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Factbox: Elon Musk on Tesla’s self-driving capabilities
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(Reuters) – Tesla Inc will focus on its autonomous driving system when it hosts its investor day on Monday.
Elon Musk, the electric vehicle company’s chief executive officer, has touted the company’s self-driving capabilities over the years, highlighting its semi-autonomous Autopilot system.
Tesla began offering a feature described as “Full Self-Driving Capability” in 2016. The company instructs drivers to keep their hands on the wheel when those systems are engaged, sparking some criticism of terms used.
The company’s investor day starts at 2 p.m. ET.
Following are the comments made by Musk and Tesla related to the topic in the past few years:
April 15 – Musk says that buying a car that can’t upgrade to full self-driving is like “buying a horse instead of a car in 2019.”
April 11 – Tesla says that Autopilot, the company’s advanced driver assistance system, is now standard on all vehicles.
April 3 – Tesla says it is making “significant progress” in development of its autonomous driving software and hardware, including the FSD (Full Self-Driving) computer, saying the computer is in production and will enable full-self driving through over-the-air software updates in future.
Feb. 28 – In response to a media question whether it is problematic that Musk uses the term “full self-driving,” Musk replies: “I think we’re very clear when you buy the car what is meant by full self-driving. It means it’s feature complete. Feature complete requiring supervision … There’s really three steps: feature complete of full self-driving but requiring supervision, feature complete but not requiring supervision, feature complete not requiring supervision and regulators agree.”
Oct. 5 – Tesla introduces software version 9.0 with a number of features including ‘Navigate on Autopilot’ – intended to guide a car from a highway’s on-ramp to off-ramp, including suggesting lane changes, navigating highway interchanges and taking exits that would still require driver supervision [http://bit.ly/2IFfMMN]
June 11 – Musk tweets that Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance system will get full self-driving features following a software upgrade in August
May 23 – Two U.S. consumer advocacy groups urge the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Tesla’s “deceptive and misleading” use of the name Autopilot for its assisted-driving technology
Feb. 2018 – Musk says Tesla can do a coast-to-coast autonomous drive in 3 months, 6 months at most
Oct. 19 – Musk says he expects that by the end of 2017 a Tesla would be able to drive in full autonomous mode from Los Angeles to New York “without the need for a single touch” on the wheel. [https://reut.rs/2Pk7RYI]
Oct. 2016 – Tesla begins to sell a “Full Self-Driving Capability” option in its vehicles for $3,000, on top of the $5,000 price for “Enhanced Autopilot.” Musk says full self-driving features will be rolled out in future via over-the-air updates when available. The option was removed in October 2018, then reinstated in February 2019.
Oct 2016 – Musk says all new Teslas built have the hardware required for full self-driving.
Oct. 15 – Tesla launches an advanced driver assistance system called Autopilot, with Musk cautioning that drivers should keep their hand on the wheel. [https://reut.rs/2VS8gnB]
(Reporting by Sayanti Chakraborty in Bengaluru and Alexandria Sage in San Francisco; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
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Direct Verification of the Locking of Liquid Locking Compounds in Threaded Fasteners
Ryan Hunter, University of South FloridaFollow
Daniel P. Hess
adhesive, breakaway torque, loctite, prevailing torque, secondary locking
The motivation of this research is to explore the viability of a method to directly verify whether or not an anaerobic adhesive within a threaded fastener assembly has cured sufficiently to provide secondary locking. Direct verification was implemented via the application of a test torque in the loosening direction of a fastener assembly with Loctite (given a 24 hour cure time). A three phase test plan was developed with the intent of identifying and utilizing this verification torque value which is unique to a given fastener assembly.
It was proved that the direct verification method, as outlined in the test plan, was in fact a valid method of verification in some cases. Results were dependent on the materials and coatings of the fastener assemblies. The curing properties of the liquid locking compound (LLC) with plain steel specimens resulted in a verification test that could accurately predict sufficient locking and cure (using distributions in torque measurements). Tests with zinc coated and stainless steel specimens, however, did not produce the same level of predictability in cure as the plain steel specimens.
The direct verification method as defined herein is not suited to certain materials and coatings. The less predictable curing properties of the stainless steel specimens caused complications in determining a verification torque that could reliably determine cure, resulting in dropping stainless steel from static and dynamic testing. The zinc coated specimen data was more consistent, but the adhesive did not add sufficient breakaway strength to the fastener assembly needed to define a usable verification value. These results led to the conclusion that the direct verification method as presented in this work is limited to more active material selections. One possibility to improve the secondary locking of less active materials is the use of a higher strength adhesive.
Testing to observe the effect of application of verification torque on the secondary locking was also performed. Multiple verifications were found to be destructive to the point that just over a third of samples failed that might have otherwise passed a single verification test. The single verification testing, on the other hand, caused substantially less locking mechanism degradation, leading to the use of a single verification torque in further testing.
Hunter, Ryan, "Direct Verification of the Locking of Liquid Locking Compounds in Threaded Fasteners" (2012). Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
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Review: 5 Hidden Gem Games You Missed In 2020
In a year defined by ample hardships, video games have been a routine escape for many of us. Luckily, we saw the release of several incredible games, including Hades, The Last of Us Part II, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and much more. However, with so many sizable game releases, some of the year’s most interesting experiences likely flew under your radar.
Without further ado, here are 5 hidden gem games you missed in 2020.
Risk of Rain 2 is a roguelike third-person shooter wherein teams of up to 4 travel from dimension to dimension to explore space and time. Players slowly build up their stats and abilities each run by obliterating waves of alien enemies and subsequently collecting randomized loot.
Thanks to the abundant offerings of its item system, Risk of Rain 2 facilitates a power fantasy that would be considered broken in other games. I’ve spent many hours chasing after new characters, secrets, and broken builds, like unlocking a sextuple jump or curating an arsenal of task-rabbit drones to do my bidding.
Risk of Rain 2 doesn’t shy away from the bizarre — it embraces it — and has managed to become one of my favorite co-op experiences because of it.
Townscaper
Oskar Stalberg, the developer behind 2018’s experimental strategy game, Bad North, recently released a relaxing city-building tool called Townscaper. In the words of its creator, Townscaper is “more of a toy than a game.” Players utilize a simple toolset, which consists of a 15-tone color palette and a grid, to design and build a quaint, colorful seaside town. By clicking along the playspace’s grid, structures and pathways can be generated and stacked on top of one another to create beautiful hamlets atop the water.
You can focus less on logistics and more on expressing your creativity because buildings automatically scale and morph with every new addition or subtraction. Townscaper makes the act of creating feel satisfying, too. New housing additions plop into place like jello, accompanied by delightful clicks and pops of sound that make it irresistible to not continue stacking blocks on top of one another.
Bloodroots
Bloodroots tells the simple tale of a left-for-dead frontiersman, Mr. Wolf, who’s determined to track down his killer in search of revenge. Developed by Paper Cult, this indie action game has found a home amidst fans of the gory, one-shot-one-kill gameplay formula that was popularized by Hotline Miami. I’d compare the game’s visual identity to the minimalist stylings of classic cartoons like Samurai Jack, with bold shapes and colors that not only keep the game readable but help to make its exaggerated animations pop off the screen.
Bloodroots demands perfection, a fact that is reinforced by the dozens of deaths you’ll face when attempting to craft the best route through any given level. Set in the sprawling Weird West, the game’s spotlight feature is that everything in the world can be used as a weapon. Not only does Bloodroots scatter more obvious objects like swords and pitchforks around its world, but the game’s war chest is full of out-of-the-box weaponry like a wheelbarrow or carrot. The game is a treat to play and is a great on-the-go experience for the Nintendo Switch.
If you’re interested in seeing more Bloodroots, check out our review.
Among Trees
Among Trees is a serene, survival sandbox game set amidst a vibrant landscape that stands out thanks to its gorgeous sights and sounds. Soaked in the ambient notes of post-rock, the game’s original soundtrack is reminiscent of bands like Explosions in the Sky, which only helps to further welcome players into its cozy setting.
While Among Trees is easy-going, it’s not without purpose. The game embraces the best part of the survival genre, presenting players with small problems that are solved by gradual increases of efficiency. You’ll need to explore the game’s quaint fjord and harvest materials from its fauna and wildlife to slowly build up a log cabin, which in turn unlocks new crafting recipes that fuel
your efforts in exploration.
Among Trees presents an intoxicating loop of exploration and crafting, and I’d highly recommend it if you’re in search of a relaxing experience. The game can be played in Early Access on the Epic Games Store and has consistently received content updates since its launch earlier this year.
Monster Train
Monster Train is a deck-building roguelike set atop a roaring locomotive that’s surging through the depths of hell. While the game surely owes a lot to 2017’s Slay the Spire, Monster Train’s card play feels distinct thanks to deck factions, champion abilities, and the fact the game’s battles occur on a three-story train. If you’re in search of an experience that’s full of depth and strategic variety, Monster Train is the ticket.
Read our full review, wherein we describe Monster Train as a “pleasant, mind-blowingly addictive exercise that’s well worth your time, especially if you’re a fan of roguelikes, card games, and deck-building fare.”
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Made With True Japanese Quality
Founded in Japan in 1962
We Believe in Quality Audio
About Us #HISTORY
Years of History
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Established since 1962, Audio-Technica is a worldwide group of companies devoted to the design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of problem-solving audio equipment. Initially known for state-of-the-art phonograph cartridges, Audio-Technica now creates high-performance microphones, headphones, wireless systems, mixers and electronic products for home and professional use.
Winner of numerous industry awards, Audio-Technica manufactures products that set quality, durability and price/performance standards for live sound tours, broadcast and recording studios, corporate and government facilities, house-of-worship venues, and more. Audio-Technica microphones are chosen for critical government installations such as the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Audio-Technica microphones and wireless systems are also selected for major broadcast music events, including the GRAMMY® Awards and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies.
Audio-Technica products have provided seamless audio coverage and technical support in U.S. presidential debates since 1988. Our microphones deliver versatile solutions at high-profile sports broadcasts, including World Cup Soccer, the Super Bowl, and the Commonwealth Games, as well as the Summer Games in Beijing (2008), Athens (2004), Sydney (2000), and Atlanta (1996), and the Winter Games in Vancouver (2010), Torino (2006) and Salt Lake City (2002).
Audio-Technica Corporation in Japan, in addition to offering a wide range of products under its own brand, is a leading OEM supplier of audio transducers, optical sensors and a variety of specialty devices. Audio-Technica U.S., Inc. markets and distributes Audio-Technica products throughout the Western Hemisphere. With other operating companies in Europe, Singapore and Hong Kong, Audio-Technica today is a global leader in its field, committed to providing superior performance and exceptional value for customers around the world
Milestones #ALWAYSLISTENING
Beginning of an Audio Odyssey
Hideo Matsushita establishes Audio-Technica Corporation in Tokyo's Shinjuku-ku.
AT-1001 Tone Arm Package Wins Award
The AT-1001 tone arm package receives an award from the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, part of Japan’s Ministry of Trade and Industry. Audio-Technica moves its head office and factory to its current address in Naruse, Machida, Tokyo.
World's Biggest Phono Cartridge Maker
Launch of AT-35X dual magnet VM type stereo phono cartridge.
News #FINDOUTMORE
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A MelanieM Review: Precious Metals by L.A. Witt
Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5
As a provision inspector below the Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike Gold Rush, Constable Paul Benson of the North-West Mounted Police has seen it all. The monotony, the fights, starvation and even death that has come with the miners rushing to make their fortune in gold. But even as the masses of humanity crowd into camps, Paul has been able to keep himself emotionally separated from the madness and madmen around him. Until the arrival of Joseph Starling in his life.
Joseph Starling appears in camp, practically dead. Joseph and his two brothers had been among those mining gold up north but there the brothers met a familiar fate. They were robbed, one brother killed and the youngest still in the clutches of the men who attacked them. Now Joseph is on his way to find his brother and bring him safely home.
It’s to Paul that Joseph is brought to and its Paul’s plan Joseph will use to catch up to the robbers. Only Paul never counted on going with Joseph on a journey that will change them both in ways they never expected. From eight-legged mechs with minds of their own to crash-prone airships, this is a trip with no guarantees, for success and even coming out alive.
Just the cover and the title alone is enough to recall the wonderful steampunk universe L.A. Witt has created for this remarkable series. The first novel, Noble Metals, firmly established a steampunk world where the Klondike Gold Rush includes steam driven 8-legged brass mechs, mechanical beasts of burden instead of horses or sleds, where the North-West Mounted Police patroled the borders and camps instead of the Royal Canadian Mounties, but the human frailties, greed, and despair remain firmly entrenched by the pursuit of gold. I loved that story. It was inventive, believable, and a terrific romance to boot.
Now comes Precious Metals and that treacherous, amazing world comes alive once more. Using the same format of alternating points of view, L.A. Witt takes the reader from perspective to perspective easily without jumbling her narrative. The story opens with Paul Benson looking over the teeming mass of miners gathered to get permits and head north into the Yukon. Immediately we realize that being a Mountie is not the passion for Paul that one would think, an aspect of this story both unusual and telling. Into his line of vision comes a tattered group of miners walking beside a worn mech, lying on top is Joseph. From the minute Joseph wakes up in the make shift infirmary, his heartbreaking portion of the story unfolds and Precious Metals takes flight.
Joseph Starling stole my heart immediately. There are so many facets to this character, loving and loyal brother, ingenious engineer, and courageous, intrepid explorer and that doesn’t even begin to cover it. There is another surprise in store for the readers concerning Joseph that the cover happily does not give away.But this element of Joseph’s character and its part in the story adds not only depth but heart to this amazing journey. It’s Paul that I had to warm up to. Paul Benson has his own decisions to make and he tends to need a lot of internal prodding to get moving forward. But once he does, then the reader is sure to embrace his character as much as we do Joseph’s.
Oh, the descriptions of the arduous trail north that L. A. Witt treats us to! Heavy snowfalls, avalanches, bone chilling, death causing temperatures, and always, always something worse waiting to happen just around the bend. And the vivid, wonderful passages make us feel every exhausting, frozen, torturous inch of the trail north. And did I mention that there are airships afloat as unreliable and crash prone as the mechs themselves? By the end of the story I found it hard to believe that the journey itself only unfolds in a short time frame because we were in the trenches with Paul and Joseph, For them, as well as us, the heightened danger and close proximity brings an understanding, though not love, that feels as real as the journey itself.
For unlike the couple in Noble Metals, here the attachment forms quickly, yet realistically. Is it a case of instant love? I think not, but certainly a romance with a future if the men have any say. Yes, this is a HFN that is satisfying in a book that I loved perhaps more than the last. I highly recommend Precious Metals and its predessor, Noble Metals. Pick them both up today and begin your passage to Chilkoot Pass , the Klondike Gold Rush and the men who find themselves and love along the way!
Cover artist April Lee’s drawing is both lively and a little rough, a bluntness about it that adds to its charm in my opinion.
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Gattuso: “I am happy with the arrivals of Higuain and Caldara”
By Nikita Fesyukov - 4 August 2018, 11:27
Milan will face Barcelona tomorrow at 02:05 CET in Santa Clara. Coach Gennaro Gattuso spoke to the media ahead of the team’s final preseason friendly match in the United States.
“When you wear the Milan shirt, goals are always important. I know the difficulties we can have. We must not forget what we did last year. We had two good matches here and the condition seemed good, but we cannot be content with the performances,” Gattuso told the press.
“I prefer to play less clean and get the result. With Tottenham we had 5-6 clear chances, but then lost the match. The regret of the last two friendlies is that we could not give the final blow to win the games. We must improve in terms of this.
“Ronaldo? After the many problems of Italian football his purchase is something incredible. It is no coincidence that we are now talking also about Modric.
“Higuain? His arrival does not mean that I will change the formation. The base will be the 4-3-3, but it is not excluded that we will try something else. I talked a lot with Higuain, as I did with other players this month.
“For us it must be a reason of pride. When you talk to the players, nobody says he does not want to to come. I think that with this teams and players like Higuain and Caldara we can do very well. Pipita [Higuain] can help us make a leap in quality.
“I am happy with their arrivals. Mattia [Caldara] is an interesting young player. We all know Gonzalo, but we are a team. We have to make them feel at home and make them understand how we are in this group. Then they will give us a hand for an important season.
“The team is now 90% complete. The market closes on the 17th, but there are many players. The club’s task is also to thin out the squad numerically. We will see what happens in the last days.
“We could do something for the midfield. Vidal? He is a fantastic player and we thought of him. But we need to respect Financial Fair Play and at this time we cannot afford him.
“Barcelona? I am very fascinated by their mentality. Seeing boys of 16, 17 years old who immediately propose their style of play is beautiful.
“I expect a very difficult game and that the defense will have a lot to work on. I want to see a team that is not afraid to play. It will be difficult to get out of their pressure, but I want to see great personality when we play the ball,” the coach concluded.
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Book Blitz: Where the Night Reigns by Emilie Lucadamo
Title: Where the Night Reigns
Series: In the Darkness, Book Three
Author: Emilie Lucadamo
Publisher: NineStar Press
Heat Level: 1 – No Sex
Pairing: M/NB
Length: 59200
Genre: Paranormal, LGBT, fantasy, magic, demons, ghosts, horror, paranormal, Hell, gay, lesbian, war, reanimation, immortal, psychic/medium, no HEA
The barrier between worlds has shattered. Demons wreak havoc across Earth; the dead are rising from their graves; psychics and witches are vanishing without a trace. The fate of the world rests in the hands of the enigmatic Tresser Corporation, a company of demon soldiers… and a kindergarten teacher.
In other words, humanity’s odds aren’t looking great.
When hunter, David Tresser, pairs up with a High Demon, he knows he’s in over his head. Of course, there are worse positions to be in, like Henry, whose girlfriend hasn’t been seen since the demonic attacks began, or the psychic Cassandra, who has become a target of those very demons herself. As this motley crew teams up, trust is slow to be gained…but they really have no choice when the world around them is falling apart at the seams. In the midst of it all, Tresser finds himself curiously drawn to the demon he’s not even sure he can trust.
After an exorcism gone terribly wrong, the team is left with no choice. To save their worlds, and themselves, they’ll have to travel into the darkest part of Hell: the Pits of Gehenna, from which no one has ever returned.
To defeat the odds and preserve humanity, they’ll all have to work together.
Where the Night Reigns
Emilie Lucadamo © 2019
The tea has long since gone cold, but Tresser swirls it around his cup anyway. He’s not about to take a sip. It is far too frigid, and the last thing he wants to do is wind up spewing liquid over all this cozy living room upholstery.
At least that might give his host a valid excuse to kick him out. Then again, Cassandra Carlyle might be too damn nice—or too appeased by the Tresser Corporation’s considerable paycheck—to do it.
It’s obvious Cassandra isn’t happy having him here. That could have something to do with the fact that Tresser pulled up unannounced in front of her pleasant country home in a hearse.
(The ride is none-too-inconspicuous. His father had been adamant against it. Naturally, that’s why Tresser had to have it. It’s proved itself useful in carting around things such as equipment or bodies and has the most comfortable reclining seats.)
To be fair to her, Cassandra has taken it in stride. She let Tresser in, made him tea, and when he said they needed to talk, her reply was a gamely, “I’ve got the time.”
It’s still obvious she doesn’t want him here. Her wary gaze keeps flickering to Tresser’s dark boots like she expects them to leave oily imprints on the carpet. Her posture is a bit too relaxed, and her smile a bit too pleasant for her to be genuinely pleased with the company. Despite this, Tresser is impressed. Cassandra is good at concealing her displeasure under a veneer of easygoing friendliness. If figuring out what people are hiding weren’t his job, Tresser would never have known the difference.
“I’m not sure what to say, Mr. Tresser,” Cassandra sighs. Her fingers are wrapped around her teacup, violet painted nails stark against the white porcelain. “It’s all a lot to handle.”
If anyone can handle the chaos their world is descending into, Tresser is sure it will be Cassandra. The woman has already figured out how to deal with him. If she’s that good, she could probably walk through fire and brimstone without flinching.
“I’ve had to perform more exorcisms in the past few weeks than in ten years. News outlets are losing their heads. Buildings are being destroyed, people are dying, and our city is at the epicenter of it all.” She swallows, gaze flickering down for a second, and Tresser knows she wants to say something critical. She swallows it back at the last moment, however, settling for a mild but pointed, “It’s a good thing Tresser Corporation is here to take care of it.”
Except Tresser Corporation isn’t, not really. If the Corps were really focused on this tiny Rhode Island city, barely a speck on the map, then the problem would be over with by now. Men in black suits and sunglasses would swarm the streets; news outlets would be silent on the chaos, and common mediums wouldn’t be the ones performing exorcisms.
Tresser Corporation is currently focused on some tiny European country, which is being controlled by a dictator possessed by a demon of Ars Goetia lore. This wouldn’t be a major cause for concern, except the dictator has nukes, and that’s the sort of apocalypse even the Corps aren’t equipped to deal with. As long as the war in Hell stays mostly confined to Hell, Felix Tresser declared, it wasn’t any of their business. So instead of centering his focus on the tiny city literally crumbling to hell, he jetted off to Europe and sent a handful of his agents down to deal with it.
The crisis proved to be more than the agents were equipped to deal with, however. Only a week later, chaotic mission reports were being sent back to Felix—details of demonic possessions and people coming back from the dead. It became clear this was far more serious than it appeared on the surface.
That was when Tresser received the command to get down to Rhode Island and see what was what. This order came in the form of an e-mail—since his father was clearly too busy to call—with the mission reports attached.
Tresser wishes he could say he’s surprised, but after twenty-six years he knows the way his father’s world works.
More surprising, he supposes, is the fact that his father trusted him enough to place him in charge of this operation at all. Had this come at any other time, Felix would have handled something of this magnitude himself. Instead, he’s been forced to appoint his son, and Tresser would be lying if he said he was prepared. He’s led missions before, but nothing like this.
A part of him had no clue where to start, so as soon as he got into town he went for the obvious—a list of Tresser Corps’ contacts throughout the city. He found two names, and Cassandra Carlyle was the first on his list.
“I need you,” he said as soon as he sat down with the psychic, “to explain exactly what the hell’s been going on here.”
Now, with Cassandra wrapping up her sordid tale—full of destruction, chaos, and more demons than an exorcist could shake a cross at—Tresser wonders again whether he’s in over his head.
He’s as good at hiding his discontent as Cassandra is, if not better (years of dealing with his father has given him time to practice). Sure, in his rumpled jeans and leather jacket Tresser might not look the part of a typical Corps agent, he’s got his own brain behind him—plus, an abundance of resources to work with. A lot can be said about David Tresser, but only one person has ever dared call him incompetent, and that man just put him in charge of saving this entire city.
And, if what Cassandra is telling him is true, maybe the world. But Felix doesn’t need to know that until later.
As Cassandra finally falls silent, the expression on her face is clear: expectant. Tresser has said he’s here to help, and Cassandra is trusting him to do just that.
He knows exactly where to start.
“Okay,” Tresser says, clapping his hands together in a faux-eager gesture that makes Cassandra grimace. “I guess this makes you my eyes and ears.”
Cassandra blinks. Of all the things she may have expected, that wasn’t one of them. “I’m…sorry? What are you talking about?”
“You. You’re a psychic, and a medium. That makes you doubly qualified to give me the information I need to know.” Tresser Corps employs psychics for just this purpose; during a mission, they can be crucial for obtaining information that would otherwise have remained unknown. If Cassandra weren’t skilled, the Corps would never have bothered with her. “You’re going to help me out.”
“Mr. Tresser—” Cassandra begins, but Tresser cuts her off as he stands up.
“That’s my father. If you have to be formal, Tresser works just fine. Drop the ‘mister’, I’m not your boss.”
Cassandra follows him as he makes his way to the door. “I think I’m just confused about what you’re asking.”
“Scrying, right?” Tresser demands lightly. “You can scry.”
“Of course I can, but—”
“Great!” Tresser claps the woman on the shoulder—and, realizing at the last moment that he’s still holding the teacup, presses it back into her hands. “I’ll call you later. Sometime. Wait for me. Tresser Corporations thanks you for your assistance!”
The last comment is smarmy enough to make his father proud. Tresser has read the script enough times to know what to say when making an associate do something they might not want to do. He isn’t taking advantage of Cassandra; he just needs a psychic’s insight, and she’s been helpful so far.
She’s getting paid. She’ll get over it.
Tresser strides out the front door before Cassandra can get another word in. He’s not halfway down the walkway before the door slams shut behind him, loud enough to make the windows shake. Tresser springs a foot into the air, landing hard and casting an incredulous look back at the house. No way was that his fault, and he’s sure Cassandra didn’t do it.
He shakes his head as he double-times it towards his hearse. Damn mediums—always living in haunted houses.
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Emilie Lucadamo has too many stories, and not enough words to tell them. At eighteen years old, she has been writing for most of her life, and telling stories even longer. Her dream is to one day become a critically acclaimed author. When not writing, she’s probably reading, or spending quality time with her dog.
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Priscilla Bettis | July 3, 2019 at 1:19 am
“. . . and a kindergarten teacher.” That made me laugh! Best of luck to Ms. Lucadamo on this new release!
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Digital Art Masters: Volume 7 (Downloadable Edition)
The Digital Art Masters series presents another scintillating collection of work from 50 world-class digital artists. The Digital Art Masters series has brought together over 300 fantastic examples of the world's best 2D and 3D digital art. Digital Art Masters: Volume 7 continues this tradition by ushering in a new elite group of talented artists whose images are sure to inspire and astound in equal measure. But this book doesn't just showcase beautiful art; it also offers up details of the creation process behind each image, penned by the artists themselves, presenting a unique opportunity for readers to follow in the footsteps of the masters. Covering topics ranging from fantasy and characters to scenes and cartoons, Digital Art Masters: Volume 7 has something for everyone and is sure to get those creative juices flowing.
Inside issue 05 is a host of extraordinary character designers including Kun Vic and Paul Schoeni, who share the secrets of their successful careers. John Loren illuminates the subject of lighting, while Dung Ho leads a fast and effective warm-up exercise. Tutorials packed with practical ways to improve your character design include Guilherme Franco’s guide to depicting fury with impact, James A. Castillo’s engaging circus troupe, and Alexandra Frantseva’s multi-genre ninja-warrier concept. Ester Conceicao deals with anthropomorphism, while Kévin Roualland reveals how to develop an authentic fantasy character. Plus, Beatrice Blue’s enchanting cover design is broken down to show how she tells a story within a single scene!
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Book Review: The Beekeeper’s Promise by Fiona Valpy
On June 20, 2018 By Shuffle BookboxIn 2018, Book reviews
Published: 16/05/2018 by Lake Union Publishing
Heartbroken and hoping for a new start, Abi Howes takes a summer job in rural France at the Château Bellevue. The old château echoes with voices from the past, and soon Abi finds herself drawn to one remarkable woman’s story, a story that could change the course of her summer—and her life.
In 1938, Eliane Martin tends beehives in the garden of the beautiful Château Bellevue. In its shadow she meets Mathieu Dubosq and falls in love for the first time, daring to hope that a happy future awaits. But France’s eastern border is darkening under the clouds of war, and history has other plans for Eliane…
When she is separated from Mathieu in the chaos of German occupation, Eliane makes the dangerous decision to join the Resistance and fight for France’s liberty. But with no end to the war in sight, her loyalty to Mathieu is severely tested.
From the bestselling author of Sea of Memories comes the story of two remarkable women, generations apart, who must use adversity to their advantage and find the resilience deep within.
Unforgettable and strikingly beautiful story of two women fighting their own wars.
Abi takes an unexpected job offer in hope to fill her time and to forget her past, but instead starts uncovering a story of another woman that lived in the same place during World War 2 and times of France occupated by Nazis. While fascinated by the story she is also working through her own fight in her mind, dealing with past, scars on her soul as well as her body.
How much can two women in different times have in common? How can someone from the past, nearly 100 years ago, make us realise that maybe our own little problems are really nothing in the grand scheme of things?
I find it incredibly difficult to explain what has this book given me. It’s one of the most beautiful stories I’ve ever read, even if it’s touching such a scary and terrible topic as World War 2.
Is it a writing style? Maybe it’s all the characters I cared for so much? I really don’t know and can’t tell what made this book so special for me. I hope if you read it, you will love it as much as I did. It will forever stay in my heart!
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What a lovely review! I had thought about reading this but hesitated. Now I’m adding to my holds list at the library. Thank you!
Thank you, it truly is a beautiful read! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Excellent review.
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Reskilling for success in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Technology is changing the nature of jobs within the financial industry. As fresh perspectives are required, banks should seek to create more diverse workforces who can bring different skills into play.
“What is at stake is not only financial institutions’ productivity, geared with the knowledge and skills to adapt to technological shifts; it is also about creating an inclusive work environment, by investing in people who will become active leaders in societal change and themselves promote diversity and reskilling.” Genevieve Douhet, GTB Chief Innovation Officer, Societe Generale
According to a World Economic Forum survey,1 more than one in four adults in OECD countries reported a mismatch between their current skills and the qualifications required for their job. In the banking sector, new digital technologies, such as automation and artificial intelligence, are reshaping not only customers’ experience, but also those of bank employees as processes and jobs are transformed.
As a manager and innovation director, I see every day how technology is reshaping our needs for IT talents. Reskilling is required as some traditional skills are no longer appropriate for specific tasks. Digitalisation of retail branch networks, automation and digitalisation elsewhere in banks, as well as the implementation of AI has led to a shortage of skilled IT workers. Particularly severe is the shortage of skilled data scientists and other IT workers such as agile developers, according to my own experience and what I hear and see from my peers.
In addition, the nature of a banking career is changing, from a straight career path to several careers within a lifetime. Business transformation cycles are much shorter than those of workforce development: a 40 years life-long career versus a transformation cycle of six months to one year. For example, today, 90% of the data handled by an IT specialist were created in the past two years, showing the acceleration led by technologies and digital ecosystems.
In the banking activities that have not been affected by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, managers tend to tap into the talent pool of the university or school from which they graduated. This community mindset has led to low diversity among those working within these areas. Achieving innovation in an environment of homogenous skills is a challenge.
Technology as a catalyst of diversity
Technology is an opportunity to bring diversity in profiles and promote an innovative mindset among employees. By tapping into non-traditional sources of employment, banks are likely to create a more diverse workforce. Diversity can be achieved by fostering social inclusion and enlarging talent pools among under-represented schools or education courses. Banks, like most companies, are also working on offering a real employee experience (work environment, new ways of working, balance between work and personal life, etc.), rather than a life-long career within the organisation. A continuous feedback loop between banks and educational establishments will help both entities to create wider, more skilled talent pools of individuals with greater employability.
Technology can also contribute to more gender parity among tech profiles. For example, SmartCo, which was launched by Societe Generale’s innovation lab in Dakar, is a program designed to encourage technology entrepreneurship among women in Africa. For the first edition, 100 women project leaders, mainly from outside the Group but also women staff members were selected to develop and create sustainable solutions. We believe this helps to promote Tech Women empowerment, but above all, it aims to set a basis for promotion and social harmony through women's learning.
Injecting fresh perspectives via reskilling programs
Re-skilling the workforce can bring new perspectives to a financial institution through a variety of ways:
Reskilled workers can bring a new vision, particularly if they come from other industries with different customer experiences;
Reskilled workers will not have the cognitive bias of replicated patterns that are developed if a worker has stayed in the same activity or industry for several years;
Those who have overcome the psychological barriers of reskilling might be more adaptive and think “outside the box”; It may sound like a paradox, but this requires more ‘soft’ than ‘hard’ skills; and
A reskilled worker is likely to become a promoter of social or gender inclusion, encouraging others by saying: “I have done it, why not you?”
In reskilling the workforce, a bank should first map how client user experience and technology have an impact on current skills and jobs, define the target in terms of skills and adapt retraining programs. They should also prepare for technology-driven disruptions that will require retraining of the workforce.
The program will combine hiring new staff, training existing staff and re-skilling others. Within Societe Generale, we launched Simplon2, a retraining program that re-skilled 15 people from inside and outside the bank to become web developers in 21 months. Management has an important role to play: senior managers must be able to guide the transition and impart their knowledge and experience. The challenge is to find managers willing to welcome re-skilled workers in their team and spend managerial time to facilitate their integration. The capacity – and willingness – to adapt are key success factors in any re-skilling program.
Financial institutions need to create a corporate culture that promotes learning and innovation, autonomy and empowerment to foster self-reskilling and development, if they want to remain to the forefront in the increasingly competitive talent race.
[1] World Economic Forum - Accelerating Workforce Reskilling for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (July 2017) http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_EGW_White_Paper_Reskilling.pdf [2] Simplon is a network of social digital factories in France and abroad which has trained more than 4000 trainees in the digital sector since 2013.It aims at making the digital sector a place of inclusion and to reveal talents among groups underrepresented in this field.
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In the newest instalment of Ian’s exclusive interview series brought to you exclusively by Sideshow Sound Radio, your host has the delight of chatting with the award-winning British film, TV and Video Game composer extraordinaire, the most talented, generous and just darn fun Professor you’ve ever heard, Stephen Baysted.
Stephen is best known for his supreme work on games such as the Need for Speed series, Atari’s Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends, and the absolutely mind-blowing Project Cars. The composer is also well-known for his music to documentaries, animation, short film and commercials, and has been nominated for prestigious awards numerous times for his spectacular scores.
Stephen talks with Ian about his Batcave in the garden, the lengths he’s gone to recording all the car sounds for your games that you took for granted, their mutual love of 80s TV and music, his incredible wife, an amazing opera singer, assembling a team, and much, much more!
Thank you all for listening, enjoy part one of this exclusive interview!
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Album Name: What’s Real? UPC: 885767142398
Sequel Name: The Inner Journey Release Date: July 1, 2012
Sequence: # 2 Copyright: Rixa White
Tracks: 11 Composed by: Rixa White
Length: 59′:31” Performed by: Rixa White
Genres: New Age, Electronic Produced by: Rixa White
Tempo: Various Published by: CD Baby
Vocals: Mainly Instrumental Label: Rixa White
Instruments: Strings, Flute, Sitar, Accordion, Saws, Synthesizer, Keyboards, Virtual Choir, Drum Machine. Percussions
Track names: 1-Mirage, 2-What’s Real?, 3-Oceans of Illusion, 4-Vital Doubts, 5-Curtains over Eyes, 6-Sorrowful Truth, 7-Deceived, 8-Real Fantasia, 9-Consciousness, 10-Diversion, 11-Echoes from East
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Album Overview
This concept album interprets human challenges for knowing what is real in both ancient and modern era.
This is a story of a lost creature, surrounded by reality and illusion contradiction.
By naming the album as “What’s Real?”, Rixa White recalls this essential question that we all ask through our life experiences.
“What’s Real?” is the second album of a sequel named “The Inner Journey”, focusing on a journey to the inner world. All 11 tracks in this album are conceptually related and named based on their roles in the album story line. However, each track can be listened, felt and enjoyed distinctly.
The album cover image illustrates a fading shadow on fading water ripples in the dark which ends up to a dot. The shadow can be any creature diving into illusion. The fact that both shadow and reflection on the water not existing by themselves, emphasizes the concept that what we believe and experience may not be real.
The circle of light which is iconic in most Silentaria’s album covers, here represents the enlightenment of the one who seeks for the answer of “What’s Real?”.
Check out what others said about this album in Reviews.
Tracks Overview
The album starts with a mellow track, “Mirage”, which is a low-beat track using no percussion, while hearing very illusive sounds coming from a very far distance.
It is followed by the title track, “What’s Real?”. This second track contains a dialog between a robot asking about reality and an angel who answers him. The double sided style of the music is ear catching as its beat is techno-like and melody and instruments are classic.
The 3rd track is “Oceans of Illusion” that uses a bunch of illusive sounds creating a warm oceanic atmosphere in each of its five sections.
“Vital Doubts” is the 4th track and one of the two techno tracks in the album. The main characteristic of this up-beat track is its non-repeating full-length melody that is performed by a kind and friendly sound coming from a combination of four digital strings and flutes.
“Curtains over Eyes”, the 5th track uses Electric Guitar and horn-like instruments combined with strings and sitars to create a heroic atmosphere.
“Sorrowful Truth” comes in the 6th place and is totally Violin-based followed by some mild epic-romantic harmonic background melodies. The chorus of the track is both sorrowful and soothing Perhaps all can be told about is sorrow, sorrow and more sorrows.
The 7th track is “Deceived”, the only Rock genre track in the album. Electric Guitar plays the main gear of the track but its combination with violins and strings makes a multi-style atmosphere. Human choir also emphasizes the spiritual atmosphere of the track. All four parts are related to each other as a whole story and rebellion and objection are lucidly encouraged in all parts.
The other electronic techno track appears in 8th place named “Real Fantasia”. Its melody is mainly a long repeated sentence with lots of non-repeated harmonic background melodies that projects a kind of happiness in a visionary Fantasia. Almost all sounds are electronic in this track.
In this album, “Consciousness”, the 9th one, is very special. Repeating the Consciousness word combined with metal-like percussions in the background recalls spiritual temples atmosphere. Its spiritual concept is brought up with a techno style and variable melodies performed by electronic instruments even Electric Guitars. The vocals are totally computer-generated human voices.
The 10th track is “Diversion” mainly having a modern Epic atmosphere in both its harmonic intro and main part by using Brass and Strings combined with background Pads and smart Basses.
”Echoes from East”, the 11th and last track, has a World genre and contains a variety of Middle Eastern melodies performed by Turkish, Persian and Arabic instruments and percussions.
“This is one of the more successful albums of New Age Music around.” — Grady Harp
“I have to say that this is extraordinary music. Much of the New Age music I hear is either too bland to hold my attention or too funky for my tastes. Not so with “What’s Real?”… This is remarkably complex music, with the various sounds being woven together in a brilliant tapestry.” — J. Chambers
“Much ambient music sounds good for one or two tracks, but sticking with the artists over the length of an album can be difficult. As track mounts on track, they often reveal rhythms so unvarying that you could do Pilates with them and never miss a beat. Silentaria, however, has crafted an album that is emphatically not a soundtrack for jogging or vacuuming. Rixa White puts himself through hard changes, and expects you to join him on the journey.” — Kevin L. Nenstiel
“Silentaria’s latest offering WHAT’S REAL? is an intense, solo electronic music extravaganza that probes the nature of reality and the relationship between the inner and outer world of the human experience. A deep subject to be sure, but that is one of the benefits of the virtually wordless approach employed here by Rixa White. Mostly unconstrained from the limited meanings of words, White takes flight with his synthesizer and a host of other instruments and brings us along for the journey. And it does feel like a journey. The music is very cinematic – the tracks all seeming both different and the same in a way – much like a movie score, where one or two recurring themes is woven into a number of other variations on those themes that both advance the story from scene to scene and remind us of the big picture.” — Andrew H. Lee
“This album has a very full, rich sound, making best use of its conventional and programmed instruments. It pushes Eastern pentatonic scales and Western staggered harmonies together in ways that, while not always surprising, are certainly never boring.” — Kevin L. Nenstiel
“The album does a great job of combining conventional chord shifts and scales with exotic-sounding flourishes… Silentaria’s 2012 release is a solid piece of art: it straddles a fine line between alien and human, exotic and familiar. Standout tracks to sample: “Curtains Over Eyes,” and “What’s Real?” I would advise against downloading these tracks piecemeal — the album works best as a whole, and listening to only one track would seem to hamper the experience. If you love New Age music, WHAT’S REAL? is a must-listen.” — T. A. Daniel
“This is a well-mixed collection of instrumentals, all of which are unique. … While there are listeners that may find all synthesized music to sound the same, this album proves that there is quite a bit of diversity not only in these tracks, but in synthesized music. Most songs are quite soothing to listen to as background, either late at night or first thing in the morning. It’s the kind of music that requires several takes to appreciate. Rixa White does an impressive job with this collection of tracks.” — Connie G. Scammell
“White shows a natural talent for the art of composition which reveals itself in haunting, memorable melodies which catch your attention and hold your interest thru an album that drifts into varying moods while remaining a self-contained, cohesive unit.” — Donald Gorman
“I found it to be pretty ok. The tracks were unique, not sounding I was listening to the same song over and over. The music flowed well, with various instruments included but not in an discordant manner.” — C. Schmidt
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"And where did you learn the art of not lasting long?" "Here", you answered
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How the Meaning of a Pilgrimage Never Stops Changing (even when the walk is over)
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Have you ever had nagging doubts about whether you behaved properly at some event? Or thought back on an experience, only to realize you now think about it in an entirely different way than you once did? It can happen in pilgrimages too. It was enlightening to check back with Ásta Camilla Gylfadóttir about our 2016 trek with her and a group of other Icelanders from Bær to Skálholt. I’ve been worried that with our English-language needs and our massive tourist luggage we eight Canadians “spoiled it” for the Icelanders that year. But for Milla, our walk is only a bright memory. For her, the fact that there were Canadians along on the Pílagrimar only made it better. I can’t tell you how liberating our recent Zoom chat turned out to be.
Which makes me realize once again that there are many parts to a walking pilgrimage: the journey is only one of them. A big part of any pilgrimage is narrative: the stories that gave rise to the pilgrimage (at Lourdes, for instance, the Marian appearance to Bernadette), but also the stories that come out of the experience of the pilgrims. Like the dozens of crutches left in Brother André’s chapel at St Joseph’s Oratory, Montreal, or the hundreds of pilgrim blogs, videos, books, and poems arising from the Camino de Santiago in Spain, these later stories “layer on” to the original narratives, making the original journeys richer, more complex, and more about the present. A pilgrimage stays ever-present – and ever meaningful – in its re-telling and sharing. For that I’m thankful.
My pilgrimage podcast is now available on Spotify and on TuneIn, as well as Apple Podcasts (some episodes missing) and it’s hosted on Podbean!
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Meeting Saint Clare on the way to Holy Island
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I just posted the second episode in my podcast series “Pilgrimage Stories from Up and Down the Staircase”! In these 20 minutes you come along for the first part of the walk along the St. Cuthbert Way from Melrose Scotland to Holy Island, England. You’ll meet Chris and Clare, and find out why she’s Saint Clare, to me. I hope you enjoy the show, which you can find on Podbean here, and on Apple podcasts, here!
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Pilgrimage Stories From Up and Down the Staircase
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How do you walk a pilgrimage during these months of restricted travel? I’ve been walking up and down my staircase in Nottingham England, and dreaming of pilgrimages past! To share those stories I’m releasing my first-ever podcast, “Pilgrimage Stories from Up and Down the Staircase.” Each episode features a different trail, or a different character I’ve met. I’ll introduce you to enthralling paths in Norway, Scotland, England, Iceland, Canada and Indigenous territories, and provide some of the resources you’ll need to walk them. All the while I’ll be telling the stories of the fascinating individuals I’ve walked with and met along the way, and sharing snatches of our conversations, songs, and experiences.
Thursday, July 30, 2020, at 5 pm Montreal time, I’m releasing the first episode: “Walking the St Olav Way.” In the 17-minute episode you’ll hear snatches of our struggle up and down mountains and jumping late-spring run-off streams and boggy marshes. You’ll meet a friendly Norwegian border agent and a marathon German pilgrim struggling to understand his life. You’ll sit with us in rustic Budsjord Gård and hear fellow pilgrim Kathryn singing as we walked. I hope you’ll listen in to this first episode, and to the others as they come out every Thursday! The series “Pilgrimage Stories from Up and Down the Staircase” will be available wherever you find your podcasts.
To find out more about St Olav before listening to the episode, why not check out some of these resources?
The official St Olav website, which you can find here, is a wealth of beautiful images and practical info (look for the English-language option)
In 2011, Alison Raju wrote The Pilgrim Guide to Trondheim, available at this website.
For my article about the history of the Trail and its modern-day recovery as well as some photos of our 2013 trek, see the International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, here.
For an article about the health benefits of walking the St Olav Way, written by a Norwegian scholar of pilgrimage in the same journal, see this link.
I’m looking forward to sharing my experiences with you on the “Pilgrimage Stories From Up and Down the Staircase” podcast!
Tags Concordia University, International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, Matthew Anderson, Matthew R. Anderson, Norway, pilgrim, Pilgrimage, Pilgrimage Stories From Up and Down the Staircase, pilgrimage studies, pilgrims, podcast, St Olav, St Olav Way, St. Olaf, St. Olaf Way, St. Olav Weg, travel, trekking, Trondheim, walking
Sergeant Davis & Corner Gas
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Lorne Cardinal as Sergeant Davis Quinton of Dog River SK
Mostly because I haven’t owned a television in years, it’s taken me this long to get around to watching Corner Gas. I grew up in southern Saskatchewan. That alone should have made me an instant fan of the idyllic, nothing-happens-but-life comedy set in small-town Dog River (Rouleau) SK. It’s only now, holed up for the pandemic in a rental place in England with a flat-screen TV and a subscription to Amazon Prime, that we’re watching the six seasons of the CTV hit that first aired in 2004, produced by and starring Brent Butt.
There are no spoiler alerts in what I’m about to say. I haven’t seen the whole series yet, so I might be surprised by what’s to come. But so far, I love the show. It’s fun – and funny. It’s also tweaking my academic side. As a non-Indigenous person and a Canadian, I’m watching Corner Gas while at the same time working on several academic articles and peer reviews about decolonizing settler attitudes. I can’t help paying special attention to two characters in the show, Sergeant Davis Quinton, played by Lorne Cardinal, an award-winning Nêhiyaw (Cree) actor, and Paul Kinistino, owner of the Dog River Hotel and Bar. The latter was played first by playwright and actor Mark Dieter of Peepeekisis First Nation, and later replaced by the character of Phil Kinistino (played by Erroll Kinistino of Ochapowace First Nation). The last few episodes I’ve seen have been especially fun for the nuance and playfulness Cardinal is bringing to the character of Davis, who is becoming one of my series favourites.
In an article in the Anishinabek News, Keith Corbiere describes how as an Indigenous viewer the character of Sergeant Davis Quinton offered him a role-model different from the Hollywood trope of the stoic, silent “screen Indian.” From my non-Indigenous perspective I can add that Davis equally subverts the “strong silent cop” trope I grew up with as the son of a one-time small-town police officer in Swift Current, just down the highway from Rouleau. As an academic, I’m intrigued by the choice made by Butt to cast the roles of Dog River’s police officer and hotel/tavern owner with Indigenous actors. Perhaps this was accidental, but I doubt it. It strikes me as subversive, and positive. As Butt would also have experienced, in the small prairie towns in which I grew up both those roles were more often in conflict with Indigenous persons than embodied by them.
So far at least, Corner Gas never mentions the Indigeneity of two of its major characters, and occasionally of extras in the crowd scenes. It seems intent on a “normalization” of Indigenous presence in the fictional Dog River. As Cardinal said in an interview in 2004 in Windspeaker: “you don’t hear the flute or the eagle scream when I come onto the screen.” In a novel I’m putting the finishing touches on, I try in a similar way to incorporate the Wəlastəkwewiyik (or Maliseet) peoples of the St-Lawrence without focusing on them, normalizing the positive interactions between non-Indigenous characters and the Maliseet, and so tacitly recognizing Indigenous resurgence and presence.
In a quick library search and again on Google I found almost no reference to Corner Gas in relation to Indigenous issues. It would be interesting to know whether Indigenous actors, directors, and producers feel the historic sitcom’s portrayal of active Indigenous presence in southern Saskatchewan/Treaty Four territory is a positive step in decolonizing our Canadian attitudes, or a utopian portrayal of harmony that is ultimately troublesome to real-life 21st-century concerns…especially when Indigenous groups were “cleared” from those plains by Canadian government action in the 1870s. I imagine Lorne Cardinal has some thoughts on that. In the meantime, during this Covid-19 outbreak and in a time of social-distancing, I’m enjoying being a late-comer to Corner Gas’s fan-base.
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Aware-Settler Exegesis
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Trying to bring one’s worlds together is the work of a lifetime, as fulfilling as it is challenging. I’m a biblical studies scholar interested in earliest Christianity and late Second-Temple Judaism. I research pilgrimage and journey, and try to walk paths and learn about the Land wherever I am. I’m also a Canadian trying to face some of the injustices against Indigenous peoples which created and help sustain my country. I’ve learned a lot, and I’m still learning, from First Nation and Métis friends, and from reading Cree, Métis, Maori, Haudenosaunee, and Anishinaabe authors and scholars.
Out of this mix comes this reflection on reading the Bible through an “Aware-Settler” lens. If you’d like to know more about my own work on this, you can find the full academic paper published by Journal of Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies here: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:26771/
If you’d like to know more about my sources, a Cree scholar whose methods have been of great help to me is Margaret Kovach Sakewew p’sim iskwew and her book: Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009). I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Here is a film (a powerpoint with voice-over) about “Aware-Settler Biblical Scholarship.” My apologies that the sound for the first slide has somehow been cut off – it was simply me introducing myself as from Concordia University, Montreal, and a research associate at University of Nottingham, UK. If you listen hard enough, there’s also a cat and a train making an appearance in the background.
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The Concordian covers our Kahnawà:ke Territorial Recognition walk
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For some great photos and the reportage of these four students who walked part of the way with us, click on the link below… (and be sure to watch the very short video!)
Physical recognition of the land: A pilgrimage to Montreal
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Kahnawà:ke to Montreal Walk, 2019!
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Last Saturday, October 26, a group of eleven, mostly Settler Canadians, walked the Seaway between 25-30 km from Kahnawà:ke’s Cultural Centre to Montreal. I’m a Settler scholar from Treaty Four territory, and I planned this walk as a “bodily territorial acknowledgement,” in preparation for our Theology in the City Conference at Concordia this week. We pilgrims were a mixed group – a Buddhist monk, two professors, two undergraduate students, a doctoral student, and a writer! With the knowledge and approval of the Traditional Longhouse of the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawà:ke, we began with a smudge led by Dr Christine Jamieson (Interior Salish – Boothroyd Nation) – Christine teaches Indigenous spirituality in our Dept of Theological Studies. Then we were off! We were blessed by the nicest day of the week: sunny, dry, and warm. We were enthusiastic walkers who made good time, and were back in Montreal by supper. I’m thankful for the good conversations and quiet moments of beauty and contemplation along the way. Thanks also to the enthusiastic reporters from the Concordian, led by Jad Abukasm, who walked the first leg with us and enjoyed breakfast at our table at the Sunnyside Diner (formerly Friendly’s) in Kahnawà:ke!
(all photos Matthew R. Anderson)
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In the footsteps of a missing saint…
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Tomorrow, September 16, is the feast day of Saint Ninian. In July, together with Christine Ramsay, Ken Wilson, and Sara Parks, I walked the Whithorn Way in Scotland, the medieval Royal pilgrimage route to St Ninian. To honour Saint Ninian Day here’s a short video of that pilgrimage!
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Like Being There
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Matthew Seeking Guidance
See this stuffed prairie dog? Apparently, it has a name: “Matthew”. I just received photos of this mascot all along the route of the Humboldt-Fort Carleton Trail Walk in 2019. Each of them with cute little captions. In 2015, Hugh Henry and I began this tradition by trekking the 350-km Traders’ Road, or North-West Mounted Police Patrol Trail (NWMPT) in Treaty 4 Territory, SW Sask. It was likely the first time the trail had been walked in over a century.
“Matthew in the Bull’s Eye”
In 2017 we walked the Swift Current to Battleford Trail, another 350 km; near Battleford there were lots of issues with access and trespassing (see above). In 2018 we walked the Frenchman’s Trail, from Mortlach to Gravelbourg. I was surprised that there was a Welsh couple serving Fish’n’Chips in Mortlach (see photo below).
Matthew Passed Out
This year, Hugh and the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society (SHFS) planned a journey from Humboldt to Fort Carleton. I’m still in England; this was the first year I just couldn’t make it. No country bars and pool-tables for me this August. But apparently I was there in spirit.
Rack-em Up Matthew
If you’d like to read more about the walk they took – without me – you can read a great day-by-day description (I did) on Ken Wilson’s blog at https://readingandwalking.wordpress.com/.
Matthew: medical distress
The photo I found the funniest is just above. I had quite a bit of foot trouble on the way to Battleford in 2017, culminating in a full-on leg infection. I was using duct-tape for my blisters, in the vain hope it can fix EVERY problem! Live and learn! Mostly, I’m thankful for good friends and for being remembered on a pilgrimage I couldn’t walk. They knew I was thinking about them. And how wonderful, to be thought of in return.
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The Mansefield B&B, Whithorn
Pilgrimage has two directions. At least, usually it does: Sara Terreault can explain better than me how the ancient Irish (Insular) monks went on peregrinations or wanderings with no intention of returning home. But for the rest of us, to every “there,” there is usually a “back again.” Thank goodness! Whithorn said goodbye with a noisy overnight storm that made me get up to close my window against the sideways rain, then clearing and becoming coyly sunny and warm just as we left. Above is our view from breakfast in the Mansefield Inn. It was once the parsonage to the church converted into a Gulf gas station and garage (below). Fortunately, the conversion of the parsonage was a better job.
Free Church Gas Pumps
The Steam Packet Inn, Isle of Whithorn
The folks here are rightly proud of where they live. In our 45 minute taxi to the closest train, the driver told story after story, some of which I can repeat, then briefly turned off the taxi’s meter to take us a few hundred yards off-route to see Kennedy Castle. Once on the train, Ken, Christine, and I headed north to Glasgow. My son Daniel once told me how strange it felt to see a pilgrimage “undone” by being in a motorized vehicle heading back to the starting point. I liked seeing some of the sights again from our Scottish Railway car, including these children at one junction waving at the train.
waving at the train as we made our way home
There were unmarked grassy places along the coast where courageous Scots were drying out tents, and I wondered if these were examples of the “Right of Responsible Access.”
Glasgow Central Train Station
Glasgow Central Station is one of those beautiful, soaring Victorian train stations. We dropped off Ken and Christine’s things, then they accompanied me to the bus station to catch my bus to the airport. On the way we stopped for tea at a replica tearoom done up in the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow’s famous early 20th century architect. Now I’m waiting to board a prop plane back to East Midlands.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (or at least a tea-room dedicated to him)
saying goodbye at the bus station
Can one really say that they get to know a place in a short week, even while walking? We covered 120 km, more or less. We saw a lot of mud and stones, beached jellyfish and sheep and cattle and dark woods, barley fields and brambles. Walking is different from seeing land from a train. But both, as Ken reminded me, are different from actually spending time, which is how you make an “anywhere” a “somewhere.” It’s partly by telling stories, and remembering, that we create a sense of place. So that’s the next task for me, as a pilgrim returning from the Whithorn Way. I was happy to share Christine and Ken’s company throughout this long walk. PS: It’s interesting that, after a week researching the Right of Responsible Access in Scotland, on my return to Nottingham Google Maps led me right through a new car parking lot that SHOULD also be a footpath. I wound up exercising my right and hopping the barrier to walk through.
why did they close off a public footpath?
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July 20, 2015 10:31AM ET
Tablet Sales Taper Off But Workplace Usage Grows
By Lyndsay McGregor
As tablets shrink in size and smartphone screens get bigger, it comes as news to no one that the former has started to fall out of favor.
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Apple’s iPhone revenue surged while the company sold only 12.3 million iPads in the fourth-quarter of 2014, down from 14.1 million the previous year, and according to a new report by Forrester Research published Monday, it’s an industry-wide trend.
A recent market analysis by ABI Research echoed this conclusion, revealing that consumer tablet shipments experienced their worst decline in Q1 of 2015, falling 35 percent compared to the preceding quarter, as sales slumped for key market players, like Apple and Samsung.
But don’t sound the death knell for tablets just yet. Jeffrey Orr, senior analyst at ABI, insisted tablets are finding their niche. “That initial growth the market experienced may never happen again for tablets, but they are still a strong force in the market,” he continued.
Forrester’s findings told a similar tale, reporting that the future of tablets lies in the business world, where company-owned tablets are growing at a much faster rate than the overall market. The study pointed out more than half of employees use a tablet for work purposes at least once a week and that 29 percent of employers provide tablets to use on the job.
In fact, research firm Gartner recently predicted half of all employers will require workers to supply their own mobile devices for work purposes by 2017. And with the likes of Multimedia Plus (the technology company behind the customizable video training app, QuizScore, used by Coach and Brooks Brothers) increasingly coming to the fore, it’s not hard to understand why Forrester anticipates tablets will continue to grow in importance over the next five years.
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7 Common Misconceptions About SMS Marketing
Alfredo Salked • 3 min read
Why do some marketers fail to see SMS as a calculated and worthwhile investment? Let's debunk misconceptions that can hinder marketing campaigns.
According to the Pew Research Center, more than 95% of Americans own cell phones and, as of 2018, one-in-five Americans are considered to be “smartphone dependent.” These statistics have wildly increased from the first study done just seven years ago when only 35% of Americans owned cell phones. And it’s expected that they will continue to grow.
So, what’s holding businesses back from taking advantage of text message marketing? We’ve set out to clear up a handful of the common misconceptions about SMS marketing and get marketers back on track.
1. It’s intrusive.
This seems to be the first myth that marketers face—the idea that SMS marketing is intrusive. But SMS marketing is actually permission- and consumer-friendly. Given the legalese and policies protecting users’ privacy, customers choose to opt-in and receive text messages from businesses.
That means every text message that’s sent out is sent to a person who wants to hear from a company. They are actively wanting to engage with the brand, and see what companies have to say.
2. It’s ineffective.
In a world of overstuffed inboxes and unseen social media channels, it’s understandable to be wary of ineffective messaging. But text messages actually experience a whopping 98% open rate with generous click-thrus and conversions. This compares to email which, according to Mailchimp, faces around a peak open rate of 27% and a dismal 14.9% at the lowest. SMS marketing makes a brand’s content count.
3. It’s limiting.
Many marketers sweat every space and concern themselves with every character. But, in this fast-paced, just-give-me-the-gist world, consumers tend to prefer the short and sweet of it. A quicker message forces brands to get to the point sooner and that tends to hold the interest of the reader for longer.
Plus, SMS marketing isn’t only about 160 characters anymore. Extended messaging allows for up to 306 characters, so the messaging doesn’t have to be about pick-and-choose. It can be crafted and informative while still exercising some brevity.
Even better, MMS marketing lets you send up to 1,600 characters and include photos directly in the message.
4. It’s complicated.
The simplicity of the message debunked above and set aside—there are some that seem to think setting up and managing an SMS marketing campaign is too complicated. But it’s actually an easy process when using the right company, software and features.
Features like threaded conversations, autoresponders and a simple, easy-to-use interface are must-haves when using text message marketing, but these features are easy to find with a good SMS marketing platform. And they make a world of difference.
5. It’s impersonal.
Although commonly misconstrued as mass marketing, SMS marketing is actually quite easy to tailor to any given audience. Rather than send a dozen vague texts to everyone, marketers can use features like data collection to find out what their consumers are interested in and segment messaging from there. That way every message is sent with intent.
6. It’s untrackable.
Without knowing the extent to which SMS marketing goes, brands tend to draw a quick conclusion that the system is outdated and, therefore, won’t yield the same high-tech results and numbers they’re used to seeing. Charts, graphs—the works.
But through link tracking, use of unique keywords and other intricate metrics, seeing the results is simple. And, as mentioned about, just about guaranteed.
7. It’s expensive.
Given the number of big businesses using SMS marketing to help promote their products, it’s no surprise that pricing poses a problem. But text messaging marketing actually isn’t expensive. In fact, SimpleTexting offers a 14-day free trial that allows businesses to sample our user-friendly platform and get their campaigns off the ground with the support of our staff.
Seriously—no obligations or credit cards. Ready to get started? Sign up here.
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Graduate Frequently Asked Questions
Who can I contact if I have questions about a specific program?
Please contact the SEHD graduate studies general inquiries line at 305.284.SEHD (7343) or complete the SEHD Graduate Inquiry Form.
Should you wish to directly contact the Program Director, send them a message at their email address listed here. For Inquiries concerning the doctoral program in Teaching and Learning, please contact Dr. Batya Elbaum directly at elbaum@miami.edu.
Applications are submitted online at this link.
Who should I ask to provide Letters of Recommendation?
Letters of recommendations should speak on your academic strengths; therefore, it is appropriate to ask professors and advisors for recommendations. If you have not attended school in a while and are not in contact with past professors or advisors, letters of recommendations from employment supervisors may be accepted. There is no specific combination of the above that is required. Contact information for recommenders should be submitted online via the CollegeNet applications system. Recommenders will then be notified via email that you have requested a recommendation as part of the application requirement. Recommenders can complete the online questionnaire and attach a letter.
Recommendations from friends are not suitable.
When is the deadline for applications?
Some programs admit new graduate students on a rolling basis and others only for the fall semester. For Master of Science in Education (MSED) or Master of Science in Athletic Training (MSAT) application deadlines, visit the Masters Application Process webpage. For Doctor of Philosophy (PHD) or Doctor of Education (EDD) application deadlines, visit the Doctoral Application Process webpage.
What should be included in the Statement of Purpose and Professional Goals?
The statement is the applicant’s opportunity to discuss why they chose to apply to one of the graduate programs in the School of Education and Human Development at UM, what they hope to accomplish while studying in the School, and what goals they would ultimately like to reach once they have completed their program of choice. This is also the place to discuss any special issues that might have had an impact on your academic career or test scores, and to share whatever makes you stand out as an outstanding candidate for the program.
What is the minimum GPA for admission into your programs?
A minimum GPA of 3.0.
What is the length of your programs?
The length of the program may vary depending on the program.
Master degree programs may take an average of 1 to 3 years to complete.
Doctoral degree programs may take an average of 3 to 5 years to complete depending on prior degree award.
The GRE is the Graduate Record Exam. We require the GRE revised General Test which features questions in Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, and Analytical Writing. We look for a minimum combined verbal and quantitative score of 297. GRE test scores are only valid for five years; if you have taken the GRE earlier and your scores are older than five years, you will need to retake the GRE. You will know your verbal and quantitative scores immediately after completing the exam; however, for review of your application we need official GRE scores sent directly to us from ETS. For more information about the GRE, please visit their website at http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/about.
Is the GRE required?
Some graduate programs require the GRE, and others do not. Consult the Program Director directly for GRE minimum requirements or send an inquiry to soegradadmissions@miami.edu
What is the institution code for the GRE and TOEFL?
The institution code for the GRE and TOEFL is 5815.
What is the departmental code for the GRE and TOEFL?
Applied Learning Sciences, M.S.Ed. & Ed.D.: 0702
Athletic Training, M.S.AT.: 0629
Bilingual/Biliteracy Development in Spanish, M.S.Ed.: 3907
Community and Social Change, M.S.Ed.: 2005
Community Well-Being, Ph.D.: 2005
Counseling in Marriage and Family Therapy, M.S.Ed.: 2005
Counseling Psychology, Ph.D.: 2005
Education and Social Change, M.S.Ed.: 3601
Exercise Physiology, M.S.Ed & Ph.D.: 0629
Higher Education Leadership, Ed.D.: 3503
Higher Education Administration, M.S.Ed.: 3503
Mental Health Counseling, M.S.Ed.: 2005
Nutrition for Health and Human Performance, M.S.Ed.: 0629
Research, Measurement and Evaluation, M.S.Ed & Ph.D.: 3401
Special Education, M.S.Ed : 3705
Sport Administration, M.S.Ed.: 0629
Strength and Conditioning, M.S.Ed.: 0629
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), M.S.Ed.: 3907
Teaching and Learning, Ph.D. Concentrations:
Language and Literacy Learning in Multilingual Settings: 3902
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM): 0799
Special Education: 3705
What Graduate Programs does the School of Education and Human Development offer?
Click here for a list of SEHD graduate programs.
What are your application requirements?
You can find application requirements for all Master of Science in Education degree programs here.
You can find application requirements for the Master of Science in Athletic Training degree program here.
Click the doctoral program below to be directed to its application requirement page.
Applied Learning Sciences, EdD
Community Well-Being, PhD
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Exercise Physiology, PhD
Higher Education Leadership, EdD
Measurement, Statistics, and Data Analytics, PhD
Teaching and Learning, PhD:
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Language and Literacy Learning in Multilingual Settings
Are official transcripts required?
Yes, official transcripts from all institutions attended are required. Even if courses that you took from one school appear on another school’s transcript, official transcripts from both schools must be received.
We will not review a file until all transcripts are included in the application. Transcripts issued to students are not acceptable. Official transcripts must come directly from the institution.
All international transcripts are to be evaluated by an international credentialing evaluation service. SEHD applicants have used SpanTran, Josef Silny and Associates, Inc. and World Education Services, Inc. Click here to see additional university approved international credential evaluation services.
International applicants should also visit our international applicant’s website for all documents requirements. We request international students to apply and submit all transcripts early for timely decision-making so that there is sufficient time for paperwork related to obtaining a visa if the student is admitted.
Send electronic transcript (eScripts) to:
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Who should I contact for questions related to my application status and process?
Contact Graduate Admissions Office at 305-284-2167 or soegradadmissions@miami.edu.
Contact information for the Graduate Admissions Office:
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What is the cost of tuition?
Follow the link to view graduate tuition and fees.
International students who are accepted into the graduate programs will be required to submit an original bank letter of financial stability in the amount to cover all expenses for the first year of study.
Where can I find information about financial assistance?
Please visit the Office of Graduate Professional Financial Assistance website for information on types of loans and how to apply for aid.
Email: gradprof.finaid@miami.edu
What are the English proficiency requirements?
International applicants are required to submit official English proficiency exam scores. We accept the TOEFL and IELTS. We look for a minimum of 90 on the TOEFL and 7.0 for the IELTS. These scores are valid only for two years; if you have taken the test earlier and your scores are older than two years, you will need to retake the test. For more information regarding the TOEFL, please visit this link. For more information regarding the IELTS, please visit this link.
International students who have received a college degree from a U.S. institution are exempt from taking the TOEFL or IELTS. International students whose first language is English may be exempt from taking the TOEFL or IELTS. Studying English at a U.S. institution is not necessarily sufficient to waive the TOEFL or IELTS requirement.
Applicants holding an undergraduate or graduate degree from an academic institution within the United States or one of the following English-speaking countries are not required to take the TOEFL/IELTS examination:
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Most of our master degree programs allow students to take classes on a part-time basis. The doctoral program is only for full-time students.
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Can I transfer credits to your master’s programs?
Students can transfer up to 6 credits into a 30-credit program and up to 9 credits into a 36-credit program, but the following conditions will apply:
Credits with grades of “B-” or less cannot be transferred.
