 - August 2012
Pi Kappa Alpha June 2011 - August 2012
Mckenzie Rothwell Barlow & Korpi, P.S. April 2010 - July 2011
State Farm Insurance June 2007 - April 2009
South County Football Club May 2008 - February 2009
Leadership, Product Management, Public Speaking, Recruiting, Management, Time Management, Research, Training, Microsoft Excel, Project Planning, Marketing, Strategic Planning, Leadership Development, Strategy, Social Networking, Customer Service, Sales, Analysis, Budgets, Spanish, Data Analysis, Facebook, Business Development, Event Planning, Ruby on Rails
Alex Meng
Software Engineer at LearnSprout
None, Computer Science
LearnSprout June 2013 - Present
Amazon.com May 2011 - May 2013
Microsoft August 2009 - April 2011
Expedia June 2008 - September 2008
IBM April 2007 - January 2008
Seattle Public Schools September 2006 - June 2007
UW Medicine September 2006 - February 2007
Microsoft June 2006 - September 2006
Alex Palomares
Sr. Business Development Manager Publisher & Developer Relations at Nintendo
Interdisciplinarity Studies, Psychology and Management
Nintendo October 2009 - Present
SIRAS.com March 2008 - October 2009
Novint Technologies January 2008 - March 2008
Nintendo of America September 2004 - December 2007
Nintendo of America Inc. March 2002 - September 2004
Nintendo of America Inc. March 2000 - March 2002
US Navy October 1995 - October 1998
Brand Management, Program Management, Project Management, Partner Management, Account Management, Building Relationships, Business Development, Business, Media Relations, Video Games, Negotiation, Return on Investment, Management, Marketing, Marketing Management, Licensing, Strategic Partnerships, Sales, Training, Advertising, Corporate Communications, Product Launch, Casual Games, Mobile Games, Monetization, Interactive..., Marketing Strategy, Social Games, Computer Games, MMO, Digital Distribution, Mobile Devices, Online Gaming
Alexander Rosas
Sales Development Representative at Pushpay
Northwest University 2012 — 2015
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Administration and Management, General
Associate of Arts (AA), General Studies
Pushpay August 2015 - Present
Northwest University June 2013 - August 2015
Pingometer February 2015 - May 2015
Chess4Life April 2014 - September 2014
Safeway September 2011 - May 2013
Maximizer, Customer Service, Teamwork, Technology, Communication, Adaptability, Microsoft Office, 10 Key Touch, Audio Engineering, Pro Tools, Microsoft Excel, Public Relations
Alfred Rubio
Client Support Analyst 1 at Concur
Concur October 2013 - Present
Travelport August 2003 - October 2013
Orbitz August 2003 - October 2013
Travelport Corporate Solutions August 2003 - October 2013
Sato travel 1998 - 2001
American Express Travel Microsoft 1996 - 1997
American Express Travel 1995 - 1997
Uniglobe Rescue Line 1994 - 1997
Quality Assurance, Software Documentation, Management, Customer Service, Analysis, Technical Support, Problem Solving, Sabre, Change Management, Web Design, Vendor Management, E-commerce, SQL, Business Analysis, Requirements Analysis, Product Management, Account Management, Team Leadership, Software Project..., SDLC, Call Centers, CRM, Integration, Testing, SharePoint, Business Intelligence, Agile Methodologies, Enterprise Software, Cross-team Collaboration
Ali Kristiansen
Resourcing Manager
AA, General Studies
Amaxra, Inc. April 2014 - Present
Amaxra, Inc. May 2011 - March 2014
Amaxra, Inc. September 2010 - May 2011
Pitney Bowes October 2008 - March 2010
City of Renton June 2003 - October 2008
Customer Service, SharePoint, Microsoft Office, Program Management, Onboarding, Leadership, Management, Recruiting, Project Coordination, Talent Acquisition, Team Building, Administrative..., Contract Recruitment, Data Entry, Telephone Interviewing, Training, Operations Management, Coaching, Project Management, Vendor Management, Customer Relations, Supplier Diversity
Alice L. Fallon
AA, Web Development
J.Chapa Hernandez Jewelers November 1999 - Present
Punch Networks September 1997 - November 1999
Punch Networks November 1995 - November 1999
Alicia Cappola
Owner Real People Person
N/A, Communications & Broadcasting
Independence High School 1996 — 2000
Diploma, General
Real People Person LLC October 2013 - Present
Dunn Lumber Company July 2002 - August 2013
H & H Families January 2001 - March 2002
Planet Systems Network (PSN.net) January 2000 - December 2000
Employee Relations, Human Resources, Recruiting, Benefits Administration, Deferred Compensation, HR Consulting, Personnel Management, Management, Training, HR Policies, Job Descriptions, Policy, Employment Law, HRIS, Payroll
Alicia Carver
StartUp Project Admin Amazon Fullfillment
University of Utah 2006 — 2007
Randstad Sourceright US November 2010 - March 2015
Randstad Sourceright March 2014 - August 2014
Staples May 2007 - November 2010
Shopko August 2004 - May 2007
Outlook, Customer Service, Recruiting, Leadership, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Management, Time Management, Customer Satisfaction, Event Planning, Inventory Management, Teamwork, Proprietary Systems, Coaching Staff, Development Coaching, Data Entry, KPI Reports, Service Level Agreements, CSAT, Microsoft Office, Office Management, Applicant Tracking..., Interviews
Alicia G. Chavez
Talent Acquisition and Multicultural Relations at StartupBellevue
AA in Human Sciences, Educational Psychology
Universidad La Salle, A.C. 2005 — 2009
Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Psychopedagogy
StartupBellevue December 2014 - Present
Pervacio, Inc. October 2014 - Present
Montessori for Adolescence A.C. September 2008 - July 2010
Jose Ibarra Olivares High School August 2007 - June 2009
Microsoft Office, English, Microsoft Excel, Social Media, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Teaching, Spanish, Teamwork, Management, Research, Project Management, Public Speaking, Writing, Photoshop, Curriculum Design, Classroom, HR Strategy, Event Management, English to Spanish, Training
Aleece Lipes
Business Analyst at VMC
VMC September 2012 - Present
VMC May 2007 - September 2012
Ecuity Advanced Communications January 2002 - May 2007
Bank of America August 1999 - November 2001
Microsoft Excel, Customer Service, Financial Analysis, SharePoint, Outlook, Microsoft Office
Alisea Blower
Sr. Product Manager, CSPO
Bachelor's of Science (BS), Business Management
Lake Washington High School
Snapfish, LLC June 2015 - Present
Hewlett-Packard, Snapfish June 2014 - May 2015
Hewlett-Packard, Snapfish June 2008 - June 2014
Let's Talk.com February 2007 - March 2008
Car Toys, Inc. October 2001 - January 2007
Keane 1997 - 1998
Magnolia Audio Video 1995 - 1997
E-commerce, Product Management, Cross-functional Team..., Retail, Strategy, Merchandising, Product Marketing, Marketing, Sales, Account Management, Pricing, SEM, Competitive Analysis, Agile Methodologies, User Experience, Forecasting, SEO, Vendor Management, Inventory Management, Start-ups, Negotiation, Advertising, Agile Project Management, Web Content Management, Project Planning, Content Writing, Music Production, Web 2.0
Alison (Brammer) Buren, CPA
Staff Accountant at Zillow
Accounting transfer program
Pacific Lutheran University 2002 — 2003
Zillow January 2015 - Present
Clark Nuber June 2013 - December 2014
Beta Alpha Psi 2011 - 2013
Clark Nuber June 2012 - September 2012
Accounting Equation, Inc. February 2011 - February 2012
Clipper Vacations April 2010 - December 2010
Microsoft (contractor through Simplicity Consulting, Inc.) July 2009 - April 2010
Kelly Services August 2008 - January 2009
La Jungla April 2008 - April 2008
Mary Kay Cosmetics (Sole Proprietor) October 2006 - March 2008
QuickBooks, Management, Accounts Payable, GAAP, Leadership, Sales, Outlook, PowerPoint, Financial Statements, Financial Reporting, Accounting, Microsoft Word, Financial Analysis, Microsoft Office, Training, Microsoft Excel, Access, Recruiting, Onboarding, Payroll, Tax Preparation, Tax, Process Improvement, General Ledger, Bookkeeping, Internal Controls, CRM, Financial Accounting, Policy, Applicant Tracking..., Adobe Acrobat, Auditing, Bank Reconciliation, Accounts Receivable, Analysis, Account Reconciliation, Budgets, Employee Relations, Peachtree, PeopleSoft, Data Entry, Pivot Tables, Data Analysis, Finance, Spreadsheets, US GAAP, Teamwork, CPA, Invoicing, Time Management
Alison E Bennett
Honda of Kirkland February 2007 - April 2015
Honda of Kirkland April 2003 - February 2007
Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, Budgeting, ADP, Bookkeeping, Accounting, Microsoft Excel, Budgets, Microsoft Word, Administrative..., Sales, Spreadsheets, PowerPoint, ADP Payroll, Customer Service, Inventory Management, Invoicing, Data Entry, Business Process..., Customer Relations, Customer Satisfaction, Team Building
Alison J. Cathro
2013 President at Washington State Chapter IAFN
Certificate, Forensics
Refresher, Nursing
Camosun College 1991 — 1993
RN, Nursing
Issaquah School District August 2011 - Present
Medical Terminology, PALS, Clinical Research, Public Speaking, Healthcare, Nursing, Cpr Certified, Healthcare Management, Cerner, BLS, Medical/Surgical, Patient Advocacy, ACLS, Babies
Alison Vogel
Technical Writer at Cray Inc.
M.S. & Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering
Dartmouth College 1976 — 1980
A.B., Engineering Sciences
Certificate, Technical Writing and Editing
Cray Inc. June 2015 - Present
Jasla, LLC May 2003 - June 2015
GE Aviation January 2010 - October 2013
Naverus, Inc. January 2009 - January 2010
The Boeing Company October 2005 - December 2008
NASA Ames Research Center August 1980 - March 1990
Aerospace, Aviation, Process Improvement, Proposal Writing, Technical Writing, Engineering, Cross-functional Team..., Technical Communication, Editing, Analysis, Systems Engineering, Leadership, Software Documentation, Training, Aircraft, Strategy, Project Management, Program Management
Allison Stanford
Communications Program Manager
Bachelor of Arts, Communication
Associate of Arts and Science, Communication
Bellevue High School 2004 — 2007
Puget Sound Energy July 2014 - Present
EnviroIssues February 2012 - July 2014
EnviroIssues February 2012 - January 2014
Puget Sound Energy November 2011 - February 2012
Puget Sound Energy November 2010 - November 2011
Make-A-Wish Foundation June 2010 - October 2010
Public Relations, Communications Planning, Media Relations, Press Releases, Community Outreach, Web Content, Event Planning, Time Management, Newsletters, Internal Communications, Editing, Microsoft Office, Marketing, InDesign, Crisis Communications, Advertising, Public Speaking, Web Content Management
Allan Coles
Be the hero in life
Bachelor’s Degree, Industrial Technology
Issaquah Senior High School 1971 — 1974
High School, General High School Diploma Program
Matrix Service Company February 2000 - May 2015
Georgia-Pacific LLC October 1993 - June 1997
CARE August 1992 - May 1993
Boeing January 1989 - June 1992
Allie Dunham
International Academy of Design and Technology 2008 — 2010
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Fashion Merchandising
Associates, Business
24 Hour Fitness August 2014 - Present
Zeeks Pizza April 2013 - May 2014
Zeeks Pizza May 2010 - April 2013
zulily August 2012 - February 2013
Aerie March 2012 - July 2012
Anthropologie December 2010 - January 2011
Anthropologie October 2010 - December 2010
Bliss January 2009 - March 2009
Merchandising, Visual Merchandising, Retail Sales, Inventory Management, Loss Prevention, Retail, Customer Service, Store Management, Fashion, Cashiering, Time Management, Apparel, Trend Forecasting, Trend Analysis, Styling
Allie VanBryce
Associate HR Business Partner
Bachelor of Arts, Media and Communication
Associate of Arts Degree, Arts and Science
mount si high school
zulily February 2015 - Present
Amazon March 2014 - February 2015
Kenworth Truck Co. May 2013 - March 2014
Guidant Financial Group November 2012 - May 2013
JPMorgan Chase September 2011 - November 2012
SSA Marine 2010 - 2011
Salish Lodge & Spa 2009 - 2010
The Summit Ski Resort 2006 - 2007
Team Leadership, Goal Oriented, Microsoft Office, Direct Marketing, Marketing Communications, Organizing, Customer Relations, Meeting Deadlines, Payroll, Customer Service, Social Media Marketing, Human Resources, Employee Relations, Recruiting, ADP HRB, Social Media, Employee Benefits, Employee Training, DocuSign, SAP, Onboarding, HRIS, Benefits Administration, ADP Payroll, New Hire Orientations, Personnel Management, Performance Management, Policy, Training
Allison Kunze
Research Scientist/Engineer at University of Washington
Bachelor’s Degree, Neurobiology
Bachelor’s Degree, Medical Anthropology and Global Health
University of Washington February 2015 - Present
University of Washington October 2012 - Present
University of Washington March 2010 - October 2012
University of Washington April 2010 - June 2012
King County Library System August 2006 - May 2011
Research, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, Ethnography, Participant Observation, Interviews, User Research, User Experience, Usability Testing, Field Studies, Online Research, Survey Design, Data Analysis, Data Management, Statistics, SPSS, Microsoft Excel, Scientific Writing, Proposal Writing, Publication Writing, Team Management, Teaching, Science, Molecular Biology, Immunohistochemistry, ELISPOT, ELISA, PCR, Behavioral Modeling, Cell Culture
Allison Rae Hannigan
Director Marketing Communications at BioSpace Experiments, Inc.
Certificate in Technical Communications and Science Writing, Technical Communications
Lake Forest College 1983 — 1987
BA, International Relations
College of Lake County 1982 — 1984
Biospace Experiments, Inc. January 2014 - Present
Allison Rae Hannigan January 2013 - Present
ARH (Allison Rae Hannigan) Consulting November 2008 - Present
Microsoft (Volt Technical Resources) 2006 - 2008
Connexion by Boeing 2002 - 2002
Cable & Wireless 1996 - 1999
Independent Consultant to Space Industry September 1987 - December 1992
Euroconsult 1988 - 1989
Eurospace 1988 - 1989
Program Management, Project Management, Telecommunications, Wireless, Business Development, Strategy, Social Media Marketing, Email Marketing, Marketing Communications, Cross-functional Team..., Space Industry, Microgravity, Technical Communications, Science Writing, NewSpace, RSLVs, ZeroG, SpaceUp, International Business, Global Management, French, Europe, Space Tourism, Space Systems, Launch Vehicles, Orbital Infrastructure, Space Science, International Space..., Management, Market Research, Marketing, Start-ups, Proposal Writing, Policy, Security, Mobile Devices, Strategic Partnerships
Allison Skinner
Anthropology Undergraduate @ University of Washington
Bachelor's Degree, Anthropology (Archaeological Sciences), Earth & Space Science (Minor)
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), 3.76
Virginia College-Huntsville 2002 — 2004
Associate of Science (AS), Network Engineering, 3.55
Suquamish Clearwater Casino Resort July 2015 - Present
University of Washington September 2013 - June 2015
T-Mobile January 2011 - September 2013
Microsoft June 2008 - December 2010
Customer Service, Troubleshooting, Telecommunications, Windows 7, HTML, OS X, SQL, Databases, Mac OSX, CSS, Adobe CS5, WordPress, ArcMap, ENVI, Total Station, Adobe Lightroom, Photography
Aloka Bhatt
Monroe, Washington
Director of Sourcing & Development at A Crowded Coop
Premlila Vithaldas Polytechnic
A Crowded Coop d/b/a The Coop October 2014 - Present
Alleson Athletic October 2012 - June 2014
Li & Fung USA November 2010 - October 2012
Bensussen Deutsch & Associates November 2007 - October 2008
Mervyns April 2006 - November 2007
London Fog 2000 - 2006
Adidas America May 1997 - May 2000
Team Leadership, Negotiation, Global Sourcing, Production Efficiency, Vendor Management, Process Improvement, Operations Management, Product Management, Compliance, Problem Solving, Analytical Skills, Microsoft Office, SAP, ERP Implementations, PLM Tools, Adobe Creative Suite, Merchandising, Apparel, Forecasting, Sourcing, Cross-functional Team..., Product Development, Supply Chain, Management, Strategy
Dwight Voeks
President at Northland Properties LLC
Northland Properties LLC April 2005 - Present
Alpine Tile Works March 1999 - Present
Amazon.com April 1998 - April 1999
Alysia Wood
Comedian at Alysia Wood
Alysia Wood September 1998 - Present
Group Health Cooperative 1994 - 1999
Comedy, Public Speaking, Acting, Writing, Entertainment, Emcee, Social Media, Travel, Performing Arts, Stand-up Comedy, Improvisation, Drama, Commercials, Sound, Improvisational Comedy, Video Production, Sketch Comedy, Film, Radio, Music, Storytelling, Theatre, Recording, Voice Over, Live Events, Comedian, Television, Feature Films, Voice Acting, Independent Film, Short Films, Film Production, Directing, Screenwriting, Video, Stage Combat, Physical Comedy, Festivals, Producing, Creative Writing, Podcasting, Books, Casting, Character Actor, Final Draft, Dialects, Music Videos, Musical Theatre, On-camera, Plays
Alyson Redding
Freelance Photographer & Designer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Writing, Photography and Political Science
New York Fashion Academy 2007 — 2008
Freelance Designer & Photographer Independent ContractorKool LearningApril 2014 - August 2014
Nordstrom November 2012 - January 2013
Little Dipper Vintage September 2010 - September 2012
Kate Bergman November 2008 - November 2011
Anthropologie June 2008 - July 2009
Urban Coffee Lounge March 2008 - April 2009
Nordstrom October 2006 - October 2007
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MRI bone oedema is the strongest predictor of subsequent radiographic progression in early rheumatoid arthritis. Results from a 2-year randomised controlled trial (CIMESTRA)
M L Hetland1,
B Ejbjerg1,2,
K Hørslev-Petersen3,
S Jacobsen4,
A Vestergaard5,
A G Jurik6,
K Stengaard-Pedersen7,
P Junker8,
T Lottenburger3,
I Hansen7,
L S Andersen3,
U Tarp7,
H Skjødt1,
J K Pedersen3,
O Majgaard1,
A J Svendsen3,
T Ellingsen7,
H Lindegaard8,
A F Christensen8,
J Vallø9,
T Torfing10,
E Narvestad5,
H S Thomsen11,
M Østergaard3,
and the CIMESTRA study group
Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark
Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
Department of Rheumatology, Rheumatism Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Gråsten, Denmark
Department of Rheumatology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Department of Radiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark
Department of Radiology, Århus University Hospital, Århus, Denmark
Department of Rheumatology, Århus University Hospital, Århus, Denmark
Department of Rheumatology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
Department of Radiology, Aabenraa Sygehus, Aabenraa, Denmark
Department of Radiology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
Department of Radiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
Dr K Hørslev-Petersen, Rheumatism Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Toldbodgade 3, DK-6300 Gråsten, Denmark; khorslevpetersen{at}gigtforeningen.dk
Objective: To identify predictors of radiographic progression in a 2-year randomised, double-blind, clinical study (CIMESTRA) of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Methods: Patients with early RA (n = 130) were treated with methotrexate, intra-articular betamethasone and ciclosporin/placebo-ciclosporin. Baseline magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the wrist (wrist-only group, n = 130) or MRI of wrist and metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints (wrist+MCP group, n = 89) (OMERACT RAMRIS), x-ray examination of hands, wrists and forefeet (Sharp/van der Heijde Score (TSS)), Disease Activity Score (DAS28), anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (anti-CCP), HLA-DRB1-shared epitope (SE) and smoking status were assessed. Multiple regression analysis was performed with delta-TSS (0–2 years) as dependent variable and baseline DAS28, TSS, MRI bone oedema score, MRI synovitis score, MRI erosion score, anti-CCP, smoking, SE, age and gender as explanatory variables.
Results: Baseline values: median DAS28 5.6 (range 2.4–8.0); anti-CCP positive 61%; radiographic erosions 56%. At 2 years: DAS28 2.0 (0.5–5.7), in DAS remission: 56%, radiographic progression 26% (wrist+MCP group, similar for wrist-only group). MRI bone oedema score was the only independent predictor of delta-TSS (wrist+MCP group: coefficient = 0.75 (95% CI 0.55 to 0.94), p<0.001; wrist-only group: coefficient = 0.59 (95% CI 0.40 to 0.77), p<0.001). Bone oedema score explained 41% of the variation in the progression of TSS (wrist+MCP group), 25% in wrist-only group (Pearson’s r = 0.64 and r = 0.50, respectively). Results were confirmed by sensitivity analyses.
Conclusion: In a randomised controlled trial aiming at remission in patients with early RA, baseline RAMRIS MRI bone oedema score of MCP and wrist joints (and of wrist only) was the strongest independent predictor of radiographic progression in hands, wrists and forefeet after 2 years. MRI synovitis score, MRI erosion score, DAS28, anti-CCP, SE, smoking, age and gender were not independent risk factors.
Trial registration number: NCT00209859.
Competing interests: None.
Funding: The study was supported by a grant from The Danish Rheumatism Association.
Ethics approval: Approved by the national health authorities and ethics committees (reference number M-1959-98).