Credits for courses over 6 years old, or taken by extension, cannot be transferred.
Credits that have been counted toward another degree cannot be transferred.
In addition, official transcripts must be submitted to transfer credits, and transferred credits will not be calculated into the University of Miami GPA.
When is the New Graduate Student Orientation?
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Bala Wunti: An epitome of Philanthropist
Sky Daily
By Khalid Ahmad
In every society, there exist a chosen few people whose optimum concern is seeing the progress and the betterment of their people. These sort of people are like a golden fish stands out of many to make difference by going to every extent to contribute greatly financially and intellectually towards improving the lives of the poor and the needy. With these type of people, hope for a better society must be alive!
Without prejudice, In view of the aforementioned, this foundation that is rendering services to orphans and vulnerable children, under the leadership of Jibrin Onduty finds it necessary to seize this opportunity to register its warmest appreciation to one of the illustrious sons of Bauchi, in person of Dr. Bala Wunti, for the indefatigably selfless services he has been rendering to humanity, for his uncommon generosity that is born out of passion and compassion in helping the helpless. Indeed, Bala Wunti and philanthropy can be described to be inseparable concepts of rather twin brothers.
Dr. Bala Wunti is an idol to proteges, whose topmost priority is to ensure that he nurtures young capable hands that will rise and shine beyond his generation and the youth who will be good ambassadors of society. He always takes an avid interest in financial support that’s why his track record in youth empowerment in Bauchi State is second to none.
As the saying no society can develop beyond the level if its education, In his relentless efforts towards ensuring a brightest future of youth and a developed society, Bala Wunti has built a number of schools across Bauchi State and sponsored quite a number of students to study different courses in various prestigious institutions within and outside Nigeria, with a view to addressing the challenge of high rate of illitracy Bauchi State found itself into. This is exactly the type of support the society hopes and deserves, mainly because for a society to be strong enough to be recognized as a socially responsible, there must be people who are educated. In this, without doubt, Dr. Bala Wunti deserves accolades.
His hands of gesture does not restrict to Youth alone but cut across ages. Considering the plight of people during the time of Ramadan, Dr. Bala relentlessly provided a widespread family with a remarkable quantity of food to ease the hardship they might go through. And he ensured that he had handled the distribution of the food to trustworthy people that is why the aim was achieved.
Furthermore, although, his spiritual contributions is not something I should talk about because is between him and his creator, I feel compelled to tell the world so that other people will emulate. Dr. Wunti beside dozens of masjeeds he built, was the person who renovated Bauchi central mosque Eid ground to the greatest standard it is now. He has completely demolished Sheik Dahiru Usman Bauchi’s Jumata’at mosque and is currently building a modern one. This is among other things he is doing underground out of his unadulterated godliness.
In terms of devotion to duty, Dr. Bala Wunti whenever is assigned to do any task, he does it efficiently and effectively to the best of his ability. This is not unconnected with why his boss, Maimala Kyari is proud of him and is giving him more opportunities to further his services to the nation and humanity by extension.
Dr. Bala Wunti is equally always proud his boss, Maimala Kyari for having faith in him and for finding him trustworthy. The people of Bauchi are as well proud that Dr. Bala is justifying the confidence reposed in him. His uncommon achievements is worthy of Commendation and emulation.
This foundation which focuses its activity on rendering services to orphans is grateful and appreciative to Dr. Bala Wunti for always being at its disposal when the need arises; he helps day and night. This is nothing but the intensity of his honesthearted personality, patriotism and sense of responsibility.
The youtth in Bauchi are proud to have had a patriotic young man, Jibrin Onduty, leading the foundation with all it requires. A man whose struggles in Bala Wunti’s philanthropic activity is second to none.
For Jibrin Onduty’s patriotism, sense of generosity and sociability, the youth are proud of him and Bala Wunti should worry not as Onduty is always a trustworthy representative.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Sky Daily
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Buhari, Emefiele, others for virtual CIBN banking, finance conference
Muhammad Muhammad
President Muhammadu Buhari, among over 2,500 participants across the globe, are expected to participate in a virtual Banking and Finance Conference being organised by the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).
Mr Patrick Akinwuntan, Chairman, Consultative Committee of 13h Annual Banking and Finance Conference and MD/CEO, Ecobank Nigeria, made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday in Lagos.
Akinwuntan said that the conference with the theme: “Facilitating a Sustainable Future: The Role of Banking and Finance” will hold on Sept.15 and Sept. 16.
According to him, the Chief Host of the conference would be Mr Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and Mr Bayo Olugbemi, CIBN President would be the host.
“In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s edition of the conference will be executed using the hybrid of virtual and physical platforms, with strict adherence to the preventive protocols against the spread of the pandemic.
“While over 2,500 participants across the globe are expected to participate virtually, there will be two physical locations for the conference,’’ Akinwuntan stated.
He said that the Congress Hall, Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja and the Ijewere Hall of the Bankers House, Victoria Island, Lagos would be locations for the conference.
According to him, the conference will feature five Business and two Break-out sessions.
It will provide participants a platform to connect with other professionals and industry stakeholders across the world.
The conference chairman further said that the conference would brainstorm on strategic issues that are critical to building a sound and sustainable financial ecosystem and economy.
Akinwuntan said the resolutions at the event would be made available to relevant stakeholders and policy makers to enable them reappraise and align their operations and strategies in line with global best practices.
Dignitaries expected at the event are President Muhammadu Buhari, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the Republic of Ghana and Nigeria’s Senate President, Ahmed Lawan.
House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Mr Mohammed Musa, FCT Minister, are also expected among others.
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2 Ways to Support the Family of Marie Journey
By Jeremy Roberts, SPHR July 9, 2014 July 23, 2015
Marie Journey, a long-time SourceCon attendee and supporter, passed away last month. Many people in the recruiting community have asked how they can help.
Marie’s family set up a trust fund for her son, Bear, which will be used for his college education. The ERE Foundation will be making a donation.
For others interested in contributing, see the following note from Marie’s mother with information about how to make a donation to the trust.
Thank you for your interest in donations to the Julian Alexander Yee Trust Fund aka Bear (College Education)
All donations are tax deductible and you will receive a separate receipt by mail for filing with your year end taxes, if sent by check or PayPal.
Please make check payable to:
Share The Joy Incorporated.
2853 Avenida De Soto
All donations will be placed in the Trust for Paula Marie Journey’s son.This is a non-profit charity in the state of Florida www.sunbiz.org – Home. For anyone who would like to donate by Paypal please send to her brother’s (Pete Journey) Paypal account: lowjacked74@hotmail.com.”
On another note, Bill Boorman has announced that he is hosting a sourcing event in the UK in August. All proceeds from the event will be donated to Bear’s trust fund. Make a donation and get your ticket here.
Jeremy Roberts, SPHR
Jeremy Roberts, SPHR, is VP, Customer Experience at HiringSolved. He is the previous Editor of SourceCon. Prior to joining the ERE Media team, he spent over a decade working as a recruiter, sourcer, and sourcing manager. This time was spent in diverse environments, including third party agency settings (retained and contingent), recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) providers, and internal corporate HR departments. His previous employers include the MHA Group, Ajilon Finance, Korn Ferry Futurestep, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, and Randstad Sourceright, US. He resides in Corinth, TX with his wife and 3 children.
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Home›Local›City committee discusses ball field maintenance contract
City committee discusses ball field maintenance contract
School district likes price, but favors 5-year agreement
BY KEVIN BONESKE
REPORTER/PHOTOGRAPHER
The price is right for the School District of Rhinelander to enter into a contract with the city of Rhinelander to use the city’s ball fields at Pioneer Park, Hodag Park and West Park, but the district wants an agreement to extend beyond next year.
The city’s Parks, Buildings and Grounds Committee discussed a possible one-year contract with the school district at Monday’s meeting with district activities director Brian Paulson present.
Committee chairperson Sherrie Belliveau said a flat fee of $1,525 for the 2017 softball and baseball season did not take into account the city’s expense for mowing the fields, which would have to be done whether or not they would be used by the school district.
“I think absolutely the prices were fair,” said Paulson, who noted the amount of the contract was reached through recent negotiations between the city and school district.
Brian Paulson
The school district this past spring used Hodag Park for baseball games and Pioneer Park to play softball games. Paulson said “a lot of fill” would have to be hauled in to have ball fields behind the high school, where the ground is wet in the spring. He noted the district would like to make a long-term commitment to use the city’s fields.
“With that being said, we’re on board with the price, but we’re asking for a five-year commitment for a long-term plan,” Paulson said. “After four years, we will ask to renew the plan for the following years.”
Earlier this year, a proposal backed by supporters of constructing a second softball field at Pioneer Park, where boards for an ice rink used to be located, brought to light that the school district didn’t have a current written agreement with the city for using the existing softball field, though the district was still paying the city a fee for each time a game was held there, with the last contract in effect for 2003.
Paulson said raising the fee to $1,525 annually for the district to use the city’s ball fields is “substantially a nice increase.”
“It is justified, but I feel like we’re meeting some of your needs,” he said. “I’m hoping you’ll work with us on a five-year plan.”
When asked by Belliveau as to possible annual increases in the city’s expenses to maintain and set up the fields for use by the district under a five-year agreement, Paulson suggested reviewing the $1,525 yearly flat fee in the event those expenses rose above 5 percent annually.
“We’re only going to review this amount if there would be that substantial of an increase,” Paulson said. “So, if it’s below that, we wouldn’t come back to the table.”
Committee members then agreed to refer the proposed agreement to city attorney Carrie Miljevich to put together a multi-year contract.
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Sunrise Coast Region
Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge
Picnic Table © stateparks.com
It is always a great day for a picnic in the park.
(lat:45.0722 lon:-67.2943)
Moosehorn is one of the northern most national wildlife refuges in the Atlantic Flyway, a migratory route that follows the eastern coast of North America. The refuge provides important feeding and nesting habitat for many bird species, including waterfowl. Wading birds, shorebirds, upland game birds, songbirds, and birds of prey.
The refuge consists of two divisions. The Baring Division covers 20,016 acres and is located off U.S. Route 1, southwest of Calais. The 8,735 acre Edmunds Division is between Dennysville and Whiting on U.S. Route 1 and borders the tidal waters of Cobscook Bay. Each division contains a National Wilderness Area, thousands of acres managed to preserve their wild character for future generation.
The refuge's landscape is varied, with rolling hills, large ledge outcrops, streams, lakes, bogs, and marshes. A northern hardwood forest of aspen, maple, birch, spruce and fir dominates the upland. Scattered stands of majestic white pine are common. The Edmunds Division boasts several miles of rocky shoreline where tidal fluctuations of up to 24 feet occur twice a day.
Located in Washington County, it is here that Americans first greet the morning sun, and local citizens are proud of its nickname "Sunrise County". It was also here, in 1604, that the explorers Sieur DeMonts and Champlain celebrated the first Christmas in the New World.
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June 26 Remembering last July 4 by Montie
We had a great time in Eastport last year, we stayed in Seaview Campground. The 4th of July celebration was great, I do wish you had not scheduled the storm the next day. We will be back I hope someday and it will be another July 4.
January 26 Great spot by Ron McGuire
Great spot to birdwatch, walk and bike, ski and snowshoe in the winter.
January 31 Our binoculars and our love of nature by loothig
My husband and I visit every year. We pull over on the side of the road and just sit there for hours with our binoculars and our love of nature.
40 South Edmunds Road
Edmunds township, ME
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March 04, 2020 Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launches Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) Phase-II
The Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched Phase II of Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) [SBM (G)] at a National Dissemination and Consultation workshop here today. He was joined by the Union Minister of State for Jal Shakti and Social Justice & Empowerment, Shri Rattan Lal Kataria, Secretary, Department of Dri...
February 19, 2020 Cabinet approves Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) Phase-II
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has approved the Phase II of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) [SBM (G)] till 2024-25, which will focus on Open Defecation Free Plus (ODF Plus), which includes ODF sustainability and Solid and Liquid Waste Management (SLWM). The program will also work towards ensuring that ...
February 18, 2020 Annual Review Meeting of Swachh Iconic Places (SIP) at Baidyanath Dham Deoghar, Jharkhand
The 3rd Annual Review meeting on Swachh Iconic Places (SIP) was held today at Baidyanath Dham Deoghar, Jharkhand. The SIP is the brainchild of the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and is coordinated by the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS), Ministry of Jal Shakti under the Swachh Bharat Mission. Thirty Swachh Iconic Places ha...
January 28, 2020 Jal Jeevan Mission tableau awarded as the best tableau in Republic Day Parade 2020
The magnificent tableau of the Ministry of Jal Shakti, highlighting the Government’s new initiative ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’ which aims at providing Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) to every rural household by 2024, has been adjudged the best tableau, jointly with the NDRF tableau. Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh awarded the best tab...
January 28, 2020 Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Sadhguru advocate people’s participation in Jal Shakti Abhiyan
The Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat inaugurated the Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA) national review and workshop here today. The workshop also included a special interaction with Sadhguru, founder of Isha Foundation. The daylong workshop began with a session by the Minister and Sadhguru in the morning, and was then follow...
January 12, 2020 Aamir Khan lauds District Officials for Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen)
The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS), Ministry of Jal Shakti, organised the ODF Sustainability workshop here today, with a special session by Shri Aamir Khan (Actor and Founder, Paani Foundation). As part of the workshop, the Swachhata Darpan Awards were presented by Shri Khan to the best performing districts on key swachhata...
December 25, 2019 Prime Minister Launches Atal Bhujal Yojana
On the Birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched Atal Bhujal Yojana (ATAL JAL) and named the Strategic Tunnel under Rohtang Pass after Vajpayee, in an event held in New Delhi today.
December 25, 2019 Prime Minister releases Operational Guidelines for the implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM)
The Prime Minister released the Operational Guidelines of JJM in a function organised at Vigyan Bhawan, which is observed as Good Governance, here day. The Operational Guidelines will help various functionaries involved in the implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission.
December 24, 2019 Cabinet approves Atal Bhujal Yojana
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval for the implementation of the Atal Bhujal Yojana (ATAL JAL), a Central Sector Scheme with a total outlay of Rs.6000 crore to be implemented over a period of 5 years (2020-21 to 2024-25).
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The recently released NSS 76thround survey on “Drinking Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Housing Condition”, July-December, 2018, as a part of the report, has acknowledged respondent bias, i.e. individual households, when asked a leading question on whether they have ever received benefits from the government, not admitting that they have toilet...
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Suzanne Harper
Author of The Juliet Club, The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney, the Poppy Malone series, and more
Seeking Beauty
The Hays Code and Creativity
Quote of the Week — 03.14.16
finding story ideas everywhere
The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney
Author: Suzanne Harper
July 6, 2016 July 4, 2016 Suzanne HarperLeave a comment
Bach’s melodies — to me the most beautiful melodies in music — emerge from a tightly constructed foundation. Some people find them cold because of their perfection. But all fine works of music, dance, painting and literature are born not from vague inspiration but — as I see it in my mind’s eye — from a design as clean and spare as a house frame of New Hampshire birch. Children’s picture books are a short literary form like the sonnet. The soundness of their structure is therefore crucial — more important than in longer and more leisurely forms of writing.
Children’s author Rosemary Wells
The Well-Tempered Children’s Book
Essay published in Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children
edited by William Zinsser
July 4, 2016 Suzanne HarperLeave a comment
It is as true today as it ever was. He who seeks beauty shall find it.
Photographer Bill Cunningham
May 8, 2016 Suzanne HarperLeave a comment
Thought-provoking article by David Denby in The New Yorker that tracks how movie censorship in the 1930s led to more creativity on the part of writers and directors:
The “morals” embedded in the [Hays] Code were foolish and hypocritical, yet these semi-inane standards had an extraordinary effect. Producers, directors, and writers were forced to create sex without sex, to produce sexual tension by working around the prohibitions, extending every manner of preliminary to sex. In effect, censorship created plot, and in the process yielded one of the greatest of American film genres: thirties romantic comedy, including the dizzier versions celebrated as screwball comedy. Sex became play—even, at best, a springlike flourishing of fantasy and grace, expressed, most romantically, in the movies of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in which sex became dance and was transmuted into endless variations on the themes of seduction, submission, revolt, and happiness.
If sexual frankness disappeared, tawdriness went with it, and the old fables of domination were replaced by a new creation: the couple, two people matched in beauty and talent who enjoy each other’s company more than anything else in the world.
March 13, 2016 November 9, 2015 Suzanne Harperquote of the week, walter moselyLeave a comment
The firmament that connects readers and writers is older than the literate world; it goes all the way back to those stories that your relatives and family friends told when you were a child who saw writing as funny-looking chicken scratches on paper better suited for finger painting, when storytelling still had a voice and timbre, love and warning, a warm touch and lots of laughter.
Walter Mosely
February 29, 2016 October 4, 2015 Suzanne HarperLeave a comment
To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.
Ted Bissell
February 22, 2016 September 26, 2015 Suzanne Harperalexandre dumas, quote of the weekLeave a comment
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
February 15, 2016 November 9, 2015 Suzanne Harpere. b. white, quote of the weekLeave a comment
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. Children are…the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.
E. B. White
February 8, 2016 November 8, 2015 Suzanne Harperjorge luis borges, quote of the weekLeave a comment
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
February 1, 2016 November 9, 2015 Suzanne Harpermaya angelou, quote of the weekLeave a comment
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
January 24, 2016 November 9, 2015 Suzanne Harperquote of the week, thomas bergerLeave a comment
Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there.
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Review: Ned (Plush Duck Productions)
Posted in Theatre by Suzy Wrong
Venue: New Theatre (Newtown NSW), Dec 18 – 22, 2018
Book: Anna Lyon, Marc McIntyre
Music & Lyrics: Adam Lyon
Director: Miranda Middleton
Cast: Erin Bogart, Denzel Bruhn, Rowan Brunt, Siobhan Clifford, Sinead Cristaudo, Lincoln Elliott, Martin Everett, Jacqui Greenfield, Jodie Harris, Rob Hartley, David Hov, Josh McElroy, Courtney Powell, Marcus Rivera, Georgia Rodgers , Carmel Rodrigues, Cypriana Singh, Guy Webster
Images by Shakira Wilson
For many Australians of European descent, the legend of Ned Kelly is a crucial element in the way identity is imagined. An outlaw with a heart of gold, the anti-authoritarian myth has helped create a notion of selfhood, that persists even in these days of bourgeois ubiquity. In the new musical Ned, old stories are resurrected once again, to reinforce ideals that are at once romantic and subversive, reflecting perhaps a longing for more innocent times, or simply to offer a reminder of the kind of people Australians have, for a long time, prided ourselves to be.
The work is in many ways derivative and predictable, with form and content both proving to be risk averse, for this Broadway-style biographical drama. There might be little that feels inventive, but its ambition is certainly laudable. Peter Rubie’s lighting design provides a sense of grandeur and polish, for captivating imagery that help elevate the simple tale. Conductor Hamish Stening puts passion into the music, keeping proceedings lively and entertaining.
Leading man Joshua McElroy is suitably moody as Ned Kelly, with an imposing physical presence that comfortably seizes the limelight. Jodie Harris is excellent as the hero’s mother Ellen, strong in voice and in personality, for a powerful characterisation of the early migrant woman. The cast is generally well-rehearsed, although choreography has a tendency to be unflattering and therefore distracting.
Ned Kelly keeps returning to our consciousness, because we have a fondness for thinking that he is a good representation of who we are. It is more likely however, that Kelly stands for values we wish to possess, but that we can no longer lay claim to. Over a century has past, and we are a world away from the rough and tumble of Van Diemen’s Land. In today’s highly materialistic existences, rebels are quashed, not by ideological compromises, but by the imperious might of money.
www.plushduckproductions.com.au
Ned 2018 Plush Duck Productions
2018, drama, musical, new theatre, plush duck productions, review, sydney, theatre
Review: The Jungle (Outrage Productions)
Venue: Darlo Drama (Darlinghurst NSW), Dec 14 – 18, 2018
Playwright: Louis Nowra
Director: Glen Hamilton
Cast: Gabriela Castillo, Nicole Florio, Gaurav Kharbanda, Jo-Ann Pass, Benjamin Pierce, Timothy Rochford, Hugo Schlanger, Andrew Singh, Romney Stanton, Annelies Tjetjep, Mark Wilson
Images by RMF Photography
A jumble of scenes situated in Sydney, with people that may or may not seem familiar, constitute Louis Nowra’s The Jungle. The stories are from 1995, and sensationalist in a way that was probably trendy for the time. 23 years on, its sleaze and general naughtiness can feel slightly pretentious, but the perspective it provides of an Australian city that is not concerned with the middle class, presents an opportunity to ruminate on the changes we have undergone in just one generation. Not yet nostalgic, but certainly reflective, The Jungle reveals the banal bourgeois values that have, in a relatively short period, taken over our town.
Glen Hamilton’s direction incorporates little in terms of visual design, leaving all of the production’s theatricality to a very hyperbolic ensemble. Their energy is admirable, players such as Nicole Florio and Romney Stanton are particularly animated, and they bring a valuable verve to the stage, but there is an overall lack of nuance that prevents the show from speaking with sufficient depth. Actor Gabriela Castillo does a remarkable job of her roles, turning three hapless girls in a frequently misogynistic piece of writing, into fascinating characters with moments of palpable drama.
It is a relief to see that we are no longer who we once were, for life is change, and stagnation can be dangerous. We might be tempted to say that change does not necessarily represent improvement, but to insist that things were better in the past, is to forget the many deficiencies of yesterday. Sydney may have lost some of its romance and idealism, but for the millions who choose to live here, we choose to believe in its potentials and the bright future that we so faithfully envision. The big clean up bears a momentum that refuses to ever come to a halt, but in our hearts, the memory of a dirty, dingy town still resonates, and the spirit of that old disreputable concrete jungle keeps on pulsating.
www.thejungleplay.com
The Jungle 2018 Outrage Productions
2018, darlo drama, drama, outrage productions, play, review, sydney, theatre
Review: Crime And Punishment (Secret House)
Venue: Limelight on Oxford (Darlinghurst NSW), Dec 12 – 22, 2018
Playwright: Chris Hannan (from the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Director: Anthony Skuse
Cast: Jane Angharad, Hannah Barlow, Tim Kemp, Philippe Klaus, Beth McMullen, Madeleine Miller, James Smithers, Shan-Ree Tan, Charles Upton, Natasha Vickery
Images by Clare Hawley
When deciding to proceed with his plan for murder and robbery, Raskolvikov thinks of his actions as merely an extension of attempts to participate, in an economy he considers to be entirely utilitarian. If one is to survive the world at all costs, and if cost is always a matter of subjectivity, then the concept of morality holds no currency, in a system determined to reward the self-interested. Chris Hannan explores the implications of what might be termed human conscience in his adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime And Punishment. The protagonist wrestles with internal conflicts, emotional and intellectual, trying to escape punishment, from society and from himself.
The bleakness of Raskolvikov’s destitute existence is depicted persuasively under Anthony Skuse’s direction, whose own production design accomplishes an elegant evocation of Russia at a time we associate with the end of the Industrial Revolution, and the rise of urbanisation as we know it. Skuse’s sound design too, is an affecting element, if slightly repetitive in its rendering. Lights by Martin Kinnane bring visual interest, helpful in creating a sense of dynamism for the production. Actor James Smithers is convincing in the leading role, able to prevent us from feeling alienated, so that we stay engaged with the murderer’s narrative. Chemistry between performers can be improved for a more focused sense of storytelling, but individual characters are portrayed with good conviction.
The work posits the loss of religion as a possible equivalence to the loss of morality, thereby giving religion a great deal of credit where it may not be due. In the decades that have past since Dostoyevsky’s 1866 publication of Crime And Punishment, atheism has become a movement undeniable in its ubiquity, and secular societies have demonstrated that our capacity for upholding that which is truly righteous, has surpassed dogmatic and draconian structures that had come before.
There is no doubt that many lives have been improved by religion, but it is important that we recognise the evils that it routinely inspires and sanctions. At the end of 2018, Australian politics is abuzz with the prospect of introducing additional protections for religious practices, thereby safeguarding bigoted portions of those beliefs, and in effect, placing human rights beneath archaic doctrines. Raskolvikov killed people, not because of a loss of faith; the fact remains that the murders had taken place, in spite of all the religion being imposed upon him.
www.secrethouse.com.au
Crime And Punishment 2018 Secret House
2018, drama, limelight on oxford, play, review, secret house, sydney, theatre
Review: Don’s Party (Chippen Street Theatre)
Venue: Chippen Street Theatre (Chippendale NSW), Dec 6 – 15, 2018
Playwright: David Williamson
Director: Travis McMahon
Cast: Dominic Di Paolo, Lachlan Donnelly, Amber Dyball, Ben Hunter, Ramy Moussa. Andrew Murdoch, Katerina Papasoulis, Evan Piefke, Helen Shoobert, Rachel Slee, Kristen Zinghini
Images by Ethan Hatton-Warham
The setting is a house party in 1969 suburbia, where men are arse holes, and women are bewilderingly whiny. David Williamson’s Don’s Party, now approaching half a century old, offers a bleak look at how a modern Australia might have been imagined. The play wrestles with ideas of a progressive future, as characterised by a new social permissiveness; Don asks all his guests to bring along a pornographic object, as icebreaker or more truthfully, to disrupt the banality of his home life with Kath and their children.
The sexual revolution had begun, and down under, it appears we were deeply confused. All the women had apparently become bitches, and they are referred to in the play as such, on more than ten occasions. Wives and girlfriends were starting to have minds of their own, no doubt as a result of advancements in birth control, and according to Williamson, all of civilisation were basically going to hell in a handbasket.
As the old world disappears, what happens in Don’s Party reveals a paralysing fear of what is to come. There is little question that this attitude still prevails. It was feminism’s second wave then, and we are now in the throes of its fourth. The disquiet that accompanies the promise of equality is palpable, and Williamson’s pessimistic vision, borne out of the anxiety of a patriarchy under threat, can now be seen as pitifully limp.
Travis McMahon’s direction presents a straightforward rendition, allowing us to detect that sense of panic inherent in mid-century masculinity. The ensemble consists of actors with varying abilities, and although not particularly inventive with what they bring, each manages to locate moments of theatricality in the writing, that insist on our attention. The production lacks intellectual rigour, but it is clear that much effort has been put into manufacturing a satisfactory naturalism for their performance.
When women grow strong, our relationships have to be put through a process of reshape. Friends and family, love and sex, all face interrogation, as we learn to shift away from traditions that plainly no longer work. In Don’s Party, men are fearful and women are frustrated. They cling on to the past, unable to come to terms with the tides that push for a brighter future, a mighty force that will not tolerate the status quo.
www.chippenstreet.com
Don’s Party 2018 Chippen Street Theatre
2018, chippen street theatre, comedy, play, redfern acting studio, review, sydney, theatre
Review: The Club (Belvoir St Theatre)
Venue: Belvoir St Theatre (Surry Hills NSW), Dec 7 – 22, 2018
Director: Tessa Leong
Cast: Jude Henshall, Louisa Mignone, Ellen Steele
Images by Marnya Rothe
Hundreds of millions of dollars go through Australia’s sporting organisations, and to view the industry as wholesome and virtuous is, to put it mildly, naive. Yet, we routinely attribute our sports stars and their colleagues, with a glow of reverence, and they in turn, present an image of habitual sanctimony. The men in David Williamson’s The Club are exposed of these hypocrisies. It is a story about white boys spoilt by their talent with an olive-shaped ball, who grow into stunted adulthood, and we watch their clumsy attempts at extending the glory days beyond bygone moments on the football field.
The corrupt and inane behaviour of these self-aggrandising men provide a platform for director Tessa Leong’s discussion of sexism and toxic masculinity, within an archetypal setting of a sporting arena, that conveniently encapsulates our nation’s sense of self-image. Three female performers take on all the roles, playing exaggerated versions of maleness, for a subversive exercise that makes statements about gender, and especially about the misguided adoration of what might be termed traditional masculinity. First half of the production is surprisingly conventional, a one-trick pony with a simple concept that quickly loses steam, but the show picks up furiously after interval, and what had felt gimmicky, turns into something far more complex and provocative.
The production is full of grandiose gesturing, not always powerful, but certainly delivered with extraordinary conviction. Actor Ellen Steele is particularly robust with her comedy, extremely cheeky and acerbic, a consistent delight in this portrait of ugliness. Jude Henshall and Louisa Mignone too, are exuberant performers who bring admirable rigour into their farce, for a rewarding study on the machinations of privilege and ignorance, frequently found in some segments of Australian society.
In sport, we celebrate high achievers not only for their accomplishments, but also for the whole of their persons. We want our heroes to be godlike, and imagine them to be infallible, consequently giving them powers, in the form of money and status, that they often exploit to the detriment of our collective good. It is no coincidence that these powerful are predominantly straight white men. Our institutions are structured to benefit a certain idea of supremacy, one that repeatedly exerts its imperialism over all others, and any action designed to take them down is met with disdain and even violence. Oppression requires concession, with the oppressed made to concede to notions of objectivity and meritocracy, that are demonstrably unjust. It is a survival strategy, to play to these rules, but only those willing to sacrifice can hope to foster a change.
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The Club 2018 Belvoir St Theatre
2018, belvoir, belvoir 25a, comedy, isthisyours?, play, review, sydney, theatre
Review: The Smallest Hour (Griffin Theatre Company)
Venue: SBW Stables Theatre (Kings Cross NSW), Dec 5 – 15, 2018
Playwrights: Phil Spencer, Susie Youssef
Director: Scarlet McGlynn
Cast: Phil Spencer, Susie Youssef
Images by Brett Boardman
In a city just like Sydney, Chris and Shelley cross paths on several occasions. Each is having an eventful, if not entirely enjoyable night, in this immense love story about the metropolis. Phil Spencer and Susie Youssef’s The Smallest Hour may not be grand in scale or indeed vision, but it captures the essence of that relationship between busy cities and its inhabitants, in a deeply beautiful way, for an expression of an intimacy that frequently borders on the obsessive. We are individuals who think of ourselves as distinct entities, separate from other humans and segregated from place; the observation here is that most of us are nothing without our towns, and Spencer and Youssef’s play is a splendid tribute to that sense of belonging.
The Smallest Hour is also a romantic comedy, and director Scarlet McGlynn’s ability to infuse humour into all of its romance, with place and with persons, ensures a production that will thoroughly delight every typical urbanite. Our imagination is cleverly manipulated, as the action moves from one location to the next, by Veronique Benett’s lights and Steve Francis’ music, guiding us surreptitiously through a series of familiar situations. There are no props and no costume changes to be seen on Tyler Hawkins’ simple stage design, but all the imagery that we receive, in our mind’s eye, is consistently vivid. The playwrights perform the work, mainly as narrators, but also as impeccable stand-ins for our protagonists. Both are remarkably endearing, and although not yet word perfect on opening night, they prove themselves consummate raconteurs, utterly and completely mesmerising with the tale they so adroitly weave.
The Smallest Hour reveals a love greater than Chris meets Shelley. It documents the way we navigate this environment, showing us how we have absorbed the physicality of this city, to live out existences so dynamic and spirited. Unlike boyfriends and girlfriends, we never ask that places give us their perfection; we understand better, our responsibilities as components of communities big and small, of collective identities that hold so much more promise than the insularity of our private selves. The lovers fixate on each other at conclusion, forgetting all the roads that lead them to one another. Their audience however, is left with evocations much more inspiring than petty concerns. We are asked to deal with matters of our heart, that relate not to any one, but to the entirety of this region; a very lucky love that must be cherished.
www.griffintheatre.com.au
The Smallest Hour 2018 Griffin Theatre Co
2018, comedy, griffin theatre co, play, review, sbw stables theatre, sydney, theatre
Review: Eleanor & Mary Alice (Seymour Centre)
Venue: Seymour Centre (Chippendale NSW), Dec 5 – 8, 2018
Playwright: Peta Tait
Director: Deborah Leiser-Moore
Cast: Petra Kalive, Sarah McNeill
Mary Alice Evatt was wife to Doc Herbert Evatt, Australia’s Minister of External Affairs during WWII. When the USA first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt arrived on our shores for a Sydney visit, the two women struck up a friendship, and in Petat Tait’s Eleanor & Mary Alice, we watch them bond over being married to power, both keenly aware of responsibilities they have to manage. They talk about art, politics and justice, finding solace in a mutuality based on implicit understanding. The play imagines, in a charming realistic style, conversations that could have taken place, but in the absence of more audacious artistic liberties, the cultivation of dramatic tension becomes a challenge. The personalities are fairly likeable, but they exist in a world too distant, and we fail to find enthusiasm for either of their narratives.
Deborah Leiser-Moore’s direction attempts to deliver a sense of unconventionality by immersing the actors in the aisles, and having them perform very close to the audience. The unusual positioning of their physical presence helps prevent monotony, but it is arguable if the imagery being created, is actually effective in keeping us engaged with Eleanor & Mary Alice. Actor Petra Kalive exudes a warmth that makes Mrs Evatt seem a empathetic character, whilst Sarah McNeill takes a more formal approach for Mrs Roosevelt. They establish an enjoyable rhythm with the dialogue, aided by cellist Adi Sappir who provides ethereal accompaniment throughout the piece.
The production is staged on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as developed by the United Nations, through the original committee of which Mrs Roosevelt was head of. The concept of human rights is as resonant today as it had been all those years ago. Even in the most peaceful of countries, we remain vigilant, wary of how people’s freedoms can be encroached upon, usually in surreptitious ways. In the name of security, of religion, and of tradition, we seem never to be able to stop the urge to oppress. Minority groups especially, are constantly in danger of being identified as enemies du jour. Old war stories can sometimes be uninspiring, but they all remind us of the monsters within, the ones who wait for moments of careless negligence, to once again rear their ugly heads.
www.seymourcentre.com
2018, drama, evatt foundation, review, seymour-centre, sydney, tashmadada, theatre
Review: The Laramie Project & The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later (Seymour Centre)
Venue: Seymour Centre (Chippendale NSW), Nov 28 – Dec 8, 2018
Playwrights: Moises Kaufman and members of Tectonic Theater Project
Directors: Carly Fisher, Rosie Niven
Cast: John Michael Burdon, Laura Djanegara, Andrew Hofman, Francisco Lopez, Linda Nicholls-Gidley, Matthew Pritchard, Dominique Purdue, Emily Richardson, Charlotte Tilelli
Images by David Hooley
The brutal murder of 21 year-old gay man Matthew Shepard in 1998, endures in our collective memory, partly because of Tectonic Theater Project’s seminal work The Laramie Project. Utilising techniques of verbatim theatre, the group’s exhaustive research and interview processes have resulted in an exceptionally powerful work that confronts homophobia, in a manner that is much more far reaching than its very localised context might suggest. Along with its follow-up The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, both pieces combine to offer a truthful and complex study of hate in communities, examining the way it operates, and reflecting on its disheartening tenacity.
Directed in tandem by Carly Fisher and Rosie Niven, it is a dynamic and stirring staging of the pair of plays, with innovative use of space ensuring optimum poignancy for every pertinent message in this Laramie cycle. Lighting design by Martin Kinnane is particularly effective in regulating dramatic intensity, and proves invaluable in the smooth execution of countless scene transitions.
Performing a very extensive range of roles, is a remarkably cohesive ensemble, including John Michael Burdon and Charlotte Tilelli who leave strong impressions with their varied and often flamboyant approaches to their respective catalogues of personalities. Also memorable are Andrew Hofman and Dominique Purdue who dial up the emotions, in several affecting sequences delivered with complete and unequivocal vulnerability.
It is now twenty years since Matthew Shepard was killed on that fence, in Small Town USA. The imagery is vivid, a sacrificial lamb hanging off a divide, with residents on either side, split by opinion and perspective. In many ways, we have since advanced as peoples, especially in relation to the legislation of LGBTQI protections and marriage equality, but it is clear that our current climate of disunity in the Twitter and Trump era, is quite unprecedented.
In this digital age, we seem to have lost the capacity to think outside of zeros and ones; everything is torn asunder into left and right, love and hate, good and bad. We make enemies much more quickly than ever before, each of us moving around in hunting mode, with voracious appetites, judging people into categories that do nothing other than to amplify our disdain for a perceived adversary. We need to find ways instead, to embrace the other side, if that is what it takes to take us to the realisation, that the other side does not exist at all.
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The Laramie Project 2018 Theatre Travels
2018, comedy, drama, review, seymour-centre, sydney, theatre, theatre travels
Review: All My Sleep And Waking (Apocalypse Theatre Company)
Venue: Old 505 Theatre (Newtown NSW), Nov 28 – Dec 22, 2018
Playwright: Mary Rachel Brown
Director: Dino Dimitriadis
Cast: Di Adams, Angela Bauer, Alex Beauman, Richard Sydenham
Images by Robert Catto
Anne has to confront very complicated feelings about her father. As his death approaches, all that had resulted from a troubled family life must finally be attended to. Together with Maria and Peter, the three siblings must get each other through this difficult time, and perhaps work towards a resolution for decades of psychological damage. All My Sleep And Walking by Mary Rachel Brown is a study of broken homes, staggeringly authentic in its observations, and admirably honest with its intentions. Although not a pessimistic work, the play’s realistic rendering of a daughter’s struggle, and of delicate family dynamics, is a refreshing alternative to stories of this nature that always seem determined to be improbably uplifting. Here, just to be able to encounter the unvarnished truth, proves powerful enough to satisfy.
Directed by Dino Dimitriadis, the production is deliciously taut, with meticulous attention on interactions between characters that delivers some very gripping drama. Anne is played by Di Adams, whose work is imbued with integrity, for a very believable, albeit overly serious, portrait of fortification and incredible stoicism. As Maria, Angela Bauer offers an emotional counterbalance, fabulously intense yet astutely humorous, for an outstanding performance that has us mesmerised. Richard Sydenham is delightful as Peter, with quirky mannerisms that prove endearing, and impressive nuance for every line that he dispenses. Anne’s son Josh, is played by a persuasive Alex Beauman whose relaxed naturalism adds valuable dimension to our experience of the show.
Maybe one’s father never did his best, or maybe his best was simply not good enough. Either way, regardless of his intentions, one has to suffer the consequences of an unsatisfactory parenthood, whilst imagining perfect fathers abound in every other household. Self preservation requires that Anne takes on merciless strategies; she vilifies him brutally and spares no thought for his feelings, even as he is ravaged by cancer. The degree of hurt that she suffers is palpable, and from our vantage point, forgiveness would do her a great deal of good, but that is of course, easier said that done. Anne can only access what is available to her, and when we want more for her, we reveal our inability to understand the devastation she has to bear. The miracle lies instead, in her own abilities as a mother. We watch her son grow into a stable and secure adult, and are awestruck by the incredible breaking of a curse.
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Review: Charlie Pilgrim (ATYP)
Venue: SBW Stables Theatre (Kings Cross NSW), Nov 21 – Dec 1, 2018
Playwright: Sam O’Sullivan
Director: Jena Prince
Cast: Rose Baird, Maliyan Blair, Stephanie Calia, Aria Ferris, Adelaide Kennedy, Sophie Lewis, Astra Milne, Daisy Millpark, Tobias Purcell, Carmen Rolfe, Callum Macgown, Lucinda Slattery, Noah Sturzaker, Eva Sutherland, Annabelle Szewcow, Mia Williams, Stanley Wills
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Tired of feeling like an outcast at school, Charlie Pilgrim retreats into her bubble, indulging in a love of science. She invents a time travel machine, only to find that it traps her in a time loop, with a new Charlie Pilgrim materialising every 24 hours. A solitary activity quickly becomes a social one, and our protagonists have to find a way to resolve the quickly escalating situation. Sam O’Sullivan’s Charlie Pilgrim (Or A Beginner’s Guide To Time Travel) is an ambitious piece of writing that packs a lot of ideas into its 80 minutes. It is an enjoyable narrative in a familiar sci-fi format, extremely detailed in its rendering, with explorations into a wide variety of themes. There is a density to O’Sullivan’s work that can prove challenging, but the richness of what he offers is quite tantalising.
Wonderfully imagined by director Jena Prince, the production cleverly utilises a large cast of young actors, to create a hive of activity that is irresistibly engaging. Emma Lockhart-Wilson’s lights and Maddie Hughes’ sounds are robustly manufactured to provide clearly indicate every plot point, ensuring that we never get confused by all the relentless hustle and bustle. The ensemble is extraordinarily disciplined, yet consistently effervescent with what they bring to the stage. 17 precocious actors delight us with their creativity and charm, keeping us entertained and enthralled by the story that they so enthusiastically tell.
If we understand that the only constant in life is change, then it should follow that time is never as orderly as we assume it to be. Regrets are evidence of a life well lived, and much as we wish to revisit the past to make things right, there is a human capacity that allows us to see that it is never too late for amends to be made, even if oblique approaches are required. Yesterday’s lessons are for today, and learning to live with poor decisions, is crucial in how we can evolve into better people. The meaning of life, lies in the need to make every day an improvement. We are informed only by the past, but to dwell in it is meaningless.
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Editors' ChoiceApoptosis
Channeling Death
Science Signaling 19 Oct 2010:
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.3144ec318
Apoptotic cells release the nucleotides ATP and UTP to attract phagocytic cells, which in turn clear the apoptotic cells. Chekeni et al. found that carbenoxolone (CBX), which inhibits connexins (which form gap junctions) and pannexins (which form plasma membrane channels), and probenicid, which is thought to be more specific for pannexins, reduced ATP release from apoptotic Jurkat cells to a similar extent as the caspase inhibitor zVAD (which blocks the release of ATP from apoptotic cells). Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) directed against pannexin 1 (PANX1) decreased the release of ATP and UTP from apoptotic Jurkat cells but did not prevent apoptosis. Supernatant from PANX1 siRNA-transfected apoptotic cells recruited fewer monocytes in an in vitro assay of cell migration and when placed in a subcutaneous air pouch in mice. In contrast, Jurkat cells stably overexpressing PANX1 released more ATP and UTP, and supernatants from these cells (after apoptosis had been induced) recruited more monocytes in vitro. Apoptotic cells take up dyes such as YO-PRO-1, a process the authors showed required PANX1 in Jurkat cells and was blocked by CBX in thymocytes. PANX1 currents were detected only in cells that showed morphological signs of undergoing apoptosis and were reduced by CBX. Immunoprecipitated PANX1 was cleaved at two different sites (called sites A and B by the authors) by caspase-3 and caspase-7 in vitro. Cells expressing a PANX1 mutant that could not be cleaved at site B took up less YO-PRO-1 than those expressing wild-type PANX1 or a mutant that could not be cleaved at site A. In addition, apoptotic cells expressing the PANX1 site B mutant had smaller PANX1 currents, released less ATP, and took up less TO-PRO-3. In contrast, cells expressing a PANX1 mutant that mimicked cleavage at site B took up more YO-PRO-1 and had larger PANX1 currents. Thus, PANX1 is cleaved by caspases during apoptosis, thereby activating this channel to release ATP and UTP to attract phagocytic cells.
F. B. Chekeni, M. R. Elliott, J. K. Sandilos, S. F. Walk, J. M. Kinchen, E. R. Lazarowski, A. J. Armstrong, S. Penuela, D. W. Laird, G. S. Salvesen, B. E. Isakson, D. A. Bayliss, K. S. Ravichandran, Pannexin 1 channels mediate ‘find-me’ signal release and membrane permeability during apoptosis. Nature 467, 863–867 (2010). [PubMed]
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Best Portable Propane Heater 2021
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How A New Administration Will Look For Cybersecurity
December 2, 2020 December 8, 2020 Mary James
The CMMC and The CDM
Under the Trump administration, new security measures came out to help strengthen the US government’s cybersecurity infrastructure. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program is a new set of cybersecurity standards developed by the Department of Defense (DoD) to protect defense contractors from cyber attacks.
Additionally, the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program – the Federal government’s primary program to improve civilian agency cyber security – is part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
The CMMC is essentially a set of guidelines. Therefore, businesses that meet this certification can work with the federal government. There are different numbered levels showing how well a contractor has deployed cybersecurity throughout their organization.
In their own words, “The CDM Program was developed in 2012 to support government-wide and agency-specific efforts to provide risk-based, consistent, and cost-effective cybersecurity solutions to protect federal civilian networks across all organizational tiers.”
According to govtech.com the CISA, an agency created under the Trump administration, agency is strong and has done great work. However, it never received as much funding as it could to make it a powerhouse. Speaking of funding, the CDM received a budget of $281 Million for the 2020 fiscal year. Unfortunately, the program is looking at nearly half its budget being cut.
The Biden Administration Projected Impact
The CDM received a budget of $281 Million for the 2020 fiscal year. Unfortunately, the program is looking at nearly half its budget being cut.
Information overload yet? I know, it is a lot to take in, but truly the integrity of our nation’s digital infrastructure is what we are talking about here. It’s a big deal. So after the work the Trump administration put in, what will it look like if Biden takes office? Here’s a glimpse of what we can expect.
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Alejandro Mayorkas. He’s is set to be the next DHS Secretary, subject to Senate confirmation. Mayorkas was DHS Deputy Secretary during the second Obama administration. During which he developed a considerable profile in cybersecurity and the fight against cyber crime.
Mayorkas isn’t the only one with a strong cybersecurity background. Avril Haines, Biden’s choice for director of national intelligence, also has a lot of experience in cyber intelligence. The two picks together show the Biden administration takes cybersecurity seriously.
Hopefully, the incoming administration can work with Congress to increase budgetary deficits to these agencies. All eyes are going to be on CISA in the next year. How this will play out will depend on how Congress and the administration can work together to provide for the future of cybersecurity.
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michael j kachurak says:
To Barth, Barth gets all his info from CNN. I was hoping for another four with Trump. Now we are heading for Communism. First, the speech goes, and next the gun registration, then confiscation. But with Trump, we could have only delayed it. Now we can look ahead sooner towards another Venezuela. Happy Trails.
Suzie Q says:
I just purchased PCMATIC and am very disappointed. I wanted to be protected by and support an American company but in reading what this company thinks should be published, it’s just propagation designed to break our democracy and usher in a Republican led autocracy. Very disappointing.
Elliott says:
after 4 years with these two clowns in office i will be just like obama with a 3rd term . When the 4 years are up this country will never be the same will be in the toilet bowl
As far as I am concerned, with the pseudo election of Biden/Harris is far from making his own decisions. Especially when he has had his share of gaffes, plagiarism, and making lame statements about how he is going to use all of Trump’s plans with no references to “control COVID-19; AKA the China Plague.
It will be just a 3rd season of Obama, for about a month then it will suddenly be President Harris. or Pelosi.
I am an Ultra, Super, Dyed in the wool Conservative and If I could legally do it I would plan a Tax Strike on the new administration if it has Biden/Harris attached.
Robert Marshall says:
Getting write to the point. The devil and his advocates. For sure the Democrat party, some rinoes are changing America as it once was. They are all about power and control. They don’t care about the people. Certainly not God fearing people. They are attempting to steal the election, and more than that. This is the opposition, The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: We are in a spititual battle for our souls. Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Don’t anyone think it is about Democrat or Republican. This is where our hope lies. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. That is God in the person of Jesus Christ. I believe the Lord is working through Presedent Trump for the people. You don’t here is named mentioned with the Democrat party. I believe also that pc matic is on the Lords side, doing their best to protect the people their customers. God bless your efforts and all you have done for us, your customers.
David Hamilton says:
Hell hath no fury like a dedicated leftist.
Darryl says:
I am concerned that with the history of the Biden family and their party there could be real issues in the near future.
I am currently going through a CMMC qualification and know that PC Matic needs to add a few features to be compliant with the requirements. For instance, real time USB monitoring. I have been a PCMatic customer for many years and have it on all of my computers. What is PCMatic doing to become compliant with the CMMC NIST 800 171 requirements? I hate to have to select a different software because of CMMC compliance.
John White says:
I am more concerned with the criminals on the inside, especially Harris, a communist sympathizer who, like Obama, is not legally qualified to be vice president. If these people take over the Government of the United States,it will be a dictatorship in less than 5 years. Ask any Venezuelan.
Ditto on Tom Standridge remarks. It is always scary when your name is Smith.
Biden will never be my President ! What a joke !!!
Tom Turner says:
It’s not just Joe, the entire Biden family is corrupt. It is a disgrace that they may actually move into the White House.
Charles Barth says:
I can understand that you would not believe anything a politician might say. In contrast to Biden’s picks; do you remember that President Trump put Gov. Perry in charge of the Energy Department, an Oklahoma Att. Gen. with 6 cases against the EPA as the head of the EPA, a person who had never attended public school and would not let her children go to public school as the Sec. of Education, a brain surgeon as the head of housing and urban development, etc. The people President-Elect Biden has named to federal positions have experience and are responsible. President Trump is known to be a liar, cheat and dishonorable. Facebook and Twitter have done what they thought fair and called out the intentionally misleading, non-factual statements without taking away the right of anyone to say anything. You and I illustrate why it will be so hard to bring America back together, but we have to try.
RAYMOND M DAIGNAULT says:
I agree with that statement. Biden would receive a welcome wagon full of $$$ from China. He is their main man in U.S. government. He is in their pocket and everything Trump has done to de-throne China would be undone by puppet Biden. Not only is he not a practicing Catholic, he is a turncoat American citizen. BLM–Biden Loves Money!
I agree with your assessments. “They” have put years of setting up this crisis.
“We” have been silent too long.
I was kicked off Twitter 2 years ago and they still won’t let me back in. I am not that unethical or vicious, not at all.
The POWER of WORDS.
Paula T says:
Well Tom, where’s your proof. We have a lot of proof that the current president (45) is indeed a crook.
He has had to return the money he charged for his scam university.
He has had to return money donated to his charity and cannot ever again have a charity in NY. He never sent the charity money he collected for veterans until caught.
He has faced many lawsuits for not paying vendors and workers. He used foreign labor to under-pay those workers.
Then there are foreign emoluments and domestic emoluments.
Trump claimed he cut $1 million check for veterans, but didn’t until caught:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/05/24/four-months-later-donald-trump-says-he-gave-1-million-to-veterans-group/
Trump said he raised $6m for veterans, but didn’t:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-said-he-raised-6-million-for-vets-now-his-campaign-says-it-was-less/2016/05/20/871127a8-1d1f-11e6-b6e0-c53b7ef63b45_story.html
Trump said groups got money, but they hadn’t received checks:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/donald-trump-veterans-donations/
Trump evaded Vietnam through four student draft deferments, and one medical deferment for “bone spurs” in his foot:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/questions-linger-about-trumps-draft-deferments-during-vietnam-war/2015/07/21/257677bc-2fdd-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html
Trump said disabled veterans “downgraded” Fifth Avenue, and wanted them kicked out from in front of Trump Tower:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/28/donald-trump-wanted-vets-kicked-off-fifth-avenue.html
Trump on Prisoners of War: “I like people who weren’t captured.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317
Trump on avoiding STDs while sleeping around in the 1980s: “I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world. It is a dangerous world out there. It’s scary, like Vietnam. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/16/draft-dodger-trump-said-sleeping-around-was-my-personal-vietnam.html
Trump on his ritzy military themed private school: “Always felt I was in the military” and “gave me more training, militarily, than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”
Tom Standridge says:
I don’t believe anything Joe Biden says and especially who he recommends for power or position in our government and Country… he not really president of USA. It’s so scary that people really think he is a honest man.. He’s a thief and very mentally ill person.
Security it a joke from Joe Biden.
Facebook is a joke also Twitter no confidence in any of the site’s.
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Emerson Buys Division of Textron
ST. LOUIS — Emerson today announced it has signed an agreement to purchase the Tools and Test Equipment (Tools & Test) business of Textron for $810 million. Tools & Test is a leading manufacturer of electrical and utility tools, diagnostics, and test and measurement instruments with strong global distribution and highly respected brands, including Greenlee and Klauke. The acquisition, joined with Emerson’s Ridge Tool Company, creates a global $1 billion professional tools business with the broadest offering for mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractors. Emerson expects the acquisition to be accretive to earnings in fiscal 2019 and immediately accretive to cash flow.
“This acquisition significantly contributes to Emerson’s investment strategy of adding complementary businesses that broaden our served markets and add key capabilities to meet the evolving needs of our customers and drive premium growth,” said Emerson Chairman and Chief Executive Officer David N. Farr. “The strong strategic fit with Ridge Tool provides a meaningful value creation opportunity for Emerson.”
Tools & Test’s longtime leadership in electrical joining paired with the RIDGID portfolio of joining technologies for mechanical and plumbing applications creates a leading position in a fast-growing segment, critical for meeting the safety and efficiency needs of the professional trades. In addition, Tools & Test brings offerings in diagnostics and other digital technologies that are an excellent fit with RIDGID. From a geographic perspective, Tools & Test’s strong presence in European markets complements the market strength of RIDGID outside of Europe, and furthers the company’s mission to be the global tool of choice for the professional contractor.
“The Tools & Test acquisition provides Emerson an outstanding opportunity to better serve our target customer – the pro,” said Robert T. Sharp, Executive President, Emerson Commercial & Residential Solutions. “The addition of Greenlee and Klauke complements our iconic RIDGID brand, creates a leading technology portfolio, expands our geographic presence and strengthens our position in the growing global professional tools marketplace. I look forward to personally welcoming the Tools & Test employees into Emerson.”
Headquartered in Rockford, Ill., Tools & Test has 2,300 employees with 11 manufacturing locations around the world and 2017 sales of $470 million.
The acquisition is expected to close within the next 90 days, subject to various regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
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Discussion (1 comments)
Thomas Beebe April 19, 2018 / 9:03 pm
Still looking for a more synergistic merger than Emerson and Eaton.
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hap and leonard: blood and lemonade
Tachyon tidbits featuring Nancy Springer, James Tiptree Jr., Joe R. Lansdale, and Kate Elliott
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Nancy Springer (photo: Bob O’Lary), James Tiptree Jr., Joe R. Lansdale (Karen Lansdale), and Kate Elliott (April Quintanilla)
CELINE’S BOOK CORNER praises Nancy Springer’s THE ODDLING PRINCE.
I really enjoyed this book: the writing is beautiful, the story is consistent and it does transport you back to times past. Oddly enough, I had never heard of Nancy Springer before, but I will be making sure to check out some of her other books as she has written loads! This is definitely an author that I will remember.
At HARVARD BOOK STORE, James Tiptree’s HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER is a staff selection.
An experiment: if you DON’T know who James Tiptree Jr. was, don’t turn this book over and read the back. Don’t read the introduction. Just charge right into the stories. THEN read the introduction. After. Otherwise, the secret will be spoiled. No one gets to enjoy that secret anymore, and the subsequent revelation.
These are some of my favorite stories in all of science fiction—bleak, difficult, and endearing takes on what it means to be human, how we think about gender, and how very small we are in the universe. I hope these stories haunt you the way they haunt me.
Robert Koehler for DGA QUARTERLY reveals that the latest wave of crime comedies employ a tricky balance between desperate drama and absurd humor. Hap and Leonard, the show based on Joe R. Lansdale’s popular series of books, typify this.
The current crime comedy wave—including such wide-ranging fare as Better Call Saul, Get Shorty, Good Behavior, Good Girls, Hap and Leonard, The Last O.G. and Sneaky Pete—could be considered the offspring of sometimes exceptionally dark sagas in which the ostensible bad guy is now the hero, starting emphatically with The Sopranos, in which there was almost never an episode without equal doses of violence and humor; Dexter, told from the view of an ironically narrating serial killer; Breaking Bad, the wild adventures of a chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin; Fargo, anthology reimaginings of the Coen brothers’ Minnesota crime tale; and Justified, the ingenious adaptation of Leonard’s short story Fire in the Hole.
Image: Sundance TV
A key part of figuring out the right tone is helping actors find their way into the genre’s typically contradictory and quirky characters. Mickle notes that Corbin Bernsen came in as a guest star for Hap and Leonard’s third season playing Cantuck, the police chief of racist-drenched Grovetown, Texas, a hard-bitten type who suffers from an enlarged testicle—the kind of detail that defines Lansdale’s fiction.
“Corbin and I talked about the fun of working with that strange character trait,” says Mickle. “There’s always a challenge to be an actor who jumps into a show that has seasons under its belt. You need to give actors their space to find their way, and with Corbin, he’ll do different takes during rehearsal and will sometimes improvise, all of which I encourage because I know that we’ll find the best parts of the performance in the edit. Then, when an actor like Corbin says something funny, you need to get the reaction shots. In the first cut of a scene where Hap and Leonard meet Cantuck in episode two, Corbin’s performance wasn’t landing. But when we inserted Hap’s and Leonard’s responses, it turned into the right kind of comic scene where our two guys are trying to figure out if this police chief is putting them on or not.”
These directors will readily point to key inspirations for their approach to the characters, guidelines helping them with the tricky business of juggling comedy and crime. For her ambitious first season finale episode of Good Girls, Anderson says, of a crucial moment when the forlorn husband character Dean (Matthew Lillard) crashes his car, that “it was really a steal from the Coen brothers, making the viewer feel the moment alongside the character.”
The Coens’ Effect is also felt in Hap and Leonard, Mickle observes, with the critical contribution of Ellen Chenoweth, the brothers’ longtime casting director: “She brought to us several wonderful character actors, like Irma P. Hall and John McConnell, who seem to be born for this style.” Mickle came to Hap and Leonard by way of directing his previous feature, Cold in July, based on a pre-Hap novel by Lansdale, “so it gave me a way of carrying over the mix of hijinks and high tension that I did in the movie into the series. But the thing that really inspired me for this was watching a huge number of Korean crime movies when I was in Korea. They drop in crazy twists and turns, dark stories with broad humor. I’m thinking of Bong Joon-ho for example, stuff that we haven’t quite been able to do in the U.S.”
Yet it’s these constant shifts that can set dangerous traps for the director. “They’re everywhere,” says Arkin. “On one hand, you have to make sure that when you jump from a more comic scene to something more dramatic, you don’t undercut one or the other. On the other hand, in television filmmaking, you risk falling into a static or imitative look and style just because everyone is so comfortable with it. I deliberately didn’t study the movie version of Get Shorty because of this, so we wouldn’t even be tempted to copy it. I remember it as being more comedic than Leonard’s book, and we knew that we wanted to pull back the comedy a bit, while juggling tones so that we don’t fall into a rut.”
By contrast, Mickle wanted to direct the first two episodes of Hap and Leonard’s third season since “I wanted to play with a broader comic approach early on that doesn’t prepare the viewer for the dark tone that enters the story in the later episodes, a bit like the latter half of (Mickle’s 2014 crime thriller) Cold in July when Don Johnson enters the movie and brings in a slapstick tone. It helps remind the viewer that they’re in the world of the tall tale, where we can stage a huge storm, where colors are louder, where lighting is more extreme. It’s not reality.”
At TOR.COM, Sam Hawke includes Kate Elliott’s Court of Fives series among 5 SFF Books Exploring Sibling Relationships.
In this series, billed as “Little Women meets American Ninja Warrior in Greco-Roman Egypt,” the main character, Jes, is an athlete with a Commoner mother and an upper class Patron father. Her dream is to compete for the Fives, an athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, but due to the society’s strict rules and her father’s delicate position, the only way she can compete is in secret. When disaster strikes and a ruthless Lord tears Jes’s family apart, she is forced into a much more deadly game of politics and loyalty, and a desperate plan to save her mother and sisters. This story has so much going for it that I love (competitive girls in sports! Intricate political scheming and cultural clashes! Slow burn background magic!) but easily my favourite element was the portrayal of Jes’s family over the course of the trilogy, and particularly her complex, well-realised relationships between her sisters. Elliott really nails the layers of family dynamic, crafting four very distinct sisters with their own character arcs and motivations, and the complex mix of love, combativeness, defensiveness and trust that binds them together
For more info about THE ODDLING PRINCE, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover art by Brian Giberson
Design by Elizabeth Story
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For more info about THE BIG BOOK OF HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.
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Covers by Elizabeth Story
Tachyon tidbits featuring Kameron Hurley, Joe R. Lansdale, Patricia A. McKillip, and Jane Yolen
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Kameron Hurley, Joe R. Lansdale (photo: Karen Lansdale), Patricia A. McKillip (Stephen Gold/Wikimedia Commons), and Jane Yolen (Jason Stemple)
NETGALLEY recently featured Kameron Hurley’s forthcoming APOCALYPSE NYX.
Reviewers and librarians can get their review copies of the acclaimed Kameron Hurley’s APOCALYPSE NYX at NETGALLEY.
At TEXAS MONTHLY, Eric Benson discusses the possible cancellation of SundanceTV’s Hap and Leonard.
Over the past two weeks, fans have been rallying around another show that appears to be on the brink of death: Sundance TV’s East Texas–set Hap and Leonard. The series—a rural noir about a middle-aged crime-fighting odd couple and their battles against murderous preachers, the Ku Klux Klan, and all manner of corrupt and semi-corrupt lawmen—completed its third season on April 11, and despite strong ratings, it has yet to be renewed for a fourth. “A lot of people are nervous about whether it will happen or not,” Joe R. Lansdale, a co-executive producer and the author of the novels upon which the show is based, told me. Lansdale had an idea to try to help Sundance make up its mind. “All of these fans who were writing me or were on my Twitter or my Facebook who were just absolutely fanatic, I wanted them to express how they felt about the show to Sundance,” Lansdale said. So he took to the internet to try to help the network and its executives see just what they’d built.
Michael Kenneth Williams and James Purefoy as the titular characters
Most media outlets stopped covering Hap and Leonard after their initial reviews of the first season, but as the series progressed, writers at more niche entertainment websites like Collider, Den of Geek!, and Black Girl Nerds consistently championed the show. Before the beginning of the third season, Vox, one of the few general-interest publications to stay with Hap and Leonard, called it “one of TV’s best-kept secrets,” a sentiment that has been echoed elsewhere. Hap and Leonard has learned to juggle its many parts—the fights work as fights, the hallucinatory sequences are trippy, and the skewering of racists is fun not preachy, mostly because Leonard as played by Williams is so irresistible. And even though Hap and Leonard closely follows novels written more than two decades ago, was conceived of and premiered during Barack Obama’s presidency, and takes place in the late 1980s, the show has increasingly seemed tailor-made for the Donald Trump years, with its left-behind working-class protagonists, economically disadvantaged setting, and ever-present in-your-face racism.
Lansdale himself has been unsurprised the show has become so topical. “The Aryan Nation, the Klan, all these anti-immigrant groups—they’ve never really disappeared, and if you think they have, then you’ve been living in a bubble,” he says. “I was having a conversation with another producer and he said, ‘I don’t know how we’re going to make this Klan stuff seem relevant,’ and then the next day they had Charlottesville.”
At its best, Lansdale’s work bewitches you with an idea common to all great noir: that behind the walls of every clapboard bungalow and beneath every grassy lawn there’s both a hidden rot and a hidden goodness, and we all need to look a little harder in order to see things as they really are. In its serpentine twists and profound sense of place, Hap and Leonard has begun to offer a tantalizing promise: that clear vision and bold action from a few brave men and women can unmask the hidden order of the world. If it gets a fourth season, there’s little doubt that our protagonists, Hap and Leonard, will confront more evils lurking just beneath the surface, and—at least for a few fleeting moments on-screen—show all of us that noble principles, a few well-timed wise-cracks, and a healthy dose of derring-do can save the day once again.
THE LITTLE BOOK OWL recommends Patricia A. McKillip’s World Fantasy winner THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD.
THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD / Patricia A. McKillip / ★★★★★
If you enjoy fantasy with a fairy tale feel to it then I highly recommend checking out this fantastic book. This was my first book by this author so I didn’t really know what to expect but I loved this book. The writing is fantastic, the plot is compelling and the characters are so well written.
Jack Rightmyer for ALBANY TIMES UNION interviews Jane Yolen.
Jane Yolen has often been referred to as the Hans Christian Andersen of America. This year her 365th and 366th books will be published and they range from picture books to poetry collections, graphic novels to books for children, young adults and adults.
“People ask me all the time ‘How are you able to write so much?’ and I wonder why other writers don’t write so much,” she said. “I’m a writer. That’s what I do. I wake up every morning and I have six or seven story ideas all ready to go in my head.”
Her most recent book THE EMERALD CIRCUS (Tachyon Press, 281 pages, $19.95) is a collection of some of her best stories over the past 20-25 years. The stories deal with Dorothy from Oz, Merlin from the King Arthur stories and such writers as Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson.
“I wrote most of them for anthologies, magazines and journals. All the stories were about characters from famous fantasies or about writers of fantasy. It was fun to go back and reread many of these stories that I hadn’t read in years.”
For the last twenty-eight years she has lived half the year in Amherst, Mass., and the other half in St. Andrews, Scotland. “I’m an American Jew. My DNA is mostly European Jew, and why I would be interested in Scotland is hard to understand.” Her husband hailed from West Virginia with Scotch Irish origins so years ago they decided to visit Scotland to see where some of his people came from. “When we entered the Highlands I turned to him and said, ‘This makes no sense at all, but I feel at home here.’”
For more info on APOCALYPSE NYX, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Wadim Kashin
For more info on HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.
For more info on THE BIG BOOK OF HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.
For more info about THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Thomas Canty
Visit with HAP AND LEONARD creator Joe R. Lansdale, his ownself
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Joe R. Lansdale will
be hitting the trail this month in celebration of the new Hap and
Leonard Jackrabbit Smile. Be sure to stop by and say howdy to
the affable Joe.
Photo: Karen Lansdale
7PM at BookPeople
in Austin, TX
7PM at Interabang
Books in Dallas, TX
6:30PM at Murder
by the Book in Houston, TX
2PM at Mysterious
Galaxy in San Diego, CA
Sunday, April 1 4PM
at Dark
Delicacies in Burbank, CA
7PM at The
Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ
Friday, April 6 7PM
at Murder
on the Beach in Delray Beach, FL
HAP AND LEONARD: TWO BEAR MAMBO premieres TONIGHT
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The third season of the acclaimed SundanceTV series based on the eerily prophetic books by Joe R. Lansdale, HAP AND LEONARD: THE TWO BEAR MAMBO, premieres tonight 10pm EST/9PM CST.
And if that’s not enough Hap and Leonard (as if there really is ever enough), check out the collection HAP AND LEONARD and the mosaic novel HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE that recounts the duo’s teen years.
Happy 50th birthday to the multi-talented Rick Klaw
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(Tachyon managing editor Jill Roberts has hijacked Tumblr. Control will be restored to the proper parties shortly.)