2009 BMJ Publishing Group and European League Against Rheumatism
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Finance and banks
Poll: Yerevan residents are most concerned with public transport problems
Robert Kocharian: The very idea of statehood is discredited in Armenia
Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations received the Internal Security Attache of the French Embassy in Armenia
The Ombudsman of Armenia raised the issue of the return of prisoners of war during the meeting with the German Ambassador
MPG poll: The majority of citizens do not support signing an agreement on unblocking transport communications between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Two RA MES employees injured in a mine explosion in Syunik during search operations for missing servicemen bodies
Bright Armenia: If the ruling faction wants early parliamentary elections, then let the Prime Minister resign
Iran interested in implementing bilateral economic projects with Armenia
MP from Bright Armenia appealed to Russian Ambassador to Armenia to visit Shushi and save the historical and cultural heritage of Artsakh
RA Prime Minister: Public administration system needs restart
Seyran Ohanyan: Power in Armenia is weak, it very easily falls under the influence of Azerbaijan
Artsakh Foreign Minister appeals to Personal Representative of OSCE Chairperson in Office on issue of prisoners of war
Rustam Badasyan: All judges appointed in Anti-Corruption Courts will undergo vetting
Expert: Armenia`s new water legislation should provide for alternative sources of water production
Ministry of Emergencies: Armenia has closed and impassable roads
Edmon Marukyan: Parliamentary majority makes overcoming the political crisis in the country impossible
Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia warns of heavy snowfalls from 19 to 20 January
State Emergency Service of Karabakh: Bodies of 8 more victims found
Armenia once again emphasizes the priority of the immediate return of prisoners of war and hostages
An electronic system of administrative proceedings to be introduced in Armenia
Armenia ratified the agreement on information interaction of the CIS member states on the movement of radioactive sources
Armenia will become an active participant of the CIS States` Convention on the Transfer of the Execution of Sentences Non-custodial
Scientific and research centers of Armenia will again receive the right to conduct examinations related to the illegal circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances
Anti-Corruption Committee to be established in Armenia
A specialized anti-corruption court to be established in Armenia
Over the past day, 236 new cases of coronavirus infection detected in Armenia
Armenian Parliament ratified the convention on the legalization of documents issued by affixing apostille.
Turkish and Azerbaijani armed forces will conduct joint military exercises
Supporters of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan condemned Ilham Aliyev`s attacks on Elchibey
Azerbaijan`s Defense Ministry updated the list of victims: 2,885 killed and 50 missing
Aliyev intends to make the most of the potential of the "liberated" lands
Garo Paylyan: Armenian Church for Sale in Bursa, Turkey
Armenian Prime Minister made a number of appointments
Anahit Avanesyan appointed new Health Minister of Armenia
Alen Simonyan does not believe the information that Speaker is a double agent
Romanos Petrosyan called on international environmental organizations to assess the environmental damage caused by the war to Armenia
Tigran Balayan urged to apply sanctions against President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev
Ombudsman of Armenia appeals to OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs on the return of Armenian prisoners of war
Russian Foreign Minister: Agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh are being implemented quite effectively, with the exception of the pending issue of prisoners of war
President received a proposal to dismiss Health Minister Arsen Torosyan
S. Lavrov: Russia will be ready to help find a solution to the Karabakh issue that will ensure peace, stability and security in this region
Russian Foreign Minister: Currently, the list of names for the exchange of prisoners of war after the conflict in Karabakh is being verified
With the assistance of French Embassy in Armenia, book by French prose writer Valerie Manteau "Akos" about Hrant Dink was translated into Armenian
Armenian MP proposes to arm residents of communities bordering with Azerbaijan
The Inspectorate for the Protection of Nature and Subsoil Discusses the Possibilities of Tightening Control over Illegal Whitefish Fishing
90 new cases of coronavirus infection detected in Armenia over the past day
Edmon Marukyan: The ruling faction continues to do everything to silence the opposition
Naira Zohrabyan: It seems that the "My Step" block lives in a parallel reality that does not intersect with ours
Arman Abovyan: Nikol Pashinyan and the ruling faction are unable to resolve the issue of returning prisoners of war.
Lilit Makunts: We are ready to discuss the issue of early elections
Information briefing of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan was held
Nikol Pashinyan meets with parents of military servicemen
Vazgen Manukyan: Armenia will not receive investments under Pashinyan
A discussion was held in the parliament in connection with the problems of returning Armenian prisoners from Azerbaijan
263 new cases of coronavirus infection detected in Armenia over the past day
Air temperature in Armenia will not change significantly
State Emergency Service of Artsakh: Yesterday the Azerbaijani side handed over the bodies of two killed Armenian servicemen
Ombudsman condemned Vazgen Manukyan`s insulting remarks about protesters
Ministry of Emergency Situations: The Stepantsminda-Lars highway is closed for all types of vehicles, 340 trucks have accumulated at the border
MFA: Armenia highly commends Russia`s efforts aimed at establishing peace and stability in the region
Wednesday, October 21 2020 11:56
Marianna Mkrtchyan
Mnatsakanyan to meet with Lavrov in Moscow
ArmInfo.Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, who is on a working visit to Moscow, will meet with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Press secretary of the Armenian Foreign Ministry Anna Naghdalyan said this in an interview with ArmInfo correspondent "A meeting between Mnatsakanyan and his Russian counterpart is envisaged. The agenda of the meeting includes the situation in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as well as the implementation of the ceasefire agreements," Naghdalyan said.
It should also be noted that on October 23 the Armenian Foreign Minister will leave for Washington to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. It is not excluded that a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will take place in Washington with the mediation of the USA.
Political scientist: Cleaning of the "Augean stables" still requires lustration in Armenia
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Sociologist: Fighters striving to take the House of Government are far from reality
Hovhannes Igityan: The world discusses our problems more than we ourselves do
Politician: Clouds are gathering over the region
Third President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan arrives in Artsakh
Boris Podoprigora: There are prerequisites for granting a special status to Karabakh
Lapshin: Israel`s Defense Ministry is now under enormous pressure to stop arms supplies to Baku
Petition was initiated in Israel demanding to stop sale of Israeli arms to Azerbaijan
Artsakh Defense Army: The enemy suffered 500 losses in manpower during today`s battles
Artsakh Defense Army divisions destroyed 12 enemy tanks
Serbian President: Our Brother and friend Armenians and Azerbaijanis will find strength to achieve peace
Hrachya Arzumanyan: This is an existential war for Armenia and the Armenian people
Paris: French authorities are doing everything possible to resume dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Yerevan called on the leader of Azerbaijan to soundly and without painful emotions perceive the situation in the zone of the Karabakh conflict
Robert Kocharyan spoke for the development of new approaches to regional security issues
Expert: Mnatsakanyan`s visit to Washington on the eve of the elections is the result of the absence of the agenda
Gagik Tsarukyan accused Nikol Pashinyan of having mental health disorder
Bright Armenia will nominate Arkady Khachatryan for the post of head of the parliamentary committee on financial, credit and budgetary affairs
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Here’s a First Look at Viola Davis & More in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
October 1st, 2020 | By Lindsey Sullivan
Fresh off of releasing a premiere date for the film adaptation of August Wilson’s play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Netflix has released stunning shots from the movie. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927. The story centers on blues singer Ma Rainey, her backup musicians and the struggles they faced in pre-Civil-Rights-era America. Directed by Tony winner George C. Wolfe and adapted by Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the movie stars Tony winner Viola Davis in the title role, alongside Tony nominee Colman Domingo, Michael Potts, Emmy winner Glynn Turman and Chadwick Boseman, who died on August 28. Get a glimpse at the star power in this vibrant first look of the film, which premiereson December 18.
Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Michael Potts and Colman Doningo star in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. (Photo: David Lee/Netflix)
Viola Davis dazzles in Ma Rainey’sBlack Bottom. (Photo: David Lee/Netflix)
Chadwick Boseman poses with Michael Potts and Colman Domingo. (Photo: David Lee/Netflix)
Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman work on-set with director George C. Wolfe. (Photo: David Lee/Netflix)
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What’s in a setting? From the Aussie Alps to the Outback and beyond
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Oct 24, 2016 | Round-ups | 1 comment
As I proceed alphabetically through the General/Contemporary category of this year’s AWW reviews, I’m struck by the many varied settings of books written by Australian women. From the snowy mountains to vineyard country and the outback, they visit places all over the country – and the world.
Charlotte Nash’s The Horseman (2016) is set in the Australian alpine country. A “medical-rural romance”, it is recommended by the publisher to fans of Rachel Johns’ books. Brenda enjoyed it immensely: “An intriguing plot, I loved the detail of the horses; the beauty of the foal and sensitivity of [the hero] Craig in his treatment of his horses. There was a blend of sadness and emotion; suspense and mystery; grief, hope and love throughout the story.”
A novel set in a very different part of the country is Judy Nunn’s Spirits of the Ghan (2015). Carolyn describes this novel as the work of a consummate storyteller: “Judy Nunn has created a masterful tale weaving many strands past and present into this story of the building of the Ghan, the railway through the heart of Australia connecting Adelaide to Darwin. Through the stories and histories of anthropologist Jessica Manning, part Aboriginal, part Irish and surveyor Matt Witherington, wealthy son of an artist, she tells the story of the Australian centre.”
At the time of the book’s release last year, Nunn discussed how the outback setting and its people inspired this novel, her 13th so far:
“There are just so many stories in the Northern Territory. And the great thing about writing about a place like the NT is if something is going on in the story, and there is but I’m not going to give it away, and I’m thinking ‘Is this going beyond believability?’ all I have to do is speak to someone, and I had a man who was an expert on the railway, who had a great deal to do with the building of it, and he said, ‘Crikey, of course it would happen, this is the NT, you can get away with anything up here.’ I thought terrific, how can there not be a story in that?” (source: article by Karen Hardy)
Kayte Nunn’s Rose’s Vintage takes us to a small town in a rural wine-growing region, somewhere in Australia. Here Rose, an English woman, comes to start a new life and find the possibility of romance. Nunn appears to have captured the feel of the vineyard setting as both our AWW reviewers thought they recognised the place – but on opposite sides of country! Carol from Reading Writing and Riesling found the novel to be a light, entertaining read, its strengths not only in the setting, but also in the characterisation:
I love the settings – Australian wineries and small country towns juxtaposed against fast paced city living. I had visions of the Coonawarra, McLaren Vale, Barossa districts or even the Margret River wine region where I live (maybe because they are all wine regions I have visited/know). The settings speak of family owned primary producers/communities almost anywhere in the world– the hard work, the long hours, the camaraderie with others producers in your regions, the local gossip, secrets and how a community comes together to celebrate when success is achieved or to help when the call out is made.
The characters are interesting and written with depth and I especially liked how the writer sprinkles the pages with Rose’s honest thoughts as she try to make sense of the new situations she finds herself in (and the new country) and the people she meets. The vineyard and its changing seasons; pruning, budburst, flower, vintage, provides the overarching narrative and back drop to the action in the books, almost a character is its own right. (Full review here.)
Monique at Write Note Reviews thought the fictional setting of “Shingle Valley” was in the Hunter Valley region of NSW. She enjoyed the book but also noted some drawbacks, particularly in the romance area: “While I was drawn to the setting and enjoyed the interactions between Rose, Astrid and the children, I didn’t feel the chemistry between Mark and Rose. I also found myself questioning why Rose would keep giving Mark chances – his reasoning just didn’t win me over. The whole ‘spy’ scenario didn’t work for me either. It seemed like an afterthought and it lacked the tension to make it believable.”
Outside Australia we visit South Africa with Malla Nunn’s 2010 release, Let The Dead Lie (Detective Emmanuel Cooper, #2), a Ned Kelly nominee for Best Novel in 2011. It’s about a one-time detective who finds security work on Durban’s docks and discovers a murdered boy. Carolyn gave it 5 stars on Goodreads and found both the setting and the characterisation worthy: “This novel takes us to the gritty, seamier side of South Africa during the time of segregation as well showing the moral and political corruption that was rampant in South Africa during the 1950s. Emmanuel stays true to himself, seeking out the truth and refusing to be compromised.”
From there we travel to the west coast of Ireland, the setting for The Enchanted Island (2015) by Ellie O’Neill, the author of Reluctantly Charmed. In this novel, the main character Maeve O’Brien leaves her home in Dublin to venture to the remote island of Hy Brasil, a sea change which drastically challenges her city ways and profoundly changes her values. It was another 5-star read for Brenda on Goodreads, not least of all because of its setting: “Beautifully written with many laugh out loud moments, the magic and mystery of Hy Brasil is well portrayed.”
Do books set in far off places make you want to pack your bags and jump on a train or plane? Would you like the AWW database to show where a book is set? Let us know if you think we should add this option to our entry form for AWW reviews. My dream would be to create an app which lists both a book and its setting. It’d be a great way to foster the growing popularity of literary tourism.
As always, you can find a list of all the books reviewed for this year’s challenge – as well as most from previous years – on our search page here.
About me: My debut novel, Snowy River Man, is now out in print as part of the “3-in-1 Australian Bestsellers” collection, Country Secrets. It’s published with MIRA under my pen-name Lizzy Chandler. Both Snowy River Man and my second novel, By Her Side, are also out as ebooks with Harlequin Escape. I’m currently working on my third novel, tentatively titled Sandpiper Beach. When not reading or writing I can be found discussing books on my blog or on Twitter: @elizabethlhuede and @auswomenwriters.
whisperinggums on October 30, 2016 at 5:14 pm
Intersting question Elizabeth. Capturing setting would be a fascinating thing to do but I can see lots of challenges there too!
Now, do books set in far off places make me want to pack up and travel? I’m not sure. I love reading about other places, and I love travel, but I’m not conscious of my novel reading making me want to travel to the places in the books I read.
When I travel though, I do like to read novels set in those places (though I rarely do it as much as I plan to.)
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Home > My Books > The Black Gate
It is early 1945 and Nazi Germany, reeling under the relentless onslaught of the Allied armies, looks to futuristic superweapons like jet fighters, V-1 buzz bombs, and V-2 rockets for its salvation. But Peter Miller, an analyst at the headquarters of the Office of Strategic Services in Washington D.C., learns of a secret Nazi weapons project that may pose a far greater threat: the Black Gate...
It is early 1945 and Nazi Germany, reeling under the relentless onslaught of the Allied armies, looks to futuristic superweapons like jet fighters, V-1 buzz bombs, and V-2 rockets for its salvation.
But Peter Miller, an analyst at the headquarters of the Office of Strategic Services in Washington D.C., learns of a secret Nazi weapons project that may pose a far greater threat: the Black Gate.
Sent alone on a perilous mission into the heart of Germany in the guise of an SS officer, Peter discovers that Nazi scientists have recreated an ancient machine that opens a portal to another universe, a gate they believe literally leads to Hell.
With the help of Mina Hass, a beautiful woman who is also the lover and confidant of the madman leading the project, Peter must find a way to close the gate forever before the Nazis unwittingly unleash Armageddon…
Author: Michael R. Hicks
ASIN: B00NZH3M2S
eBook Price: 4.99
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Revolt Motors looks to raise $100 million in equity capital
The company will launch operations in Mumbai - its sixth market – this Sunday and aims to have a pan-India presence within a year, Rahul Sharma, Founder said.
Nehal Chaliawala
Ketan Thakkar
Updated: August 28, 2020, 22:02 IST
The company will launch operations in Mumbai - its sixth market – this Sunday and aims to have a pan-India presence within a year, Sharma told ET.
Mumbai: Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma's electric vehicle venture Revolt Intellicorp plans to raise equity capital of up to $100 million to fund product development and expansion into more cities.
It is also working on at least two new vehicle platforms.
“Our product has been validated in the market and consumer response is good. I think now is the right time for us to get into the growth phase and we will be looking to raise equity capital,” he said.
The company has not raised any external equity capital so far, according to Sharma. It invested Rs 400-Rs 500 crore in product development and to set up a manufacturing facility in Manesar, Haryana, he told ET in an interview in August last year.
Presently, Revolt sells the identical RV300 and RV400 electric motorcycles. The EV maker has sold about 1,500 units since inception last year, vehicle registration data showed. The cloud-connected motorcycles have cumulatively run for about 5 million kilometres on Indian roads so far, according to Sharma.
The nation-wide movement restrictions to contain the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent reverse-migration of workers had thrown a spanner in the works but things were easing now, he said.
Foot traffic at the company’s experience centres in Delhi, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad have yet to recover, but sales have been picking up thanks to online bookings, Sharma said. “The fact that our sales were digital from Day-One has helped us.”
The Delhi EV policy announced by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was a big boost, he added.
The company aims to completely localise the sourcing of products by December this year. Presently, it imports battery cells and motors from China, while the other electronics and mechanical components are sourced domestically. However, the localisation of battery cells in India could take much longer as the virus outbreak has disrupted plans of several cell makers to set up plants in India, experts said.
Speaking about the slow uptake of EVs in the country, Sharma said products that were sold earlier either did not match the performance of conventional vehicles or were too deemed expensive.
The RV300 and RV400 cost Rs 1.1 lakh and Rs 1.56 lakh, respectively, including insurance and maintenance when bought through the company’s bundled 3-year monthly equated instalment plans. Bought upfront, they cost about Rs 90,000 and Rs 1.1 lakh, respectively, before registration and insurance costs.
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Lobster boat racing circuit draws fishermen from across the state
by Sharon Kiley Mack July 2, 2011 July 3, 2011
JONESPORT, Maine — It was like one big party on the water Saturday as a one mile stretch of Moosabec Reach, which separates Jonesport from Beals Island, was filled with the roar of hardworking engines. More than 65 lobster boats competed in Maine’s answer to NASCAR: the World’s Fastest Lobster Boat Race.
Lobster boats are sturdy vessels, capable of handling much on the open sea. They are built for endurance, not speed. But Saturday morning, the lobster gear was stowed, engines roared and whined, sea spray flew and fishermen hooted as they crossed the finish line and — for one captain — set a new state record.
“It’s not about the prizes,” said Eric Blackwood of Beals Island, who was in charge of organizing the race. “It’s about bragging rights.” Saturday’s races, 24 heats in all, were part of the 10-race statewide lobster boat summer racing circuit.
There were big boats, little boats, boats run by some who had been fishing for decades and could almost be called elderly and others piloted by boys barely able to see over the steering wheels. They came from all over Maine’s coast, from Damariscotta to Cutler. They had funny names, such as Foolish Pleasure; or family names, such as Shanna & Erick; or names that reflected their work — Momma’s Worry.
Shane Hatch, 25, of Owls Head, piloted his fishing vessel, the Jill-Cayden, four and a half hours up the coast Friday night and then spent a restless night sleeping on the boat in Jonesport harbor.
“You gotta show the boat off,” he said at morning registration. “You gotta win.” He came in fourth.
It also took Gary Genthner and the Lisa Marie four and a half hours to pilot up from Round Pond. Genthner has been racing his lobster boat for 13 years.
“I’ve got it in my blood,” he said. “I do it just for the hell of it.” Genthner said many racers “crank them up but I just keep it even.”
After all, he said, these are mainly working boats with engines that can range from $30,000 to $100,000 to replace; boats that these men rely on for their livelihood.
“I worked the boat yesterday and I’ll work it tomorrow,” Genthner said.
Genthner took first place in his class, 551 to 700 horsepower, 28 to 39 feet, 11 inches long.
A conversation between Colyn Rich of Bass Harbor and Joseph Guptill of Jonesport reflected the meshing of working vessels with a bit of fun. Rich, 9, was the youngest competitor Saturday, and Guptill is 11.
Standing by the U.S. Coast Guard Station, the boys struck up a conversation:
Rich: “Do you have a mounted hauler?”
Guptill: “Yup.”
Rich: “What’s the horsepower?”
Guptill: “40.”
Rich: “Mine’s 60.”
Guptill: “Just to let you know, I beat a 60 with that little 40. She slicks across the water fast.”
Rich: “Uh. Oh.”
Rich knew then that Guptill could beat him — and he did, coming in second to Rich’s third.
“This is a lot of fun,” Rich said. “I do it for the fun and to spend time hanging out with my dad.” But Rich never forgets for a minute the importance of his and the other’s boats.
Even at 9, Rich is a working lobsterman, putting in 10 traps on Memorial Day and hauling until Columbus Day.
“It takes me about two hours a day to haul my traps. They are scattered all over the place,” he said. “And I haul by hand.”
As the racers flew by under a brilliant blue sky, dozens of pleasure and working craft bobbed along the edges of the Reach to cheer on their favorites and take in the action amid a party atmosphere.
There were picnic tables and barbecue grills on board. Dogs and children raced around decks and loud cheers arose when favorite boats competed. The bridge between the island the mainland was filled with spectators as a new Maine record of 72 miles per hour was set by Galen Alley of Beals in Foolish Pleasure. He shattered the old record of 68.9 mph for gasoline engines, which he set last June at Rockland.
First place winners each got $100 and second place finishers took home $50.
Jon Johansen of Winterport is the president of the Maine Lobster Boat Racing Association and is quick to admit, “None of this racing stuff makes any sense.
“Most of the racers are very careful but one or two may push the envelope,” he said. “This is all about bragging rights.” Johansen said. In the early years of working boat races, which were officially sanctioned in 1964, wooden boat builders were quick to make a reputation if their boats placed well in the competition.
“But this is just for fun,” he said. “These guys will often race each other on any given day, just on a whim, while they are working the sea.”
And even though the races were about having fun, they were competitive. One racer, Rocky Alley piloting the Lorna R., became upset when he believed he was placed in the wrong racing class. To signal his displeasure with judge Blackwood, Alley rocketed by the judges’ boat at 40 mph with less than three feet between the vessels.
Several passengers on Blackwood’s boat were visibly shaken, thinking the boats would collide.
Alley ended up winning three first places, including the free-for-all for gasoline engine class. And following the race, pilot after pilot shook Blackwood’s hand and commented on what a well run race it had been.
The next sanctioned lobster boat races are at Searsport on July 9, followed by Stonington on July 10.
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BUTTERCUPS AND DAISIES: From The Province of the Cat
Nuclear waste, don’t you just love it? It is going to be spread all over the north coast of Scotland like radioactive pollen but there are no drone-bees left to love it. Cavendish Nuclear and Nuvia (UK) have been “awarded” multi-million-pound contracts to demolish the old test reactor (the one that looks like an ice cream) and various radioactive piping at Dounreay and the Graham Group of Northern Ireland have landed a £22 million contract to build an extension to the above ground nuclear waste store. So everything is well. Except slowly it is dawning on the Atomicers of Thurso that the nuclear dream cannot last forever. The Highland Council’s mystical quest to “replace the 2000 jobs” at Dounreay continues despite social and financial reality, Brexit and history. Zero hours contracts if you are lucky.
Dounreay was the site of the UK’s fast reactor research and development programme between 1955 and 1994. They came in with promises, platitudes, science fiction, false dreams and secrets. They leave with rubbish, armed shipments of stolen material flown out on US Airforce planes, charity shops, hairdressers, takeaways and a hole in the heart of a culture. This is the reality of the nuclear experience in Caithness.
Why was it open cheque book engineering when Britain’s nuclear reactor programme was being built and “producing” and now it’s “cost realities”, despite contracts being “awarded” to companies within the nuclear loop, when it comes down to the dirty dancing ground of decommissioning? Today, Dounreay is the site of one of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) most technically challenging projects.
The NDA is the government body given the job of cleaning up Britain’s old nuclear power stations but has recently warned that taxpayers will have to help plug a looming multimillion-pound gap in its finances left by shrinking revenues. David Peattie, chief executive of the NDA, told the press in December that revenues would fall more than 10% annually in coming years due to the end of an era of nuclear waste reprocessing. Peattie is a former oil man who spent years in Russia with BP and was appointed to his present post in spring 2017. His job is to tell the unsuspecting British people the bad news, which is this: the group has a £3bn annual budget to clean up 17 old nuclear sites around the UK, but “only” earns £1bn a year from services including “repurposing” spent nuclear fuel. “I don’t think we can fill the hole completely,” Peattie has said.
The chief executive was talking, of course about Sellafied – Dounreay doesn’t seem to exist in any of his press communications, even though it has a huge 65-metre hole in the ground which early in the morning of Tuesday 10th of May 1977 exploded. The results were dramatic. The sodium and potassium which had been dumped down the shaft reacted violently with the groundwater. The explosion blew off the shaft’s huge concrete lid, threw its steel top plate 12 metres to one side, badly damaged the 5-tonne concrete blocks at the mouth of the shaft, and blasted scaffold poles up to 40 metres away. An eyewitness reported a plume of white smoke blowing out to sea. In 1995 government watchdogs reluctantly revealed that the ground around the shaft was littered with radioactive particles hot enough to injure and kill. But, hey, that’s science.
After closing the DFR (the famous blue dome) for decommissioning in 1977 most of the reactor fuel was removed. During follow-up work, metal casing in the reactor was discovered to have swollen and jammed. These stainless-steel casings, known as breeder elements, are natural uranium “makers”. When exposed to radiation the elements ‘breed’ to create new fuel, plutonium. The discovery of the damaged elements stopped further decommissioning work for 20 years. Efforts to clean up all this mess were reawakened when the decision was made in 2000 to close Dounreay, and the creation of the NDA a few years later.
Decommissioning of Dounreay was initially planned to bring the site to an interim care and surveillance state by 2036, and as a brownfield site by 2336, at a total cost of £2.9 billion. This timescale and budget appears to be under review now that the NDA’s cash flow seems to have exploded like the shaft, or rather, imploded like Brexit. Current decommissioning projects at Sellafield alone have an expected combined cost overrun of £913 million. NDA chief executive David Peattie said work had progressed faster than expected on the most hazardous part of Sellafield (their main concern), the so-called legacy ponds and silo, where cold war-era waste was dumped. “People just didn’t know what was in there. The guys who built it are all dead.” This is more or less the same set of circumstances at Dounreay with the infamous waste shaft. It is incredible to think that those people who built and managed these nuclear installations in the 1950’s and 60’s had no conception about decommissioning them. For a so-called “energy of the future” it is ironic that no-one seemed to think very much about the future. However it is unsavoury to witness contemporary nuclear management blaming their inefficiencies and toxic realities on the deceased.
The need for nuclear fuel during the Cold War was the prime objective. In reality there is no “civil” nuclear industry. Every nuclear site is a military site. That is why everyone who works on them signs the Official Secrets Act. Plutonium is used for making nuclear weapons. That is why every nuclear installation is surrounded by heavily armed MOD and Civil Nuclear Authority Police, everyone of them carrying assault rifles and pistols.
For all of you who have seen the David Mackenzie film about Robert The Bruce, “Outlaw King”, I give you these lines from Book One of John Barbour’s poem “The Brus” (written in 1375 approx.)
“A! Fredome is a noble thing!
Fredome mays man to haiff liking.
Fredome all solace to man giffis,
He levys at es that frely levys!”
(A rough English translation)
Freedom is a noble thing!
Great happiness does freedom bring.
All solace to a man it gives;
He lives at ease that freely lives.
There are a few ways David Peattie hopes to offset some of the losses. None of them will ever come close to filling financial the hole that the nuclear business constantly digs. For example, he suggests, they could make better use of the NDA’s fleet of four ships that operate out of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. The ships are used to bring spent fuel from Dounreay and as far afield as Japan back to the UK for reprocessing. Converted to cruise liners, maybe? Peattie also hopes to secure more non-nuclear work such as the non-food cargo it handles for Tesco using its rail business, which runs around 100 locomotives. The rail unit transports waste from nuclear power stations to be stored at the NDA’s biggest and most costly site, Sellafield in Cumbria. Where else? Tesco – nuclear waste – non-food cargo? Marrying Tesco to the nuclear industry might make sense in a business plan but it is the stiff of nightmares for everyone else. Rationality has made the transition to desperation. Living in Thurso I, and many others, have always suspected the whole nuclear dog-dance was slightly mad. Dane Dare is now Thomas the Tank Engine. No-one here gets out alive.
The bottom line for savings has at least (at last) been mooted, if not as yet reached. It goes like this: the final decommissioning bill could be reduced, said Peattie, if the public accepted that not all old nuclear facilities would be returned to a pristine field of “buttercups and daisies”.
By this he means that people already tolerate the “industrial clutter” left over by the industrial revolution. It’s ugly legacy litters the island from Duncansby to Dungeness. “It would be cheaper and could be more sensible to leave some of the concrete remains of old nuclear plants and simply fence them off, once they had been declared safe”, David Beattie suggested. But he warned. “If we want to take sites back to moorland for people to enjoy or build houses on … if society wants us to go to that extreme of clean-up, there’s a cost to society.”
At Westminster the Public Accounts Committee have been critical of the NDA, citing projects costing hundreds of millions of pounds which have been cancelled and other financial jigs and reels which in any other industry would mean that someone would be going to jail. But not here. David Peattie has the quick feet of an oil man. This was due to changing technology, he claimed, logically. “It’s like the horse and the car” he told MP’s. “We are getting the horse to go faster and then somebody invents a car. What we can do better is fail faster.” At Dounreay the modus operandi is to “fail slower”; this is the preferred option as far as the local authority is concerned. All the local councillors want Dounreay to last forever. Or at least until we are all dead. Only one of these things will happen.
If there is one issue, other than the anti-democratic extraction of our country from the European Union, which should alert the Scottish people to the benefits of independence, then it is the nuclear industry and all that it entails. As long as Scotland harbours nuclear weapons and nuclear complexes there can be no meaningful democracy. The EU exit, the tragic debacle and comedy of that, has awoken in the majority of Scots, probably like nothing which has gone before, to the cynicism of the British State. I would suggest that this cynicism has been manifestly clear for everyone to see on the north coast of Caithness for over sixty years. When a nuclear worker, or a defence related worker, signs the Official Secrets Act they are not entirely signing away their human rights, but they are betraying their ability to tell the truth. The truth is something the nuclear industry does not tell.
A second independence referendum should take precedence over a second EU referendum which will only go towards highlighting the increasing democratic deficit Scotland suffers from in any British election. To create new political structures requires courage and foresight. Waiting and seeing, as history shows, means that the cavalcade of possibility of passes you by. Make no mistake, and as everyone can see (without waiting), we are in a period of political crisis. “Steady as you go” is not the message the Scottish people need to hear at this time. “Here we go” is what our glorious leaders should be telling us in no uncertain terms. “Here we go, into our new country!”
Cleaning up the nuclear mess should not be seen as going to the “extreme”, as David Peattie calls it. Also society should not be confused with government. It has been because of the decisions of governments that we have had a nuclear industry to clean up after in the first place. Margaret Thatcher may have denied the existence of “society” but if we desire to live harmoniously together in geographical or socialised territories – let’s just call them countries and let us call our one Scotland – then we have a duty of care to pass on our environment and natural world in as pristine as we can to those who follow us. We cannot afford to deny the past and ignore the future. We cannot afford any more conservative, self-centred British governments which foist their undemocratic and hostile schemes of war and death upon us. Unlike David Peattie, the NDA and their corrosive cost cutting, I dream of “buttercups and daisies”, the long and broad machair of freedom. “He levys at es that frely levys!”
By George Gunn
Graham Ennis says:
OK. People need to know something. In addition to the known existing reactor, and the waste shaft, there is a half melted nuclear reactor at Doomray that is not talked about. It was the prototype nuclear reactor for the new nuclear strike submarines. It was built with about a £1000 million of illegal UK government funds, that were never voted by parliament. It melted and went into runaway, and nearly exploded. It has been there ever since. It was decided that it was “Too expensive” to demolish and decontaminate. When it melted, the Scottish Government appears to not only have had no knowledge of this reactor, but to have not been told of the melt down. Something needs to be done about this?…what is the current state of the reactor. ?…is it leaking?….or what?……anyone else know about this? Please post if you do. Thanks.
Dougie Blackwood says:
I know about HMS Vulcan where submarine reactors are run and tested but have never heard of a meltdown there. Is this factual?
Hi, it is very factual. There was a coolant problem, a fire and partial meltdown. This was a while ago. Do not know what happened after that. But Scottish Government has never said anything, so I t6hink they were not even told. Maybe I should write to Nicola?
Below is a link to what Wikipedia says, nothing about a fire or partial meltdown. That does not mean it never happened as MOD are not good at giving out that kind of info but, depending on detail it may be something we should know about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dounreay#Vulcan_NRTE
The nuclear industry was designed to bolster the idea that VIPs (in their minds) were still in charge of a very important country.
They have a magic money tree which allows this fallacy to continue.
The problem with nuclear waste is the long half life of many of the components which will represent a threat to future generations.
These installations were never meant to be decommisioned and the latest person in charge is simply pointing out that money will have to be spent,either now or by future generations (can kicking,a favourite activity of present VIPs) if we wish to eradicate these potential health hazards.
Possibly his time in Russia has convinced him that places like Chernobyl are now “safe” to live in without much in the way of cleanup costs.
27th December 2018 at 11:15 am
Something else future generations have to thank us for!
Thank God they stuck it up in Dounreay and not in the Home Counties.
Similar to locating Faslane and Coulport and Faslane beside Scotland’s largest city Glasgow, as opposed to London, we in Scotland have much to be grateful for.
Truly a Union Dividend.
barakabe says:
Brilliant essay as always George- concise, critical, and like the very best writers prescriptive, in the most positive sense of the word: tending to say what someone should do or how something should be done.
I tend to think, like most problems in most countries that have their own specific historical predicaments, that there is always a cultural root that needs to be re-examined or even uprooted if the society is to move on. One only has to look at Ireland to demonstrate the power of historical cultural conditioning implanted by an external force to see the enduring impact of such roots. Scotland of course is no different, we just have to identify what those specific roots are that keep us repeating the same mistakes. The ‘cynicism of the British State’ has coloured its long deep roots into Scottish society and it has harvested a bitter crop indeed. As you say George, as ‘long as Scotland harbours nuclear weapons and nuclear complexes there can be no meaningful democracy’- and why do we cling to such devastating totems of destruction? What cult of death hope ‘Dounreay…lasts forever?’ A death cult, mirrored at Faslane, that clings to a small set of jobs for fear of the alternative? It seems to me that bourgeois Western culture has huddled us into such craven deference to money, more like a meek compliance to the power of capital, that we are quite prepared to accept any abnormal condition or unnatural horror for fear of ‘losing out’ materially- is that now the ambition we set for the potential of the human condition? In an age of such gross empiricism can we not even attempt to experiment with alternative ways of living than the homogenised bourgeois mono-culture that threatens to destroy the Earth? Can Scotland, through the benevolent auspices of independence, not lead the way in these ‘experiments in living’- will the Scottish government implement new radical alternatives now, even under the severely restrictive regime of a Londoncentric Westminster political system? For example why not fully implement the childcare vision that was touted during the Referendum? A short term investment for a long term tax gain? What if land Ownership issues- can we see the abolition of private land ownership and outlawing private ‘Sporting estates? Develop an interconnected urban transport network all across the central belt of Scotland to streamline our society into a modern European economy? Can we outlaw private schools- make them illegal as they do in progressive nations like Finland? If we are to do such things the SNP really need to move beyond the ‘don’t frighten the horses’ strategy they have at the moment. The frightened horses of unionism in Scotland will not change direction for anything. They never will. Hardcore British nationalists in Scotland do not see us as a country. We are a region, just like London or Yorkshire or Wales. Its as simple as that. In the long term we must decapitate the hydra of the Royals from Scotland. We cannot pander to those who say they are ‘good for tourism’ etc, as they represent elitism, and are the celebrity face of entrenched privilege. Elitism and democracy are incompatible concepts. We cannot be a fully modernised democratic society until we are independent, free of elites, private schools and private land ownership- anything less than that is playing with politics. Norway and Sweden are modern day transparent democracies because they made tough decisions at the beginning of the 20th century to fight a war against the elites that controlled their national institutions- we must do the same. Elite conservative aristocratic groups all believe in their ‘right’ to power, whether by divine means, genetics/breeding, or by simply possessing the might to do so, whether violently or in the modern world through wealth. These elitist groups will use democracy to undermine democracy, as has happened in US elections and here with the nefarious stratagems of the Brexit campaign scandals. Post independence we must be on guard for these types of anti-democratic elite groups who oppose the general will of the people by abolishing those institutions that prop them up such as private schools, land ownership, and negating class privilege through equalising educational opportunity.
Educational opportunity for Scotland’s children of the future will mean equipping them with the capacity to recognise patterns of power formation, domination and hierarchical thinking, and moving away from the closed fixed ideas of the past to flexible evaluating skills that will open up new wider possibilities that the present generation cannot envision- everything will be transparent to these children of the future, including themselves, and the crystallising effects of fixed hierarchical thinking, so they can spontaneously’ liberate themselves from such destructive habit formation. They will look back on the past generations so attached to a power/control/domination matrix with great consternation and a sense of bewilderment- why did they ignore all the signs? Why did they not use they resources they had in a more effective way? But it does seem to me the older generation who completely embraced the Randian greed is good ethos of the neo-liberalism fully believe in the panacea of their ideology. Why not? They have scientific Darwinism to back them up- who can argue with science? They have the worlds institutions that have made their ideology mainstream. If self-interest is rational then why be less selfish- is that not irrational? Why reverse or tackle inequality when survival of the fittest is natures way?
I was in a lift recently with a woman and we got talking about recycling, evidently she had a bee in her bonnet about the inconvenience of recycling her rubbish, and I said ‘what about the environment?’ and she said, ‘I don’t care- I won’t be here’. I replied, ‘ but do you have children or even grand children?’ She said ‘Yes’. Then she shrugged her shoulders and left the lift. I was dumbfounded by the ignorance of it. But it got me to thinking that these conservative elite groups, most of them climate deniers, such as Trump and his clan of neo-cons and American alt-right libertarians, genuinely don’t care about about the future or their own descendants- has bourgeois culture produced such an efficiently profitable system based on a radically short-term formula that it has become a kind of psychotic algorithm? And George you are absolutely right: we owe it, not only to future generations, but to the Earth itself, to destabilise these psychotic algorithm of short term profiteering that will consume us in a holocaustum of greed. And its this algorithm that dictates all our reactions: we cannot sanction Japan for whaling for fear of losing trade, we cannot upset the US for withdrawing from the Paris Climate agreement for the same reason or Russia for novachok attacks on our own soil for fear of Russian billions withdrawing from the London property bubble- we live in a system in thrall to money, a cultural system hollowed out with nihilism and with that emptiness stuffed full of dollar bills so we don’t notice the abyss of meaninglessness.
But a new Scotland can lead the way. We can be like the Scandinavian nations, except have the ambition to go beyond them, to lead even those nations to a better more hopeful future. Even if the older generation and other entrenched elites in the country have to go into that brighter world kicking and screaming for the a nostalgia of darkness. But we have to have the ambition of moving beyond clinging to a death cult economy that sees no alternative to greed is good, deregulated commodification of life and the British war machine/ and Westminster’s obsession with nuclear energy- the first step is independence.
Thanks for the comment Barakabe
sorry for the rant
Fiona MacInnes says:
2nd January 2019 at 10:10 am
Spot on again George, always sad when the brave and laghed out predictions of the campatgners in the 60s are eventually proved right and true. Its a filthy mendacious business whose repressive imperial warmongerng Brit tentacles must be removed from where we live (lets call it a country for ease of description) . But just to pint out in a similar depressin ven as north sea oil decommissioning ramps up the push is on to also ‘leave structures’ in situ rather than the total removal that was promised at the start. Structures full of polluting materials collapsing onto the sea bed rusting and breaking up to spread over the sea bed creating physicl and biological hazzards. They are attempting to redefine the language around dumping to ‘wet storage’ rigs to reef’ etc. The energies that fuel war oil/ nuclear are cut from the same cloth I doot when the rush is on to exploit without looking over the future horizon.
Has there been any explanation for the UK government’s withdrawal of nuclear files from the National Archives yet?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/23/british-nuclear-archive-files-withdrawn-without-explanation
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Mack’s lawyers say releasing ’embarrassing collateral’ is not serious harm to slaves – so there can be no forced labor charges
See more at The New York Post.
Allison Mack’s lawyers are arguing that she and other slave masters holding “collateral” on slaves, then ordering them to work for free or to seduce Keith Raniere – is not forced labor.
In court papers filed Friday, Mack’s lawyers argue that the threat of releasing naked photos and damning video confessions is not “serious harm” something required to prove someone engaged in forced labor.
“The government argues that Ms. Mack obtained forced labor through ‘threats of serious harm,’ with serious harm being the embarrassment that would result from the exposure of one’s collateral,” Mack’s lawyers write.
“Courts have found, however, that such an outcome, albeit embarrassing, does not amount to serious harm under the statute.”
Mack’s lawyers cite a 2009 case in which a couple tried to sue the Church of Scientology for forced labor. The court in that case found that the couple could have left stopped working for Scientology and left even though they would be ‘excommunicated’ and labeled a ‘suppresive’.
“The threat of reputational damage and isolation from loved ones therefore did not qualify as serious harm,” Mack’s lawyers wrote.
Mack’s lawyers argue that forced labor charges typically involve victims who were subject to “squalid living conditions, extreme isolation, threats of physical harm, lack of immigration status, lack of education, and unfamiliarity with English.”
Nvixm’s alleged victims were “educated, English-speaking adults, who were not forced or compelled to join the organization, nor kept physically isolated, and who could leave the organization at any time,” they argue.
This is the heart of the defense of the forced labor charges. For the ones who the prosecution will present as victims, the defense will show they were subject at most to embarrassment and that these women were intelligent adults who got into DOS voluntarily.
To combat their testimony further, the defense will bring witnesses who will testify that they were helped by DOS and of course nobody felt threatened.
Will it be enough to raise reasonable doubt?
At this point, Mack’s lawyers are hoping the judge will agree with them that based on the language of the indictment – the allegations do not rise to forced labor.
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If Ms. Mack’s attorneys believe that publishing nude photos is not embarrassing, then let William F. McGovern and Sean S. Buckley provide nude photos of themselves to be published on the front page of the New York Post.
How about it, gentlemen?
If Clare Bronfman. pays lawyers enough money they will say anything.
First of all it is not “collateral.”
Collateral is used by banks to secure loans.
It is BLACKMAIL MATERIAL pure and simple.
I’ve read that in the case of Ms. Mack’s collateral there are allegations that Mack accused one of her relatives of engaging in serious criminal behavior.
I won’t mention the specifics or the person accused as the material appears to be a pure fabrication.
Ms. Mack and her lawyers appear to have no sense of shame to make an argument like this.
“Mack’s lawyers cite a 2009 case in which a couple tried to sue the Church of Scientology for forced labor. ”
Mack’s lawyers cite a civil suit.
This is a criminal prosecution.
“Nvixm’s alleged victims were “educated, English-speaking adults, ‘
So if you are an educated English speaker you have fewer rights than a Spanish or Chinese speaker?
:To combat their testimony further, the defense will bring witnesses who will testify that they were helped by DOS and of course nobody felt threatened.”
These are the rich high ranking Mexican members of DOS like Rosa Laura Junco and Loretta Garza.
These are the women who want guarantees that they won’t be prosecuted if they come to America to testify.
In other words THESE WOMEN ARE THEMSELVES POTENTIAL CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS IN THIS CASE.
Junco herself brought Mexican girls to the US to work as slaves and Garza was with Raniere in Puerto Vallarta when he was arrested.
Rainbow Light? Is Rosa Laura Junco out there “pimping” and “criming” for Raniere?
Rosa Laura Junco trained Mexican teenage girls the secret teachings of Keith Raniere in her mansion in Clifton Park.
https://frankreport.com/2017/12/06/rainbow-light-is-rosa-laura-junco-out-there-pimping-and-criming-for-raniere/
Can Mexico save Raniere? Agnifilo plans to call Mexican ‘First Line’ DOS slaves to defend Raniere and impeach DOJ’s American/Canadian ‘victims’
The First Line Slaves, I believe, are:
Rosa Laura Junco
Loreta Garza
Camila Fernandez
Mariana Fernandez
Nicki Clyne
Dani Padilla
Lauren Salzman
However, these “witnesses have reason to fear that the Government may arrest or detain them if they travel to the United States to testify,” he wrote.
https://frankreport.com/2018/11/27/can-mexico-save-raniere-agnifilo-plans-to-call-mexican-first-line-dos-slaves-to-defend-raniere-and-impeach-dojs-american-canadian-victims/
villagedianne says:
Shadowstate, I like where you say “First of all it is not “collateral.”
I agree. Words are important. We shouldn’t just accept Raniere’s manipulative terminology.
From Tony Ortega’s blog, The Underground Bunker, which is devoted to exposing Scientology, comes today’s blog headline: How Marc and Claire Headley’s Scientology lawsuit is being used by the NXIVM defense
Here is the link: https://tonyortega.org/2018/12/29/how-marc-and-claire-headleys-scientology-lawsuit-is-being-used-by-the-nxivm-defense/#more-53800
Inception says:
Ironically, the release of her own collateral would no doubt result in “serious harm” to her own family but here you have lawyers being paid by a third party who will likely be blindsiding her to the obvious.
Tommy Hannah says:
They appear to be grasping at straws trying to clear her name. Any rough timeframe when the next indictment will be? I’m checking this site obsessively every day in hope!
It’s called blackmail, held over one’s head to induce one to perform acts one would otherwise not do of their own free will.