Photo: Brandy Whitten
freelance editor, reviewer, publicist, marketing guru, geek maven,
and optimistic curmudgeon, Richard “Rick” Klaw is the wearer of
many hats.
the past 20
years, Klaw has provided nigh-countless reviews, essays, and fiction
for a variety of publications: The
Austin Chronicle, Blastr, Moving
Pictures Magazine, San
Antonio Current, Geek
Dad, San
Antonio Business Journal, Conversations
With Texas Writers, The Greenwood
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, SF
Fiction Weekly, Nova
Express, STEAMPUNK, Electric Velocipede, Cross
Plains Universe, Red Range, and The Steampunk
Many of his essays and observations were collected in Geek
Confidential: Echoes from the 21st Century.
co-founded the influential Mojo Press, one of the first publishers
dedicated to both graphic novels and prose books for the general
bookstore market, and co-edited (with Joe R. Lansdale) the
groundbreaking original anthology of short fiction in graphic form,
He also served as the initial fiction editor for RevolutionSF.
2017, Klaw edited the newest volume in Tachyon’s Hap
and Leonard crime
series by Joe R. Lansdale (HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE) and in 2016 he co-edited PIRATE UTOPIA
by Bruce Sterling. He is the editor of the anthologies THE APES OF WRATH and Rayguns
Over Texas.
Art by John Picacio and Dave Dorman
addition to other consulting and marketing activities, Klaw currently
manages and develops content for the social media presence of Tachyon
Publications. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, a perpetually confused dog, a pair of adorable, high energy cats, and an impressive collection of books.
can often be found pontificating on Twitter and at his
award-winning blog The
Geek Curmudgeon.
wishes Rick a very happy birthday (and we thank him for allowing us
to hijack his regularly scheduled social-media domination).
For info on THE APES OF WRATH, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Alex Solis
For more info on PIRATE UTOPIA, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover and illustration by John Coulthart
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Tachyon tidbits featuring Joe R. Lansdale, Peter S. Beagle, Jacob Weisman, Patricia A. McKillip, and Bruce Sterling
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Joe R. Lansdale (photo: Karen Lansdale), Jacob Weisman and Peter S. Beagle (Jill Roberts), Patricia A. McKillip (photo: Stephen Gold/Wikimedia Commons), and Bruce Sterling
At GINGER NUTS OF HORROR, Bob McLeod includes Joe R. Lansdale’s HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE in his top books of the year.
There is no denying that Joe Lansdale is a master of storytelling and the latest Hap and Leonard novel is a triumphant return to the world of these two hapless heroes. Written as a prequel to their very first adventure Lansdale gives us an emotionally charged insight into what makes the two of them tick.
“At times this is a hard book to read, due to its cultural setting, Lansdale has captured the sociopolitical zeitgeist of the era perfectly. A period where racism was rampant and times were excruciating for Black people and those who didn’t fit in with the general feeling towards them. Be warned the use of the N-word is utilised many times in this book, but it is never used for shock value, it drives the story to such an extent it almost feels as though your soul is taking a beating as you read it. BLOOD AND LEMONADE is an emotionally compelling tale which puts the reader through an emotional whirlwind in a way that only a great writer such as Lansdale can do.
Angela Matano for CAMPUS CIRCLE recommends Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman’s THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY as a book for every stocking.
If your idea of fantasy begins and ends with Hobbits or Mothers of Dragons, you’re missing out on a vibrant part of literature. Peter S. Beagle has assembled a collection of stories from the hottest young writers in THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, including modern classics from Ursula Vernon, Usman T. Malik, Kelly Sandoval and more.
In the same piece, Matano also suggests collections from Charlie Jane Anders and THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY contributor Ben Loory.
Ben Loory returns with his unique brand of short short stories in “Tales of Falling and Flying.” These deceptively simple, absurdist fables and surreal allegories add up to an emotional punch.
“Six Months, Three Days, Five Others” collects six stories from “All the Birds in the Sky” author Charlie Jane Anders, who explores philosophical “what-ifs” with doses of whimsy and quirky humor, while grounding it all with relatable characters.
In a five star review, LOOKING GLASS READS praises Patricia A. McKillip’s World Fantasy Award-winner THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD
Patricia McKillip’s novel THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD was republished by Tachyon Publications. This World Fantasy Award winning novel is a true treasure, a book that is most definitely worth reading.
I have never read prose quite as lyrical as McKillip’s. The language is incredibly descriptive without being overly dense. It is fairy-tale like, adding to the air of magic within the novel. There isn’t a paragraph, a line, a word, that is unnecessary. Despite all of her works having this to at least some extent, this is probably the tightest prose I have read in one of her novels.
I always admired Patricia McKillip’s book. But this is, by far, the best of her work I have read. THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD is a book that will delight any fantasy reader. Take a chance on this book. I promise you won’t be disappointed.
LOOKING FOR A GOOD BOOK reviews Bruce Sterling’s Sidewise Award-nominated PIRATE UTOPIA.
The last third of the book (or so) is an interview with Sterling who gives a brief account of the real history of Fiume. I enjoyed this and it had me doing a quick Google search of my own to learn a little more.
Perhaps the best part of the book is the beautiful art by John Coulthart, who captures the Art Deco/war years style to lead off the chapters and divisions of the book. The art alone is worth checking out this book.
Looking for a good book? Pirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling is a short book about some idealizing ‘pirates’ in the 1920’s who take over and develop their own country. Buy it for the art and enjoy the story.
Cover and images by John Coulthart
For a limited time, get a selection of SIGNED books from Tachyon
Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized alex solis, blood and lemonade, charles vess, context: further selected essays on productivity creativity parenting and politics in the 21st century, elizabeth story, Ellen Datlow, ellen klages, hap and leonard: blood and lemonade, Joe R. Lansdale, john coulthart, Kerem Beyit, lovecraft's monsters, not so much said the cat, patricia a mckillip, peter v brett, sale, signed books, six months three days, the apes of wrath, the great bazaar & brayan's gold, the stress of her regard, the very best of charles de lint, the very best of tad williams, Thomas Canty, Tim Powers, wicked wonders, wonder of the invisible world
From Jacob’s many travels and authors stopping by the offices, we have a large selection of signed books.
As with our entire catalog, these books are part of our holiday sale.
From now until Wednesday, December 13
SIX MONTHS, THREE DAYS (limited edition) by Charlie Jane Anders
LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS edited by Ellen Datlow
THE VERY BEST OF CHARLES DE LINT
CONTEXT by Cory Doctorow
WICKED WONDERS by Ellen Klages
THE APES OF WRATH edited by Richard Klaw (includes signatures by Klaw and contributors Joe R. Lansdale, Scott Cupp, Jess Nevins, and Mark Finn)
HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE by Joe R. Lansdale
WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD by Patricia A. McKillip
THE STRESS OF HER REGARD by Tim Powers
NOT SO MUCH SAID THE CAT by Michael Swanwick
Plus the previously announced Peter S. Beagle signed books
Sale ends Wednesday, December 13, at 11:59PM PST.
For more info on WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, visit the Tachyon page.
For more info on THE VERY BEST OF TAD WILLIAMS, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Kerem Beyit.
For more info on THE APES OF WRATH, visit the Tachyon page.
For more info about LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by John Coulthart
For more info about THE GREAT BAZAAR & BRAYAN’S GOLD, visit the Tachyon page.
For more info on SIX MONTHS, THREE DAYS, visit the Tachyon page.
For more info on THE STRESS OF HER REGARD, visit the Tachyon page.
For more info on CONTEXT: FURTHER SELECTED ESSAYS ON PRODUCTIVITY, CREATIVITY, PARENTING, AND POLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, visit the Tachyon page.
For more information about THE VERY BEST OF CHARLES DE LINT, visit the Tachyon page.
Happy birthday to the literary and martial arts master Joe R. Lansdale
Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized birthday, cold in july, crucified dreams, deadman's crossing, deadman's road, elizabeth story, flaming zeppelins, flaming zeppelins: the adventures of ned the seal, hap and leonard, hap and leonard ride again, hap and leonard: blood and lemonade, Joe R. Lansdale, john coulthart, John Picacio, josh beatman, the best of joe r lansdale, the urban fantasy anthology, Travis J. Elston
Photo by Karen Lansdale
Probably the only person in the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame who has received an Edgar, ten Stokers, a Grandmaster of Horror, the British Fantasy, a Spur, and the Herodotus Awards, Joe R. Lansdale has written more than 40 novels, 400 shorter works, and devised the Shen Chuan Martial Science.
His novels include the Edgar Award-winning THE BOTTOMS, COLD IN JULY, NIGHTRUNNERS, FLAMING ZEPPELINS, A FINE DARK LINE, THE DRIVE-IN, THE THICKET, PARADISE SKY, and BUBBA AND THE COSMIC
BLOOD-SUCKERS. Beginning with BY BIZARRE HANDS, Lansdale’s numerous short stories have been collected in several volumes including THE BEST OF JOE R. LANSDALE, WRITER OF THE PURPLE RAGE, HIGH COTTON, SANCTIFIED AND CHICKEN FRIED, DEADMAN’S ROAD, DEADMAN’S CROSSING, BLEEDING SHADOWS, MIRACLES AIN’T WHAT THEY USED BE, and DEAD ON THE BONES:
PULP ON FIRE. He’s edited 15 anthologies including RAZORED SADDLES (with Pat LoBrutto), DARK AT HEART (with Karen Lansdale), WEIRD BUSINESS (with Richard Klaw), RETRO PULP TALES, CROSS PLAINS UNIVERSE (with Scott Cupp), CRUCIFIED DREAMS, and THE URBAN FANTASY ANTHOLOGY (with Peter S. Beagle). As if this wasn’t enough, Lansdale has written comics for DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, IDW, and others.
Lansdale’s most famous creation is the unlikely duo of Hap and Leonard. Hap Collins is white, liberal, and even tempered. Leonard Pine, who is quick to anger, is black, conservative and gay. In a series of nine novels, beginning with SAVAGE SEASON, and several novellas, the best friends encounter violence, racism, and adventure in their East Texas haunts. The often humorous tales have garnered much praise and a legion of loyal fans. Many of the Hap and Leonard novellas and shorter tales were collected in HAP AND LEONARD and HAP AND LEONARD RIDE AGAIN. The 10th and 11th novels, RUSTY PUPPY, and HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE came out earlier this year. In early 2018, the pair return to SUNDANCETV for a third season of HAP AND LEONARD, starring James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams.
Other works that have enjoyed the film treatment include BUBBA HO-TEP, COLD IN JULY, INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD, and CHRISTMAS WITH DEAD, which Lansdale produced with a screenplay by his son, Keith. He has written many screenplays and teleplays, most notably for BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES and SUPERMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES.
All of us at Tachyon wish champion Joe a happy birthday!
For more info about THE BEST OF JOE R. LANSDALE, visit the Tachyon page.
For more info about CRUCIFIED DREAMS, visit the Tachyon page.
For more info about THE URBAN FANTASY ANTHOLOGY, visit the Tachyon page.
For more info about HAP AND LEONARD RIDE AGAIN, visit the Tachyon page.
For more info about COLD IN JULY, visit the Tachyon page.
For more info about FLAMING ZEPPELINS, visit the Tachyon page.
For more info about DEADMAN’S ROAD, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover art “The Quick and the Undead” by Travis J. Elston
For more info about DEADMAN’S CROSSING, visit the Tachyon page.
Tachyon tidbits featuring Ellen Klages, Joe R. Lansdale, and Jeff VanderMeer
Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized andrew dice clay, annihilation, corbin benson, dana k white, deadline, denise petski, ellen klages, hap and leonard, hap and leonard ride again, hap and leonard: blood and lemonade, jeff vandermeer, Joe R. Lansdale, louise gosset jr, review, satellite mind, sundanceTV', trailer, wicked wonders
Ellen Klages (photo: Scott R. Kline), Joe R. Lansdale (Karen Lansdale), and Jeff VanderMeer (Kyle Cassidy)
At SATELLITE MIND, Dana K. White praises Ellen Klages’ WICKED WONDERS.
If you think short stories are not for you, read this book.
From the first page I was instantly immersed in the magical and vibrant worlds of Wicked Wonders. The author has this amazing talent of writing short stories that leave you with enough closure to feel satisfied, but also include an intriguing enough premise to have you musing and daydreaming about the stories for weeks on end! Only a master storyteller could make glimpses of other worlds feel so complete.
Overall this is great collection from an award winning author, and while not every story includes magic, every story is magical.
Buy, Borrow or Bin Verdict: Buy
With the third season of the acclaimed HAP AND LEONARD, based on Joe R. Lansdale’s popular crime series, in production, Denise Petski of DEADLINE reports on several of the new recurring cast members.
Oscar winner Louis
Gossett Jr. (AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, ROOTS), PSYCH alum Corbin
Bernsen and DICE star Andrew Dice Clay are set for recurring roles in
the upcoming third season of SundanceTV’s critically-praised
anthology series HAP & LEONARD.
James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams as the titular characters
Gossett Jr. plays
Bacon, a veterinarian-turned-cook at the local diner. Bernsen will
portray Chief Cantuck, the foul-mouthed, morally ambiguous head of
the Grovetown Police department. Clay is Sonny Knox, the town’s
politically incorrect radio disc jockey. In addition, Laura Allen
(AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT) plays Officer Reynolds, an East Texas
cop who hides her bigotry behind her badge, Sydney Wease (THE VAMPIRE
DIARIES), portrays Belinda, ethereal teenage waif, mute since a
mysterious abduction, and musician Curtis Harding plays blues legend,
L.C. Soothe, and L.C.’s grandson, Bobby Joe, both of whom run afoul
of the Klan. Tiffany Mack (Florida Grange) and Cranston Johnson
(Detective Hanson) return as series regulars.
In Season 3, when
Florida Grange goes missing in the Klan-infested town of Grovetown,
Hap and Leonard set out to find her. As the mystery unfolds, Hap and
Leonard find themselves at odds with a cast of characters so tough
they could chew the bumper off a pickup truck, including a possibly
corrupt sheriff, and the leader of the Caucasian Knights. Set once
again in East Texas, against an impending storm of Biblical
proportions, Hap and Leonard scramble to locate Florida before the
Klan locates them. The boys learn that the good guys don’t always
win, and nobody beats Mother Nature.
Paramount Pictures have released the first teaser trailer for the forthcoming movie ANNIHILATION, based on the best-selling novel by Jeff VanderMeer.
For more info on HAP AND LEONARD RIDE AGAIN, visit the Tachyon page.
Tachyon tidbits featuring Michael Swanwick, Joe R. Lansdale, and Lavie Tidhar
Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized blood and lemonade, central station, elizabeth story, gregory frost, hap and leonard: blood and lemonade, Joe R. Lansdale, lavie tidhar, liars club oddcast, michael swanwick, molly odintz, mystery people, not so much said the cat, paradoks, polish, stacja centralna
Michael Swanwick (photo: Beth Gwynn), Joe R. Lansdale (Karen Lansdale), and Lavie Tidhar (Kevin Nixon. © Future Publishing 2013)
Gregory Frost on his eponymous site shares the news that Michael Swanwick, author of NOT SO MUCH SAID THE CAT, joins the LIARS CLUB ODDCAST.
My good friend the amazingly inventive Michael Swanwick joins us on the LIARS CLUB ODDCAST this week to discuss the craft of writing science fiction and fantasy, his fascination with his con artists Darger and Surplus (and with writing short fiction) and even a bit of musing on the works of George R. R. Martin. Don’t miss a great interview with this multiple-award-winning author!
For MYSTERYPEOPLE, Molly Odintz discusses Joe R. Lansdale in A (Partial) Atlas of Texas Crime Fiction.
These are the two main threads of Texas crime fiction still today – tales of the city and the hypocrisy beneath its polite surface, and stories of small town secrets, where no matter how much prejudice is visible on the surface, there’s always more hidden beneath. Joe R. Lansdale continues Thompson’s mantle (with added horror and humor) in his Hap & Leonard series, as well as his stand-alone novels THE THICKET and SUNSET & SAWDUST, preserving the beauty of East Texas speech and nature while not shying away from the crass, casual brutality of East Texas lives, all while pointing out the absurdities of his setting and his characters.
PARADOKS previews STACJA CENTRALNA, the Polish edition of Lavie Tidhar’s Clarke, Campbell, and Locus award-nominated CENTRAL STATION.
In July, a science fiction novel “Central Station” by Lavie Tidhar will be published by Zysk i S-ka. This is a wonderful, multidimensional and deep story that combines all the best features of the genre. One of the best science-ficton novels by 2016, among others. “The Guardian”, “io9”.
(Translation from Polish courtesy of Google)
For more information on NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT, visit the Tachyon page.
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Talizmyn's Trinkets
Explore the designs, creations, and writing (with potential ramblings) of Talizmyn.
Ko-fi Monthly Raffle
January 2, 2021 January 2, 2021 | Janessa
Remember: anyone that supports me on ko-fi in 2021 enters into that month’s draw. The cost of a ko-fi is $3, and I have no plans to change this number.
Every supporter will now be in the month’s raffle that they offer their support, and the raffles take place the first day of the following month. (For example, those who donate in January will be in January’s raffle, which would occur February 1st.) And should you be the only supporter that month, then the winner is clear!
Winners will be able to request a portrait sketch from me of a character of their choosing!*
Sketches will be delivered later that same month, and have a sketchy quality to them as part of their charm. Also, note that a person can win multiple months consecutively, though I may change this rule when there are more supporters to ensure more people have a chance to win.
*Check out my Commission Information for what I will, and will not, draw. I reserve the right to refuse drawing a character for any reason and will give winners the chance to choose another should that occur.
Supporter Downloads
As always, supporters will have access to the Supporter Downloads album on ko-fi for 30 days from their support date. Rewards consist of colouring pages and both mobile and desktop backgrounds of my work for supporters’ personal use. I’m also open to requests and suggestions, so feel free to tell me what you’d like to see!
Upcoming Ko-fi Changes for 2021
December 14, 2020 December 31, 2020 | Janessa
There are exciting changes coming to my ko-fi page next year!
Why Are these Changes Coming?
As those following my work may have noticed, I disappeared for a little while. Updates became sporadic and eventually stopped. It was due to a bit of burnout, pushing myself to create when what I needed was a break to recharge and try to stay sane in the mess that is 2020.
I want to continue to create and share my work with people, and changes like this should be more sustainable for me. I may continue to change things next year, too, and am always open to feedback. These changes will all go into effect January 1st, 2021.
Let’s see how it goes!
What Will Change
New Monthly Draws
Every supporter will now be that month’s draw, and draws take place the first day of the following month. (For example, those who support in January will be entered in January’s draw, which would take place February 1st.) Support in one month and you’ll be entered into a draw with all other supporters that supported. And should you be the only supporter that month, then.. the winner is clear! 😉
Winners will be able to request a portrait sketch from me, of a character of their choosing!*
Sketches will be delivered later that same month, and will have a sketchy quality to them as part of their charm. Also note that a person can win multiple months consecutively, though I may change this rule when there are more supporters to ensure more people have a chance to win.
*Check out my Commission Information for what I will, and will not, draw. I reserve the right to refuse drawing a character for any reason, and will give winners the chance to choose another should that occur.
Changes to Monthly Supporter Rewards
Previously, two rewards would go up every month for all supporters in the Supporter Downloads album on Ko-fi. Rewards would consist of a background image (for a phone for desktop) and a lineart sketch for colouring. There didn’t seem to be high interest in either of these. I do want to continue providing rewards, though perhaps in a more limited fashion going forward.
Rewards may not necessarily be monthly in 2021, though I will be updated available downloads as I can. Is there something you want to see specifically? I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
WHAT IS STAYING THE SAME
The Cost of a Ko-fi
The cost of a ko-fi on my page, $3 USD, is staying the same! I have no plans to change this number.
Thanks for sticking with me! Do let me know if you have any questions or concerns regarding these changes.
Talizmyn’s Ko-fi Shop is Open for Business!
June 9, 2020 | Janessa
My Ko-fi Shop is open!
I’m selling digital prints on my ko-fi shop starting today! If you have always wanted my work on your walls, or as a background on your devices, you now have the option to purchase these files from me directly. 😀
I’d love feedback on what other digital items you may be interested in. (Stock photos, colouring books, specific artwork not yet in the shop?) I would love to hear what you think and what you’d like to see from me in the future. ❤️
I’ll be adding more items all the time, so please do check back!
Talizmyn’s May Art Update
May 31, 2020 May 31, 2020 | Janessa
May has been a busy month. I’ve been keeping myself busy during this time, using different tactics to motivate myself to create, learn, and improve. At the beginning of the month I was feeling particularly low and unmotivated, though my mood has since improved and I have a few goals and tasks to focus on in the coming months.
How are all of you dealing/coping/doing? What are your tricks, if any, to get yourself to focus?
I’ve had to remind myself that naps are okay, if I need to reset. I’m learning to not push myself too hard when what I really need is some rest.
May 2020 Ko-fi Special
May 1, 2020 May 2, 2020 | Janessa
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It’s May and this month, I’m doing something special on Ko-fi!
My 35th(!) birthday is at the end of this month and I want to give something back to everyone able to support me through ko-fi. So, for the entire month of May I will create a sketch for everyone that makes a donation on my ko-fi page during the month. For the donation of one coffee ($3 USD) you will get a sketch from me. Sketches will be in the style of the examples below. $3 USD will get you a lineart sketch, and I’ll add colour to it for an extra coffee (a total of $6 USD.)
Worthy of note
When donating, please include a link to the reference you’d like me to use and let me know a couple traits about that person or character’s personality. The sketch can be of your favourite character (fanart), one of your own characters (OCs), or even from a photograph.
Sketches will be of the bust, 2000 x 2000 pixels and @ 150DPI. JPEG.
Flowers (bouquet or in a vase), Humanoid or anthropomorphic characters are accepted. (No animals at this time, please!)
If you prefer to not make your request public, instead of sharing details in the donation comment section you may email me instead. Include a screenshot of your donation if you can.
You may donate multiple coffees for multiple sketches at the same time. Just let me know!
Sketches will be completed throughout the month as I have time. Commissions or raffles prizes (owed from April) will take priority. Please be patient!
And if that’s not enough incentive, there are also supporter rewards available for all supporters!
Supporter Rewards
Every month, I add two new items in the Supporter Downloads folder in my gallery on Ko-fi as a thank-you to all those who have supported my work. This folder is accessible by all supporters: subscribers, who choose to donate every month, and one-off supporters, who donate one time. The main difference between the two is that subscribers will always have access to the folder, whereas one-off supporters will have access for 30 days from the time they make a donation.
Those who wish to access the Supporter Downloads folder will need to make an account on Ko-fi in order to see the folder after donating.
These rewards are a thank-you from me. I appreciate every one that is able to support my work, and this is one of the ways I want to give back. If there’s something else you’d like to see, please do let me know!
Talizmyn’s April Art Update
April 30, 2020 April 30, 2020 | Janessa
We’re at of the end of April in the year that has been a thousand-year blink. It is a vast expanse of time that has vanished between breaths. I see the work I have done over the last few months and think, “Wow, I made that so long ago.” Only, upon checking posting dates and timestamps, I discover a week, or maybe two, has passed. The months have become emotionally heavy.
At least, that is how it feels to me.
What has it been like for you?
How are you holding up?
New Tablet and Ko-fi Goal
April 23, 2020 | Janessa
Two weeks ago, during the One Week Portrait Challenge, I wrote about how my tablet broke on Wednesday: midway through the challenge. When that happened, after I spent a bit of time panicking, my husband encouraged me to look into getting a tablet that would work for me.
After much research and consideration, based on the types of tablets I found, we decided the cost difference between a decent tablet and a great tablet was too small. And so, rather than settle for decent, we ordered a Microsoft Surface Book 2.
Everyone who donated through Ko-fi in the last few months, or commissioned me for work, helped me afford this tablet. And so I would like to say: thank you. You’re actively helping me become a better artist and designer, and it is appreciated.
New Ko-fi Goal
March was full of tough decisions, and to be honest it was a really scary time. I was so nervous making posts about my fears, and dealing with the anxiety that came with all of the uncertainty. That anxiety and uncertainty has not all gone away, of course, but it is less new and a little more familiar. And frankly, familiar has always been easier to deal with, for me.
I’m fortunate for the family I have, for those who can and choose to support me through Ko-fi, and being in a position where I’m able to change my Ko-fi goal again from food/rent to something beyond necessity. And I know this could change at any moment. But, for now, I want to have hope and think positively. And this, for me, means aiming for something that will help me create, improve my abilities, and do what I love to do.
And that’s to create good art.
One program I have wanted for some time is Clip Studio Paint. My Ko-fi goal has been updated to reflect the plan to purchase Clip Studio Paint Ex, for $219 USD. I would prefer to purchase the program outright, rather than pay a monthly subscription, as I’m not a fan of the subscription model for using programs.
The program itself has some impressive features including a variety of functions designed for comic-creation, smart colouring tools, precision rulers, and comes with an impressive library of brushes, poses, and other resources. Given all that the program offers, and with the potential to increase my workflow and improve my abilities, the cost of the program seems more than reasonable. That’s not to say I won’t be keeping an eye out for a sale, though!
Want to help me reach my goal?
The learning curve for Clip Studio Paint may be steep, but I’m up for the challenge.
Talizmyn’s March Art Update
March 31, 2020 March 31, 2020 | Janessa
March has certainly been a trial in productivity and I have been trying not to drown in the waves of anxiety. I’ve been trying to keep the depression at bay, but in the last few days I finally realized part of the reason I have been feeling so low… I haven’t kept it at bay.
I’m focusing far too much on the news, and really need to take steps back. More so than I thought. Depression is finding a way to settle in but, thankfully, it rarely stops me from creating. I can work through it, I just need to be careful and take more breaks. Plus, I know why it’s here this time.
This pandemic, and the state of the country, are making a mess of my mental space. I need find some higher ground and remember how to breathe. I’m not drowning. I’ll get through it.
We’ll get through it.
March's Supporter Rewards are Here!
March’s Supporter rewards are now on Ko-fi! I added a small extra image this month just because, but I’ll leave that as a surprise. I’m posting these a bit early this month, too, but no one is going to complain about that, right? 😉
Collect yours, here!
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This page addresses both the UK implementation of the EU banking standards and the concept of [[Open Banking]].
A Chris Michael interview<ref>Saira Guthrie, ''Open Banking and Identity: Chris Michael Talks Current State, Trends and the Future.'' Ping (2018-09-19) https://www.pingidentity.com/en/company/blog/posts/2018/open-banking-identity-chris-michael-talks-current-state-trends-future.html?</ref> described Open Banking Limited, the brand name of the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE), as a private, non-profit company established in 2016 by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to create standards and implementation guidelines for United Kingdom retail banking. The organization is funded by major UK banks. Open Banking originally was focused on a subset of [[PSD2]]namely personal and business accounts in UK currency. Now the group is tackling a broader set that covers all [[PSD2]] requirements for payment providers across Europe and includes credit cards and e-wallets, all currencies, and FX international payments. It sounds more dangerous every day.
“I think the standards will evolve even beyond that, so this is a really interesting space,” Michael said.
Part of that evolution revolves around the fact that while Open Banking is the name of a UK initiative, “open banking” as a concept is spreading globally. In Australia, for example, the Australian Government is pushing forward with Open Banking, recommending adopting the UK’s standards. Japanese banks and financial institutions are registering as payment providers and soon will be required to open their APIs. And here in the United States, Intuit’s Mint now uses OAuth to connect to select banks like Bank of America, Chase Bank, and Capital One with tokens instead of full access with username and password.
“We're also trying to make sure that these standards are true global standards. So we're working with other standards bodies globally, whether it's in Europe or other emerging markets like Australia, to try and make sure that everyone's using the same core standards,” Michael said. “What we're doing now is creating standards and implementation services for not just the CMA order but for the whole of [[PSD2]], and our standard is designed to be one that is a European, if not a global standard, for financial APIs.”
“It's really great to see so many other markets who are adopting open banking and also who are looking to our standards as a kind of gold standard to build on,” he added. “But it's also great to talk to those other markets and talk to the identity professionals who are looking at open banking in those markets because I think there's also quite a lot that we can learn from them as well.”
When it comes to standards creation, the open banking arena is changing rapidly. Open Banking originally was focused on a subset of [[PSD2]], namely personal and business accounts in UK currency. Now the group is tackling a broader set that covers all [[PSD2]] requirements for payment providers across Europe and includes credit cards and e-wallets, all currencies, and FX international payments—and the landscape continues to shift.
Part of that evolution revolves around the fact that while Open Banking is the name of a UK initiative, “open banking” as a concept is spreading globally. In Australia, for example, the Australian Government is pushing forward with Open Banking, recommending adopting the UK’s standards. Japanese banks and financial institutions are registering as payment providers and soon will be required to open their APIs. And here in the United States, Intuit’s Mint now uses OAuth to connect to select banks like Bank of America, Chase Bank, and Capital One with tokens instead of username and password. At Ping, we expect that Open Banking’s version 3 standard, released in September, will reflect this growing scope.
The Open Banking team is working with the OpenID Foundation to create a profile<ref>''UK Open Banking OIDC Security Profile.'' https://bitbucket.org/openid/obuk/src/4630771db004da59992fb201641f5c4ff2c881f1/uk-openbanking-security-profile.md?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default</ref> of [[OpenID Connect]] and [[OAuth 2.0]] called Financial-grade [[API]], or FAPI.
The following are listed as problems that will be solved.
*The major selling point of this effort by the European bureaucrats is for increased competition.
*The major selling point of this effort by the standards makers is reduction of the risk caused by "screen-scraping" by personal financial consolidation software, which needs user passwords for full access without the new [[API]]s.
There are several areas that will need to be monitored as [[Open Banking]] roles out in the EU as exacerbating existing problems in the banking world.
# Out right fraud https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-09-11/why-the-eu-is-furious-with-malta
# Money laundering
The standards are not yet fully tested in the real world with real [[User]]s. For example:
*Banks are worried about the bearer tokens introduced with [[OAuth 2.0]].
*Banks and payment initiators are both trying to entice the user's to download apps which have the vulnerability of a [[User Experience]] which allows exploitation by attackers. See page [[Native App Security]].
**Android play store requires [[Native App]]s to be bound to an [[Enterprise]] [[Web Site]] [[URL]] if they use the branding of that [[Enterprise]], but there is no recognized way to bind these 3 concepts securely.
**Apple's secretive plans are a source of uncertainty in terms of release of any type of secure binding that will encourage safe [[Behavior]] by [[User]]s.
**[https://bitbucket.org/openid/fapi/issues/145/consider-mobile-app-mobile-app This thread] discusses some of the challenges of native-app to native-app interchanges where the apps are supplied by the payment initiator and the bank. The apps are considered to be user agents AND user clients, but are supplied by two organizations that moving user assets from one to the other in the back-ground. What could possibly go wrong?
* Traditional [[Threat Model]]ing involve an expensive simulation of the total network and use of common models to turn that into a risk profile. That is hard to do without a specific implementation architecture to model. So none have been published in Open Banking even though it is likely that the banks have run them.
* Fraud is by far the most likely costs from Open Banking standards. Several studies have addressed the issue in general terms and an attack model has been included in the OpenID FAPI standards. [https://fcase.io/open-banking-is-creating-new-fraud-challenges-for-the-banking-industry/#five Open Banking is Creating New Fraud Challenges for the Banking Industry] was published on 2020-02-17 where the cost to customer acceptance was address in general terms based on a PwC study that showed that on 18% of UK customers understand the actual impact of Open Banking on their experience. There is some hope that the banks will make customer whole in fraud when it happens, but the most common experience is for the customer to be blamed for the fraud. This is not going to help with acceptance.
*The UK open banking specs are keep on an open source repository.<ref>Open Banking Specs version 1.1.1-rc1 https://openbanking.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DZ/pages/28737919/The+Open+Banking+Directory+-+v1.1.1-rc1</ref>
*The [https://www.berlin-group.org/ Berlin Group] is looking at an EU wide deployment.
===Dual Mode and Wallet===
* [https://cyberphone.github.io/doc/payments/dual-mode-openbanking-api.pdf Dual Mode - Extending the Reach of Open Banking APIs]<blockquote>In theory Open Banking APIs can support Consumer Payments. However, the server centric OAuth security concept makes UX quite challenging compared to schemes like Apple Pay where SCA and account selection are integral parts of the “Wallet”. This presentation outlines an open, light-weight, synchronous API dedicated for Consumer Payments</blockquote>
* [https://github.com/cyberphone/doc/blob/gh-pages/payments/dual-mode-open-banking-api.md#background Dual Mode Open Banking API].<blockquote>Current Open Banking APIs do not specify a matching "Open Wallet", they have rather left this part to the market to figure out. This is likely to lead to a fragmented payment landscape unless a few and very dominant vendors set their own "standards". This is the sole motivation behind the Dual Mode Open Banking API proposal. In addition, current Open Banking APIs introduce a security and user interaction model which significantly departs from already established and well-functioning national mobile payment systems as well as from Apple Pay. The described scheme heavily builds on experiences with such systems. </blockquote>
===Banking APIs Deployed===
* [https://theoofy.com/13446/open-api-banking-examples-use-cases-thriving-after-ing-bank-deutsche-bank-looks-for-partners-for-api/ Open API Banking Examples / Use Cases Thriving: After ING Bank, Deutsche Bank Looks For Partners For API]
Definitions of interest from the UK [[Open Banking]] effort. These acronyms are used through-out the already jargon-heavy industry and will cause lots of head scratching. The major issue is whether [[Trusted Third Party]] access to the [[User]]s account are read-only (for consolidated reporting - aka screen scraping), or read/write (for payment initiation).
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#[https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/07/okta-shares-rise-as-sales-top-estimates-in-first-report-since-ipo.html CEF: Opening a Bank Account Across Borders with an EU National Digital Identity] for OIX Europe
===External Sites===
*The [[API]] page on this wiki helps put the banking apis in context.
*[https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/07/okta-shares-rise-as-sales-top-estimates-in-first-report-since-ipo.html CEF: Opening a Bank Account Across Borders with an EU National Digital Identity] for OIX Europe
4.1 Dual Mode and Wallet
4.2 Banking APIs Deployed
5.1 External Sites
This page addresses both the UK implementation of the EU banking standards and the concept of Open Banking.
A Chris Michael interview[1] described Open Banking Limited, the brand name of the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE), as a private, non-profit company established in 2016 by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to create standards and implementation guidelines for United Kingdom retail banking. The organization is funded by major UK banks. Open Banking originally was focused on a subset of PSD2namely personal and business accounts in UK currency. Now the group is tackling a broader set that covers all PSD2 requirements for payment providers across Europe and includes credit cards and e-wallets, all currencies, and FX international payments. It sounds more dangerous every day.
“We're also trying to make sure that these standards are true global standards. So we're working with other standards bodies globally, whether it's in Europe or other emerging markets like Australia, to try and make sure that everyone's using the same core standards,” Michael said. “What we're doing now is creating standards and implementation services for not just the CMA order but for the whole of PSD2, and our standard is designed to be one that is a European, if not a global standard, for financial APIs.”
“It's really great to see so many other markets who are adopting open banking and also who are looking to our standards as a kind of gold standard to build on,” he added. “But it's also great to talk to those other markets and talk to the identity professionals who are looking at open banking in those markets because I think there's also quite a lot that we can learn from them as well.” When it comes to standards creation, the open banking arena is changing rapidly. Open Banking originally was focused on a subset of PSD2, namely personal and business accounts in UK currency. Now the group is tackling a broader set that covers all PSD2 requirements for payment providers across Europe and includes credit cards and e-wallets, all currencies, and FX international payments—and the landscape continues to shift.
The Open Banking team is working with the OpenID Foundation to create a profile[2] of OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 called Financial-grade API, or FAPI.
The major selling point of this effort by the European bureaucrats is for increased competition.
The major selling point of this effort by the standards makers is reduction of the risk caused by "screen-scraping" by personal financial consolidation software, which needs user passwords for full access without the new APIs.
There are several areas that will need to be monitored as Open Banking roles out in the EU as exacerbating existing problems in the banking world.
Out right fraud https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-09-11/why-the-eu-is-furious-with-malta
The standards are not yet fully tested in the real world with real Users. For example:
Banks are worried about the bearer tokens introduced with OAuth 2.0.
Banks and payment initiators are both trying to entice the user's to download apps which have the vulnerability of a User Experience which allows exploitation by attackers. See page Native App Security.
Android play store requires Native Apps to be bound to an Enterprise Web Site URL if they use the branding of that Enterprise, but there is no recognized way to bind these 3 concepts securely.
Apple's secretive plans are a source of uncertainty in terms of release of any type of secure binding that will encourage safe Behavior by Users.
This thread discusses some of the challenges of native-app to native-app interchanges where the apps are supplied by the payment initiator and the bank. The apps are considered to be user agents AND user clients, but are supplied by two organizations that moving user assets from one to the other in the back-ground. What could possibly go wrong?
Traditional Threat Modeling involve an expensive simulation of the total network and use of common models to turn that into a risk profile. That is hard to do without a specific implementation architecture to model. So none have been published in Open Banking even though it is likely that the banks have run them.
Fraud is by far the most likely costs from Open Banking standards. Several studies have addressed the issue in general terms and an attack model has been included in the OpenID FAPI standards. Open Banking is Creating New Fraud Challenges for the Banking Industry was published on 2020-02-17 where the cost to customer acceptance was address in general terms based on a PwC study that showed that on 18% of UK customers understand the actual impact of Open Banking on their experience. There is some hope that the banks will make customer whole in fraud when it happens, but the most common experience is for the customer to be blamed for the fraud. This is not going to help with acceptance.
The Berlin Group is looking at an EU wide deployment.
Dual Mode and Wallet
Dual Mode - Extending the Reach of Open Banking APIs
In theory Open Banking APIs can support Consumer Payments. However, the server centric OAuth security concept makes UX quite challenging compared to schemes like Apple Pay where SCA and account selection are integral parts of the “Wallet”. This presentation outlines an open, light-weight, synchronous API dedicated for Consumer Payments
Dual Mode Open Banking API.
Current Open Banking APIs do not specify a matching "Open Wallet", they have rather left this part to the market to figure out. This is likely to lead to a fragmented payment landscape unless a few and very dominant vendors set their own "standards". This is the sole motivation behind the Dual Mode Open Banking API proposal. In addition, current Open Banking APIs introduce a security and user interaction model which significantly departs from already established and well-functioning national mobile payment systems as well as from Apple Pay. The described scheme heavily builds on experiences with such systems.
Banking APIs Deployed
Open API Banking Examples / Use Cases Thriving: After ING Bank, Deutsche Bank Looks For Partners For API
Definitions of interest from the UK Open Banking effort. These acronyms are used through-out the already jargon-heavy industry and will cause lots of head scratching. The major issue is whether Trusted Third Party access to the Users account are read-only (for consolidated reporting - aka screen scraping), or read/write (for payment initiation).
Account Servicing Payment Service Provider (ASPSP) Legal Entity PSP provides and maintain a payment account for a payer as defined by the PSRs and, in the context of the Open Banking Ecosystem are entities that publish Read/Write APIs to permit, with customer consent, payments initiated by third party providers and/or make their customers’ account transaction data available to third party providers via their API end points. the bank or its agent
Third Party Provider / Trusted Third Party (TPP) Legal Entity PSP organisation or natural person that use APIs developed to Standards to access customer’s accounts, in order to provide account information services and/or to initiate payments. Third Party Providers are PISPs or AISPs. see PISP and AISP below
Financial Conduct Authority Legal Entity Federation Owner The FCA is the competent authority for the UK No
↑ Saira Guthrie, Open Banking and Identity: Chris Michael Talks Current State, Trends and the Future. Ping (2018-09-19) https://www.pingidentity.com/en/company/blog/posts/2018/open-banking-identity-chris-michael-talks-current-state-trends-future.html?
↑ UK Open Banking OIDC Security Profile. https://bitbucket.org/openid/obuk/src/4630771db004da59992fb201641f5c4ff2c881f1/uk-openbanking-security-profile.md?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default
The API page on this wiki helps put the banking apis in context.
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How to download YouTube videos to watch offline
by Rachel Kaser — in Basics
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff.
YouTube videos are great ways to keep yourself entertained for a short period of time — but what happens when you don’t have access to the internet? How do you save YouTube videos to watch later?
Bear in mind all that, barring the first example, these methods aren’t officially sanctioned by YouTube or Google. So use at your own discretion.
The easiest way to download videos for offline viewing is to have a YouTube Premium subscription. If you go Premium, you don’t need any third-party software. However, the only way you can really download videos on a Premium sub is via the YouTube app — not the actual site.
To download videos as a Premium user, find the grey button that looks like a downward-pointing arrow under the video on the YouTube app. This will save the video to a special playlist of downloaded videos, which can then be viewed offline.
This option is also available for regular YouTube members in several countries — check here to see if your country is on the list.
Online Video Converter is good for those who aren’t on mobile. It’s a simple-to-use site that converts a YouTube video into various video and audio files — including MP4, which is what we used while testing it.
Credit: Online Video Converter
To use it, just click the option to “Convert a video link,” and paste a link to the video you want to convert. Select the format you need, and then click “Start.” The site will convert to a downloadable file. This site doesn’t give you an option on what kind of video quality you’ll get, unfortunately. There are other sites which will allow that, but this is the one that worked most reliably for us.
TubeMate/Documents
Both of these apps are good for downloading YouTube videos on mobile devices. TubeMate is a popular tool for Android devices, although fair warning: you can’t get it from the Play Store. Documents by Readdle, on the other hand, is available on the App Store.
TubeMate works very similarly to YouTube Premium, only it also comes with quality options. When you find a video you want to download, select the red download button and choose your quality and format. This will save the video as a file on your device.
Documents by Readdle is a little more complicated, but still fairly easy to figure out. To use it, copy the link of the video you want to save, then open the Documents app, which is a catch-all file management app. Open the online browser from the compass icon on the bottom right.
Once you’ve done that, enter the address of the video conversion site of your choice — we used Online Video Converter, mentioned above. Follow the steps to convert the video to a format compatible with iOS (we used .mov), then download the video. The video will be saved in a folder marked “Downloads” that you can access from the main page.
Once you find the video in your Downloads folder, select the ellipsis next to it to access your options. Hit “Move” and find the folder for your Photos app, which should be nested under the Documents folder. Move the file to this folder, and you’ll automatically have it in your Photos app as a video.
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The World's eyes are today focused on the United States of America as Barack Obama takes oath of office as the 44th president of the world's biggest Democracy. The historic event that will attract attention from all parts of the world is expected to be witnessed by millions in the United States whilst several television channels show a live coverage of the event. Already Obama's brother in Kenya has flown to the United States last week to be part of those dignitaries to attend the ceremony. Since his defeat of his republican adversary, Senator John MacCain, in the last November polls, Obama has been busy as he forms his team that will run the future affairs of the United States. However for Barack Obama rivalry in politics does not mean creation of enemies or enemity. Media reports have shown Mr. Obama meeting with John MacCain as they discuss issues that many have considered to be crucial matters affecting America: issues ranging from housing to unemployment to Iraq and Afghanistan and especially the recession and economic depression, among other issues. Also Obama has since appointed his former Democratic running mate Hilary Clinton as his Secretary of State, which is an important development given Mrs Clinton's wealth of experience and the advantage ofkeeping the Democratic Party and the government and the Nation intact and united in the face of all the formidable problems confronting the United States. But for many who are monitoring events not only in the United States, but in the world at large, Obama's assuming power has come at a time when the world is grappling with global financial crises coupled with wars the latest being Israel and Palestine.He being an African-American, the Continent of Africa will perhaps look up to the Obama presidency in tackling some of the major issues affecting them, namely wars (rebellions), diseases and above all the economic status of Africa with regards to donor lending and borrowing.
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Album Review: The Courteeners – Concrete Love
By Mary Chang on Tuesday, 12th August 2014 at 12:00 pm
At the end of 2013, Liam Fray revealed there was uncertainty about the Courteeners’ future, or at least doubt on when the Manchester indie rock/pop band would be appearing next at a venue near you. Speaking to Gigwise after a hometown arena show last December, Fray suggested it could be a year or more before they made another live appearance, stressing a “need to go away and decide which ones work best, what we like and reassess really for the next ‘phase’”. Clearly, these qualms didn’t last all that long; songwriting and recording for the group’s fourth album ‘Concrete Love’, to be released next Monday, must have surely commenced soon after.
The first taste of the new album appeared back in June. ‘Summer’ is an unabashed attempt at a summer smash, replete with a bouncy rhythm and feel good guitar strumming that puts you in an island state of mind. When the chorus comes in, there’s an echo effect placed on both the guitars and Fray’s voice that makes ‘Not Nineteen Forever’ and ‘You Overdid It Doll’ days of yore seem like a distance memory. For sure, the song has charm at this time of year, but are we really going to be listening to it when the leaves have fallen and winter has taken hold? Doubtful. Still, one could argue that if they’re going for single sales, it was a well-timed effort.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc-IOuwqUN4[/youtube]
Funnily enough, it was Fray himself who said in that aforementioned Gigwise interview, “I definitely think that labels and producers whatever are putting all their eggs in one basket for two or three tracks. Whereas, I think it has to be about everything really, you have to try and make every song as big”. Maybe this is where they got ‘Concrete Love’ wrong? Each of these 11 tunes on the LP has elements that could be deemed ‘big’, but few have staying power. The collection also suffers from a lack of cohesiveness, as well as an ill-conceived song order.
In stark contrast to the sunniness of ‘Summer’, the album begins with ‘White Horses’ (seriously, what is up with rock stars and their preoccupation with equines?), which is dark, loud and bombastic, as if the Courteeners are trying to shed their pop image. It’s an emphatic beginning but some momentum and mood is lost as it’s directly followed by their current single ‘How Good It Was’. This sees the band embracing the pop/rock sound they’re most popular for, which isn’t a bad thing at all. It’s not as catchy as ‘Are You in Love with a Notion?’ from last year’s album ‘Anna’, it’s memorable, but if you’re sat listening to this album start to finish, it can feel like an uncomfortable segue.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty8vkkzrOA4[/youtube]
Nearly halfway through the LP is ‘Black and Blue’: with its frenetic rhythm and Fray’s sometimes menacing cadences, it would have felt more appropriate on an EP with the similar ‘White Horses’ and can be regarded as a natural progression from 2012 single ‘Lose Control’. ‘Saboteur’ is this release’s ‘You Overdid It Doll’ moment, with funk, synths and squeals of guitar. Then there is ‘Next Time You Call’ – with a riff that appears to have been stolen from Elbow’s ‘Grounds for Divorce’ – has Northern swagger, something that there is sadly too little of on this album.
Most of the album’s pace slows to a near halt due to the balladry, in the form of ‘Small Bones’, ‘Has He Told You He Loves You Yet’, and ‘International’, and later on to close out the album with ‘Dreamers’ and ‘Beautiful Head’. These songs aren’t bad, but there isn’t much there to hold your attention for long. Fray’s vocals introducing ‘Small Bones’ are admirable in their sincerity, but the horn section that comes in soon after him seems heavy-handed and breaks the reverie. ‘International’ and ‘Beautiful Head’ have percussive bluster and piano so Coldplay-esque, it’s almost painful. As a result, the album feels schizophrenic: at their shows, are you supposed to jump up and down with abandon, or are you supposed to stand there static or perhaps gently swaying in place with your LED wristband? We’ll have to see how the new material fares at Reading and Leeds.
The Courteeners’ fourth album ‘Concrete Love’ will be out next Monday, the 18th of August, on Polydor Records. Visit the band’s Web site for more information on how to order signed copies of CDs; deluxe CDs including the ‘Live at Castlefield Bowl DVD, filmed in July 2013 in Manchester; and the album on limited edition white vinyl.
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Douglas Laman August 6, 2020 Anniversaries, Features, Movies
“The Other Guys” indulges in the crimes it condemns
Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell in The Other Guys. (Sony)
Now 10 years old, Adam McKay’s screwball screed against Wall Street is hindered by being a cop-centric affair.
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10 years after The Other Guys, a lot has changed for its principal actors and director. Will Ferrell is still headlining comedies, but modern Ferrell vehicles like Holmes & Watson haven’t been anywhere near as beloved as Anchorman. Mark Wahlberg, meanwhile, almost exclusively does Peter Berg action movies aimed at baby boomers. As for director Adam McKay, he’s now helming award season dramas venting rage at 2000s-era politics (The Big Short, Vice) with famous people explaining basic socio-political concepts to the camera.
Ferrell, Wahlberg, and McKay are all on very different paths in 2020. But for one moment in August 2010, their paths all crossed with McKay’s action comedy, The Other Guys. Though it’s a buddy cop movie, The Other Guys is not about the kind of badasses you usually see headlining this kind of fare. We meet those kinds of characters in a prologue in the form of Detectives Highsmith (Samuel L. Jackson) and Danson (Dwayne Johnson). Highsmith and Danson are cool: They crash cars, they catch bad guys, they make snarky quips while in high-speed pursuits.
The actual protagonists of The Other Guys are far less glamorous. Though Allen Gamble (Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz (Wahlberg) are police detectives, they rarely leave their desks. They spend their days typing away on computers, toiling away for NYPD’s accounting department. This suits mild-mannered Gamble fine, but Hoitz is a hothead who wants the chance to redeem himself as an officer (especially after an incident in which he shot Derek Jeter in the foot).
Hoitz gets his chance when Gamble stumbles upon a conspiracy involving billionaire Sir David Ershon (Steve Coogan), which starts as a seemingly routine scaffolding permit violation but leads Gamble and Hoitz to discover a much larger plot involving money laundering, securities fraud, and Chechen mercenaries. Now the other guys are the ones tackling this Wall Street subterfuge.
As recent films like Ready or Not and Knives Out have shown, the rich make for great baddies in genre fare. They’re immediately unlikeable for hoarding money when so many don’t have anything, while letting audiences live vicariously through protagonists who challenge the largesse of the wealthy. The Other Guys was released a mere two years after the 2008 recession and after Bernie Madoff was sent to prison for his Ponzi scheme, which bilked nearly $64.8 million from working people. The searing realization of what rich white people can get away with was fresh on the mind of both McKay and the audience.
Meanwhile, the entire concept of centering the film around ordinary people (“the other guys”) is meant to provide a voice to the type of people upended by the financial crisis. All of the folks who actually lost money in 2008 or in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme before that or any other financial crisis? They’re represented by Hoitz and Gamble, two everyday people who drive around in a Prius.
This coding of helpful figures as scrappier, financially-challenged people even extends to supporting characters. Take Captain Gene Mauch (Michael Keaton), who works two jobs, one of them at Bed Bath & Beyond, to help his son get through college. Fittingly for both angles, he’s much happier at his working-class job at BB&B than the screaming, enraged police chief cliché Keaton’s clearly riffing on.
McKay’s fixation on the corruption that informed this real-world event is so discernible that it keeps going even after The Other Guys ends. Many comedies just play a smattering of outtakes over the credits, but McKay’s credits scroll by a variety of infographics illustrating how out-of-control financial inequality has gotten in America. Most comedies are content to let the audience leave the theater chuckling. The Other Guys wants viewers to leave seething at real-world injustices.
Unfortunately, this critical theme of The Other Guys is undercut by some of the film’s other choices that were out of date even in 2010. For one thing, filtering the story through the perspective of two cops undercuts the idea of Hoitz and Gamble representing the “little guy.” They may not be rich like Ershon, but they are still two white people working for the American police department. Not only do they have an enormous amount of privilege on their side, but they themselves are part of another broken institution that gives them almost literal license to hurt people.
The Other Guys’ whole approach to police officers is of this troubling variety. A group therapy session full of violent cops is played off for light laughs; meanwhile, the audience is supposed to cheer when Hoitz chooses to stop being a non-violent traffic officer and returns to being a gun-firing police officer. These choices tend to complicate any salient points The Other Guys makes about Wall Street corruption. It’s basically the cinematic equivalent of Clickhole’s “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point” article.
[T]he light-hearted goofiness gets upended by the way The Other Guys turns a blind eye to one form of real-world corruption while highlighting another.
McKay’s recurring lack of room for people of color and women in his films also creeps in here and further undercuts its intended sociopolitical commentary. Apparently, only a handful of people of color exist in the New York City of The Other Guys. Meanwhile, women exist to either fawn over Gamble or serve as fodder for Hoitz’s tragic backstory. How can the movie claim to provide a voice for the downtrodden when so many oppressed groups never even get a chance to speak?
Of course, the sociopolitical and representation-related elements aren’t the reason this movie exists. It’s a movie that’s about Ferrell and Wahlberg being goofy cops with their wooden guns, hidden Little River Band CD’s, and bad peacock metaphors. To be sure, many of those antics are fun, especially the ones involving Keaton’s character. But the light-hearted goofiness gets upended by the way The Other Guys turns a blind eye to one form of real-world corruption while highlighting another.
In that respect, it’s more similar than expected to McKay’s 2018 film, Vice. Both are rightfully enraged at powerful corruption but can’t seem to imagine that anyone would have a more interesting perspective on this than other corrupt white people. In both films, the limited number of perspectives turn what’s supposed to be an outraged screech into a softer, agitated yelp.
Unlike Vice, though, The Other Guys isn’t all darker political drama all the time. Most of this 2010 comedy is focused on bits of lunacy like the Lion/Tuna monologue. The funny moments are there, yes, but in many respects, The Other Guys is a bit of a cop-out.
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Authors Margo Bond Collins And Dana Lyons Announce Release Of New Reverse Harem Novel, ‘All That Glitters’
Dec 2, 2017 | Art
Reverse Harem is the hottest new trend in the romance novel genre. The new release is now available in paperback and ebook formats.
WILMINGTON, NC, December 02, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — New York Times Best Seller author Margo Bond Collins and Dana Lyons have announced the release of a new reverse harem novel, ‘All That Glitters’.
In ‘All That Glitters’, two shapeshifter packs of survivors drop their rivalry to close ranks and defeat an overwhelming force determined to tear their world apart.
When Jasper, Alia’s love, is kidnapped by raiders, she sets out to rescue him, but discovers she needs help. Meanwhile, pack-leader Zina wants a safe haven to raise children. Together they penetrate the Federal Reserve in Manhattan and face a superior and advanced enemy. What the raiders don’t count on is the power of love–particularly when it’s supported by the women’s reverse harems.
“What we both love most about this new release is the way it ties the growing reverse harem trend to our favorite paranormal romance genre,” Collins said. “And then we drop all of those characters into a post-apocalyptic world to face apparently impossible odds. This may be the most fun either of us has ever had writing a novel.”
Reverse Harem is the hottest new trend in romance-novel genres, enjoying a rapidly expanding fan base. Reverse harem romances involve the relationship of one woman to three or more men, whose job is to love and support, defend and delight the lead female, whether she’s a queen, a high school student, or a survivor of the apocalypse. The relationships are deep, committed, and for life, not a sexual free for all. For the readers of reverse harem romances, this commitment is the primary appeal, although the heat levels in the genre can vary widely, ranging from sweet, young-adult romances to more explicit stories.
Unlike many other romance-novel subgenres, reverse harem is categorized by the quality of the relationships rather than the setting. Reverse harem stories can be contemporary, paranormal, science fiction, or even post-apocalyptic romances, as long as the romance is between one woman and three or more men.
In reverse harem romances, shapeshifter storylines are particularly popular at the moment, perhaps because the pack structure familiar to paranormal romance readers transfers easily to the reverse harem formula. In these new stories, rather than having a strong male alpha in charge, the heroine is the leader of the pack, and the pack is her harem.
Margo Bond Collins and Dana Lyons are available for media interviews and can be reached using the information below or by email at [email protected]. ‘All That Glitters’ is available in print and ebook format at Amazon. More information is available at http://www.margobondcollins.net/reverse-harem.
Margo Bond Collins is a New York Times Best Seller author with 20 books to her credit. She is a cross-genre writer and produces works in the paranormal romance, urban fantasy, science fiction and contemporary romance genres.
Dana Lyons was a winner in the 2016 and 2015 ’50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading’ Awards. She too writes cross-genre. Her body of work includes ‘A Love Reborn’, ‘The Road to Babylon’,’Heart of the Druae’, and’The Rosetta Coin’.
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Covid-19 | The Journal, Part 8
Ruth British History, Christmas, Covid-19, London, Politics, Scrapbooking, Wit Or Wisdom December 17, 2020 December 15, 2020
The UK reached a new low in the fight against Covid-19 when the government announced an official death rate of over 50,000. The UK prime minister announced that he would be self-isolating for two weeks after hosting a face-to-face breakfast meeting where a Conservative MP later tested positive. In good news, Moderna announced a 95% success rate in its vaccine trials.
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It sounds like a cliche but it really is a roller coaster year isn’t it? Here’s some bad news, followed by here’s some good news! At least it means you won’t be short of something to record each day! Sorry to hear that London in in Tier 3, to be honest I’m surprised we aren’t too as we border one of the towns in Essex that is Tier 3 and the other half of Hertfordshire has been put there too, we are sandwiched between them so it must surely just be a matter of time.
Welcome to Tier 3! 😦
Mary-Lou Burma says:
Vaccine news is the story of the year. Deb is right, it’s been a roller coaster ride this year. I find it most interesting, that this side of the pond, it was also women that were the first to receive the vaccine. In Ontario & New York State both women are health care workers. Quebec (Canada) vaccinated an 89 yr woman in LTC.
I hadn’t given any thought about the first being a woman, just so glad it’s actually beginning.
Melissa Gross says:
It’s certainly amazing how the news is up and down. You’re doing a great job recording this in your journal! I just heard London’s in Tier 4 now. 😦 Such a hard Christmas this will be for many. Sending hugs across the pond as we watch death rates increase & a vaccine roll our here as well.
I’m a day or so late … and it’s extraordinary how much things have changed in just forty-eight hours. Truly, if this was a film, no-one would believe the twists, turns and volte-faces. You are doing a splendid job of recording it all in such vivid detail – a wonderful record for the years to come.
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It’s UMNO’s Racism & Discrimination Policies Against Chinese & Indian : Not Vernacular Schools That Destroy National Unity
After playing the 3R cards (religion, racial and royalty) to the hilt, the adventurous UMNO appears to be trying to politicise education. The name Mohd Fadil Osman might not mean anything to average Joes and Janes. But the UMNO Kemayan assemblyman’s claim that vernacular schools destroy unity in Malaysia is both entertaining and ignorance.
During a question-and-answer session in the 14th Pahang State Legislative Assembly on April 16, Mr. Fadil argued that the more fund vernacular schools receive from the federal government, the more severe the damage will be done to national unity. He also mocked students of Chinese and Tamil vernacular schools of acting like “pendatang (foreigners or immigrants)”.
Besides showing his ignorance, he has practically proven that the UMNO party has been adopting racism and discrimination against the ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indian for the last 61 years – treating the minority non-Malay communities as second-class citizens. In actual fact, it was (and still is) UMNO politicians – not vernacular schools – who have destroyed the nation’s unity.
There are two things that minority Chinese treasure dearly – economy and education. If you try to take one of them away, you are asking for trouble. Temples and and education are equally important to the minority Indian community. That was why when the 147-year-old Sri Maha Marianmman temple in Seafield was attacked by a gang of 50-250 Malay thugs, all hell broke loose.
The route to education for the ethnic Chinese is pretty simple. Majority – up to 90% – will send their children to vernacular schools for their primary school education. Those who send their kids to international schools will most often than not enrol their precious children for extra classes just to learn Mandarin. The objective is to protect mother-tongue education as well as to get a quality education.
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For those who can afford an overseas education, Chinese students as young as 11 years old (Primary 5) would sit for the international school entrance exam, skipping one year of primary 6 at SJKC. Those who cannot afford the expensive international school would most likely continue their education at Chinese secondary schools and thereafter – UEC (Unified Examination Certificate) examination.
There’s a third option for the poor parents, though – secondary school education at Malay-medium national schools. Even then, the parents will be fighting tooth and nail – every year – to get their children into “quality or top” (recognised as a Cluster School of Excellence) public funded national schools. Regardless of which the routes are taken, they receive sufficient amount of Malay language education.
The funny thing is, despite claims by UMNO politicians – every now and then – that Chinese and Tamil vernacular schools are a hindrance to national unity, more and more majority ethnic Malay are attracted to such schools. There are more than 80,000 Malay school children currently studying in vernacular “SJKCs” schools – due to their high quality education and discipline.
Was Mohd Fadil Osman trying to say that the 80,000 Malay parents who joined the bandwagon of 600,000 Chinese parents in vernacular schools are equally responsible for damaging the national unity? In fact, UMNO Youth Chief Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki sends his children to Chinese vernacular school, despite his objection to recognizing the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC).
It’s absolutely hypocritical and hypocrisy to condemn the vernacular schools for allegedly promoting disunity, but quietly sends their own children to the same schools to get a quality education. It also does not hold water to accuse students from vernacular schools possess a poor grasp of Malay language when the results of examination show they are better than students from Malay-medium national-type schools.
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While there is no evidence of vernacular schools causing disunity in the country, there are tons of evidence of UMNO Malay Nationalist Party destroying the national unity. It’s also shallow-minded to claim that abolishing various streams or vernacular schools and forces everyone into a single stream Malay-medium national school is the key to unity.
The Chinese Indonesians have been studying in a single-stream education system all their life. They have had practically surrendered everything in the name of the so-called national unity. Sukarno regime in 1958 forced the ethnic Chinese to use Indonesian-sounding names, and their traditions and culture were forbidden.
Yet, the Indonesian “New Order” revealed its ugly face in 1998. During the riots following the Asian Financial Crisis, Chinese Indonesians were violently targeted. The minority community saw thousands of their ethnicity raped, robbed, plundered and killed. Former President Suharto’s corruption, mismanagement and incompetency were blamed on the country’s ethnic Chinese instead.
How could UMNO, and the new government for that matter, convinces the ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indian to surrender the vernacular “SJKCs” schools when non-Muslim primary school students of SRK Sri Pristana, a Malay-medium national school, were forced to eat their meals during recess in the toilet due to the ongoing Ramadan fasting month in 2013?
And who can forget the 2010 incident in Kedah, where the headmistress of Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Bukit Selambau accused Chinese students of being insensitive towards their Muslim peers by eating in the school compound during the fasting month of Ramadan, before ordering them to “return to China” if they could not respect the culture of other races.
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The usage of different language as the medium of teaching instruction at vernacular schools does not contribute to national disunity at all. Instead, it’s the ideology promoted by the schools which determine the national unity. The 80,000 Malay parents sending their children to “SJKCs” are the best testimony that vernacular schools promote harmony by instilling moral values in children.
UMNO’s racism and discrimination policies against ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indian, using the minorities as punching bags whenever the needs arise, is the ultimate reason national unity in the country is destroyed. It was perhaps the lack of confidence, hatred and jealousy that drove UMNO assemblyman like Mohd Fadil Osman cooking up a cock and bull story about vernacular schools damaging unity.
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Luis Lopez , NEW MEXICO
Camping New Mexico Luis Lopez Tent Sites
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1 - Water Canyon Campground, NM
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Campgrounds near Luis Lopez , New Mexico
Most Recent Luis Lopez Camping Reviews
Edith H.
San Antonio Bosque Park
Nice spot in the cottonwoods room for about 10 with good space in between. Concrete tables with fire pits although there's restrictions right now. It is right off the road and a little steep to get into.
Candice T.
Escondida Lake Park & Campground
Okay Park
It’s okay. Has decent hookups and a firepit. Comes with free firewood, which was nice. Has a picnic table. No showers. No bathrooms during covid, which sucks. Campsites are pretty close together.
Dennis P.
San Lorenzo Canyon
Hoodoos and beasties
Rather hard to find the road onto the correct road to get to the right road! Once headed to the west look for the sign taking you to the right into a dry wash. Follow the arroyo past a giant "bread loaf" that is a geological unconformity. Drive into an abrupt canyon with straight walls and side slots. Eventually you run into a rock wall that can be traversed by scrambling around it and continue 1/2 mile to a short pour-off. Camping is allowed but be aware of flash floods. It's a narrow canyon with only one way out. A parallel road just to the south of San Lorenzo Canyon is all on BLM land (dispersed camping). Pack it in, pack it out.
Reviewed January 2nd, 2021
Cibola National Forest Bear Trap Campground
The drive up is worth it.
We truck camped, but saw other people make it in their AWD SUV. Don't even think of bringing an RV of any size unless it's a cab-over that you don't mind scratching up. Once there you find cement tables spaced far enough apart for average camping privacy. Birding is good as there is a stream nearby. Good place for summer camping to escape the heat, but watch for precipitation that may make the road impassable for some time. It's a long way up there.
Springtime Campground
4x4 encouraged
The road in may require 4x4 depending on any precip or how one drives. Once there, you're rewarded with Adirondack shelters and shaded sites. We even had split firewood at our site courtesy of a fire crew, I think. A trail starts from the last campsite that climbs in altitude to some awesome views. No water, toilets, or other amenities, but clean sites w/ picnic tables.
Theresa R.
Best free campsite I have ever been to!
We just arrived at this free campground. Concrete picnic tables and fire rings provided. We are surrounded by what looks to me like oak trees, but I have yet to confirm that. It reminds me of my home state of Minnesota!
We are near the Rio Grande Bosque, and are looking forward to our ventures observing the migratory birds of the area.
Water Canyon Campground
Free for 2 More Years!
We loved this place. Attempted at first to camp at The Box down the road but it was really crowded so we came here and what a great choice!
This is a FREE campground but plans are in the works to started charging in 2 years at $10/night. There are gravel tent and parking pads, picnic tables, fire rings, pit toilets and garbage.
When you first pull in there is a narrow opening to a rocky dirt road straight ahead and to the left is a day use picnic area. The sign at the beginning of the dirt road said trailers not advisable but one came down before we started up so we went for it. We have a 26 foot class C. Dirt road driving experience necessary. The road is quite narrow, rocky and has a couple washouts and tight turns but not impossible to navigate….use your best judgement!
There were only a couple of other campers and the views are very nice. Some sites are close together however. There are pit toilets and garbage at the beginning of the campground and at the end loop.
Great hiking area too! Further down the road where it says "no turn around" is a group site but the gate is locked and you'll need to contact National Forest Service if you want to use this area.
There is no drinking water or cell reception from AT&T or Verizon. Pets allowed on a leash. Also there are free roaming cattle we saw on the main road in but none in the campground though there was poop evidence that they've been around.