They extorted services, both physical and sexual through blackmail.
Keep in mind these top folks in NXIVM knowingly participated in breaking down, bit by bit, one’s boundaries.
The top folks used NLP. If you study NLP you will soon realize it is used on one in advertising all the time. Read Vance Packard’s The Hidden Persuaders. He showed early on how subliminal messages are utilized.
I maintain they knew exactly what they were doing, Allison, Nancy, et al, and major proof of that is NXIVM members being told by Allison to seduce Keith.
Slick, isn’t it? He avoids complicity.
I am boggled by the fact women betrayed other women over and over.
For Nancy, it had to be the money and power and yet what decent human would betray the daughters she carried beneath her heart for 9 months? Yet she did and did so knowingly.
Animals have more decency than Nancy does.
I maintain none of these top NXIVM is redeemable. Their minds are twisted.
They do not belong, ever, among the rest of us.
Women betray other women more than men do.
Such large generalizations require substantial amounts of proof. Sexist presuppositions aren’t categorized as the latter.
It’s my personal experience; and here’s a recent example: https://www.vogue.com/article/gretchen-carlson-miss-america-cara-mund-bullying-drama
We all already know you hate women, Scott. Particularly attractive women.
Can’t imagine where that came from. (That’s sarcasm, folks.)
I love women, I hate bitches.
Try to imagine that came from simple logic (that’s not sarcasm, folks).
In my experience, I’ve found this to be true.
Leon Festinger says:
I agree that not one of this people can be rehabilitated. It is my opinion KAR and Nancy are psychopaths who found one another and devised a scheme to both their benefit. The women who lured the unsuspecting into DOS are equally complicit. All those at the top were only looking out for themselves and their personal gratification and this is why I do applaud Sarah Edmondson for speaking out. I know others hold her responsible for harming them but she did come forward and help to stop them. Others had spent years of their life trying to get people to listen but once the branding was public information steps had to be taken. It is a real sad comment on our society that that is what it look for action to be taken.
Sarah Edmondson only turned when she was personally affected. She knew about the bad stuff before and didn’t care. She is a bad person.
It’s not just not a crime, NXIVM is actually a humanitarian organization: https://people.com/crime/allison-mack-nxivm-keith-raneire-calls-group-humanitarian-organization/amp/
A huge difference between Scientology and NXIVM is the Scientology folks were just average people, whereas many NXIVM people have a very public profile, thus resulting in “serious harm.”
John Travolta and Tom Cruise average people?
Scott I think you must be living under a rock!
John Travola and Tom Cruise aren’t the typical Sea Org members, being punished in “the hole.”
They are in it period
You obviously don’t understand how Scientology works. I suggest you watch the A&E Leah Remini series and edjamacate yourself.
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arXiv:2010.14950 (cs)
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Title:Predicting Engagement with the Internet Research Agency's Facebook and Instagram Campaigns around the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Authors:Dimitra Liotsiou, Bharath Ganesh, Philip N. Howard
Abstract: The Russian Internet Research Agency's (IRA) online interference campaign in the 2016 U.S. presidential election represents a turning point in the trajectory of democratic elections in the digital age. What can we learn about how the IRA engages U.S. audiences, ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election? We provide the first in-depth analysis of the relationships between IRA content characteristics and user engagement on Facebook and Instagram around the 2016 election. We find that content targeting right-wing and non-Black marginalised groups had the strongest positive association with engagement on both Facebook and Instagram, in contrast to findings from the IRA campaign on Twitter and to some previous commentary in the media. Higher engagement was associated with posting later in the 2015-2017 period and using less text on both platforms, using negative wording and not including links on Facebook, and using fewer hashtags on Instagram. The sub-audiences and sub-issues associated with most engagement differed across the platforms.
Subjects: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
Cite as: arXiv:2010.14950 [cs.SI]
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Importance of Sub-Grid Scale Modeling for Accurate Aerodynamic Simulations
Petter Ekman,
Petter Ekman
Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University
Linköping 58183,
e-mail: petter.ekman@liu.se
James Venning,
James Venning
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University
Clayton 3800, Victoria,
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Torbjörn Virdung,
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Volvo Car Corporation Department,
PO Box PVT2 SE-405 31, Göteborg 91380,
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Matts Karlsson
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J. Fluids Eng. Jan 2021, 143(1): 011501 (14 pages)
Paper No: FE-19-1268 https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048351
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Ekman, P., Venning, J., Virdung, T., and Karlsson, M. (October 13, 2020). "Importance of Sub-Grid Scale Modeling for Accurate Aerodynamic Simulations." ASME. J. Fluids Eng. January 2021; 143(1): 011501. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048351
The Ahmed body is one of the most well-investigated vehicle bodies for aerodynamic purposes. Despite its simple geometry, the flow around the body, especially at the rear, is very complex as it is dominated by a large wake with strong interaction between vortical structures. In this study, the flow around the 25 deg Ahmed body has been investigated using large eddy simulations and compared to high-resolution particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements. Special emphasis was put on studying three commonly used sub-grid scale (SGS) models and their ability to capture vortical structures around the Ahmed body. The ability of the SGS models to capture the near-wall behavior and small-scale dissipation is crucial for capturing the correct flow field. Very good agreement between simulations and PIV measurements were seen when using the dynamic Smagorinsky-Lilly and the wall-adopting local eddy-viscosity SGS models, respectively. However, the standard Smagorinsky-Lilly model was not able to capture the flow patterns when compared to the PIV measurements due to shortcomings in the near-wall modeling in the standard Smagorinsky-Lilly model, resulting in overpredicted separation.
Flow (Dynamics), Resolution (Optics), Simulation, Viscosity, Vortices, Wakes, Eddies (Fluid dynamics), Separation (Technology), Columns (Structural), Modeling, Reynolds number
Reducing fuel consumption and emissions are among the main challenges for the transport sector. The aerodynamic drag can be responsible for 30–80% of the total resistance for a vehicle traveling at highway speed, depending on vehicle type and road conditions [1]. Thus, the aerodynamic drag has a major effect on the energy consumption and emissions. However, the flow around a vehicle does not only affect the performance of the vehicle, but also the safety and comfort of the vehicle [1].
A large portion of the drag is produced by the rear end of the vehicle. The bluff body has the ability to capture similar behavior of the flow around a vehicle, and makes it possible to use more generalized shapes to study parameters affecting the flow. Due to this, the use of bluff bodies for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies have been, and is still, widely used. Especially, for scale-resolving simulations (SRS), where use of fine near-wall meshes may be important.
One of the most studied bluff bodies is the Ahmed body, introduced in 1984 by Ahmed et al. [2]. This bluff body is a simplified vehicle model consisting of a rounded front, a long midsection and a box shaped rear end with a top slant; in the original configuration supported from the ground by four circular cylinders, one in each corner. The body was created for emphasizing the effect on the time-averaged wake structures and how it affects the drag of such a basic vehicle type [2]. Despite the simplified geometry, the flow around the body, especially at the rear, is very complex due to the slanted top at the rear of the body causing several important vortical structures in the wake. The slant angle has a significant impact on the drag, as these vortical structures are directly affected by it. In Ref. [2] it was seen that the majority of the drag was caused by the low-pressure distribution at the slant and base of the body. Previous studies have also shown that the wake structures change dramatically for a slant angle of about 30 deg [2–6].
For a slant angle less than 30 deg, however, Ahmed et al. [2] noticed that a separating shear layer turns uutward from the sides of the edges of the slant (C-pillar) and rolls into two longitudinal vortices, which dominate the behavior of the wake. Furthermore, the flow separates over the sharp edge where the roof and slant meet and creates an arch-shaped separation bubble. The length of this separation bubble has been seen to be dependent on the Reynolds number when comparing different experimental studies, see, e.g., Refs. [7] and [8]. For moderate and higher Reynolds numbers the flow reattaches along the slant, but for low Reynolds numbers (i.e., less than ReL=3×104) the separation never reattaches [9].
For slant angles close to 30 deg the size of this separation grows and causes a low pressure at the center of the slant. This low pressure affects the C-pillar vortices by making them stronger, which endorse the reattachment. Behind the base two larger vortical structures occurs, forming a large recirculating flow region behind the body. Sims-Williams et al. [3] noted that the behavior of the wake suddenly can change from a closed separation bubble to fully separated flow over the slant, for a slant angle of 30 deg. It was also seen that it was possible to initiate the different states by guiding the flow onto the slant or force it to separate. For higher Reynolds numbers (ReL=6.2×105) the reattaching state was more stable. The highest drag occurs for this slant angle when the flow remains in the closed separation bubble state [2,6,10].
For a slant angle over 30 deg the flow separates over the whole slant and joins the C-pillar vortices, creating a large wake behind the body [2–4] and reducing drag [1].
The 25 deg slant angle has been investigated in several studies at several different Reynolds numbers. Lienhart and Becker [4] noted that for the 25 deg, at a higher Reynolds number (ReL=2.86×106), that the flow mainly stayed attached over the center of the slant. However, a small separation zone directly after the slant edge was noted. The two counter-rotating C-pillar vortices were deemed the reason for the attached flow, even up to a slant angle of approximately 30 deg. It was also seen that these C-pillar vortices extended more than 0.5 body lengths, L, behind the body [4].
Venning et al. [8], published in 2015 a study where extensive high-resolution particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements were performed at the rear of the Ahmed body with a slant angle of 25 deg. The measurements were made in a water tunnel with low freestream velocity, resulting in a Reynolds number of ReL=9.34×104, almost 46 times lower than the original study made by Ahmed et al. [2]. Venning et al. [8] especially studied the behavior of the C-pillar vortices and corner vortices at the lower part of the body, and how these were affected by the width of the body. These vortices have, as earlier mentioned, a huge impact on the behavior of the wake and hence the flow characteristics of the body. Leclerc [11] showed that 12%, 34%, and 44% of the drag are caused by the C-pillar vortices, separation bubble on the slant and the three-dimensional (3D) wake behind the rear base of the body, respectively. Thacker et al. [7] could also demonstrate that the location of the center of the vortical structures in the separation bubble at the slant and in the 3D wake had a significant effect on the pressure distribution, and hence the aerodynamic forces. This has also been seen for other geometries with a slanted rear, such as the Davis body studied by Fuller and Passmore [12], where the effect of changing the geometry of the C-pillar had a direct effect of the C-pillar vortices, wake structures and surface pressure distribution. Several studies have also shown this to be true for more realistic fastback and notchback geometries, see, e.g., Refs. [13–16]. All these findings show the importance of capturing these vortices and wake structures accurately.
Due to the simplistic shape but still complex flow characteristics of the Ahmed body, it has also become a popular test case within the CFD community.
Several studies exist where Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) turbulence models have been applied for simulating the flow around the Ahmed body [10,17–21]. These studies used a large variety of models ranging from classical two-equation models to more advanced Reynolds stress models. It could be seen that the RANS models are able to capture the wake behavior of the 35 deg slanted body well, while missing important features for the 25 deg slant angle [19–21]. The main reason why the RANS model struggle to capture the behavior for the flow over the slant is that the RANS models are not able to accurately model the behavior of the small-scale structures of the separated region [22]. These small structures have a significant influence on the increase of the momentum transfer across the mean streamlines and does increase the unsteadiness and the 3-dimensionality of the flow [22,23]. This in turn also increase the unsteady behavior of the wake.
Hybrid RANS large eddy simulation models (LES), where the near-wall flow is modeled, in order to not resolve the boundary layer, have been applied to simulate the flow around the body [21,22,24]. As these approaches often also use a RANS model for the near-wall flow, they struggle to accurately capture the wake. Improvements have been seen for the general wake behavior compared to RANS simulation, but hybrid RANS-LES models seem still to have problems to predict the mild separation and reattachment on the slant, causing effects on the behavior of the wake and pressure distribution [22]. However, some improvements have recently been seen when using the improved delayed detached eddy simulation (IDDES) model [25]. Specifically, the velocity distribution at the separated region at the center of slant is clearly improved with the IDDES model when compared to a detached eddy simulation model.
A number of LES studies have been made on the Ahmed body, with different sub-grid scale models and near-wall treatments [22,23,26–29]. Most of these studies investigated the flow around the body at a higher Reynolds number, causing high demands for large mesh sizes to reach the necessary mesh resolution, which may not always been achieved [21,22].
Utilizing the flow field insensitivity with respect to the Reynolds number, over the rear of the Ahmed body, as used in the high-resolution PIV measurements performed by Venning et al. [8] and [30], makes it well suited for further comparative studies of LES predictability.
In order to improve the accuracy of CFD simulations, and as computational power is becoming more available, use of more SRS is occurring, especially in the automotive industry. These SRS methods most often uses SGS models to model the behavior and effect of the smallest scales within the LES region.
In this study, three frequently used LES SGS models are compared to these high-resolution PIV measurements in order to investigate the effects of the different SGS models. The effect of the SGS modeling of the smaller scales is supposed to have small effects of the overall flow field. However, some studies of external flows have shown that the SGS modeling can cause significant differences [31,32]. The flow around the Ahmed body have already been investigated with different SGS models [22,23,26–29], but in different studies with different numerical schemes, meshes and configurations, making it difficult to make any direct comparison. Hence, there is a need to understand and investigate how different LES SGS models affect the flow around the Ahmed body. Here, we investigate, three frequently used SGS models, the Smagorinsky-Lilly (SM) model, the dynamic Smagorinsky-Lilly model (DSM) and the wall-adapting local eddy-viscosity (WALE) model, and their impact on the flow around the 25 deg Ahmed body when compared with high-resolution PIV data. The results focus on the ability and accuracy of these SGS models to capture the main vortical structures over the slant and in the wake of the body and their suitability for simulating the flow around ground vehicles.
2.1 Geometry.
The geometry used in this study is based on the well-known Ahmed body, introduced by Ahmed et al. in 1984 [2]. However, to be able to directly compare simulations with the available high-resolution PIV measurements performed in Refs. [8] and [30], the body follows the configuration of these experiments: supported on two NACA0030 stilts with a chord length of 0.79H and height of 0.17H, respectively, where H is the height of the body and equals 72.3 mm. The length, L, and width, W, of the model is 261 mm and 97.3 mm, respectively. The stilts are positioned such that the distance from the leading vertical surface of the body to the leading edge of the front and rear stilts are 0.56H and 2.2H, respectively. An illustration of the body can be seen in Fig. 1. Only the 25 deg slant angle is investigated with a slant length, Lslant, of 0.77H. The origin of the coordinate system is defined at the symmetry line (y/W=0) of the bottom trailing edge of the base of the body, Fig. 1.
2.2 Numerical Setup
2.2.1 Domain and Boundary Conditions.
It has been seen in several studies that the flow around the rear of the Ahmed body with 25 deg slant angle is insensitive to the Reynolds number [8,9,27]. To be able to directly compare the simulation results to previous high-resolution PIV measurements [8,30], the same Reynolds number as in the measurements is used for the simulations. The Reynolds number, ReL=9.34×104, is based on the length of the body.
To achieve similar flow conditions as in the PIV measurements [8,30] the full test-section is modeled, Fig. 1. The test-section floor reach 4.2H upstream of the body and has a 4:1 elliptical leading edge. In the measurements, the flow is also allowed to pass below the splitter plate through an empty tunnel section [8,30]. To ensure small and negligible effects from the inlet boundary condition, the inlet is positioned an additional 8.3H upstream of the leading edge of the test-section floor. The bottom part of the domain upstream of the elliptical leading edge is modeled with symmetry condition, to replicate the freestream upstream the test-section. The outlet of the domain is positioned 20.8H downstream of the body and modeled with zero-static pressure. The freestream entering the domain is modeled with a uniform velocity profile. The width and height of the tunnel was both 8.3H, resulting in a solid blockage of less than 2% as in the measurements [8,30]. In Refs. [8] and [30] a turbulent intensity of less than 0.5% was measured together with a nonuniformity of ±1% for the velocity profile at the test-section. To ensure no or minor effects of the inflow conditions, two different turbulence intensities, 1 and 5%, were evaluated at the inlet (generated with a spectral synthesizer), which resulted in only very minor differences for the parameters presented in this study. A turbulence intensity of 1% at the inlet is therefore used, resulting in a turbulence intensity of less than 0.5% in the test-section, as seen in the measurements. The surfaces of the model and walls of the water tunnel are modeled with no-slip condition.
2.2.2 Large Eddy Simulations Governing Equations.
The governing LES equations are the incompressible Navier–Stokes and continuity equations filtered with the implicit spatial filter of characteristic width Δ (Eqs. (1) and (2))
∂u¯i∂t+∂u¯iu¯j∂xj=−1ρ∂p¯∂xi+∂∂xj(ν∂u¯i∂xj)+1ρ∂τij∂xj
∂u¯i∂xi=0
Here, ν, u¯i, and p¯ are the kinematic viscosity and the filtered variables for the resolved velocity and pressure, respectively. τij is the SGS turbulent stress defined in the following equation:
τij=uiuj¯−ui¯uj¯
The SGS turbulent stresses are unknown and need closure, and there exist several ways to do that. In this study, three frequently used SGS models were investigated, the SM model, the DSM model and the WALE model. All these three models are based on the concept of isotropic eddy-viscosity (in the following equation) for determining the SGS turbulent stress:
τij−13τkkδij=−2μSGSS¯ij
Here, μSGS is the SGS eddy-viscosity, defined by each SGS-model, and S¯ij is the resolved rate-of-strain tensor (in the following equation):
S¯ij=12(∂u¯i∂xj+∂u¯j∂xi)
2.2.2.1 Smagorinsky-Lilly model.
The SM model was first proposed by Smagorinsky [33] where the kinematic eddy-viscosity is μSGS=νSGS/ρ and is modeled as
νSGSSM=Ls2|S¯|
Here, Ls is the mixing length for the sub-grid scale and |S¯|=(2S¯ijS¯ij)1/2. The mixing length, Ls, for the sub-grid scales is defines as
Ls=min(κd,CsΔ)
where κ is the von Kármán constant, d is the distance to the closest wall, Cs is the Smagorinsky model constant and Δ the grid-filter length. The Smagorinsky model constant, Cs, is in this study equal to 0.1, this value is commonly used as default value in many commercial codes and has also been used in many studies of flow around bluff bodies [23,27]. The grid-filter length, Δ, is computed from the cube root of the volume of each cell, Δ=V1/3.
Since this model does not provide zero eddy-viscosity in laminar flow the model needs a wall-damping function for better near-wall flow behavior. This is achieved by ensuring that the mixing length goes to zero at the wall (Eq. (7)), which gives the same behavior as for the eddy-viscosity.
2.2.2.2 Dynamic Smagorinsky-Lilly model.
The DSM model is based on the SM model but with modification of the Smagorinsky model constant, Cs [34]. Instead of using a constant value for Cs it is dynamically computed during the LES and uses information from the smaller scales of the resolved field, resulting in Cds. To separate the smaller scales from the resolved field the DSM model use of a test-filter, Δ̃. The test-filter is in this study twice the size of the grid filter-length, Δ [34]. This test-filter is used on the governing Navier–Stokes and continuity equations, resulting in a subtest-scale stress defined as
Tij=uiuj¯̃−ui¯̃uj¯̃
where “∼” denotes the test-filtered variables. In Ref. [34] it can be seen that τij and Tij are related to each other and can be used to determine the local value of the dynamic Smagorinsky constant (in the following equation):
Tij−τ̃ij=Lij
Here, Lij is the Leonard stresses, which can be interpreted as the stress associated with the smaller resolved scales between the test-filter, Δ̃, and the grid-filter, Δ. From this an ad hoc solution [34] of the dynamic Smagorinsky model constant, Cds, can be defined (Eq. (10)) as
Cds=(LijMijMijMij)1/2
where Mij is defines as
Mij=−2(Δ̃2|S¯̃|S¯̃ij−Δ¯2|S¯|S¯ij̃)
This makes the dynamic model constant, Cds, vary in time and space over a fairly wide range. To avoid numerical instabilities the range is limited between 0 and 0.23, [33,35], however, in this study Cds never reached the maximum limit. The time-averaged distribution of the Cds variable can be seen in Fig. 1 available in the Supplemental Materials on the ASME Digital Collection. The effect of the dynamic Smagorinsky model constant makes the model able to have a correct near-wall behavior as the eddy-viscosity automatically go to zero in laminar flows [34,35]. Further details about the model and its implementation in ansysfluent can be found in Refs. [34] and [35].
2.2.2.3 Wall-adopting local eddy-viscosity model.
Another approach to take care of the near-wall behavior is the one used in the WALE SGS model [36]. For WALE the kinematic eddy-viscosity is formulated as
νSGSWALE=Ls2(SijdSijd)3/2(S¯ijS¯ij)5/2+(SijdSijd)5/4
Here, Sijd is the traceless symmetric part of the square of the velocity gradient tensor and can be rewritten as a function of filtered the strain-rate, S̃ij, and vorticity, Ω̃ij (in the following equation):
Sijd=S̃ikS̃kj+Ω̃ikΩ̃kj−13δij(S̃mnS̃mn−Ω̃mnΩ̃mn)
Ls is also here the mixing length of the sub-grid scales and defined similarly as for the SM model (Eq. (7)) but with the WALE constant (Eq. (14)). The WALE model constant, Cw, is set to 0.325 in this study, as it seen to be superior for the used solver [37].
Ls=min(κd,CwΔ)
WALE will also, similar to DSM, provide zero eddy-viscosity for laminar flow. Due to the formulation of the eddy-viscosity it provides an automatic damping function near the wall, and therefore do not need an extra wall-damping function.
2.2.2.4 Near-wall treatment.
All the meshes used in this study are fine enough to resolve the laminar sublayer on all no-slip surfaces. Therefore, the wall shear stress is obtained from the laminar stress–strain relationship (in the following equation):
u¯+=n+
Here, u¯+ and n+ are the nondimensional velocity and normal wall distance, respectively.
2.2.3 Numerical Method.
All the simulations are performed with the commercially available cell-centered finite volume solver ANSYS Fluent 15.0. The pressure based solver is used together with the semi-implicit method for pressure linked equations-consistent pressure–velocity coupling scheme, which is an improved version of the basic SIMPLE algorithm and as a result lead to faster convergence [38]. The spatial discretization of the convective terms in the momentum equations are calculated by use of the bounded central differencing scheme, which enables low numerical diffusion by use of the central differencing scheme, but still ensures stability by blending first and second-order upwind scheme when needed. It is based on the normalized variable diagram [39,40] and the upwind schemes are only used when a convection boundedness criterion is violated. The central differencing scheme is used for the spatial discretization of the diffusion terms. The spatial discretization for the gradients are solved by using the least squares cell based method, which maintain second-order accuracy to a low cost, while the pressure is solved by use of the central differencing scheme.
2.2.4 Temporal and Spatial Resolution.
For the transient formulation, the second-order implicit iterative time-advancement is used, with three inner loop iterations for every time-step. This ensured that the instantaneous solution was converged for the scaled (with the flowrate through the domain) residuals below 10−5 for the continuity and momentum equations, at every time-step. These solver settings are maintained during the whole investigation.
The time-step sizes (ΔtU∞/L) are 6.4×10−4 and 3×10−4 for the baseline and fine mesh, respectively. This ensured that the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy number was below unity in all the cells for the whole solution. The simulations performed on the baseline mesh is started from a previously run steady-state simulation with the k–ω shear stress transport turbulence model [41].
A larger time-step size of 1.2×10−3 is used in the beginning of the simulation for 20 convective flow units (t=U∞/L) to minimize possible initial effects. The simulation then run for another 20 convective flow units before time averaging of the filtered variables are done for 100 convective flow units. The fine mesh is initialized from the baseline solution, and then run for 20 convective flow units with the small time-step size before time averaging of the filtered variables for 80 convective flow units. This resulted in well-averaged flow fields with less than 1% of fluctuations of the time-averaged forces over the last 20 convective flow units, see Fig. 2 available in the Supplemental Materials on the ASME Digital Collection.
The meshes are created in the commercially available grid generator software ansysicemcfd 15.0, and consist of hexahedral elements. Two different grid levels are investigated, in order to check the grid sensitivity of the results. The baseline and the fine meshes consist of 33.79 and 55.27 million cells, respectively. For the mesh sensitivity analysis, the drag and lift coefficients (Eqs. (16) and (17)) and vortex center locations are compared between the coarse and fine mesh for the DSM SGS model.
CD=Fx0.5ρU∞2A
CL=Fz0.5ρU∞2A
Here, Fx is the drag force, Fz the lift force, ρ the density of the fluid, U∞2 the freestream velocity in test-section and A the projected frontal area of the Ahmed body (neglecting the stilts). No significant differences in drag and lift or its distribution are observed between the meshes, as only small differences can be seen (Table 1). A difference less than 0.065H of the C-pillar vortex z-positon around x/L = 0.3 is seen between the meshes. Due to the small differences, the baseline mesh is deemed fine enough, and thereby used in this study.
The meshes consist of rectangular blocks while the model is enclosed in an O-grid for more efficient cell distribution. The first node is positioned 1.38 × 10−3H from the body surfaces and the ground of the test-section in order to ensure a nondimensional wall unit of n+<1, where n+=Δnuτt/ν . Here, Δn is the first cell thickness, uτt the time-averaged friction velocity and ν the kinematic viscosity of the fluid. For the tunnel walls and ceiling, the first node is positioned at 2.74 × 10−3H resulting in n+<3. This is done to obtain a proper boundary layer build up inside the test-section and thereby similar blockage effects as in the experiments [8,30].
To ensure fine enough resolution in the stream wise and the span wise direction, a maximum cell size of 14 times the wall normal distance is used at the walls of the model for the baseline mesh. This corresponds to 100 nodes covering the body in the y-direction (width of the model), 266 in the x-direction (length of the body) and 90 in the z-direction (height of the body) plus an additional 44 nodes covering the stilts. This resulted in a mesh resolution where the majority of the cells (99.96%) at the walls of the body reached values of s+<20 and l+<40 for the spanwise and streamwise nondimensional wall units, respectively. Here, l+=Δluτt/ν and s+=Δsuτt/ν, where Δl and Δs are the spanwise and streamwise cell sizes, respectively, which follows the recommendation for turbulent channel flow [42]. A growth ratio smaller than or equal to 1.15 is set for the mesh in the vicinity of the body while a growth ratio of up to 1.3 is set further away from the body and tunnel walls, where only undisturbed freestream flow is expected. The same resolution but with fewer cells covering the width of the body is used for the 80% width body. The mesh cell quality is kept above 0.35 (where a value of 1 represent a perfect hexahedral cube) for the normalized Jacobian determinant, max orthogls and warp.
In earlier studies, there have been divided views on the need for the mesh resolution upstream the slant. Krajnovic and Davidson [27] assumed that the upstream flow had a minor impact on the flow downstream the slant, while Serre et al. [22] and Ashton and Revell [21] empathized the need to accurately capture the fluctuations upstream of the slant. This is due to its large effect on the reattachment on the slant. In this study, the baseline mesh is fine enough to capture the fluctuating flow caused by the separation at the front of the body. Due to the low Reynolds number, a larger separation at the front is expected and thereby make it even more important to capture the fluctuations upstream the slant. Mesh refinement is done at the rear and downstream the body, to capture the vortical structures in the wake.
The baseline interior mesh resolution is analyzed in detail for the DSM SGS model, and assumed to be of enough resolution for the other SGS models. The amount of resolved turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) is calculated in all the cells that had more than 10% turbulent kinetic energy of the maximum value, in the following equation:
M(x,t)=ktot(x,t)−ksgs(x,t)ktot(x,t)
Here, M(x,t) is evaluated in each cell and is the percentage amount of resolved turbulent kinetic energy and ktot(x,t) the total turbulent kinetic energy. ktot(x,t) is the summation of the SGS modeled, ksgs(x,t), TKE and resolved TKE, kres(x,t). The modeled TKE can be estimated for the SM and DSM SGS models by
ksgs(x,t)=νt(x,t)2(Δ(x,t) Cds(x,t)2)
where νt is the kinematic turbulent viscosity, Δ the filter width and Cds is the dynamic Smagorinsky model constant. It is seen that the majority of the cells resolve more than 80% of the total turbulent kinetic energy, which is deemed enough [43].
The eddy-viscosity ratio, νt/ν, was also monitored to provide an indication of the ratio between the modeled and resolved contributions to the dissipation [44]. It reached a maximum of 2.3 near the body, while reaching a maximum of 8.3 in the whole domain. Ideally this should be as close as possible to unity, and at least stay below 10 [44].
The normalized two-point correlation (Eq. (20)) is also computed in three representative regions (top of the body, slant and downstream of the front stilt), as it has been shown to be more reliable than the other measures for estimating mesh resolution [45,46].
B11norm(x1A,x̂1)=1v1,rms(x1A) v1,rms(x1A+x̂1)v´1(x1A) v´1(x1A+x̂1)¯
Here, x1A denotes the starting point, x̂1 the distance from the starting point A, v1 the velocity component and v´1 the fluctuating part of the velocity component.
For the separated flow at the top part of the front of the body, a signal correlation of 0.2 or higher is observed for seven cells, while more than 14 cells cover it downstream the front stilt and at the slant. This is well above the recommendations of at least eight cells [45,46] for the slant and front stilt, while just below for the top part of the front of the body. For sampling locations and correlation signal, please see Fig. 3 available in the Supplemental Materials on the ASME Digital Collection.
From the mesh sensitivity analysis and mesh resolution metrics, only small differences to the result occur when refining the mesh. The baseline mesh follows the resolution recommendations presented in Refs. [21] and [42–46].
2.3 Particle Image Velocimetry.
Particle image velocimetry was used to measure the velocity field in the wake of the Ahmed body. The ground plane and the body were placed upside down in the water channel at Fluids Laboratory for Aeronautical and Industrial Research (FLAIR) at Monash University, Australia. The water channel is a free-surface, closed circuit channel with a cross section 600 mm wide × 800 mm high and is 4000 mm long. With a freestream velocity of 0.365 m/s, the Reynolds number was 9.34×104, based on the length of the Ahmed body.
The flow was seeded with spherical particles and illuminated with a 532 nm laser. Images were acquired with a PCO 4000 (10.7 Mpx) charge-coupled device camera or a PCO Dimax S4 (4.1 Mpx) CMOS camera for the planes. The image pairs were analyzed using in-house cross-correlation software [47] with a window size of 32 × 32 pixels and an overlap of 75%. For complete details about the experimental setup and PIV acquisition, the reader is referred to [8,30].
2.4 Post-Processing.
For fair comparison, the CFD results which are compared to the PIV measurements were exported as a stack of 2D grids for the cross-stream (yz) and the streamwise (xz) planes, with a resolution of 0.006 W and 0.003H, respectively. The same resolution as used for the PIV measurements in Refs. [8] and [30].
The vortex center was calculated by use of the scalar function, Γ1, presented in Ref. [48], Eq. (21). Γ1 is a scalar related to the rotation of the fluid in a 2D region of interest around each point. It is determine by the direction of each velocity vector in the region and generates a local maximum in the center of a vortex
Γ1(P)=1N∑ssin(θM)
Here, N is the number of points M inside S and θM the angle between the velocity vector at M and the radius vector between P and M. From a sensitivity analysis of the needed points in M, it was determined that a 7 × 7 points was sufficient for finding the vortex centers, even close to the boundaries. Γ1 values over 0.7 together with a local maximum within M was used for establishing the center of the vortex.
The Ahmed body was originally developed for studying the separation over the slant and the effect of the C-pillar vortices. Even for a greatly reduced Reynolds number (compared to original study by Ahmed et al. [2]) these structures still dominate the flow at the rear of the body [6,8–10].
In Fig. 2, the time-averaged vortex centers and 2D streamlines in three yz-planes, x/L = [−0.2, 0.0, 0.5], can be seen for PIV and the three investigated SGS models. The C-pillar vortices can clearly be seen, as the flow rolls up over the C-pillar and causing strong vortices that are present several body lengths downstream.
Strong similarities are noted between the PIV measurements, DSM and WALE models, as the C-pillar and corner vortices follow similar behavior and paths. However, the SM model predicts a completely different behavior for the C-pillar vortices, downstream of the body. For the SM SGS model the C-pillar vortices break up around x/L = 0.125, while for the PIV, DSM and WALE SGS models they are present several body lengths downstream of the body. In all cases, the C-pillar vortices are present from the beginning of the slant, but are detected slightly downstream due to the used Γ1 threshold value and PIV resolution.
Further downstream the wake, at x/L = 0.5, similar flow behavior between all the SGS models and PIV can be seen, as the flow is dominated by two counter-rotating vortices. It should be noted, however, that the vortices causing a seemingly similar behavior for the SM model is in fact the effect of two counter-rotating vortices originating from an interaction of the C-pillar and corner vortices. Due to this, the far wake has similar behavior between all three SGS model and the PIV measurements, even though the SM SGS model captures a completely different near wake behavior.
Close to the vertical base of the body, a similar behavior for the near-wall flow are seen for the DSM and WALE SGS models, when compared with the PIV measurements. Both these SGS models are able to capture the saddle point at the middle of the vertical base of the body, indicating the presence of two spanwise vortices in the near wake. For the SM SGS model the saddle point exist near the bottom edge of the vertical base with the near-wall flow mainly in the z-direction, indicating a single large spanwise vortex in the near wake region.
A small negative bifurcation is noted on the top and bottom part of the base in Ref. [8]. The top bifurcation is caused by the flow reattaching on the slant, causing separation over the top part of the base. The bottom bifurcation is caused by the flow under the body separating at the bottom edge of the base. All three SGS models are able to capture both the bifurcations (see Fig. 4 available in the Supplemental Materials on the ASME Digital Collection), but not to the same extent as seen in Ref. [8]. The SM SGS model is only able to capture the small negative bifurcation on the top part of the base, while the DSM and WALE SGS models are only able to capture the bottom negative bifurcation. This is mainly due to the different spanwise vortical structures in the wake.
The flow under the body is accelerated as an effect of the cross-sectional area underneath the body. Due to the stationary ground, a boundary layer exist on the test-section floor and on the body, causing the flow outward to the lateral sides of the body to satisfy continuity. This forms the longitudinal corner vortices, which travels along the bottom side of the body, Fig. 2.
In Fig. 3, the position of the C-pillar and corner vortices are compared for the PIV and the three investigated SGS models. Excellent agreement with the PIV measurements can be seen for the DSM and WALE SGS models. Due to the different near wake structure for the SM SGS model, the C-pillar vortices are, as described earlier, not present after x/L = 0.125. For the y-position of the C-pillar vortices, a clear similarity can be seen between the PIV and the DSM and WALE SGS models. A slight difference for the y-position can be seen downstream x/L = 0.4, but is mainly an effect of the asymmetry in the PIV measurement. Asymmetrical effects up to y/W = 0.0492 and z/H = 0.080 can be seen for the C-pillar and corner vortices in the PIV measurements.
In Thacker et al. [7] the behavior of the C-pillar vortices vary linearly in y- and z-position with the x-direction until the end of the body, when the C-pillar vortices are reported to turn downward (z-direction) with an angle change of 14.7 deg. This cannot be seen for either the PIV measurements or the investigated SGS models in this study. This is believed to be due to the much higher Reynolds number used in Ref. [7] (ReL=2.2×106) causing an earlier reattachment on the slant and resulting in lower pressure, which turn the C-pillar vortices toward the y/W = 0 plane. This inward movement make the C-pillar vortices more affected by the vortical structures in the wake, and hence less inward movement of the C-pillar vortices is seen in this study.
The reason the corner vortices stop existing after around x/L = 0.225 (Fig. 3(d)) is that there is a complex interaction between them and the C-pillar vortices. Both the corner vortex and C-pillar vortex have the same rotation direction, on each side, and hence the top part of the corner vortex and the bottom of the C-pillar vortex have opposite direction causing a decrease in strength of both vortices. When comparing the SGS models with the PIV data for the corner vortex center position, it can clearly be seen that the SM SGS model is not able to capture it accurately. This is caused by the different near wake structure for the SM SGS model. It can also be seen that these vortices are already pushed further away (y-position) from the model, as compared to the other methods. The corner vortices size for the SM SGS model is also larger (Fig. 2) but weaker than seen for the DSM and WALE SGS models, as three times lower Q-criterion is observed in them at x/L = 0.
The opposite behavior as seen for the C-pillar vortices can be seen here for the DSM and WALE SGS models. Here, the DSM SGS model is able to better capture the behavior and location of the corner vortices seen in the PIV measurements. The y-position is almost identical between the SGS models, but for the z-position the DSM SGS model is more aligned with the PIV measurements.
As reported in Ref. [49], the corner vortices kept their initial position in the yz-plane along and behind the body. Here, however, it can be seen that these vortices keep their position in the yz-plane until x/L = 0.05, where they tend to move toward the y/W = 0 plane and the floor of the test-section.
The main reason for the differences in the results between the investigated SGS models can be connected to the flow beneath the body. In Fig. 4, the skin friction lines and its x-component is seen for the underside of the body. A large region of negative x-skin friction can be seen for the SM SGS model. This cause the flow to reverse in under the body. This reversed flow is a result of the flow separating around 23% of the chord length of the front stilt and that the flow is never able to reattach on either of the front and rear silts. The WALE SGS model separates just slightly later than the SM SGS model, but reattaches at the rear stilt, resulting in less impact on the rear wake of the body. For the DSM SGS model, the flow separates later on the front stilt (around 30% of the chord length) and the wake from the front stilt is kept within the width of the stilts, causing an earlier reattachment on the second stilt.
Stronger outflow (y-direction) below the body can be seen for the SM SGS model, compared to the other two SGS models. This is the reason for the different behavior of the corner vortices. More of the flow is pushed outward from the underside of the body, causing the size of the corner vortices to grow (Fig. 2).
Due to smaller cross-sectional area, the flow accelerate below the body, and a lower static pressure occur and makes this region very sensitive for the downstream flow and the behavior of the wake. The different separation between the SGS-models thereby have a strong impact on the behavior of the flow below and thereby downstream of the front stilt, exposing the strengths and weaknesses of the investigated SGS models. This, also, show the geometrical sensitivity of this region, where a small geometrical and/or setup difference may cause severe effects on the downstream flow and behavior of the wake. A setup with different stilt geometry and/or position may therefore be more beneficial to easier replicate studies of this body, especially at lower Reynolds numbers.
Due to the slightly larger separation around the front stilt for the WALE SGS model, compared to the DSM SGS model, it was believed that a narrower body might cause a larger difference or even a larger separation (as seen for the SM SGS model). However, a set of simulations for an 80% width Ahmed body was performed, resulting in the same behavior and differences as seen for the 100% width Ahmed body, for the SM, DSM and WALE SGS models.
The reason for the different separation on the front stilt for the investigated SGS models, is due to the different near-wall flow behavior and the modeling of dissipation for the small structures. In both the DSM and WALE SGS models the near-wall damping is built into the models, resulting in no need for an extra wall-damping function, which is the case for the SM SGS model. This causes the eddy-viscosity to automatically go toward zero near the wall for the DSM and WALE SGS models, while the SM SGS model need to rely on the von Kármán constant and the distance to the closest wall, d, to reduce the eddy-viscosity. This introduces too much eddy-viscosity near the wall, which dampens the fluctuations and creates a less turbulent boundary layer that separates earlier. For the SM SGS model the eddy-viscosity ratio (νSGS/ν) reaches a maximum of 1 within the first five cells (in the wall normal direction) between the leading edge and the separation point. This is twice and four times larger than seen for the WALE and DSM SGS models, respectively. This have a significant impact on the instabilities and much less resolved fluctuations occur within this region for the SM SGS model when compared to the DSM and WALE SGS models. Directly upstream of the model, differences between the SGS models for the resolved TKE can be seen near the floor of the test-section, Fig. 5. The SM SGS model resolves less fluctuations, resulting in less resolved TKE upstream the body and the front stilt, as a turbulent boundary layer on the floor of the test-section first occur 0.24 L upstream the body. This is an effect of more introduced eddy-viscosity for the SM SGS model, which is introduced directly from the leading edge of the test-section floor. Both the DSM and WALE SGS models also introduce eddy-viscosity in this region, but with slightly less magnitude and starting from around half the distance between the leading edge of the test-section floor and the body, which leads to a turbulent boundary layer starting 0.6 L upstream the body. For the DSM and WALE SGS models a clear laminar to turbulent transition of the boundary layer on the test-section floor occurs 0.9 L upstream the body.
The same behavior can be seen for the front top part of the body, where a much larger separation occurs for the SM SGS model, compared to the DSM and WALE SGS models. Here, as well, more eddy-viscosity is introduced near the wall, resulting in less instabilities in the boundary layer and a larger separation, Fig. 5(c)). The separation point occurs at the same position (in the y/W = 0 plane), x/L = −0.924, for all investigated SGS models. Both the DSM and WALE SGS models are here able to capture a turbulent boundary layer before the separation, while it cannot be seen for the SM SGS model. In the same plane, the reattachment point is the same for the DSM and WALE SGS models, x/L = −0.791; while for the SM SGS model it is x/L = −0.716, which make the separation 56% longer. The separation seen for the DSM and WALE SGS models separation is longest at the y/W = 0 position, and behaves similarly in shape and size as seen in water tunnel measurement for a similar Reynolds number [9]. The separation on the top part of the body is larger than the separation on the side of the front for all the investigated SGS model, which is the opposite behavior seen in Ref. [27]. This different separation on the top front part of the body affect the flow behavior just upstream of the slant, where the larger separation for the SM SGS model result in more TKE around the middle section of the body, than for the other two SGS models, Fig. 5(a). This affect the flow over the slant, resulting in an earlier reattachment in the y/W = 0 plane, and also move the focus point of the skin friction, caused by the C-pillar vortices, toward the y/W = 0 plane, compared to the other two SGS models.
In two vertical lines downstream of the body (located at x/L = 0.084 and x/L = 0.420) in the y/W = 0 plane, the streamwise and vertical velocity components are compared for the three SGS models and PIV measurements, Fig. 6. For the line at x/L = 0.084 it can be seen that both the DSM and WALE SGS models are able to capture the same behavior as seen in the PIV measurements. However, the DSM SGS model almost match the PIV measurement perfectly, as only slight differences for the magnitude of the streamwise and vertical velocity can be seen. Especially, below z/H = 0 there is differences for the streamwise velocity, which indicates a slightly higher momentum for the flow passing beneath the body in the PIV measurements. This is important as it imply that the flow is, at least partially, attached to the second stilt. Much higher momentum can be seen for the same location in Ref. [4], as the flow is accelerated in the y/W = 0 plane, due to the body is supported by four cylindrical stilts mounted at the outer edge of the body. As the body in this study is supported by two symmetrical airfoils in the y/W = 0 plane, the flow tends to be decelerated downstream of the stilts [8]. This also makes the lower part of the wake around the y/W = 0 plane very sensitive to the flow around the stilts and may also increase possible asymmetrical effects in the measurements. The line at x/L = 0.084 passes right through the spanwise vortical structures in the near wake, which highlights the DSM and WALE SGS models excellent ability to capture a similar wake structure as seen in the PIV measurements.
In Fig. 6(a), the different near wake structure for the SM SGS model is seen: below z/H = 0.2 the flow is moving upstream and the streamwise velocity is negative, as an effect of the differently captured underbody flow. The SM SGS model streamwise velocity become similar to the other SGS models only after z/H = 0.75, a region dominated by the flow over the central section of the slant. However, for the vertical velocity the SM SGS model differ substantially below z/H = 0.8, but follows the same trend as seen for the other SGS models and PIV until z/H = 0.2, where a slight negative vertical velocity occurs.
When observing the velocity components at the line positioned further downstream of the body, x/L = 0.420, it can be seen that all the SGS models are closer to the PIV measurements (Fig. 6(b)). This is due to the spanwise vortical structures in the wake only reach to around x/L = 0.25, resulting in that the velocity at this line mostly is affected by the size of the wake. It can once again be seen that the DSM and WALE SGS models are able to better capture the behavior measured with PIV. For the streamwise flow a higher momentum closer to the floor of the test-section can be seen for the LES compared to the PIV measurements. This can be connected to the higher magnitude of negative vertical velocity in this region for the LES simulations, causing a stronger downwash (z-direction) and higher momentum near the floor of the test-section. Not surprisingly, this downwash is strongest for the SM SGS model, as the flow is drawn down due to the upstream flow beneath the body.