Along the dirt road hiking trails near the campground people have made other camping areas with rock fire pits. The roads to these areas are narrow and 4WD necessary.
Visited in November
The Box Recreation Area
Rough Tent Camping...Great Rock Climbing
Drove down the night before in order to go climbing the next day. Found a decent spot in a dry wash to put up the tent for the night. It worked and allowed quick access to the crag in the morning. Does start to get busy with climbers fairly early (8am or so). Would be perfect for somebody with a camper-van or teardrop.
Sekkyoshi
La Vista RV Park
As good as it gets, Quiet, scenic and far enough away but not too far.
Kiva RV Park & Horse Motel
Humble but still pretty nice
We live in Albuquerque, but wanted to spend a day hiking the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. Kiva RV Park is just a 5 minute drive from the NWR, so we stayed there on a Friday night, so we could get up bright and early for our hiking the next day.
The folks running the place were very friendly. Led us to our spot and made sure everything was okay for us. It's a fairly humble place…gravel roads and parking spots. No concrete to be seen. Each slot has a fairly wide planted area, but this is not patches of green lawn. They have mature native trees and shrubs that are well maintained. Plenty of big cottonwood trees provided shade. The place is clearly run on a low budget, but is well maintained and there is pride in the work here. When we visited, it appeared to be nearly full, and it felt like perhaps 50/50 mix between long-term residents and overnight(or nearly overnight) visitors. There is a large corral area for horses. We walked over to it but there were no horses there. There's a little dog park, a bathhouse and laundry. We didn't use any of those amenities, so I can't comment. I believe the laundry is listed as free.(This is not the case with the wifi, which was complex and had a fee.) I just used my hotspot from my Verizon service and because we had 4 bars, that worked just fine for streaming some Netflix that night.
We really like the place. Lots of neighbors, but everyone was very friendly, and no late partying. A few kids. But really, it was all very pastoral and nice. We'd stay here again.
Not all was perfect. Aside from the less-than-friendly wifi: 1) The sewer hookup is just an open pipe. No threads. A little stinky when you take the cover off. 2) It is almost literally right next to the interstate. There's no denying those traffic noise is real. We slept with no issues, but if traffic noise doesn't act like white noise for you…you might want to look somewhere else. We're lucky; but I know this is a deal-breaker for some.
They do offer a Good Sam discount of 10%, so with tax, we paid $34. Well worth it. Very nice stay.
Reviewed November 3rd, 2020
Visited in May
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Minister McConalogue will not consider amendments to S.I 318 of 2020
by editor | Sep 24, 2020 | Featured News, Irish Fishing Industry, Latest News
Minister for the Marine, Charlie McConalogue will not consider amendments to S.I 318 of 2020
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has confirmed that Minister Charlie McConalogue will not make amendments to the penalty points system signed into law by An Taoiseach Micheál Martin on 26 August 2020.
Last week members of the four Irish fish producers organisations, the Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation. the IrishFish Produccers Organisation, the Irish South and East Fish Producers Organisation and the Irish South and West Fish Producers Organisation, met remotely with the Minister to discuss Brexit and the issue of the penalty but came away dissatisfied with the Minister’s response.
On Friday 18 September, the four fish producers sent a joint letter to Minister McConalogue asking him to reconsider four Sections in S.I 318 of 2020 which they considered their “main concerns”.
In a communication to The Fishing Daily, a Department official said:
“The Minister is satisfied that the new arrangements as provided for in this S.I. are the minimum required to meet the tests of proportionality, effectiveness and dissuasiveness as required under EU law.
“Also, the new S.I. takes on board in full the findings of the related 2017 Supreme Court judgment that the procedures followed must be fair and in accordance with best practices.
“The Minister is confident that the new enhanced points system for licence holders provided for in the S.I., applicable equally to Irish and other EU vessels operating in our 200 mile zone, will play an important role in delivering on our Common Fisheries Policy objective of ensuring proportionate, effective and dissuasive penalties for serious infringements and will contribute to a level playing field in fisheries control across Member States and will help to protect the stocks in our zone and protect the livelihoods of the vast majority of our law abiding fishermen.”
The Taoiseach and the Minister has been heavily criticised for supporting a piece of legislation they voted down when in opposition in 2018. Then DAFM Minister, Michael Creed TD sought to introduce the exact same S.I but Fianna Fáil TD, Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher tabled a motion before the House which saw the legislation defeated.
At the time Fianna Fáil TD declared “The statutory Instrument placed before the Dáil by Minister Creed seriously undermines the rights of individual fishermen and vessel owners throughout the country”
As Patrick Murphy from the Irish South and West Fish Producers Organisation commented “We seem to have gone back in time and are experiencing amnesia with regards to our current government and the parties that are in it.”
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WHL Predictions: Rockets Fuelled For Championship
By Larry Fisher September 15th, 2014
We have a consensus — the Kelowna Rockets will be crowned Western Hockey League champions this season.
In polling fellow WHL experts Andy Eide of Seattle and Ryan Pike of Calgary for their pre-season predictions, it came back a clean sweep with the three of us unanimously picking the Rockets to repeat as regular-season champions and to capture their first playoff title since 2009 when they defeated the Calgary Hitmen in the league final. That team, led by power forward Jamie Benn and towering defender Tyler Myers, both household names in the NHL these days, made it all the way to the Memorial Cup championship game before dropping a 4-1 decision to Taylor Hall’s Windsor Spitfires.
This year’s Kelowna team is more about depth than star power. The Rockets are not without their question marks, having lost their head coach while graduating their three leading scorers and the Canadian Hockey League’s goaltender of the year. They will also need to find an answer to their playoff nemesis, the Portland Winterhawks, who have eliminated Kelowna three times in the past four years, including a five-game rout this past spring in the Western Conference final. The Winterhawks went on to lose in seven games to the eventual Memorial Cup champion Edmonton Oil Kings before also bidding farewell to their coach and a few high-end talents in the off-season.
I was the first to cast my secret ballot, not knowing which way Andy and Ryan were leaning with their predictions, so I was risking the homer label by voting in favour of the Rockets — I live in Kelowna and attend at least 50 per cent of their home games. But despite all that, I didn’t hesitate in picking them because I believe the core of this Kelowna team, which could return as many as 18 players from last season, learned some valuable lessons from its most recent playoff loss to Portland.
I was relieved, and perhaps a little surprised, when the outsiders, with insider-level knowledge, shared that sentiment by also putting their faith in the Rockets ahead of the 2014-15 season.
How’s that for pressure, or rather expectation? Can Kelowna live up to the hype? We think so.
(Shoot the Breeze Photography)
Defenceman Madison Bowey, a Washington Capitals prospect, will captain the Kelowna Rockets as our choice to capture the WHL championship this season.
We also voted on everything from leading scorer to top rookie and, as it turned out, we were on the same page with a lot of stuff. Time will tell whether that’s smart minds thinking alike or a case of dummies unite.
Without further a do, and with the puck set to drop on the 2014-15 WHL season this Friday, here are the 10 categories followed by our predictions for each:
1) League Champion (Playoffs)
2) Conference Champions (Regular Season)
3) Surprise Team
4) Bust Team
5) Top Scorer
6) Top Defenceman
7) Top Goaltender
8) Top Rookie
9) Top Import (New & Returning)
10) Top 3 NHL Draft Picks
League Champion (Playoffs)
LARRY FISHER: Kelowna Rockets — This team is primed to take a step forward despite those aforementioned losses in personnel. It should be a smooth transition from Ryan Huska to new head coach Dan Lambert, who was promoted after 5 seasons as an assistant on Huska’s staff. Kelowna’s young forward trio of draft-eligible Nick Merkley, the reigning WHL rookie of the year and a potential first-round pick, Rourke Chartier (San Jose Sharks) and Justin Kirkland (Nashville Predators) will more than make up for Myles Bell and Ryan Olen, while captain Madison Bowey leads the league’s deepest defence corps. Providing Jackson Whistle can pick up where Jordon Cooke left off in goal, the Rockets should be unstoppable this season. I’ll take them to win it all, defeating the Brandon Wheat Kings in a hard-fought WHL final with Kelowna’s past playoff experience proving to be the difference.
ANDY EIDE: Kelowna Rockets — For the second straight year, I am enamored with the Rockets and despite them letting me down last year, I’m picking them to win the WHL again this season. I have them beating Calgary in the final after dispatching Portland in the Western Conference final. The Rockets will be strong defensively again and Whistle is more than capable to step in for the graduated Cooke in net. They will again have balanced scoring and Merkley should have a big year for them in his draft year.
RYAN PIKE: Kelowna Rockets — I think the Rockets topple the emerging Oil Kings’ dynasty after just one season. The leadership group in Edmonton won’t be as seasoned as in years past, and I wonder if tasting success last year won’t leave the remaining players quite as hungry as they were a year ago. On the other hand, the Rockets are absolutely starving for success, and I think that’ll fuel them all season long.
Conference Champions (Regular Season)
ANDY EIDE: Kelowna Rockets (West) — I think it will again come down to Portland and Kelowna, although keep an eye on the Victoria Royals. Last year the U.S. Division was tougher from top to bottom, which may have cost Portland the regular-season title. This year, the gap between the U.S. and B.C. divisions is tighter which could make the run for the top spot go down to the wire. In the end, the Rockets have more going for them on the blue-line and in net which will help them nudge ahead of the Winterhawks for first in the West.
Calgary Hitmen (East) — It looks like it will be a to a two-horse race between the Hitmen and Brandon Wheat Kings. Calgary has the edge in experience, while the Wheat Kings are loaded with offensive talent. The Hitmen are stouter defensively and that will give them the edge in the conference race.
RYAN PIKE: Kelowna Rockets (West) — The Rockets have a brand new coach to go with their rapidly-improving core, and I think this is the year they finally oust the Portland Winterhawks (who will lose many key pieces) to be best in the West.
Edmonton Oil Kings (East) — Edmonton still has the league’s best goaltender and a crop of underrated kids to replace their graduating players, so they’re my pick to repeat as East champions.
LARRY FISHER: Kelowna Rockets (West) — Solid roster from top to bottom should lead to consistent winning again. Young forwards will take another step forward and Whistle should be solid behind that stacked defence.
Brandon Wheat Kings (East) — It’s too bad Ryan Pulock won’t be around for this team’s breakout. Young core poised to dominate for years to come and will serve notice this season by dominating a weak East Division to come out on top in the conference.
(Tim Smith/WHL)
The Brandon Wheat Kings have been retooling for a few years and now appear ready to contend again this season. Ryan Pulock (left) is gone, graduating to the pro ranks in the New York Islanders’ system, but Eric Roy (7) will likely be returning to anchor a Brandon blue-line that will be rivalled only by Kelowna. Those two teams could very well be on a collision course in 2014-15, having been ranked 3rd and 5th, respectively, in the pre-season edition of the Canadian Hockey League’s Top-10 Rankings. Yes, Brandon is slotted ahead of Kelowna and behind only the QMJHL’s Rimouski Oceanic and OHL’s Kingston Frontenacs. The Calgary Hitmen are ranked 7th, Portland Winterhawks 10th and the Seattle Thunderbirds were listed as an honourable mention.
Surprise Team
RYAN PIKE: Brandon Wheat Kings — The Wheaties barely made the playoffs a year ago, but with a really strong group of young players just coming to the forefront this season, including defensive wunderkinds Kale Clague and Ryan Pilon, I think the Wheat Kings make some noise this season.
LARRY FISHER: Prince George Cougars — Things are looking up in Cariboo Country. Stuck in a tough B.C. Division but should get back into the playoffs and possibly make some noise. Wouldn’t be shocked to see 35 wins.
Tri-City Americans (Honourable Mention) — Some underrated talent on this roster that could rank third in the U.S. Division behind Portland and the Seattle Thunderbirds. Eric Comrie is arguably the best goalie in the league and will backstop Tri-City to at least 35 victories.
ANDY EIDE: Prince George Cougars — With new ownership and hopefully some renewed enthusiasm, the Cougars could end up surprising folks this year. They could score last year and with draft-eligible Jansen Harkins lighting it up in the pre-season, it looks like they will again this year. If they can get good goaltending from Ty Edmonds, the Cougars could make some noise in the West.
Bust Team
LARRY FISHER: Edmonton Oil Kings — If Curtis Lazar makes the jump to the Ottawa Senators, which is sounding more and more likely, this team will start trending downward. They will finish behind Calgary and possibly Red Deer in the Central Division, then get ousted in the second or third round of playoffs.
ANDY EIDE: Prince Albert Raiders — Bust may be a strong word, but the Raiders may be in for a long year. They were supposed to do big things last season and barely made the playoffs. Their prospects this year don’t look good as they could lose their top players. They most likely will not be getting leading scorer Leon Draisaitl back from the Edmonton Oilers, and there is also an outside chance that they won’t see second-leading scorer Josh Morrissey return from the Winnipeg Jets. If that happens, they will be without their top-three scorers from last season. If just Morrissey returns, look for him to be on the trade block during the season.
RYAN PIKE: Swift Current Broncos — A lot of the Broncos’ success last season was on the back of their top line of Graham Black, Colby Cave and Coda Gordon. Unless they can figure out how to replicate that chemistry and replace Black’s offensive contributions, it could be a long year.
(photo courtesy WHL.ca)
The Portland Winterhawks project to be a high-scoring team again this season, led by the dynamic duo of Oliver Bjorkstrand (above) and Nic Petan, who could battle for the league scoring title in 2014-15.
Top Scorer
ANDY EIDE: Oliver Bjorkstrand (F, Portland) — Looks like he is ready for an explosive season with the Winterhawks this year. Coming off a 50-goal campaign last season, the Columbus Blue Jackets prospect will be playing on Nic Petan’s wing this season. That combination was deadly in the pre-season as Bjorkstrand racked up four goals and seven points in only three games. Can he score 60 this year?
RYAN PIKE: Jaedon Descheneau (F, Kootenay) — Call it a hunch. He’s got a great deal of confidence after last season and a lot of talent. Even if Sam Reinhart doesn’t return, Descheneau should be just fine.
LARRY FISHER: Nic Petan (F, Portland) — This is his award to lose, having already put up 120 (tied for 1st) and 113 points (2nd) the past two seasons. He’ll miss between 5 and 10 games while playing for Canada at the world juniors but should be able to make up that ground. I don’t see any Mitch Holmberg type over-agers stealing the scoring title this season.
Top Defenceman
RYAN PIKE: Shea Theodore (Seattle) — Just 19 years old, Theodore scored at just shy of a point-per-game pace for the Thunderbirds. I think he improves on that this season.
LARRY FISHER: Madison Bowey (Kelowna) — Him and Theodore are going to battle it out from start to finish, but I’ll give the edge to Bowey. He’ll also make Canada’s roster for the world juniors over Theodore. Josh Morrissey might actually be the favourite, but I think he’s sticking in Winnipeg and not coming back to Prince Albert.
ANDY EIDE: Shea Theodore (Seattle) — This will come down to either Morrissey or Theodore. Last year Theodore led WHL defencemen in scoring, finishing six points ahead of Morrissey who played in 11 fewer games. Theodore is somewhat underrated and the smooth-skating Anaheim Ducks prospect could improve on his numbers last year as he will be moving the puck to guys like Mathew Barzal and Ryan Gropp up front. The team around him will allow Theodore to edge out Morrissey this year.
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Eric Comrie of the Tri-City Americans got 2 of our 3 votes for Top Goaltender in 2014-15, although we all agree that Tristan Jarry of the Edmonton Oil Kings will also be in the running for that award.
Top Goaltender
LARRY FISHER: Eric Comrie (Tri-City) — This team could be on the rise, as mentioned, and Comrie would be the biggest reason for that. If he can stay healthy, he’ll steal more wins than any other netminder.
ANDY EIDE: Eric Comrie (Tri-City) — Comrie is one of those players who seems like he’s been in the WHL forever. After getting extensive playing time at 16, the Tri-City Americans goalie continues to put up great numbers and be the league’s top netminder. A student of the game, his anticipation and reflexes are among the best in all of junior hockey. He posted a .925 save percentage last season playing behind a team that had some deficiencies. This season the Americans will be improved and that will pay off big-time for Comrie as he will be the league’s top goalie. A close runner-up to Comrie will be defending Memorial Cup champion Tristan Jarry from the Edmonton Oil Kings.
RYAN PIKE: Tristan Jarry (Edmonton) — He’ll get a bit less help than in previous years, but I think Jarry steals more than a few games for the defending champs.
ANDY EIDE: Tyler Benson (F, Vancouver) — The biggest hype surrounds Benson. Is he worth the hype? The Giants are hoping so and there doesn’t seem to be any reason to think that he won’t be the top non-import rookie in the WHL this year. He’s got good size for a 16-year-old and looked good in the pre-season for Vancouver.
RYAN PIKE: Tyler Benson (F, Vancouver) — Talented in every aspect of the game, Benson will be looked upon to carry the Giants on some nights. He should be up for the challenge.
LARRY FISHER: Sam Steel (F, Regina) — The 2nd overall pick in the 2013 bantam draft led the entire league in pre-season scoring with 6 goals and 10 points in only 4 games. He’ll be given every opportunity to maintain that momentum in the regular season. His biggest competition will likely come from 1st overall selection Benson along with the Brandon boys, forward Nolan Patrick and defenceman Kale Clague.
(Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports)
Nikita Scherbak of the Saskatoon Blades was a surprising revelation last season, scoring at an impressive pace on a cellar-dwelling team. His emergence earned him a first-round selection by the Montreal Canadiens (above centre), and if the skilled winger returns to Saskatchewan this winter, Scherbak should be among the league’s Top Imports again.
Top Import
RYAN PIKE: Nikita Scherbak (F, Saskatoon, returning) — Should he return from Montreal Canadiens training camp, Scherbak should build upon his strong North American debut.
Ivan Provorov (D, Brandon, new) — He joins a strong Wheaties lineup.
LARRY FISHER: Oliver Bjorkstrand (F, Portland, returning) — He’ll be riding shotgun with Petan again this season after picking up where Sven Baertschi left off in enjoying a breakout for 109 points last season. He should come close to matching that total again.
Nikita Scherbak (F, Saskatoon, returning, Honourable Mention) — He was the bright spot on a bad Blades team last season, coming out of nowhere to net 78 points and become a first-round pick after being a relative unknown entering the campaign. There are expectations now and other teams will be game-planning against him, but he should still find success and at least match that point total. And yes, I’m also expecting Leon Draisaitl to make the Edmonton Oilers rather than return to Prince Albert.
Ivan Provorov (D, Brandon, new) — Here’s a guy to look out for. He had 6 points (all assists) in 4 pre-season games and Craig Button has him ranked as a first-round pick for the 2015 NHL draft. He also has him ranked as the second-highest WHLer to be selected, ahead of a half-dozen others who already have plenty of hype heading into this season.
ANDY EIDE: Oliver Bjorkstrand (F, Portland, returning) — For the same reasons he could win the scoring title.
Jiri Smejkal (F, Moose Jaw, new) — Import players are often a crapshoot. For instance, who would have guessed that Nikita Scherbak would be so good last year? You just never know how their games will translate to smaller rinks and more physical play. There are many intriguing imports this year, one that should be interesting to watch is Moose Jaw’s Jiri Smejkal. Listed at 6-foot-3 and 193 pounds, he has been referred to as a power forward, which is not something you see with import players too often. Will he be the best? Hard to say, but he could be.
Top 3 NHL Draft Picks
LARRY FISHER: Mathew Barzal (F, Seattle), Jansen Harkins (F, Prince George) and Paul Bittner (F Portland) — It’s a strong year for WHL prospects in what projects to be a stacked and deep 2015 draft. This trio of forwards should all go top 15 by season’s end and likely in that order, in my opinion. Barzal, the 1st overall pick in the 2012 bantam draft, is somewhat comparable to Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and should at least be a point-per-game player this season. Harkins, who went 2nd in 2012, isn’t ranked as high but he was one of Canada’s better forwards at the Ivan Hlinka tournament in August and was dominant throughout the WHL pre-season. Bittner is a big, strong, Ryan Johansen type with a powerful shot off the wing.
ANDY EIDE: Mathew Barzal (F, Seattle), Ryan Pilon (D, Brandon) and Paul Bittner (F Portland) — The 2015 NHL draft appears to be one of the deepest in recent memory and the WHL will be well represented. Seattle’s playmaking centre Mathew Barzal should be the first player from the WHL selected. Following him will be defenceman Ryan Pilon from the Wheat Kings and Winterhawks big winger Paul Bittner.
RYAN PIKE: Matt Barzal (F, Seattle), Ryan Pilon (D, Brandon) and Ethan Bear (D, Seattle).
(photo by Christopher Mast)
Mathew Barzal of the Seattle Thunderbirds is our consensus favourite to be the first WHL player chosen in the 2015 NHL draft, likely getting called to the stage within the top 10 picks next June barring an unlikely sophomore slump.
Breakout Players
Still haven’t got your fill of pre-season predictions? I’ll leave you with three candidates as breakout players:
Justin Kirkland (F, Kelowna) — This is a bit of a homer pick, but I’m going with what I know best. He will likely be getting first-line and top power-play opportunities with Myles Bell graduating. A third-round pick of the Nashville Predators, Kirkland only had 17 goals and 48 points last season, but I think he’s a good bet for 35 goals and 70 points this season.
Joe Hicketts (D, Victoria) — He’s going to make 30 NHL teams regret passing on him this past June. The Detroit Red Wings invited him to their prospects tournament and they know a steal when they see one. He’s small but reminds me a lot of Tyson Barrie. He was hurt for most of last season, managing 24 points in only 36 games, but I think he’ll be flirting with 50 or maybe even 60 points over 72 games.
Ryan Pilon (D, Brandon) — He needed to get out of Lethbridge and his career looks to be back on track in Brandon. He had 29 points in 49 games following that trade last season, so look for him to top 50 points in his draft year, especially with added ice time because of Pulock’s absence.
Larry Fisher is a sports reporter for The Daily Courier in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. He has been covering the Rockets as a shared beat since 2008 and also provided this preview of the 10 New WHL Head Coaches for 2014-15. Follow him on Twitter: @LarryFisher_KDC.
Andy Eide covers the Seattle Thunderbirds for 710 ESPN Seattle. He contributed this compelling look at an upcoming WHL season full of questions as well as the must-follow WHL Social Media Guide. Follow him on Twitter: @andyeide.
Ryan Pike has covered the NHL’s Calgary Flames extensively since 2010 as Managing Editor of FlamesNation.ca. He also covers the WHL’s Calgary Hitmen. Follow him on Twitter: @RyanNPike.
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TNSTC – Tirunelveli is the public transport bus operator mainly in the districts of Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Kanyakumari. TNSTC – Tirunelveli was formed with merger of erstwhile KTC Kattabomman Transport Corporation and NTC Nesamony Transport Corporation.
Kattabomman Transport corporation ( KTC ) currently TNSTC Tirunelveli was incorporated on 01.01.1974 after taking over 106 buses operated in this districts from Pandian Roadways Corporation ( PRC ) came in to existence with Nagarcoil as its Head Quarters. Later in 1983 buses served in Kanyakumari district was taken and formed Nesamony Transport Corporation ( NTC ). After formation of NTC, KTC HQ was transferred from Nagercoil to Tirunelveli.
In 1997 when Tamilnadu government decided to change the name of every corporation to TNSTC. KTC became TNSTC – Madurai Region II and NTC to TNSTC – Madurai Region III and new coding for buses started for KTC it started with R and next letter A, B denoted each depot, and for NTC it is same with S. slowly these codings were went off.
To bring efficient administration and services TNSTC Tirunelveli was formed with HQ at Tirunelveli came into picture on October 23 2010, taking buses from operational area of Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Kanyakumari additionaly took Sencottah Depot from Virudhunagar Region with Regional offices at Tirunelveli and Nagercoil. on June 20 2013, a new regional office at Thoothukudi opened for better operations.
Registration Nos: TN – 72, TN – 74.
Presently TNSTC – Tirunelveli operates city buses in three important cities ( Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Nagercoil ) of Tamilnadu. It also operates long distance services from Kaliyakavilai, Mathandam, Kanyakumari, Nagercoil, Sencottah, Tenkasi, Tirunelveli, Thiruchendur, Thoothukudi to Tiruppur, Coimbatore, Salem, Trichy, Velankanni areas.
It has the pride of operating a long run mofussil 3×2 seater from Kuzhithurai 1 Depot on Kaliykavilai – Velankanni 519 Kms within TamilNadu.
Head Office : Tirunelveli.
Tirunelveli region has its body building unit at Samathanpuram, Palayamkottai. Nagercoil region’s Body building unit is located at Ranithootam, Nagercoil.
Tirunelveli : Tamarabarani, Bypass, K.T.C. Nagar, Valliyoor, Thisayanvilai, Papanasam, Tenkasi, Sencottah, Puliyankudi, Sankarankovil, Cheranmahadevi.
Nagercoil: Ranithootam-1, Ranithootam-2, Ranithootam-3, Chettikulam, Kanyakumari, Vivekananthapuram, Thingal Nagar, Culachel, Tiruvattar, Marthandam, Kuzhithurai-1, Kuzhiturai-2.
Thoothukudi: Thoothukudi City, Thoothukudi Mofussil, Thiruchendur, Srivaikundam, Kovilpatti, Vilathikulam.
Moffussil: Normal, SFS Super Fast Service, TSS Time Saving Service, EEE END TO END Express, 1 to 1, BPR Bypass Rider, Hill Rider(9M Chasis).
TNSTC – Tirunelveli operates hill riders to Manjolai, Kothayar, Kutharivetti. Kutharivetti has a special this bus is the one and only in asia to climb a height of 2200 feet from sea level. A public Transport bus taking passenger at a greater height, total 85 Kms takes 04:30 hrs to reah the place.
TN-72N-0959 of Papanasam Depot Route 133 Tirunelveli – Kuthiravetti via Ambai, Kalidai, Manimutharu, Manjoli, Oothu.
EEE END TO END Express
EEE operated between Tirunelveli to Nagercoil and Tirunelveli to Thoothukudi in between they are NonStop.
TN-74N-1611 of Ranithootam 1 Depot Route EEE Nagercoil – Tirunelveli.
TN-72N-1796 of Tenkasi Depot Route 1 to 1 Non Stop Tenkasi – Tirunelveli.
BPR Bypass Rider
TN-72N-1897 BPR of Thiruchendur Depot Route Thiruchendur – Coimbatore.
368 thoughts on “TNSTC – Tirunelveli”
Manoharan on November 3, 2014 at 4:14 PM said:
I was looking for a setc or tnstc bus from Madurai to Sathankulam but did not get one bus operating from Madurai
senthil on November 15, 2014 at 8:00 AM said:
no straight buses from mdu. u hav to reach tvl from mdu and from there there are many buses operating to sathankulam
jeyachandrakannan on November 29, 2014 at 4:15 PM said:
hi., at what time tiruchendur bus start from bangalore?
tn70b on December 24, 2014 at 8:00 PM said:
Sivaraman on February 24, 2019 at 4:17 PM said:
Timings of 1 to 1 buses from Tirunelveli to Madurai. Thanks.
NAGARAJAN on December 7, 2014 at 10:16 PM said:
IS THERE BUS FROM TIRUCHIRAPALLI to TIRUCHENDUR? Timings please.
Arun on December 8, 2014 at 12:37 PM said:
Mor 09:30, 10:00, Afternoon 03:15, Night 09:30 or you can board any SETC which is coming from Chennai – Thiruchendur after 11P.M.
Reshma Ramakrishnan on December 18, 2014 at 12:38 PM said:
I need a sect or tnsct bus from thirunelveli to nagercoil after 2pm.is there any bus?
Arun on December 18, 2014 at 12:49 PM said:
There are plenty of Buses from Tirunelveli you can board a END TO END Express EEE which plies NONStop between Destinations every 15 minutes there is a EEE.
ponmani selvan on December 22, 2014 at 3:52 PM said:
Hai, Can you please list the timings of hill riders from and to tirunelveli new bus stand? I would like to travel to Manjolai and Kuthiraivetti and return within a day. So, please ‘the complete list of timings’!! Thanks:-)
Arunkumar on July 10, 2018 at 4:29 PM said:
Is there is bus from tenkasi to Tirunelveli in morning 4 am
njerald on December 23, 2014 at 3:43 PM said:
refused to stop the bus & not paid the balance
Today I travelled in route number 5B Nagercoil bus around 2.15 PM from Vellmodi to Ranithottam. In that particular bus I had taken ticket to Ranithottam by giving Rs.10/-. the conductor refused to give the balance Rs.3. the ticket number 075073. Then the bus was not stopped at Ranithottam without caring the shout of the passangers the driver stopped the bus at Mathias Nager(near Collectorate). please take necessary action
The list of hill riders pls…
Arun on December 25, 2014 at 8:38 AM said:
TN-72N-0956,0957,0959 from Papanasam Depot are the three hill rider buses serving to Kuthiraivetti and Kothayar via Manimutharu, Manjolai. this buses will be in rotation. The first bus to Kuthiraivetti is 02:45A.M. from Tirunelveli.
ponmani selvan on December 26, 2014 at 8:03 AM said:
moorthy on December 27, 2014 at 8:38 PM said:
is there any bus from ambasamudram to kuthiravetty after 8 am… /
mathankumar on December 28, 2014 at 8:37 AM said:
when will takeup to srivilliputhur bus from theni
Thulasinathan on January 3, 2015 at 4:55 AM said:
Hi, i am from vellore. I would like to visit Thirparappu Falls. I will reach Kuzhithurai Railway station at 1045hrs thru Kanyakumari express. Please kinly guide me to reach Thirparappu falls from Kuzhithurai Railway station. Thanks
Arun on January 4, 2015 at 5:23 PM said:
From Kuzhiturai Railway station you can reach Marthandam Busstand by 10 mins walk from Marthandam you can take 89 to Kulasekaram., from Kulasekaram junction you can get 13F bus or minivan to Thirparappu it is the easiest way or you have to wait for direct buses either to Kaliyal or Kadayloomoodu from Marthandam it will pass through falls.
Thulasinathan on January 4, 2015 at 8:16 PM said:
Thank you sir. I was thinking the same way. But i was not aware of the bus routes such as 89 and 13F. Thanks for the details given.
kumar on January 6, 2015 at 5:06 PM said:
Can anyone provide info related to bus timing from Tirunelveli to TIruchendur
There are frequent buses to Thiruchendur every 10 minutes
kumar on January 7, 2015 at 2:53 AM said:
Thanks for the reply, do you know if the bus stops at Tirunelveli railway station. We arrive at Tirunelveli railway station at 5 am, and want to know if there will be a bus available during that time. Else, we have to rely on cabs
Arun on January 7, 2015 at 10:45 AM said:
From Tirunelveli Railway Station exit straight road you can reach Tirunelveli Junction City Busstand in 5mins walk from city Busstand you can get Bus no 1 & 2 to Tirunelveli New Busstand from there you can board a bus to Thiruchendur freq every 10 mins.
Parameswaran K on February 10, 2015 at 11:19 AM said:
Can you let me have bus services timings to & from Sundarapandiapuran to Tenkasi & tirunelveli ?
Arun on February 10, 2015 at 10:13 PM said:
Sorry we dont have correct timings as of now.
Vinoth Peter on February 10, 2015 at 10:45 PM said:
hi. i will come to madurai soon.
i wanna go from madurai airport to nellai bus stand. so, please tell the bus routes and fares .
please help this
Arun on February 11, 2015 at 11:34 AM said:
There is no proper bus from Airport, you can get a taxi from Airport to Ringroad Jn., Board a TNSTC Tirunelveli Bypass Rider Buses fare is RS 105/-
Siva Kumar on August 12, 2016 at 6:10 PM said:
Hello,The Bus charge of Tiruchendur to is ₹10. Also, to Sivanthi Aditanar College of engineering and to Tiruchendur old bus stand, it’s charge is also ₹10. Please note this, and make a lower charge.
Yuvesh Kumar s on September 29, 2017 at 7:09 AM said:
I want to know is the bus timings from Tiruchendur to Kanyakumari and Tiruchendur to Rameswaram. Direct buses r available are need to switch over pls. Reply.
sekar on February 13, 2015 at 3:34 PM said:
Can anyone please provide info related to bus timing from kanyakumari to Tiruchendur
Arun on February 21, 2015 at 7:57 PM said:
There are very few buses from Kanyakumari to Thiruchendur., from Kanyakumari you have to get bus to Anjugramam., from anjugramam you can get bus to Thiruchendur.
pp on February 16, 2015 at 2:35 PM said:
Is there any bus from kottarakara to tirunelveli or from kollam to tirunelveli. Please give the timings also.
there are buses from Kottarakara to Tirunelveli which comes from Ernakulam and Kollam.,
Sivakumar on February 28, 2015 at 6:46 PM said:
any buses from Tirunelveli to Tirupati
Arun on March 1, 2015 at 8:52 AM said:
From Nellai there is direct buses at 3 PM and 6:30 PM this buses take straight route.
V Sreenivasa Perumal on March 13, 2015 at 3:09 PM said:
Dear sir, when I visited in my native place at Thirunelveli dist near the village kodiyan kulam , the bus which I travelled horrible condition like seats torn off , broken roofs, noisy engine and total the bus was rattling contention and not fit for travel. i even tried to contact customer grievances phone no mentioned in the bus but it was of no use as no one responded to that call. I even checked with driver and conductor and was shocked to hear that this phone does not work and no one answers it. It is kept for name sake and they shared this information with utmost grief. Hence as a Citizen it is my duty to keep you informed about this anomoly and would request your immediate interention in this matter to set right the things in order so that passengers do not face this hardship in future. It is pathetic that if this situation continues it will severely impact senior citizens and pregnant ladies and even result in loss of their lives.
It is shameful to have a telephone number which does not at all function and no one is seated to answer the calls.
This is clear case of fooling the passengers and it a loss for our country and Hence, on behalf of passengers request you to set right things on war footing.
VSPerumal. Mumbai.
Arun on March 13, 2015 at 10:09 PM said:
Mr.VS perumal this is not a compliant site of TNSTC., this is run by group of people who loves TNSTC., there are many silent watchers from Administration and they will read your compliants., we will also raise this issue to the concern authorities.
Thulasinathan on March 13, 2015 at 10:31 PM said:
Dear Perumal, you may mention the bus registration number in your blog, so that any relevant person sees this blog can easily identify that bus. Also mention the useless phone number also then others may also aware of it. Your blog seems most general. And nobody could identify it.
But you can appreciate our TNSTC buses for the tickets fares are very cheaper than mumbai’s BEST buses. Isn’t it? Nowhere in India you can find so cheaper fare on a public transport!! We Love TNSTC.
Chakaravarthy on March 13, 2015 at 10:54 PM said:
Is thr any bus from Nagercoil to Tiruchendur?If yes please provide the timings
There are frequent Buses in every 20 mins to Thiruchendur board Bus no 576 it will take Valliyoor, Thisayanvilai, Sathankulam route.
How much tym it ll take to reach tiruchendur?
2.5Hrs to 3 Hrs
vishnu on March 17, 2015 at 7:14 PM said:
sir our route bus no;FP350 thriparappu aruvi-kanyakumari bus was not regular and not at time .
V K Rajan on March 25, 2015 at 5:47 PM said:
Kindly let me know the SFS or End to End bus timings from tirunelveli to rajapalayam. Also intimate the bus timings from tirunelveli to theni. thanq.
Arun on March 25, 2015 at 7:52 PM said:
There is no END to END in Rajapalyam Route there are frequent buses in Tirunelveli – Rajapalayam route in every 10m. Dont wait for Theni Bus at Nellai they are only at peak hours you can change over bus at Rajapalayam.
Saravanan on March 27, 2015 at 12:42 PM said:
Kindly let me know whether any bus available at morning 4.30 A.m from Tirunelveli to Tiruchendur. what is the frequency of bus services from Tirunelveli to Tiruchendur
There are frequent buses in Thiruchendur Route for every ten minutes board a SFS it will go fast and skip some towns in between.
p.paramasivam on April 2, 2015 at 5:10 PM said:
sir/madem,
poondhamalli to tirunelveli route and timings, bus number please
Arun on April 2, 2015 at 9:29 PM said:
SETC is there from CMBT – Tirunelveli Route No 180UD there are frequent buses other than that there are buses to Nagercoil, Marthandam, kanyakumari which passes through Tirunelveli.
T. Mannaraja, Senior Inspector. on April 22, 2015 at 11:36 AM said:
give me New MD name and address with qualification
Sir this is not official website, this site is run by team of people who loves TNSTC, this is like a public service to the people by providings timings and other details on our observations.
J W Diaz on April 27, 2015 at 3:13 PM said:
sir, please give the bus timings from tirunelveli to kodaikanal
Arun on May 5, 2015 at 12:28 PM said:
Morning 07:30
Syed on April 28, 2015 at 9:04 PM said:
I am planning to travel to tirunelveli from chennai. Are these ultra delux buses are good. I have red somewhere that there are bed bugs and we cannot sleep at all. (THose reviews were old though) How about the AC bus? Are they new and good for travel. I have never travelled in TNSTC. Please advice
There are buses running in good conditions now A/C buses are very low in numbers and they will be full always.
shakthi on May 2, 2015 at 4:40 PM said:
is there any buses from tirunelveli to trivandrum ?
There is no direct bus from Tirunelveli, you have to take the long run buses from Trichy and chennai are available, you can take a END to END bus from Tirunelveli to Nagercoil from there are plenty of buses to Trivandrum every 5 mins
r. shankar on May 6, 2015 at 4:50 PM said:
Reaching Tirunelveli Jn early morning 5 am. How to reach Alwarkurichi. From which bus stand to take bus
Arun on May 7, 2015 at 9:00 AM said:
from Tirunelveli Jn few mtrs walk you can reach Tirunelveli Jn Busstand from there you can take 129 Kadayam bus get down at Potal Pudhur it will take a 45mins to 1 hr journey after reaching potalpudhur, you can take any papanasam bus ask for alwarkurichi, Alwarkurichi is next stop to Potalpudhur.
Prasanna R on May 11, 2015 at 5:52 PM said:
Any buses from nagercoil to Theni and Theni to munnar? I need to travel Nagercoil to munnar.
Arun on May 11, 2015 at 7:49 PM said:
There are very few bus service from Nagercoil to Theni which starts at Mor and eve timings, better you can switch over from Nagercoil – Tirunelveli, Tirunelveli – Rajapalayam, Rajapalayam – Theni, Theni – Munnar. this is one route and other Nagercoil – Madurai (Arapalayam), Madurai (Arapalayam) – Theni, Theni – Munnar
Raja on May 14, 2015 at 10:43 AM said:
I will be reaching Tirunelveli JN at about 19:00 hrs on a Saturday. Are there any buses from Tirunelvel JN bus stand to Kallidaikurichi OR do I have to go to new bus stand. Please also let me know whether the buses will be crowded during that time. Nice blog.
You have to reach new busstand to take kallidakurichi buses will be crowd only during that time but you got buses every 5 minutes 501 papanasam LSS will be there
A.RAJESHKANNAN on May 16, 2015 at 12:13 PM said:
There is no more buses for tuticorin in night time from tirunelveli, and upload tirunelveli to tuticorin bus timings also
Arun on May 16, 2015 at 11:13 PM said:
This site does not belongs to TNSTC. we are working on it soon it will be uploaded.
Kuzhali on December 1, 2015 at 8:34 PM said:
Between evening 7.00 pm – 7.30 pm timing there were 3 point to point (EEE) buses starts one after another from Tirunelveli new bus stand to Tuticorin. And by 7.30 pm route number 150 starts from Tirunelveli to Tuticorin.
I am not sure of other timings. If someone knows the timing please share it. Thanks.
MithraKarthik on May 20, 2015 at 7:43 PM said:
Can I know the bus route from kovilpatti to kanyakumari. And also the timings.
From kovilpatti new bus stand, there are good number of buses available to Nagercoil/Kanyakumari. If not, take a bus to Tirunelveli. And from there you can take a bus to Nagercoil or Kanyakumari.
Shiva on May 26, 2015 at 6:45 PM said:
Do buses ply from Tirunelveli to Madurai?, I am looking for an early morning bus.
There are plenty of buses running 24X7 in this route. Take any Bye pass rider to reach Madurai from Tirunelveli.
great.. thanks for the reply 🙂
vishnu on May 29, 2015 at 1:32 PM said:
I need to go to tichendur temple from nagercoil.is buses are available from nagercoil to trichendur
There are frequent buses from Nagercoil to Thiruchendur every 20 minutes once, you can take route no 576 to Thiruchendur via Valliyoor
Soma on May 31, 2015 at 4:03 PM said:
Is there direct bus from Tirunelveli to Sivaganga
Arun on June 1, 2015 at 10:19 PM said:
there is no direct bus to sivagangai from Tirunelveli you can change bus at Madurai. Tirunelveli – Madurai Madurai – Sivagangai.
Priyanka on June 5, 2015 at 8:22 PM said:
Is there any buses from thirunelveli to rettai tirupathi???? Can I know the bus timings in the morning from 7 to 12????
There is no direct bus to Rettai Thirupathi, the frequency of bus is very low. from Tirunelveli you have to get a bus to srivaikundam. from Srivaikundam another bus to eral. probably city bus will drop you a km before temple in main road.
Prasana on June 6, 2015 at 10:30 PM said:
May I know the direct bus timings from tirunelveli to kanya Kumari.
Arun on June 7, 2015 at 3:31 PM said:
If you want to see sunrise sunset there is no buses to reach at time netter you can take a EEE END to END Express to Nagercoil and then to Kanyakumari.
sundar on June 11, 2015 at 11:58 AM said:
Hi i want to go tisayanvilai vv engg college mrg 7 am what the first bus time at tirunelveli to tisayanvilai. vv engg college have stop present are tisayanvilai to come to the college
Vinoth Peter on June 13, 2015 at 7:07 PM said:
hi tnstc blog.
Tirunelveli to thisayanvillai – last bus on night times.
it will be helpul..
sundar on June 14, 2015 at 8:54 PM said:
Please tell the bus timing at morning time
Striker on June 17, 2015 at 11:01 AM said:
What are the bus timings for buses between tirunelveli and trivandrum after 1700 hrs its will be helpful
Tirunelveli to Trivandrum direct buses are less. Catch a End to End service from Tirunelveli to Nagercoil and from Nagercoil there are plenty buses running to Trivandrum.
jayabaskar on June 24, 2015 at 10:04 AM said:
i would like to know the bus timing from tirunelveli to dindigul in early morning
jayabaskar on June 24, 2015 at 12:21 PM said:
can anyone please reply to my earlier request regarding bus timing from tirunelveli to dindigul
There are comparatively less direct services available in Dindigul-Tirunelveli route. Instead take a bus to Madurai from Dindigul. Generally Madurai to Dindigul buses stops at Arapalayam BS. From there catch the city bus 77B to reach Mattuthavani. From MIBT, you have plenty of buses running 24X7 to Tirunelveli. Take any BPR.
karthick on June 28, 2015 at 6:57 PM said:
What is timing of last bus from kovilpatti to tuticorin
Arun on June 29, 2015 at 9:11 PM said:
09:45 PM is the last bus
ramarathnam R on July 9, 2015 at 3:26 PM said:
We got into the Bus AT TIRUNELLVELI NEW BUS STAND Tirunelveli to Teni TNST bus at 1400 hrs on 07/07/2015 and bought tickets to Srivilliputtur and Paid rs 195 (3*65 ) when the Bus nearing srivilliputtur the conductor asked our TICKETS FOR SOME SERIAL NO REFERENCE i gave all the three ( 3 ) tickets and when i asked the conductor to return my tickets he gave me Rs 7 tickets 3 I was continuously asking to return my original tickets of value Rs 195 he forcefully dropped us at the outskirts of srivilliputur he would have RESOLD THE TICKETS TO SOME OTHER PASSENGERS We saw the no of the Bus TN2201 and the conductor was having big Messi when the bus was plying with thin crowd such Acts of these types of conductor will end the Transport to Heavy Loss only
Sreekanth on July 16, 2015 at 9:33 PM said:
I need bus timings from tiruchendur to kanyakumari
Arun on July 20, 2015 at 11:43 AM said:
We have only limited no of buses from Thiruchendur to Kanyakumari better take route no 570 to Nagercoil via Uvari, Anjugramam. get down at Anjugramam and take a bus to Kanyakumari.
dharma on July 21, 2015 at 11:45 AM said:
is there any bus service from Kanyakumari to Rameswaram. If yes, timings and what are the days. Thank you
Arun on July 21, 2015 at 6:03 PM said:
Yes there are buses from Kanyakumari.
Mor 04:00, 06:15 and 07:30 (Ultra Deluxe 2×2 Pushback)
Night : 18:40, 19:00 (Ultra Deluxe 2×2 Pushback)
Dharma Vya on July 27, 2015 at 12:09 PM said:
Hi Thank you for your reply. May I know Ultra Deluxe 7.30am is Ac Bus? Number of seats, duration of the journey and is the compartment for luggage. The “pushback”, is it reclining seat? How shall I do the booking? Thank you once again
There is no AC service in this route the seats are reclining only you can book through http://www.tnstc.in
karthik on July 23, 2015 at 7:46 PM said:
Could you tell me which place in tirunelveli should I board bypassrider to Madurai?
Is there a bpr at 6AM
yes there is BPR every 15 mins once, you can board at New Bus stand, Vannarpettai North Bus stop.
Thanks Arun, we got the bus at 5:45 AM and reached Madurai Bus terminus at 8:45
amuthan on August 4, 2015 at 7:38 AM said:
i am every day travel to tuticorin to TIRUNELLVELI ,how to apply reglur pass ple
Arun on August 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM said:
You can check with officials in Thoothukudi Old BS. close to exit there is time keeper office you can enquire about the pass.
@amuthan If you have the Tirunelveli-Tuticorin & Tuticorin-Tirunelveli Route number 150 bus timings Please share it. & When is this last bus from Tirunelveli?. After evening these 150 buses seems to be rare to me in my occasional trips to Tirunelveli. Thanks
nizar on August 6, 2015 at 11:50 AM said:
Is there any direct bus from tirunveli to karaikudi
Mor 05:30 AM Direct bus to Devakottai will take madurai Karaikudi route
Anbu on August 6, 2015 at 4:29 PM said:
Kindly provide me the details of All the Bus timings from Thirunelveli to Kuthiraivetti and Manjolai.
Venkatesh K on August 16, 2015 at 10:10 PM said:
I have to start from Kutralam / Thenkasi and I have to catch Guruvayur Express at Tirunelveli (Starting at 7.45 AM). What time should I start from Thenkasi? What is the travel time? What is the Frequency of buses? Please suggest route / BPR etc, I will be starting on Sunday Morning.
Arun on August 17, 2015 at 9:57 AM said:
You should start at 5 Am the running time will be 02:00 hrs from Kutralam to Tirunelveli Jn. from Junction Bus stand Railway station is 200m walkable distance.
Venkatesh on August 17, 2015 at 3:06 PM said:
Thanks Arun! Buses are available at 5 AM?
Arun on August 17, 2015 at 4:08 PM said:
Yes buses are available
Venkatesh on August 17, 2015 at 11:57 PM said:
Thanks Arun!
irfan on August 20, 2015 at 3:05 PM said:
There was any bus between nagercoil -arupukottai
Arun on August 20, 2015 at 10:00 PM said:
yes there are buses from Nagercoil it is at specified time we don’t have it right now., if you want to reach faster take EEE Nagercoil – Tirunelveli, Tirunelveli – Kovilpatti SFS and Kovilpatti – Aruppukottai.
Allwin T Xavier on August 21, 2015 at 1:28 AM said:
I have an exam at psncet,melathediyoor near tirunelveli on 28th august.how i reach there………..
#Look at the above comment#
I am coming from trivandrum………
you can take papanasam buses from Tirunelveli new busstand to PSN, you have to get down at Prancheri bus stop to reach college. from Bus stop you can take a auto to reach college.
Thulasinathan on August 24, 2015 at 8:14 PM said:
இந்த பஸ்சில் பயணித்து உயிர் பிழைத்த ஸ்ரீவைகுண்டத்தை சேர்ந்த பஸ் பயணி கோபாலகிருஷ்ணன் கூறியதாவது, அரசு பஸ்களில் பெரும்பாலான பஸ்கள் டப்பா பஸ்களாகவே இருக்கிறது. சரியான பராமரிப்பு இல்லாத ஓட்டை, உடைசல் பஸ்களை இயக்க டிரைவர், கண்டக்டர்கள் மறுத்தாலும் அதிகாரிகள் அவர்களை கட்டயாப்படுத்தி இயக்க செய்கின்றனர்.
Sir, Do you have old photo of TN 72 N1222
நேற்று நடந்த விபத்தில் அரசு பஸ்சை ஓட்டிய டிரைவர் கடந்த சில மாதங்களுக்கு முன்பு ஓட்டிச்சென்ற இதுமாதிரியான முறையான பராமரிப்பில்லாத அரசு பஸ்சின் ஆக்சில் திடீரென்று உடைந்து விபத்துக்குள்ளாகியுள்ளது. இந்த விபத்தில் மாணவர் ஒருவர் பரிதாபமாக பலியாகியுள்ளார்
Is it true??
Why they blame the TNSTC unnecessary?
Anbu on August 25, 2015 at 8:52 AM said:
Please provide me the details of All the Bus timings from Thirunelveli to Kuthiraivetti and Manjolai.
4:00 , 1:30pm and 3:00pm timings may differ a little as the bus travels on ghat section and it has to return down.
Radhakrishnan on September 11, 2015 at 10:16 AM said:
ticket fare reduced from chennai to kovilpatti…………
Ramesh on September 11, 2015 at 3:27 PM said:
Can you help me for suggesting bus timings from Tiruchendur to Kanyakumari around 2.30 PM on 02nd Oct 2015. Also how much time take to go Kanyakumari from Tiruchendur.
Arun on September 11, 2015 at 11:02 PM said:
Tiruchendur – kanyakumari takes 3 hrs there are very less direct service you can board 570 Nagercoil Bus and a change over at Anjugramam will be easy., for anjugramam there are townies to Kanyakumari.
Thanks for your reply, There is frequent buses for Nagercoil, Please update
I am really appreciate to you for your reply to all needs about buses. Good job go ahead.
gokul on September 23, 2015 at 4:28 PM said:
any direct bus from coimbatore to tiruchendur
coimbatore to tiruchendur bus timings
TNSTC on September 24, 2015 at 9:32 AM said:
SETC operates to UDs at 7:15 PM and 10:00 PM. Apart from there are ordinary buses available to Tiruchendur from Singanallur BS. You can also take a direct Tuticorin bus and from there you can catch a tiruchendur bus. SETC operates Coimbatore to Tuticorin at 9:30 PM and there are regular buses from Singanallur BS to Tuticorin.
nameen shaik on September 25, 2015 at 11:08 AM said:
Tirunelveli to madurai bus timings in night
There are frequent buses in night between Tirunelveli and Madurai
How to i reach madurai airport from tirunelveli?
dinesh on October 6, 2015 at 12:46 PM said:
if I catch SETC tuticorin to ernakulam bus at 7pm in tuticorin . when will I reach ernakulam in the nxt day morning. pls give me the appox arrival ernakulam time and total duration of this journey .
Arun on October 6, 2015 at 10:23 PM said:
Yes it will reach in mor close to 5 am as it runs on hill ghat section we cant predict right timings
tarun on October 10, 2015 at 3:47 PM said:
the worst website i had seen so far….
Arun on October 12, 2015 at 8:41 AM said:
MR.Tarun could you say in what way the website is worst, we can improve our site as per.
Ponmani Selvan on October 12, 2015 at 7:09 PM said:
Just out of curiosity Mr.Arun, Do u work in tnstc?? U reply to each and every question posted and it is just unbelievable that someone would do that.. I could see some stupid questions up there and people criticizing you for no good reason.. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great.. As I already said, just curious.. 🙂
Thanks for your appreciation Sir, No Iam not an TNSTC employee it just pure observation on buses specially TNSTC is a vast network, It attracted me a lot., so its going on and this credits goes to my team also.
rangafella on October 16, 2015 at 1:55 PM said:
First of all my appreciation to the whole team for this wonderful work. I am also a big fan of the TNSTC and use it regularly. I prefer it to the private agencies.
My question is regarding the schedule of buses from Tirunelveli to Kanyakumari. How much time will it take? What is frequency after 6 pm?
Arun on October 16, 2015 at 7:26 PM said:
Thanks for your appreciation only one bus run in direct route to Kanyakumari via Anjugramam others takes Nagercoil route around 06:30 there is a straight bus. if you take nagercoil route it will take 2hrs15 min
kannan on October 23, 2015 at 5:24 PM said:
hello sir!!
timings for nagercoil to Sivakasi
Sorry for the inconvenience we don’t have updated timings with us as of now, if you are single Tirunelveli – Kovilpatti old Bs and Kovilpatti – Sivakasi switch over will make your journey easy.
rajakumar on October 25, 2015 at 11:48 AM said:
i want to go tirunleveli today 4pm can u let me know bus timimg destination and i want catch 6 30 pm tirunelveli bangalore bus kindly help me
From where you want to reach Tirunelveli without knowing that how can we reply your query
Anand on October 26, 2015 at 10:20 AM said:
Sir i am leaving tirunelveli at 8 pm and i want to reach kanyamumari at 5 am in morning, Please suggest
rangafella on October 26, 2015 at 10:22 AM said:
Which is the best way to reach Tiruchendur from kovlipatti, train or bus? How much time will it take by each mode? Can you also please let me know abt the frequency and timings. Thanks!
Arun on October 26, 2015 at 11:08 AM said:
Trains are not at right time but we have enough buses Kovilpatti to Thiruchendur via Thoothukudi is shortest. Kovilpatti – Thoothukudi 1hr 30mins Thoothukudi – Tiruchendur 1.15 hrs from Thoothukudi old busstand you can board bus to Thiruchendur. there are frequent buses every 5mins once a bus.
Sir i am leaving tirunelveli at 8 pm and i have to reach kanyakumari at 5 am in morning. Please suggest
You can easily reach Kanyakumari from Tirunelveli it is 2.5 hrs travel Tirunelveli – Nagercoil 1.5 hrs and Nagercoil – Kanyakumari 1 hr.
Anand on October 26, 2015 at 1:42 PM said:
Sir Are buses available at night after 9 pm from tirunelveli to kanyakumari
There is no direct bus to Kanyakumari. you have Nagercoil buses round the clock from Tirunelveli. you can go to kanyakumari easily from Nagercoil. or wait in Tirunelveli you will get SETC to Kanyakumari which comes from Chennai.
Thank you very much sir,the information was of great help
Sathesh S on October 27, 2015 at 4:47 PM said:
Hi, I’m planning to visit Thirpparapu Falls, Mathur Bridge,Padmanabhapuram Palace and Muttom Beach. Pls guide me to reach all these places by BUS(Bus No and Stop name). I will reach Kulithurai Railway Station by 11AM. Thansk in Advance.
Rajasekar on October 27, 2015 at 8:54 PM said:
Please send tirunelveli outstation route bus timings and coimbatore bus stand bus timings outstation city
Her is the timings of Tirunelveli
https://tnstc.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/tnstc-express-timings-from-tirunelveli-new-busstand/
For Coimbatore Timings have been Changed it will be updated soon.
Sathesh S on November 2, 2015 at 1:17 PM said:
rangafella on November 2, 2015 at 2:07 PM said:
Take an auto to Marthandam bus stand from Kulithurai station (~2km). From there you ll get buses to thiruparapu falls. Mathur bridge is close to this falls.
To go to Padmanabapuram palace, you ll have to take a bus to Thuckalay from Marthandam. From Thuckalay the palace is around 1.5 km. You can either walk or take a local bus.
Sathesh on November 5, 2015 at 11:29 PM said:
Thanks rangafella…
RATHINAKUMAR on December 1, 2015 at 4:27 PM said:
I REQUEST YOU TO KNOW ABOUT TIMINGS OF KOVILPATTI TO RAMESHWARAM BUS
kathirvelu on December 5, 2015 at 5:36 AM said:
I want to know the bus timing from karur to tirunelveli at 4AM and after 9.PM…
Muniaraj on December 7, 2015 at 6:21 AM said:
Last bus timings of nagercoil to kaniyakumari. In this bus full nit available
Arun on December 7, 2015 at 3:00 PM said:
Buses are available ful night in night buses will be available every half an hour once and buses from madurai will also passes nagercoil to Kanyakumari.
RAJAVEL on December 20, 2015 at 12:28 PM said:
TNSTC Tirunelveli buses complaint mobile nos. mentioned in the buses. But based on my experience the mobile no. are totally waste, Pl. don’t use the complaint number.
Prem Joshua on December 26, 2015 at 11:24 PM said:
Prem on 26 Dec
Hats off to drivers who take just 1 hour and 10 minuites from NGL to Tnvely and the patient conductors with smiling face to give changes.Keep it up
Thanks to the conductors and drivers who take us sae to detination with smiling face in the midst of difficulties.(Ene to End-NGL – TNVLY)
Ramesh Natarajan on January 2, 2016 at 4:20 PM said:
I will reach to nagercoil by 11th jan 2016 at 8:30 pm and I want to go to thiruchendur from nagergoil.how many buses available from nagergoil to thiruchendur after 8:30 pm.
After 08:30 P.M. there is no bus to Thiruchendur. You can switch over at Tirunelveli. take an EEE END to END Express from Nagercoil to Tirunelveli it will reach in 1 hr 15 minutes to Tirunelveli from Tirunelveli you have buses to Thiruchendur every half an hr once till 12:30 night and 1 hr once till 4 A.M.
Valsaraj on January 2, 2016 at 7:31 PM said:
What is the starting bus 🚌 time for madurai from tirunelveli. I need to go by 4am..
you have buses round the clock from Tirunelveli you can get frequent buses at 4 A.M. journey time 3 Hrs board TNSTC Tirunelveli Bypass Rider bus it will reach Mattuthavani.
N J Krishnan on January 3, 2016 at 9:59 AM said:
I am looking for buses to Papanasam Tirunelveli dt from Tirnelveli. what are the timings please?
N J Krishnan on January 3, 2016 at 10:01 AM said:
Looking for buses to papanasam from Tirunelveli in the morning. Wha are the bus timings please?
Arun on January 3, 2016 at 12:20 PM said:
You have frequent buses in morning time take 501 LSS Tirunelveli – Papanasam which will have less stoppings and direct route it will take 1hr 30 mins to reach.
C.K.Rajasingh on January 4, 2016 at 5:35 PM said:
Is there a direct bus from Tirunelveli to Cuddalore? If yes at what time?
There are two buses from SETC
1. 531 UD Nagercoil – Cuddalore 06:30 P.M.
2. 686 UD Trivandrum – Pondicherry 06;45 P.M.
Bala on January 14, 2016 at 7:22 AM said:
Is there a bus at 1am from tirunelveli to tenkasi in 16.01.16
Sam on January 14, 2016 at 3:00 PM said:
is there any bus from nagercoil to upper kothayar! If yes plz provide bus time, jrny hrs, fare, etc.
gyanbhat on February 10, 2016 at 9:40 PM said:
Are there any Volvo or comfortable buses from Madurai to Nagercoil during day time ?
No Volvo from Madurai to Nagercoil
Bhuvana Shankar N on February 16, 2016 at 6:14 AM said:
Please give me the thiruchendur to velankanni bus timings.
In both ECR via & Madurai via…
Please give me the bus timings from thiruchendur to velankanni…
In both ECR & Byepass operations
Thiruchendur : ECR : 04:30, 06:15, 17:30, 18:30.
Bypass Madurai : 07:15, 18:15
Sarath kumar on February 25, 2016 at 1:34 PM said:
thoothukudi to eral routed bus M52 when bus will come to athimarapatti again
p.Kumar on February 29, 2016 at 12:52 PM said:
Tnstc Tirunelvelli,
When will you introduce Electronic ticket machine
subramanian on March 5, 2016 at 5:50 AM said:
will be thankful if anybody tell me bus timings from kanyakumari to tiruchendur and fare.
Arun on March 5, 2016 at 11:08 AM said:
There are very frequent direct bus to Kanyakumari instead of waiting for that you can board 570 to Nagercoil via Uvari, Kudankulam and get down at anjugramam and from there you can reach kanyakumari in 20 minutes. Fare we dont have the right one with us now sorry for your inconvenience.
Is there any direct bus between Thoothukudi and Nagercoil after 2PM? Can you please give me the frequency and timings?
2 P.M., 05:30 P.M., 07:00 P.M., 09:30 P.M. all are via Nagercoil if you plan with family make sure you are advance in 15 minutes timings may vary 10 – 15 mins departure on crowd.
Praveen on March 15, 2016 at 9:39 AM said:
Sir,Whether Thoothukudi to Nagercoil busses start from Thoothukudi New bus stand (or) Thoothukudi Old bus stand and what will be the approximate travelling time between Thoothukudi and Nagercoil?. As I will be visiting Thoothukudi and new to that place I am asking this.
End to end travelling time will be 3 hrs bus will depart from Thoothukudi old busstand only in Tirunelveli Bay, there is buses to nagercoil via thiruchendur also don’t board it it will take 4 hrs travel
Durai on March 21, 2016 at 6:55 PM said:
Sir, I am planning to go to Thevaram from tirunelveli tomorrow please guide me the respective bus roue.
From Tirunelveli there are direct buses to Theni. From Theni you can go to Thevaram.
If you miss direct bus in Tirunelveli, Tirunelveli – Thirumangalam / Thirumangalam – Usilampatti/ Usilampatti – Theni/
Theni – Thevaram is the route.
mariappan on April 11, 2016 at 3:01 PM said:
execuse me sir, please consider our route there is no straight buses from chennai and madurai,kovai and tiruchendur,tirunelveli(via nanguneri).around 50,000peoples lived in kalakad town panchayat.some route buses are allotted our peoples used well and enjoy.
maria lane on April 18, 2016 at 12:43 PM said:
Dear Sir, Can u please give me some old photos of Tuticorinto tirunelveli point to point bus.(Mudalvan exp., Mother Exp., Fighter, Ritam, Garuda. and satiya.)
Arun on April 18, 2016 at 10:17 PM said:
We are also searching for old photos once we got it we will share in Our blog.
Brenda on April 22, 2016 at 6:48 AM said:
Bus timing from Tirunelveli to Guruvayur please? ??
prasanth on May 2, 2016 at 12:47 PM said:
please ell me about the buses from nagercoil o madurai and its duration
There are Frequent buses in Nagercoil Madurai round the clock timings will be 4;30 – 5:00 Hrs running depends on traffic
CNP on May 4, 2016 at 2:13 PM said:
Hi sir / madam,
Have a good day!!!
Is there any buses are going to Nagerkovil from Tirunelveli in the midnight?.
If it is available, what are all the timing?
It may very helpful for those going to Trivandrum airport, in order to catch the early morning flights.
there is no bus between Tirunelveli – Nagercoil on night you have to wait for buses that arrives from Madurai it will enter tirunelveli new busstand.
jasmine on May 6, 2016 at 9:38 AM said:
I am from kavalkinaru, I want to know it there are any buses from kavalkinaru junction to Madurai
there are frequent buses to Madurai from Kavalkinaru jn.
THIAGARAJAN on May 7, 2016 at 3:59 PM said:
Sir, would you please send the bus timings from thiruchendur to sivaksi?
sir, would you please give the bus timings for tiruchendur to sivakasi?
Sivakasi : 07:15, 07:55, 17:00, 18:10.
Srivilliputtur : 12:25, 20:00
arun on June 17, 2016 at 10:05 PM said:
Is there any bus to.manjolai from papanasam? next week we planed a trip. If u know those.details. pls help us
venkita moorthy k on May 7, 2016 at 9:41 PM said:
sir can you tell me whether buses to manchaoli starts from thirunelvely alone..? or is there any bus starting from ambai or kaliida kurichy.to kuthiravetty/oothu/mancholai..if yes bus timings?
Arun on May 8, 2016 at 9:53 PM said:
from Kallidaikurichi there is bus service from mor 5;00 and 02:30 P.M. bus have to come from Nellai only the bus will be parked after kallidai RS for lunch break in Noon
Shahul Hameed J on May 18, 2016 at 4:17 PM said:
As We Request, We Need & Want Directly operate Buses from Tenkasi to Erode , Mettupalayam & Karur. We hope & Consider to operate this route. Pls will start this route ASAP.
Beniston on May 20, 2016 at 1:03 PM said:
From what time buses to tutucorin is available from Tirunelveli bus stand? How long is the journey?
for mor 03:45 A.M. buses are available to Tuticorin Journey time 1 hr 15 mins
syed on May 20, 2016 at 4:18 PM said:
i m syed.how is going chennai international airport to tirunelveli bus stand in nighttime.i need bus route
Vaithi on May 27, 2016 at 9:35 AM said:
Is there any bus to kodiakanal from Tirunelveli, if so, plz provide me the timings, thankyou
Vijay on May 30, 2016 at 3:53 PM said:
Can anyone please provide info related to bus timing from kanyakumari to Tiruchendur ?
Arun on May 31, 2016 at 12:23 AM said:
From Kanyakumari there is only limited buses Better you can take bus to Anjugramam from there you can get Thiruchendur, Thoothukudi Buses.
rangaram devarajan on May 31, 2016 at 9:12 AM said:
Or you can take a bus to Nagercoil. From Nagercoil there are a lot of buses to Tiruchendur
Mohanraj on June 3, 2016 at 9:47 AM said:
Dear Sir, I want to know that bus timings from kanyakumari to tirunelveli (or) anjugramam to tirunelveli ? Except (via) nagercoil? Between morning 8 am to 10 am Plz?
Ravi on June 4, 2016 at 9:17 PM said:
Sir please tell me do we
Have buses from katpadi
To arunachalam temple in
The night after 9pm and journey time
Thulasinathan on June 12, 2016 at 6:38 PM said:
Hi Ravi, Buses to Arunachalam temple (Thiruvannamalai) is available from Vellore City Bus stand which is 2-3km from Katpadi. Katpadi and Vellore is linked by hundreds of buses and plenty of shared autorickshaws. (Available every 30secs). From vellore to Thiruvannamalai takes about 2:30hr. Usually every 1/2hr can get buses to Thiruvannamalai but after 9pm the frequency will be lesser. However there are bus services between vellore and Thiruvannamalai whole night. Some Buses come from Tirupati travelling thru Katpadi to vellore to Thiruvannamalai at rugular interval. So you dont have to worry about buses from Katpadi to Thiruvannamali there are plenty of buses available. And at festival time like full moon day you will get hundreds of special buses whole night for Girivalam purpose
Reagan on June 6, 2016 at 2:33 PM said:
How to travel to Thekkady from Tirunelveli?How long does the journey takes?