In Fig. 7, the wake in the y/W = 0 plane is seen with time-averaged 2D streamlines and spanwise vorticity. In the PIV measurement three spanwise vortices can be seen, one at the top and bottom of the vertical base and one at the ground. The DSM SGS model is the only model able to capture these three vortices in this plane. The WALE SGS model is able to capture the two counter-rotating vortices at the base, but fail to capture the ground vortex at y/W = 0; only a reversal of the flow exist. The SM SGS model only captures a single clockwise rotating vortex, driven by the reversed flow beneath the body.
All the SGS models captures the large separation over the middle section of the slant, causing a similar behavior of the vorticity (Fig. 7). The SM SGS model predicts more downwash of the vorticity into the wake, as an effect of the single vortex. For the lower base vortex, a region of negative spanwise vorticity is seen in the PIV measurement. Both the DSM and WALE SGS models captures this behavior, where the WALE SGS model tend to concentrate this region more than the DSM SGS model and PIV measurement.
At the y/W = 1/6 plane, the same trend as for the wake structures seen in the y/W = 0 plane can be seen (Fig. 8). The SM SGS model still predicts reversed flow beneath the rear of the body, and therefore only captures one large clockwise rotating vortex. For the other two SGS models the behavior is almost similar as in the y/W = 0 plane (Fig. 7), except now the WALE SGS model overpredicts the clockwise rotating ground vortex at the floor of the test-section, when compared with the PIV measurement. The DSM SGS model is able to more accurately predict the size of this vortex, even though it is slightly larger, than seen in the PIV measurement. This vortex is very dependent of the flow beneath the body and the vertical velocity distribution downstream the body, the latter being dependent of the strength of the two counter-rotating vortices.
All the SGS models are able to predict the positive vorticity from the separated flow over the slant. Note that all the SGS models are able to capture the small zero-vorticity region just above the trailing edge of the slant, as seen in the PIV measurement. The DSM and WALE SGS models capture very similar vorticity behavior in this plane. However, some differences can be seen for the negative vorticity at the lower counterclockwise rotating vortex, as the WALE SGS model results in a more concentrated region of negative vorticity. For the DSM SGS model a larger region of weaker vorticity is seen, which corresponds well with the PIV measurement.
Also at y/W = 1/3 the same trend can be seen for the vortical structures in the wake (Fig. 9). The DSM and WALE SGS models are able to capture the two counter-rotating vortices, as also seen in the PIV measurement, while the SM SGS model also here only predicts one large vortex. The DSM SGS model captures a slightly larger bottom vortex, than the WALE SGS model. This behavior is more in line with the PIV measurement. In this plane, no ground vortex at the floor of the test-section exists.
All three SGS models are able to capture similar positive vorticity behavior over the slant and the top part of the near wake. A small region of negative vorticity is seen northeast of the top vortex in the PIV measurement (Fig. 9). This small region is also captured by all SGS-models but shifted slightly to the east. A region of negative vorticity can be seen for the lower part of this vortex. Both the DSM and WALE SGS models captures this. However, the DSM SGS model better captures the strength and shape of it, while not capturing the same negative vorticity magnitude elsewhere in the vicinity, which the WALE SGS model is able to capture.
In the PIV measurement a region of positive vorticity can be seen at z/H = 0.8 and x/L = 0.1–0.25, which is an effect of the C-pillar vortex. This effect is not visible in the presented results from the LES simulations, as the magnitude is lower (between 2 and 4 on the colorbar in Fig. 9).
The location two counter-rotating spanwise vortices center is seen for the PIV measurement and LES simulations in Fig. 10. Both the DSM and WALE SGS models are able to capture both of the spanwise vortex center locations well when compared with the PIV measurements. For the bottom spanwise vortex slight differences occur for the x-position, except at the widest y-position. Both the spanwise vortex center locations have a parabolic shape behavior for the x-position, which is well captured by both the DSM and WALE SGS models. The SM SGS model captures this behavior, but only for a single spanwise vortex. For the z-position, similar trends are seen with an offset for the top spanwise vortex center location for the DSM and WALE SGS models. The DSM SGS model is able to capture the behavior of the ground vortex, as seen in the PIV measurement, while the WALE SGS model fails near y/W = 0. The reason WALE is not able to capture the ground vortex near y/W = 0 can be explained by the lower streamwise momentum of the flow downstream of the rear stilt, when compared to the DSM SGS model, Figs. 4 and 6. The lower streamwise momentum cause a stronger upwash of the flow exiting below the body near y/W = 0 for the WALE SGS model. This stronger upwash destroys the ground vortex near y/W = 0. When moving outboard the vehicle the upwash predicted with WALE move toward the level seen for the DSM SGS model. Supporting this explanation is also that the ground vortex only exist when the stilts are present. A simulation without stilts fitted to the model was done with the DSM SGS model, and resulted in no ground vortex and much less upwash for the flow exiting the below the rear of the body. This explains why no ground vortex is seen for the 25 deg Ahmed body with no or circular stilts [4,6,7,19,22–28].
Even though the SGS modeling only affect the smaller scales, it can be seen to have a significant effect on the overall flow around the Ahmed body. This too much dissipative effect from especially the SM SGS model but also the WALE SGS model have previously also be seen for other cases [32], where flow around bluff bodies has been investigated with LES. As the SM and WALE SGS model is nondynamic they tend to dissipate the largest resolved scales, however, only with a small portion for the WALE SGS model [32]. Use of a dynamic SGS model constant reduces or removes this effect, and make them more suitable for all sort of flows and less sensitive to the mesh resolution. It may be possible to adjust the SGS models constant to better capture the measured flow behavior in a specific case. However, the small extra cost of a dynamic SGS model makes it a much safer choice, especially when considering the already high cost for LES.
The effect of the SGS modeling in LES is investigated for three frequently used SGS models, for the flow around the 25 deg Ahmed body. The results are compared to high-resolution PIV measurement done in a water tunnel for a Reynolds number of 9.34×104, based on the length of the body. The water tunnel test-section is modeled in the simulations, to ensure similar conditions as in the experiments. The body is supported by two NACA0030 stilts, instead of the original four circular stilts. This stilt setup is seen to be very sensitive, as small differences in separation around the stilts can cause different wake behavior of the body.
Even at the reduced Reynolds number, the original flow characteristics of the Ahmed body is still present, as the flow of the rear part of the body is dominated by the effect of the streamwise and spanwise vortices. The low Reynolds number makes it possible to simulate the flow around the body with wall resolved LES, and still keeping the simulation cost within reasonable limits. The mesh used for the LES in this investigation follow several recommendations of needed mesh resolution, and imply that the mesh resolution is enough to resolve the important turbulent scales.
Special emphasis is put on studying different SGS models' ability to capture the C-pillar and corner vortices of the Ahmed body. The WALE SGS model show best accuracy in capturing the C-pillar vortex center location of the three investigated SGS models, when compared to the PIV measurement. However, it is closely matched with the DSM SGS model, as only slight differences occur further downstream the body. The SM SGS model is only able to capture a part of the C-pillar vortices before the different near wake structure destroy them, as an effect of the different flow beneath the body. The shortcomings of the SM SGS model becomes excessive due to the overpredicted separation around the front NACA0030 stilt. The separation cause a reversed flow beneath the rear part of the body. The DSM and WALE SGS models captures a smaller separation where flow reattaches over the rear stilt. This cause the DSM and WALE SGS models to correlate well with the PIV measurements for all vortical structures. The reason for the significant different flow fields for the SGS models is due to their ability to capture the correct near-wall behavior and their dissipation of the smaller scales. The over-dissipation for the SM SGS model cause the earlier separation on both the front stilt and the front of the body, due to the less instabilities within the boundary layer. The separation on the front of the body also cause more fluctuations in flow passing over the slant and affecting the slant reattachment. The DSM and WALE SGS models do not overestimate the separation on the front part of the body, as an effect of much less dissipation. This cause the DSM and WALE SGS models to be able to capture the spanwise vortices location and the vorticity in the flow field. However, slightly better agreement with the PIV measurement was seen for the DSM SGS model, especially around the y/W = 0 plane, which is an effect of the smaller separation on the front stilt causing higher flow momentum in the center beneath the body.
The choice of SGS model which is able to capture the near-wall behavior and small-scale dissipation can be crucial for capturing the correct flow field, especially if the flow is sensitive to low Reynolds number effects and separation over curvatures. This make the DSM and WALE SGS models more robust choices for simulating the flow around the Ahmed body. This motivates the extra cost for a more advanced SGS model, especially as the computational cost for LES already is high. Slightly better agreement with the PIV measurement can be seen for the DSM SGS model, compared to the WALE SGS model. This is an effect of the dynamic constant of the DSM SGS model, which makes it more suitable for a variety of different flows.
The simulations were performed on resources provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at National Supercomputer Centre (NSC).
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Drawing of the Ahmed body in the simulated domain. The domain is modeled after the water tunnel used in the PIV measurements.
Time-averaged two-dimensional (2D) streamlines in three yz-planes located at x/L = [−0.2, 0.0, 0.5] for the PIV measurement (a), SM (b), DSM (c) and WALE (d). Solid lines and dotted lines represent the vortex center of the C-pillar and corner vortices, respectively. The orange dotted lines in (b) represent the vortex center for the far wake of the SM SGS model. Only every second point for the vortex centers are shown for clarity.
Comparison of the C-pillar vortex x and y location (a) and x and z location (c), for the PIV measurements and the three investigated SGS models. In (b) and (d), the location of the corner vortices are compared for the PIV measurement and the SGS models.
Time-averaged skin friction lines together with low and high x-skin friction coefficient contour at the bottom side of the body, for the SM (a), DSM (b), and WALE (c). X-skin friction coefficient along the first stilt, at half the stilt height (d).
Time-averaged resolved turbulent kinetic energy lines for the three investigated SGS models in the y/W = 0 plane. (b) Zoom in on the resolved turbulent kinetic energy upstream the body. (c) Zoom in on the resolved turbulent kinetic energy on the top front part of the body.
Comparison of velocity components from both the PIV measurements and the three investigated SGS models, at lines positioned at x/L = 0.084 (a) and x/L = 0.420 (b). Every fourth and tenth point for the PIV and SGS models, respectively, are shown for clarity.
Time-averaged 2D streamlines and spanwise vorticity in the y/W = 0 plane for PIV measurement (a), SM model (b), DSM (c), and WALE (d)
Time-averaged 2D streamlines and spanwise vorticity in the y/W = 1/6 plane for PIV measurement (a), SM model (b), DSM (c), and WALE (d)
Spanwise vortex center locations for the investigated SGS models and PIV measurements (a) and (b). The PIV data is taken from Ref. [30], and therefore only exist for y/W = −0.1 to 0.37. 3D views of the spanwise vortices center location (including the ground vortex) for the PIV measurement (c), SM SGS model (d), DSM SGS model (e), and WALE SGS model (f).
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Masada, the Human Remains: An Anthropological Critique
Masada, known throughout the western world for the suicide narrative described by Josephus and later excavations by Professor Yigal Yadin, is not without controversy. Outside the academic world, few are aware of the controversy surrounding Masada; however, scholars have long questioned the veracity of the narrative and its interpretation by Yadin. Unfortunately, few scholars have subjected the narrative to rigorous anthropological research, the basis upon which the final Masada drama rests. Professor Amnon Ben-Tor, who excavated Masada, has attempted to summarize the archaeological along with the anthropological findings for a wider public audience. However honest his attempt, the anthropological findings strongly suggest that nearly all, if not all of the human remains found to date, are ethnically non-Jewish.
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Have we now sufficient reason to say that Josephus made up the suicide story to promote sales of his book and that there was no great military event at Masada?
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Mile-A-Minute Murphy and the Inaugural Paced Landspeed Record
Charles Minthorn Murphy was known as “Mile-A-Minute Murphy” and his feat would begin a long tradition of pacing bicycles behind moving vehicles to achieve speed records, though never again behind a train.
By Chris Reynolds
The paced land-speed record is a whimsical reminder of the long development of our sport.
The paced land-speed record is an authentic reminder of the long development of our sport. In 1899, Charles Minthorn Murphy had an argument with friends in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York. He is quoted in the Farmingdale Post, a Long Island newspaper saying:
“I was asked to give an opinion of the quality and relative speed of various prominent riders of the time. My answer was that there is no limit to the speed of a bicycle rider, that speed depended largely upon the bicycle, gears, tracks and pacemaker. I declared there was not a locomotive built which could get away from me. The more people laughed, the more determined I became to accomplish the feat. I figured that the fast-moving locomotive would expel the air to such an extent that I could follow in the vacuum behind.”
With this as the motivation, Murphy would then work to convince the Long Island Rail Road to let him lay plywood over the ties between tracks for a two mile stretch between Farmingdale and Babylon in Long Island, New York. Recalling the negations with the rail company, Murphy says “I pointed out that an exhibition of that kind would prove to the world that the Long Island Railroad had just as good rolling stock, roadbeds and employees as any other road in the world.” The special agent for the railway, Hal Fullerton, signed the contract within 48 hours and the event was scheduled for June 21, 1899.
Charles M. “Mile-A-Minute” Murphy on the Long Island Railroad tracks between Babylon and Maywood (Farmingdale) NY stations 1899.
Taking into account the quality of the bicycles available at the time, the insanity of the challenge cannot be understated. The weight of the train caused the plywood sheets to sink and then rise after passing by, creating a violent wave to contend with. Murphy clocked a half-mile in 29 seconds, then three-quarter miles in 43 seconds, and the full mile in 57.45 seconds. After the train slowed down, he lost his balance and fell on the tracks, with the train conductor and Fullerton pulling him onto the train platform at the last moment. In 1995 he would write in Sports Illustrated about the immediate aftermath:
“After I lay motionless, face down, on the platform. I was all in. I was half-carried to a cot at the end of the car; the roar of the train was challenged by hysterical yells. Grown men hugged and kissed each other. One man fainted and another went into hysterics, while I remained speechless on my back, ashen in colour and sore all over.”
Charles Minthorn Murphy was known as “Mile-A-Minute Murphy” from then on and his feat would begin a long tradition of pacing bicycles behind moving vehicles to achieve speed records, though never again behind a train. James Edward Sullivan, the referee, said he would never again take part in such an event. Murphy would go on to be a police officer for New York City, where he boasted of being the first police officer to fly an airplane and the first to ride a motorcycle in uniform.
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Multiple Mechanisms Behind Disease Associated With Unexpected Heart Attacks
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is best known for revealing itself in one certain way: as an unexpected, fatal heart attack during strenuous exercise. But researchers suspect as many as 300 mutations can individually cause enlargement of the heart that renders it vulnerable to strain. Recent studies examining three of those mutations at the molecular level found separate mechanisms at work, said Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute muscle protein and contraction expert Doug Swank, whose most recent paper on the topic was published today in the Journal of Physiology.
“Our work suggests that a simple one-size-fits-all hypothesis about how these mutations lead to an enlarged heart and to the disease is not likely to be the case. It’s likely to be multiple mechanisms, perhaps depending on where the mutation is found in the protein or what it does to the protein,” said Swank, a professor of biological sciences and member of the Rensselaer Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies.
Swank’s research on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is being conducted in collaboration with researchers at San Diego State University and Johns Hopkins University, with support from the National Institutes of Health.
The current paper and a previous study published in eLife in 2018 examine two mutations in myosin, a lever-shaped muscle protein that generates force to contract heart muscle tissue. Like all proteins, muscle proteins are chains of amino acids twisted into a three-dimensional shape that determines their function. But mutations slightly alter the composition of the amino acid chain, which also changes the shape of the protein and its performance.
Swanks’ lab expresses the mutation in the wing muscle of a fruit fly, making it possible to examine how the mutations impact mechanical properties like force production, work and power. The eLife study looked at a mutation in myosin known as K146N (the mutation name is derived from the name of the affected amino acid residue and how it is altered in myosin). Examinations of fruit fly muscles with this mutation supported the “increased contractility hypothesis,” which proposes that the heart is spending more time in a contracted state than in a relaxed state.
Ordinarily, as filaments of the myosin protein absorb energy, they bind to filaments of the protein actin and bend back upon themselves, pulling on the actin filaments and contracting the muscle.
“Our results for K146N indicated that the myosin bound longer to actin than it normally does,” said Swank. “Considering that hundreds of these myosin molecules are doing this all the time, if they stay bound longer, at any given time you’re going to have more myosin heads bound and pulling together than you otherwise would. So that gives you more force.”
But the newly released Journal of Physiology study looked at an R249Q mutation and found a nearly opposite result. Fruit fly muscle with a R249Q mutation, which typically produces a less severe form of the disease, generated less force, less work, and less power. Swank said this result suggests that, in the heart, such a mutation is unlikely to be causing increased contractility – and yet it yields a similar outcome.
“Especially with his recent work, Dr. Swank has put Rensselaer on the map in muscle physiology,” said Curt Breneman, dean of the Rensselaer School of Science. "The quality of his research reflects well on our Department of Biological Sciences, the School of Science, and the Institute as a whole.”
A third study to be published in the near future describes a mechanism for a mutation in another heart protein.
“Our hope is that, as we continue to understand how these mutations affect muscle contraction, a few general mechanisms will emerge which will make it possible to devise a group of treatments to address the disease,” said Swank.
Swank, Rensselaer graduate student Kaylyn Bell, and undergraduate student Alice Huang were joined by San Diego State University researchers William A. Kronert and Sanford Bernstein on “The R249Q Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Mutation Decreases Contractility in Drosophila by Impeding Force Production,” published in the Journal of Physiology.
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Burger King, Nestle, Dabur: Analysts bet on FMCG stocks as economy recovers
The year 2020 brought defensive plays in the markets to the forefront as Covid-19 pandemic saw investors flock to safe-havens. That apart, markets discounted the financial performance of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies for the ensuing quarters as the supply of ‘essential services’ remained relatively unaffected during the lockdown.
The success of Burger King at the bourses has off-late reinforced belief in the sector, especially quick service restaurants (QSRs), provided the stocks are attractively valued. However, the stock performance has not been uniform across the FMCG sector. At the bourses, Nifty FMCG index has underperformed as against the benchmark Nifty50 index between March 24 (when the market his their 2020 low) and December 15, ACE Equity data show. While the former has advanced 42 per cent, the latter has gained 74 per cent during the period.
Among the lot, Emami Ltd has outperformed both the indices by jumping 175 per cent during the period. This is followed by gains in Tata Consumer (up 129 per cent), Jubilant FoodWorks (99 per cent), Marico (64 per cent), and Godrej Consumers and Varun Beverages (63 per cent each). Hindustan Unilever (HUL), Nestle India, ITC, Dabur, and Britannia Industries, meanwhile, have gained between 14 per cent and 59 per cent, data show.
“Initially, FMCG hugely outperformed the market due to a stable outlook. But as the economy opened and new liquidity rushed into the market, growth oriented sectors started to perform better. FMCG is expected to trade positive at premium valuation while underperformance is likely to stay in the coming year,” says Vinod Nair, head of research at Geojit Financial Services.
That said, even as the economies ‘unlock’ and investors begin to rotate funds towards cyclical and beaten down stocks, FMCG stocks are holding ground. This strength, analysts say, is likely to continue in the medium-to-long term on the back of improved income in the rural economy, supplier of essential commodities, and comfortable balance sheets.
“Strong balance sheets with healthy cash generation, return on equity (ROEs) / return on capital employed (ROCEs), robust distribution networks, and more importantly relatively better visibility on earnings is giving comfort to the investors,” says Suvarna Joshi, senior research analyst at Axis Securities.
For volume growth, players in the FMCG space are now turning to tier III/IV towns and villages. The strategy, according to AK Prabhakar, head of research at IDBI Capital would prove beneficial over the next few years. “Agricultural growth and the rural sector would drive the economy over the next one year; placing FMCGs as the biggest beneficiaries,” he says.
According to global consumer research firm Kantar Worldpanel, the FMCG market expanded 4.9 per cent by volume in the September quarter (Q2FY21), clocking its highest gain in three years as consumers made hygiene and out-of-home snack purchases.
FMCG stocks have rewarded shareholders over the longer term of more than 7-10 years and have been consistent compounders. An analysis by Axis Securities shows that the average five-year price-to-earnings (PE) valuation has been around 47x, which was around 33-35x PE in the 10-year period with a CAGR of 12-15 per cent return for the index.
“However, if we look at stock specific returns over a 10 year period, Britannia has delivered 34 per cent CAGR, HUL generated 23 per cent CAGR, Nestle, Dabur delivered an 18 per cent CAGR each,” Axis Securities’ note said.
Not only on the sectoral front, market analysts believe the traction in FMCG space could also be considered as a defensive hedge against sharp rally in the broader markets.
“Historically, any meteoric rise in broader markets is followed by collapse. This fear is now seeping in traditional investors as the rally in the broader markets is largely fuelled by new retail investors. Therefore, the former group is trying to protect its wealth by picking quality defensive plays like FMCG stocks,” explains G Chokkalingam, founder and chief investment officer at Equinomics Research.
Among the lot, Axis Securities suggests investing in Dabur as it is well placed to deliver steady earnings growth of 12 per cent CAGR over FY20-23E, aided by structural tailwinds for health & immunity products. That apart, the brokerage is bullish on Emami and Varun Beverages given their respective seasonal benefit and expansion plans.
AK Prabhakar, on the other hand, is bullish on Nestle India and believes the stock has nearly 20 per cent upside over the next one-year.
“In FMCG, the QSR food space has gained importance in the last few years driven by the young population, adoption of western culture, nuclear families and working population. Investors can buy Jubilant FoodWorks and Westlife on dips while Burger King can be brought at this levels as its valuation are better than peers although it has seen strong surged than its issue price,” suggests Ajit Mishra, VP Research at Religare Broking.
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Paradox, Millennium Film set up Conan movies
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MUMBAI: Paradox Entertainment has sold the option for ‘Conan’ movies to Millennium Films. Development has started and discussions are underway for domestic and international distribution.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
“It is time for the Cimmerian to return to the big screen. Robert E. Howard’s ‘Conan’ is undoubtedly one of the greatest fantasy characters in our time and with the right filmmaker this movie will be huge. We’re very happy to be working with Millennium Films as they share our passion and are fasttracking the project,” said Paradox Entertainment president and CEO Fredrik Malmberg.
Producers are Fredrik Malmberg from Paradox Entertainment and Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Joe Gatta and George Furla from Millennium Films.
Among Millennium Films’ previous productions are 16 Blocks (Bruce Willis) and The Black Dahlia (Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson). Presently, the studio is working on Righteous Kill (Al Pacino, Robert De Niro), King of California (Michael Douglas) and John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone).
Paradox Entertainment, through its subsidiary Conan Properties International LLC, has owned the rights to ‘Conan’ since 2002 and acquired the rest of the Howard library in early 2006. ‘Conan’ has been making a comeback the past couple of years in publishing, gaming and collectibles. This fall sees the release of the action-packed ‘Conan’ videogame (Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3) from THQ/Nihilistic, and in spring of 2008 comes the much anticipated ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) by Funcom/Eidos.
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GREENFIELD — With renewable energy expected to be the fastest-growing source of U.S. electricity generation for the foreseeable future, local solar installer and worker-owned cooperative PV Squared Solar is contributing toward this period of energy transition. The company has once again been recognized by Solar Power World magazine and was listed prominently among other solar contractors and developers across the country in the magazine’s 2019 Top Solar Contractors list.
“It’s an honor to be recognized among the top solar energy companies in the region, let alone the nation. Our leadership within the solar industry over the years has been a significant point of pride, and we look forward to continuing that good work,” said General Manager Jonathan Gregory.
Kelly Pickerel, editor in chief of Solar Power World, added that “solar power is becoming competitive with traditional electricity sources in more markets, and cities and states are demanding more renewable-energy options. It’s a great time to be a solar installer, and we’re happy to highlight the best installation companies in the country on our list.”
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Interview with a Club: IE Music Club
Written on September 19, 2013 by Campus Life in Other Activities, Social
Music is a great form of art and for those passionate about it, it is a way to transform oneself to another world. IE Music Club understands that all students at IE work hard throughout and need time to unwind and follow their interests. Music is a one of the best forms of stress buster and we have a mission to help students pursue their passion and meet likeminded people to explore, listen, and create music.
Nikhil Aggarwal (President) – he is studying IMBA prior to which he was a finance professional. He is a singer (oh yes, he always wanted someone to call him that), not by profession but by interest and also likes exploring new music. He is the sole club coordinator of the Music Club and performed at the IE India Club’s Diwali event in 2012. He is from India and a few of his favorite English songs are – Iris from Goo Goo Dolls and With or Without You from U2.
The club holds weekly music practice sessions on Wednesday’s from 7pm – 9pm at studio BoxInBox (c/ Sanchez Pacheco 82). This has been possible due to full support and effort from Giedre and the Music Club would like to say a special thanks to her for getting this through. Everyone who is interested in music such as singing or playing instruments can drop in and jam with us. Apart from that the music club is open for other suggestions regarding the activities that members are interested in.
The main project that IE Music Club is working towards is to get likeminded people having an interest in music together and form an IE Band. Once that is formed and they have rehearsed together, IE Music Club also plans to create an official IE slogan to be used in the years to come.
The club has a Facebook Page that can be liked to receive the latest updates from IE Music Club. There is a IE Music Club group as well on Facebook. Any student can become a member of the music club by going to IE communities and selecting the box in front of IE Music Club on the clubs page. The music club coordinator can also be contacted separately at his email.
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Interview with a Club: IE Spanish Outreach Club
Written on July 15, 2013 by Campus Life in Other Activities, Social
The mission and objectives we aim are to promote and make discover our fellow colleagues the great aspects of the spanish culture, in terms of traditions, gastronomy, history, art and, in general, spanish lifestyle. Our intention is to organize as many events and visits as possible, in order to help dig deeper in the qualities of one of the most ancient cultures in the world. In effect, we try to balance the time among these activities to get a taste of everything that Spain has to offer.
Fernando Echeverría (President)
IMBA Nov’2012
Spain (Vitoria)
I am a finance professional with 6 years of experience combining postgraduate academic preparation and ‘real-world’ experience in Spain and France. After graduating in Law and Economics in the University of Navarra, I moved to Paris to study a Master in Finance in HEC Paris during a year. Later I worked for Deustche Bank in Madrid and Barclays Bank in Toulouse (France) from 2008 until 2011. Then I returned to Madrid to work in transactions consulting for Ernst & Young before entering the IMBA in November 2012. I enjoy meeting new people and I feel the IE Spanish Outreach club is the best opportunity to make the best of my culture and share it with all my fellows during this IE experience.
María Luisa de Miguel
MIM F1 (English track)
I came into the world to be an architect, and after I had become one I realized that I keep on wanting to be and do more things. Currently I am studying the MIM because I want to keep on expanding my knowlede and challenge myself constantly. My enterprenuer spirit has never let me take a break from life. I have started my own architect firm, and architect association and a marmalade company. On the weekeds I work as an architect guide and in my “spare time” I am an assistant professor at ETSAM university and mentor in a programm for students.
As some people say to me, I am hiperactive, but it is only when I am doing things I really like that I put the energy and time.
The IE SPANISH OUTREACH CLUB is my next challenge, and having the opportunity to share this experience with all of the IE members is a great opportunity.
Keryn Bayliss:
IMBA 2013
Keryn has a degree in commerce and is a certified practicing accountant (CPA). Her professional experience includes a number of years working in banking and finance in London at a leading investment bank. She has managed projects in finance working with operations and sales teams covering business planning, profitability, synthesising business risks and the control environment.
Nacho de Ramón
MIM 2013. F1
Spain (Madrid)
Mi nombre es Ignacio de Ramon, nací en Madrid en 1990 y a los tres años me fui a vivir a Alicante. A los 15 años decidí que mis estudios los tenia que cursas fuera de España y me fuí a Estados Unidos. Despues de acabar mi bachiller alli a los 17 años empecé mi carrera en hostelería en Suiza. La carrera me dio la oportunidad de hacer varias internships. Viví y trabaje en Francía, Turquia y Inglaterra por 6 meses en cada lugar. Todo esto me ha formado y echo la persona que soy hoy en dia.
François Xabier Bacourt
Francois xavier es un chico frances de 21años que vivio una gran parte de su vida en España, pais del que se enamoro en poco tiempo. Graduado en el liceo frances de valencia, se fue a estudiar un bachelor en comercio internacional de 3 años en 3 ciudades y paises diferentes, Barcelona, Dublin y Toulouse consiguiendo asi un doble diploma Franco Español y una red de contactos muy amplia. Durante sus estudios realizo varias practicas: vendedor en Citroen, Assistante del Director of Sales del Westin Valencia (grupo starwood) y de Project Manager en MG valencia, empresa exportadora de muebles valenciana que le acabo contratando para seguir con otro proyecto hasta que empieze el MIM en el Instituto de empresa. Apasionado por la gente y con el manejo de 4 idiomas, se quiere dedicar a las ventas en un entorno internacional.
Patricia Riva
MIM2013. F2
Prado museum visit + Tapas tour. Sunday 21st April,
Capea: “You can be bullfighter too! day”. 1st May
Flamenco night 14th April
Fiesta Latina: 12 June
Different cultural and social events that help students and their relatives to better understand and enjoy spanish culture
After summer holidays we are planning to attend to concerts and events organized by Madrid town hall included in the Veranos de la villa prgramme. Also, we are planning to organize a welcoming day in the first weekend of September with a typical spanish paella in a villa close to Madrid.
We are a very open minded team from different origins and programmes in IE and we look forward to receive your ideas and proposals. We meet regularly to prepare new events and follow up current projects, so do not hesitate to contact us through our Facebook Page and come join us!
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Interview with a Club: IE Basketball Club
Written on July 8, 2013 by Campus Life in Sports
The main objective of our club is to spend some time together outside of the school, do some sport to be fit, meet new people, and of course, have a good time playing basketball.
Johannes Hinsch – IMBA November 2012 intake, German. Johannes is tall as hell.
Jon Estornés – IMBA April 2013 intake, Spanish. Jon started playing at the age of 12 and has not stopped ever since. Genuinely interested in basketball he is always keen to chat about NBA!
Pierre Landolt – IMBA November 2012 intake, Swiss. Pierre has been playing basketball since a pretty young age but never in a club. As Jon, he’s also keen to chat about NBA (rooting for the Lakers).
Steffen Muller – IMBA November 2012 intake, German. Steffen has spent 10 years of his youth on the court. He’s looking forward to have some nice games with you.
Jacobo Ruiz de Villa – IMBA April 2013 intake, Spanish. Jacobo is a lethal three-pointer shooter.
We play all Wednesdays (normally at Gimnasio Moscardó, not far from the school) and sometimes we also play on Thursdays. The number of people who come to play is growing every week and sometimes we are more than 20 players.
We are planning to organize a full day tournament followed by some trophies for the winners and pizza for everyone (will keep you updated on that!). Another activity we want to organize is a 3×3 tournament and a 3 point shoot-out contest.
There’s a Facebook group that all IE students can join. They just need to subscribe and they will be able to see all the updates and write their comments. The Facebook Group’s wall is regularly updated with all the relevant information about the Club’s activities, so it’s the best way to be kept in the loop.
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Interview with a Club: IE Wine Industry Club
Written on July 1, 2013 by Campus Life in Professional
Mission: to create awareness among the IE students about the IE Wine Industry Club.
Our main objective in this club is to design the strategy, policies and tasks to be carried out to conduct events as such:
Exclusive trips to wineyards
Fun-Entertainment events related to wine
I, Bharath Kamma, have been the President from Nov-2012. I took initiatives to improve the awareness of the club through various activities in the recent months. We are constantly developing our board to include new energy and vigor.
Raviteja Pandiri has joined newly as the Vice-President and Rasagna Rao has joined recently as the co-ordinator and we have been co-ordinating with each other in designing the future events upon discussing with the club members.
Also, Joanna Ciborowska has been supporting us under the role of Alumni Advisor.
We had organized Wine Tasting events, by bringing world class wine makers and inviting various dignitaries, staff and student communities. We are also trying to nurture corporate relations with the wine industry to build potential future employment opportunities for the students.
We are currently in talks with some multi-national (Foundation for the Culture of Wine in Spain) wine producers who want to sponsor wine-tasting events. We are also planning to organize a joint event with other in-house clubs to market our club and get more traction to our events. In the near future, we are planning to conduct trips to wine yards.
We always welcome anyone who is interested in joining our initiatives. Anyone can contact me or Raviteja to join as a member but we would like to interact with him/her if he/she wants to be part of the board. Also, we encourage students and their partners to visit one of our activities to understand better our events, club culture, provide ideas and spread the word.
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LncRNA SNHG16 contributes to tumor progression via the miR-302b-3p/SLC2A4 axis in pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Hao Xu1,2,3,
Xin Miao4,
Xin Li1,2,3,
Haofei Chen1,2,3,
Bo Zhang1,2,3 &
Wence Zhou ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0529-77771,2,3
Cancer Cell International volume 21, Article number: 51 (2021) Cite this article
It has been reported that the lncRNA SNHG16 has significantly increased expression in pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PC). However, the functions and mechanisms of SNHG16 are not clear. The aim of this study was to explore the effects of SNHG16 on PC.
qRT-PCR analysis was applied to detect the expression levels of SNHG16, miR-302b-3p and SLC2A4 in PC tissues and cells. CCK8 and EdU assays were used to evaluate the proliferation of PC cells. Transwell assays were used to assess PC cell migration and invasion. Apoptosis was evaluated by flow cytometry, and the expression of apoptosis-related proteins (including Bax, Bcl-2, cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved caspase-9) was tested by western blotting. The interactions between miR-302b-3p and SNHG16 or miR-302b-3p and the 3’UTR of SLC2A4 mRNA were clarified by a dual luciferase reporter assay and RNA immunoprecipitation.
SNHG16 expression was significantly elevated in PC tissues and cell lines and was associated with poor prognosis of PC patients. Knockdown of SNHG16 reduced PC cell proliferation, migration and invasion. SNHG16 acted as a sponge to regulate miR-302b-3p expression in PC cells. In addition, miR-302b-3p targeted SLC2A4 directly.
SNHG16 promoted the progression of PC via the miR-302b-3p/SLC2A4 axis and was expected to be a potential target for the early diagnosis and treatment of PC.
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PC) is one of the most severe gastrointestinal malignancies and is the fourth most common cause of cancer-related death [1]. Due to the lack of specific and accurate diagnostic methods, PCs are mostly diagnosed in late stages. Patients with advanced PC cannot undergo surgical resection and can only receive chemotherapy, but the effect is not significant [2]. Because PC results from a biological process involving multiple steps, there is no clinically sensitive indicator for early diagnosis or effective treatment approach [3]. Therefore, research on diagnostic markers and targeted therapies to gradually inhibit the progression of PC has become the focus of attention in the treatment of PC.
It has been proven that only 2% of the genome sequence is capable of coding proteins, whereas more than 95% of transcripts are identified as noncoding RNAs [4]. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a class of noncoding RNAs that have no protein-coding ability and are longer than 200 nt. Emerging evidence demonstrates that lncRNAs are involved in numerous malignancies, including PC [5,6,7]. For example, the lncRNA HOTTIP contributes to PC by enhancing Wnt/β-catenin pathway activity via binding to WDR5 [8]. However, it was reported that LINC01197 was downregulated in PC tissues, which inactivated the Wnt/β-catenin pathway by interfering with β-catenin binding to TCF4 in PC cells [9].
Recently, small nucleolar RNA host gene 16 (SNGH16) was gradually discovered to be involved in tumorigenesis in many cancer types [10, 11]. SNHG16 is also widely regarded as an essential oncogene [12]. In hepatocellular carcinoma, SNHG16 is highly expressed in HCC-resistant tissues and promotes HCC cell viability and autophagy while suppressing apoptosis by regulating the miR-23b-3p/EGR1 pathway [13]. However, the exact roles of SNHG16 in PC have not yet been clarified.
In this study, we aimed to explore the roles of the lncRNA SNHG16 with functional and mechanistic impact PC. By detecting SNHG16 expression in paired PC tissues and cell lines, we found that the lncRNA SNHG16 was significantly overexpressed in PC. In addition, elevated SNHG16 played an oncogenic role in PC cell proliferation, migration, invasion and apoptosis. Mechanistic investigations revealed that SNHG16 acted as a sponge of miR-302b-3p, which reversed SNHG16-induced proliferation by targeting SLC2A4 in PC.
Tissue collection
PC samples and corresponding adjacent noncancerous tissues were collected from PC patients who underwent surgery at the First Hospital of Lanzhou University. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, and all included patients signed informed consent forms. Clinical tissue specimens were collected and the clinicopathologic characteristics were presented in Supplementary materials.
The human normal pancreatic duct epithelial cell line (HPY-Y5) and pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell lines (including BxPC3, Panc-1, MIA Paca-2 and SW1990) were purchased from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China. All PC cells were cultured in high-glucose Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (Gibco, USA) in a sterile incubator with 5% CO2 at 37 °C.
RNA isolation, reverse transcription and qRT-PCR assay
Total RNA was extracted from tumor tissues and cells with TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen, USA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. cDNA was generated with a reverse transcription kit from Takara (Dalian, China). Amplification reactions included 2 µl of Mix, 2 µl of RNA and 6 µl of ddH2O. The thermal cycling protocol was as follows: 37 °C for 15 min, 85 °C for 5 s and 4 °C for 15 min. The expression of SNHG16 and SLC2A4 was detected by using a SYBR Green Real-Time PCR Kit (Qiagen, Germany). miR-302b-3p expression was analyzed with a Hairpin-it™ miRNA qPCR kit (GenePharma, China). Amplification of the transcripts involved an initial denaturation step at 95 °C for 2 min followed by 40 cycles at 95 °C for 5 s, 55 °C for 30 s, and 72 °C for 30 s. The mRNA and miRNA expression data are presented as fold changes in the mRNA/miRNA abundance normalized to β-actin or U6 snRNA expression. The primer sequences used in this study are presented in Table 1.
Table 1 Primer sequences used for qRT-PCR
Plasmids construction and cell transfection
The miR-302b-3p mimics, miR-302b-3p inhibitors, small hairpin RNA of SLC2A4 (sh-SLC2A4) and corresponding negative controls (NC mimic or sh-NC) were purchased from RiboBio, Guangzhou, China. The inhibitors and shRNAs were transfected into BxPC3 and Panc-1 cells using Lipofectamine 3000 (Invitrogen, USA) according to the manufacturer’s directions. The transfection efficiencies were detected by qRT-PCR at 48 h post transfection. Transfected cells were combined for the subsequent experiments.
Construction of stably transfected cells
The lentiviral particles LV-shSNHG16 and LV-sh-NC were purchased from GenePharma, China. The lentiviral particles were used to directly infect BxPC3 and Panc-1 cells in the presence of 8 µg/ml polybrene (Sigma-Aldrich) to construct the stably transfected cells. Puromycin (Invitrogen, USA) was added to the medium 48 h after infection and maintained for 2 weeks to select stably transfected cells (BxPC3/Panc-1-sh-SNHG16 or BxPC3/Panc-1-sh-NC).
EdU assay
The reagents used in the EdU assay were purchased from RiboBio (Guangzhou, China). PC cells were seeded in confocal dishes at a density of 3 × 105. Then, 4% paraformaldehyde (Beyotime, China) was used to fix the cells for 10 min. Then, 1% Triton (Beyotime, China) was used to clear the cells for 5 min after three washes with PBS. Subsequently, the cells were incubated with dyeing agent for 30 min in the dark, stained with DAPI (Olympus, Tokyo, Japan) and incubated for 5 min at 37 °C. Images were acquired using a microscope at a magnification of 400×.
Wound healing assay
PC cells were seeded in 6-well plates and grown to 70–80% confluence. A wound was created by scraping with a 100 µl pipette tip. The remaining cells were cultured in serum-free DMEM for 48 h. Images of migration were acquired at 0 and 48 h after scraping.
Migration and invasion assays
Cells were suspended in serum-free DMEM. One hundred microliters of the cell suspension was seeded in the upper compartment of 8 µm transwell chambers in a 24-well culture plate (Corning, USA) for 48 h, and 500 µl of DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS was added to the lower compartment of the chambers. Chambers with inserts uniformly coated with Matrigel (BD Biosciences) were used for the invasion assay. The transwell chambers were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde for 15 min and stained with 0.1% crystal violet for 30 min at room temperature. Then, cells on the upper surface of the inserts were wiped off with a cotton swab. Stained cells were washed with PBS and observed with a microscope. The capacities for cell migration and invasion were assessed by determining the average numbers of stained cells in 5 regions.
Luciferase reporter assay
Full-length SNHG16 (WT or Mut) was synthesized and cloned into the pGL3-–Promoter vector (Promega, USA). Dual luciferase reporter assays were conducted in BxPC3 and PANC-1 cells cotransfected with pGL3-Promoter-SNHG16 (WT or Mut) and NC mimics or miR-302b-3p mimics. Luciferase activity was analyzed with a dual luciferase reporter assay system (Promega) according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
Western Blot analysis
Total protein was extracted from cells with RIPA buffer (Beyotime, China). The concentration of total protein was determined with a BCA protein assay kit (Beyotime, China). Thirty micrograms of total protein was separated on 6%, 8% or 10% SDS-PAGE gels and was then transferred to PVDF membranes (Millipore, USA). After blocking with 5% skim milk for 2 h, membranes were incubated overnight with a specific primary antibody at 4 ℃. The specific primary antibodies (including antibodies specific for Bax, Bcl-2, cleaved caspase-3, and cleaved caspase-9) were purchased from Proteintech Group, and the concentration of these antibodies applied in this study was 1:500. Specific primary antibodies (including antibodies specific for ICAM-1, VCAM-1 and MMP9) were purchased from Abcam, and the concentration of these antibodies applied in this study was 1:1000. Next, membranes were incubated with the corresponding secondary antibodies for 2 h at room temperature. The protein signals were visualized with ECL western blotting substrate (Tanon, Shanghai, China).
All statistical analyses were performed with SPSS 22.0 software (Chicago, USA) and Prism version 7.0 software (California, USA). Data are presented as the mean ± SEM values. An unpaired t-test was performed to compare the means of two groups. One-way ANOVA and the Bonferroni test for multiple comparisons were applied to analyze differences among two or more groups. Spearman correlation analysis was performed to detect correlations between SNHG16, miR-302b-3p and SLC2A4 levels. Significant differences were defined as those with P < 0.05.
LncRNA SNHG16 is elevated in PC tissues and cell lines
In this study, the expression level of SNHG16 in human PC tissues was first evaluated by qRT-PCR. Compared with that in pair-matched adjacent normal samples, SNHG16 expression was significantly increased in PC tissues (Fig. 1a). Moreover, the expression of SNHG16 was upregulated in four PC cell lines (BxPC3, Panc-1, MIA Paca-2 and SW1990) compared with HPY-Y5 cells (Fig. 1b). In addition, Kaplan-Meier analysis indicated that PC patients with high SNHG16 expression showed shorter overall survival times than those with low SNHG16 expression (Fig. 1c). The above results indicate that elevated SNHG16 expression might play a critical role in the progression of PC.
LncRNA SNHG16 expression is elevated in PC tissues and cell lines. a The expression levels of SNHG16 in PC tissues and adjacent normal tissues were detected by qRT-PCR. b The expression of SNHG16 in the normal pancreatic duct epithelial cell line HPY-Y5 and pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell lines (BxPC3, Panc-1, MIA Paca-2 and SW1990). c Kaplan-Meier overall survival analysis of the relationship between SNHG16 expression and the survival time of PC patients. **P < 0.01
SNHG16 affects PC cell proliferation and apoptosis
To explore the roles of SNHG16 in the PC process, we established BxPC3 and Panc-1 cells with stable silencing of SNHG16, which were named sh-SNHG16 cells (Fig. 2a). Next, CCK8 and EdU assays were employed to evaluate the proliferation of PC cells, and knockdown of SNHG16 was found to inhibit BxPC3 and Panc-1 cell proliferation (Fig. 2b, c). Consistent with this finding, the protein levels of the cell proliferation markers PCNA and Ki-67 were decreased with SNHG16 silencing (Fig. 2d). Then, flow cytometric analysis of cell apoptosis demonstrated that SNHG16 knockdown increased the proportion of apoptotic PC cells (Fig. 2e), and western blot analysis revealed that SNHG16 knockdown promoted the expression of the apoptosis-related proteins Bax, cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved caspase-9 while inhibiting the expression of Bcl-2 (Fig. 2f). In summary, SNHG16 knockdown suppressed the proliferation of PC cells and promoted their apoptosis.