There are frequent buses to Theni from Tirunelveli. from Theni you can go to Thekkady.
Reagan on June 6, 2016 at 10:21 PM said:
Thanks for the reply Arun.Google says there are buses to kumily too.Hope that will also be a good option.Do you have any idea how long does the Journey takes?We are a NRI family planning for our vacation trip this July.
There are only few services to Kumily. Tirunelveli – theni will take 5 hrs from there another 2.5 hrs
Just came across this site during a Google search.Really appreciate your dedication and hard work to put up with a lots of info and replies that are real cool.Hats off for your good work.Do continue with the same.will definitely refer to my friends and family this site link.
Thanks for your appreciation and support on behalf of Team TNSTC Blog
kandhan on June 9, 2016 at 2:12 AM said:
here i want to know the nagercoil city bus advertisement authority officer name and contact number
This is not an official site of TNSTC it is maintained by group of people.
PAVANASAM.N on June 11, 2016 at 8:04 AM said:
Please provide the Bus Timings from Kovilpatti to A.Subramaniapuram (Near Sivagnanapurm)
Sorry for your inconvenience, This is not a official site of TNSTC and we are collecting timings for kovilpatti soon it will be updated.
Wesly titus on June 11, 2016 at 1:10 PM said:
Hey guyzz when are the buses from Nagercoil to tenkasi
There are buses every half an hr once to Tenkasi from Nagercoil
From papanasam how can i reach manimutharu dam and agasthiyar falls. Please give me the bus number and timing. Thank you
From papanasam how to reach manimutharu dam and agasthiyar falls. If u know bus number and timing please help me. Thank you
How long will it take to reach tiruchendur from tirunelveli bus stand? Type of bus service?
There are frequent 123 service with limited stoppages it will take 1hrs 15mins from New Busstand to thiruchendur.
sethuraman ram on June 28, 2016 at 9:12 PM said:
Is there any direct bus from thiruvanathapuram to courtallam operated by TNSTC/SETC
No direct services you have to do split up journey
1. Thiruvanathapuram – Punalur – Sencottah – Coutralam or
2. Thiruvanthapuram – Nagercoil – Tenkasi – Coutralam.
K Kumaresan on June 28, 2016 at 10:13 PM said:
Is there any direct buses from tiruchendur to kaniyakumari, if so timing, if not what is the best option to travel.
There are only few buses to Kanyakumari on night at 12:30A.M., 06:30A.M., 01:00P.M., better you can take abus to Anjugramam, route no 570 will go to anjugramam from there you can take city buses to Kanyakumari.
Suriya on July 1, 2016 at 1:48 PM said:
Is there direct buses from thiruchendur to rajapalayam.if so please let me know the timings and bus number.
Arun on July 1, 2016 at 5:54 PM said:
There are few direct buses only on time to reach easily make a change over at Tirunelveli. Thiruchendur – Tirunelveli 123 Express and from Tirunelveli board any Theni bus it will go fast and you can reach quick.
porchelvan on July 2, 2016 at 10:47 AM said:
Hi! Can u pls give me the timings of buses to Kochi and do they go to vytilla mobility hub?
From Tirunelveli.. Tirunelveli to Kochi bus timings
There are buses to Ernakulam from Tirunelveli at Mor 08:00, 09:00 Eve 08:00 P.M., 09:00P.M.
ashok es on July 4, 2016 at 4:47 PM said:
hi i am looking for the buses from tiruchendur to madurai timings and the fare.
There are frequent buses to Madurai from Thiruchendur fare must be around 120 + or – 5 .
R.Kannan on July 7, 2016 at 6:47 PM said:
Hi can you please provide me the bus timing from Tirunelveli to Kodayar / Manjolai,
Fred on July 8, 2016 at 7:19 PM said:
To goto Dr.Sivanthi aadhithanar engineering college, from nagercoil – tirunelveli – tiruchendur or nagercoil – valliyoor – tiruchendur. Which is better?
Arun on July 11, 2016 at 10:57 PM said:
Nagercoil – Tirunelveli – Thiruchendur is best option
jai on July 14, 2016 at 10:25 AM said:
Tirunelveli to trivandrum bus timing, full schedule and duration to plan for airport
Amar on July 15, 2016 at 11:07 PM said:
Night for Madurai is there any bus’s.
After 12.00 night
Karthikeyan V on July 21, 2016 at 11:47 AM said:
Kindly operate the new buses from ambasamuthiram to maruthamalai (to be reached earlier 5.30 a.m., 8.00 p.m.), Tirunelveli to Mettupalayam (to be reached at 5.30 a.m., 8.00 a.m. and 7.45 p.m. 9.00 p.m.). And also operate the route from Papanasam to Vellingiri -Poondi (Via: Pollachi, Ukkadam, Perur), Papanasam to Mettupalayam (Palladam, Coimbatore Gandhipuram).
kavipriya k on July 28, 2016 at 11:38 AM said:
Is there any local bus for tiruchendur to kanyakumari.
There are very few buses on time only better yoou can take 570 FP from Thiruchendur get down at anjugramam. from Anjugramam there are frequent buses to Kanyakumari.
kavipriya k on July 28, 2016 at 2:35 PM said:
kindly tell the timing
i am from coimbatore . I went to tiruchendur with my family at the same time we would like to visit Kanyakumari kindly tell the bus roots.
TIRUCHENDUR TO KANYAKUMARI TWO ROUTS 1.VIA.SATHANKULAM,VALLIOOR 2.VIA. UVARI,KOODANKULAM
Abdul khadir on July 30, 2016 at 1:56 PM said:
Please tell bus timings from tirunelveli to udankudi. I am not able find the bus timings anywhere.
Sorry for your inconvenience we dont have right timings with us.
Prasad on August 3, 2016 at 2:28 PM said:
I want to travel from Nagercoil to Tiruchendur by bus. Whether Valliyoor, Sathankulam route is good for travel? What about the condition of road? Or I opt Tirunelveli-Tiruchendur route? please give me your opinion.
Nagercoil – Tirunelveli EEE / Tirunelveli – Thiruchendur 123 is best
Raja on August 5, 2016 at 9:44 AM said:
How to reach tirunelveli from Virdhunagar?
There are plenty of Buses which passes in Bypass you can board at Virudhunagar New Busstand, Virudhunagar collectrate
Alagunambi on August 8, 2016 at 2:52 PM said:
Does anybody knows what are the bus timing from Tirunelveli to nazareth
Shankar on August 8, 2016 at 6:43 PM said:
Is there bus from kizha Ambur to mela pavoor
Iyan on August 16, 2016 at 3:53 PM said:
Anybody pls tell me… is there any straught buses to trivandrum?pls suggest me…
Arun on August 23, 2016 at 12:42 AM said:
There is no straight bus to trivandrum you have to change over at Nagercoil during day times.
Gopi on August 18, 2016 at 5:19 PM said:
can u tell the morning bus timing from chennai to nagerkoil
vinayagamoorthy on August 21, 2016 at 1:47 PM said:
please send to sivagangai district in no more direct bus in the district………
Rajan on August 28, 2016 at 10:57 AM said:
Dear sir please arrange to provide a full time service in 9M (Nagercoil – Thengapattanam) Route. This is the long time expectation of the public concerned
Kumar on August 28, 2016 at 11:02 PM said:
Travelling from Tirunelveli to Neyaar dam, which is the best option. Going through Trivandrum or is there any buses from Marthandam
There is no buses available from Marthandam. Best option is Trivandrum only.
Vijay Chandar on September 3, 2016 at 12:49 PM said:
Is there any bus from Tiruchi to Rameswaram? If there is no direct bus, are there connecting buses?
Arun on September 5, 2016 at 11:53 AM said:
There are frequent buses between Trichy Rameswaram
Sankar on September 8, 2016 at 4:16 PM said:
Sir.. What’s travel time for buses from Tirunelveli to Tiruchendur.??
Arun on September 16, 2016 at 3:15 PM said:
1Hr 15mins
Narayanan Sankar on September 8, 2016 at 5:18 PM said:
Travel time from Tirunelveli to Tiruchendur…?
mage on September 10, 2016 at 10:54 AM said:
Is there direct bus service from Tuticorin to Irukendi
Mor 06:30 A.M. direct bus to irukankudi by TNSTC
sekar on September 10, 2016 at 5:09 PM said:
Sir shencottah to coimbatore tnstc tirunelveli division bus opperative morning and evening times for daily services
AKSHAY on September 12, 2016 at 9:13 PM said:
Is any chance there for TNSTC-TNV to get new UD in house built and AC buses that can run on mtm/kki/NGL/tnv/shn/tuti/ to chennai/cbe/blr?
UDAYABHANU on September 20, 2016 at 12:05 PM said:
I would like to know whether any bus service is there from Nagarcoil to Papanasm in the morning.
Kavi on October 4, 2016 at 3:13 AM said:
How to reach ervadi from Tirunelveli and let me know the timing also
Arun on October 4, 2016 at 8:38 AM said:
which ervadi are you asking the one between Valliyoor and Nanguneri there are frequent buses every 20 mins once from Tirunelveli crews willl shout a lot for Ervadi via bus
Not that one. i am asking about Ervadi in Ramanathapuram district ( between Kadaladi and Ramanathapuram )
Arun on October 7, 2016 at 4:06 PM said:
you can go via Thoothukudi, ECR this is the shortest and timings 03:30, 05:30, 06:30, 08:00, 09:00, 11:00, 15:00, 16:00, 19:00 (Velankanni) this buses will depart from Thoothukudi Counter in Tirunelveli New Busstand.
Abu on October 17, 2016 at 11:13 PM said:
Kindly ask you I like to go madurai airport from tirunelveli by bus. Please advise which stop I have tell to bus condector?
Arun on October 17, 2016 at 11:19 PM said:
Madurai Ringroad Airport Stop. From there you can take an auto to Airport.
Ajitha on October 23, 2016 at 12:04 PM said:
How to reach VV engineering college from Tirunelveli
Can u pls tell the bus route to VV engineering college from Tirunelveli
Jana on November 2, 2016 at 6:15 PM said:
I would like to know bus service timing
is there from Nagarcoil to tiruchendur
I would like to know bus timing is there from Nagarcoil to tiruchendur
Selva Punitha on January 4, 2017 at 10:50 PM said:
I am looking for a bus from Bengaluru to Tirunelveli or Tenkasi after 7 pm on 13th jan. Is there any special buses? Can you provide the details.
viju k s on January 7, 2017 at 4:34 PM said:
i would like to know bus time of thirunelveli to ramanathapuram and rameswaram
i would like to know bus time from thenkasi or thirunelveli to rameswaram
thiyagy on January 28, 2017 at 4:16 PM said:
Is there any Buses to Tirunelveli to Rameswaram in the after noon say after 200 PM
Shujith on February 21, 2017 at 12:56 PM said:
Sir ,I need Tnstc bus timings from kottarakara to tenkasi..plz provide the information’s me….
A.SESHAGIRI on March 29, 2017 at 11:51 AM said:
Dear Sir, I need e-mail id of General Manager(comml.) (or) Manager(Comml) or Dy.Manager (comml.) TNSTC – TIRUNELVELI. For the public cause I have to write e-mail to them.I will be greatful if you please furnish the same.
RAJU on March 30, 2017 at 4:07 PM said:
பேருந்து வசதி இவ்வழித்தடங்களில் புதிதாக செய்து தருமாறு கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறோம்
காரைக்குடி – திருச்செந்தூர்
( இவ்வழித்தடத்தில் ஒரு நாளைக்கு ஒரு பேருந்து வசதியும் )
காரைக்குடி – தேவக்கோட்டை – R.S.மங்கலம் – திருவாடானை – இராமநாதபுரம் – கீழக்கரை – ஏர்வாடிதர்ஹா – சாயல்குடி – தூத்துக்குடி – திருச்செந்தூர்
Ganesh Kumar on April 4, 2017 at 3:48 PM said:
I need bus timings from Nagercoil to Papanasam during morning times.
I hope there is direct bus available via Kalakadu and what will be the approx time to reach to destination
Mahesh on April 22, 2017 at 10:57 PM said:
Where do I get timings of buses from Monday Market (Kanyakumari Dist) to Tiruchendur?
Rajesh Dhar on April 24, 2017 at 11:36 AM said:
I want bus service from Trivandrum to Kulasekarapattinam. Is there any direct bus? How do i travel? Please help… Thanks
R.Pramoth Arjun on May 8, 2017 at 9:04 AM said:
Is there any direct buses from madurai to kanyakumari if means please mention the timing at Madurai
RAM on April 24, 2017 at 4:23 PM said:
Venkat Raman on April 28, 2017 at 8:31 PM said:
sir i need bus timing tirunelveli to munnar
Night 12:30 P.M. Direct Bus or you can get frequent bus to Theni from there you can go to Munnar.
vasundra15 on May 4, 2017 at 7:21 PM said:
I need a bus time schedule from tirunelveli to pudukkottai in the evening around 6 PM and also travel time
sasibalan on May 8, 2017 at 5:33 AM said:
Sir is there any bus service from sengotach to erode? If not kindly arrange a new service.
Saran chandra bose karaikudi on May 12, 2017 at 11:15 PM said:
Dear friends i am reaching midnight thirunelveli. From there any buses for thiruchendur temple? what time first bus for thiruchendur from thirunelveli? Any midnight train available to thiruchendur? Kindly answer me friends. This summer i want visit thiruchendur murugan with my family. Thank u.s
Maniappan on May 17, 2017 at 11:39 PM said:
Hello, pl. inform the bus timing from Thenkasi to Puliangudi, between 10 am to 1 pm, and return bus timing after 7 pm from Puliangudi toThenkasi. Also requested to mention the approximate time taken for the journey.
Prasath on May 19, 2017 at 11:09 PM said:
I want to know about the buses from rajapalayam to sattur or tirunelveli and vice versa. Give me the details about all buses running along this route
SUNIL SUKUMARAN on May 21, 2017 at 4:56 PM said:
My son has to attend AIIMS entrance examination at PSN College of
Engineering and Technology, PSN Nagar, Melathediyoor
Post, Tharuvai via, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu PIN CODE:627152. Please advise as to how we can reach the destination from Thirunelveli by BUS. please let us know the bus schedule from Thirunelveli to the college from morning 8 AM to 10 AM. As also for return journey please furnish bus availability from PSN college to Thirunelveli in the evening so as to catch a train at 7.20 PM
RAVIKUMAR LD on May 22, 2017 at 6:33 PM said:
Sir there is any direct bus from Krishnagiri to Tutcorin
jayam on May 23, 2017 at 11:55 AM said:
sir need ramanathapuram to velankanni bus time
asai kumar on May 29, 2017 at 5:29 PM said:
hI , Any body can tell last bus timing from tirunelveli new bus stand to moolkarapati or muncipatti
Rajesh on May 31, 2017 at 1:13 PM said:
Tirunelveli to manjolai bus timings….??
Subramani on June 6, 2017 at 10:02 PM said:
Hi, At what time the first Bus from Tirunelveli to tiruchendur starts? and what is the frequency of operation?
Arun on June 9, 2017 at 2:01 AM said:
from 4 A.M. after 5:30 there are frequent buses every 5 minutes 123 Express will go fast in that routes.
V. J. Bernard on June 12, 2017 at 4:03 PM said:
Trivandrum to tiruchendur Bus timings
காரைக்குடி – தேவக்கோட்டை – R.S.மங்கலம் – திருவாடானை – இராமநாதபுரம் – கீழக்கரை – ஏர்வாடிதர்ஹா – சாயல்குடி – தூத்துக்குடி – திருச்செந்தூர்
Hariharan on June 20, 2017 at 9:03 PM said:
Chennai to Tenkasi in Pothigai Bus(A184) How many Hrs Jounrey
Is there a bus between pattukottai and tenkasi via Pudukkottai, madurai or Karaikudi, madurai. If not leave a direct bus between those towns, it will give economical strength to tnstc
Thamothara kannan on July 7, 2017 at 10:32 AM said:
Which bus stop I shall go from tirunelveli to alwarkurii
Mohiadeen on July 8, 2017 at 12:25 AM said:
What time tiruchendur bus start from tirunelveli?
Arvinesh on July 20, 2017 at 8:31 PM said:
Your website providing useful information. Congratulations. I. I want to go to sorimuthu ayyanar temple. Can you give the bus timings from tirunelveli to karayar. Advance thanks
premkumar on July 30, 2017 at 10:18 PM said:
All the buses were boarded with express pp sfs TSS eee 1-1 1-3….unlimited imagination can u mention these with journey time. I often travel by bus but most of the time I saw only argument between the passenger and conductor for slow running of buses…conductor will fedup and tell the word better go by car…please mention travel timings…sorry non stop and bypass rider too…rate wise difference persists…
Subramanian on July 31, 2017 at 7:50 PM said:
How to take bus pass from Tirunelveli to tuticorin point to point (EEE) bus, and where can i get it from?
What is the charge for that? Note: normal charges from Tirunelveli to tuticorin in point to point bus is Rs. 31.
you can enquire in the Thoothukudi Old Busstand Depot Office.
Muthukrishnan L on August 5, 2017 at 7:45 PM said:
Sir, I read somewhere in the portal that there are buses from Nagercoil to Truchendur Route 576 every 20 minutes. From where the buses start from Nagercoil – Is it from Vadasseri? Is it possible to board the buses from Nagercoil Jn. Rly. station? I will reach Nagercoil around 5.45 am. from Guruvayur. Instead of taking a bus from Tirunelveli to Tiruchendur after reaching Tirunelveli, I think of taking a direct bus from Nagercoil to Tiruchendur. Thank you.
Abraham on August 8, 2017 at 7:35 PM said:
Sawyerpuram st.marys girls hr sec school over at 6.15 pm that time no government busis available .one private bus in that time take a over tickets .kindly change any bus timr to that ti
Sawyerpuram st.marys girls hr sec school over at 6.15 pm that time no government busis available .one private bus in that time take a over tickets .kindly change any bus time to that time
priya on August 10, 2017 at 7:48 PM said:
Hi, I have to travel from chennai to tirunelveli by tomorrow. I cant able to book the ticket in my account it shows that no onward services available on this date. could u please tell me the reason.
vinod k on August 11, 2017 at 10:19 AM said:
may you please let me know how to reach Kanyakumari from nagercoil junction. Please provide the Bus number and bus stand name as well
Thenmozhi on August 22, 2017 at 11:00 AM said:
May I know buses from tirunelveli to tiruchendur during mid night. My Train will reach tirunelveli at 3:15 am. So when will the first bus to tiruchendur.
Suresh Wagh on September 7, 2017 at 3:33 PM said:
I want to travel from Tirunelveli to Thoothukudi on 11 th September. I will reach Tirunelvelli Rly. station in the morning.
Where from I need to take a bus for Thoothukudi and what are the timings of the buses from 6.00 A.M. onwards till 8.30 A.M. Available mode for reaching bus stand from Rly station?
mathew on September 7, 2017 at 7:55 PM said:
Kindly let me know the fare between Trichy and tirunelveli……
saidi on September 16, 2017 at 12:26 PM said:
Hi, Can you please list the timings of hill riders from and to tirunelveli new bus stand to papanasanam I would like to travel on this route and return within a day. So, please ‘the complete list of timings’!! Thanks
Suresh V on September 19, 2017 at 12:16 PM said:
Hi Goodmorning to all,
Is there any buses from Ernakulam Depot to Tirunelveli, please advice and give bus timings. Thank you
Gopalakrishnan on September 22, 2017 at 8:17 AM said:
Is there any bus from Tiruchedur to Nagerkoil. If so what timing and how long it take.
Jayaprakash r on September 25, 2017 at 6:56 AM said:
Tomorrow morning 6.30am I have to reach thoothukudi railway station.next I have to immediately plan Thiruchundru temple any bus available. Pls
M MUTHUKUMAR on September 26, 2017 at 7:47 PM said:
Sir, please tell direct buses timing from Nagercoil to Rajapalayam. My old aunt along with luggage has to travel, so he can’t switch over bus in Tirunelveli.
Samy on October 16, 2017 at 7:37 AM said:
Any buses between tirunelveli to kodaikanal.
Baskar on October 21, 2017 at 5:32 PM said:
Please provide info kanyakumari to tiruchendur bus timing for morning 6 to 8am.
cyril on November 5, 2017 at 2:19 PM said:
setc new service start tiruchedur to pala kerala new Night service
via manappaDu kudankulam kanyakumary nagercovil tvm adur kottayam.thousands off people daily travel this route but no direct bus
Thanya on November 7, 2017 at 5:08 PM said:
I ve an exam @ Sree Sowdambika College of Engineering, Aruppukottai. So i want to know the bus timings between 3 to 5 early in the morning from Tiruchendur? Pls tell me the travel time too. Thanks in advance.
S perumal on November 8, 2017 at 3:43 PM said:
What is the bus timing tirunelveli to kollan. PLS tell us from kollam to tirunelveli also
Murali Govindraj on November 15, 2017 at 3:04 PM said:
is there direct buses from Tiruchandur to Kanyakumari? if yes, what are the frequencies if no, what is the route to be taken from Tiruchandur to reach Kanyakumari
soundar rajan on November 17, 2017 at 4:45 PM said:
i have to travel from tiruchendur to nagarcoil through TSTC bus. Can i know at what time the first bus statrts
cyril joseph on November 22, 2017 at 10:18 AM said:
tnstc provide new interstate deluxe service kanyakumary to pala via nagercovil tvm adur kottayam pala night service kany dep time 18.30 pala dep time 20.30 urgently reqiured this service famous st alphosamma church near pala .daily hundreds of people arriving southern tamilnadu but no direct bus this route
Sumit somra on December 1, 2017 at 9:32 PM said:
Please provide bus timing from nanguneri to Nagercoil
sunil on December 13, 2017 at 9:09 AM said:
how to reach tirunelveli from madurai airport? please tell me clearly whether to get auto/ taxi/ bus from airport to maatuthavani? somebody has written that to get bypass rider from ring road. so how to reach that ring road junction from airport? which town bus number? please tell clearly. town bus service frequently available? thanks.
Gunasekaran on December 24, 2017 at 8:21 PM said:
Hai sir. I was feeling bad experience about your staff 24.05.2017.. cbe to tenkasi bus ..Conductor was instructed us to leave palani because he said bus didn’t go madurai….It was proplem people facing… Not me same proplem happens to the other passengers also.pleade make
Sethu on December 25, 2017 at 11:45 PM said:
Tirunelveli to Thiruvananthapuram
EEE or Others type Fast busses peoples must want
Saravanaselvan on December 28, 2017 at 11:07 PM said:
Colud you please tell me the vallior to kalakad first bus in morning time.
Benny on February 6, 2018 at 12:37 PM said:
Tirunelveli to Madura bye pass rider tiaftet 4 o clock and fare pl sir
kumar on February 9, 2018 at 6:40 PM said:
What is the bus timings from Tirunelveli to Manjolai via manimuthar falls and from manimuhar falls to tirunelveli.
Fathahul Rabbani on February 9, 2018 at 8:05 PM said:
Please provide bus timings from tirunelveli to rameswaram ECR road
Aruna on February 11, 2018 at 10:03 PM said:
Can u please tell me the early morning bus timings from papanasam to tirunelveli via ambasamudram
Rajan.D on February 18, 2018 at 12:06 PM said:
Dear sir …. The service on route 309c from Nagercoil to Thengapattanam via;thingal nagar/karungal/pootteti/kalladai/Kannathankuzhi/vizhunthaayambalam/Keezhkulam was stopped on07.09.2016. we are continuously requesting to reoperate the service for the economic developemnt and benefits of the the villages and the people concerned. When this will be consided sir…………….
SOURIRAJAN on May 27, 2018 at 12:41 PM said:
Tomorrow Monday 28 may 2018 night travel to Chennai from Tirunelveli or from.kannyakumari 7 seats request aneeded ?
Sethu on June 7, 2018 at 9:49 AM said:
Hi, Is it possible to know the bus timings between Tenkasi to Tirunelveli after 6 pm?
Birundha on June 28, 2018 at 6:08 PM said:
I search for tirunelveli to papasam at night time. Any bus are at evening or night?
kumar on September 19, 2018 at 3:56 PM said:
I am looking for a setc or tnstc bus from Madurai to vilathikulam bus timings
Mariappan on March 22, 2019 at 3:49 PM said:
Kalakad to MaduraiTNSTC bus allocate sir.
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These exacerbations are preceded in 66 to 100% of cases by early signs. Shioiri T, Shinada K, Kuwabara H, Someya T. Early prodromal symptoms and diagnoses before first psychotic episode in 219 inpatients with schizophrenia. While the rate of OCD in the general population is approximately 1%, the rate of OC symptoms in people with schizophrenia is 25%, and the percentage of people with full-blown OCD is ⦠Obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) are highly prevalent in schizophrenia, estimated to be present in 14% of schizophrenic patients. Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and Assistant Professor of Social Work and Forensics with extensive experience in the field of mental health. Schizophrenia likely represents a cluster of diseases presenting with delusions, hallucinations, disorganised behaviour and disorganised thought. Furthermore, increasing evidence for a neurobiologic basis of both obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophrenia supports the coexistence of these 2 ⦠Rodriguez, C. I., Corcoran, C., & Simpson, H. B. (2010). INTRODUCTION: Schizophrenia is a severe, chronic psychiatric disorder. Because the good old internet keeps telling me no- saying that I am indeed in a prodrome. However, this differentiation between a sole diagnosis of OCD and prodromal schizophrenia seems challenging in some settings. The predictive power of conversion to psychosis has been found to fluctuate from as low as 9% to as high as 76%, 10 prompting ethical concerns about a high false-positive rate, the assumption of inevitability associated with the term âschizophrenia prodrome,â 9 and the potential for overdiagnosis and misdiagnosis. Good luck and please take care. For further information regarding pharmacokinetics and mechanisms of antidepressants and antipsychotics. The sooner, the better. Prodromal schizophrenia is no less ambiguous given that the onset and duration of this pre-diagnosis period can last from a few weeks to a couple of years. When I was younger and used to walk to school, I would set a number for crossing the street, and if I didnât make it to the other side – letâs say by 10 seconds, then I would âgo to hellâ and ânot make it to heavenâ. Tundo A, Necci R. Cognitive-behavioural therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder co-occurring with psychosis: Systematic review of evidence. 2013;7(3):285-90. Many brilliant solutions, the so called tacit knowledge, is embedded in the brains of people that do not have the platform to express them or at least reach a wider audience. OCD has been suggested as prodromal symptoms in schizophrenia7. .therabh { font-size:100%!important;margin:-13px 0 0 0; } I have those sleep hallucinations, Iâve actually had them for as long as I remember, but of course when looking up what theyâre actually called, I see that theyâre a symptom of schizophrenia. #therabb_contain::after { font-family:"open sans condensed",arial,sans-serif; font-size:70%; background:#FFF;padding:0 9px;color:#999; margin-top:-55px; content:"(S P O N S O R E D)"; right:10px;position:absolute; } [Grover S et al., 2015]. Think about it as the real world textbook, a platform rich with experiences. Differentials in patients presenting with both psychotic and OC symptoms include: It has been demonstrated that patients with schizophrenia and comorbid OCD have a more severe illness, and the presence of the latter is associated with more severe depression, more impaired social functioning, and also worse premorbid functioning. When I was 14 I had my first panic attack and it was extremely scary. He reflected on the notion that obsessions can develop into delusional thinking and a full- blown schizophrenic episode. And successful treatment of substance misuse, PTSD or OCD usually improves the symptoms of schizophrenia. #therabb_contain { margin:10px 0 10px 0; padding:10px; border:3px solid #4C88C5;display:block;height:100%;min-height:150px;width:90%;position:relative; } In this blog, I will discuss the prodromal phase of schizophrenia. I understand your desire to learn more about what you think might be wrong but itâs causing major distress in your life. The key symptoms to look for are âsuspiciousness, unusual thought⦠One time I was right, and actually had bacterial meningitis which was a life or death situation that permanently scarred me with âwhat if Iâm right againâ questions about some other disease or illness. Thatâs when I went into a schizophrenia deep search and convinced myself that I was in my prodrome and I have been for years. It takes years of specialized training and advanced degrees to diagnose. Childhood schizophrenia was not directly added to the DSM until 1968, when it was added to the DSM-II, which set forth diagnostic criteria similar to that of adult schizophrenia. " Early symptoms are the same as in psychotic illnesses, but âthey are experienced at a milder, subthreshold level,â De Silva said. OBJECTIVES: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common co-morbid condition in schizophrenia, associated with poor prognosis. World J Psychiatry. Since schizophrenia is a significantly debilitating disorder, it is important to treat symptoms as soon as they appear. Schizo-obsessive spectrum disorders: an update. The Hub gives you an opportunity to make a difference. My mind began playing tricks on me these past couple of days, shadows in the corner of my eyes, the white noises like my bird chirping, TVs, and fan noises became auditory hallucinations, everything has became too loud and too bright, my depersonalization turned into a âAlice and wonderlandâ affect and my ocd itself even became a schizophrenia symptom. Devulapalli KK, Welge JA, Nasrallah HA: Temporal sequence of clinical, manifestation in schizophrenia with comorbid OCD: review and meta-analysis. "can anxiety or ocd become or cause schizophrenia? It's equivalent to "schizophrenic reaction, childhood type" (code 000-x28) in DSM-I (1952). " Glutamate is also implicated in the causation of OCD and schizophrenia, and many 2nd-generation antipsychotics also act on the glutamate system. Psychiatry Res 2008; 161:105–108. Diagnosis and treatment of a patient with both psychotic and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. If youâre not in treatment, you should be. People with schizophrenia may have additional illnesses. de Haan L, Sterk B, van der Valk R. Presence of obsessive compulsive symptoms in first-episode schizophrenia or related disorders is associated with subjective well-being and quality of life. (More on the neurobiology of OCD), One study of 21 unmedicated OCD patients found that CSF glutamate levels were significantly higher in patients with OCD, and these levels were unaffected by gender, age, duration of illness, Y-BOCS score or CGI-S score. [Chakrabarty K et al., 2005]. .therabb_legend { font-family:"open sans condensed",arial; font-size:110%; padding:0 10px; } There is often misdiagnosis with severe OCD and confusion occurs with catatonia and movement disorders. Anxiety disorders are highly responsive to treatment. However, the prevalence of obsessive compulsive symptomatology (OCS) and its relationship to outcome has not been evaluated in adolescents at ultra high-risk for psychosis (UHR). I would highly recommend contacting a mental health professional as soon as possible. Obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD) 4. This is the period of illness when symptoms first appear but often aren't recognized. The following algorithm has been developed based on the articles by: [Zink M 2014], [Poyurovsky M et al., 2004] & [Rosli A & Ismail W, 2015] and the talk by Dr Lynne Drummond at the RCPsychIC 2019. This would suggest that you have not been in treatment. Athough OCD and schizophrenia are quite different in their classic forms, each can take on characteristics of the other. Schizophrenia rarely occurs unexpectedly. The co-occurrence of obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) and psychotic illness has been a challenge for clinicians and investigators for more than a century. So Iâm working from home right now because of COVID so sometimes I donât get dressed for work or wash my face in the morning or other stuff like that. The Hub is a device to unlock this knowledge and share it with the wider world. These may include: 1. Amisulpride – Mechanism of Action | Psychopharmacology | Clinical Application, Ten Point Guide to Mental State Examination (MSE) in Psychiatry, Question & Answer Session with Prof Jonathan Meyer, Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (Anti-NMDA) Receptor Encephalitis – A Synopsis. [Tundo A et al.,2016]. 1 Optimal treatment options for those patients are yet to be agreed upon, perhaps because mechanisms underlying the interface between both diseases are poorly understood. Pharmacokinetic interactions with fluvoxamine can increase blood levels of clozapine (Fluvoxamine is a CYP1A2 inhibitor). However, itâs important to note that anecdotally, it does seem common that people with anxiety worry about developing schizophrenia. Why have you been dealing with OCD âfor as long as you can remember”? Patients with schizophrenia sometimes show obsessiveâcompulsive disorder (OCD)-like symptoms not only during its chronic course (Kurokawa and Tanino, 1997) but also during its prodromal phase preceding the emergence of obvious psychotic symptoms (Yung and McGorry, 1996).Schizotypal personality disorder (SPD), a fraction of which is considered to be the prodromal ⦠10,11 In an extensive meta-analysis, the prevalence rate of comorbid OCD in schizophrenia was estimated to be 23% 12; a newer meta-analysis reported a lower prevalence rate of 12.1%. Most commonly, these questions seem to come from either worried teenagers or people with anxiety disorders who fear that their symptoms are indicative of schizophrenia. After recovery from a first psychotic episode, 70% of patients have exacerbations. 1 These studies have also identified 3 ⦠Grover S, Hazari N, Chakrabarti S, Avasthi A. 2 Recent studies have focused on distinguishing the order of development of schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder ⦠Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Schizophrenia: Epidemiology Patients with schizophrenia have a high lifetime risk for OCS of about 25% and recent meta-analyses concluded that at least 12% also fulfil the criteria for an OCD (Figure 1) [ 55 â 63 Of the 16,231 individuals who developed schizophrenia, the researchers found that 447 (2.75%) had a prior OCD diagnosis. Scotti-Muzzi, E., & Saide, O. L. (2017). The solution is consulting a mental health professional. Posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD) 3. A prodromal stage is marked by the influx or the introduction of schizophrenia. 1 Over the past decade, interest in this area has burgeoned because of recognition of higher-than-chance comorbidity rates of schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and observations of appearance or exacerbation of OCS during treatment of schizophrenia ⦠It almost always begins after puberty and is usually followed by a period of increasin⦠About 75 percent of people diagnosed with schizophrenia went through a prodromal stage.If the symptoms can be recognized and lead to a diagnosis, individuals can get useful early interventions. The Hub is a platform to share ideas, cases and concepts that bridge the gap between academia and the real world. In the minds of many people, a diagnosis of schizophrenia is a psychological disaster. [de Haan L et al., 2013], A meta-analysis of 148 patients with comorbid schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder showed that 48% developed OCS and were diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD) first, 30.4% developed schizophrenia first, and 21.6% were diagnosed with both concurrently. For as long as I remember Iâve dealt with ocd. Substance use disorders/ Dual Diagnosis 2. 1. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms, particularly aggressive ones, can often occur during schizophreniaâs prodromal stages before the disease fully manifests. According to recent research findings, almost 30% of patients with schizophrenia have obsessive compulsive symptoms (OCS). Early detection of schizophrenia is often very difficult before a person starts actively hallucinating or exhibiting bizarre behavior. He has lived and worked on 5 continents and currently lives on the Mornington Peninsula. Neuropsychopharmacology. 13 As the prevalence rate of OCD ⦠Answered by Dr. Bernard Seif: OCD & schizophrenia: are ⦠Therapists live, online right now, from BetterHelp: Want a more immediate answer from others like you? You may be feeding your fears. While that may be true, it does not mean that you will develop schizophrenia. Itâs considered the âworst of the worstâ disorder. That is one reason why people should avoid attempting to diagnose themselves via the internet. Prodromal schizophrenia presents with a wide variety of psychiatric symptoms including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS). Kristina has worked in a large array of settings including community mental health, college counseling and university research centers. Schizo-obsessive spectrum disorders: an update. Psych Central does not provide medical or psychological In addition, of the 30,556 people who developed a schizophrenia ⦠People with anxiety often focus on worst-case scenarios. Instead, it produces a gradual decline in functioning. Diagnosis and treatment of a patient with both psychotic and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Left unabated, your symptoms may be worsening. All rights reserved. Although earlier studies indicated that obsessive-compulsive symptoms occur only in a minority of patients with schizophrenia, 6-9 recent studies revealed much higher comorbidity rates. Thatâs when I went into a schizophrenia deep search and convinced myself that I was in my prodrome and I have been for years. [Rodriguez C et al., 2010], [Oulis P et al., 2013], The onset of OCS can occur at different stages of the illness: [Zink M, 2014]. It may even be the most stigmatized mental health disorder around the world. advice, diagnosis or treatment. Comorbid obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: insight into pathomechanisms facilitates treatment. I entered a extreme dissociative state and thatâs where everything spiraled. Differential diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive symptoms from delusions in schizophrenia: a phenomenological approach. Their most recent publication is a book entitled ” Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: All you want to know about OCD for those living with OCD, carers and clinicians”, There are phenomenological differences between OCS and delusions which assists in the differentiation of psychosis from OCD, however in some cases this boundary may blur and may result in a misdiagnosis. diagnosis of Schizophrenia and retrospectively found out to have obsessive compulsive disorder during adolescent with auditory hallucinations and treatment was changed accordingly. Both schizophrenia and OCD involve the prefrontal cortex and striatal areas and this may explain the co-occurence. It is also effective in patients with OCD induced by second-generation antipsychotic as well as in patients with OCD not induced by second-generation antipsychotic. Some 2nd generation antipsychotics (SGA’s) have a predominantly anti-serotonergic profile with both 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C receptor antagonism, which may precipitate OC symptoms in individuals. After an evaluation they came to a conclusion of pure ocd. Chakrabarty K, Bhattacharyya S, Christopher R, Khanna S. Glutamatergic dysfunction in OCD. Devulapalli KK, Welge JA, Nasrallah HA: Temporal sequence of clinical I hope that you will strongly consider mental health treatment. Psychiatry Clin ⦠It can be very stressful for a patient or a loved one to hear the diagnosis of schizophrenia, particularly when it seems to come out of the blue. This article is based on the talk by Dr Lynne Drummond at the RCPsychIC 2019. Consult a professional who would be in the best position to advise you about a potential diagnosis. (2010). Prevention of relapses is the main object of dealing with schizophrenia. Relationship of obsessive compulsive symptoms/disorder with clozapine: A retrospective study from a multispeciality tertiary care centre. [Devulapalli K et al., 2008]. Diagnosis and treatment of a patient with both psychotic and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. OC symptoms (OCS) are estimated to be present in 14% of patients with schizophrenia. Before psychosis as an independent, coexisting syndrome and diagnosed as OCD, Prior to psychotic manifestation as part of the at-risk mental state (ARMS), In parallel to the first manifestation of psychosis, During the course of chronic schizophrenia. In the meantime, avoid self-diagnosis. Thereâs no reason to continue to experience symptoms when both psychotherapy and medications can successfully treat your condition. Prodromal schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition on its own, capable of interfering with ordinary functioning and causing notable life disruptions. The Translational Neuroimaging Research clinic focuses on using state-of-the-art noninvasive functional and structural neuroimaging to pursue cognitive neuroscience and neural system level questions in complex psychiatric disease such as early-course and chronic schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar illness and substance use disorders. Itâs a bad idea. CNS Drugs 2004; 18:989–1010. Copyright © 1995-2020 Psych Central. Venting. Zink, M. (2014). We may conclude by the term, that the disorder may be categorized as being in its prenatal stages. Comorbidity of obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia in an adolescent, Relationship of obsessive compulsive symptoms/disorder with clozapine, Cognitive-behavioural therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder co-occurring with psychosis. In typical anxiety disorder fashion, I convinced myself I had every disease and disorder under the sun. Regarding use of marijuana, it has been linked to an increased likelihood of psychosis. OCS is considered in some cases to be a prodromal stage of schizophrenia due to the temporal occurrence of OCS before schizophrenia. Most schizophrenia onsets are marked by a prodromal stage extending over several years and producing the maximum of social consequences. unlikely?" It makes sense that people with anxiety disorders, who are often focused on worst-case scenarios, would worry about developing schizophrenia. DIFFERENTIATING OBSESSIONS FROM COMPULSIONS, ONSET OF OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SYMPTOMS (OCS) IN SCHIZOPHRENIA, DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSES IN PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH OCS AND PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS, Presence of obsessive compulsive symptoms in first-episode schizophrenia or related disorders is associated with subjective well-being and quality of life, Differential diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive symptoms from delusions in schizophrenia: a phenomenological approach. Psychiatry Res 2008; 161:105–108, Poyurovsky M, Weizman A, Weizman R:Obsessive-compulsive disorder in schizophrenia: clinical characteristics and treatment. Prior to psychotic manifestation as part of the at-risk mental state (ARMS) In parallel to the first manifestation of psychosis. White cars became intrusive thoughts that âwhat if Iâm being followed â even thought Iâm able to disregard that as ridiculous – I canât help but think what if Iâm developing some form of psychosis. CBT is effective, with a symptom reduction quite similar to that reported for patients with OCD without psychosis and for SSRI treatment of OCD co-occurring with psychosis. Comorbidity of obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia in an adolescent. I did used to be peer pressured by my ex best friend to smoke marijuana which was not good for me at all, and it scares myself because I feel like I put myself at risk. Similarly, OCD and schizophrenia ⦠About 12% fulfill the diagnostic criteria for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Early Interv Psychiatry. This is what, in the actual, is meant by the term prodromal. ONSET OF OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SYMPTOMS (OCS) IN SCHIZOPHRENIA. Couple that with your actively searching the Internet for more information about schizophrenia. Asian J Psychiatr. If you have schizophrenia or know someone who does, you're probably familiar with symptoms like hallucinations and delusions. Schizophrenia, childhood type" was a DSM-II diagnosis with diagnostic code 295.8. In fact, prodrome is a retrospective diagnosis. This is especially true for people prone to anxiety. American Journal of Psychiatry, 167(7), 754-761. Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder, and it's estimated that as many as 25% of people with schizophrenia also experience obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS). Before psychosis as an independent, coexisting syndrome and diagnosed as OCD. She works in private practice with adults, adolescents and families. The study controlled for the severity of schizophrenia, and its findings suggest that schizophrenia with comorbid OCD is more treatment-resistant than schizophrenia alone. My anxiety mostly manifested into hypochondria.  In females it reaches a first peak at age 15 to 30 years and a second, flatter peak at menopausal age (44-49 years). Rodriguez, C. I., Corcoran, C., & Simpson, H. B. OCD, Current Obsession Psychosis/Schizophrenia, Learning To Trust Yourself Again After Betrayal, Many Seniors with Depression Faring Well During Pandemic. Major depressive disorder Successfully treating schizohprenia almost always improves these related illnesses. .therab_url { color:#4C88C5; font-family:"open sans condensed",arial; text-decoration:none!important; } It is worth mentioning again, as I have in prior responses to similar questions, that this is one of the most common questions that I receive here at Psych Central. As exacerbated or second-onset (de novo) OCS after initiation of antipsychotic treatment. There are no clear guidelines for the treatment of OCS in schizophrenia due to the limited evidence base. 2015;15:56-61. Schizophrenia incidence shows a steep increase culminating at age 15 to 25 years in males. There is evidence to suggest that reducing or stopping clozapine can reduce OC symptoms in around 50% of affected patients, but this may be difficult if clozapine is working for an individual. Schizophrenia/prodrome OCD. S. Charles Schulz, M.D. CBT is safe and does not worsen psychotic symptoms. Is it possible for ocd to play tricks on people like this? Dr. Sanil Rege is a Consultant Psychiatrist and founder of Psych Scene and Vita Healthcare. 2016;6(4):449-455. Learn more. Atypical antipsychotic treatment of schizophrenia (particularly clozapine, but also olanzapine and risperidone) can precipitate OC symptoms in specific individuals. Comorbid schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder / Schizo-obsessive disorder. Many fields including medicine and psychiatry suffer from ‘closet’ ideas. There may be an explanation for it. Lynne does research in Psychiatry, mainly OCD, Anxiety Disorders, CBT And also on teaching and acquisition of skills. #therabb { float:left; width:90px; margin:0 5px; } Once you begin treatment your symptoms should decrease and you will likely feel better. nervous of prodrome schizophrenia.. i've had anxiety for almost 6 years and i've never experienced delusions or other marked schiz symptoms. There are usually early warning signs, referred to as the âprodrome,â which last one to three years, and provides the perfect place to intervene. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms frequently coexist with schizophrenia, and both OCD and schizophrenia can occur in the same families. Oulis, P., Konstantakopoulos, G., Lykouras, L., & Michalopoulou, P. G. (2013). Several studies investigated glutamate in OCD using neuroimaging and found that various areas of the brain in people with OCD appear to be abnormal. Addition of an SSRI can be useful although clomipramine can worsen psychosis and SSRI/clomipramine has also been shown to increase the risk of seizures by altering blood levels of clozapine. manifestation in schizophrenia with comorbid OCD: review and meta-analysis. #descrbb { text-align:left;margin:-15px 0 0 0;padding:10px;font-size:85%; }. Currently, medical therapy struggles to treat a substantial portion of patients, but with improved stratification of component diseases, it may be possible to better understand and treat schizophrenia. Dr Lynne M Drummond currently is Consultant Psychiatrist and Lead Clinician for the National Service for OCD and BDD based at South West London and St George’s NHs Trust. It should be something you avoid in the future so as to protect yourself from any possible negative outcomes associated with drug use. The Schizophrenia Prodrome Tonya White, M.D. White Matter Hyperintensities on MRI – Coincidental Finding or Something Sinister? Prodromal symptomsâearly warning signsâpresent the best predictive factors for later schizophrenia and psychosis. the severity of schizophrenia, and its find-ings suggest that schizophrenia with comor - bid OCD is more treatment-resistant than schizophrenia alone.4 Some researchers have theorized that in adolescents, OCD and psychosis are inte-grally related such that one disorder could represent a prodrome or a cause of the other disorder. Schizophrenia with antipsychotic-induced obsessive-compulsive symptoms. 2005;30(9):1735-40. Key words: obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, ... Rosen (1957) noted that it was well known that obsessive- compulsive symptoms occur in the prodromal phase of schizophrenia. Afshan Anjum, M.D. The nature of anxiety is to worry, often about things that are unlikely to be true. A change is needed. Obviously, it would be impossible for me to know whether or not your symptoms are indicative of any particular mental disorder without having interviewed you professionally. Rosli, A. N. M., Ismail, W., & Salwina, W. (2015). Comorbid obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: insight into pathomechanisms facilitates treatment. Introduction. She also has an attachment at St George’s, University of London. What may be happening is that your untreated OCD is worsening and causing you to feel more out of control. A 13-year-old girl, currently in the eighth grade and with a history of attention def-icit hyperactivity disorder, was brought by her mother to a university-affiliated out-patient psychiatric clinic after a gradual A stage where one may not claim to ⦠Iâve been dealing with chronic depersonalization/derealization. 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How Close Was Israel to Bombing Iran?
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New evidence has now surfaced from former Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak that Israel came close to attacking Iran three times over the past few years – if you believe what “major” news media reported about the story. But you shouldn’t believe it.
The latest story is only a continuation of the clever ploy that has been carried out by Israeli administrations from Ehud Olmert to Benjamin Netanyahu to convince the world that it was seriously contemplating war against Iran in order to pressure them toward crippling sanctions against Iran, if not military confrontation with it.
And there is even very strong circumstantial evidence that the Obama administration was consciously playing its part in a “good cop/bad cop routine” with the Israelis over the ostensible Israeli war threat until early 2012 to influence other states’ Iran policies and gain political leverage on Iran.
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The latest episode in the seemingly endless story of Israel’s threat of war followed the broadcast in Israel of interviews by Barak for a new biography. The New York Times’ Jodi Rudoren reported that, in those interviews, Barak revealed new details to his biographers about how close Israel came to striking Iran.
Barak said that he and Netanyahu were ready to attack Iran each year, but claimed that something always went wrong. Barak referred to three distinct episodes from 2010 through 2012 in which the he and Netanyahu were supposedly maneuvering to bring about an air attack on Iran’s nuclear program. But a closer look at Barak’s claims shows that in reality neither Barak nor Netanyahu was really ready to go to war against Iran.
One of the episodes occurred in 2010 when Netanyahu ordered the Israeli army to put Israeli forces on the highest possible state of alert reserved for preparation for actual war, only to be frustrated by the refusal of Israeli army chief of staff Ashkenazi to the order. But an Israeli television program on the episode aired in a television special in 2012 “suggested” that the order was not intended as a prelude to war.
Although the television account was not allowed to give the date of the episode, it is consistent with what happened on May 17, 2010, when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Da Silva reached an agreement with Iran on a “fuel swap” deal. Netanyahu regarded the agreement as a maneuver to derail a new UN Security Council agreement on sanctions, but the government issued no public statement that day.
Barak denied on the Israeli program that he and Netanyahu had intended to go through with an actual attack, which implied that it was to be a short-term bluff to ensure that the sanctions agreement would go through. Ashkenazi’s opposition to the order was not that it was intended to take Israel into war, but that it could easily provoke a military response from Iran.
Both Barak and Ashkenazi agreed on the program, and moreover, that the Israeli army lacked the capability to carry out a successful strike against Iran without US involvement. That agreement reflected a broad consensus within the Israeli security elite that Israel could not carry out a successful operation against Iran without the full involvement of the United States.
Nevertheless, that elite believed that the threat was necessary to pressure the rest of the world to act on Iran. As Yossi Alpher, a former aide to Barak, told me in 2012, most retired national security officials were totally opposed to an attack on Iran, but they remained silent because they did want to “spoil Bibi’s successful bluster.”
A second episode to which Barak refers to in his interviews involves his demanding that the United States postpone the joint military exercise planned for spring 2012, which he now says he did in order to be able to order an attack on Iran during that period without implicating the United States in the decision. But the postponement was announced in mid-January 2012, in plenty of time for Barak to plan the strike against Iran – if that is indeed what he and Netanyahu had intended. Instead, it didn’t happen, and Barak offers no real explanation, commenting that they were “still unable to find the right moment.”
The Obama administration pretended to be alarmed about Netanyahu’s readiness to attack. But Obama was actually playing along with the Israeli strategy in order to line up support for a more aggressive regime of sanctions and then to put pressure on Iran to enter into negotiations aimed at closing down its enrichment program.
Gary Samore, Obama’s adviser on WMD, had openly espoused the notion before taking that job that the United States should exploit an Israeli threat to attack Iran to put pressure on the Iranians over their nuclear program. At a Harvard University symposium in September 2008, Samore opined that the next administration would not want to “act in a way that precludes the [Israeli] threat, because we’re using the threat as a political instrument.”
The Obama administration’s policy toward Iran clearly applied that Samore strategy early and often. Within weeks of his arrival in the White House, on April 1, 2009, Obama’s Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the Commander of CENTCOM David Petraeus both commented publicly that Israel was bound to attack Iran within a matter of a few years at most, unless Iran came to heel on its nuclear program.
And in mid-November 2009, Obama sent Dennis Ross and Jeffrey Bader of the White House staff to Beijing to warn the Chinese that the United States could not restrain Israel from an attack on Iran much longer unless the Security Council adopted a strong package of tough economic sanctions against Iran.
That diplomatic exploitation of the Israeli threat came seven months after Haaretz reported in May 2009 that CIA Director Leon Panetta had just obtained a commitment from Netanyahu and Barak that they would not take military action without consulting Washington first. That commitment reflected a reality that most senior national security officials accepted – that Israel could attack Iran without US cooperation.
What happened in late 2011 and early 2012 was a “good cop/bad cop” routine by Panetta and Barak at a historical juncture when the United States and Israel were cooperating closely in a strategy to get crippling sanctions against Iran approved in the UN Security Council while pressuring Iran to begin negotiating on its enrichment program.
Panetta’s role in the routine was to wring his hands over alleged indications that Israel was intent on a strike in the spring. But Panetta’s interview with David Ignatius in early February 2012 in which he warned of the “strong likelihood” of an Israeli attack in “April, May or June” included a clear give-away that the real purpose of his warning was to gain diplomatic leverage on Iran. He suggested to the Iranians that there were two ways to “dissuade the Israelis from such an attack”: either Iran could begin serious negotiations on its nuclear program or the United States could step up its own cyber-attacks against Iran.
Later that year, of course, Obama would break dramatically with Netanyahu’s strategy. But despite that clear indication in early 2012 that Panetta was playing a game that suited the interests of both administrations, consumers of the world’s commercial news media were led to believe that Barak and Netanyahu were on the brink of war.
Barak himself is still peddling that same warmed-over, patently false tale of near war-war with Iran. And in one more indicator of the degree to which the media parrot the Israeli line on Iran, they are still reporting it as unquestioned fact today.
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Maggie Gallagher Steps Down as NOM President
Evan Hurst April 20, 2010
She has to, let’s see…write a book about how gay marriage is going to be the downfall of society, so she will be busy:
After just three years of existence, one of the forefront organizations for defending the natural institution of marriage is announcing a changing of the guard. Maggie Gallagher, president and co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage, has announced that she is stepping down as president and placing the organization in the hands of NOM executive director Brian Brown.
Gallagher will remain on the Executive Committee of the Board of NOM, and will continue to work for NOM directing the organization’ cultural and strategic projects.
Gallagher told LifeSiteNews.com in a telephone interview that “it was always my plan” to step down. “I’ve never had a desire to run a large political and activist organization. I don’t think it is particularly my gift,” said Gallagher.
The decision to step down as President, Gallagher said, will not really change her commitment to NOM. She said she will continue to do her work of fundraising, message development, spotting strategic opportunities, and connecting with coalition partners.
Oh, well, whatever. If you want to read Maggie’s announcement (why?), click here. Therein, she brags about NOM’s accomplishments under her tutelage:
In less than three years, NOM has compiled an incredible record of victories (forging coalitions and working with many others who also deserve the credit, we never forget): putting Prop 8 on the ballot in California, overturning gay marriage in Maine, blocking gay marriage bills in New York and New Jersey, fighting in court to protect marriage activists from legal harassment, helping turn “scozzfava” into a verb. (To “scozzfava” a politician is to inform GOP primary voters that he or she is pro-gay marriage).
Two things, Margaret:
1. S-c-o-z-z-A-f-a-v-a. You should be able to spell a word you supposedly single-handedly sent into the popular vernacular. And honestly, I followed that race, and it didn’t really seem that “to scozzafava” somebody was really about gay marriage, specifically, but was more part of a larger teabagging campaign to fling a bunch of poo, thereby electing the first Democrat to a seat held by the GOP since Reconstruction.
2. All those NOM accomplishments sound great, Marge, but how many gay people did you hurt? You should keep numbers on that kind of thing if you really want to motivate your followers. I mean, you want them to stick around in the coming years as they’re relegated to KKK status, right?
TS at Instaputz thinks Maggie may be stepping down to have Rod Dreher’s babies or something, which, who knows?
So now you know. Go back to whatever you were doing now.
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Characters, Pixar Characters, Cars Characters, Piston Cup Racers
Chick Hicks
Chick Hicks (also know as Thunder, or simply Chick) is the main antagonist of Cars and a minor neutral character in Cars 3. He is a cocky, self-centered retired Piston Cup racer. As a racer he was aggressive, often intentionally damaging or interfering with other cars in hopes of a better finish. He is well recognized for the hundreds of stickers that cover his body and the large grille that looks much like a mustache. His number is 86, and he was sponsored by HtB. He has no successor, and he hosts Chick's Picks With Chick Hicks.
1.1 Cars
1.2 Cars: The Video Game
1.3 Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures
1.4 Cars: Race-O-Rama
1.5 The World of Cars Online
1.6 Cars 2: The Video Game
1.7 Disney Infinity
1.8 Cars: Fast as Lightning
1.9 Cars 3
1.10 Cars 3: Driven to Win
1.11 Other appearances
2.1 Physical description
2.2 Personality and traits
2.3 Powers and abilities
2.4 Relationships
4 Profiles and statistics
5 Portrayals
7 Names in other languages
In Cars, Chick is among the thirty-six race cars that are competing in the final race of the Piston Cup season at the Motor Speedway of the South. Bob Cutlass and Darrell Cartrip introduce him to the audience as the "runner-up" to Strip Weathers. Shortly after, when Lightning McQueen overtakes him in the race, Chick pushes Lightning's rear tire against the wall, causing him to spin into the field, in front of a group of RVs, who cheer Lightning on.
McQueen recovers quickly, but Chick, determined to win, hits Winford Bradford Rutherford, which ultimately results in a giant crash consisting of everyone behind him except him, The King, Lightning McQueen, Mac iCar and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.. Much to Chick's annoyance and surprise, Lightning manages to carefully maneuver through the array of out-of-control cars, which makes him the center of attention to the audience. The three-way tie. In the final lap of the race, McQueen has an entire lap on Chick and The King, but his carelessness in not changing his tires causes his two rear tires to blow out, leaving Lightning desperately attempting to make his way to the finish line. However, he is not fast enough, and the race results in the first three-way tie in Piston Cup history, between Lightning, Chick, and The King. As officials are unable to determine a victor, a tie-breaker race is set to be held at the Los Angeles International Speedway.
As Lightning, Chick, and The King are on the winners podium, Chick makes a bet with McQueen to see who can reach Los Angeles first, with the winner receiving the Dinoco sponsor and paint job. Because of this, Lightning convinces his hauler, Mack, to drive through the night in order to reach the speedway first. However, Mack is unable to do this, and drifts off to sleep. Boost, Wingo, DJ, and Snot Rod, who are causing trouble on Interstate 40, drive up to Mack and mess around with him, and unknowingly cause Lightning to fall out of his trailer. Chick wins the Dinoco sponsorship in McQueen's daydream. Hoping to find help, Lightning ends up ripping up the main road of Radiator Springs while in pursuit of the town's local police officer, and is sentenced to fix the road, not allowed to leave until it is finished. While doing this, Lightning hears a press report on the radio, and has a daydream about Chick winning the Piston Cup and the Dinoco sponsor.
Meanwhile, Chick arrives at the speedway, and all of the attention is put on him, including that of Mia and Tia, two of Lightning's biggest fans, who have changed their attire to green, with large, green "C"s attached to their roofs.
After the press are alerted of McQueen's whereabouts by Doc Hudson, Lightning is taken to the race, where he is distracted by thinking about the new friends he has made. In the middle of a daydream about them, McQueen spins into the field. When returning to the race, Lightning hears a voice on his microphone, which turns about to be Doc, who, along with many of his other friends, are serving as his pit crew. Chick wins a Piston Cup. During the race, things are going smoothly until Chick becomes frustrated about constantly placing behind The King. When The King blocks him again, Chick flys into a blind rage, and smashes The King against the wall, and he goes flying out into the field, receiving heavy damage in the process. Lightning, who is ahead of the two cars, notices this, and stops just before the finish line, allowing Chick to pass him and win the race, much to the audience's surprise and confusion. McQueen backs up to The King and helps push him to the finish line, believing that he should be able to finish his final race.
These actions take the spotlight away from Chick, and the audience boos him when he comes out on the victory podium, furious about what Chick had done, and eventually began to throw stuff at him. Tex Dinoco offers the Dinoco sponsorship to Lightning, but he reforms himself as he denies it, in favor of the friends he has made while under sponsorship of Rust-eze. This causes Chick to retire as a racer.
Cars: The Video Game
Chick racing in Tailfin Pass. In Cars: The Video Game, Chick serves as the primary antagonist of the game's story mode. He is first spotted in the ending cutscene of Doc's Challenge, watching Lightning and Doc practice from a distance, but he drives away once they spot him. Not long after, at the first Piston Cup race of the season at Palm Mile Speedway, Chick and Lightning share some trashtalk with each other, but the race results in Lightning's victory, leaving Chick frustrated.
Shortly after beating Chick at the Motor Speedway of the South, Lightning meets Vince, Barry, Sonny, and Lenny, a gang of race cars from Queens, New York, who are later revealed to be allies of Chick. Around the same time, Sheriff must chase down Chick, Vince, and Boost, who have been speeding around Ornament Valley.
After Lightning beats Chick for the third time at the Sun Valley International Speedway, Chick secretly hires Boost, Wingo, DJ, and Snot Rod to rob Mack while he is transporting McQueen's supplies on the Interstate. After Lightning hears the news and steals his gear back, the cars are arrested, who tell Lightning and Sheriff that they were hired by a "green car with a mustache".
At the fourth Piston Cup at the Smasherville International Speedway, Lightning angrily confronts Chick, who denies his involvement. After McQueen wins the race, Chick accuses him of cheating, and the two decide to settle their conflict in the Radiator Springs Grand Prix, a three-race event consisting of road races in Radiator Springs, Tailfin Pass, and Ornament Valley, followed by the final Piston Cup race at the Los Angeles International Speedway. However, Chick loses all three road races to Lightning, and later at the Los Angeles International Speedway as well.
Chick also appears as an unlockable playable character in the game's Arcade and Versus modes, and is unlocked by purchasing him for 10,000 Bonus Points. His stats include 5 for speed, 4 for acceleration, 3 for handling, and 4 for stability.
Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures
In Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures, Chick is the speeder in level 5 of Speed Trap. After the player wins the event, the Legends Race secret for Chick is unlocked. He does not speak at all in the game.
Cars: Race-O-Rama
In Cars: Race-O-Rama, Lightning and the students of the Doc Hudson Racing Academy are challenging a rivaling school at the Radiator Springs Speedway when they notice that their competitors are rather rough. After the race, Lightning confronts them, but is surprised to learn that they are being taught by none other than Chick. Chick informs him that he and his new allies are planning to win the Race-O-Rama series and shut down Doc's academy, so that all new students will want to join his school instead. Chick even wants to take over Radiator Springs, forcing Lightning to leave. Deciding to customize himself for races, Lightning challenges many of Chick's new friends; including the sassy and rude Candice, the silent and angry Stinger, and the tough and confident El Machismo. However, Chick's students have gone through the MotorCo. building in Autovia, which has turned them into VINs, generic race cars that are painted entirely white, save for a barcode on their doors, making them nearly identical in appearance.
Lightning and Chick's final confrontation is at the Radiator Springs Speedway, where Chick shows off his new modifications, but ultimately loses to Lightning. Upset, Chick reveals that he was only using Candice, Stinger, El Machismo, and the VINs to learn how to beat Lightning, and this revelation causes them to apologize to Lightning and befriend him. However, Chick declares that he will return to Radiator Springs to have his revenge.
The World of Cars Online
In The World of Cars Online, Chick appeared as an opponent during races at the Petroleum City Super Speedway.
Cars 2: The Video Game
In Cars 2: The Video Game, Chick appears as a downloadable playable character, available only in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game. He can be purchased either separately for $0.99, or in the Radiator Springs Character Bundle with Ramone, Flo, and Sheriff for $2.99. He is a medium weight racer that is focused more on speed than power.
In Disney Infinity, Chick serves as the main antagonist of the Cars: Play Set. Upon arriving in Radiator Springs, Chick stops at Flo's V8 Café, and once Flo asks if he wants to purchase anything, he responds by asking for some jumper cables, claiming that the town is putting him to sleep. Offended, Flo tells him to keep rolling if he does not plan on ordering anything. Angered, Chick challenges the player to the race. If the player wins, Chick angrily drives away, claiming to want a rematch.
Prior to the start of the Radiator Springs International Race Invitation held by Luigi, Chick tells the other competitors that he will be winning the race, and tells him that it will be the "last time you'll be seeing my grill." Shortly after, Finn McMissile informs everyone that Fillmore's fuel has recently gone missing, which was suspiciously around the time Chick had arrived in Radiator Springs.
Avoiding the statement, Chick then competes in the race, but after the player wins, smoke is seen coming out of Chick, which has supposedly been caused by Fillmore's fuel. Chick is then taken away by Finn, Ramone and Flo, who want to throw him in the impound lot, fix him up for "Detail My Dents" due to his "ugliness", and paint him red with lightning bolts, respectively. Outraged by the thought of looking like Lightning, Chick wants to just be thrown in the impound lot instead.
Cars: Fast as Lightning
In Cars: Fast as Lightning, Chick Hicks is the second playable character that is unlocked, after earning all four of his stickers by completing Todd Marcus' races. His home is Chick's Pit, which is where he sleeps while the player is away from the game.
He has two unlockable paint jobs, titled Purple Rage and Dinoco. Both can be unlocked with gems, or by earning all of the respective stickers from practice races.
Chick Hicks returns in Cars 3'. Now retired from full-time racing, he is an analyst for the Racing Sports Network. When Jackson Storm wins the Gears and Glory 450 at the Heartland Motor Speedway, Chick accompanies him on the winners podium. Additionally, McQueen is watching Chick on Mack's television, where Chick is giving a report on the possibility of McQueen's retirement. It also said Storm lapped the fastest lap, at 214 mph (344 km/h).
Cars 3: Driven to Win
Chick Hicks is an unlockable playable character in Cars 3: Driven to Win. He is unlocked by completing the Master-level event Chick Hicks Takedown.
In Mater Saves Christmas, Chick's latest appearance was around Christmas time 2009 when he and his gang stole tons of goods from the local shops. Chick was then arrested and his Piston Cup career ended after that. In the 2019 version of Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Chick Hicks makes a cameo when the movie is rewinding back to the beginning.
Chick is a 1979 Shyster Cremlin, a car that does not exist. It is based on and designed after a 1986 Buick Regal. Chick is painted green, with an 86 painted on his doors, and has yellow rims. He also has a grille in front, which serves as a mustache. According to the 2009 Cars Die-Cast Collectors Guide, Chick has a total of 334 stickers covering his body. On his hood, sides, rear and left headlight, he had a logo of his sponsor - HtB. In McQueen's nightmare, he gets a Dinoco sponsorship, is repainted blue, has his HtB logos replaced with Dinoco ones, and has less stickers. After his retirement, he becomes an RSN presenter, and his HtB logos are replaced with RSN stickers; "Chick Hicks 86" is now written on his hood instead of HtB, some contingency stickers are removed, and a "PRESS" sticker appears near the "Piston Cup" one.
Chick is one of the top three best race cars in the Piston Cup, but only reaches the title by being aggressive to fellow racers by wrecking them and sabotaging them (seemingly, the race officials do not even care, they just allow him to play dirty just because he's on the top 3). He has a bad reputation for his rude racing style, but nonetheless does have a great deal of fans.
Chick has attempted to rob McQueen before by hiring the Delinquent Road Hazards, though they are caught by McQueen and arrested. He became less rude and selfish after the events of Cars, but he still brags about his infamous win and taunts McQueen, meaning he still hates him.