Knockdown of SNHG16 inhibits the proliferation of PC cells and induces their apoptosis. BxPC3 and Panc-1 PC cells were transfected separately with sh-SNHG16 or sh-NC. a Relative expression levels of SNHG16 in PC cells were detected by qRT-PCR. b The viability of PC cells was analyzed by a CCK8 assay. c The proliferation ability of PC cells was assessed by an EdU assay. d The cell proliferation markers PCNA and Ki-67 were detected by western blotting. e The apoptosis rate of PC cells was analyzed by flow cytometry. f Western blot analysis of the apoptosis-related proteins Bax, Bcl-2, cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved caspase-9. β-Actin was used as the internal control. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001
Knockdown of SNHG16 suppresses PC cell migration and invasion
Subsequently, we examined the roles of SNHG16 in migration and invasion. The wound healing assay indicated that the motility of PC cells with stable SNHG16 silencing was significantly decreased (Fig. 3a). Transwell assays were implemented to evaluate the migration and invasion abilities of PC cells, and reduced migration and invasion abilities of PC cells with stable SNHG16 silencing were observed (Fig. 3b). The western blot results demonstrated that reduced SNHG16 expression reduced the expression of ICAM-1, VCAM-1 and MMP-9 (Fig. 3c). In general, SNHG16 knockdown suppressed PC cell migration and invasion.
Knockdown of SNHG16 suppresses the migration and invasion of PC cells. a The migration ability of PC cells transfected with sh-SNHG16 or sh-NC was assessed by a wound healing assay. b The migration and invasion abilities of PC cells transfected with sh-SNHG16 or sh-NC were evaluated by transwell assays. c Western blot analysis of ICAM-1, VCAM-1 and MMP-9. β-Actin was used as the internal control. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01
SNHG16 acts as a sponge to regulate miR-302b-3p expression in PC cells
It is well known that mechanistically, lncRNAs commonly act as molecular sponges of miRNAs. Previous studies confirmed that SNHG16 regulates miRNA expression [14]. Therefore, we hypothesized that SNHG16 might exert effects by interacting with miRNAs in PC. The online software ENCORI was used to predict the miRNAs that might be regulated by SNHG16, and qRT-PCR was performed to determine the expression levels of these predicted miRNAs in PC cells. Only miR-302b-3p was downregulated in PC cells (Fig. 4a), and the binding site of miR-302b-3p on SNHG16 is displayed in Fig. 4b. The expression of miR-302b-3p was increased in SNHG16-knockdown PC cells (Fig. 4c). Dual luciferase reporter assays and RIP were performed to verify whether miR-302b-3p binds to SNHG16 directly. The luciferase activity in PC cells cotransfected with SNHG16-WT and miR-302b-3p mimics was weaker than that in cells cotransfected with SNHG16-WT and NC mimics or with SNHG16-Mut and miR-302b-3p (Fig. 4d). The RIP results revealed that SNHG16 and miR-302b-3p were highly enriched in the anti-Ago2 bead immunoprecipitate compared with the IgG bead immunoprecipitate (Fig. 4e). In addition, the level of miR-302b-3p was reduced in both PC tissues and cell lines (Fig. 4f, g). Taken together, the above results prove that SNHG16 acts as a molecular sponge to regulate miR-302b-3p expression in PC cells.
SNHG16 acts as a sponge to decrease miR-302b-3p expression in PC cells. a qRT-PCR analysis of SNHG16 target miRNAs in HPY-Y5, BxPC3 and Panc-1 cells. b Schematic diagram of the sites for binding between miR-302b-3p and SNHG16 (WT or Mut). c Luciferase activity of SNHG16 WT or Mut in BxPC3 and Panc-1 cells cotransfected with miR-302b-3p mimics or NC mimics. d Relative expression levels of miR-302b-3p in BxPC3 and Panc-1 cells with SNHG16 silencing. e RIP analysis of SNHG16 and miR-302b-3p enrichment in the anti-Ago2 immunoprecipitate in BxPC3 and Panc-1 cells. IgG was used as the control. f, g qRT-PCR assay of miR-302b-3p expression in PC tissues and cell lines. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001
Overexpression of miR-302b-3p inhibits the proliferation, migration and invasion of PC cells and promotes their apoptosis
The effects of miR-302b-3p on the biological phenotypes of PC cells were further explored in PC cells transfected with miR-302b-3p mimics or negative controls. The transfection efficiency of miR-302b-3p was detected by qRT-PCR (Fig. 5a). The results of CCK8 and EdU assays indicated that overexpression of miR-302b-3p inhibited the proliferation of PC cells (Fig. 5b, c). Apoptosis assays revealed that miR-302b-3p overexpression induced PC cell apoptosis (Fig. 5d). miR-302b-3p overexpression attenuated PC cell migration and invasion (Fig. 5e).
MiR-302b-3p inhibits the metastasis and induces the apoptosis of PC cells. BxPC3 and Panc-1 pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells were transfected with miR-302b-3p mimics or NC mimics. a The transfection efficiency of miR-302b-3p was analyzed by qRT-PCR. b, c The effects of miR-302b-3p on PC cell proliferation were determined by CCK8 and EdU assays. d Apoptosis of PC cells was analyzed by flow cytometry. e The migration and invasion abilities of PC cells were assessed by transwell assays. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01
MiR-302b-3p targets SLC2A4 and inhibits its expression directly
Three online tools (miRDB, TargetScanHuman 7.2 and starBase V2.0) were used to screen seven targets of miR-302b-: SLC2A4, RSBN1, ELK4, NFIA, CELF1, WEE1 and NTN4. Among these targets, SLC2A4 (solute carrier family 2 member 4) was the gene with the most significantly increased expression in PC cells (Fig. 6a). The putative site for miR-302b-3p and SLC2A4 binding is indicated in Fig. 6b. The dual luciferase reporter assay verified the targeted binding of miR-302b-3p to the 3’UTR of SLC2A4 mRNA (Fig. 6c). Moreover, transfection of miR-302b-3p mimics reduced the mRNA level, as well as the protein level, of SLC2A4 (Fig. 6d, e). In addition, elevated SLC2A4 expression was observed in PC tissues and cell lines (Fig. 6F and G). These data prove that miR-302b-3p targets SLC2A4 and inhibits its expression directly.
MiR-302b-3p targets SLC2A4 and inhibits its expression directly. a Identification of the potential targets of miR-302b-3p using online prediction databases and qRT-PCR analysis. b The predicted binding site of miR-302b-3p within the SLC2A4 3’UTR. c The binding interaction between SNHG16 and miR-302b-3p was confirmed by luciferase reporter assay. d, e qRT-PCR and western blot analyses of the effect of miR-302b-3p on SLC2A4 expression. f, g Relative expression levels of SLC2A4 in PC tissues and cell lines. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001
SNHG16 promotes PC progression partially through the miR-302b-3p/SLC2A4 axis
To confirm the correlation of the SNHG16/miR-302b-3p/SLC2A4 axis with PC progression, PC cells with stable silencing of SNHG16 were transfected with the miR-302b-3p inhibitor, miR-302b-3p inhibitor plus sh-SLC2A4, or NC inhibitor, and the biological phenotypes of these PC cells were analyzed. First, after transfection of Bx-PC3 and Panc-1 cells with sh-SNHG16, transfection of the miR-302b-3p inhibitor significantly inhibited miR-302b-3p expression, and transfection of sh-SLC2A4 decreased the expression of SLC2A4 (Fig. 7a). CCK-8 and EdU assays revealed that SLC2A4 knockdown reversed the promotion of PC cell proliferation induced by the miR-302b-3p inhibitor (Fig. 7b, c). The inhibition of apoptosis by the miR-302b-3p inhibitor was also abolished in PC cells cotransfected with the miR-302b-3p inhibitor and sh-SLC2A4 (Fig. 7d). Moreover, the increases in the migration and invasion abilities of PC cells with miR-302b-3p knockdown were suppressed by sh-SLC2A4 transfection (Fig. 7e). These results confirmed that SNHG16 participated in the progression of PC by targeting the miR-302b-3p/SLC2A4 axis.
SNHG16 promotes PC progression partly via the miR-302b-3p/SLC2A4 axis. BxPC3 or Panc-1 cells with SNHG16 knockdown were transfected with the miR-302b-3p inhibitor, sh-SLC2A4, miR-302b-3p inhibitor plus sh-SLC2A4 or their corresponding negative controls. a The transfection efficiencies were evaluated by qRT-PCR. b, c Cell proliferation was assessed by CCK8 and EdU assays. d Apoptosis of BxPC3 or Panc-1 cells was detected by flow cytometry. e The migration and invasion abilities were evaluated by transwell assays. **P < 0.01 vs. NC inhibitor. #P < 0.05, ##P < 0.01 vs. miR-302b-3p inhibitor
PC is a highly aggressive solid tumor that frequently causes local invasion and early metastasis, which causes more than 300,000 deaths annually. The prognosis of PC patients is very poor, and the overall 5-year survival rate is less than 5% [15]. Therefore, it is important to identify promising diagnostic markers or targeted therapies to gradually inhibit the progression of PC. With the development of sequencing technology, an increasing number of noncoding RNAs have been discovered. Among noncoding RNAs, lncRNAs have received increasing attention due to their wide range of functions.
Small nucleolar RNA host gene 16 (SNHG16) has been reported as an oncogenic lncRNA in multiple cancers, such as colorectal cancer [16], non-small cell lung cancer [17], breast cancer [18], and clear cell renal cell carcinoma [19]. Further research indicated that SNHG16 constitutes a novel prognostic marker that promotes tumor formation and metastasis in vivo and in vitro by sponging miR-146a, further inducing MUC5AC expression in NSCLC [17]. Here, we investigated the novel biological effects of SNHG16 in PC.
The pivotal conclusion of this study is that SNHG16 plays a critical role in PC. The results demonstrated that SNHG16 is significantly upregulated in human PC tissues and PC cells, suggesting that this elevated lncRNA plays crucial roles in PC progression. Moreover, it was found that increased SNHG16 expression was associated with overall survival and indicated poor prognosis in patients with PC. This finding suggests that SNHG16 might be a prognostic marker for PC.
Functional experiments indicated the inhibitory effects of SNHG16 silencing on PC cell proliferation, migration and invasion and the promotive effect on apoptosis. Mechanistically, the target gene, miR-302b-3p, was predicted and identified by a luciferase reporter assay and RIP. MiR-302b-3p was highly expressed in both PC tissues and cells. Subsequent functional experiments confirmed that miR-302b-3p promoted the proliferation, migration and invasion of PC cells, effects opposite those of SNHG16. These data implied that SNHG16 acts as a sponge to negatively regulate miR-302b-3p expression in PC cells. Moreover, we investigated whether miR-302b-3p can directly target the 3’UTR of SLC2A4 and inhibit SLC2A4 expression in PC cells.
SLC2A4 is the gene encoding the insulin-sensitive glucose transporter GLUT4, which is an insulin-sensitive glucose transporter that plays a key role in glucose homeostasis [20]. SLC2A4 is an efficient glucose transporter that is located in cytoplasmic vesicles and can be transferred to the plasma membrane to take up glucose when stimulated by insulin [21]. It has been shown that SLC2A4 expression is elevated during cancer progression [22], 23], consistent with our results. SLC2A4 inhibition abolished the biological effects of miR-302b-3p downregulation on inducing the proliferation, migration and invasion of PC cells. Thus, we suggest that SNHG16 acts as an oncogene during PC progression by targeting the miR-302b-3p/SLC2A4 axis and that SNHG16 is expected to be a potential target for the early diagnosis and treatment of PC.
Expression of the lncRNA SNHG16 is elevated in PC tissues and cell lines.
Knockdown of SNHG16 suppresses PC cell migration and invasion.
SNHG16 acts as a sponge to regulate miR-302b-3p expression in PC cells.
Overexpression of miR-302b-3p inhibits the proliferation, migration and invasion of PC cells and promotes their apoptosis.
MiR-302b-3p targets SLC2A4 and inhibits its expression directly.
SNHG16 promotes the progression of PC via the miR-302b-3p/SLC2A4 axis.
SNHG16 is expected to be a potential target for the early diagnosis and treatment of PC.
All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article.
PCPC:
lncRNAslncRNAs:
Long noncoding RNAs
SNGH16:
Small nucleolar RNA host gene 16S
DMEM:
Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium
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This work was supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Gansu (No. 17YF1FA128) and the Lanzhou Science and Technology Bureau Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent Program (No. 2017-RC-37).
The Second Department of General Surgery, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
Hao Xu, Xin Li, Haofei Chen, Bo Zhang & Wence Zhou
The First Clinical Medical School of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
Institute of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery of Gansu, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology & OIE/National Foot and Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory & Key Laboratory of Animal Virology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
Xin Miao
Hao Xu
Haofei Chen
Bo Zhang
Wence Zhou
WZ and HX participated in the whole project, designed the experiments and analysed the data. WZ, HX and XM performed the experiments, wrote the manuscript and prepared the figures. XL, HC and BZ contributed to the experiments and provided technical and theoretical support. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Wence Zhou.
The study was approved by the ethics committee of the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, and all included patients signed informed consent forms.
The authors agrees to publication in the journal.
Additional file 1: Table S1.
Clinical pathologic features.
Xu, H., Miao, X., Li, X. et al. LncRNA SNHG16 contributes to tumor progression via the miR-302b-3p/SLC2A4 axis in pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Cancer Cell Int 21, 51 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12935-020-01715-9
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Hello, my name is Ewala. I come from the planet Alawe, in the galaxy Ewala, in the universe Alawe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK7w6Sak1pQ
But the point is I tried. If you think you need to go to the bakery, please do so now, because I do not want to be interrupted while I tell you my story. …but anyway, I have been thinking about my happiness lately and have come to the conclusion that I am happy. This is annoying. If you saw a chicken as happy as me, I’ll replace it, and give you a full refund… no questions asked!
But that’s not the point. The point is I am battery operated.
Well, actually I am not.
Frogs enjoying their time in summer
But that’s not the point. What is the point?
“The point is everyone should have my game and timetable! screamed someone who I subsequently smacked across the face and decapitated before sending him home in a cardboard box.
Before I introduce myself, let me share with you a story. A story about me, and how great I am. But first, I think it would be appropriate to introduce myself. I am going to do this soon.
Woman and sunset
So, it all started, in a smelly house, north of Wellington, south of Arizona and east of where you are sitting right now. It was a dark night, with no birds nor chickens, and it was raining a silent rain. There were too many stars to count, and not enough clouds to cover them. I like chickens. But anyway, what was I doing in this smelly house?
“I was laughing at the boxes of dog food with you, remember!?” said Stevens grandma, but she was wrong. What was I doing? That’s right, I was writing this story. Now back to the story.
I needed to find something, so looked for it, and the most amazing thing happened!
I FOUND IT!!!
Guess what it was??? it was a piece of crispy bacon, which I dropped last Christmas. I thought the dog ate it, but I guess it didnt. There were many things over there where I always looked for things, but I didn’t like them, so I don’t know why I was always looking for them. But this thing I did like. And this thing, it liked me right back in the face.
But I don’t like things that like me. They smell funny. So I made it friends with it, seduced it, then strangled it in the night and ate it’s flesh. The bacon wasn’t happy with this, and laughed itself to sleep. But then in the plane, he needed to go pee, so I laughed myself to sleep as he pissed himself to wake. He was definitely awake when the plane started to fall. He was definitely going to fall with the plane, and he was definitely going to get lost again. And lost he did get. Lost in the eternal sea of human sadness, lyrically beautiful without the physical countenance to outweigh it’s inherent irony.
And that was where he found himself, lost in an abysmal abyss… That was where he found himself.
Joe Lopo was a man of mild temperament, short stature, and had the goal to become the world’s fastest telephone eater. Though Lopo never knew even basic physics, he created a telescope capable of sighting the smallest hair on an alien who lived quite a few lightyears away. Joe Lopo quickly destroyed a large boulder and used the shattered remains to form eight small statues that strongly
resembled tiny creatures being or related to the water flea. He placed them in a circular pattern to form a sort of shrine and placed the telescope in the middle of it. He then channeled the power of the stone water fleas into the telescope to view the power of the heavens. He was in a trance with the beauty of the mysterious dimension and didn’t even notice the very large tornado heading toward him.
He was taken to new levels of excitement, when he found himself. Oh what a day…. Oh …what a day. But this was to be expected, because he was not just random. He was ranDom with a capital D. But anyway, who cares about the bacon, this story is about me.
Me and my eternal instructions of destruction from underneath. Me and my inherent understanding of the ways of the universe.
Me and my happiness.
Me and my sadness.
Me, and my bacon.
Once upon a time in the land of Fliggimites lived a happy little thing by the name of Joseph. Joseph once decided to go on an adventure and go atop the great mountain of Floosh to annoy the red dragon. And so he left, with his pal, Gandaarghlee the wizard, to Mount Floosh. Along the way he stole the golden toe ring of a guy named Walmart, and met many trolls and elves and dwarves and other odd mutated humanoid creatures, including this one guy made out of bologna that we didn’t like very much, so we laughed at him and he was sad.
So we finally reached the mountan of Floosh and hiked up to the top. Then the red dragon appeared and tossed us in the firy lava pit on the top, which hurt a lot, but by some chance we won the battle and were very happy, and then we hiked back home, but Walmart trapped us and ate us.
Enjoying freedom of Life
Shepherd and Nature
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Project Update: 'The Nordic "Civil Wars" in the High Middle Ages in a Comparative Perspective'
CAS fellows talk about redefining Nordic medieval civil wars in light of conflicts from other regions and time periods.
CAS Oslo fellows involved in the research project 'The Nordic "Civil Wars" in the High Middle Ages in a Comparative Perspective,' participate in a seminar. Photo: Camilla K. Elmar
Following a well-deserved winter break, fellows are returning to CAS to continue their research.
We checked in with the members of the project The Nordic 'Civil Wars' in the High Middle Ages in a Comparative Perspective to learn how their work is going, their thoughts on the stay so far, and their plans for the spring.
Here's a recap: The Nordic 'Civil Wars' in the High Middle Ages in a Comparative Perspective is, as the name suggests, a comparative project. Scholars involved in the project are comparing both medieval and modern conflicts, and conflicts in medieval Scandinavia to others taking place across the continent. The project is led by Hans Jacob Orning and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, professors of history at the University of Oslo (UiO).
More so than any other project at CAS this academic year, The Nordic 'Civil Wars' in the High Middle Ages in a Comparative Perspective has a much clearer split between the fall and spring, with each semester organised around a major book project.
This fall, for example, Sigurðsson and Orning worked with anthropologists and legal scholars to compare Medieval civil wars to modern conflicts. Most of that work is now complete; by this summer, the project leaders said they expect to have a rough draft of a scholarly monograph containing largely standalone essays written by the visiting fellows.
The new year ushered in a new book project -- and new fellows. This spring, Sigurðsson and Orning are welcoming a group of medieval historians to the Centre. Together, they plan to write a second book, which will compare the Scandinavian conflicts of the Middle Ages to those happening in Iceland and across Europe during the same time period.
Both book projects present their own set of challenges, Sigurðsson and Orning said.
‘In the fall, we were working with scholars from different backgrounds,’ Orning said. ‘We didn’t know them or their research traditions very well. Everyone brought their own specialties and blind spots to the table.’
Added Sigurðsson, ‘It took some time to “calibrate the instruments” and learn to speak the same language.’
Finding the right way to collaborate across disciplines required several rounds of ‘dead ends,’ ‘strange discussions,’ and reading texts that initially seemed ‘completely far out,’ Orning said (as well as several pints, he admitted).
Orning and Sigurðsson said they are -- academically speaking -- much closer to the group of scholars arriving this spring, meaning they will likely need less time to acquaint one another with their work. Finding the right voice and structure for the book will likely present a significant challenge, however.
‘It won’t be standalone essays,’ Orning said about the book. ‘It’s going to be a tight, homogenous text by eight authors.’
In addition to those two monographs in the works, the group will host two conferences this spring -- one with a Nordic focus, the other with a broader international scope -- and publish conferences proceedings from both.
Orning and Sigurðsson said they are particularly pleased with how they have been able to involve Ph.D. and postdoctoral students in their project. Since those students are already located in Oslo, Orning and Sigurðsson said they regularly have them come to the Centre to meet with visiting fellows.
‘It doesn’t make any sense to bring world leading scholars to Oslo and not have them interact with students,’ Sigurðsson said.
Added Orning, ‘In that sense, CAS has helped enrich the academic community.’
Be sure to read up on all our coverage of The Nordic 'Civil Wars' in the High Middle Ages in a Comparative Perspective, and keep an eye on our website for events featuring scholars from the project.
Here’s how other fellows summarised their time at CAS so far:
Frederik Rosén, senior researcher, University of Copenhagen, Denmark:
'My stay at CAS fulfilled all my expectations of getting the time to work undisturbed in a creative environment with top-shelf colleagues. It became quite a journey. We had the necessary time rethink our approaches. Without knowing our path in advance, we ended up breaking new ground. I think we all had a transformative experience. Like, what happens when you actually have the time to invest in thinking.'
Ebrahim Afsah, associate professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark:
'The opportunity to come to Oslo to work with a diverse group of researchers came for me during a period of personal and professional change. The interdisciplinary approach that characterised our approach to the problem of civil wars challenged our respective ontologies and hermeneutics, with much professional disagreement as we fleshed out new ways at looking at old problems. It has been a personally very rewarding journey and many participants in these passionate discussions have now become close personal friends.
'Immediately after CAS, I came to Harvard University for a similar, but very different research stay, continuing my interest in the formation of statehood in Islamic societies. The work I have undertaken in both places will hopefully come me in good stead when I will proceed to a new position teaching Islamic law in Vienna from the fall onwards. The collaboration started at CAS surely continues, both now here in the US and then in Austria.'
By Carl Fredrik Schou Straumsheim
Meet the Group Leaders: Hans Jacob Orning and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
Are There Good Civil Wars?
John Comaroff: Conflict and (Dis)order Among Tswana in Colonial and Postcolonial South Africa
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