Chick is an incredibly fast race car that often does quite well in Piston Cup races, though he was inferior to The King's skills prior to his retirement in 2005. Upon The King's retirement, Chick and McQueen became the two top racers, and arch-rivals, all the way from 2006 to 2009, though other racers such as Aikens, Lee Jr., Suregrip, Hollister, Joltsen, Guenther, and Riley also proved to be tough opponents for the two. Between the events of Cars and Cars 3, Chick retired and his sponsor did not return in Cars 3.
Chick has been shown to have Boost, DJ, Snot Rod and Wingo as allies on several different occasions, such as Cars: The Video Game and the bookMater Saves Christmas. In most of their appearances together, the four tuner cars are working for Chick in some way that harms others, whether it be Lightning, other racers, or Radiator Springs residents and tourists.
Chick is also friends with his team members - Bruiser Bukowski, Wide Chick Pitty, Pit Crew Chick, his hauler, Chief Chick, and the rest of his unnamed pitties. Though he was originally friends with El Machismo, Candice, and Stinger, they turned against him and apologized to Lightning for their actions.
Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2020)
"Chick Hicks is a racing veteran with a chip on his shoulder, a ruthless competitor who has cheated his way into more second-place finishes than any other car. He's been counting down the seasons to The King's retirement so that he can take over the coveted Dinoco sponsorship, but he never expected such fierce competition from hot shot rookie Lightning McQueen."
"In Lightning McQueen's worst nightmares not only does Chick Hicks win the Piston Cup, but he wins over Dinoco as well."
Speed: 5
Acceleration: 4
Handling: 3
Stability: 4
"There's no way Chick is going to let Lightning McQueen out-spy him! See as he revs up the competition!"
Weight class: Medium
Power: 60
How to unlock
Found randomly in a character chest or the vault in the Cars Play Set. Hostile Takeover Bank's racer of choice.
Paint jobs: Dinoco, Purple Rage
"Chick Hicks retired from Piston Cup racing and sign on to the Racing Sport Network to host his own show. Instead of cutting down opponents on the track, he now cuts them down verbally on his cable-run sports show, Chick's Picks with Chick Hicks. If you want the no-holds barred commentary, Chick is your car!"
Portrayals
Michael Keaton - Cars, Cars: The Video Game, Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures, Cars: Race-O-Rama, Disney Infinity, Cars: Fast as Lightning
Eric Stitt - Cars 2: The Video Game
Bob Peterson - Cars 3
"Thunder... what's he talking about thunder?" - Cars
"I'm not coming in behind you again, old man." - Cars
"Get through that, McQueen!" - Cars
"Ka-chicka!" - Cars
"Hey, what? Come on!" - Cars
"What do you think, boys? Thing of beauty!" - Cars
"Second place is just the first loser." - Cars: The Video Game
"Oh yeah, you wanna hang with a real winner, huh? Good choice." - Cars: The Video Game
Names in other languages
Spanish Chick Hicks Chick Hicks
French Chick Hicks Chick Hicks
Polish Marek Marucha Mark Chick
Ukrainian Шик Гикс Шик (shyk) means style, luxury.
Russian Чико Хикс Chicko Hicks
Harry Knøl
Harry Knol
Finnish Jasu Juntti Jake Yokel
Chick Hicks wants to end up in first place and hates ending up in second place, which is similar to the character of Randall Boggs from Monsters, Inc., another Pixar film.
86, Chick's number, is most likely a reference to 1986, the year that Pixar was established. Additionally, "86" is used as a slang term for "eliminating" someone or something, which may have influenced Pixar's decision. Also, 86 is twice of 43, The King's number, because he thinks he is better than him.
A 1:55 Scale Die-cast of Chick, along with Lightning McQueen and Brush Curber, appears in one of the exhibit elements at The Science Behind Pixar exhibition.
According to NASCAR rules, the PIT move, aggressive driving, and intentionally crashing cars results in penalties - points deductions, fines, and even being suspended for a handful of races. Pixar had to break this rule for Chick because if they followed this rule while making Cars, there would be no antagonist.
He has the same number as the Jumbo Pretzels racer.
According to old scripts, he was supposed to be named Chick Murphy.
For the movie series, he did not appear in Cars 2.
Cars, but its just Chick Hicks
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Home / JAZZ SOUTH ANNOUNCES ‘PLATFORM SOUTH’
JAZZ SOUTH ANNOUNCES ‘PLATFORM SOUTH’
Joanna Roberts November 13, 2018
APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED FROM BANDLEADERS AND BANDS FOR THE FIRST OF JAZZ SOUTH’S SUPPORT SCHEMES IN THE REGION
Platform South is an open application scheme to support jazz musicians from the Jazz South region to perform across that region. The scheme aims to strengthen artists’ offer, enabling them to engage new and existing promoters, encourage promoters to book as widely as possible and develop jazz audiences across the sector.
Performances by artists selected for the Platform South scheme will be subsidised by a set amount per musician, which reduces the financial risk to promoters and encourages them to book high-quality artists from the region.
Jazz South has secured sufficient funds for two rounds of the scheme over the period of the Jazz South project and Round 1 is open for applications now. The available funding will provide places for six bands in Round 1, each with the opportunity of six supported gigs. Selected bands will kick off with marketing advice and support and a public showcase performance at Bristol Jazz and Blues Festival in March 2019.
Jazz South welcomes Platform South applications from a diversity of artists of all genders and all ages, and from all backgrounds and communities of ethnicity, disability or any other cultural or personal characteristics. The key to success on Platform South will always be musical excellence.
Full detailed Guidance Notes on Platform South are available here; FAQs here; read them first, then access the online application form for a place on the scheme here.
A map and list of Local Authorities covered by Jazz South can be found here.
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TPD Seeks Truck Driver Who Caused $100,000 in Damage at Chevron
(Tuscaloosa Police Department)
The Tuscaloosa Police Department is asking for help identifying a semitruck driver accused of causing $100,000 in damage at a Chevron service station on McFarland Boulevard last week.
Stephanie Taylor, a spokesperson for TPD, said the driver of a white or silver commercial truck with an enclosed orange trailer attached struck a pole that hit the roof of the Springbrook Chrevon station around 11:30 last Wednesday night.
Taylor said the collision started a small fire and also knocked out power to the surrounding area for several hours.
The suspect left the scene, and Taylor said officers are now looking for a white male in his late 20's or early 30's driving a truck matching the above description.
See the department's post below to pictures of the truck and driver captured on security cameras last week.
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Sam and Quinn are adorable. But . . . what the Puck? – A Recap of Glee’s “Duets”
“Quinn, what the f*ck? He’s not even a natural blonde! At least with me, you already know what our babies will look like . . . With him, it’s a total crap shoot.”
Let me start by saying that I ADORED this week’s episode of Glee. Sure, before last night, I had never heard about 75% of the songs the cast performed. (Who knew my lack of knowledge about Barbara Streisand, and 70’s musicals, would be such a handicap, when recapping a show about singing high schoolers!) Yet, the episode was FUN, the performances – stellar, the dialogue — witty and realistic . . . well . . . at least about as realistic as dialogue on this show could get.
HOWEVER . . . I had two BIG problems with “Duets.” Here’s one . . .
“The horror!”
. . . and here’s the other . . .
“This is SO uncool, man.”
For Puck’s part, his absence was explained away, early in the episode. According to Mr. Schue, he’s in JUVIE.
Just don’t drop that soap, pal. I hear those communal showers can be a little . . . HARD.
Puck’s infraction? Something having to do with a convenience store and ATM. Unfortunately, I was too busy screaming, crying, and throwing my shoes at the television to really hear the explanation.
I REALLY should have forked over the extra cash for that warranty . . .
Now, as my mother calmly explained to me, as I proceeded to have a nervous breakdown to her over the phone, during one of the commercial breaks, Puck’s temporary absence was necessary, plotwise, to enable the inevitable, Quinn / Samm (Quisamm?) relationship to blossom.
It starts with holding hands, it ends with holding *&$%s.
Besides, Mark Salling (who plays Puck) is busy finishing up and promoting his new album, Pipe Dreams. So, in all fairness, the guy is probably entitled to a day off or two. But SUE? Well, her absence was just inexcusable . . .
Glee staff writers, HOW, I repeat, HOW could you create an episode that was both SUE-less AND PUCK-less? Need I remind you, that this is the last episode before Glee enters a NOT ONE, but TWO-week hiatus? Given that fact, this week’s TOTAL and COMPLETE lack of “Bad Boy” and “Bad Woman” was just majorly CRUEL!
See, you’ve gone and made Mr. Schue, CRY! You should be ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES!
*takes a deep breath*
OK . . . I’m better now. Let’s get on with the recap, shall we?
Meet Sam I Am (Gay?)
When the episode opens, Will begins glee club practice by making three anouncements. The first concerns the absence of Puck . . .
GRRRRRRRR!
The second involves the introduction of New Kid, Sam, to Glee Club. Sam hails from an All Boys Boarding School . . . and all that implies.
Coincidentally, do you think all that “communal showering” Sam did back at board school can account for his OBVIOUS penchant for walking around HALF NAKED throughout most of this episode?
Not that I’m complaining . . .
So, anyway, Sam introduces himself to the Gleeks by making a VERY lame Green Eggs and Ham reference.
Said reference proved precisely TWO THINGS about this character. (1) He can read up to at least first-grade level, putting him leaps and bounds above SOME other Glee club members . . .
“Sam I Am? Brittany I am!”
. . . and (2) just in case any of you out there thought this guy was “too cool” to be a Gleek, he’s DEFINITELY NOT!
While he is in front of the class, Chatty Cathies Kurt and Mercedes take this time to size up the “Fresh Meat.”
“He’s on Team Gay. No straight boy dies his hair to look like Linda Evangelista circa 1993,” whispers Kurt knowingly.
Coincidentally, 1993 was probably also the year the Kurt character was BORN. (Watch those pop culture references, Glee writers!)
And, yet . . . the kid DOES have a point . . .
For his third announcement, Mr. Schue announces that New Directions will be having a “Duet Competition.” The winning pair is to receive a dinner for two at The Olive Garden Breadsticks . . .
. . . a restaurant, whose big claim to fame is . . . you guessed it . . . All You Can Eat Breadsticks . . .
OK . . . Is anyone else REALLY hungry right now?
To Couple, or NOT To Couple
Within moments, we are treated to our first of many obligatory Shirtless Sam shots, when Kurt accosts the Newbie in the men’s locker room and practically demands to be his “duets” partner.
“*sings*Gimme a head with hair. Long, beautiful dyed hair. Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen . . . Oh . . . I’m sorry Kurt. Were you trying to ask me something?”
He’s going to have to think about it . . .
Meanwhile, in Sort of/ Kind of Lesbi-land, Brittany and Santana are laying on Brittany’s bed and TOTALLY MACKING ON EACHOTHER!
HOLY MACK-ERONI!
And, I mean, they are really going at it. In fact, I haven’t seen this much girl-on-girl action in a show about high schoolers since . . .um . . . ever.
Observe the telltale Post-Sex Head.
Things seem to be going great for “Brittana,” what with Brittany cooing over “Sweet Lady Kisses,” and Santana making surprisingly naughty (especially for 8 p.m. on Fox) references to “scissoring.”
But then, Brittany mentions the duet competition. Suddenly, Santana halts the Massive Makeout Session, and gets all huffy. (That’s NOT WHAT I MEANT! Get your mind out of the gutter!)
“I’m not making out with you because I want to . . . sing about making lady babies. It’s just that with Puck gone, I need to get my mack on,” scoffs Santana.
Poor Brittany looks totally crushed by her lover / bestie’s massive KISS OFF. In fact, it’s probably a good thing she ISN’T a guy, otherwise she would TOTALLY have a pair of THESE right now . . .
Rather than lead Brittany on more than she already has, Santana opts instead for an unlikely duet partnership with Mercedes, since the two share such complementary voices and styles. If you recall, these two ALREADY sang one duet to the song “The Boy is Mine” last season, back when both divas were battling for PUCK’S affections. (See, it always comes BACK TO PUCK! WE WANT PUCK! WE WANT PUCK!)
Meanwhile, Finn badgers Kurt about ruining Sam’s reputation, by performing a duet with him. Later, in one of their trademark touching scenes, Kurt’s dad (who seems to be recovering quite nicely from his heart attack, by the way) surprises Kurt, by calling him out for aggressively trying to “out” people who may not be ready to do so.
Kurt, in a surprising show of self-sacrifice, ultimately gives up the opportunity to partner with Sam, leaving the new kid and his INSANE abs free to pair up with Quinn.
Meanwhile, in the Oddest Pairing of the Century, Brittany starts dating Artie . . .
. . . she does this despite the fact that, for while, she thought he was a robot . . .
“Before we duet, we are going to do it,” says Brittany, in her trademark emotionless deadpan.
And with that, the Dumb Blonde lifts Artie up, and carries him to the same bed where she was macking on Santana, a few scenes ago. And then they . . . ACTUALLY DO IT!
So, just in case you were keeping score, that makes our final couples for the Duet Competition:
(1) Rachel and Finn (duh!)
(2) Mike and Tina (double duh!)
(3) Mercedes and Santana
(4) Quinn and Puck Sam
(5) Brittany and Artie
(6) Kurt and . . . um . . . Kurt
Let’s see how they did . . .
Rachel and Finn – Like Grease 2, only with Nuns . . .
It seems that the Glee writers have been reading our recaps, in which we all bitched and moaned about how utterly detestable Rachel has been since the beginning of this season. Because this week, they had to go and make her a SAINT . . . well . . . at least a nun. (I wonder how long THAT’S going to last!)
It all started while Rachel and Finn were practicing their first choice of song for the duet’s competition, “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” (originally performed by Elton John and Kiki Dee).
When it was all over, Rachel surprised Finn (and the ENTIRE VIEWING PUBLIC) by wondering if the performance was simply “too good.”
Self-absorbed, personal recognition-grubbing diva, say WHAT?
Apparently, some time between this episode and last, Rachel randomly decided that she is . . . SELFISH.
So, she decides she wants to be a better person. Being a better person apparently starts with improving the Glee Club’s moral. And, in order to do this, she and Finn must THROW THE DUET COMPETITION!
“Clearly, the apocalypse has come to McKinley High. I never should have eaten that Grilled Cheesus.”
Of course, I commend Rachel for her new found generosity. And, yes, Iagree with her that, lately Glee New Directions has become “The Rachel Show,” so change was definitely needed. However, I have to say, I was surprised by who Rachel selected to “win” the competition.
Why the New Kid? Wouldn’t it make sense for one of the more seasoned, and more frequently shafted Gleeks to get a chance to shine? Like . . . say . . . MIKE CHANG . . .
Nevertheless, Finn and Rachel begin concocting their “evil” plot to foil the competition. Suddenly, Rachel has an idea.
She randomly recalls how inferior Grease 2 was to the original Grease, and attributes that negative comparison to Grease 2’s poorly written songs.
Now, while I’ll admit that most of the songs in Grease 2 did, in fact, suck, I will ALWAYS love me some C-O-O-L-R-I-D-E-R! Come on, tell me that was NOT classic!
And so, in a move that would make those guys from The Producers proud, Rachel and Finn decide on a performance that is so “offensive” they can’t possibly win. The song they choose is called “With You I’m Born Again,” and it was originally sung by Billy Preston.
Yes, it was bad. But, honestly, at first, I didn’t really get what exactly everybody thought was so “offensive” about it. And based on the message boards I perused after viewing the episode, many of you didn’t, either. So, I did some research.
As it turns out, “With You I’m Born Again,” is all about spiritual awakening through . . . sex. So, yeah . . . a song about sex, sung by a nun and a priest, who can’t have ANY SEX . . . ever . . . well . . . I guess that could be construed as kind of offensive.
Then again, wasn’t that what the ENTIRE Sister Act movie was about?
Tina and Mike – MIKE CHANG FINALLY SANG! . . . sort of.
Now, if you’ve read my Gleecaps before, you know I was particularly excited about this plotline. After all, I’ve been giving Good Ole Mike Chang quite the hard time for failing to sing (or talk much) throughout the show’s entire first season. But hey, I guess can complain no more! After all, in his duet with Tina this week, Mike Chang had more “speaking” (and “singing”) lines than he had ALL FIRST SEASON combined . .
When we first visit Tina and Mike, we see that things haven’t been quite so rosy, since the couple left Asian Math Camp.
Mike’s awesome abs, notwithstanding.
You see, Mike’s really big into his culture. And he shows this, by repeatedly taking Tina on dates for Dim Sum. Did I mention that HIS MOM always comes along?
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Tina wants to do is just once eat a salad that doesn’t have Chicken Feet in it, and Mike wants to go to ASIAN COUPLES THERAPY?
“I bet I’m starting to look REALLY good now, aren’t I Tina.”
To further complicate matters, Mike, who can dance like a dream, REALLY CAN’T SING, which is ironic since GLEE CLUB is for SINGING PEOPLE. And yet, Tina and Mike make this work to their advantage by performing their duet to song “Sing” from “Chorus Line.”
During the song, Mike basically talks to music about how he can’t . . . sing . . . and Tina finishes his sentences. Through it all Mike does an awesomely comic little dance. In short, I loved it.
This almost makes up for an ENTIRE season of laziness, Mike . . . almost. Just stop taking your mom on your dates, will ya?
Santana and Mercedes – Rockin the Tina Turner Tune
In terms of a recap, I really don’t have much more to say about this duet. Santana and Mercedes rocked out to Tina Turner’s “River Deep, Mountain High,” another song I had never heard before this episode. The song highlighted both girls’ vocal range extremely well. But, of course, it was the duo’s sexy sassy dance that really made it their own.
By the way, does it bother anyone else that the Cheerios ALWAYS wear their uniforms?
Sometimes when I see them, I feel like I’m watching some cartoon where the characters always wear the same thing — like Charlie Brown or The Simpsons.
That CAN’T be hygenic. I mean seriously, how many versions of that leotard to those girls have. Is it like Ronald McDonald, and those wacky suits he always wears?
Do you think that when you open up Brittany or Santana’s closet, and it’s just filled with Cheerios uniforms? Finn and Puck are athletes, and you don’t see THEM wearing their smelly uniforms everyday.
I just don’t get it . . .
Britt and Artie are SO NOT Lady and The Tramp
Remember that iconic scene from The Lady and the Tramp where the titular couple goes on their first date to the Italian restaurant, and they share that one strand of spaghetti? And then Tramp pushes the last meatball with his nose over to Lady so she can eat it?
Come on! Who of you out there DIDN’T hope to reenact that scene with your significant other one day? Well, apparently Brittany was no different. In fact, her dream was to win the duets competition, and take Artie to Breadsticks so they could “do it” together.
But then Santana came along, and had to f&*k everything up.
She told Artie that Brittany was using him for his voice, and that the only thing he could get her that she didn’t already have was “super choice parking.”
(I’d put an “Oh Snap” here, if that line wasn’t so gosh darn offensive . . .)
Artie is understandably crushed. After all, Brittany took his virginity for crying out loud. He dumps her, and quickly drops out of the competition. In a sad and pathetic, but still kinda funny final scene, we see Brittany eating at Breadsticks alone, pushing her meatball to NOBODY. I guess that’s what you get for being such a TRAMP. (pun intended).
Kurt and Kurt (and, later Kurt and Rachel)
If you recall, Kurt gave up Sam as a partner, leaving him with none. So, Kurt decides to sing with the Glee club member he likes best . . . himself. Kurt performs “Le Hot Jazz” from the play “Victor Victoria,” dressed in half drag. (Though admittedly the “girl” side looked more “Guy who REALLY likes Makeup” than “Female.” Maybe this is because, on Broadway, the song is typically performed a by a woman.)
Anyway, once Kurt starts singing, magically, all these professional dancers appear on stage to perform with him. You know what I call that? Cheating.
Though, I have to admit, they did put on quite the show . . .
Toward the end of the episode, Lobotomized Nice Rachel approaches Kurt and lets him know that the rest of the Glee Club loves him. She sweetly tells him that even though he is lonely, he isn’t alone.
OK . . . that’s it . . . tell me what you’ve done with the REAL Rachel!
Together the pair sing a mashup of “Come on Get Happy” and “Happy Days” are here again. Sources tell me, this same mashup was sung by Judy Garland and Barbara Streisand on network television some time back. Whereever the song came from, it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
And the winners are . . . Sam and Quinn
From the moment Quinn started washing that Slushee out of Sam’s hair, the chemistry between those two was pretty intense. Things only got hotter when he tried to teach her how to play guitar by groping her and grazing her breasts with his hands delicately placing her fingers on the strings. But when Sam tried to kiss Quinn, she FREAKED OUT.
Why? Well clearly not because she’s a virgin . . .
Actually, Quinn had good reason to be tentative about jumping into a new relationship. She has been through a lot this past season. So, she was eager to return to just being a normal teenager / cheerleader / Mean Girl. Quinn abruptly tells Sam she doesn’t want to sing with him, and takes off.
Later, with the matchmaking help of Rachel and Finn, the pair reconcile. Together, they sing Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat’s “Lucky.” And, in the words of Santana, the performance is “so friggin charming,” it just had to win.
Don’t believe me? See for yourself.
So, off Sam and Quinn go to Olive Garden Breadsticks.
At dinner, Sam tries to “charm” Quinn by talking Navi . . .
“Dude, are you serious? I speak fluent Navi, and even I know THAT doesn’t work.”
. . . and doing a REALLY BAD Matthew McConaughey impersonation.
Hey LOOK! It’s Linda Evangelista’s hair, circa 1993! Now we know who Sam got the idea from!
Granted, this is the same guy who introduced himself to a group of high schoolers, by using a Dr. Seuss reference. Can we really be surprised?
Then Sam tells Quinn he has to confess something to her. Of course, she immediately assumes, as Kurt did earlier in the episode, that Sam is on Team Gay. He’s not. Sam just wants her to know that he dyes his hair like Linda Evangelista.
Quinn is so overjoyed by this news, that she . . . MAKES SAM PAY FOR THE FREE MEAL THEY WON!
Ummmm . . . how romantic? Brattiness of that request aside, these two are cute together, and I truly wish them the best at least until Puck comes back. But I couldn’t help but wonder, are those Breadsticks coupons still up for grabs, because I’m REALLY hungry!
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POLLUTING YOUR EARS WITH GOOD MUSIC
Interview/ Music: Sal Dulu
2019-06-05 by CF Smith
For his latest release, Dublin based producer/instrumentalist Sal Dulu hooks up with veteran rap artist StaHHr on ‘Buzzcut’.
The new track follows on from his solo piano composition, ‘Xompulse’, released in January this year.
The talented artist continues to create a diverse body of work that is gaining him praise from the likes of The Line Best Fit, Earmilk, Stereofox and more. With ‘Buzzcut’ he remains in an experimental vein, fusing elements of hip-hop, jazz and classical music.
Cinematic and expressive all at once, Dulu marries enchanting string arrangements with the glitchy electronic sounds, coupled with StaHHr’s enchanting vocal delivery and insightful words which serve as the cherry on the cake.
We caught up with the Dulu to talk about ‘Buzzcut’, his evolving sound, his favourite new tracks and much more. Read our interview and make sure to stream ‘Buzzcut’ featuring StaHHr below.
I’m good and thanks for having me.
Who is Sal Dulu?
I’m a solo artist/producer. I’m 26 and from Ireland.
What is your background? Tell us how you first got into making music?
I grew up in Dublin and started playing guitar when I was a kid. As a teenager, I was heavily influenced by artists like Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Pink Floyd. Things developed from there and overtime I gradually transitioned into making more electronic type music.
Can you talk us through the creative process behind your new release? How did the collaboration with staHHr come about?
I had an early version of Buzzcut recorded, and StaHHr came to mind. I messaged her online, and to my surprise, she got back to me. I’m a big fan of her music so it was a great experience to collaborate with her and I’m happy how things turned out.
From ‘Antasma’ to ‘Buzzcut’: How do you feel your sound has evolved since your first release?
I feel that I’ve made good progress since my first release. Buzzcut, in some ways, is an unusual song and is not for everyone but I’m really proud of it. I still feel like I have a way to go before I’ll be fully happy with the music I make but I’m excited by my progress so far and optimistic for whats next. Moving forward I want to keep experimenting with different genres and with each release to do something a little bit different whilst maintaining a common thread.
What piece of equipment can you not live without, and why?
I’ve been playing guitar since i was a kid, so either that or Piano, a lot of the initial ideas for my songs come from improvising on keys.
What are your favourite three tracks at the moment?
Christopher Dicker – Impromptu No1: Hope
Tyler The Creator – A Boy Is A Gun*
Nils Frahm – Them
What’s next for Sal Dulu? Should we expect a full-length project soon or singles?
Yeah, there will definitely be a larger project at some point, just hard to say when. But for the meantime, I will be coming out with a few more singles first and then following up with an Ep.
Any last words?
I would like to thank StaHHr for featuring on this with me and also Fergal Styles for doing the artwork.
Buzzcut is out now.
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Offend Jokes
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This is a joke my dad told me a long time ago. I hope I don't offend anyone.
A young man was inspired to help out with his church's fundraiser. He asked the preacher if he could participate. The preacher, knowing the young man had a bad stutter, only gave him 3 bibles to sell.
The following day the young man returned asking for more. The preacher gave him 5. The follo...
I've got several jokes that will offend about 35 million people in the US
Unfortunately, none of them work.
What really offends amputees?
Off-handed comments.
What do you call a sex-offending cat?
a Purr-vert
As a social justice warrior, you all offend me. I am going to cancel each and every one of you.
Starting with your netflix account.
Everyone who defended trump for saying grab them by the pussy is offended by cardi b's sing WAP
Guess there's only a problem when it's wet
American discovery mapping error (with the right to offend)
The Spanish Cartography Society summoned their voyaging artist, Amerigo Vespucci, to explain what his purported maps of India depicted instead of the standard, approved reality.
AV famously stated, "Um.. err.. I ca.."
Haven't you ever seen a naked woman before?
A naked woman jumps into a taxi. The taxi driver stares at her, looking her over from top to bottom. The woman is offended and asks the taxi driver "What's the matter? Haven't you ever seen a naked woman before?"
The taxi driver responds: "Oh, it's not the fact that you're naked that bothe...
People who are offended when I breastfeed need to calm down!
What I’m doing is natural and it strengthens the bond between me and my dog.
Now a days people get too offended. You can't even call trans people "chicks with dicks" anymore. You have to call them men
that talk too much.
We should send sex offenders to storm Area 51
I wasn't the only one in my house who was offended by the overly sexual nature of this year's Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Even my teenage son ran to his room so he wouldn't have to watch it.
A sex offender, creep and a billionaire walk into a Manhattan bar
The bartender says
Wow Mr Epstein what'll it be.
God is creating the world, and he talks to the canadians
He says to them “You will have the best land ever. It is beautiful, in the summer it is warm and in the winter it snows beautiful snow flakes. It is called Canada. You will have prosperity and food for all your days.”
He then gets the Australians, and says to them “I give to you Australia. Yo...
Not for the easily offended - my favourite politically incorrect joke...
Man is walking through park. He sees a girl in a wheelchair crying.
"What's wrong?" man asks.
"Never been kissed before" girl says.
Man kisses her and she goes home happy.
Next day man walking through same park. Sees girl in wheelchair again crying.
"What's wrong?...
what did the sex offender say to the church ?
I heard you guys are hiring
People are offended by the smallest things these days
So please keep your dick in your pants
Why is 6 afraid of 7?
because 7 is a registered 6 offender
They say you have a 50% chance living next to a sex offender.
Lucky I live next to a sexy 12year old.
We all know that seven ate nine... We were even more disgusted to hear that seven was a six offender... It turns out that the most infamous number didn’t stop there...
Seven cut four teens in half!
A blonde joke a friend told me sometime ago (I'm sorry if this offends you)
Three women named Katie, Rachel and Karen, our blonde protagonist, attempted to rob the local bank.
Katie explained the plan to both of them. They went through it once again and then left for the bank.
While Karen went inside the bank, Rachel waited in the driver's seat and Katie was l...
A corrupt guy, a sex offender, a racist, a compulsive liar, an idiot and a terrible business man all walk into a golf course...
Welcome back Mr. President said the door man.
How do you offend a photon?
You tell it that it doesn't matter.
A woman is on trial for beating her husband to death with his guitar collection. Judge asks, "First offender?"
Woman responds, "No, Your Honor. First a Gibson, then a Fender."
I just heard this one, so sorry if it's a repeat.
I am officially a sex offender.
Every time I ask my wife for sex, she gets offended.
A man and a woman were having a quiet, romantic dinner in a fine restaurant.
They were gazing lovingly at each other and holding hands.
The waitress, taking another order at a table a few steps away, suddenly noticed the woman slowly sliding down her chair and under the table but the ...
One day a nun was standing on the side of the road waiting for a cab...
A cab stopped and picked her up. During the ride she noticed that the driver was staring at her.
When she asked him why, he said, "I want to ask you something, but I don't want to offend you." She said, "You can't offend me. I have been a nun long enough that I have heard just about everythi...
What do you call sex offender semen?
Monster's ink.
How do you offend an African-American and Chinese person?
Make a joke about brack people.
Mother-in-law says to her daughter-in-law "I don't mean to offend you, but my grandson looks nothing like my son".
Daughter-in-law replies, "I've got a fanny between my legs, not a fucking photocopier".
6 was afraid of 7 because 789. But why did 7 eat 9?
Because he needed 3² meals a day.
I hate how politically correct things are these days. You can't even say the word stupid without people getting offended.
I started to tell a Polish joke to a group of guys and one of them said "Hey, I'm Polish and that joke offends me!" Fair enough I thought, no one likes to be stereotyped. So I swapped out the word "Polish" for "stupid" and started the joke over. Same guy got offended.
Why doesn't anybody get offended by Irish jokes?
Because they are ALL TRUE!
A man walks into a Mexican-run bookstore
He walks up to counter and asks to see the manager. He explains to the manager that he’s been looking everywhere and no store has had the book on Trump’s immigration policies. Offended, the manager says “FUCK OFF, GET OUT ASSHOLE!”
“Yeah that’s the one”
For her birthday, Jane received a fully-grown parrot as a gift. It was a brilliantly colored, with plumes of emerald green, sunset orange, ocean blue, and ruby red. But the parrot had a vocabulary worse than a sailor's. Every other word was profanity; those that weren't profanity were, to say the le...
Why was Ash Ketchum on a registered sex offenders list?
Because he was caught having a Pikachu.
There was a short period of time in ancient history when offenders were not only nailed to a cross, but also burned alive
Fortunately, the practice ended and very few people were crucifried
How do you make it so no one gets offended at the Christmas song "Baby It's Cold Outside"?
Rebrand it as a rap song and name it, "Yo Bitch, It's Freezing Outside."
A Russian dude enters a bar wearing a tshirt saying, "Turks got 3 problems."
Obvious repost
As soon as he enters the bar a bunch of Turks stop him.
Turks: you come in our country and have the balls to insult us.
Russian : that's your first problem. you guys gets offended so easily.
Turks: Let's get him outside.
Russian: that's your second p...
How many Redditors does it take to change a lightbulb?
1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.
14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.
7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.
17 purists who use candles and...
I was sitting on the bus, next to this lady when I turned to her and said, "Hey lady, can I smell your feet?" She became offended and replied, "OF COURSE NOT!"
"Then it must be your pussy."
There are several distinct cultural differences between Australian and America. For example, Americans are really offended by the word cunt...
Conversely, Australians are really offended by schools being shot up.
To all those who call people snowflakes and say they get offended too easily I’d just like to say…
Brenda was desperately trying to get her co-worker, Yuhap, into bed. He finally agreed to go on a date. After a few drinks she made her move on Yuhap. He said he wasn’t interested in anything physical. She was so turned on that she offered him $500 to sleep with her. He got offended and left.
She learned an important lesson. Money won’t buy Yuhap penis.
I’m not sure whether putting up Christmas lights would offend my Hindu neighbors.
So to make sure, I hung a giant banner saying “YOU WORSHIP FALSE GODS!” on my window.
Top 10 Things That Prison Guards Hate
10) Inmates who don't flush after eating chili for lunch.
9) Coming up with one too many during a head count.
8) Having to break up a fight in the shower.
7) Being asked to be the bridesmaid when two inmates tie the knot.
6) Recognizing the newest inmate as your financial...
I'm glad we have that sex offender registry.
Without, It would be so much harder to find new, like-minded friends in the neighborhood.
Someone made a post offending handicapped people, but I didn’t reply.
The comments were disabled.
I apologize for offending you when I called you stupid.
I thought you already knew.
I think it was totally disrespectful for Joe Biden to call the President of the United States a clown.
As a clown, I'm extremely offended
A father has a suspicion that his son might be gay
Before I tell the joke I don't mean to offend anyone and if anyone finds it offensive I'll remove it right away
A father one day catches his son listening to liza minnelli and he says "son, you know typically homosexual men listen to liza minnelli. Son, are you a homosexu...
There was this young minister that had just started his first preaching gig.
Like many younger folks he was environmentally-minded, and as such he rode a bicycle to church. After a month of preaching he finds his bike gone, and he thinks one of the members of the congregation stole it.
So he goes and talks to an older preacher to ask for advice. The wise minister tel...
I told my friend to get Lost, and he seemed quite offended.
But I thought it was a pretty good series.
My wife has a sinus condition that suppresses her ability to detect odors
But she gets offended when I tell people that she doesn't smell good.
What is a fight called between an illegal immigrant and a sex offender?
I went on the sex offender registry and found the addresses of all the sex offenders in my area, and sent them all hate mail.
Just to make sure they read it, I wrote the letters in crayon.
How do you offend a meth user?
Play them “All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth”.
Why was the burglar so easily offended?
He took things personally.
My God will save me
Just to start off, this joke was considered blasphemy by a devout Christian. Sorry if it offends you for whatever reason.
John was on the roof of his house as the city was flooding.
A raft stops by and ask the man, "Hey, jump into the raft. The entire city is flooded and you're going t...
Master/slave terminology was recently removed from the python programming language so as not to offend anyone.
Looks like PC’s finally won.
Are you offended by sexual assault jokes?
\#MeToo
My friend gets offended when people tell fat jokes.
I told her to lighten up.
There are two types of people on Indian roads
Traffic Police and a beggar.
One doesn't leave you until you give some money and other is the begger.
I told this joke to my friend and he was offended because his father was a traffic police. Then we settled the dispute for 25 dollars
Saw a man at the supermarket today who was saying the most nasty things while walking up and down the aisle, picking different kinds of breakfast-food off the shelves, shouting at the boxes and putting them back again. I asked the manager what his problem was.
Turns out the guy's a cereal offender.
[Religion] If you're religious this is not for you. The setup is completely fictional. Please don't get offended.
The catholic church would have you believe that Jesus Christ was one single person while, actually they were a set of twins - Jesus and Christ. It was through this that Jesus came back to life, Christ was crucified and Jesus made a religion by apparently coming back to life.
Christ was a...
Aliens Vs Predators
This is where you can have your illegal immigrants chase and hunt down sex offenders for a chance at citizenship
Dirty jokes time.Don't click if you are easily offended.
I asked my uncle how I could tell if a girl was into me?
He told me, Oh that's easy, when you have your hand down her pants...if it feels like your feeding a horse...she likes you.
A woman is arrested for killing her guitar player husband
She is accused of bashing her husband's head in with his guitars because he never paid any attention to her.
In her first court appearance, the judge looks at the woman and asks: “First offender?"
The woman replies: “No. First it was a Gretsch, followed by a Gibson, and then a Fender."
What is a sexual offender that lurks on Reddit called?
A predditor
A clown, a politian and a sex offender walks into a bar.
He orders a drink.
I was hoping 2019 would be a year where people stopped getting offended by everything, but boy was I wrong. All I said was "I hope you start off the new year on the right foot"
Damn amputees
My neighbor got offended that I used the word “puke”
But to me that’s what her cooking tasted like.
An elderly lady called the front desk to complain.
“I am most offended! There is a man bathing in the room across the courtyard. His windows are open and you can see everything. Please do something about it at once.”
The manager arrived at her room. “Please show me what you mean and we will fix it right away.” The lady led him to her win...
I don't know why I offended the Asian man wearing a damaged bulletproof vest...
...all I said was "There's a chink in the armour."
How to stop repeat offenders?
Don't re-elect them!
People who get offended by crucifixion jokes seem rather cross.
I don't get what their hangup is.
A perpetual criminal offender is brought to the court house for trial. However the judge is a duck wearing robes and a powdered wig
. The criminal is incensed, he shouts out "I will not be judged by a common duck"
The judge says to the defence lawyer "If you don't silence your client he will be held in contempt."
The defence says "Yes Mallard"
In the hospital, I asked the charge nurse for a phone charger - she was very offended.
Don't even get me started on the reaction from the head nurse.
Why did people get offended by the extremely busy Vietnamese restaurant?
because it was a big Pho Queue to them
I asked my Latino friend if Mexicans are offended by all the talk of building a wall on the southern border...
He said, "Eh... we'll get over it"
[Offensive] How do you offend homeless people?
By telling them knock knock jokes!
A father goes shopping in a market.
At the market he sees a man selling large potatoes for a substantially higher price. He asks the seller, "What are you selling that's so expensive?"
The seller answers, "They're dam potatoes."
"Mind your language!" says the father, very offended.
The seller replies, "No Sir, the...
An old farmer is sitting in his house
It’s a cold winter day outside, and he is warm and cozy in his house. He hears a knock on the door. It’s a young pretty gal. She says “I have driven my car into a ditch and I was hoping you could pull me out.” The farmer thinks for a minute and says. “Why yes I think I might be able to help you out....
A man hosts a party for 4 of his friends.
(This joke is translated from Chinese. It sounds a lot better in the original due to the reiteration and how the syllables works out)
Three of the guests arrived on time, but long has past since they waited for the 4th. The host, impatient, started muttering.
Host: "The one who i...
My wife made me dinner the other day. She got offended when I put down my knife and fork and said, "This dinner is disgusting"
then my wife said, "Well, boil your own toast next time then"
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2018 Mercedes Benz GLS: A true Lap of Comfort
Last Updated on: August 26, 2018 by Brian Mwangi
I have had a moment of soul searching and I believe my previous review of the entry model Mercedes Benz GLC as a bad apple deserves better. So here I am today with the 2018 Mercedes Benz GLS full-size SUV. I will go through it to find out how it stacks up to the competition. Compared to the Lincoln Navigator and the Infinity QX80, we will know if we are comparing apples and apples or apples and thorn melons.
Fact File: The GLS is based on Mercedes S-class luxury sedan and it replaces the GLC that I recently reviewed
The 2018 Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class SUV has a new name, and we’re here to tell you why. The S-Class, you see, has been Mercedes’ flagship sedan for decades. It’s a luxury icon in its own right.
Mercedes wanted its top-of-the-line family crossover to tap into that heritage, so last year’s GL-Class has become this year’s GLS-Class.
The idea is that it’s the S-Class of SUVs, and we have to admit that this well-mannered beast makes a pretty compelling case after last years refresh
While the GLC did not manage to be at the top of its game, the 2018 GLS manages to take things up a notch. Mild styling changes front and rear mask more significant upgrades under the skin.
This includes a superb new nine-speed automatic transmission and an upgraded infotainment system with a larger central display and a touchpad. The GLS is great to drive, too, with remarkable agility for such a behemoth.
Direct competition for the 2017 GLS-Class is surprisingly thin. BMW doesn’t offer a full-size three-row crossover yet until lat this year, and the otherwise stellar Audi Q7 lacks the Benz’s range of engines and adult-friendly third-row seat.
The Land Rover LR4 boasts inimitable style and serious off-road capability along with true three-row seating, but it’s really a class down from the ultra-luxurious GLS. Japanese rivals include the distinctive Infiniti QX80 and the aging but still competent Lexus LX 570.
The huge Cadillac Escalade and Lincoln Navigator serve as patriotic alternatives. But for now, at least, no large crossover or SUV can match the all-around talents of the 2018 Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class.
Safety features in the 2018 Mercedes GLS
Standard safety features on the 2018 Mercedes-Benz GLS include automatic crosswind stabilization, trailer stability assist, front side airbags, a driver knee airbag, full-length side curtain airbags, a forward collision prevention system with automatic braking and a driver attention/drowsiness monitor.
Also standard are a rearview camera and a five-year subscription to Mbrace Connect (includes Mercedes-Benz roadside assistance).
For additional peace of mind, Mbrace Secure is available and includes automatic collision notification, stolen-vehicle location and more. The Premium 1 package adds a blind-spot monitor and lane keeping assist.
The Driver Assistance package contributes adaptive cruise control, an upgraded collision mitigation system. It has pedestrian recognition system, speed limit assist and “active” blind spot and lane keeping assist systems that can automatically guide the car back into its lane if the driver fails to heed their warnings.
The GLS officially makes its debut for 2018, though it’s really a slightly revised version of the outgoing GL-Class.
Highlights include modified exterior styling, a newly standard nine-speed automatic transmission. A touchpad-operated infotainment system with a larger screen and available Apple CarPlay.
Also, all engines except the GLS 450’s turbocharged V6 get a bit more horsepower this year. The diesel engine has been discontinued.
How does it feel to drive the 2018 GLS
Compared to the GL-Class, the 2017 Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class benefits from suspension refinements that provide a more controlled, confident feel in corners. Nonetheless, it retains the quiet interior and absorbent ride over bumps for which the S-class is known. Compared to other large three-row crossover SUVs, the 2017 GLS-Class is a joy to drive.
The three engines pour on the performance in increasingly concentrated doses. The GLS 450 is a fleet SUV in its own right, but the V8-powered models practically redefine what’s possible for a large crossover with their effortless acceleration.
The 2018 Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class will look pretty familiar inside. There’s a smattering of updates, however, including a redesigned instrument panel and a new three-spoke steering wheel. Most notably, the infotainment system gets an improved 8-inch display screen and a touchpad that works in tandem with the default console-mounted control knob.
The dashboard of the GLS-class is a carryover from the outgoing GL-Class, and it shows in the relatively routine styling and button layout.
Materials and design aren’t quite in the S-Class league overall. Particularly if you focus on the area between the climate controls and the dashboard display, where a flat plastic panel with a number of small buttons makes for a somewhat dated look. Make no mistake, though.
This is an exceptionally nice interior by segment standards. The standard upholstery on GLS350d and GLS450 models does seem a bit low-budget for a vehicle at this price. But you’d probably be hard-pressed to tell it apart from the real leather of some other brands. Moreover, the availability of multiple wood inlays and even diamond-quilted leather upholstery make it easy to add an even higher-end look and feel.
Categories Cars Tags 2018 Mercedes Benz GLS, 2018 Mercedes Benz GLS review
Brian Mwangi
Brian is a founding writer at Urban Kenyans. His work is focused on how to improve the digital literacy of Kenyans online. He has been able to do so with his mastery of Kenya and the English Language.
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Dancing with the stars (DWTS) All Winner Name List (Season 1 to Season 5)
We are here to cover the best number one dancing show in the American History and we are going to cover some aspect here as well. We have seen the 24 Season winners in Dancing with the starts history and we are going to cover it one by one. So you can see our full post and do tell us in the comment about that as well.
DWTS Season 1 Winner Name
It’s been a Delightful was the feeling when DWTS Season 1 Winner Name to be discussed here where we have all started with all enthusiasm and fire and gave our very first winners. So the first winner of DWTS Season 1 was Kelly Marie Monaco won the title with Alec Mazo.
Now we are heading towards the DWTS Season 2 Winner Name and it was again one of the best Season from the previous one. We have stepped up gradually dancing with the stars new Season and winner of the season 2 was Cheryl Burke with Jerry Lee Rice.
We are here to tell you the DWTS Season 3 Winner Name and title was won by famous NFL League winner all-time leading rusher Emmitt Smith with Cheryl Burke. It was again one of the best Season we had Season So far and we had so much fun here by watching all superstar one stage.
No, we are heading towards the DWTS Season 3 Winner Name and it has been won by none other than Apolo Anton Ohno won with wondrous Julianne Hough. It was not expected by judges but they have gained the love from the Audience.
Now we are heading towards the DWTS Season 5 Winner Name and the main title has been won by famous The Brazilian Racing driver Helio Castroneves with Julianne Hough. They were in good position and they have done exactly that.
Here we have given you the Dancing with the stars All-Season Winner Name List (Season 1 to Season 5) and we will be showing you some more updates on the show. for the update keep watching keep reading. So the new Season premier is coming tonight on 18 Sep 2017 and you can watch this only on ABC network. Do tell us in the comment where you will see the latest updates on the show.
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Vallea E. Woodbury
Available for Projects
I act both on stage and screen. I am also available for voice over acting and hosting. Please see my resumé for some details of my experience and skills.
Additionally, I am an experienced teacher, coach, and teaching artist available for corporate or academic workshops. Contact me via the form for details.
The Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol
January 30-March 4, 2018
On the night of his 35th birthday, Robert struggles to think of a wish to make as he blows out his birthday candles. The lone bachelor, surrounded by "those good and crazy people" -- his married friends -- Robert is uncertain whether he should simply be happy with his lot or whether he should wish for his own romantic partner. Over a series of dinner parties, first dates, and thoughtful conversations, Robert attempts to understand the pros and cons of marriage from his diverse and frequently hilarious friends, and begins to make sense of his own persistent bachelorhood. Stephen Sondheim's seven time Tony Award winning musical, Company is a mature, intelligent, and wildly funny look at relationships, vulnerability, and "being alive." Vallea is appearing as Sarah in this Sondheim classic.
Copyright © 2018 Vallea E. Woodbury - All Rights Reserved.
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London (City), England : Classification : Museums
Many museums are associated directly with a regiment or squadron and offer definitive information both online and offline.
Classification: RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, World War I, World War II, Museums, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Aircraft, Ships, Information
Title: Imperial War Museum
Link: https://www.iwm.org.uk/
Description: Imperial War Museum - links to the museums at London, Duxford, IWM North, HMS Belfast and Churchill Museum
Extra Info: Located in London, Salford Quays & Duxford.
Classification: Army, Museums
Title: Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry Museum
Link: https://www.sharpshooters.org.uk/
Description: Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry Museum
Extra Info: Located in Kent.
Title: London Scottish Regiment : UK Territorial Army Regiment
Link: https://www.londonscottishregt.org/index.php/en/
Description: London Scottish Regimental Museum
Extra Info: Located in London. Includes a history and timeline for the regiment.
Title: National Army Museum
Link: https://www.nam.ac.uk/
Description: National Army Museum
Extra Info: Located in Chelsea, London.
Classification: RAF / RFC / RNAS, Museums, Aircraft
Title: RAF Museum London and Cosford Air Force Museums
Link: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/
Description: RAF Museum London and Cosford Air Force Museums
Extra Info: Located in Cosford, Shropshire and Hendon, London.
Classification: RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, Museums
Title: Reserve Forces in Greater London
Link: https://glrfca.org/
Description: Reserve Forces in Greater London
Extra Info: Includes the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Territorial Army, Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
Title: The Guards Museum
Link: https://theguardsmuseum.com/
Description: Her Majesty's Household Division
Extra Info: Located in London.
Title: The HAC, Home to the Honourable Artillery Company. London
Link: https://hac.org.uk/index.php
Description: Honourable Artillery Company
Title: The London Irish Rifles - British Territorial Army Regiment - London UK
Link: https://www.londonirishrifles.com/
Description: The London Irish Rifles - British Territorial Army Regiment - London UK
Title: The Royal Artillery Museum
Link: https://www.royalartillerymuseum.com/
Description: The Royal Artillery Museum
Extra Info: Located in Woolwich, London.
Title: The Royal Hospital Chelsea
Link: https://www.chelsea-pensioners.co.uk/
Description: The Royal Hospital Chelsea - The Home of Chelsea Pensioners
Classification: Museums, Other
Title: Tower of London
Link: https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/
Description: Historic Old Palaces : Tower of London
Title: British Army Museums and Records at Army Museums Ogilby Trust
Link: https://www.armymuseums.org.uk/
Description: British Army Museums and Records at Army Museums Ogilby Trust
Extra Info: Comprehensive list of army museums, including museums without web sites.
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Tag: smash bros for switch
My Most Wanted For Smash Bros Switch
e3 is less than a week away and I couldn’t be more excited, but mostly I am excited for Tuesdays Nintendo online video, where there is sure to be lots of exciting news, none more so than (hopefully) a good deal of information on the new smash bros game.
Many people still seem doubtful that this is a new game, but rather a port of the Wii U/3DS versions, which would be a huge let down after all the hype, so I seriously doubt it is. Plus when they initially announced it, they seemed to go out of their way to title the trailer “Nintendo Switch Super Smash Bros” instead of Super Smash Bros for Nintendo switch, which were how the Wii U and 3DS games were titled.
So anyway, there are thousands of characters people want to see appear in these games each time one comes out. Brawl gave me several characters I wanted added (Toon Link, Wolf, Sonic). After that game, anything seemed possible, especially since they added so many newcomers (though I think Little Mac was the only one added that I really wanted in 4…oh and Mega Man…and Shulk…k that one delivered too).
So here are some characters I would love to see…and no…Ridley and King K. Rool are not going to be on this list. I am not opposed to literally any character becoming playable, and honestly I get excited for any newcomer, even if I don’t know who they are, but I would be a tad more excited if these upcoming characters appear.
First and foremost, I would love to see every character that has been cut back in it, which means Snake, Wolf and especially the Ice Climbers, who were only cut because of the limitations of the 3DS. The only ones that don’t need to come back are Young Link, Toon Link is a perfect replacement and Pichu…cuz why?
And now onto the newcomers I would love to see.
Paper Mario (Paper Mario series obviously)
I know, another Mario character, but he would just be so cool. With a ton of partners and sweet special moves to pull from, he could be a whole lot of fun.
Dark Samus (Metroid Prime series)
Aside from looking cool, Dark Samus has an impressive array of powers and abilities, some of them demonstrated as an assist trophy in the last game. Now make it fully playable!
Simon Belmont (Castlevania series)
This has been a third party character I’ve wanted for a while. His legacy on NES, his chain and special weapons all make him a great candidate for smash.
Sora (Kingdom Hearts series)
I love Kingdom Hearts, so to see the main character in one of my favorite games of all time would be magical. Again, he has an enormous move set to pull from to make him a worthy adversary against Nintendo’s finest.
Luigi (Luigi’s Mansion)
Give Luigi a moveset based off his Mansion games. There is no need to have him a partial Mario clone anymore, though I was thrilled his final smash in 4 used the poltergust.
Sonic and Tails (Sonic series…duh)
Instead of just Sonic, let these two be a team like the Ice Climbers, since in the Genesis games, they functioned in the exact way the Ice Climbers do now.
Viewtiful Joe (game with the same name)
He’s awesome and has a nice, crazy moveset that would fit right in.
Wonder Red (Wonderful 101)
He is from the team that made Viewtiful Joe, so I guess I would rather see Red, for he is actually a Nintendo character. Maybe give him a combination of all the other wonder’s power which would give him a truly awesome moveset.
Dixie Kong (Donkey Kong Country Series)
Either as a team with Diddy or stand alone character, I want her.
Zero (Mega Man X series…not the Zero series look)
I would love to have X, Mega Man and Zero all be in it, but hey, Zero would be a cool addition if I had to choose one, after Mega Man, that is.
And those are just some of my more hopefuls that came to mind right off the bat. Paper Mario is my most wanted for sure, ever since leading up to Brawl. Of course there are dozens more I would love to see in it too.
But I will not be disappointed with who they add, as long as there are very little cuts and plenty of additions, I will be thrilled.
June 6, 2018 by vidchord Categories: Games, gamingTags: 11, 2018, castlevania, donkey kong, e3, hedgehog, kingdom hearts 3, mega man, metroid prime 4, microsoft, nintendo, pro, ps4, retro studios, smash bros for switch, sony, super mario, x, xbox Leave a comment
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High Crimes
2000's, Adam Scott, Amanda Peet, Ashley Judd, Bruce Davison, Carl Franklin, High Crimes, Jim Caviezel, Juan Carlos Hernandez, Legal Thriller, Morgan Freeman, Thriller
Carl Franklin
Ashley Judd as Claire Kubick
Morgan Freeman as Charlie Grimes
Jim Caviezel as Tom Kubick/Ronald Chapman
Adam Scott as First Lieutenant Terence Embry
Amanda Peet as Jackie
Juan Carlos Hernandez as Major James Hernandez
Bruce Davison as Brigadier General Bill Marks
A legal thriller that was somewhat underrated and written off upon release, High Crimes is actually an efficiently made movie. It ain’t going to win any Oscars for originality or fresh ideas, but it more than does the job of being a gripping thriller nonetheless.
Claire Kubick is a successful attorney in a loving marriage with her woodworker husband Tom. The great life they live together in California is shattered when Tom is captured by the FBI while the two are out Christmas shopping and charged with the murder of nine peasants in an El Salvador village years before. It transpires that Tom is not who he says he is; his real name is Ronald Chapman and he was part of a secret Marine Corps operation. He has been on the run for over twelve years and is now being accused of the savage murders. Claire is shocked by the revelation that her husband has hidden from her, but because she loves him so much deals with the emotions that come her way by suppressing them. Her husband tells her that he was present in El Salvador, but strongly denies any involvement. He says that he has been set up for the crimes by his Major James Hernandez, who is now working highly with a brigadier general. Trusting her husband and wanting to help, Claire decides to defend her husband during the military trial, as the man appointed to represent him , First Lieutenant Terence Embry, is impressionable and new on the job. Yet when the trial begins, Claire realises that none of the rules that she usually abides to and works with apply in a military court. She then seeks out someone who knows their way around the court and comes across Charlie Grimes; a former military lawyer who is now retired and prone to drinking a lot. The tenacious Claire manages to get Charlie on side and help her husband in the trial; Charlie displays an aptitude for not playing by the rules and cutting through lies given by supposed witnesses. Yet twists and turns abound as evidence of a possible military cover up come to Claire’s knowledge and as she edges towards answers, risks her life in the process. Aided by the brilliant but not by the book Charlie, Claire is determined to get to the bottom of this no matter what happens. But is everything as it seems or very different to what meets the eye?
Carl Franklin’s direction of High Crimes is crisp and very well done. It’s not the best directing I’ve ever seen, but it does the job with a sense of urgency and commitment to the material in hand. Tossing in red herrings throughout the movie, Franklin knows how to keep a thriller entertaining and engaging. Granted some of the twists are a bit drawn out and overly complex, High Crimes manages to retain interest due to some sharp writing and thrills. I’ve read some reviews of High Crimes that say it becomes incomprehensible and predictable throughout. I wouldn’t agree with the first part because the film is supposed to be shrouded in mystery and wrong foot the audience occasionally. A few parts of High Crimes are predictable, but its a hell of a lot better than some of the other thrillers to be found out there due to the way it keeps you on edge trying to distinguish the truth. Some of the courtroom scenes are very well-played with lies spilling out and questions going back and forth creating a lot of tension. A technique that was utilized excellently was the presence of flashbacks from differing points of view, designed to spin a web of doubt and accountability. It’s only employed in a few scenes during the film, but it is effectively used and not overly relied upon. The musical score is a little generic in parts, but a competent enough one to go with the tense material on display here.
Ashley Judd turns in a typically strong performance as the determined Claire, who stifles her shock to defend her husband and unearth the possible cover up of events. Judd makes the character tenacious, unwavering and natural as she navigates through dangerous waters. She shares a great chemistry with Morgan Freeman, as both worked well together in Kiss the Girls. Morgan Freeman displays a dry sense of humour and serious undertones as the rebellious Charlie, who loves anything to get one up on the military and can run rings around them with his silver-tongued responses. With a glint in his eye and a sense of morality, despite his unorthodox ways of getting information, the character of Charlie is brought to life by the talents of Morgan Freeman. Jim Caviezel displays a sensitivity but an enigmatic presence as the man on trial, its credit to him that we are constantly on a seesaw about whether he is lying or telling the truth. Adam Scott impresses as the green lieutenant assigned to defend the man on trial and has some amusing moments due to the character’s lack of experience and sometimes naive tendencies. The same can be said of Amanda Peet who is delightfully irresponsible as Claire’s slobby sister who comes to stay and delights in being outrageous. Juan Carlos Hernandez, armed with a sinister smile and battle-ruined eye, is well cast as the menacing Major who may have been the perpetrator of the massacre in El Salvador. There is a small appearance from Bruce Davison as a smarmy brigadier, but I would have liked to have seen more of his character if I’m honest.
It doesn’t break any new ground and may get a little convoluted, but for a slick and entertaining thriller, High Crimes more than does the job.
Beyoncé – Lemonade Review
Beyoncé, Lemonade
Music is my second passion after movies that is. And while I’ve done music posts in the pasts, I’ve never actually reviewed an album before. With the surprise release of Beyoncé’s Lemonade the other week and the Internet going into overdrive about it, I though it would be a good time to do a review of it, especially considering the fact that the album comes with a one hour film that cuts together music videos for each song on a journey like format. I don’t know how this review will turn out because I’ve never done a music review before, so here goes nothing.
It is no secret that I’m a big fan of Beyoncé; having seen her in concert and followed her career since I can remember. But nothing could have prepared me for Lemonade, which is in my book her best album to date. A personal, deeply felt odyssey of marital disharmony(that everyone is having a field day about because it’s been alleged that Jay-Z has been unfaithful in the past to his wife) and the gradual rebirth of a woman rekindling her love after a difficult time, Lemonade explodes with unbridled emotions and power. We may never know if there is any truth that the album is about her own relationship with her husband, but if the results are anything like this, I think tongues will always be wagging. But to merely speculate about it is to do discredit to the album, as it explores other territories like gender and race and is her most experimental album to date. And with the visuals to add to it, Lemonade becomes an all round knockout experience.
From the opening notes of ‘Pray You Catch Me’, you can tell that Beyoncé is crafting something memorable. The pain reflected in her voice is palpable and almost a whisper in the beginning, as layered vocals swirl around an ominously soulful backdrop and we feel her suspicion that something is wrong in her marital union. Following up is ‘Hold Up’, whose bouncy reggae flavoured beat belies an anger and resentment towards the hurt she is feeling. The juxtaposition of seemingly breezy fare and embittered vocals makes for an intriguing pastiche as we now know that Beyoncé is not a woman to be trifled. If ‘Hold Up’ was a warm up for how angry she is, ‘Don’t Hurt Yourself’, a collaboration with Jack White that edges into slashing rock territory, more or less confirms it. Beyoncé uses her voice with a raw and gritty intent here, growling over a drum heavy backdrop with the ferocity of a lion. This song is probably one of my favourites from the album because of the experimental tone and the way it shows her in a totally different light from what many of us are used to seeing.
Apathy and a desire to have a good time set in during ‘Sorry’, that explores feminine power and assertion with an attitude and swagger, very becoming of Beyoncé who now wants to rid herself of pain and have a good time. This then applies to the darker sounding tale of ladies making money for a living in ‘6 Inch’, a collaboration with The Weekend. Over a moody bass line, Beyoncé makes a stand for hard-working ladies that will resonate with every woman out there.
Beyoncé is now fully adept at throwing curve balls and this album more or less confirms that she isn’t going to be saddled to just one genre, but is more than willing to branch outside her comfort zone for artistic expression. ‘Daddy’s Lessons'( a very good example of the curve ball) took me by surprise with its country vibe and southern horn section. It works very well which is something I didn’t expect, but Beyoncé’s unparalleled urgency, soul and talent add another genre twist to her growing list of ventures on this album.
With ‘Love Drought’, we hear her now becoming more open to the idea of forgiveness, despite being hurt as her soaring voice exclaims that ‘Ten times out of nine I know you’re lying/ But nine times out of ten I know you’re trying’. She now seems a bit more content now after the ferocious nature of the opening of Lemonade, and the emotional ‘Sandcastles’, which shows of her stunning vocals and emotional delivery, heralds the slow but growing return to being strong once more after all the hurt and the pain she has endured. ‘Forward’ provides a stunning interlude between this and the Kendrick Lamar featuring anthem ‘Freedom’, which is filled with gospel harmonies and a strong message about overcoming adversity that Beyoncé belts with fierce conviction. The almost heavenly sounding ‘All Night’ marks the re connection with one’s beloved in beautiful lyrics and sensual passion. Rounding off Lemonade is ‘Formation’, which bravely delves into subjects of race and pride. Beyoncé displays how she isn’t afraid to be confrontational and aggressive with her music and this shines through, especially on this track.
And I have to discuss the visuals of Lemonade as it is a visual album after all. The editing gives the whole package a real cohesion that brings to life all the themes Beyoncé explores. Going from sometimes frightening imagery, whispered poetic narration, to Southern Gothic framing and proud depictions of female empowerment, it’s a swirling cauldron of ideas brought to life with a vivid and purposeful cinematic quality. Split into chapters that go from anger to ultimate redemption and retribution, it grabs hold of you with its style and soulful underbelly.
All I have left to say is that Beyoncé has conjured up a surprisingly raw, unapologetic and highly cathartic record that speaks from the heart and the soul, and is for my money one of the best albums I’ve heard in a while and an undisputed masterpiece from an artist who is always setting the bar high.
What did you make of this music review? Do you think music reviews could be successful on my site?
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Compuware To Acquire Gomez
In a move that will extend the reach beyond its core focus of enterprise testing and performance management, Compuware Corp. said it will acquire Gomez Inc. for $295 million.
Gomez is a leading provider of Web and mobile application performance management services. Among its customers are Amazon, Facebook, Google, Expedia, Monster and Yahoo. By combining with Gomez, Compuware is seeking to help enterprises not only test and monitor their internal apps but track the performance of applications beyond the firewall.
"With the combined offering we think we have changed the game in the application performance space," said Compuware president and COO Bob Paul, speaking on a conference call announcing the deal. " The buying decisions of a lot of our customers are starting to move toward a consolidated view, one environment, one source of truth to be able to identify and resolve IT problems as it relates to the application and actually understanding the value impact of those performance issues back in to the organization."
With Gomez in the fold, a bank could help determine why customers may be having trouble checking their balances from their mobile phones, Paul said. While Compuware's software tracks applications and systems behind the firewall, Gomez monitors content delivery networks, ISP, telecommunications and mobile service providers. "The combined solution is compelling," he said.
Several analysts who follow the companies agreed. "The product sets compliment each other well," said IDC analyst Melinda Ballou. "What they currently have is in the emerging market for testing as a service and for cloud testing, which is something we expect to be growing dynamically over next several years."
Jim Frey, research director at Enterprise Management Associates, said enterprises require a more holistic view of performance metrics. "It makes a lot of sense for Compuware because they have done a tremendous job behind the firewall and inside the enterprise architecture, but the Internet and mobile links have always been a blind spot and Gomez does a great job at filling that in," Frey said.
Compuware competes with BMC, CA, Hewlett Packard, IBM, and it wouldn't be surprising to see those vendors to follow Compuware's lead, analysts said. Gomez largest rival, Keynote Systems, could be an attractive target. Also look for vendors to extend their efforts by adding new cloud-based services. IBM this week for example launched its Smart Business Storage Cloud, a private cloud offering that will offer testing services.
"One would expect, that the leading software quality testing vendors will be going into this market with SasS offerings," Ballou said.
The deal is slated to close in the fourth quarter.
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The VODW Constitution
The Voice of Darfur Women Constitution
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The Voice of Darfur Women
1. Name. The Voice of Darfur Women. (VODW).
2. The Objects of the Charity shall be to help in the eradication of poverty by the eventual achievement of Number Three of the UN Millennium Goals on the Rights of Women in Darfur with the help of trained Sudanese women of the diaspora in Britain so that Darfuri women can participate in civil society as peace, reconciliation and security are established.
3. Powers: In addition to any other powers, the charity shall
a) raise funds but not to undertake permanent trading activity or buy or lease property
b) train Sudanese volunteer women in Britain to
c) organise and train groups of Darfuri women in Sudan towards achieving the
Objects above.
4. Membership shall be open to all Sudanese women in the UK who agree with the Objects above and who apply by letter or email to the Secretary.
5. All powers and responsibilities shall be vested in the Management Committee consisting of Eight trustee-members of which the Chairperson, Secretary and Treasurer shall be called the Executive for the day-to-day running of the charity, all to be elected at the Annual General Meeting.
6. Trustees. Except with the prior written approval of the Charity Commission no trustee may receive any benefit in money or in kind from the charity or have a financial interest in the supply of goods or services to the charity.
7. Amendments. The Management may amend the provisions of the deed but not one that would have the effect of making the charity cease under the law. Such a copy of such an amendment must be sent must be sent to the Charity Commission.
8. A quorum for valid decisions shall be a) 5 out of 8 for Management Committee meetings and b) 10 for a general meeting and c) over 60% for a special general meeting.
9. Dissolution. If the trustees (the Management Committee) decide that it is necessary or advisable to dissolve the Charity, they shall realise any assets held by or on behalf of the charity. Any assets remaining after the satisfaction of any proper debts and liabilities shall be given or transferred to such other charitable institutions having the most similar to the objects of the charity.
The Objects of the Charity shall be to help in the eradication of poverty by the eventual achievement of Number Three of the UN Millennium Goals on the Rights of Women in Darfur with the help of trained Sudanese women of the diaspora in Britain so that Darfuri women can participate in civil society as peace, reconciliation and security are established.
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U bevindt zich hier: Home1 / Airborne Magazine2 / VVAM Airborne Magazine vol.3 nr.7 2016
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VVAM Airborne Magazine vol.3 nr.7 2016
3.Report from the Editors
4. -5.Recent developments in the relation between the SFAM and the Airborne Museum – Ben Kolster
5.Battlefield Tour on Saturday 10 September 2016 – Wybo Boersma
5.Battlefield Tour around the Old Church in Oosterbeek – Wybo Boersma
6.Plans for the demolition of Hotel Dreyeroord – Robert Voskuil
6. -7.Exhibition “Going Home. Jozef and Emilia” – Press release
7.Second-hand books for sale – Wybo Boersma
7. -8.30 September to 2 October 2016 – Battlefield Tour Hürtgenwald – Wybo Boersma
8.Extra Members Meeting on Saturday 19 November 2016
8.Very special paratrooper’s helmet presented to the Airborne Museum – Roland Boekhorst
9.Ans Kremer has passed away – Robert Voskuil
9.-11.Book reviews by Wybo Boersma
11.-14.Ministory 123 (part 2). The death of a German General during the Battle of Arnhem – Scott Revell
15.Program 2016
During the SFAM AGM on 19 March 2016, Wybo Boersma gave an explanation of the worsening relationship between the SFAM and the Airborne Museum Foundation. (Photo: berrydereusfotografie.nl)
As you know, the relationship between the SFAM and the Airborne Museum Foundation, has been seriously under pressure during recent times. Our Chairman gives below, a summary of the recent developments in this area.
As a result of these pressures and the unrest and uncertainty these have created, unfortunately, the publication of the Airborne Magazine has also suffered delays. For this, we offer our sincere apologies.
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RELATION BETWEEN THE SFAM AND THE AIRBORNE MUSEUM
During recent months, much has happened in the relationship between the Airborne Museum Foundation and the Society of Friends of the Airborne Museum, that, for members, has created much alarm and confusion. Thus, it is now time to look at the whole situation and put it all in a correct perspective.
In May last year, the Airborne Museum received a new Director, Mrs Sarah Thurlings. A new Director with new plans to bring the Museum up to date with the demands and requirements of the present day. That moment brought the Airborne Museum Foundation Management and the Director, who, for simplicity in this issue, I will refer to collectively as the “Museum”, to new thoughts regarding the co-operation between the SFAM and the Museum. There followed three consultations between delegations from the Museum and the SFAM, from which it became very clear that the view of the Foundation Management was that in past years, the Museum and the SFAM have become somewhat detached from each other and that the financial contributions from the SFAM to the Museum, viewed in relation to their income, no longer satisfy the Museum in relation to what they consider is necessary.
The Honorary Chairman of the SFAM, Chris van Roekel, listens intensely to the discussions at the AGM, regarding the future of the Society of Friends. (Photo: berrydereusfotografie.nl)
The drifting apart is, in the opinion of the Museum, amongst other factors, due to the fact that the SFAM too often works and organizes matters in accordance with the wishes of its members whereas, the Museum seems to think that activities should be organized in line with the Museum requirements. As an example, the Airborne Magazine and the various excursions and Battlefield Tours, outside the immediate Arnhem/ Market Garden area were mentioned. ‘These activities produce nothing for the Museum’, is the opinion of the Museum Foundation. According to the Foundation, the SFAM has become a more or less independent ‘military history society’, focused on the Battle of Arnhem, with a reduced target of support for the Museum.
In the opinion of the Museum, the SFAM should redirect its activities towards the recruitment of donor members and even better, towards active fund raising. All activities that produce no direct financial or publicity based profitability, should be terminated forthwith, after which the finances thus released should be passed to the Museum. All, remaining activities and forms of knowledge and experience should fall under the direction and management of the Museum.
This forms one clear economic point of view and, from the Museum’s position, understandable vision, but one which ignores nearly 37 years of effort, activities, financial and material support, involvement with and, above all, the vision and knowledge of the many hundreds of members regarding the Museum and the Battle of Arnhem. It is clear that this view of the Museum towards the SFAM is totally unacceptable. It may well be a possibly justified opinion based on a simple purely economic, marketing and PR-technical point of view, but it goes totally against the much wider and statutory view held by the SFAM. I totally agree that, with the passage of time, the SFAM has become an organisation with much more in its targets and aims than simply a Society to support the Airborne Museum. But all activities and publications, including the highly valued series of Ministories, produced each year by the SFAM, are evidence of the high value placed on them by members. To stop all these matters, would lead to the complete end of the Society.
It is for all these reasons that the management of your Society intend to proceed with the present policy on the basis of the objectives stated in the Society Articles of Association, unabridged and unchanged.
Even if, from the side of the Museum, this does not lead to a maximum possible payment to the Museum.
From the point of view of the SFAM, the co-operation with the Museum will continue as has always been the case. That includes, not only our financial support, but also all types of advice and assistance, so long as this is valued by the Museum. The issue of financial support will be addressed in the annual SFAM budget. Should the Airborne Museum Foundation decide to establish a separate fund-raising unit, then the SFAM is prepared to give it support in its own manner. Also, the SFAM will happily continue the existing support given to the Museum, including, definitely, a more intensive and planned consultation and co-ordinated activities. All the above issues were discussed at the AGM of the SFAM on Saturday 19 March 2016 and agreed upon. The Society Management sees this is as a vote of approval for the way forward. The members of the SFAM are concerned that, should the Museum not be able to accept the AGM decisions, that the Society may become more detached from the Museum. This possible outcome will be much regretted by the SFAM.
On 19 November this year there will be an extra AGM of the SFAM, at which a number of important changes and alterations to our Society will be decided upon. We very much hope to meet you again then.
Ben Koster, Chairman.
BATTLEFIELD TOUR ON SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016-07-10
On Saturday 10 September, the SFAM will again organize a Battlefield Tour, covering the battle areas of the Battle of Arnhem.
Using a coach, the tour will cover the drop and landing zones, the advance into Arnhem, the Rhine Bridge, the Oosterbeek Perimeter and the Airborne Cemetery. The tour leaders are guides from the SFAM and from the International Guild of Battlefield Guides.
The tour starts at 09.00hr, from the Talsmalaan in Oosterbeek. The bus tour ends at 17.00hr.
Prices: SFAM members: €25; non members €42,50 (including lunch and guidebook) Bank transfer to IBAN: NL33 INGB 0005 1137 51 in name of ‘Vrienden Airborne Museum”, Oosterbeek.
Please note: ‘BFT 10 September
(Wybo Boersma)
BATTLEFIELD TOUR AROUND THE OLD CHURCH IN OOSTERBEEK
On Saturday afternoon 8 October, the SFAM will organize a battlefield tour (walking excursion) in the area surrounding the Old Church in Lower-Oosterbeek.
Between 19 and 25 September 1944, this area was defended by the Thompson/Lonsdale Force, that comprised troops from the 1st, 3rd and 11th Parachute Battalions and the 2nd Battalion, the South Staffordshire Regiment. After the failed advance to the Bridge on 19 September 1944, these battalions retreated to Oosterbeek and took up positions in the area around the Old Church. In the fields in the vicinity of the Church, were positioned the three Batteries, each with two Troops, from the 1st Airlanding Light Regiment Royal Artillery. Their positions were defended by men from the Glider Pilot Regiment. During the Battlefield Tour, the Lonsdale Force will be examined and the actions of the 1st Air Landing Light Regiment RA, during the fighting in this most southerly part of the Perimeter.
Commencement of the Battlefield Tour: 13.30hr at the Concert Hall on the Rozensteeg. The walking tour ends at 17.00hr.
Prices for SFAM members: €15. Non-members pay €20. The price includes a guidebook and a drink after the finish. Book entry before 1st October by making a bank transfer of €15 or €20 to IBAN: NL33 INGB 0005 1137 51 in name of ‘Vrienden Airborne Museum’, Oosterbeek, with description ‘BFT 8 October 2016’.
Your payment serves as your application and you will receive no further message. (Wybo Boersma)
PLANS FOR THE DEMOLITION OF HOTEL DREYEROORD
Some weeks ago, an article appeared in the press, which announced a “redesign” of the Dreyeroord Hotel in Oosterbeek. Quickly, it became clear that in fact, it did not mean a redesign, but a complete demolition of the building. It was planned to use the site to build a care home for old patients with dementia. The present building was regarded as unsuitable for a nursing home and, as stated by the initiators of the care complex, the existing building could not be converted into such a home, due to the poor condition of the building and its technical installations.
The characteristic building is sadly not listed’ or heritage classified, as, through the years, too much has been built on and altered. However, in 2004, the building was classified as being of Military Monument grade, because it played such an important role during the Battle of Arnhem. For several days, the building was the HQ for the 7th Battalion The Kings Own Scottish Borderers. Under the command of Lt. Col. Payton Reid, the battalion defended this northern sector of the Perimeter, which cost considerable losses.
Sadly, the Military Monument classification disappeared from view in a drawer within the local Council and no further action about it was taken. As a result, the risk that the building will indeed be demolished, remains very considerable.
The plans for the demolition of Dreyeroord have, in the meantime, led to very many protests both at home and abroad. On the facebook page “Behoud Dreyeroord Oosterbeek” (Save Dreyeroord Oosterbeek), from Wiljo Pas from Oosterbeek, the reactions pour in. Wiljo made it known that during the last few weeks, thousands of people have responded from 37! different countries! On the “Arnhem Feelings” website it is possible to sign a petition against the demolition and this has also been very busy.
Just as it is announced that the Gelderland Provincial Government has a plan to spend four million euros on the promotion of war memory based tourism in Gelderland, it is, at very least, remarkable that a building that played such a prominent role during the Battle of Arnhem should be demolished.
The hotel, also known as “The White House” is included in various battlefield routes and an information pillar stands in the grounds, with information about the site and the role it played during the Battle of Arnhem. Let us hope that the building or, in any event, a characteristic section of it, may be preserved. (Robert Voskuil)
On Saturday afternoon 4 June, a group of worried local residents, under the leadership of Wiljo Pas from Oosterbeek organised a spontaneous protest, against the possible demolition of Hotel Dreyeroord. With old historical military vehicles, such as jeeps and a halftrack, people drove to the former hotel, where journalists from the Gelderland TV and from local newspapers reporting the event. (Photo: berrydereusfotografie.nl)
EXHIBITION “GOING HOME. JOZEF AND EMILIA”
On June 2, a small exhibition was opened at the Airborne Museum, in which the eye-witness stories of the 93 year old Polish veteran Jozef Wojciechowski play a major part. This story stands as a symbol of the sorrow, experienced by the Polish during WW2.
In the exhibition, the story is told of two young Polish people, Jozef and Emilia, who in 1940 were independently from each other with their families were deported to an internment camp in Russia. They met each other in Siberia and their love blossomed there. But they lost each other when, in 1942, the Polish prisoners were suddenly released. Amazingly, whilst separated, both of them managed, via various long walks to reach England.
On an enormous wall chart in the exhibition room of “Going Home, Jozef and Emilia”, can be seen how Polish fugitives wandered through Persia and on boats full of fugitives crossed the Caspian Sea. The War carried Jozef and Emilia via Kazachstan, Persia, Iraq, Palestine and Egypt to Morocco. Finally they met again in Hucknall in the UK. Jozef enlisted with the Polish Parachute Brigade. In September 1944, he landed at Driel and there took part in the Battle of Arnhem. After the War, he stayed in England and in 1946, married Emilia.
Jozef Wojciechowski, who came over with a number of family members, opened the exhibition on 2 June in the Airborne Museum. This was for him, a very emotional moment, especially since his wife Emilia died a number of years ago.
The exhibition “Going Home Jozef and Emilia” is to view in the Airborne Museum until 31 December2016 {Press report)
Sitting in a wheelchair, that is pushed by the Acting Mayor of Renkum, Hein Bloemen, the 93year old Polish veteran Jozef Wojciechowski looks at the exhibition about his life (Photo: berrydereusfotografie.nl)
SECOND-HAND BOOKS IN THE SALE
The curator of the Airborne Museum has recently cleared the library and removed a number of duplicated books and publications that did not fit in with the collection policy. Those relating to the Battle of Arnhem, have been taken over by the SFAM who will be offering them at a small gift price to their members. Anyone interested in seeing a digital list can access this via: w.boersma@wxs.nl
[Wybo Boersma)
30 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER 2016 – BATTLEFIELD TOUR HÜRTGENWALD
During this coming Hürtenwald battlefield tour, guides from the SFAM and the International Guild of Battlefield Guides will give a wide ranging presentation about the fighting and lead you over the battlefield.
Also we will visit the German cemetery at Vossenack and the Ordensburg at Vogelsang. This well preserved former Nazi Ordensburg is now open to the public, after it served many years as a barracks for NATO troops under training.
The battle around the Hürtgenwald, to the south of Aachen, which lasted from 12 September 1944 until mid February 1945, is one of the forgotten battlefields of WW2. In their attempt to reach the Rhine, the American forces suffered their largest losses in Europe. The fighting in the woods in the Autumn and the Winter of 1944/45 of what is now known as the Hürtgenwald Council, has never received much attention in historical studies. The battlefield still carries the traces of the terrible fighting. Bunkers, barricades, foxholes, trenches are present everywhere. This in spite of the area being close to the reservoirs in the Rur, and a popular holiday destination.
The tour will under the guidance of Wybo Boersma, former Director of the Airborne Museum and member of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides, and Jaap Korsloot, known for being a guide for Market Garden Tours. Each participant will receive a detailed guide of the battlefield tour.
The costs of this unique tour are €350 p.p. on basis of a twin room and full board (two overnight stays with breakfast, lunch and dinner, entry to the museum “Hürtgenwald 1944 und im Frieden” and the Ordensburg Vogelzang. On the outward journey, we have lunch in the “Zur Maus” restaurant, the former American HQ. Surcharge for single occupancy room €30,–.
Register before closing date of 1st September by transferring €350,- (or €380-,) to IBAN: NL33 INGB 0005 1137 51 in name of Vrienden Airborne Museum, Oosterbeek, with note “BFT Hürtgenwald”.
Travel insurance and an eventual cancellation insurance are the responsibility of participants to arrange themselves. (Wybo Boersma)
EXTRA MEMBERS MEETING (AGM) ON SATURDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2016
On Saturday afternoon 19 November 2016, you will find an extra members meeting taking place, with the theme “The future of the Society of Friends of the Airborne Museum”. During this meeting, there will also be a management election. If time permits, there will be a lecture after the meeting.
Arrival 14.00hr. Location: Concert Hall, on the Rozensteeg in Oosterbeek.
Entry only possible for SFAM members.
The program will be published in the next Airborne Magazine.
See also the website www.vriendenairbornemuseum.nl
VERY SPECIAL PARATROOPER’S HELMET PRESENTED TO THE AIRBORNE MUSEUM
The Airborne Museum in Oosterbeek, recently came to own a most special paratrooper’s helmet. This helmet was found in the Autumn of 1944 by Ary W.G.Koppejan, a resident of Wageningen, whilst on the Ginkel Heath near Ede. He took it away as a souvenir. For many years the helmet lay in his loft, without him having any idea who was the true owner. When he died, his sons decided, with the helmet in outstanding condition, to present it to the Airborne Museum.
Staff at the Museum, traced the name of the soldier who had worn the helmet in September 1944. It appeared to have been Private George Lomas of the 11th Parachute Battalion. This battalion was part of the 4th Parachute Brigade that landed on the Ginkel Heath on 18 September 1944. The advance of this battalion to the bridge in Arnhem failed and the remains of the battalion retreated to Oosterbeek. Lomas died on 26 September 1944 as reported in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. He was then 23 years old. In a report from the Graves Concentration Unit it states that his field grave lay in the grounds of the Ommers-hof Mansion on the Graaf van Rechterenweg in Oosterbeek. The report also mentions that his bodily remains were moved to the Airborne Cemetery in Oosterbeek on 15 October 1945 (Grave 18A2) (Roland Boekhorst – Airborne Museum staff]
The helmet of George Lomas from the 11th Parachute Battalion, that was found in the Autumn of 7 944 on the Ginkel Heath (Photo: Roland Boekhorst)
ANS KREMER HAS PASSED AWAY
On 14 April, Ans Kremer of Ooster-beek passed away suddenly. Ans was a well known personality in the Oosterbeek s ‘Airborne” world.
In September 1944, she lived with her Father, Mother and brother Sander in a large villa [No.8) on the Stationsweg in Oosterbeek. There, as a 12 year old girl she experienced the fighting from very close by.
The house that, literally lay on the front line, was during those days, defended by glider pilots, men of the 21st Independent Parachute Company and paratroops of the Polish Brigade.
The mother of Ans, Mrs A.L.A. Kremer-Kingma, took in those days, a number of photos of fleeing Germans, the advancing British troops entering Oosterbeek and from situations around their house during the fighting. A couple of photos from this series have, during the last 70 years, appeared in many publications. The photo here attached is less well known and it is the only illustration showing members of the Kremer family, including Ans, duing the battle. Just as her Mother, Ans also has always kept in contact with British and Polish soldiers who, in September 1944, defended her then home and had survived the battle. She always attended the commemoration meetings and very
This photo was taken by Mr Kremer on 21 September 1944, with the camera of his wife, Mrs Kremer-Kingma. There was a short cease-fire, during which it was possible to take a group photo at the conservatory of the house at No.8 Stationsweg in Oosterbeek. Those in the photo are: standing from left to right: Mrs E.M. Hardeman-Schikker (taken in as a refugee in the family Kremer house], Sergeant David Shipp (D Squadron Glider Pilot Regiment), Sander Kremer and their mother, Mrs A.L.A. Kremer-Kingma, Sergeant Norman Williams) D Squadron Glider Pilot Regiment) with Max Hardeman on the arm and Mr A van Schelven (hideaway with Mrs Hardeman).
Front row from left to right: Job Hardeman, Jan du Pree (he and his family hid in the cellar of the Kremer family), Ans Kremer and Ms Stien van de Grondelle (helper with the housekeeping with the Kremer family) (Photo from private collection)
often gave her co-operation and interviews for books, newspapers and television programmes. She gave her last interview just a week before her death. That interview will be used as part of a large exhibition that will be opening in September this year, at the Airborne Museum.
BOOK REVIEWS BY WYBO BOERSMA
During recent months, again a number of new books about ‘Arnhem” have appeared. Sometimes, the issue is limited, so some might be sold out already.
“With RECCE at Arnhem. The recollections of Trooper Des Evans, a 1st Airborne Division veteran”, by Mike Gallagher; ISBN 978 1 47384 363 9; a publication by Pen & Sword Books Ltd, Barnsley 2015; 137 pages, illustrated, English text, price £19-99 or €28,99.
Also for sale in the Airborne Museum. The book describes the experiences of Trooper Des Evans. He was part of the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron and has become well known because he appeared in a photo taken on 17 September in Wolfheze. In that photo you see two British troops with a PIAT, beside the railway line to Deelen airfield. We see them from behind. Thus it is not certain who they are. Evans has always said that he is the soldier on the right of the photo. A previous member of the Board of the Airborne Museum Foundation, Aad Groeneweg, has always disputed this claim. This discussion is mentioned in the book, see pages 45/46. Also, there is little in this book about the further fighting in Oosterbeek, but sometimes a little disputing of the accuracy of some written matters is justified. Evans writes that on 19 September 1944, he knocked out one of the German captured French Renault tanks, but at that time, they were not there yet! One part of the book covers his imprisonment as POW and his return to Oosterbeek in 1984.
For the content, the price of €28,99 is rather high.
“Four days at Arnhem” by Simon Curtis and Niall Cherry with John Howes; Brendon Publishing, Warton; 34 pages; illustrated; English language.A book in which Niall Cherry writes the history of Leslie Arthur Curtis, lieutenant with the 1st Parachute Battalion. Curtis was missing during the fighting and possibly died at Oosterbeek-Laag. The merit of this book is that it also contains a report about the advance and fighting of the 1st Parachute Battalion. As Niall correctly states, a history of this battalion has not yet been written. This is actually also true about the 3rd Battalion. The issue is limited, but perhaps Niall still has some copies.
“Desert Rise-Arnhem Descent. The 10th Parachute Battalion in the Second World War” by Martin Peters and Niall Cherry with John Howes and Graham Francis; Brendon Publishing 2016; 294 pages; illustrated with 120 photos, documents and maps; English language; Price £37-50 (€45) Issue 400 numbered examples. For more information and to order: e-mail: arnhemdescentOgmail.com
In this book, the history of the 10th Battalion of the 4th Parachutist Brigade is written. After earlier publications covering the 11th and 156 Battalions, now the entire Brigade is documented. The 10th Battalion originated from the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Sussex Regiment and as such, took part in the fighting in France in 1940 and thereafter in North Africa. This forms the introduction to this book. After para training and transfer to England, they became part of the 4th Parachute Brigade. On Monday 18 September 1944 the battalion dropped on the Ginkel Heath, near Ede. Martin Peters and his team have written the fortunes of the battalion, especially based on the stories of veterans, which, with the passage of time, have been documented. In a couple of days, the Battalion was reduced to just a handful of men, who finally fought on the eastern edge of the Perimeter. Also the events after the battle in the POW camps and the escape from occupied Netherlands are included in detail. The whole book gives a good insight to the history of the 10th Battalion. The illustrations consist to a great degree of portrait photos, because there are few others around. The lay-out is simple. The dust cover and a number of photos are in colour. Due to the limited print of 400 examples, it will rapidly become a collectors item. This is a publication that you definitely must not miss out on. The book is initially offered to members of the Arnhem 1944 Fellowship, although it was also available at the book fair of the SFAM, last April.
On 23 April during the book fair at the Airborne Museum the formal presentation of the new book about the 10th Parachute Battalion “Desert Rise – Arnhem Descent” took place. From left to right: Niall Cherry, Luuk Buist, John Howes. Robert Voskuil, Graham Francis and Martin Peters. (Photo: via Niall Cherry)
“Officers of the 1st Airlanding Light Regiment, Royal Artillery during the Battle of Arnhem 17-26 September 1944 by Philip Reinders: Private publication 2016; 126 pages., illustrated., English language., Price €18 including postage., Abroad €20 including postage.
Philip Reinders has worked for many years with Peter Vrolijk in the Arnhem Battle Research Group. They collected information and did research about many aspects of the Battle of Arnhem. The information collected is published in small books, that are privately published. The book about the officers of the 1st Air Landing Light Regiment, Royal Artillery, is the 16th book that has been published. The issue is once again limited. In the book appear more or less all known officers from the Light Regiment and their experiences during the Battle of Arnhem, from which the vast majority are placed around the Old Church in Oosterbeek-Laag. With each name, as many details as possible are given, such as unit, function, rank, date of birth, eventual date of decease, as well as those uninjured, POW and medals received. The reports are supported with photos and documents. It is an attractive publication and a valuable addition to all the earlier publications about the Light Regiment.
As long as the stock remains, the book can be ordered from the SFAM via w.boersmafdwxs.nl.
MINISTORY 123, THE DEATH OF A GERMAN GENERAL DURING THE BATTLE OF ARNHEM (PART 2)
Scott Revell What is sure is that there are a number of eye-witness accounts from both sides that confirm Krafft’s account which states that there were four men in the car. Staff-Sergeant JohnOliver McGeough, a glider pilot with “C” Squadron, No.2 Wing: ‘The following morning [Monday, September 18th / 944] we continued towards Ooster-beek and at the junction of Wolfheze Weg and Utrechtseweg [Wolfhezerweg and Utrechtseweg] saw the first German dead. A staff car [a camouflaged Citroen) had come down the road from Wolfheze and had been shot up by men of the 2nd Parachute Btn [3rd Parachute Battalion] at about 1600 hrs on Sunday afternoon. Major General Kussin, German field commander at Arnhem and three others in the car were on a reconnaissance mission and were unlucky to be spotted by the parachutists”.
A report written on 19 September 1944 by Major H. P. Maguire of the Intelligence Cell of Headquarters 1st Airborne Division stated ‘Four corpses found riddled in a staff car at crossroads 679785 on the 18th proved to be Major General Kussin, his batman, driverand interpreter, all from Feldkommandantur in Arnhem’. Some weight of truth must be applied to a report that is written ‘real-time’ generated with solid intelligence from the battle.
German sources also confirm that there were four occupants in the vehicle on the 17th September 1944.
During a post-war interrogation with the former Höherer SS-und Polizeiführer in den Niederland and Waffen-SS General Hanns Albin Rauter on 06 May 1946 at a prison in Scheveningen he stated that on the 3rd day [19th September] he visited the grave of Kussin and his 3 companions’ confirming there were actually four soldiers in the car. There are other eye-witness accounts that confirm four occupants which include statements from (T) Flight Lieutenant Albert Williams and Luitenant M J. Knottenbelt. Even the war diary of the 3rd Parachute Battalion stated ’German staff car and four occupants annihilated’.
With so many eye-witness accounts that state there were four occupants in the car the question needs to be answered on why the majority of publications only
Page from the report of Jan Hey. (Author’s collection)
refer to three occupants in the vehicle. If one visits the immense Ysselsteyn Duitse Militaire Begraafplaats (Ysselsteyn German Military Cemetery), you can take a walk amongst the blocks and rows of thousands of German graves from WWII. Located in block ‘BL, within row 6, you will find three soldiers buried next to each other at graves 143,144 and 145. These are of Generalmajor Friedrich Kussin, Getreiter Josef Willeke and Unteroffizier Max Koster. If there was a fourth occupant of the car then you would find him to be buried with the others in grave 146. However this grave belongs to a German Hauptmann killed in January 1945.
Even though there have been many accounts stating four occupants one would expect a fourth occupant buried in grave 146. Those accounts that state four occupants must have made a mistake as were there only three?
This speculation is only strengthened through the wonderful work done over the years by Jan Hey. He spent years researching and transcribing the original locations of field graves and mapping where these soldiers were re-interred sometimes up to three times before finally resting in Ysselsteyn. Sifting through some of his original work on the German casualties you can find an entry in the Gelderland section under Arnhem for casualties he recorded down for the 17th September 1944.
As you can see from Figure 4, the first entry for the 17th September 1944 is that of Generalmajor Friedrich Kussin. In brackets after his name in Dutch is an entry that states “Killed on Utrechtseweg in Oosterbeek, together with its driverand interpreter”. Underneath are entries for Getreiter Willeke and Unteroffizier Max Koster (from Hilversum [should be Arnhem]). The next entry is a Dutch SS soldier (Jelle van der Beek) who was killed in the bombing of the Willemskazerne earlier on the 17th September 1944. With the information from Jan Hey’s notes combined with the fact that there are only three graves (all named) in a row at Ysselsteyn from the 17th September 1944 has meant that researchers and authors, including myself, have made reference to only three occupants in the car in various publications and articles even though other primary sources state there were four occupants.
Missing piece of the puzzle The confusion in the number of occupants in the vehicle was conclusively settled in July 2014 when irrefutable evidence surfaced, via eBay of all places, which finally confirmed how many people where in the car. The evidence was a Sterbebild (Death or Memorial Card) which was of a soldier killed on the 17th September 1944 (see Figure 5). The card was for the 44 year old Unteroffizier Willi Haupt from Mülheim, Germany.
Whilst most German death cards of this period provide some detail on service history, awards won and death location, this card provides us very specific detail down to how many occupants were in the vehicle finally solving a 70 year mystery.
It is fortunate that this card provides some specific detail about the events surrounding his death. The card reads:
“Unteroffizier Willi Haupt was born on 25. 06. 1900 in Mülheim-Ruhr. On the 17September 1932 he was married to Anni Bogt and they were blessed by God with a boy. Since the year 1939 he has served as a soldier in the field. He was loved and valued by his comrades as well as his superiors. His comrades knew him with his merry and cheerful temperament during happy times. Finally he was put to action at Arnhem. On the 17th September 1944 [his wedding anniversary] he and two other comrades accompanied his commanding general on a reconnaissance. He would not return from his trip. Here he was hit by a deadly bullet. His comrades succeeded in recovering his body and then buried him, together with the general and both the other soldiers at the military cemetery at Arnhem.”
Memorial card of Willy Haupt (Author’s collection)
Finally no longer is there confusion around the number of occupants – we can confirm that there were four soldiers in the car. But then why did it take a death card some 70 years after the event to confirm this especially when the death card reveals that all four soldiers were buried together. The problem is that they were not.
Even though Generalmajor Kussin, Unteroffizier’s Haupt and Koster as well Getreiter Willeke were all killed together at the Wolfhezerweg and Utrechtseweg crossroads, for some reason they were not buried together in Ysselsteyn. Tracing it from the beginning we know that the Reverend Captain George Pare buried three German soldiers together from the car but why not the fourth? Why was Unteroffizier Haupt not buried in field graves alongside the road like the other three?
I don’t think the answer to this question will ever be known. Perhaps he was already buried by another airborne soldier or there was some other reason. Could Pare have made a mistake in his post-battle diary?
Either way we know that all four soldiers were re-interred during or after the battle to the Heldenfriedhof Zypendaal in Arnhem. Three were buried next to each other in graves 495, 496 and 497 however Haupt was buried separately in grave number 382. So why was Haupt not buried together with the other three men at Zypendaal?
A plausible solution to this is a theory put forward by Hans Timmerman. Hans has continued the research of Jan Hey in the field of Arnhem casualties including the Germans killed during the battle. His research has discovered that grave number 382 existed before the Battle of Arnhem but had not been used – it was a vacant plot. He believes that because Haupt was one of the first casualties of the Battle of Arnhem then he was buried in this (unused) grave and new graves were created as more casualties were buried or re-interred during or just after the battle. However not all field graves were transferred to Zypendaal but the Germans were not about to leave a German General left in field graves on the side of the road. As such, Kussin and his two staff were re-interred together but buried some 30 metres away in the same cemetery of Haupt. Finally in 1948 all four German soldiers were moved to their final resting place in Ysselsteyn where they lay today with three buried in Block ‘BE and Haupt buried in Block‘M’.
Last Name:Kussin
First Name:Friedrich
Rank:Generalmajor
Birth date:01.03.1895,
Birthplace:Aurich, Germany
Death Date:17.09.1944
Death Place:Oosterbeek
Unit:Feldkommandantur 642
Identity Tag:Stab.Pi.80 -2-
Grave Zypendaal:#495,
Grave Ysselsteyn:BL-6-143
Last Name:Willeke
First Name:Josef
Rank:Getreiter
Birth date:04.07.1902
Birthplace: Atteln, Germany
Identity Tag:St.Abt.Kf.EuA.Abt.26 – 2743-
Grave Zypendaal:#496
Last Name: Koster
First Name: Max
Rank: Unteroffizier
Birth date: 20.10.1903
Birthplace: Arnhem, Netherlands
Death Date: 17.09.1944
Death Place: Oosterbeek
Unit: Feldkommandantur 642
Identity Tag: 1.Br.Bau.E.Btl.2 -5595 –
Grave Zypendaal: #497
Grave Ysselsteyn: BL-6-145
Last Name: Haupt
First Name: Wilhelm
Birthplace: Mühlheim, Germany
Identity Tag: Gr.Kw.Kol.f.Betr.25.
Grave Ysselsteyn: M-4-079
The grave of Willy Haupt on the German War Cemetery at Ysselstein (Author’s collection)
As interesting and concluding aspect to this story is that Unteroffizier Haupt’s name did not just miraculously appear when the death card came to light in 2014. It has been known to researchers for years and had been recorded on casualty and burial lists put together in the past. So why then didn’t anyone in the past identify Willi Haupt as the 4th occupant of the vehicle? The most likely reason for this is that he was always discounted as the fourth occupant based on an entry made by Jan Hey next to his name in his first casualty lists. If you look back to Figure 4, you will see Unteroffizier Haupt’s name second from the bottom but with the entry “(LUWA?)” after it. For some reason Jan Hey recorded this German soldier as a member of the Luftwaffe and as such never thought to be an occupant of a car full of Army personnel. Further research is required to confirm the service arm of Haupt but if he was Luftwaffe, it is understandable why in the past that previous researchers have discarded Haupt as a member of Kussin’s predominately Heer (Army) staff and in particular, an occupant of his car on the 17th September 1944.
Finally we have conclusive proof who was in the car on that fateful day. As it has never been challenged until now, we as researchers and Battle of Arnhem enthusiasts, have always taken the information of three occupants in the car for granted. But now we know for certain that there were four occupants, including Unteroffizier Willi Haupt most likely from the Luftwaffe in the car on the 17th September 1944.
Acknowledgements The detail within this short story is only possible with the assistance and contribution of a number of people. In no particular order I wish to express my thanks to Luuk Buist, Bob Gerritsen, Geert Maassen, Tom Timmermans (www.battledetective.com), Johan van Doorn, Robert Voskuil and Hans Timmerman for their assistance and information that I used to make
the above ministory. A special thanks must go to Bart Leyte who owns the missing piece of the puzzle; Unteroffizier Willi Haupt’s death card. Thank you Bart for providing this missing piece to the puzzle. Without it the speculation on the number of occupants in Kus-sin’s car may have still remained to this day.
Sources Published
• Campbell, D., (1944). Nederlandsche Commandos bijArnhem. London: Londense Vrij Nederland (07 Oct 1944) Gelders Archief Vroemen Collection, 2867-1-32. • Middlebrook, M. (1994). Arnhem 7944: The Airborne Battle. London: Viking. • Revell, S., Cherry, N., Gerritsen, B. [2013]. Arnhem A Few Vital Hours. Renkum: Sigmond. • Williams, FLT A., (n.d.). The Glory that was Arnhem: How we got the news out. London: RAF Field Press Censor, Public Relations Team, 1st Airborne Division
• Hey, J. (n.d.). Documentatie Duitse graven in Nederland tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog • Macquire, H.P. MAJ, Report on Operation ‘Market’, Gelders Archief (REN A 141). • NARA: Personal file – Generalmajor Friedrich Kussin • Pare, Cornelius Ryan Collection • War Diary 3rd Battalion, 1st Parachute Regiment PRO Kew (WO 171-1238).
Websites • http://gomotors.net • http://www.strijdbewijs.nl • http://www.iwm.org.uk/ • http://www.battledetective.com/index.html • http://www.defendingarnhem.com
10 September: Battlefield Tour Arnhem 30 September- 2 October: Battlefield Tour Hürtgenwald, Germany 8 October, afternoon: Battlefield Tour around the Old Church in Oosterbeek 19 November, afternoon: Extra AGM in the Concert Hall, Oosterbeek.
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ZoomDown
ZoomDown is a version of Countdown streamed live using "Zoom" video conferencing software. It was introduced during the COVID-19 lockdown by Series 81 6-time winner, Paul Anderson, who also acts as the host. It featured Callum Todd in dictionary corner in the first six episodes. Episode ZD7 onward saw James Rowan in the DC role, and Fiona Titcombe operating the technical aspect of production. Tom Carey alternated with Titcombe from Episode ZD12 onwards, with George Armstrong alternating with Rowan from Episode ZD15. Fred Whibley joined the team for Series 2, with Rowan taking a break from the series midway through Series 2. Currently, Armstrong and Carey oversee Mondays, whilst Titcombe and Whibley oversee Thursdays.
Two games are played in each episode, with the guesting role in game one taken by the challenger of the second game and the loser of the first game taking the role in game two. They are given their own anecdote, which forms more like a mini-Q&A session, after Round 6, as per the current 15 round format. The format is similar to a Countdown series, with the winner staying on for up to four games (as per the Apterous Simulation of a Series), at which point they become a ZoomDown tetrachamp. The top 8 then compete in a knockout tournament in a bid to become ZoomDown Series Champion. These finalists are not allowed to play again in the following series, meaning that each series will have eight new finalists.
The games are shown live on the FOCAL Talk YouTube channel on Mondays and Thursdays at 8:00 pm (Thursday's show originally started at 8:05pm to accommodate the national "clap for carers" campaign). In addition to the main series, specials were also played; the first of these was a mini-Hyper tournament between four players shown on Friday 15 May 2020 at 8pm, and the second was a "Numberists" special shown over two Saturdays (13-20 June).
Specials returned as a prequel to the third series, shown at the usual times and alternating between two formats.
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Firefox 40 features several significant UI changes again
Yesterday, Mozilla rolled out a new version of the Firefox browser, which features notable changes yet again and can be considered as a major release. Let's see what the changes are.
If you are running Windows 10, then the difference in Firefox's appearance will be more obvious. Its appearance has changed to look more polished under Windows 10.
The window frame of Firefox is grey on Windows 10, and its tab close button is much bigger now. Also, the font in the address bar is slightly larger than in the previous version.
This change might be welcomed by Windows 10 users as the gray title bar of Firefox looks better than the white window frame of Firefox 39. It makes the browser look more usable with the default Windows 10 theme. However, if you have enabled Aero Lite or the colored title bars theme, you will lose the ability to see a colorized frame of Firefox's window. This can be considered as a step back by many users. A number of Windows 10 users are using Aero Lite because they cannot stand the white title bars.
Besides this change, Firefox 40 drops support for the Dark theme.
It is not possible any more to enable the black/developer theme in the stable channel of the browser. Developers said that this feature caused issues with synchronization, so they removed it from the stable release channel.
The other notable changes in Firefox 40 are as follows:
Improved malware protection.
Improved CSS animations.
Suggested Tiles on the Start page. These are a new kind of ads which will promote special tiles of recommended sites based on your activity (browsing history) and interests. See how to disable suggested tiles in Firefox.
The ability to add a context to Firefox Hello conversations.
Asynchronous plugin initialization as described here.
New add-ons manager with signature verification.
A new guide on how to set up Firefox as the default browser in Windows 10.
Lots of changes for developers and security fixes.
That's it. Do you like the changes happening to Firefox? What is your default browser these days?
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Shawn August 12, 2015 at 7:09 pm
Right now I am using Internet Explorer 11. It’s quite decent actually. I hate Microsoft Edge so I will probably move to Firefox once everyone stops supporting IE11.
Thomas August 17, 2015 at 8:44 pm
I don’t like the current flat design trend (now in the add-ons manager too). But other than that it’s always great when a new version brings more improvements than new (useless) features or (useless) design changes without asking the users opinion.
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HAARP goes artsy
Dan Bross, KUAC - Fairbanks
Art and science are combined this week in a project at the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP facility. Built for military research involving radio transmissions through the ionosphere, the facility in Gakona, has broadened its scope beyond traditional science.
No longer wanted by the military, in 2015 HAARP was taken over by the University of Alaska which has expanded access to the facility’s high power radio transmitter.
“Almost anybody can rent time on HAARP.” said HAARP chief scientist Chris Fallon.
Fallon plugged the opportunity during a presentation in New York last year, while noting it doesn’t come cheap.
“The current rates are about $5,000 per hour of transmitter time,” Fallon said.
Amanda Dawn Christie, a video performance and electronics professor at Canada’s Concordia University, describes herself as a “transmission artist”.
“It applies to artists who make art about or with the electromagnetic spectrum,” Christie said.
Christie says that spans traditional arts, like music and poetry, as well as their transmission via radio waves, like the powerful high frequency variety emitted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks HAARP facility.
“There’s music, there’s poetry written in Morse code, there’s storytelling and then there’s images that will be transmitted in a format called SSTV, which is slow scan television,” Christie said.
Christie’s one hour multi part program is being broadcast over short wave radio, and on the web, with software available to download accompanying images. One part of the broadcast uses recordings of wolves howling.
“I’ve pitch shifted them to create a musical score out of these wolves that go up on two frequencies, and ideally mix in the ionosphere and come down together on one frequency,” Christie said.
Christie emphasizes that project is not just about the art, but testing HAARP’s ability to create, and transmit it.
”All of the movements in my piece do different scientific experiments that I’m hoping to gather a lot of data from that I’m happy to offer to scientists that would find this useful,” Christie said.
Christie says the project also gets at long simmering conspiracy theories surrounding the former military facility, and she and UAF’s Fallon agree it may help dispel misunderstandings.
”Communicating the science we do at the facility and why it’s important is really quite a challenge,” Fallon said.
“People treat it like, ‘Are you controlling the weather?’ and I’m trying to show that it’s simply a radio transmitter,” Christie said.
Christie says he project is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, and note that it includes money to pay UAF as well as carbon offset credits to compensate for the fuel consumed at HAARP this week.
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Honourable Solomon Ayele Dersso, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
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Brazil ranks second amongst all countries worldwide with the most active Twitter accounts, with one estimation putting this as high as 40-50 million users – about a third of the size of the top-placed U.S. São Paulo ranks fourth amongst all cities by total number of posted tweets.
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Following four in-flight engine shutdowns, the FAA issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive (EAD) to all Boeing 737 Classic and NextGeneration operators, warning of a double-engine shutdown possibility.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive (EAD) for all stored Boeing 737 Classic (CL) and Boeing 737 NextGeneration (NG) aircraft. If left unchecked, the fault could potentially lead to a double-engine shutdown without the potential ability to turn on the engines again.
As a result, the FAA concluded, the event could lead to a “forced off-airport landing.”
The EAD covers the engine bleed air fifth stage check valve on both of the CFM56 variants that power the 737CL (CFM56-3 series) and the 737NG (CFM56-7 series) on aircraft that were stored for seven or more consecutive days, notes the administration.
FAA issued the emergency directive following four separate events where a single-engine of the Boeing 737 shut down during a flight. The shutdowns were caused by corrosion on the engine bleed air fifth stage check valve.
The agency also ordered airlines, which operated the aircraft for less than 10 flight cycles, to check for corrosion on the valve.
To make sure the valve has not corroded, an inspection should take place whereupon the flapper plates of the valve need to be rotated at least three times, according to the EAD. “If the flapper plate moves smoothly, without signs of binding or sticking, from the fully closed position to the stop tube using gravity force alone, the engine bleed air fifth stage check valve has passed this inspection,” reads the directive. The flapper bushings should also be separated by at least 0.004 inches (0.102 mm) on both engines in order for the valve to pass the inspection.
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Smart Window Market Global Sales Revenue, Price and Gross Margin Forecast To 2025
Global Smart Window Market is expected to reach USD 9,083.7 Million by 2025 at a CAGR of 17.8% during the forecast period. Market Research Future (MRFR), in its report, envelops segmentation and drivers to provide a better glimpse of the market in the coming years. Smart window glasses are electronically controlled devices that allow users to control the amount of light, glare, and heat passing through the window, manually or automatically. Smart windows are usually based on technologies such as electrochromic, polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC), suspended particle devices (SPD), and photochromic. These glasses are energy-efficient and have low reflection, which reduces the glare. Smart windows are eco-friendly, made of recyclable material, and help in controlling heat to maintain optimal temperatures inside buildings and infrastructures.
The Key Players of the Global Smart Window Market are Saint-Gobain Group (France), RavenWindow (US), PPG Industries, Inc. (US), LTI Smart Glass, Inc. (US), Kinestral Technologies, Inc. (US), Gentex Corporation (US), Merck KGaA (Germany), Pleotint, LLC (US), E-Chromic Technologies, Inc. (US), ChromoGenics AB (Sweden), AGC, Inc. ( Japan), Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd (Japan), Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd (Japan), and Innovative Glass Corporation (US), among others.
In June 2019, Kinestral Technologies, Inc. partnered with Vitrum Glass Group to produce the Halio insulating glass units (IGUs) for multiple commercial projects in North America. These projects will use more than 100,000 square feet of Halio smart-tinting glass produced at Kinestral’s large-scale Taiwan manufacturing facility.
In February 2017, Pleotint, LLC partnered with Romag, a glass manufacturer specialized in glass and solar solutions, to allow Romag to be the manufacturer in the UK for the Pleotint’s Suntuitive product, bringing self-tinting glass technology to the residential and commercial sectors.
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Based on Technology, the smart window market has been segmented into electrochromic technology, PDLC, SPD, and photochromic. Among these, the SPD segment dominated the market in 2018, capturing nearly a 33% market share, whereas the electrochromic technology segment is expected to register the highest CAGR during the forecast period. The electrochromic technology segment was the fastest-growing market and is projected to register the highest CAGR of 19.7% during the forecast period. Electrochromic technology reflects light, reducing the need for air conditioning (AC) systems, which indirectly lowers the heavy cost of installing AC systems as well as the day-to-day costs associated with their maintenance. PDLC technology is mostly used for interior and exterior windows. It switches the transparency property of glass from clear to opaque in less than a second. PDLC technology is available in a self-adhesive switchable film that can be applied to existing windows and laminated smart windows and provides high privacy owing to its opaque state Suspended particle devices or SPD glasses enable users to instantly control the dimming properties of their windows. This technology provides instant and precise light control. It has an exceptional optical feature that reduces glare and eye strain. Photochromic technology is used in transitional lenses. Photochromic technology lenses are cost-effective and convenient for use.
Based on the application, the market has been classified into architectural and construction, transportation, automotive, aircraft, marine, consumer goods, and power generation. The architectural & construction segment accounted for the largest market share. The automotive segment was the fastest-growing market and is projected to register the highest CAGR during the forecast period. In architectural and construction applications, this technology is widely used in green construction. This technology has enabled smart-window users to save nearly 25% in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) costs. In transportation applications, smart windows are used in aircraft to avoid environmental disturbances such as glare, heat, and noise. In automotive applications, smart windows help in heat reduction inside the vehicle up to a temperature of 18ºF/10ºC, protect from ultraviolet rays, and provide glare control and noise reduction. By using smart windows, passengers and flight crews can regulate the amount of light entering the cabin. Smart windows preserve the view, reduce unwanted beams of light, and adjust the optimum amount of healthy daylight for the passengers’ wellbeing. In marine applications, on-site maintenance engineers can capture pictures and videos and save them on the internal memory with the help of smart glass panels. The captured files can also be sent for analysis. Smart glass can be used for a multitude of consumer products including, sunroofs, visors, mirrors, ski goggles, AR glasses, mirror glass panels, blackout smart window-projection screens, and intelligent windows and flat panel displays for computers. Smart windows are used for reducing power consumption in corporate offices, shopping malls, retail stores, museums, and residential buildings. Smart windows reduce the need for artificial interior lighting by adjusting the amount of sunlight and reducing the impact of UV rays, keeping the room cooler.
The global smart window market, by region, has been segmented into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the rest of the World. North America accounted for the largest market value of USD 844.1 million in 2017; the market is expected to register a CAGR of 19.6% during the forecast period. However, the market in Asia-Pacific is expected to register the highest CAGR of 21.8%
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The Shapeshifting Detective By: Wales Interactive Ltd. Full Motion Video (FMV) games have been making quite the comeback over the last few years, with Her Story proving that the medium has a lot to offer. Contradiction provided a slightly cheesier experience, but one with also more active sleuthing. They both managed to make me hungry for more FMV games, but not all of them have been ported to iOS. Luckily, The Shapeshifting…
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C.H.U.D (1984) Review
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Horrorific content by Yo Adrian on June 07th, 2019 | Movie Review | Cult, Mutant, Creature, Police, Urban Decay
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It's about a bunch of Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (AKA small sewer creatures with glowing eyes) who threaten the good people of New York City.
C.H.U.D was directed by Douglas Cheek and stars John Heard (from Living Among Us, Sharknado), Daniel Stern (from Leviathan) and Kim Greist (from Manhunter).
They're not staying down there anymore!
CHUD is a strange, slow, cheap horror film from the early 80's. It's a lot like Street Trash, just without the shock value, and a lot like Basket Case, just without the charm. It honestly feels more like a slow police procedural than a horror movie.
The plot is very familiar for anyone who has seen a creature feature. Some guy dumps toxic waste into a lake which spawns mutant beavers. Some guy dumps toxic waste into a cave which spawns mutant lizards. In CHUD, some guy dumps toxic waste into the sewers which spawn mutant... homeless people? It apparently makes them crave human flesh, so they go out and try to eat people.
All that being said, it's a pretty great B-trash 80's horror flick. And you don't watch b-trash 80's horror flicks for the plot. The practical effects are good, characters are colorful and the score is fantastic. It's definitely not for everyone, if you spend more than 5 minutes on IMDb you'll see the only people who love it are people who feel nostalgic over cult 80's horror movies. Everyone else is like, WTF?
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New legislation introduced to protect redundancy pay of furloughed workers
Published by Ashby Berry Coulsons on 30th July 2020
The Government has announced that from 31 July 2020 any furloughed worker that is made redundant will receive a payment based on their normal wage rather than the reduced rate of pay they may have received under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS).
Reports of a small number of employers taking advantage of the Coronavirus crisis to pay a lower rate for redundancies has led the Government to introduce new laws that ensure that workers get the full rate of redundancy pay.
Workers that have more than two years of continuous service are typically entitled to a statutory redundancy payment that is based on length of service, age and pay; up to a statutory maximum of £16,140.
However, under the CJRS many of the 9.5 million workers that have been furloughed are currently being paid 80 per cent of their normal wage unless their employer has opted to top up their pay.
As well as ensuring redundancy pay is protected, the new rules also make sure that statutory notice pay, which covers the period before a worker’s employment ends is based on an employee’s normal wages rather than the lower wage rate they may have been paid under the CJRS.
This paid notice period typically varies from one to 12 weeks’ depending on an employee’s length of service.
Furloughed employees that successfully undertake an unfair dismissal claim will also have their basic award payment based on full pay rather than the CJRS’s reduced wage rate under the new legislation.
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The Last Family in England
By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
The Dead Fathers Club
Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband's brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip's life crumble away when his father's ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him. Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard, Philip vows to carry out the ghost's relentless demands for revenge.
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From the number one Sunday Times best-selling author. Terence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the tragedies of his mother's suicide and his wife's murder when his teenage son, Reuben, is killed in a grotesque accident. His remaining child, Bryony, has always been the family's golden girl, and Terence comes to realise that his one duty in life is to protect her from the world's malign forces, whatever that may take.
So sorry Matt Haig!
Not what I expected
By C. Campbell on 11-08-15
Echo Boy
Narrated by: Jane Collingwood, Thomas Judd
In order to stay human, Audrey has built a moat around herself; a moat of books, music, and dreams. It makes her different from the echoes: the sophisticated, emotionless machines, built to resemble and work for the humans. Daniel is an echo - but he's not like the others. He has feelings he was never designed to have, and cannot explain. And when Audrey is placed in danger, he's determined to save her.
This could be our future.
By Kaggy on 27-10-14
4 out of 5 stars 3,410
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to jazz age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot and now craves an ordinary life. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London comprehensive. Here he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he'd never witnessed them firsthand.
Superb as I expected from Matt Haig
Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
Fantasy may be hard to take if you’re depressed
By Joan on 04-09-20
A profound and shining star
To Be a Cat
Narrated by: Chris Pavlo
Barney Willow thinks life couldn't get any worse. He's weedy and has sticky-out ears. Horrible Gavin Needle loves tormenting him. And worst of all, his Dad has been missing for almost a year, and there's no sign of him ever coming home. Barney just wants to escape, and find another life. Being a cat, for example. A quiet, lazy cat. Things would be so much easier - right?
A children's story, but immensely enjoyable by all
By Helen on 14-05-14
The Ghost Walk
Narrated by: John Telfer
Oscar is having the worst holiday ever. So when his dad suggests the family go on a haunted tour of York, he jumps at the chance of doing something that doesn't involve trailing round gift shops. But the ghost walk turns out to have a haunting twist.... A terrifying ghost story that will chill your blood, from acclaimed author Matt Haig.
Lovely little tale.
By Mrs Amy Garnett on 02-07-15
By: Claire Fuller
Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides each in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter, she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her beautiful but dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan. Twelve years after her disappearance, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window.
Riveting!
By dumphimlove on 23-03-17
By: Mick Kitson
Narrated by: Sharon Rooney
This is a story of something like survival. Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. She nicked an Ordnance Survey map from the school library. She bought a compass, a Bear Grylls knife, waterproofs and a first aid kit from Amazon using credit cards she'd robbed. She read the SAS Survival Handbook and watched loads of YouTube videos. And now Sal knows a lot of stuff. Like how to build a shelter and start a fire. How to estimate distances, snare rabbits and shoot an airgun.
beautifully written & read
By Joanne on 27-06-18
Frogmorton Farm Series
By: Jodi Taylor
Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
It's Christmas time again, and all is not well at Frogmorton Farm. Jenny and Russell's daughter, Joy, is growing up. Not quickly enough as far as she's concerned but far too quickly according to Russell. Father and daughter are at odds, and suddenly the outlook is very dark indeed. That is until Thomas comes to the rescue. A Frogmorton Farm short.
By Pip on 28-11-20
All Our Wrong Todays
By: Elan Mastai
Narrated by: Elan Mastai
So, the thing is, I come from the world we were supposed to have. That means nothing to you, obviously, because you live here, in the crappy world we do have. But it never should've turned out like this. And it's all my fault - well, me and, to a lesser extent, my father. And, yeah, I guess a little bit Penelope. In both worlds she's the love of my life. But only a single version of her can exist. I have one impossible chance to fix history's greatest mistake and save this broken world.
The point of it all....
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
By: Laura Taylor Namey
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
For Lila Reyes, a summer in England was never part of the plan. The plan was 1) take over her abuela’s role as head baker at their panadería, 2) move in with her best friend after graduation, and 3) live happily ever after with her boyfriend. But then the Trifecta happened, and everything - including Lila herself - fell apart. Worried about Lila’s mental health, her parents make a new plan for her: Spend three months with family friends in Winchester, England, to relax and reset.
Fake accents
By rebecca froggatt on 19-11-20
Doing Time
Time Police, Book 1
Narrated by: Zara Ramm
A long time ago in the future, the secret of time travel became known to all. Everyone seized the opportunity - and the world nearly ended. There will always be idiots who want to change history. And so, the Time Police were formed. An all-powerful, international organisation tasked with keeping the timeline straight. At all costs. Their success is legendary, and the Time Wars are over. But now the Time Police must fight to save a very different future - their own. This is the story of Jane, Luke and Matthew - arguably the worst recruits in Time Police history....
Brilliant - Another Jodi Taylor Hit
By Jodi Taylor on 27-02-20
Come Again
By: Robert Webb
Narrated by: Olivia Colman
It's been precisely 10,000 days since Kate met the most gorgeous man alive. The man she married. The man with whom she built a life. The man who died. Kate still sleeps with her husband's T-shirt, but it doesn't smell of Luke any more. She misses him every day. One morning, Kate wakes up back at college. She's 18 years old. She remembers everything. And she realises that this is the week that she will meet Luke for the first time. What if the man you lost could be found again? But then, what if he doesn't know he's lost? And what if he's still just a boy?
Incredible Book
By Colin McIntosh on 18-06-20
By: Milan Kundera
Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals - while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities.
Strives to be deep
By Ant on 30-07-13
Narrated by: Matt Haig
By Clementine Beresford on 08-02-19
From the number one Sunday Times best-selling author.
Meet the Hunter family: Adam, Kate, and their children, Hal and Charlotte. And Prince, their black Labrador. Prince is an earnest young dog, striving hard to live up to the tenets of the Labrador Pact (Remain Loyal to Your Human Masters, Serve and Protect Your Family at Any Cost).
Other dogs, led by the Springer Spaniels, have revolted. As things in the Hunter family begin to go badly awry - marital breakdown, rowdy teenage parties, attempted suicide - Prince's responsibilities threaten to overwhelm him, and he is forced to break the Labrador Pact and take desperate action to save his Family.
©2005 Matt Haig (P)2018 Canongate Books Ltd
What listeners say about The Last Family in England
Ms. Bookworm
Amazing but sad
Such a sad story but an excellent tail (pun intended) Gripping, fast paced, but sad.
Loyal Labrador
The story of young Labrador Prince is one of a persistent pup who will stop at nothing to save his family. Matt Haig is never afraid to write about the darker topics that affect human lives, so much so that Prince certainly has his pawsfull. I found it a unique perspective to write from. The continuing concern of Prince creates quite an anxious read at times, as there is always something that he has to over come and the narrators determined nature never rests. It is very sad at times so if you are looking for an easy light hearted listen perhaps this isn’t for you. Overall all it was a wholesome story of the naivety of mans best friend and his not so perfect family.
K. Bridges
A story of what s hidden in families
Matt Haig is one of my faviourite authors and I do love the way his novels are so insightful about the human condition. Personally therefore, I did take a lot from this book (one of his earlier ones) however, there are some very difficult themes explored here and I think it might have been better to have been warned more about that before I listened to it - luckily I do usually listen on my own but this certainly isn't one to have on when children are around.
Trushtush
Loved it all, and will listen to it again and again. Highly recommend all of Matt Haig’s work but this is a shining example
An interesting premise but v distressing in parts
I really enjoy Haig’s books. However I didn’t realise this would be so violent, and the ending was so depressing, I found it quite disturbing. The narrator was fantastic tho.
Karen Croan
Quite Downbeat
This was much more depressing than it looks. Family life told from a dogs perspective was an interesting idea, but the endless repetition of the Labrador pact became boring. Also the number of issues faced by the family and friends- everyone had a major problem/secret which was quite unrealistic. I don’t think we have reached this level of dystopia yet and I’m sorry to say I felt the Springers had the right idea.
vicky ross
expected more
I usually enjoy this sort of book and absolutely love dogs I however found some parts hard to follow and stay focused
Imaginative story-telling but over-long
The trials and tribulations of a family’s life told from the perspective of their Labrador dog is certainly a new way to tell a story but, especially for the first half of the book, I felt it was more worthy of a short story than a novel as the edicts of the ‘Labrador Pact” were repeatedly told and the story was a bit repetitive. However, the second half of the book becomes much more action-packed. Dog-lovers will find the ending sad.
Overall I enjoyed the book and found it a good company when out walking.
The narrator is good.
Deloogoo
another amazing book from Matt Haig
This is the second Matt Haig book I have listened too (the first being "how to stop time") and I have absolutely fallen in love with Matt's writing. this book had me laughing and crying and I highly recommend listening to this title.
Sigrin
Paws for thought.
A sorry tail told from a dogs perspective. Prince is the loyal Labrador of the Hunter family, who lives by the Labrador code. This code is to look after their family forsaking all others, which Prince does, however not always understanding the bigger picture. It is a sad sorry, but equally uplifting in moments and has made me look at my Labrador collie cross differently. The book Fluke by James Herbert is also written from a dogs perspective, which I can highly recommend if you want to try anther books like this.
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PMP Deploys AMEX-10 Seals to Upgrade Manchester Square Wastewater Pumping Station
By Dr. Cameron ChaiMar 29 2011
UK-based company, PMP has proclaimed that its AMEX-10 seals delivered a vital engineering solution by enhancing a wastewater pumping station on the seafront of Blackpool.
PMP has deployed the two 250 cm diameter seals on a concrete pipe lined with steel. The pipe is a component of the emergency overflow system at Manchester Square, Blackpool. KMI Plus, the framework contractor of United Utilities stipulated the use of AMEX-10 seals to house up to 40 mm thermal contraction and expansion required for the system. The seals offer a design life of 60 years and delivered a cost-effective engineered solution to United Utilities.
The AMEX-10 is a discreet mechanical seal that eliminates seepage from pipe joints. By utilizing hydraulic extension of stainless steel compression rings, a rubber that covers the joint is fixed, eradicating the utilization of chemical adhesives and their related risks. The compression rings used in the Blackpool deployment were made of Duplex Stainless steel to provide better corrosion resistance and strength. The AMEX-10 seal is made of EPDM rubber, which offers high abrasion resistant and allows extensive joint movement.
Paul Fox, KMI Plus’ Site Manager, commented that when site engineers suggested AMEX-10 seals over traditional rocker pipe joints, PMP supplied them quickly and completed the deployment efficiently.
Source: http://www.pmp-ltd.co.uk
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Express Scripts covers $1 alternative to Turing's $750 pill
The U.S.s biggest manager of prescription drug benefits said it will cover a $1-a-capsule alternative to the anti-parasitic treatment Daraprim.
By Robert Langreth | December 02, 2015 at 08:36 AM
Photo: AP
(Bloomberg) — The U.S.’s biggest manager of prescription drug benefits said it will cover a $1-a-capsule alternative to the anti-parasitic treatment Daraprim, which costs $750 a pill after Turing Pharmaceuticals AG raised the drug’s price from $13.50 this year.
10 best jobs of 2021
Richard Binder | January 19, 2021
U.S. News and World Report analyzed career qualities it felt were "desired fairly universally," including promotion opportunities, ample open positions, and higher salaries.
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The Conceptual and Anthropological History of Bat Mitzvah
Two Lexical Paths and Two Jewish Identities
in Contributions to the History of Concepts
Author: Hizky Shoham 1
1 Bar-Ilan University hizky.shoham@gmail.com
https://doi.org/10.3167/choc.2018.130205
anthropological history; birthday; consumer culture; modern Jewish history; rites of passage
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This article aims to form a conversation between conceptual history and anthropological history, taking bat mitzvah, the coming-of-age ceremony for Jewish girls, as a test case. The term is shown to have two main conceptual meanings: first, the new religious status that a Jewish girl acquires—that of an adult obligated by the precepts of Jewish law—and second, the event or ritual marking this milestone. The close examination of the concept’s various meanings in different Jewish languages tracks its development from its hesitant beginnings in the nineteenth century to its emergence as a key concept that refers to a central ceremony in the Jewish world of the twentieth century. From that point, the article follows the two lexical paths that bat mitzvah has traveled, in the United States and in Israel, and highlights a basic anthropological difference in the ceremony’s social function.
Hizky Shoham is Senior Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Research Fellow in the Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem. Email:hizky.shoham@gmail.com
Contributions to the History of Concepts
© Berghahn Books 2018
Issue Table of Contents
Special Section: Isms Concepts, Continued from Volume 13, Issue 1
Revisiting French Foundational Republicanism from a Non-teleological Approach
Nationalism and Internationalism Reconciled
Sovereignty versus Influence
Koselleck’s Historik and the Horizons of Politics
Initiation Rites versus Birthdays: Two Perceptions of (Jewish) Identity
Bat Mitzvah in Premodern Sources
Rites of Passage for Jewish Girls in the Nineteenth Century
“Bat Mitzvah” in Scare Quotes: Beginnings, 1847–1922
Without Scare Quotes: Bat Mitzvah in the Western Diaspora
In the Yishuv and Israel: The Bat Mitzvah as an Event without an Initiation
Israel versus North America: Differences in Linguistic History
Article by Hizky Shoham
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PE-CF594 Mouse Anti-p38 MAPK (pT180/pY182)
Clone 36/p38 (pT180/pY182) (RUO)
Brand BD Phosflow™
Alternative Name MAPK14; p38 MAP kinase; p38 MAPK; RK; CSBP2
Reactivity Human (QC Testing) Mouse, Rat (Tested in Development)
Immunogen Phosphorylated Human p38 MAPK (pT180/pY182) Peptide
Activation of the immune and inflammatory responses often involves the recognition of bacterial endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide or LPS). Binding of LPS by monocytes results in the production and release of proinflammatory cytokines, such as IL-1 and TNF. LPS-induced signaling cascades involve members of the Ser/Thr protein kinase family known as the Mitogen Activated Protein Kinases (MAPKs). MAPK signal transduction pathways mediate the effects of various extracellular stimuli on biological processes such as proliferation, differentiation, and death. The p38 MAPKs include p38α (MAPK14), β (MAPK11), γ (MAPK12), and δ (MAPK13). These Ser/Thr kinases are activated by dual phosphorylation on threonine (T) and tyrosine (Y) within the motif Thr-Gly-Tyr located in kinase subdomain VIII. Activation of p38 MAPK is mediated specifically by the MAP Kinase Kinases, MKK3, MKK4, and MKK6. This leads to the activation of multiple transcription factors (NF-κB, ATF-2, Elk-1, and CHOP) that induce expression of many different genes, including proinflammatory cytokine genes. Thus, p38 MAPKs are central kinases in multiple signal transduction pathways.
The 36/p38 (pT180/pY182) monoclonal antibody recognizes the conserved dual phosphorylated site pT180/pY182 of p38α, β, γ, and δ.
This antibody is conjugated to BD Horizon™ PE-CF594, which has been developed exclusively by BD Biosciences as a better alternative to PE-Texas Red®. PE-CF594 excites and emits at similar wavelengths to PE-Texas Red® yet exhibits improved brightness and spectral characteristics. Due to PE having maximal absorption peaks at 496 nm and 564 nm, PE-CF594 can be excited by the blue (488-nm), green (532-nm) and yellow-green (561-nm) lasers and can be detected with the same filter set as PE-Texas Red® (eg 610/20-nm filter).
Format PE-CF594
Excitation Source Blue 488 nm,Green 532 nm,Yellow/Green 561 nm
BD Horizon™ PE-CF594 is a tandem conjugate, developed exclusively by BD Biosciences, that combines PE and CF594. PE-CF594 is a brighter alternative to PE-Texas Red®, with improved spectral characteristics. PE-CF594 reagents exhibit very consistent spillover values lot to lot, making them an ideal choice for the PE-Texas Red® detector (610/20 nm).
Pacific Blue™
Fixation Buffer RUO
Perm Buffer III RUO
Store undiluted at 4°C and protected from prolonged exposure to light. Do not freeze. The monoclonal antibody was purified from tissue culture supernatant or ascites by affinity chromatography. The antibody was conjugated with BD Horizon™ PE-CF594 under optimum conditions, and unconjugated antibody and free PE-CF594 were removed.
Please observe the following precautions: Absorption of visible light can significantly alter the energy transfer occurring in any tandem fluorochrome conjugate; therefore, we recommend that special precautions be taken (such as wrapping vials, tubes, or racks in aluminum foil) to prevent exposure of conjugated reagents, including cells stained with those reagents, to room illumination.
Texas Red is a registered trademark of Molecular Probes, Inc., Eugene, OR.
CF™ is a trademark of Biotium, Inc.
When excited by the yellow-green (561-nm) laser, the fluorescence may be brighter than when excited by the blue (488-nm) laser.
This product is provided under an Agreement between BIOTIUM and BD Biosciences. The manufacture, use, sale, offer for sale, or import of this product is subject to one or more patents or pending applications owned or licensed by Biotium, Inc. This product, and only in the amount purchased by buyer, may be used solely for buyer’s own internal research, in a manner consistent with the accompanying product literature. No other right to use, sell or otherwise transfer (a) this product, or (b) its components is hereby granted expressly, by implication or by estoppel. This product is for research use only. Diagnostic uses require a separate license from Biotium, Inc. For information on purchasing a license to this product including for purposes other than research, contact Biotium, Inc., 3159 Corporate Place, Hayward, CA 94545, Tel: (510) 265-1027. Fax: (510) 265-1352. Email: btinfo@biotium.com.
Because of the broad absorption spectrum of the tandem fluorochrome, extra care must be taken when using multi-laser cytometers, which may directly excite both PE and CF™594.
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Beautypedia > La Roche-Posay > Effaclar Adapelene Gel 0.1% Acne Treatment
Effaclar Adapelene Gel 0.1% Acne Treatment
If La Roche-Posay’s Effaclar Adapelene Gel 0.1% Acne Treatment seems familiar, that’s because it shares its ingredient list and claims with a well-known acne-fighting product, Differin Gel. In fact, they’re virtually identical (not surprising, as they share the same parent company) and because of that, this has both Differin Gel’s strengths and weaknesses.
Housed in an opaque squeeze tube, this gel has a silky feel that smooths over skin. Because of its sheer, lightweight texture, it’s suitable for all skin types, and also works both over and under other skin care products.
The focus of this fragrance-free gel is its 0.1% concentration of adapalene, a once-prescription-only retinoid used to treat acne, blemishes, and clogged pores. In use since 1996, it’s been shown effective for all these uses, and for some people, is better tolerated than traditional topical retinoids such as Retin-A.
Aside from the adapalene though, there aren’t any other skin-beneficial ingredients to be found; this otherwise only includes texture-enhancing and preservative ingredients. This would be more impressive with some skin-soothing ingredients (such as licorice extract, willow herb, or allantoin) to stave off some of the sensitivity people can encounter when first incorporating retinol products into their skin care routines.
Still, this will work for many people looking for a targeted acne fighter, and is pretty reasonably priced as well.
Sheer gel texture works for all skin types.
Contains an effective amount of acne-fighting adapalene.
Packaged to protect its light- and air-sensitive ingredients.
Formula would be more impressive with additional beneficial ingredients.
Tested on animals: Yes
Prescription-strength acne treatment, now available without a prescription. This once daily topical retinoid helps clear and prevent blackheads, whiteheads, acne blemishes and clogged pores.
Active: Adapalene 0.1%. Inactive: Carbomer Homopolymer, Edetate Disodium, Methylparaben, Poloxamer 182, Propylene Glycol, Purified Water, Sodium Hydroxide.
La Roche-Posay At-A-Glance
L'Oreal-owned La Roche-Posay has a pharmaceutical lineage based in France, and the company speaks of their thermal spring water as the cornerstone of their commitment to dermatological skin care. In fact, the name La Roche-Posay comes from the French town that is the source of this water, which is said to be a rich in selenium. While selenium is an element that has potent antioxidant ability, it's unclear how much the water La Roche-Posay uses contains, since all water has to go through purification processes to be to used in cosmetic products.
That aside, this brand does have a number of standout products, including some good sunscreens and anti-aging treatments. Another positive: All of its skincare is packaged in containers that will keep beneficial products protected from light and air (no jar packaging here!). Unfortunately there are some missteps, namely that some otherwise-excellent products include potentially-irritating amounts of alcohol, fragrance, or other irritants. The line could also benefit from additional products that contain more state-of-the-art ingredients. Still, for a no-frills approach to serious skin care, there are some finds to be had!
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Nora Quoirin's family "utterly disappointed" in a coroner's verdict
"This is Nora's unique legacy and we will never let it go."
Nora was on holiday with her family, including her mum Meabh Quoirin (Image: PA)
The family of a London schoolgirl found dead during a holiday in a Malaysian jungle said they were "utterly disappointed" in a coroner's verdict of death through misadventure.
Nora Quoirin, 15, was discovered dead nine days after she went missing from the resort in August 2019.
Her family said testimony during the inquest in the south-east Asian state showed she was abducted, and branded Monday's official findings "incomplete".
Their statement added: "Once again we see that justice struggles to support the most vulnerable in society - only engaging with special needs at a surface level - and not at the level that truly reflects children like Nora."
Coroner Maimoonah Aid's verdict means Nora's death was ruled accidental rather than criminal.
The teenager was born with holoprosencephaly - a disorder which affects brain development.
Her family added: "We believe we have fought not just for Nora but in honour of all the special needs children in this world who deserve our most committed support and the most careful application of justice.
Nora Quoirin death was 'most likely due to misadventure', coroner finds
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Her relatives recognised there was no physical evidence to aid the coroner.
"Nonetheless, we are utterly disappointed by the coroner's verdict of misadventure.
"We witnessed 80 slides presented to the court today, none of which engaged with who Nora really was - neither her personality nor her intellectual abilities.
"The verdict focused exclusively on physical evidence and physical mobility - which we believe, presents a very incomplete/select theory on how Nora came about her death."
Nora's mother is from Belfast.
The teenager had poor motor skills, needed help to walk, and her mental age was about five or six, her parents previously said.
The family were staying at Dusun eco-resort near Seremban, about 40 miles south of the capital Kuala Lumpur.
They reported Nora missing the day after they had arrived.
Her naked body was discovered beside a small stream about 1.6 miles from the resort.
Nora Quoirin: 'Not impossible' intruder could have gained access, inquest hears
Nora Quoirin inquest hears fingerprints on window could not be matched to teen
Police previously said there was no sign the teenager had been abducted or raped, with a preliminary post-mortem investigation showing she succumbed to intestinal bleeding due to starvation and stress.
On Monday, her family pointed to evidence of an opened window and said Nora had neither the cognitive, nor physical means to leave the chalet by the window.
They also highlighted the loss of DNA evidence during the period it took her body to be found.
Their legal team had sought an open verdict from the inquest, indicating there may be suspicion of foul play, but no proof to the required level.
They said hundreds of volunteers and significant numbers of highly trained personnel had searched the surrounding area relentlessly, including where Nora was found.
The charity for British nationals in crisis overseas, LBT Global, has been supporting the family since her disappearance and continues to do so.
Chief executive Matthew Searle said: "This is a hugely disappointing day for the family.
"It is clear that Nora could not have physically carried out the movements suggested.
"It is crucial that to deliver a comprehensive verdict the coroner would have to have fully taken into account Nora's condition - that they did so is not immediately apparent.
"We will support the family tirelessly as they move forward."
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Lydia Loveless
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Named one of 2016's best albums by Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Salon, AV Club, American Songwriter, and more!
Struggles between balance and outburst, infectious choruses fronting emotional torment are sung with a sneer, a spit, or a tenderness and openness that is both intensely personal and universally relatable. It is, as the title suggests, real.
Real was recorded at Sonic Lounge Studios on her home turf of Columbus, OH and was engineered and produced by Joe Viers. “I chose to work with Joe Viers, engineer and producer of my last three releases, again because I trust him completely not only with my music but with my words,” Lydia said. “There was a lot to say this time around and I wanted to return to that sort of playground and (sometimes literally) throw things at the wall. Whereas our previous records could be described as blunt or raw, this one I wanted to be known as honest, as true, as real (rimshot),” she added.
Real is one of those exciting records where you sense an artist truly hitting their stride, that their vision is both focused and expansive, and that their talent brims with a confident sense of place, execution and exploration. Whether you've followed Lydia's career forever, like us, or if you are new to her ample game, Real is gonna grab your ears.
On her first two Bloodshot full-length releases (2014's Somewhere Else and 2011's Indestructible Machine) there were fevered comparisons to acknowledged music icons like Loretta Lynn, Stevie Nicks, Replacements, and more: She's half this, half that, one part something else. We hate math. But, now Real and Lydia Loveless are reference points of their own. Genre-agnostic, Lydia and her road-tightened band pull and tease and stretch from soaring, singalong pop gems, roots around the edges to proto-punk. There are many sources, but the album creates a sonic center of gravity all its own. Song to song, moment to moment, you may find yourself thinking "that could be..." or "there are moments of..." but you are quickly transported away to another moment, another thought, another sound, another shot at honesty.
Always a gifted writer, Lydia gives the full and sometimes terrifying, sometimes ecstatic force of the word "real." Struggles between balance and outburst, infectious choruses fronting emotional torment are sung with a sneer, a spit, or a tenderness and openness that is both intensely personal and relatably universal It is, as the title suggests, real.
But what is "real"?
In the hands of a performer like Lydia, however, it is cast to almost Plantonic depths:
"We refer only to things fully formed and everlasting as "real". If a marriage ends it was "fake" and everything was a "lie". We ask if quickly made up tunes are "real songs". The veil of depression causes to wonder if we're real people, feeling discarded, sitting at the kid's table. Am I real even if I stayed in bed all day? Is love real even when it's over or goes entirely unfulfilled? Are we real after we die, even if no one remembers us? Or is anything temporary merely a fake, a phony, a stand in. I was thinking about this a lot when I was writing these songs. What makes someone, even someone lacking the confident to show their true selves a "real" authentic person.
When I strip away my vices who am I really. Am I only myself when I'm dancing on a table and making the most vulgar of wisecracks, even though I hate that person, it gets a rise out of myself. The party monkey side. But the side with any amount of grace is often met with concern or disdain. Who are you really, at the end of the day, entirely alone, without all the daydreams and the bullshit and the performance art we go through all day every day, even non performers or as we call them, "normal" peopleBecause I feel like I spent my formative years flopping around like a fish, masking pain with substance abuse and somewhat ashamed of who I was—a hayseed, a phony, I felt—it was absolutely necessary for me to become a stronger, more confident human, or I was going to die. Real is my sort of love letter to that realization, that my existence was just as valid as any other.”
Loveless is joined on the album by Todd May (vocals, guitars, keys), Ben Lamb (bass), Jay Gasper (guitars, pedal steel, keys), George Hondroulis (drums, percussion, keys), Andy Harrison (guitar, keys) and Viers (percussion, guitar).
A darker, tougher sound, somewhere between the stuck-in-the-city riffs of prime Strokes and the ‘70s pop-rock flare of the early Heartbreakers (Johnny Thunders or Tom Petty — pick one).
— The Bluegrass Situation
She’s a lover, not a fighter, but she knows that the distinction gets awfully blurry, too. Real is the sound of someone floating in the stars, but reaching tenderly for the gutter.
— The Ringer
The vibe of the album is limitless, as if the walls began to come down around her as she was recording it. It doesn’t turn a corner as much as it digs deeper into the well of Loveless’s considerable talent and dips its toes into the waters of genre-blending in a way that her previous albums didn’t dare to.
— MTV News
Country music with an indie-rock sensibility and a remarkable sense of intensity
— ABC News
The songs accumulate to form their own genre.
— NPR Fresh Air
Loveless loves the gutters of life, if only because she knows that’s where the greatest songs are.
— Pitchfork
By finessing her musical ideas and illustrating how she processes prickly emotions, she's created a rich alternate reality
— NPR First Listen
Like the lovechild of Fiona Apple and Miranda Lambert, she writes brutal songs about love's wickedness - how it shreds the heart to pieces then sutures it back together in one act.
Words deliver the hardest shots, in a voice that doesn't back down from inconvenient truths.
— Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune
Real is hinged on elements of doom-and-gloom country, passionate post-punk, and infectious power-pop. It’s a fittingly emboldened aesthetic for Loveless’s fiery songwriting.
— Fader
Real is even smarter, even more precise in its insights and even more merciless in its hard truths. In other words, it’s her best yet.
— Uncut UK
"An assault of crunchy power-pop, but behind the confident swagger are the tinge – and twang – of vulnerability."
— Rolling Stone
It’s like the Replacements soundtracking the sad aftermath of Big Star’s “Thirteen” — which is to say, it’s awesome.
— Stereogum
Same to You
Out On Love
Midwestern Guys
Clumps
Lydia Loveless "Same to You" (Official Music Video)
Lydia Loveless - Same to You | Live @ JBTV
Lydia Loveless "European" (Official Music Video)
Lydia Loveless "Out on Love" (Live on CBS This Morning)
Lydia Loveless "Clumps" (Official Music Video)
Lydia Loveless "Longer" (Official Music Video)
Lydia Loveless "Bilbao" (Live at Paste Studios)
Lydia Loveless "Out on Love" (Live at Paste Studios)
Lydia Loveless "Longer" (Live at Paste Studios)
Lydia Loveless - Longer | Live @ JBTV
Lydia Loveless - European | Live @ JBTV
Lydia Loveless - Bilbao | Live @ JBTV
Lydia Loveless - Out on Love | Live @ JBTV
Lydia Loveless "Longer" (Live on CBS This Morning)
Lydia Loveless "Same to You" (Live on CBS This Morning)
Lydia Loveless "Clumps" (Live on Audiotree)
A 6 song vinyl-only Record Store Day release of Lydia and her band performing a hometown show at Skully's in Columbus OH.
Live From The Documentary Who Is Lydia Loveless
Collection of Lydia Loveless’s summery 5-song EP Boy Crazy, on vinyl LP for the first time, plus six non-album singles and B-sides.
Boy Crazy and Single(s)
Drum-n-bass, nu-disco, and '90s-Chicago-style house versions of a Lydia Loveless song. Yes, you read that correctly. We can't believe it either.
Heaven Remixes
Digital single featuring a previously unreleased song and Lydia's stark, gripping take on...ahem...Justin Bieber's pop phenomenon "Sorry"
Desire / Sorry
Somewhere Else is the forlorn twilight of the next day, when that creeping nostalgia has you looking back for someone, something, or just... anything. Loveless travels into some parallel-universe, roots-born Exile In Guyville territory.
Autographed CD
Quoth Lydia: "We rehearsed for about a week and then went into the studio with a couple thirty packs and knocked it out. It's my rock and roll tribute to baseball pants and youth."
Boy Crazy EP
Lydia Loveless takes the pop classic "I Would Die 4 U" for a spin while Cory Branan slows it down with his take on the 1986 weirdo swan song "Under the Cherry Moon."
I Would Die 4 U / Under the Cherry Moon (7" single)
Cory Branan
Side A is "Mile High" a non album track of Lydia's own concoction.
Mile High / Blind (7" Single)
Features a stop-the-room-in-its-tracks version of Elvis Costello's "Alison."
Bad Way To Go (7" Single)
Loveless’s true-to-life testimonials hit and hit hard. Be it whiskey, men, god or alienation, Lydia takes them all on. Heady doses of punk rock energy and candor with the country classicism she was raised on; it’s a gutsy and unvarnished mash up.
Indestructible Machine
Lydia Loveless Guitar Dude T
Lydia Loveless 'Real' Poster
At once bluegrass, blues, folk, and country, it is also none of them. It is a product of two voices intertwined with one another for over three decades. It might be best summarized as Appalachian soul. Pure Freakwater
Freakwater
MBD's most dynamic release to date. Sonically here, their signature sound – rootsy indie rock, cinematic gothic ballads, and rousing pub rock shout-alongs – mixes with enlivening new stylistic elements.
Big Dark Love
Murder By Death
The No-Hit Wonder is both a celebratory anthem of the world-weary, undefeated underdogs of the world, and a coming to terms with the cards life has dealt you.
The No-Hit Wonder
The band toys with the theme of living beyond a normal lifetime- the concept of reliving and rewriting our lives, and the lessons we can all learn along the way, and marks a departure from their more stripped down style to one filled with lush instrumentation.
Ha Ha Tonka
For years around Chicago, Nora has been an in-demand hired assassin of singing to the hit-making hoi polloi, but here she scootches over just a little bit to center stage where she belongs.
Til the Dawn
Nora O'Connor
Intimate and personal, a perfect blend of orchestral sweep and glam rock swagger. A true masterpiece.
A Man Under the Influence
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Paganini: Music for Guitar and Viola
Composer Nicolò Paganini
Artist Simone Gramaglia/Luigi Attademo
Release January 2015
Although best remembered for his eccentric personality and extraordinary playing, Niccolò Paganini was also an excellent composer. Indeed, he was a man of two halves: the consummate performer who stunned (and shocked) concert halls with his sheer virtuosity, and the thoughtful musician who composed intimate chamber music for domestic settings. It is this second Paganini that is the focus of this release, which features two specially transcribed works for viola and guitar (originally for violin) alongside one of the composer’s original works for this combination of instruments.
The works are significant in that they record Paganini’s deep affection for the guitar, whose role alters during the course of the recital: relegated to simple accompaniment that provides timbral and harmonic support in the Six Sonatas MS26, in the Sonata concertata it contrastingly partakes in the melody and virtuosic brilliance (Gramaglia’s transcription for viola here bringing to the fore the intrinsic balance of the work, with the overlapping of the timbres creating a sound tapestry of great intimacy). The use of the viola throughout the compilation also highlights the extent to which Paganini helped to expand this instrument’s repertoire; this is particularly evident in the Sonata per la Grand Viola MS70, an original work for the instrument whose brilliance reflects its ultimate destination for the concert hall, the composer using the guitar as a means of working out the orchestration for the later concerto.
Performing these works on the viola is Simone Gramaglia, who has an established career as both a soloist and chamber musician with his successful string quartet Quartetto di Cremona. He is joined by long- time collaborator Luigi Attademo, an award-winning guitarist who has an established interest in Paganini’s guitar music. Attademo has already released a recording of Paganini’s complete music for guitar on Brilliant Classics (BC94348) and a release of Scarlatti Sonatas for Brilliant (BC94613) on which he collaborated was described by MusicWeb as a “unique and spell-binding adventure”.
Although Paganini is mainly regarded as a super virtuoso on the violin (achieving a pop star status in his time) and composer for his instrument of concertos of the highest difficulties, he composed a substantial oeuvre of chamber music for a diversity of unusual instruments. This CD presents a selection of works composed for the viola (the chaste sister of the sexy violin) and the guitar, a serious classical instrument in his time. These are wonderful intimate and deliciously melodic works, full of charm and Italian sunshine.
Excellent performances by violist Simone Gramaglia, a seasoned soloist and violist of the famous Quartetto di Cremona, and guitarist Luigi Attademo, who already recorded extensively for Brilliant Classics, to great critical acclaim, notably the complete solo guitar works by Paganini (BC94348), “one of the best performances I’ve ever heard” (Guitar Foundation).
• Recorded in Florence, Italy, in 2014.
• Contains notes on the composer and works.
• Contains notes on the artists.
Nicolò Paganini: Six Sonatas Op. 2 MS 26, No. 1 in A Major: I. Minuetto. Adagio
Nicolò Paganini: Six Sonatas Op. 2 MS 26, No. 1 in A Major: II. Polonese. Quasi allegro
Nicolò Paganini: Six Sonatas Op. 2 MS 26, No. 2 in C Major: I. Larghetto espressivo
Nicolò Paganini: Six Sonatas Op. 2 MS 26, No. 2 in C Major: II. Allegro spiritoso
Nicolò Paganini: Six Sonatas Op. 2 MS 26, No. 3 in D Minor: I. Adagio maestoso
Nicolò Paganini: Six Sonatas Op. 2 MS 26, No. 3 in D Minor: II. Andantino galantemente
Nicolò Paganini: Six Sonatas Op. 2 MS 26, No. 4 in A Major “La sinagoga”: I. Andante calcando
Nicolò Paganini: Six Sonatas Op. 2 MS 26, No. 4 in A Major “La sinagoga”: II. Andantino con brio
Nicolò Paganini: Six Sonatas Op. 2 MS 26, No. 5 in D Major: I. Andante moderato
Nicolò Paganini: Six Sonatas Op. 2 MS 26, No. 5 in D Major: II. Allegro spiritoso
Nicolò Paganini: Six Sonatas Op. 2 MS 26, No. 6 in A Minor: I. Largo con precision
Nicolò Paganini: Six Sonatas Op. 2 MS 26, No. 6 in A Minor: II. Tempo di walzer
Nicolò Paganini: Sonata concertata in A Major, Op. 61 MS 2: I. Allegro spiritoso
Nicolò Paganini: Sonata concertata in A Major, Op. 61 MS 2: II. Adagio assai espressivo
Nicolò Paganini: Sonata concertata in A Major, Op. 61 MS 2: III. Rondeau: Allegretto con brio scherzando
Nicolò Paganini: Sonata per la grand viola in C Minor MS 70: I. Introduzione. Larghetto – Recitativo a piacere –
Nicolò Paganini: Sonata per la grand viola in C Minor MS 70: II. Cantabile. Andante sostenuto –
Nicolò Paganini: Sonata per la grand viola in C Minor MS 70: III. Tema con variazioni
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Two studies warn against increasing TFSA contribution limits
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on Feb 24, 2015 at 1:30 AM
Posted by Broadbent Institute
Lee-Anne Goodman / The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Two studies on tax-free savings accounts sound alarm bells about their long-term fiscal impact if the Conservative government keeps a 2011 campaign promise to allow people to park almost twice as much money in the popular savings vehicles.
The report from the left-leaning Broadbent Institute says a pledge to up the TFSA contribution limit to $10,000 from the current $5,500 would ultimately cost billions in lost tax revenue while primarily lining the pockets of the wealthy.
The majority of Canadians, the report says, would bear the burden of reduced public services or higher taxes to offset the lost revenues.
The study was written by Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, an economist at Simon Fraser University whose research on tax-free savings laid the groundwork for the government's initial introduction of TFSAs in 2009.
"Like a little baby who looks cuddly and cute, this proposed initiative would grow up to be the hulking teenager who eats everyone out of house and home," Kesselman says in an expanded version of the report done for the university's public policy school.
The parliamentary budget office also weighed in Tuesday on TFSAs, calling them regressive.
The PBO report projects the fiscal impact of the TFSA program this year to be $1.3 billion, or 0.06 per cent of GDP. Two-thirds of the cost — or $860 million — is borne by the federal government, the report says. The remaining $430 million is borne by the provinces.
It also predicts that if contribution limits are doubled, Ottawa would lose $14.7 billion a year in federal revenue by 2060 while the provinces would face a $7.6 billion shortfall.
The impact on public finances in the early years is relatively minimal, Mostafa Askari, assistant parliamentary budget officer, told a media briefing on the PBO report. But by 2080, costs will increase ten-fold, reaching 0.57 per cent of GDP.
Tax-free savings accounts primarily benefit the well-to-do, Askari added.
Finance Minister Joe Oliver defended TFSAs in a statement.
"Today, nearly 11 million Canadians of all ages and income levels have a TFSA, with the vast majority of accounts belonging to low and middle-income earners," he said.
Oliver's office didn't say, however, whether he intends to keep the government's promise to raise the contribution limit now that he's facing a shrinking surplus due to sliding oil prices. Nor would it say if there are plans in place to offset the loss in tax revenue in the future thanks to TFSAs.
Tax-free savings accounts complement existing retirement savings tools such as RRSPs by allowing investment income to grow tax-free and unused contribution room can be carried forward into future years. Unlike RRSPs, however, the contributions themselves are not tax-deductible.
Because income derived from TFSAs isn't claimed on tax returns, it isn't factored in when calculating income supports for the elderly such as Old Age Security or the guaranteed income supplement.
The Broadbent report found that by the time the existing TFSA framework matures in 40 or 50 years, it will cost the federal government as much as $15.5 billion annually.
It also predicts that TFSAs will eventually cost the provinces as much as $9 billion annually — a figure that will balloon if contribution limits are doubled.
Economists have long warned that higher TFSA limits would have the greatest impact on public finances years from now, making them attractive election promises since future governments will face the bill.
Kesselman calls the proposal to expand contribution limits a "ticking time bomb."
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Bill on Second Reading: Youth Development and Empowerment Act of 2015
The President. The session is resumed.
The principal sponsor, Senator Marcos, is once more recognized and Senator Pimentel is likewise recognized in the period of individual amendments, and may I request the gentlemen on the Floor to refer to Senate Bill No. 2401 containing the amendments as of January 26, 2015 so that we can have an easy and uniform reference, for the record. Please proceed.
Senator Pimentel. Thank you, Mr. President. And I am ready to propose my individual amendments on Senate Bill No. 2401. May I proceed?
Senator Marcos. Yes, certainly, Mr. President.
PIMENTEL AMENDMENTS
On page 8, of that draft, line 23, I propose that we insert the word PROVINCIAL and COMMA (,), after the word “elected”.
Senator Marcos. Effectively, Mr. President, the gentleman is extending the anti-dynasty limitation to the SK officials to extend not only to the city, municipality, but also to the provincial level. The committee accepts that amendment, Mr. President.
The President. So, the word “PROVINCIAL” is inserted on line–just for the clarification of the Chair.
Senator Pimentel. Line 23, Mr. President, after the word “elected”.
The President. Yes, after the word “elected.” So, provincial….
Senator Pimentel. And comma (,).
The President. Okay. The Pimentel amendment is accepted by the sponsor. Is there any objection?
Senator Sotto. Mr. President.
The President. Yes, Senator Sotto.
Senator Sotto. Mr. President, just for my clarification.
The President. If the gentleman, the proponent will yield.
Senator Marcos. I yield, Mr. President.
Senator Sotto. Thank you, Mr. President. When we say “must not be related to any incumbent elected official, “et cetera, et cetera”, within the SECOND civil degree of consanguinity or affinity”, is that how it will read now?
Senator Marcos. As it stands now, it will read: “and must not be related to any incumbent elected provincial–which is the addition–city, municipal or barangay official within the SECOND civil degree of consanguinity or affinity.”
Senator Pimentel. In the localities.
Senator Sotto. That is as far as the legitimate family member is concerned. What about a mistress, the son of a mistress? We will be disallowing the legal member of the family from running, but we will be allowing the illegal.
Senator Marcos. Hindi po, dahil consanguinity.
Senator Pimentel. If I may be allowed to answer, Mr. President.
The President. Please proceed, Senator Pimentel.
Senator Pimentel. The illegitimate son of the parent is a relative within the second degree.
Senator Sotto. What about the brother of the mistress who is 17 years old?
Senator Pimentel. That is not covered.
Senator Sotto. That is what I mean, Mr. President. We will be disenfranchising a legitimate member of the family because she is an elected councilor or vice mayor or….But the brother of a mistress of a councilor, or a mayor, is allowed to run.
Senator Marcos. But, Mr. President, then we enter into the question of how we determine who is the mistress and who is not the mistress, which is—
The President. Maybe Senator Sotto can consider the fact that such illegitimate relationships are never recognized in our system.
Senator Sotto. I know, Mr. President.
The President. I mean that kind of….a mistress, unless—except for the cases of illegitimate children who have rights under our law—common-law relationship.
Senator Sotto. What about a common-law wife, Mr. President?
The President. A common-law wife is not recognized under our system.
Senator Sotto. She is not recognized. So, therefore, the brother of a common-law wife of a barangay captain can run?
The President. That is correct.
Senator Sotto. It is unfair.
Senator Pimentel. Yes.
The President. That is correct. He can run because nowhere in our laws that common-law relationship is recognized.
Senator Sotto. My curiosity was aroused because when I saw that we are limiting it to—well, we are not allowing any member of the family within the second civil degree of consanguinity or affinity, I remember the debate we had here on the Anti-Political Dynasty bill. It is the same problem that we had and that is the reason that we have not solved it even up to now. We are going to make it unfair and prohibit the legitimate family member of a local official from joining the elections or allowing his services to be voted upon by the people, but we will be allowing a non-recognized or illegal relationship. That is my problem with this particular section, Mr. President.
Anyway, I can probably take it up when it is my time. At this point, I would like the sponsor to perhaps, give it a study or give it a thought on how we can resolve that particular concern of this representation. Thank you.
The President. The Chair would like to ask the sponsor a question on this page. Why is national and local officials, why is the relationship…I am sorry. Why are relatives of national and local officials within the second civil degree of consanguinity or affinity exempted from the anti-dynasty rule?
Senator Marcos. The reasoning behind that was that precisely because they are national officials and this is concerned with the local government. There were suggestions in the past that we include congressmen, senators and other national officials, but we felt it was not necessary. That it was sufficient that we identify local officials within that jurisdiction to achieve the purpose of minimizing the nepotistic tendencies of some of our local officials.
The President. Can the issue of equal protection of the laws be invoked here? We disqualify a number of relatives, but when it comes to relatives of national and local officials, they are qualified. A local official here, I assume, is the congressman.
Senator Marcos. We consider the congressman as national official, Mr. President.
The President. I am sorry, national.
Senator Marcos. It is governors down, Mr. President.
The President. Yes. The Chair would like to raise the question: Has the sponsor considered the issue of equal protection of the laws? We disqualify everybody, except those related to national officials, the senators and the congressmen. Unless we can find a clear justification for distinction, I would like the sponsor to review whether or not it violates the equal protection of the laws.
Senator Marcos. We will do that, Mr. President. But at the top of my head, I think it could be argued that they are of a different category because they are national, and this bill is essentially concerned with the actuations of our local officials.
In fact, in the experience of the SK elections and the candidates for the SK positions, generally speaking, there are very few instances and we could not actually find a specific one where a national figure or a national official was trying to involve himself in an SK election. Therefore, we feel that excluding them, first, because by their very nature they are national elected officials and not local elected officials. That is sufficient for us to achieve our purpose that again nepotism be not become part of the process.
The President. All right. The second question, with the permission of Senator Pimentel: What about relatives of appointed officials, are they allowed to run?
Senator Marcos. We are silent on any…I believe the provision on nepotism would apply for that.
The President. No, here…”must not be related to any incumbent elected official”. What about if they are related to appointed?
Senator Pimentel. Mr. President, as it is written…
The President. That is why I am raising the question.
Senator Marcos. As we have it now, Mr. President, the gentleman is right. We do not have any limitations on the relatives or the children really of appointed officials.
The President. Would the sponsor consider an amendment which will delete “elected” and reinstate “national”?
Senator Marcos. Or we could add, Mr. President, elected OR APPOINTED.
The President. Elected or appointed, that is the same.
Senator Marcos. If the chair would allow me, I would like to make a few calculations and try to see how many this affects kasi baka maubusan na po tayo ng ating magiging kandidato.
The President. Hindi naman, 100 milyon tayong Pilipino and 60% of those are qualified.
Senator Marcos. Certainly, Mr. President, we will look into the question of the national officials being included, the relatives or the children of the national officials being included in the first question that the Chair raised. And of course, without any further study, I really have no great objections actually to the limitations of the children of the appointed officials as well. But let me come back with a more thorough study of the question.
The President. So, we will hold that in abeyance.
Senator Marcos. Yes, Mr. President, please.
The President. Thank you, Mr. Sponsor. Thank you, Senator Pimentel.
Senator Pimentel. In the meantime, maybe I should withdraw my proposed amendment because I am open to amending my amendment. So, it is an amendment to my amendment which I am open to.
Senator Marcos. What we could do, Mr. President, is to defer since it is concerning the same–since the amendment of Senator Pimentel concerns the limitations on the children of officials, maybe we can defer the inclusion of the word “provincial” for now. It is in principle already accepted so that the amendment that we will eventually make is more complete and the language will be more elegant.
The President. All right. So, we hold the….
Senator Pimentel. If I need to formalize, I withdraw my proposed amendment.
The President. All right. Withdrawn on the condition that it will be taken up again later as an entire section will be suggested with the views of the Chair being considered by the Sponsor. So withdrawn.
Senator Pimentel. So, my next proposed amendment, Mr. President, is on page 9, line 10….
Excuse me, Mr. President, may I ask for a one-minute suspension.
The President. Is there any objection? [Silence] There being none, the session is suspended for a minute.
RESUMPTION OF SESSION
So, for the record, the next session we go back to Sec. 10 on pages 8, 8A and 9.
Senator Marcos. That is right, Mr. President.
The President. Please proceed.
Senator Pimentel. On page 19, lines 10 to 11, I propose that we delete the phrase starting with the word “meaningful” on line 10 all the way to “empowerment” on line 11, deletion, Mr. President. And, on line 15….
Senator Marcos. Well, that would be one amendment. So, let us dispose of that first. We accept that deletion, Mr. President.
The President. Pimentel amendment is accepted. Is there any objection? [Silence] There being none, the amendment is approved.
Senator Pimentel. And, on the same page on line 15, we rephrase line 15 by deleting the words “capability building and” and then inserting comma (,) after “ elopment,” and inserting the phrase, CAPABILITY BUILDING WHICH EMPHASIZES LEADERSHIP TRAINING.
Senator Marcos. So, for clarification, Mr. President, the line will read: “resiliency, youth employment and livelihood, health and anti-drug abuse, gender sensitivity, sports development and CAPABILITY BUILDING WHICH EMPHASIZES LEADERSHIP TRAINING.”
We accept, Mr. President.
The President. Is there any objection? [Silence] There being none, the amendment is approved.
Senator Pimentel. That would be all, Mr. President, thank you very much.
The President. The Majority Leader.
SUSPENSION OF SESSION
With the permission of the Chamber, the session is suspended for one minute, if there is no objection? [There was none].
Senator Marcos is recognized.
MARCOS AMENDMENTS
Senator Marcos. Thank you, Mr. President.
I have some individual amendments to introduce. On page 21, line 23, after the letter “(h)”, delete the punctuation mark comma (,), and in lieu thereof, insert the conjunction AND.
I so move, Mr. President.
Senator Marcos. On the same page and line, the letter “(i)” is deleted and the conjunction “and”.
The President. Approved.
Senator Marcos. On the same page, line 24, delete the letter “(j)”.
Senator Marcos. On page 25, line 1, after the letter “(h)”, delete the punctuation mark comma (,), and in lieu thereof, insert the conjunction AND.
The President. On line 20….
Senator Marcos. On page 25, line 1, after the letter “(h)”, delete the punctuation mark comma (,) and in lieu thereof, insert the conjunction AND.
Senator Marcos. On the same page and line, after the letter “(i)”, delete the conjunction “and” and the letter “(j)”.
Senator Marcos. On page 35, line 1, delete the letter “(c)” and in lieu thereof insert the letter (D), and reletter the succeeding subsections accordingly.
Senator Marcos. On page 30, line 20, delete the punctuation mark comma (,) and in lieu thereof, insert the punctuation mark period (.).
Senator Marcos. On the same page, lines 20 and 21, delete the phrase “but in no case shall be more than two (2) consecutive years” and in lieu thereof, insert the phrase SUBJECT TO THE PROVISION OF SECTION 24, PARAGRAPH (G) HEREOF.
Senator Marcos. On page 42, line 16, delete the word “June” and in lieu thereof, insert the word NOVEMBER.
Senator Marcos. On the same page, lines 18 and 19, delete the phrase “(b) The term of office of the members of the Council as established under this Act shall commence at noon of 30th of June 2016.”
Senator Marcos. Thank you, Mr. President. Those are the amendments I have for now.
The President. There are other amendments that we discussed which the sponsor will present tomorrow.
Senator Marcos. Yes, that is right, Mr. President. We can suspend the period of individual amendments for now.
SUSPENSION OF CONSIDERATION OF S. NO. 2401
Senator Cayetano (A). Mr. President, with the consent of the sponsor, I move that we suspend consideration of Senate Bill No. 2401 under Committee Report No. 75.
The President. Is there any objection? [Silence] There being none, the motion is approved.
Your visit has strengthened our faith and reminded us of the joy in Jesus. You are truly a man of God. Thank you Pope Francis! We will always pray for you.
My thoughts and prayers go to the families affected by the Nepal earthquake
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Courtesy of PHILSTAR GLOBAL (The Philippine Star)
http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2018/02/03/1784004/poetry-soul
During the last quarter of 2017, I was lucky enough to be invited to give a talk on the ambahan, the traditional poetry of the Hanunuo Mangyans of Mindoro. Their poems are inscribed normally on bamboo using a pre-colonial syllabic writing system called the Surat Mangyan.
Earlier, I had done pro-bono translation work for a book of the ambahan poems called Bamboo Whispers, edited by Quintin Pastrana and Lolita Fansler Delgado. It was published by the Mangyan Heritage Centre, which kindly sponsored my travel back to the Philippines from the University of Nottingham in Malaysia, where I now work as Head of School, English, and Professor of Creative Writing and Literature.
The ambahan is composed of seven-syllable metric lines and it can run to more than four lines. It is usually chanted, like many forms of oral literature, and owned by no one but the community. The author of the text is not a single individual but the whole community, in whose womb the words of the poem sprang. The ambahan usually teaches lessons about life and love. It is recited by parents to educate their children, by young people to express their love, by the old to impart their experiences, and by the community in its tribal ceremonies.
Using daggers, the ambahan is carved onto pieces of bamboo or barks of trees. The Hanunuo Mangyan script is one of the three forms of baybayin (alphabet) that is still in use today. The exhibit that ran at the Ayala Museum last October was a memorable one. On the green walls of the museum near the park that is the green lung of Makati were poems, artifacts, paintings, and even verbal games about the ambahan. Some of the poems are haunting: they have the clarity and depth of the haiku.
One of them is a beautiful love poem for us who are separated from our loved ones by distance. Listen: “You, my friend, dearest of all/ thinking of you makes me sad;/ rivers deep are in between,/ forests vast keep us apart/ But thinking of you with love./ as if you are here nearby/ standing, sitting at my side.”
The lyrical utterance is there, the cry of longing sharp and keening. But the ambahan is not just a repository of personal feelings; it can also give strong statements about contemporary concerns like illegal logging and the destruction of the environment.
Look at this poem: “I would like to take a bath/ scoop the water with a plate/ wash my hair with lemon juice;/ but I could not take a bath,/ because the river is dammed/ with a lot of sturdy trunks.”
This poem of protest reminds me of an interview I once had with a politician from the north. I was asking him why, in spite of the ban on illegal logging, there are still many furniture shops selling chairs and tables made of narra, the national tree, whose felling is not allowed by law. Without batting a corrupt eyelash, he looked at me and said, “But Danton, those tree trunks just fell because of the typhoon and the river carried them down the river. And that is how the furniture makers got those big tree trunks.” Right on, congressman.
I also talked about the people whose life work it was to preserve the rich cultural legacy of the Hanunuo Mangyans. One of them is Ginaw Bilog of Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro. He was awarded by the national government for faithfully preserving the Hanunuo-Mangyan script and the ambahan poetry. He has promoted the local script and the poetry so that the art would not be lost but preserved for generations to come.
Another cultural hero is Antoon Postma, SVD, whose original work on ambahan poems was called Treasure of Minority, published by New Day in the 1980s. Postma was later given the highest honors by the embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for his work of archival knowledge that retrieved, published, and spread the good word about the beauty of our indigenous poetry.
The triple subjects of birth and infancy, childhood, and adolescence are contained in many ambahan. A sample poem runs like this: “When the bush knife is still blunt/ You should whet it on a stone/ Then you try it on the wood./ Its effect you then will see/ On a bamboo or a tree.” Among other things, I think this poem talks about how to raise a child: how you raise your child now will be mirrored by his or her acts when the child grows up.
This small gem sounds like a parent telling the child to be aware of the world and its wonders – or its many horrors. Listen: “Says the bird lado-lado:/ Far away you shouldn’t go!/ Mind the snares of evil spooks/ That are scattered in the woods!” The “evil spooks” would refer to the mischievous elementals and spirits that abound in the forest, the river, the hill and the plain. A Western literary critic would be quick to coin this as an instance of “magic realism,” or la maravelloso real. But here, in a world of spirits where wonders never cease, we just call them simply as “classic realism.”
Courtship, home, food and work are other subjects of the ambahan. This one is light-hearted and fun: “Lubidyawan is my aunt./ Once she had a stomach ache/ Her relief? She went outdoors!/ There she rearranged her hair/ And perfumed it with some plant.”
Hospitality, friendship, marriage, old age and death are the final concerns of the ambahan. This sounds like the tolling of the bells: “It’s a fact that we all know,/ A truth wherever we go;/ the sun in the afternoon/ Will be setting very soon.”
Bamboo Whispers is available at Bookmark, Fully Booked, Ayala Museum, and Tesoro’s. The gift box/wrap and Bamboo Whispers are only available at a Salcedo Village condo.
Email: mangyanheritage@gmail.com, call (8103135) or text (0917-8244846). Please give your name and contact information so they can confirm the arrangements with you.
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BACK IN COURT: Gregory J. Lewis, right, is arraigned in Worcester Superior Court yesterday. Attorney Michael Hussey and a court officer stand beside Lewis. Lewis is suspected of raping a 13-year-old girl, then going on a cross-country crime spree after cutting off his court-ordered monitoring device.
Child rape suspect Gregory Lewis arrives at Southbridge Police Headquarters in Southbridge, Mass., Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. Photo by Chitose Suzuki
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PUBLISHED: October 23, 2015 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: November 18, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
New data show that up to 18 arrest warrants are issued across the Bay State every day after court-ordered GPS monitors are cut off, smashed or somehow trigger an alarm — a disturbing trend that has one sheriff questioning the use of the bracelets.
“The GPS only tells you where they’re not — not where they are. If they cut the bracelet off, they’re likely off into the sunset doing who knows what,” said Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson. “I’m concerned about the risks … and all the ways people can get these off.”
Roughly 2,800 to 3,000 people are being monitored by GPS each day in Massachusetts, according to Probation Department data obtained by the Herald. The GPS equipment receives and reports a signal to the department’s electronic monitoring center “as long as a connection is maintained,” according to spokeswoman Coria Holland.
When that connection is lost — and there’s no way to find the person — the chief probation officer is contacted and “a risk determination is made and, if indicated, a warrant is issued, victims may be notified and law enforcement alerted,” Holland said.
All told, 15 to 18 warrants are issued every day, she said. The department does not keep data on how many devices are cut off or tampered with, but Holland said cutting off the bracelets “is not a common occurrence, although it does happen.”
One of the companies that makes the bracelets said they are designed to be removed in case of an emergency.
“An offender who removes their ankle bracelet is making a conscious decision to cut it off and breach the conditions of their electronic monitoring sentence,” said Fanna Haile-Selassie, a spokeswoman for 3M, a company that manufactures many of the monitors used in the Bay State.
This summer, a Bulgarian national who lived in Weymouth removed his GPS monitor before going on trial for possessing and disseminating child pornography. He has been on the loose ever since.
Anatoli Stoychev cut off his GPS bracelet on July 13 and is a wanted man, according to Norfolk District Attorney spokesman David Traub. “Part of the investigation is whether he left the United States, which is an obvious question with foreign nationals,” Traub said.
“Vicky,” the girl who was allegedly depicted in the pornography Stoychev is charged with, is trying to sue him in federal court — but her lawyers have no idea where he is.
“The prosecutors allege that, based on their investigation, they believe that he has left the country,” said Richard Sweeney, Stoychev’s attorney. “There was a day that he was supposed to be in court, and he was not there. I don’t know where he is. I know that he did not show up in court.”
A phone number listed for Stoychev has been disconnected.
In another case, Gregory J. Lewis of Southbridge allegedly cut off his GPS bracelet after getting arrested in August 2014 for indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and statutory rape of a child. Police said he left the bracelet in the victim’s front yard before going on a multi-state crime spree.
Lewis was finally captured on Oct. 28, 2014.
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Clean Language: David Grove Questioning Method
Updated on September 3, 2020
Judy Rees
Alan Chapman
Metaphor and Clean Language
History and Origins
Clean Language in Work and Business
Applications Combining Clean Language and Metaphor
Applications using Clean Principles
Use the Phone for Compassionate Healthcare – Sharon Drew Morgen
Clean Language is a communications methodology, developed by David J Grove, a New Zealand 'Counselling Psychologist', during the 1980s and 1990s.
While initially used in clinical therapy, Clean Language offers helpful techniques to all professional communicators, especially those working closely with others.
Clean Language techniques are aligned closely with modern 'enabling' principles of empathy, and understanding, as opposed to traditional 'manipulative' (conscious or unconscious) methods of influence and persuasion and the projection of self-interest.
Clean Language helps people to convey their own meaning, free of emotional or other distracting interpretation from others.
As such, Clean Language promotes better clarity of communications, neutrality and objectivity (absence of emotional 'spin', bias and prejudice), ease of understanding, and cooperative productive relationships.
These Clean Language materials are written exclusively for Businessballs by Judy Rees, a UK-based Clean Language expert and author.
The text draws extensively on Judy's co-authored book, Clean Language, Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds. The contribution of these Clean Language learning materials is gratefully acknowledged.
Clean Language is a questioning and discussion technique used especially for discovering, exploring and working with people's own personal metaphors.
The word 'metaphor' here refers to thinking or expressing something in terms of a different concept or image. For example if someone says, "It's like..." or "It's as if…" then the next thing you'll hear is probably a metaphor.
Expressions such as sick as a dog, over the moon, and ready for battle, are all metaphors. The person isn't really sick as a dog, or over the moon, or ready for battle. The expressions are images, partly for dramatic effect, and partly because a metaphor is often the most natural and easy way to convey a meaning.
A metaphor is the use of imagery, to represent thoughts and feelings. Spoken and written language is full of metaphors.
Metaphors and imagery are potentially very useful in communications because they make abstract ideas more tangible, and can wrap large amounts of subtle and complex information, including emotional information, into a relatively small package.
Aside from clinical therapy, Clean Language is most commonly used in executive coaching, but its relative simplicity and its unusual approach to metaphor make it useful in a wide range of other contexts, working with individuals and with groups.
For example Clean Language is now being used in:
recruitment interviews
team development and motivation
gathering requirements for projects, like IT development
business strategy development
and conflict resolution.
We use metaphor easily and naturally to communicate complex ideas, and to understand other people's ideas.
For example, great speeches and written work tend to contain powerful and memorable metaphors.
Shakespeare's metaphor 'All the world's a stage' is a particularly notable example.
Advertisers too have discovered that metaphors move us in a way that goes straight to the heart - or to the wallet - because metaphors are such a powerful vehicle for conveying meanings.
Metaphors are also extremely common in our everyday speech.
Research (Gibbs, Raymond W Jr., 'Categorization and metaphor understanding', Psychological Review 99[3]) has shown that we use up to six metaphors per minute in English, mostly unconsciously and unnoticed. This is because metaphors underpin our thinking, and bubble to the surface in the words we use. Metaphors are a natural language of the mind, particularly the unconscious mind.
Clean Language uses the casual metaphors that occur naturally in speech to reveal the hidden depths of our thought processes.
Clean Language brings thoughts we have not been conscious of into our awareness, where they can be shared and enjoyed - and understood.
Metaphors are doors to deeper understanding - of self and others. Clean Language provides the key for unlocking the metaphors.
Clean Language techniques help to translate unconscious feelings into conscious awareness (for oneself and/or between people).
This significant feature of Clean Language has many practical applications, for example:
1. Have you ever had a hunch or instinct about something important, but been unable to explain it or convince people around you? Using Clean Language questions can develop that 'message from your subconscious' into more detailed thoughts, so turning your 'gut feeling' into something really useful.
2. Clean Language can greatly enhance communication within groups. While metaphors may often seem to be shared (e.g., 'We're a winning team') the details of each person's metaphors are unique. Scratch the surface using Clean Language and you'll discover the surprises behind a person's words - for example, is the metaphorical team a football team, a Formula 1 team, or a quiz team? A 'team' - with all that the word implies - means different things to different people. When everyone in a group is enabled to share their metaphors, a new level of joint understanding and focus can emerge.
3. Clean Language can be used to discover people's motivations at quite a profound level. People's metaphors reveal their values, and drive their behaviour. If a person works at their best when they are like a striker in a football team, their focus may well be on 'scoring goals' in any way possible, perhaps by bending the rules. Another person may think of themselves as a member of the pit crew in Formula 1 and pay more attention to combining speed and precision in their work. A third may feel more like a quiz team member, placing a high value on knowing the facts. In this respect Clean Language can help us to deal with different personality types, without requiring great knowledge of personality theory itself.
4. Using Clean Language to explore a person's own metaphors creates a bridge between the conscious and unconscious minds, enhancing self-awareness and self-understanding. This is a powerful aid towards helping people achieve a desired change, for example during the coaching process. Becoming aware of the metaphors around a difficulty encourages a different kind of thinking, which can lead to transformation.
Clean Language was devised by a New Zealand-born psychotherapist, David Grove (1950-2008), while working with trauma cases such as sexual abuse survivors and war veterans during the 1980s and 1990s.
Grove later extended the fundamental Clean Language method to a number of related concepts, notably Clean Space, Clean Worlds and Emergent Knowledge. The full extent of Grove's work will perhaps take a little while to be interpreted due to his early death at 57.
The term Clean Language represents a distinct 'Clean' questioning method, and also Grove's the over-arching methodology.
In developing Clean Language, David Grove devised a set of 'Clean' questions.
'Clean' in this context meant that the questions introduced as few of Grove's own assumptions and metaphors as possible, giving the client (or patient) maximum freedom for their own thinking.
Grove discovered that the 'Cleaner' the questions were, then the more effectively the patient's metaphors could be developed into powerful resources (awareness, facts, understanding, etc) for healing and change.
While David Grove did not publish widely (Grove's only book was Resolving Traumatic Memories, co-authored with B I Panzer; Irvington, 1989) his methods achieved outstanding results, which attracted worldwide attention in the therapeutic community.
During the 1990s Penny Tompkins and James Lawley (leading figures in the Clean Language community) codified and developed David Grove's work, and wrote about it in their book Metaphors in Mind (2000). Tompkins and Lawley used the term 'Symbolic Modelling' for their blend of Clean Language, metaphor and modelling.
The model is likely to continue to evolve and be adapted and adopted in work, learning, personal development, and no doubt beyond, because it is a powerful, appropriate and useful concept.
The way that we think has profound implications and powerful effects - on ourselves as people, and also on our actions, and consequentially the effects of our actions on our environment and people around us.
Clean Language attempts to enable our thinking (or more particularly the other person's thinking if viewed from the questioner's viewpoint) to be as pure and clear as possible so that clarity of awareness, understanding, decision-making and human relations is optimised.
The fundamental principles of Clean Language are quite simple:
Listen attentively.
Keep your opinions and advice to yourself as far as possible.
Ask Clean Language questions to explore a person's metaphors (or everyday statements).
Listen to the answers and then ask more Clean Language questions about what the other person has said.
There are twelve basic Clean Language questions.
Supplementary specialised questions are used less frequently.
The questions are combined with words from the other person (patient, client, whatever) - and theoretically no additional words from the questioner. Inevitably there is sometimes opportunity or need to insert additional questions or words, especially if using the methodology outside of a clinical environment, in which case the principle remains that questions must be free of bias or other influencing input from the questioner.
Very attentive listening is essential to the process - to ensure that the person's words are accurately repeated in the question.
While at first sight this might seem constraining, once the questions are familiar they become a flexible, multi-purpose toolkit. Like the notes of the musical scale, they can be used to create anything - from a nursery rhyme to an orchestral symphony. (That's another metaphor incidentally..)
If a person is seeking to change, then change may happen naturally as part of the exploration process.
Clean Language is not a method for forcing people to change. The aim is to help and enable.
A Clean Language facilitator may repeat back some or all of what the person says in order to direct the person's attention to some aspect of their metaphor before asking their next question.
In common with many positively oriented modern behavioural and coaching methodologies, Clean Language works best when you 'go for the good stuff'.
This means:
Ask the questions about the positive aspects of a person's experience.
Ask about the things that the person wants (more of).
Beginners may find that the most obvious metaphors are metaphors for problems, but exploring these is likely to be uncomfortable and less effective.
Focus on the positives.
In these questions, X and Y represent the person's words (or non-verbals)
Developing Questions
"(And) what kind of X (is that X)?"
"(And) is there anything else about X?"
"(And) where is X? or (And) whereabouts is X?"
"(And) that's X like what?"
"(And) is there a relationship between X and Y?"
"(And) when X, what happens to Y?"
Sequence and Source Questions
"(And) then what happens? or (And) what happens next?"
" (And) what happens just before X?"
"(And) where could X come from?"
Intention Questions
"(And) what would X like to have happen?"
"(And) what needs to happen for X?"
"(And) can X (happen)?"
The first two questions: "What kind of X (is that X)?" and "Is there anything else about X?" are the most commonly used.
As a general guide, these two questions account for around 50% of the questions asked in a typical Clean Language session.
The Clean Language concept is extremely flexible.
It can be used for all sorts of situations where 'Clean' communications and understanding are helpful.
The structure below helps to consider different ways of using Clean Language methods in work and personal development situations:
1. Applications focusing on the Clean Language questions.
2. Applications combining Clean Language and metaphors.
3. Applications using 'Clean' principles, but not necessarily using the Clean Language questions or using metaphor.
Applications Focusing on the Clean Language Questions
An example of this type of application is the 'Motivation in a Moment' process, which was devised by UK-based practitioners Marian Way, Phil Swallow, and Wendy Sullivan, and taught to 1600 leaders of weight management clubs.
Members had just a few minutes of the leader's personal attention each week, so the organisation wanted the fastest, most effective way to make a real difference.
The process uses just a few of the Clean Language questions to help people to focus on what they want to have happen, and what steps they need to take to achieve it.
1. What would you like to have happen? (Establishing a desired outcome)
2. And what needs to happen (for that desired outcome)? (Checking the conditions that need to be in place)
3. And can (what needs to happen, happen)? (Checking that they have confidence that it can be achieved)
4. And will (you do what needs to happen)? (Checking motivation - note that this is not a Clean Language question)
Many research and requirements-gathering applications of Clean Language also take this approach, capitalising on the ability of the Clean Language questions to reduce bias in the results.
An example of this kind of application is the use of Clean Language to help people increase their experience of desirable states of mind (creativity, confidence etc., or the state they regard as optimal for a particular task).
So, if an executive coach wanted to experience more of their optimal coaching state, a Clean Language facilitator might ask:
"When you're coaching at your best, that's like... what?" - this encourages the client to offer a metaphor for the optimal state.
The facilitator would then help the person to explore the resulting metaphor, using the Clean Language questions, in any order, but most frequently using the first two questions, 'What kind of X (is that X)? and 'Is there anything else about X?'
Other applications in this category include team alignment workshops in which participants first explore their individual metaphors for working at their best, and then combine their metaphors to form a team vision. This application was devised by UK-based practitioner Caitlin Walker of the UK-based Training Attention company under the name Metaphors@Work.
A number of applications exist which are labelled as 'Clean' but which use neither metaphor, not the Clean Language questions. These include the 'Clean Feedback Model' (again devised by the Training Attention company) which offers a structure for separating what has been observed from the interpretation of the observer.
Bind - refers to a 'catch-22' situation, i.e., where two interdependent factors lock together to impede progress
Developing Question - a Clean Language question intended to uncover more information about whatever the person is currently paying attention to.
Metaphor - a reference to one kind of thing in terms of another. If you can sensibly add the words "it's like…" ahead of a statement, then it's probably a metaphor.
Metaphor Landscape - Clean Language questioning typically reveals a network of linked metaphors within a person's thinking, referred to as a metaphor landscape.
Relationships - the connections between elements in the metaphor landscape.
Symbol - the individual elements within a metaphor landscape.
The world is changing. 'Pull' replaced 'push' a generation ago; now 'help' is replacing 'pull', if you see what I mean.
Instead of 'stick or carrot' there are now far more positive and sophisticated options available to modern communicators, coaches, teachers, managers, and leaders, for motivating, helping, and developing people.
The enlightened and the enlighteners now concentrate on helping people achieve choice and growth by enabling better understanding, awareness, and education.
Clean Language methodology is potentially very relevant tool in the overall process of working towards positive change.
Like NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Clean Language theory came originally from the world of psychotherapy but is increasingly being used in business situations.
In philosophical terms Clean Language is similar to communications concepts such as Transactional Analysis.
The mutual awareness aspects of Clean Language relate strongly to the Johari Window theory.
If you use and enjoy working with concepts like NLP, Transactional Analysis, Johari Window, then you will probably enjoy working with the Clean Language concept.
Clean Language is a very modern methodology. Its aims are rooted in helping people - not exploiting or manipulating people.
Clean Language is therefore naturally connected to the open and progressive approaches we see increasingly being used by today's enlightened teachers and leaders.
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Author, trainer and consultant Judy Rees is an expert in the questioning and listening technique Clean Language, and the co-author (with Wendy Sullivan) of Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds, a best selling book on the subject.
A former journalist and media executive, Judy has been working with Clean Language since 2005, and has trained people from all over the world in its use.
She has developed a number of business applications and taught these to people in fields ranging from factory floor to boardroom, education to engineering, sales to complementary medicine.
Reported outcomes have included greater clarity (reducing misunderstandings and waste), improved rapport (leading to stronger working relationships), and deep insights into what customers and others really want (increasing satisfaction and boosting sales). Judy Ress and her company X-Ray Listening are based in Brentford, West London, UK.
Judy's contribution of these Clean Language learning materials to this website is greatly appreciated.
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GLOSSARY OF USEFUL TERMS
TYPES OF BIRDING BOOKS:
FIELD GUIDE - Identification manual, with illustrations or photos assisting field identification. Text may include complete natural history, or may be concise and cover only identification details. Distribution maps often included. Formats vary.
BIRDER'S GUIDE / BIRDWATCHER'S GUIDE / FINDING GUIDE - Lists specific locations known to have good birdwatching potential. These usually include details about each site, maps, directions, bird lists and all the information you will need to get the best out of each location.
CHECKLIST - This one can cause some confusion. Small, pocket FIELD CHECKLISTS include only names and locations, to be checked off by birders in the field. ANNOTATED CHECKLISTS include brief details on records, abundance, seasonality, and habitats. Larger handbooks or SYSTEMATIC LISTS (e.g. The A.O.U. Check-list of North American Birds or B.O.U. Checklists) include detailed notes on taxonomy and nomenclature, habitat, and distribution.
BREEDING BIRD ATLAS - Employ data from years of surveys to describe life history, abundance, and distribution of the species which breed in that state or region. They usually include distribution maps, preferred habitats, abundance, breeding status, and a historical perspective on all the preceding factors.
AVIFAUNA - A description of the bird life found in a particular region. Each bird usually has an entire page to itself with complete natural history and identification information, along with status, distribution, and local historical data.
HANDBOOK - An oversized tome with comprehensive natural history information for a particular region, usually also including identification information.
ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER'S TERMS:
The following terms primarily refer to out-of-print, antiquarian books:
BOOK CONDITION DESCRIPTIONS
New - A new book is unread, in print and in perfect condition.
As New - Though this book may be out of print, it is in the same perfect condition as when it was published.
Fine (F) - Approaches the condition of As New, but not as 'fresh off the press', with no defects. Equivalent to 'Mint'
Near Fine (F) - Similar to Fine but without being as crisp.
Very Good (VG) - Describes a book that does show some small signs of wear - but no major defects. Any defects will be noted.
Good (G) - Describes the average used worn book. Any defects will be noted.
Fair - A very worn book that is complete, but may have some serious defects. Still in readable condition. All defects will be noted.
Poor - Describes a book that is sufficiently worn, to the point that its only merit is as a Reading Copy because it may be soiled, scuffed, stained or spotted and may have loose joints, hinges, pages, etc.
ASSOCIATION COPY - Books once belonging to the author, signed or annotated by the author, or someone associated with the author or book in some way. Book inscribed by author to famous person, or owned by someone of interest, or someone connected to the book or author.
B&W - Black and White.
BACKSTRIP - A strip used by binder to reinforce the back of folded sheets in the binding of the spine. Sometimes used to mean the spine.
BIBLIOGRAPHY - A list of works, occasionally in great detail, on a given subject or by a given author.
BLIND STAMPED or BLIND TOOLED - Impressed into paper or binding with no color, leaving a raised impression.
BOARDS - The front and back covers of a hardcover book.
BOOK CLUB EDITION - Editions published by book clubs (e.g. The Book-of-the-Month Club, History Book Club, Literary Guild).
BOOK PLATE - An ownership label, usually placed inside front cover by the previous owner.
BUCKRAM - A heavy weave of binding cloth, often used in sturdy library bindings.
BUMPED - The corners of a book that have been damaged by being dropped or banged.
CHIPPED - Small pieces broken off of a dust jacket.
CLOSED TEAR - A tear with no material missing.
COCKED - If, when looking down on the head of a book, the corners are not square it is said to be cocked or rolled. Also known as a spine slant.
COPYRIGHT PAGE - The page that appears on the verso of the title page, containing the artistic property protection and publication details.
DAMPSTAIN - A stain left on a cover or pages that have been exposed to water.
DUST JACKET (DJ) or DUSTWRAPPER (DW) - The separate paper covering for a book. While originally intended for protection, these have become an important part of modern books, often including information about a book not found elsewhere.
EDGES - The three outer sides of the text block when book is closed: fore edge, top edge or head, and bottom edge or foot.
EDITION - All of the copies of a book printed at the same time from the same setting of type. Also see PRINTING
ENDPAPERS / ENDSHEETS - The double leaves added to the book by the binder that become the pastedowns and free endpapers inside the front and rear covers. These pages are an integral part of the binding of a book, holding the text block and case together. Also called FLY LEAVES.
ERRATA/ERRATUM - A list of errors and corrections found after a book has been printed, usually on separate sheet or slip of paper.
EX-LIBRARY - Deaccessioned from a public library collection.
EX-LIBRIS - Usually found on bookplate referring to "from the books" of John Doe, etc. From a private library, as opposed to a public library. Could also be a stamp.
FIRST EDITION - The first edition of a book, before any changes were made. Later editions often have adjustments like spelling corrections or updates.
FIRST PRINTING - The first printing of a book, done from the original setting of type. When the first printing of the first edition is sold out, the publisher may publish a second printing of the current edition - no changes are made, it is simply a reprint.
FLY-LEAVES - Plain papers at front and rear of book after endpapers. Also called ENDPAPERS or ENDSHEETS.
FORE EDGE - The right edge opposite the spine.
FOXING - The brown age spots thought to be caused by impurities in paper(e.g.: acid, exposure to humidity, etc.)
FREE ENDPAPER - Front and rear blank pages added by the binder.
FRONTISPIECE (abbreviated FRONTIS) - The illustration facing title page.
GILT EDGES - Page edges cut smooth and gilded (covered with a thin layer of gold leaf).
GLASSINE - Transparent paper sometimes used as a dust jacket to protect a book.
HALF CLOTH - Cloth spine and paper covered sides.
HALF-TITLE (fly title) - Immediately preceding the title page, this page lists only the title of the book and no other information. The full title page usually lists the book title, author, publisher, and any other relevant information.
HARDCOVER - A book whose binding is made of stiff boards, as opposed to wrappers/paperback.
HEAD - Top edge of the text block.
HINGES - Where the sides of the binding meet the spine. Can be referred to as inner hinges and outer hinges or joints.
INSCRIBED - Signed by the author or someone associated with book, but with more writing than simply a signature.
JOINTS - Refers to outer hinge where spine joins the sides of the book. Sometimes referred to as the "gutter".
LAID IN - Paper, photograph, print or other standalone sheet is placed in and not glued down.
LIMITED EDITION - Small number of copies of book published. Books are usually numbered such as "100/500" meaning number 100 of an edition of 500.
LOOSE - When a book has been read carelessly or too often, and has become loose and sloppy in its binding.
MARBLING - A process of decorating paper, in which the result resembles the veins of stone marble.
OPEN TEAR - A tear which may have some material missing.
OUT-OF-PRINT - A book no longer available from the publisher. It is no longer being printed and no new copies remain available for sale.
PAGINATION - The numbering of the pages.
PAPERBACK - A book bound with flexible paper covers. In older books they are often referred to as Wrappers or Wraps.
PASTEDOWN - The part of the endpapers that is pasted to the inside of the front and rear covers.
PLATE - An illustration or photograph bound into a book. A plate can be a reproduction of a painting or drawing, or it could be hand-colored, usually produced by lithography, etching, or other printmaking method. Not to be confused with "book plate."
PRESENTATION COPY - A book inscribed by the author to someone else of importance to the author, the book, or society in general.
PRICE CLIPPED - The price on the inner flap of a dust jacket has been cut off.
QUARTER LEATHER - A book with its spine bound in leather with cloth- or paper-covered boards.
READING COPY - Worn or used to a point that it is not in good enough condition to be considered collectible. Functional, not pretty.
REBACKED - A repair, where the original spine or backstrip has been removed, the spine replaced, and when possible, the original replaced.
REBOUND - A repair, where the entire binding has been replaced by a new one.
REMAINDER - A new book returned to the publisher as unsold, then re-marketed at a much lower price.
REMAINDER MARK - A mark (rubber stamp, felt marker stroke, or spray, often on a book's bottom edge) signifying that the book was returned to publisher as unsold, and then sold at a much lower price.
REVIEW COPY - A copy of new book sent free-of-charge for purposes of review. Often includes a laid in review slip with publishing information; not necessarily a first edition.
RUBBED - Where color has been worn from portions of the binding or dust jacket.
SHAKEN - The text block is loose in its binding; no longer tight, but not detached.
SIGNATURE - A printed sheet of paper, folded to size and ready for sewing (i.e.: large paper folded in half, fourths, eighths, sixteenths, or thirty-seconds).
SIGNED - Signed with a name only, and no other text included.
SLIPCASE - A box built to house and protect a book, leaving the spine exposed.
SPINE - The backbone, or back, of the book where the title (if present) is displayed when it is standing upright on a shelf.
STARTING - Hinges or joints beginning to show signs of becoming loose.
SUNNED / FADED - Browning, yellowing, or fading of paper or binding as a result of sun exposure.
TAIL - Bottom edge of the text block.
TAPE RESIDUE - Complications of cellophane tape which remains on the paper or a book's cover, resulting in brown stains or bits of tape adhering to paper.
TEXT BLOCK - Pages containing the content of a book (text, illustrations, etc.) bound together; does not include endpapers.
TIPPED IN - Paper, photograph, or print glued down by only a narrow strip.
TITLE PAGE - The page which gives important information about the book (i.e.: title, author, publisher, date, etc.)
TOOLING - The decoration of leather bindings.
UNCUT - Edges of pages were not cut by the printer before binding, so the original folio page folds are visible;
UNOPENED - When folded edges of the pages of the bound text block remain joined together and have not been sliced open. Unread.
WRAPPERS or WRAPS - The printed or unprinted cover of a pamphlet or book bound in paper.
BOOK SIZES (These are approximate only)
Quarto (4to) - A book that is up to 12" tall.
Octavo (8vo) - A book that is up to 9 ¾" tall.
12mo (Duodecimo) - A book that is up to 7 ¾" tall.
16mo (Sextodecimo) - A book that is up to 6 ¾" tall.
24mo - A book that is up to 5 ¾" tall.
32mo - A book that is up to 5" tall.
Folio - A book that is up to 15" tall.
Elephant Folio - A book that is up to 23" tall.
Atlas Folio - A book that is up to 25" tall.
Double Elephant Folio - A book that is up to 50" tall. Example: Audubon's Double Elephant Folio.
AEG - All Edges Gilt.
DJ - Dust Jacket, the paper wrapper encasing a hardcover book. (also DW for Dustwrapper)
FFEP - Front Free End Paper.
FRONTIS - see frontispiece
ND - No Date. No publication date printed in the book.
OP - Out of Print
TEG - Top Edge Gilt. The top page edges cut smooth and gilded (covered with a thin layer of gold leaf).
WRS - Wrappers.
See the Antiquarian page for further information.
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HMRC announces off-payroll changes will not be applied retrospectively
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HMRC has announced that changes to the off-payroll rules will only apply to payments made for services provided on or after 6 April 2020.
The announcement comes ahead of the publication of the government’s review into the expansion of the off-payroll rules into the private sector.
In 2017, HMRC introduced new off-payroll rules to the public sector, which saw some contractors’ net income cut significantly. HMRC also shifted the responsibility for compliance from the individual contractor to a public body or recruitment agency.
From 6 April 2020, new tax rules will use the 2017 changes as a starting point for the extension to medium and large organisations in the private sector.
In a statement, a spokesperson for HMRC said: ‘A common issue raised over the course of the review has been businesses’ concerns over what payments the rules apply to and from when.
‘The government has listened and taken action early to give businesses certainty and more time to prepare to ensure the smooth and successful implementation of the reforms that come into force in April.’
HMRC confirmed that the rules will now apply only to payments made for services provided on or after 6 April 2020. Previously, the rules would have applied to any payments made on or after 6 April 2020, regardless of when the services were carried out.
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